The Ice Virgin
The Ice Virgin

Author: Hans Christian Andersen

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2017-06-13

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 1468315129

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The relationship between a daring young chamois hunter from the remote Bernese Oberland and a prosperous miller’s daughter living in the comfortable French-speaking Swiss canton of Vaud plays out a complex of themes, such as the instinctive life versus rational civilization and the role of early experience in shaping personal destiny, in this dark and affecting Hans Christian Andersen adult novella.In the terrifying Ice Virgin and her eerie minions, with their implacable hatred of mankind, we get a glimpse of the fairy tale Andersen. But The Ice Virgin, the most disturbing, ambitious, and searching of all of Andersen’s narratives, is also a thoroughly absorbing story of the real world. Andersen here is writing about a world he saw as something of a paradigm of the human condition, and this lies behind the story’s multilayered complexity.This splendid new translation by Paul Binding and his erudite and comprehensive afterword together make a compelling case for just why The Ice Virgin deserves to be placed in the first rank of world literature.

The Virgin in the Ice
The Virgin in the Ice

Author: Ellis Peters

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-08-05

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1497671205

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A monk embarks on a dangerous quest to find a trio of missing travelers in this medieval mystery by an Edgar Award–winning author. The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturbing of events. Raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester. Among them are two orphans from a noble family, a boy of thirteen and an eighteen-year-old girl of great beauty, and their companion, a young Benedictine nun. The trio never reaches Shrewsbury, having disappeared somewhere in the wild countryside. Cadfael is afraid for these three lost lambs, but another call for help sends him to the church of Saint Mary. A wounded monk, found naked and bleeding by the roadside, will surely die without Cadfael’s healing arts. Why this holy man has been attacked and what his fevered ravings reveal soon give Brother Cadfael a clue to the fate of the missing travelers. Now Cadfael sets out on a dangerous quest to find them. The road will lead him to a chill and terrible murder and a tale of passion gone awry. And at journey’s end awaits a vision of what is best, and worst, in humankind.

Arctic Diary
Arctic Diary

Author: Sam Branson

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2013-03-31

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0753521377

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It's hardly a surprise to discover that Sam Branson has a love of adventure and a real concern about our future in a world where the climate is changing rapidly. Journeying into the heart of the Arctic wilderness with his father and a film crew, Sam explores the changing landscape and the lives of the native Inuit people who have survived in a relentlessly inhospitable environment for 5000 years. Sleeping on frozen seas and encountering majestic polar bears, Sam and his father embark together on a winter expedition which Sam must ultimately complete on his own, finding new depths of resilience and courage in a formidable and breathtaking landscape.

The Virgin Suicides
The Virgin Suicides

Author: Jeffrey Eugenides

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2011-09-20

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0307401936

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First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters—beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys—commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family’s fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.

Virgin Daiquiri
Virgin Daiquiri

Author: Elise Faber

Publisher: Elise Faber

Published: 2020-06-29

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1946140651

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I’d spent my life watching everything happen around me. But never actually living it. Sheltered. Naïve. Shy. The top three adjectives to describe me. Well, that and awkward. Until Brent. From the first moment, I’d met him, my filter had disappeared. The things that passed through my lips when I was with him were the thoughts that passed through my mind, but also the things I’d never dreamed of saying aloud. But he seemed to like them, and I couldn’t stop. Not when he was also gentle, kind, and protective. As well as the most beautiful man I’d ever laid eyes on. A total winning package, and one who was into me. But I was me. More comfortable on the edges, better at observing rather than living. I’d pushed my boundaries just once, had really gone for what life was offering me, and that had ended about as well as an elephant trying to parachute with a tissue. Horribly. It had ended horribly. So I wasn’t going to be ready to try again. Not ever. Even if Brent made a very convincing argument to just suck it up and go for it.

Raffaele: Taming His Tempestuous Virgin
Raffaele: Taming His Tempestuous Virgin

Author: Sandra Marton

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1426842708

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First in the series featuring the darkly handsome, proud, and arrogant Orsini brothers—the perfect Sicilian husbands—from the USA Today–bestselling author. Raffaele Orsini doesn’t want a wife . . . But when he meets his arranged bride, Raffaele feels honor bound to marry her. She’s not what he was expecting . . . but her dowdy clothes can’t hide her lusciously feminine figure or her wildcat temperament! Chiara Cordiano will not love her husband! She’s tried everything to avoid her fate, but in the blink of an eye Chiara is swept away from her quaint Sicilian town to New York! She wants to hate Rafe, but seduction is in his blood. With his dark, brooding looks and tempting masculinity, she’ll be purring like a kitten!

The Virgin's Secret Marriage
The Virgin's Secret Marriage

Author: Cathy Gillen Thacker

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1426877986

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Once upon a time, hockey playerJoe Hart fell in love with sweet, beautifulEmma Donovan. But then Joe discoveredthat Emma's father owned the NHL teamhe played for. Heartbroken, angry andkicked off the team, Joe disappeared totry to start his life anew. Seven years later,Joe has returned to Holly Springs for a second chance.…For the past seven years heiress Emma Donovan hasunsuccessfully tried to put Joe Hart out of her mind. Butwhen their scandalous “reunion” is caught on the localnews, the town's gossips are delighted.… Especially whenit's publicly revealed that Emma and Joe eloped all thoseyears ago—and they're still married!

The Virgin's Secret
The Virgin's Secret

Author: Abby Green

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2010-06-22

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1426860102

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A Greek tycoon’s innocent Cinderella has a few shocking secrets to reveal in this international billionaire romance. Leo Parnassus has returned to Athens to head the family empire. A New Yorker since childhood, he finds life is certainly different here with its dramatic family feuds—and expectations to marry and produce heirs! Amid all this stifling tradition, the beautiful girl who catches Leo’s eye is a welcome distraction. She may be a lowly waitress, but Angel has her secrets. Leo will be pleased to discover she’s a virgin, but not that she’s the daughter of his adversary! Or that, in nine months, there will be one more secret revealed . . .