Download or read book Aurelia s Test written by Elizabeth McLaughlin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aurelia of Gerbaldin never expected to be called to serve her kingdom, Edbergia, at such a young age. Now a delegate of the Emperor, she must unravel the secrets of the mysterious mountain province of Ot Yerbarbolis Gehge. She will have to learn a new language, overcome the animosity of the town's inhabitants, and embark on a journey that will take her further than she's ever been before. What she discovers will change her life forever.

Download or read book Academy 7 written by Anne Osterlund and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a past too terrible to speak of, and a bleak, lonely future ahead of her, Aerin Renning is shocked to find she has earned a place at the most exclusive school in the universe. Aerin excels at Academy 7 in all but debate, where Dane Madousin?son of one of the most powerful men in the Alliance? consistently outtalks her. Fortunately Aerin consistently outwits him at sparring. They are at the top of their class until Dane jeopardizes everything and Aerin is unintentionally dragged down with him. When the pair is given a joint punishment, an unexpected friendship?and romance?begins to form. But Dane and Aerin both harbor dangerous secrets, and the two are linked in ways neither of them could ever have imagined. . . .

Download or read book The Penniless Debutante written by Janice Preston and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost destitute When she inherits a fortune! The will that sees Aurelia Croome become wealthy forbids her from marrying the new Lord Tregowan. That wouldn’t be a concern if the only man to catch Aurelia’s eye during her first Season wasn’t Maximilian Penrose—Lord Tregowan! Why is it that no one else has Max’s honor, wit or tantalizing good looks? The specter of being poor again haunts her—but the thought of sacrificing passion for comfort is just as terrifying! From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past. Lady Tregowan's Will Three penniless half sisters. An unexpected inheritance. A year to wed. Book 1: The Rags-to-Riches Governess Book 2: The Cinderella Heiress Book 3: The Penniless Debutante

Download or read book Broken China written by Lori Aurelia Williams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of "When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune" now delivers the story of one girl's excruciating struggle to beat the odds. Williams imbues this narrative with an unshakable sense of hope that transcends China's bleak reality.

Download or read book Dark of the West written by Joanna Hathaway and published by Tor Teen. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A novel of court intrigue and action-packed military adventure,"* Joanna Hathaway's Dark of the West, is a breathtaking YA fantasy debut--first in the Glass Alliance series. A pilot raised in revolution. A princess raised in a palace. A world on the brink of war. Aurelia Isendare is a princess of a small kingdom in the North, raised in privilege but shielded from politics as her brother prepares to step up to the throne. Halfway around the world, Athan Dakar, the youngest son of a ruthless general, is a fighter pilot longing for a life away from the front lines. When Athan’s mother is shot and killed, his father is convinced it’s the work of his old rival, the Queen of Etania—Aurelia’s mother. Determined to avenge his wife’s murder, he devises a plot to overthrow the Queen, a plot which sends Athan undercover to Etania to gain intel from her children. Athan’s mission becomes complicated when he finds himself falling for the girl he’s been tasked with spying upon. Aurelia feels the same attraction, all the while desperately seeking to stop the war threatening to break between the Southern territory and the old Northern kingdoms that control it—a war in which Athan’s father is determined to play a role. As diplomatic ties manage to just barely hold, the two teens struggle to remain loyal to their families and each other as they learn that war is not as black and white as they’ve been raised to believe. “Heart-pounding . . . will leave the reader wanting more.”—*#1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Harlequin Historical November 2021 Box Set 2 of 2 written by Julia Justiss and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders and muscled Viking warriors? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes: THE EXPLORER BARONESS Heirs in Waiting by Julia Justiss (1830s) Charis is not the demure society bride Gregory Lattimer should marry if he’s to restore his family’s reputation. He must settle for friendship, but no other debutante seems to match up to her… THE PENNILESS DEBUTANTE Lady Tregowan’s Will by Janice Preston (Regency) Aurelia was destitute until she unexpectedly inherited a fortune. The catch? She’s forbidden from marrying the new Lord Tregowan. So why is he the only man to catch Aurelia’s eye? THE VISCOUNT’S CHRISTMAS PROPOSAL by Carol Arens (Victorian) When Anna Liese’s childhood friend, the man she’s always loved, returns home more dashing and eligible than ever before, she’s overjoyed. Only her scheming stepmother also wants him—for her stepsister! Look for Harlequin® Historical’s November 2021 Box Set 1 of 2, filled with even more timeless love stories!

