This hardcover picture book with detailed artwork shows the interiors of the Disney princesses' amazing castles! Join Ariel from The Little Mermaid, Aurora from Sleeping Beauty, Jasmine from Aladdin, Belle from Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Rapunzel from Tangled, Snow White, Merida from Brave, and Mulan for a never-before-seen look at their incredible castles. Girls and boys ages 4 to 8 will spend hours and hours enjoying this oversized hardcover book featuring beautiful, detailed artwork as well as foldout pages that offer in-depth peeks inside several castles. This castle collection is the perfect holiday gift for Disney Princess fans and collectors alike!
Temperament: Your Spiritual DNA. Personality is acquired, but Temperament is how we are wired. Temperament is our "Spiritual imprinting". The God gene that determines how we respond to every situation in our lives. This book integrates the spiritual with the psychological and emotional, fascinating reading for those interested in learning indepthly about themselves. Spiritual knowledge is power and self-knowledge is empowering. This book contains both; it is a tool, which enables the reader to unveil many of the mysteries of life and an opportunity to see themselves within its pages with answers.
About Leonard A. Slade, Jr.'s Poetry (1988 - 2008) "When beautiful poetry emerges from its secret abode, we can only hope we have been wise enough to leave our soul's door ajar, and that it will enter and find a home there. I have read Leonard A. Slade, Jr.'s poetry, and I am the better for it, the wiser for it, and the happier for it." -Dr. Maya Angelou Reynolds Professor of American Studies Wake Forest University "A rhythmical and powerful voice we will long remember." -Thelma Kiser The Independent "The beauty of Slade's poetry is the adequacy of their feeling and the fine images he discovers for their expressions. His poetry is a rich addition to our literary stores." -Houston A. Baker, Jr. Distinguished Professor of English Vanderbilt University "Slade's poetry can pierce the heart or kiss the soul." -Kate Stephens Playwright and Musician Lexington, Kentucky
At the age of 25, Marian Thurm began publishing short stories in The New Yorker, and her work has been compared to the short fiction of Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, and Amy Bloom. Known for her uncanny sense of the absurd along with her empathy for her characters, Thurm’s acclaimed work has been chosen for The Best American Short Stories and numerous other anthologies. This volume, selected from her four short story collections—with stories written over a span of 42 years—shows Thurm’s remarkable craft, never failing to reveal both her emotional acuity and her pitch-dark humor.
"Readers can test their Disney princess superfan knowledge with these quizzes. Nonfiction features include facts on STEAM, culture, and more Disney princess information. Back matter includes a reproducible page for readers to create a quiz"--
Schaffer (English, Queens College, City U. of New York) analyzes the complex dialogue between male and female aesthetes in late Victorian England, exploring the heretofore insufficiently recognized role that women such as Lucas Malet, Ouida, and others played in this influential late Victorian literary movement. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A] delectable double bio . . . Talk about Victoria’s secret. . . . A fascinating portrait of a genuine love match, but one in which the partners dealt with surprisingly modern issues.” —USA Today It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century—and one of history’ s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch and misery as a woman until she married her German cousin Albert and accepted him as her lord and master. Now renowned chronicler Gillian Gill turns this familiar story on its head, revealing a strong, feisty queen and a brilliant, fragile prince working together to build a family based on support, trust, and fidelity, qualities neither had seen much of as children. The love affair that emerges is far more captivating, complex, and relevant than that depicted in any previous account. The epic relationship began poorly. The cousins first met as teenagers for a few brief, awkward, chaperoned weeks in 1836. At seventeen, charming rather than beautiful, Victoria already “showed signs of wanting her own way.” Albert, the boy who had been groomed for her since birth, was chubby, self-absorbed, and showed no interest in girls, let alone this princess. So when they met again in 1839 as queen and presumed prince-consort-to-be, neither had particularly high hopes. But the queen was delighted to discover a grown man, refined, accomplished, and whiskered. “Albert is beautiful!” Victoria wrote, and she proposed just three days later. As Gill reveals, Victoria and Albert entered their marriage longing for intimate companionship, yet each was determined to be the ruler. This dynamic would continue through the years—each spouse, headstrong and impassioned, eager to lead the marriage on his or her own terms. For two decades, Victoria and Albert engaged in a very public contest for dominance. Against all odds, the marriage succeeded, but it was always a work in progress. And in the end, it was Albert’s early death that set the Queen free to create the myth of her marriage as a peaceful idyll and her husband as Galahad, pure and perfect. As Gill shows, the marriage of Victoria and Albert was great not because it was perfect but because it was passionate and complicated. Wonderfully nuanced, surprising, often acerbic—and informed by revealing excerpts from the pair’s journals and letters—We Two is a revolutionary portrait of a queen and her prince, a fascinating modern perspective on a couple who have become a legend.
