The Majesties

Author : Tiffany Tsao
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982115521
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Majesties written by Tiffany Tsao and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “bold and dramatic portrayal of characters on the cusp of an impossible choice” (Publishers Weekly), two sisters from a wealthy Chinese-Indonesian family grapple with secrets and betrayal after one of them poisons their entire family. Gwendolyn and Estella have always been as close as sisters can be. Growing up in a wealthy, eminent, and sometimes deceitful family, they’ve relied on each other for support and confidence. But now Gwendolyn is lying in a coma, the sole survivor of Estella’s poisoning of their whole clan. As Gwendolyn struggles to regain consciousness, she desperately retraces her memories, trying to uncover the moment that led to this shocking act. Was it their aunt’s mysterious death at sea? Estella’s unhappy marriage to a dangerously brutish man? Or were the shifting loyalties and unspoken resentments at the heart of their opulent world too much to bear? Can Gwendolyn, at last, confront the carefully buried mysteries in their family’s past and the truth about who she and her sister really are? Traveling from the luxurious world of the rich and powerful in Indonesia to the most spectacular shows at Paris Fashion Week, from the sunny coasts of California to the melting pot of Melbourne’s university scene, The Majesties “is a thrilling, tender page-turner” (Krys Lee, author of Drifting House) as well as “a sobering look at the dark side of extreme wealth” (Kirkus Reviews).

Author : Barbara Younger
Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 : 9780142301814
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purple Mountain Majesties written by Barbara Younger and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: in the summer of 1893, a young professor named Katherine Lee Bates took a train west from Massachusetts to Colorado. On her trip, she saw the beauty and the grandeur of our nation - its mountains, fertile prairies, and shining seas - and was moved to compose a poem that would later be set to music and stir generations to come. Glowing paintings and lyrical text blend together to show the magnificence of the United States of America and how it inspired Katherine Lee Bates to pen the poem that would become our nation's unofficial anthem.

Author : Juno Dawson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014313714X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Majesty's Royal Coven written by Juno Dawson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Superb and almost unbearably charming, Her Majesty’s Royal Coven… expertly launches an exciting new trilogy." —The New York Times Book Review "Talk about a gut punch of a novel. …A provocative exploration of intersectional feminism, loyalty, gender and transphobia [that] invites readers into an intricately woven web of magic, friendship and power." —The Nerd Daily A Discovery of Witches meets The Craft in this epic fantasy about a group of childhood friends who are also witches. If you look hard enough at old photographs, we’re there in the background: healers in the trenches; Suffragettes; Bletchley Park oracles; land girls and resistance fighters. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. We are stronger than Mundanes, plain and simple. At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls--Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle--took the oath to join Her Majesty's Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a covert government department. Now, decades later, the witch community is still reeling from a civil war and Helena is the reigning High Priestess of the organization. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in the stale bureaucracy of HMRC. Elle is trying to pretend she's a normal housewife, and Niamh has become a country vet, using her powers to heal sick animals. In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora. And now Helena has a bigger problem. A young warlock of extraordinary capabilities has been captured by authorities and seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC. With conflicting beliefs over the best course of action, the four friends must decide where their loyalties lie: with preserving tradition, or doing what is right. Juno Dawson explores gender and the corrupting nature of power in a delightful and provocative story of magic and matriarchy, friendship and feminism. Dealing with all the aspects of contemporary womanhood, as well as being phenomenally powerful witches, Niamh, Helena, Leonie and Elle may have grown apart but they will always be bound by the sisterhood of the coven.

Author : L. Neil Smith
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 9780345292445
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Their Majesties' Bucketeers written by L. Neil Smith and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1981 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some thing flashed and a great roar deafened the audience. When the smoke and green-tinged vapor cleared, a lamviin alien - what was left of it, anyway - lay dead before the horrified gaze of several hundred eyewitnesses. Responsibility for solving the crime lay squarely on the three shoulders of Bucketeer-Inquirer Mav. But the windowless rokm had been locked, no one saw the killer, and the murder weapon itself was a mystery.

Author : Lewis Ricardo Gordon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847684489
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Majesty's Other Children written by Lewis Ricardo Gordon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon provides an explosive critique of contemporary popular and intellectual cultures.

Author : Carolyn Ferrell
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250793629
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Miss Metropolitan written by Carolyn Ferrell and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Introducing an extraordinary and original writer whose first novel explores the intersections of grief and rage, personal strength and healing--and what we owe one another. Fern seeks refuge from her mother’s pill-popping and boyfriends via Soul Train; Gwin finds salvation in the music of Prince much to her congregation’s dismay and Jesenia, miles ahead of her classmates at her gifted and talented high school, is a brainy and precocious enigma. None of this matters to Boss Man, the monster who abducts them and holds them captive in a dilapidated house in Queens. On the night they are finally rescued, throngs line the block gawking and claiming ignorance. Among them is lifetime resident Miss Metropolitan, advice columnist for the local weekly, but how could anyone who fancies herself a “newspaperwoman” have missed a horror story unfolding right across the street? And why is it that only two of the three girls—now women—were found? The mystery haunts the two remaining “victim girls” who are subjected to the further trauma of becoming symbols as they continuously adapt to their present and their unrelenting past. Like Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys, Ferrell’s Dear Miss Metropolitan gives voice to characters surviving unimaginable tragedy. The story is inventively revealed before, during, and after the ordeal in this singular and urgent novel.

Author : J. E. Morpurgo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Their Majesties' Royall Colledge written by J. E. Morpurgo and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Elia MacNeal
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0345538757
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book His Majesty's Hope written by Susan Elia MacNeal and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Laurie R. King, and Anne Perry, whip-smart heroine Maggie Hope returns to embark on a clandestine mission behind enemy lines where no one can be trusted, and even the smallest indiscretion can be deadly. World War II has finally come home to Britain, but it takes more than nightly air raids to rattle intrepid spy and expert code breaker Maggie Hope. After serving as a secret agent to protect Princess Elizabeth at Windsor Castle, Maggie is now an elite member of the Special Operations Executive—a black ops organization designed to aid the British effort abroad—and her first assignment sends her straight into Nazi-controlled Berlin, the very heart of the German war machine. Relying on her quick wit and keen instincts, Maggie infiltrates the highest level of Berlin society, gathering information to pass on to London headquarters. But the secrets she unveils will expose a darker, more dangerous side of the war—and of her own past. “You’ll be [Maggie Hope’s] loyal subject, ready to follow her wherever she goes.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

Author : Sir John William Fortescue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative of the Visit to India of Their Majesties, King George V. and Queen Mary written by Sir John William Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shmuel M. Marcus
Publisher : Kehot Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 9780826601032
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strength and Majesty written by Shmuel M. Marcus and published by Kehot Publication Society. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson, mother of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson, wife of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Rarely in our times do we see such a unique combination of strength, courage and majesty as exhibited by these extraordinary woman. Facing modern challenges in defense and perpetuation of Judaism, the values and qualities they displayed provide role models for us in our lives and for generations to come. THIS UNIQUE GIFT SET FEATURES: Two books the all-new Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson: A Brief Biography, and Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson: A Brief Biography. A striking gift box that opens to become an exquisite dual picture frame, depicting both Rebbetzins. Stylishly packaged and sealed with an elegant silk bow.