Download or read book Queen of His Heart written by Nasreen Akther. and published by Nasreen Akther. . This book was released on 2023-08-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen of His Heart ~By Nasreen Akther. He is the King. The leader and present head of every sector of earth whom everybody had to obey, be it werewolves or humans.  In the time of chaos, he brought light to the war crazed and protected the earth inhabitants from massacre.  Everyone thought of him then as a Savior. The Light.  But he turned out to be the king of manipulation and darkness.  He fed on evil to bring down destruction. Nobody on the whole of the all realms can be so Bloodthirsty and Cruel than him. People's lives meant nothing to his Psycho manipulative mind. Until she came. A naive beauty who didn't understand bloodlust. So his crazy blood killings turned into magic to amuse her. To keep her enchanted in the magic woven little world he made for her.  She meant everything to him. The very core of his shrouded existence was her.  Fate forbids, if he lost her, which he won't ever let happen, the whole world will be crying in the face of his chaos and destruction. Cause he cared for none. Only her.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  "You were warned you fools,  The Prophecy of my emergence was revealed by your ancestors.  But you all chose to neglect and forget it.  So I came back to take my throne.... BUT don't ever and ever forget,  That now I have a Queen.  And the moment she fidgets in discomfort because of you measly mortals, your whole existence will be veiled with the melting lava of cruel darkness. " ~ King Azazel, the strongest ruler in the history of Earth.  Disclaimer.  The story is a product wholly based on the imagination of the author. It has no intent to insult or oppose any religion or belief. This is a fictional story made for the sole purpose of reading. 

Download or read book Dark Horse written by Kel Carpenter and published by Kel Carpenter. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My husband killed me.Instead of spending my immortal Afterlife pissed off and angry, I moved on. I became someone.Sure, that someone was a demon with the highest track record of reform, AKA punishment, in Hell. But who's bragging?I'm right on my way to retirement behind the pearly gates. Everything was going fine . . . until the Risk Witches saw a terrible vision.Three men. Each scarred in their own way, born with powers that haven't been seen in eons.Upper Management sent the best to correct their path. Angels. Poltergeists. Nothing worked.These men were too stubborn. Too bad. Too untamed...So they sent me.Roman. Ezra. Dorian.Combined, they have enough power to end the world-and they will.Unless I find a way to stop them first.Breaking people is my job. But this time...my job might break me.

Download or read book Chameleon s Morrow written by Sid Prise and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aurelia of Rasil'yon, a young elfin sorceress, is poised to discover herself and her world. She embarks upon an epic journey that will take her to many countries, through many bodies and forms, and to dealings with many gods and goddesses, of foreign peoples for whom she once had naught but enmity. This odyssey shall not end until she herself ends--coming to the precipice of goddesshood, and to the end of her mortality. She must confront her elfin racism, the haughty curse of her people, and make common cause with orcs and dwarves and gnomes and humans of various nations. Only then is she able to catch a glimpse of the Codex--that tome of truth, inscrutable, that her Uncle Aurel died attempting to recover. Along the way, she meets and touches many beautiful souls, fights many more evil ones, and begins to learn the measure of her destiny. Will she learn the beauty of revolt and liberation, and win her fight against tyranny? Or will she succumb to the force of Madness in the cosmos, and become a God?

Download or read book When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune written by Lori Aurelia Williams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ALA Best Book for Young Adults 2001 Shayla Dubois lives in a Houston neighborhood known as the Bottom, where life is colorful but never easy. She wants only two things out of life: to become a writer and to have a nice, peaceful home. Instead, her life has been turned upside down. Shayla's mama kicked her sister, Tia, out of the house for messing around with an older guy. And Shayla's father has been spending a lot of time at the house with mama. And there's her strange new neighbor, Kambia Elaine, who tells the most fantastic stories. Then Shayla begins to suspect that something is wrong. This title is an Accelerated Reader® Title

Download or read book Renegade s War written by Gun Brooke and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When orthopedic surgeon Harriet “Harry” Basantes is called to the ER to assess a patient who has been assaulted by her husband, she’s instantly thrust back sixteen years to the day her childhood sweetheart, Desi Thompson, walked away and disappeared without a trace. Desi’s always done the right thing, including marrying the man her father insisted was a better match than Harry. But when she ends up in the ER after an argument gone wrong, she can’t help wondering if the right thing is worth the cost. Harry refuses to let Desi return to an unsafe home, even if that means putting aside her own broken heart. With love on the line, can they give each other one more chance? Content advisory: This book contains graphic instances of domestic violence.

