My name is Nadia, and I’m an errand girl. Except my boss is the High Queen of the Elves. And my errands for her involve spying on people. Or stealing things. Or hunting down monsters. Or, on occasion, killing people. But this time she wants me to solve a murder. And unless I find the killer, I’m going to be his next target…because dragons never forgive a murder.
There is no honor among thieves. My name is Nadia, and I'm a shadow agent of the High Queen of the Elves. That means I use magic to steal things for her. Now she wants me to steal a treasure from an Elven lord without him even realizing that it's missing. To pull it off, I'll need a crew. But there is no honor among thieves, and not even all the magic in the world can protect me from a blade in the back...
These oral histories, collected by Marius Barbeau and William Beynon from the Pacific Northwest reflect the Tsimshian relationship with the environment, their understanding of the spiritual universe and their interpretation of the physical world.
Reconnect to your authentic expression. Learn to trust your wild and untamed nature. Find the courage to be fearlessly you. A howl from the deepest parts of the forest signals the wolf within, rising. Wolf is calling all those who are ready to reclaim their sovereign place as students of wild embodiment and self-empowerment. Wolf is an inspirational guide for deepening your spiritual connection to wolves, exploring practices and embodiment tools for personal empowerment. It offers solace to all those who, like wolves, have ever felt different, an outsider, made wrong, bad or ugly. It invites you into the warm, cosy den of the wolf to learn that you are not alone in craving belonging and the rightness of self. With the wolves, you will bravely leave self-doubt behind and courageously reclaim your self-worth. This book is your reminder that you are worthy, you are powerful, and you are of value exactly as you are. Through an exploration of wolf wisdom, mythology, legend, gods and goddesses, this guide will lead you on the hunt for self-acceptance and self-actualisation. Through guided connection to Wolf Spirit and the Wolf Council, you will increase your self-confidence, learn to honour your unique self and celebrate all the ways in which you are and can be Wolf - untamed, courageous, and wildly free. Journey with Grand Mother Wolf, the elemental wolves and the great Wolf God Fenrir to learn what it means to be part of the wolf pack and to finally trust your innate abilities and purpose. Wolf will support you in the most powerful reclamation and liberation of your authentic self.
My name's Nadia, and I do favors for the High Queen Tarlia of the Elves. Tarlia is not the kind of woman who accepts no for an answer. So when the High Queen orders me to help a top investigator solve a murder, I have to do it. Even though I've spent most of my life on the run from the law. I don't like the investigator, and he doesn't like me. But that doesn't matter, because if we don't work together, the creatures we're hunting will kill us both...
Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leave Willoughby Chase for a sea voyage. Left in the care of the cruel Miss Slighcarp, the girls can hardly believe what is happening to their once happy home. The servants are dismissed, the furniture is sold, and Bonnie and Sylvia are sent to a prison-like orphan school. It seems as if the endless hours of drudgery will never cease. With the help of Simon the gooseboy and his flock, they escape. But how will they ever get Willoughby Chase free from the clutches of the evil Miss Slighcarp?
This is an interdisciplinary examination of depictions of girlhoods through a comparative study of foundational fairy tales revised and reimagined in popular narrative, film, and television adaptations. The success of franchises such as The Hunger Games, Twilight and Divergence have re-presented the young heroine as an empowered female, and often a warrior hero in her own right. Through a selection of popular culture touchstones this empowerment is questioned as a manipulation of feminist ideals of equality and a continuation of the traditional vision of female awakening centering on issues of personal choice, agency, physical violence, purity, and beauty. By investigating re-occurring storytelling frameworks and archetypes, Untaming Girlhoods examines different portrayals of girlhoods in the 20th- and 21st-century Anglo-American cultural imaginary that configure modern girlhoods, beyond the fairy-tale princess or the damsel in distress, into refigurations that venture away from the well-trodden path for a new breakaway path to authentic selfhood. This will be a useful and enlightening text for students and researchers in Girlhood Studies, Gender Studies, Film Studies, Popular Culture and Media Studies.
'We are the scum and the scrapings of the Empire. They tipped out the garbage-bin of the Eagles to make us what we are.' In disgrace after a mistake that cost the lives of half his men, Alexios arrives in Castellum. It's his first command, but it isn't really a promotion. The Frontier Wolves who man this outpost in the far north of Roman Britain are a fierce and savage bunch, a far cry from the regular legions he'd served in before. Alexios will only survive if he learns to understand them and win their respect - and he's determined to try.
A teenage girl comes of age amid hidden dangers and family secrets in the Minnesota woods in this “beautiful, icy [and] electrifying debut” novel (NPR). Teenage Linda lives with her parents in the austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an outsider at school, Linda is drawn to the new history teacher Mr. Grierson. But his shocking arrested for child pornography leaves Linda adrift as she wrestles with her own fledgling desires. When the young Gardner family moves in across the lake, Linda finds herself welcomed into their home as a babysitter for their little boy. But this new sense of belonging comes with secrets and expectations she doesn’t understand. Over the course of a summer, Linda will have to make choices that reverberate throughout her life. Finalist for the Man Booker Award One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017
Marked as a Huntress, Morgan Stills has been thrust into an ancient feud, one that will pit werewolf against Hunter. Her choice? Pick up a sword, or die. But picking up a sword means fulfilling her destiny to kill the one man she can’t live without. Caleb was born for one thing and one thing alone: follow the burning of his tattoo to find and protect his fated mate and Huntress. But how is he supposed to protect her when she’s just as determined to fulfill her own destiny—killing him. Each story in The Order of the Wolf Series is standalone story that can be enjoyed in any order. Series Order: Book #1: Cursed Book #1.5: Wolf Slayer Book #2: Wolves’ Bane Book #3: Spell Weaver Book #3.5: Mayhem Book #4: Valiant Heart Book #5: Beast Rising