We failed. Now they're coming for us. My memories are finally returning... And I don't want them. I don't want to know what evil my hands are capable of when the happiness I've found is so close to slipping through my fingers. But when a friend comes to me for help, I'm once again thrust into a dangerous supernatural war - in a world I still don't know. And the secrets buried beneath my skin could kill us all. Sight Kissed is the final book in the Phoenix Rising Series. If you love strong heroines, scorching-hot heroes, and non-stop action, then this is the series for you.
A New York Times Bestseller and #1 Indie Bestseller · A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year · A School Library Journal Best Book of 2021 · Included in NPR’s 2021 Books We Love List · Featured in Forbes, Oprah Daily, The Cut, and Book Riot · Golden Poppy Book Award Winner · Featured in Chicago Public Library’s Best Books of 2021 · 2021 Nerdy Award Winner · A Kirkus Children's Best Book of 2021 This lyrical, stunning picture book tells a story about learning to love and celebrate your Asian-shaped eyes, in the spirit of Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry, and is a celebration of diversity. A young Asian girl notices that her eyes look different from her peers'. They have big, round eyes and long lashes. She realizes that her eyes are like her mother’s, her grandmother's, and her little sister's. They have eyes that kiss in the corners and glow like warm tea, crinkle into crescent moons, and are filled with stories of the past and hope for the future. Drawing from the strength of these powerful women in her life, she recognizes her own beauty and discovers a path to self-love and empowerment. This powerful, poetic picture book will resonate with readers of all ages. "This tale of self-acceptance and respect for one’s roots is breathtaking.” —Kirkus (starred review) “A young girl finds beauty in her uniqueness.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “A lyrical celebration of her eyes, their shape, spirit, and legacy.” —Booklist (starred review) “A poignant testament to familial love and legacy.” —Publishers Weekly Plus don't miss the beautiful companion book from the same team: Eyes That Speak to the Stars.
Mary Murphy’s big, eye-catching graphics and bouncy, ebullient text are sure to enchant readers who are celebrating a baby - or relishing their own claim to the title. "I saw the baby! Did you see the baby?" "Yes! I saw the baby, the teeny weeny thing." It’s so exciting! News of the baby is buzzing from animal to animal, with each one - fish, bird, squirrel, insect, frog - boasting of seeing, feeding, singing to, tickling, and kissing the tiny little thing. With bold black-and-white illustrations and a flash of vivid yellow for the wee chick’s appearance at the end, Mary Murphy’s simple, singsong story captures the giddy commotion only a baby can bring.
Friendship turns to attraction in this grumpy/sunshine bi-awakening romance… Why Jayden’s life sucks: 1. He’s deep in the closet. 2. He’s in love with his straight best friend Nate. 3. Nate keeps trying to set him up with women. It’s understandable that Jayden gets sick of the setup schemes and blurts out that he’s gay. Right? Except now, Nate is trying to set him up with men. Updating Jayden’s online dating profile. Going with him to a gay bar. Kissing him at a gay bar. Wait. What? This steamy gay romance novel is for a mature audience. It has a happy ending and no cliffhanger.
One kiss at a time, he plans to steal her heart. Ianthe Wynn is weary of life as a courtesan and longs for quiet green pastures to raise horses. Her biggest problem is her distinct lack of cash and a chilling new patron. There's also the matter of the youth lounging in her parlour with his feet on the furniture and the promises in his gaze that she can never accept. Quinn Muir might be the only wolf unable to shift, but he knows his mate when he spies her. He just needs to break through the wall she has constructed around her heart. Winning a bet and moving into her house for a week should do it, one kiss at a time. But demons lurk in the shadows and they are reaching for Ianthe. Quinn must rescue her before her heart and life are lost forever... A Regency paranormal romance with shifters, magic and manners. A mashup of Jane Austen and Buffy the vampire Slayer that is perfect for fans of Mary Robinette Kowal, CJ Archer, Bec McMasters and Charlie N. Holmberg. Keywords: Regency, regency romance, gaslamp, historical fantasy, paranormal romance, shifters, werewolves.
Giulia Bigolina's (ca. 1516-ca. 1569) Urania (ca. 1552) is the oldest known prose romance to have been written by an Italian woman. In Kissing the Wild Woman, Christopher Nissen explores the unique aesthetic vision and innovative narrative features of Bigolina's greatest surviving work, in which she fashioned a new type of narrative that combined elements of the romance and the novella and included a polemical treatise on the moral implications of portraiture and the role of women in the arts. Demonstrating that Bigolina challenged cultural authority by rejecting the prevailing views of both painting and literature, Nissen discusses Bigolina's suggestion that painting constituted an ineffectual, even immoral mode of self-promotion for women in relation to the views of the contemporary writer Pietro Aretino and the painter Titian. Kissing the Wild Woman's analysis of this little-known work adds a new dimension to the study of Renaissance aesthetics in relation to art history, Renaissance thought, women's studies, and Italian literature.
Nightmares have come to life. Angels are falling. But love burns bright. While on the run from both angels and destiny, Kiss and Zane search for the Wandering Artist to help them make a ring to tame the monster in Kiss’s heart who wakes up every single night, always hungry for blood. Skylar tries to track them down, determined to make Lady Scarlet—and any other monster—disappear from the world, unaware of the trail of nightmarish creatures she’s leaving behind while doing so. It seems that Skylar’s kisses might not turn monsters into angels after all… but into Nightmares instead. Enemies gather, the sky darkens, and unlikely friendships bloom. Kiss and Zane will have to decide. Between the world. Or their love. Read the epic conclusion to the love story of Kiss and Zane in a world of monsters and angels in this collection of the final four books in the Kissing Monsters series…