Download or read book My New Roots written by Sarah Britton and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At long last, Sarah Britton, called the “queen bee of the health blogs” by Bon Appétit, reveals 100 gorgeous, all-new plant-based recipes in her debut cookbook, inspired by her wildly popular blog. Every month, half a million readers—vegetarians, vegans, paleo followers, and gluten-free gourmets alike—flock to Sarah’s adaptable and accessible recipes that make powerfully healthy ingredients simply irresistible. My New Roots is the ultimate guide to revitalizing one’s health and palate, one delicious recipe at a time: no fad diets or gimmicks here. Whether readers are newcomers to natural foods or are already devotees, they will discover how easy it is to eat healthfully and happily when whole foods and plants are at the center of every plate.

Download or read book Enemy of Rome written by Ben Kane and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Rome rose to power in the 3rd century BCE there was only one real rival in the Mediterranean—Carthage. In the First Punic War, the Roman legions defeated and humiliated Carthage. Now Hannibal, a brilliant young Carthaginian general, is out for revenge. Caught up in the maelstrom are two young boys, Hanno, the son of a distinguished soldier and confidant of Hannibal, and Quintus, son of a Roman equestrian and landowner. A disastrous adventure will see Hanno sold into slavery and bought by Quintus's father. Although an unexpected friendship springs up between the two boys—and with Quintus's sister, Aurelia—the fortunes of the two warring empires will tear them apart. In Ben Ken's Hannibal: Enemy of Rome, they find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict and an alliance forged through slavery will be played out to its stunning conclusion in battle. "A master of his discipline rightly hailed as one of the best historical novelists writing today." --Daily Express

Download or read book Hannibal Enemy of Rome written by Ben Kane and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Rome rose to power in the 3rd century BCE there was only one real rival in the Mediterranean—Carthage. In the First Punic War, the Roman legions defeated and humiliated Carthage. Now Hannibal, a brilliant young Carthaginian general, is out for revenge. Caught up in the maelstrom are two young boys, Hanno, the son of a distinguished soldier and confidant of Hannibal, and Quintus, son of a Roman equestrian and landowner. A disastrous adventure will see Hanno sold into slavery and bought by Quintus's father. Although an unexpected friendship springs up between the two boys—and with Quintus's sister, Aurelia—the fortunes of the two warring empires will tear them apart. In Ben Ken's Hannibal: Enemy of Rome, they find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict and an alliance forged through slavery will be played out to its stunning conclusion in battle.

Download or read book The Grass Crown written by Colleen McCullough and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough returns us to an age of magnificent triumphs, volcanic passions, and barbaric cruelties. Throughout the Western world, great kingdoms have fallen and despots lay crushed beneath the heels of Rome's advancing legions. But now internal rebellion threatens the stability of the mighty Republic. An aging, ailing Gaius Marius, heralded conqueror of Germany and Numidia, longs for that which was prophesied many years before: an unprecedented seventh consulship of Rome. It is a prize to be won only through treachery and with blood, pitting Marius against a new generation of assassins, power-seekers, and Senate intriguers—and setting him at odds with the ambitious, tormented Lucius Cornelius Sulla, once Marius's most trusted right-hand man, now his most dangerous rival.

Download or read book Aurelia written by Anne Osterlund and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impressive debut, equal parts commercial appeal and literary prowess. Princess Aurelia is next in line to rule the kingdom of Tyralt, but she would rather be one of the common folk, free to learn and roam and . . . not marry the next tyrannical prince that comes courting. Naturally, the king wants Aurelia to marry for political power. Aurelia wants to marry for love. And someone in the kingdom wants her . . . dead. Assigned to investigate and protect Aurelia is Robert, the son of the king?s former royal spy and one of Aurelia?s oldest friends. As Aurelia and Robert slowly uncover clues as to who is threatening her, their friendship turns to romance. With everything possible on the line?her life, her kingdom, her heart?Aurelia is forced to take matters into her own hands, no matter the cost.

Download or read book Anthology of Young Adult Modern Myths Volume II written by Various Authors and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following short stories is a collection of modern mythological tales written by a group of young adults.