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Catalog of an exhibition held at the British Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, June 10-Nov. 21, 2007.
In every society, there is a hierarchy, one that puts each person in their place whether they realize it or not. In the currently magical society, unbound witches and warlocks are at the bottom, no magical protection outside what they can provide themselves.Olivia London lived her life as an Unbound Magical splitting her time working as an assistant at a law firm and a store clerk at a magical supply shop. When the death of a close friend starts to reveal secrets about her past Olivia must figure out how to navigate this new world. Over the course of a few weeks, her life changed completely. As she looked back, she could pinpoint when it all started. It was a Tuesday... the most untalked about day of the week. Everything in her life changed after that day.
Hunt for the Black Rose is the conclusion of the Black Rose Trilogy. It continues the quest of Carmen, Sister-Heir, and Aton, the mutant outlaw, to find the doomsday weapon of the priesthood. Aton is caught. Carmen must find and rescue him. Aware of the weapon's discovery, the Priesthood launches a preemptive strike and establishes their theocracy, appointing proxy leaders. Faced with confiscation of her family manor, Carmen joins her sister leading the rebel cause. Dissidents of all three nations rise to fight back before their freedoms are lost forever.
I stood there, looking at this stranger with eyes like mine, hair like mine. It slowly dawned on me that it was her. After all these years...it was her. A wave of rage coursed over me as I stood there, staring at this woman. I couldn't bring myself to call her that because she was never that to me. Just an egg donor as far as I was concerned. Then my dad spoke."Abriana, I would like to introduce you to Acadia...your mother."Abriana was forced to deal with a lot of things over the short sixteen years of her life: adapting to a new neighborhood, the wondering eyes that fell on her when she was out with her father, the whispers of the town. But this - facing the woman who abandoned her at the tender age of three days old - was the one thing she wasn't prepared to deal with. When Abriana is forced to flee with this woman she barely knows, she soon realizes that her life will never be the same.
In this beloved New York Times bestselling picture book, meet Rosie Revere, a seemingly quiet girl by day but a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets by night. Rosie dreams of becoming a great engineer, and her room becomes a secret workshop where she constructs ingenious inventions from odds and ends. From hot dog dispensers to helium pants and python-repelling cheese hats, Rosie's creations would astound anyone—if only she'd let them see. But Rosie is afraid of failure, so she hides her inventions under her bed. That is, until her great-great-aunt Rose (also known as Rosie the Riveter) pays her a visit. Aunt Rose teaches Rosie that the first flop isn't something to fear; it's somethin...
Forrest England finds a little girl's diary, and his life is about to change. Shunning his wife and kids over and over again, Forrest delves into the life of an abused Andrea Deveaux. Fighting the yearning to protect the little girl is a losing battle, and his overwhelming longing to shield her, soon becomes an obsession. An obsession not only for the little girl in the diary, but also for the now grown woman who wrote that diary many years ago. Through Andrea Deveaux's entire young life, she lived in fear of Mr. Hyndman and her mother. When Mr. Hyndman wasn't abusing her sexually, she was a punching bag for her mother. Pouring her heart out on the pages of her pink diary, was her only solac...
Rosalyn Alice Claire a shy girl who has lived her whole life as a pack slave in the Blood Hound Pack. She has been through a lot, the only hope that keeps her alive is finding her mate someday and he may rescue her. But this hope gets crashed when the Blood Hound Pack�s young alpha returns home after the training camp and rejects her. Her whole life comes crashing down. What happens next? Will she find love or will she end her life for better? Damon Jace Roberts is the cruellest and the most dangerous Alpha King you will find in the world. He is a stonehearted man with a dark history. Though having a background as dark as night he is a best alpha the Blue Moon Pack also the royal pack has. It�s the strongest pack in the world. He is a wise leader and a true Alpha. He is the epitome of Justice. What if fate has decided to cross his path with a girl that destroys the peace and balance in his life? Will he accept her? or will his dark past stand between him and his one true love?
'One of the best fantasy novels I've read in a long time...This book is truly special' Sarah J. Maas ***The Sunday Times bestselling series*** Magic. Revolution. Identity. The Emperor's reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire's many islands. Lin is the Emperor's daughter and she spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and dark secrets. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to prove her worth by mastering the forbidden art of bone shard magic. Yet such power carries a great cost, and when...
INTRIGUE. TENSION. LOVE AFFAIRS: In The Historical Romance series, a set of stand-alone novels, Vivian Stuart builds her compelling narratives around the dramatic lives of sea captains, nurses, surgeons, and members of the aristocracy. Stuart takes us back to the societies of the 20th century, drawing on her own experience of places across Australia, India, East Asia, and the Middle East. Ann Guthrie considered herself lucky to be nurse on the luxury liner, Shagreen. She hadn't counted on becoming involved with the passengers — personally, that is. Nor with the dashing young Third Officer, who wouldn't take no for an answer!