Download or read book Night Briars written by Taryn Tyler and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snow and Rose live together in their cozy woodland cottage, entranced by each other's love, when an invitation to King Otto's wedding sends them out of their safe haven and on a perilous journey to his castle.Once they arrive at the castle Rose is drawn to the court life of her ancestors. The feeling of home she finds there helps her re-ignite the magic within herself that she had lost. Meanwhile Snow seems to find dead bodies and loneliness wherever she goes. Not everyone in the castle is who they appear to be and the dangerous magic she encounters prevents her from giving voice to the dark deeds she has witnessed. Her silence drives her further and further into madness as the secrets she unearths become more and more perilous. These different experiences begin to unravel the love Snow and Rose have for each other. When the castle's secrets rise to the surface at last the two girls must decide if being true to themselves means letting go of each other. Based off of Grimm's Fairytales, Night Briars is a richly drawn lesbian romance that explores the nuances of what happens after "Happily Ever After".

Download or read book Among the Beasts Briars written by Ashley Poston and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ashley Poston, acclaimed author of Heart of Iron, returns with a dark, lush fairy tale–inspired fantasy for fans of Sara Raasch and Susan Dennard. Cerys is safe in the Kingdom of Aloriya. Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that borders the kingdom. But as Aloriya prospered, the woods grew dark, cursed, and forbidden. Cerys knows this all too well: When she was young, she barely escaped as the woods killed her friends and her mother. Now Cerys carries a small bit of the curse—the magic—in her blood, a reminder of the day she lost everything. As a new queen is crowned, however, things long hidden in the woods descend on the kingdom itself. Cerys is forced on the run, her only companions a small and irritating fox from the royal garden and the magic in her veins. It’s up to her to find the legendary Lady of the Wilds and beg for a way to save her home. But the road is darker and more dangerous than she knows, and as secrets from the past are uncovered amid the teeth and roots of the forest, it’s going to take everything she has just to survive.

Download or read book The Briar Society written by C.J. Bernstein and published by Ackerly Green Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient secret society, a new age of magic, and a question that could decide the fate of the world. When a mysterious entity known only as “The Well” joins the forum and begins delivering strange ephemera from an alternate timeline, a select group of readers finds themselves faced with the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity— To join a secret, centuries-old organization devoted to the preservation, study, and performance of magic. An organization called the Briar Society. With the Well at the helm, and familiar faces joining their search, the newly-minted Briars chase one cryptic clue to the next in their quest for answers and magimystic knowledge while also connecting loose ends that begin with The Book of Briars and reach all the way back to The Monarch Papers. From a nineteenth-century branch of the original society to Deirdre Green’s Manhattan brownstone, from the Cotswolds to the Pacific Northwest to rural Missouri, the adventures of the Briar Society span countries and centuries in their efforts to unravel a set of ever more convoluted “mystifications,” all to answer a single, crucial question— A question that, if answered, might finally reveal what waits for them in the shadows of the new age.

Download or read book The Book of Briars written by C.J. Bernstein and published by Ackerly Green Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one remembered the books but her. Alistair Mead only remembers one thing from the year she went missing as a child: A series of books that don’t exist. After years of searching, she stumbles on a clue that proves the books were real but were somehow erased from existence. Desperate for answers, Alistair is drawn into an ancient literary underworld whose members believe she might be the key to unraveling the books, and the altered history of the world. Ben Kriminger hasn’t written in a year. Traumatized by the fanatical reaction to his novel about unsolved disappearances, Ben is still trying to undo the bloody damage caused by his writing and the unhinged reader who couldn’t tell fiction from fact. When book pages about a young woman named Alistair begin showing up on Ben’s doorstep, he finds that her story mirrors events in his own ill-fated novel. Still unsure if what he’s reading is fiction, Ben can’t help but act when the pages depict the same people who destroyed his life turning their twisted attention on Alistair. As their parallel paths spiral toward an impossible revelation, Ben and Alistair learn that seeing this story through may damn the world to darkness before the final page is turned. The Book of Briars is a reality-smashing tale of fiction and fate, a story that explores what happens when the lines that separate memory, magic, and the mundane world are shattered beyond repair.

Download or read book The Dark Prince written by Temple Madison and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2021-06-19 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savanne, prince of Casmir and heir to the throne, is a handsome man loved by all, until he is sent to another reality known as Earth. He is lost in our world, and can’t find the doorway back home. Writer Val Kingsley finds a mysterious man on his doorstep, clearly in need of help, and takes him in. He finds it hard to believe Savanne came from a different world where fairytale characters are real. The two men feel a strong attraction to the other, and Val decides to accompany Savanne on his harrowing journey back home. Will this adult fairy tale have a happily-ever-after ending, or will it go down in defeat from an evil that is too strong, a magic too powerful, and a love caught in between?

Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bottoms written by Joe R. Lansdale and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Edgar Award winner is "equal parts morality tale and page-turning thriller" (Denver Post)—classic American storytelling in its truest, darkest, and most affecting form, with echoes of William Faulkner and Harper Lee. Its 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow moving storm. When a young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in the bottoms of the Sabine River, their small town is instantly charged with tension. When a second body turns up, this time of a white woman, there is little Harry can do from stopping his Klan neighbors from lynching an innocent black man. Together with his younger sister, Harry sets out to discover who the real killer is, and to do so they will search for a truth that resides far deeper than any river or skin color.

Download or read book Briar Rose written by Robert Coover and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An allegorical retelling of Sleeping Beauty. It features a princess who dreams of a succession of kissing princes, and a fairy who inhabits her dreams, regaling her with legends of other sleeping beauties. A look at the power of romantic desire.

Download or read book Briar Day written by Peter M. Ball and published by Eclectic Projects. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published here as a stand-alone chapbook, Briar Day is a short, slipstream story about masculinity, fairy tales, and the narratives we tell ourselves. Also available in the collection The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales. Everyone remembers where they were when the briars first choked the city. Everyone celebrates the anniversary of their rescue from the rampaging dragon and the mysterious curse that afflicted Brisbane. But not everybody is in the mood to celebrate the anniversary of Briar Day, and for two old friends with terrible memories of the day, the annual celebrations are nothing but a source of heartbreak.

Download or read book A Concordance to the Poems of John Keats written by Michael G. Becker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 3515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981. A Concordance to the Poems of John Keats intended to provide the user with a volume suitable to the varying and increasingly specialised interests of scholarship. This title offers a high degree of inclusiveness that attends to the poems and plays, the emended and authoritative headings, and virtually all of the variant readings considered substantive in the riches of the Keats manuscript materials. This title will be of interest to students of literature.

Download or read book The Mysterious Plus written by William Tarvin and published by William L Tarvin. This book was released on with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysterious Plus opens with a situation recently in the news: the murder of an American embassy official in a North African country. The aim of the novel, however, is broader than an individual act of violence. Its murder becomes a symbol of the fanatic-inflamed divisions between Muslim Middle East and Judeo-Christian West, which are fraying the ties that bond humanity. The hero of The Mysterious Plus straddles both worlds. To save his sister, Omar Naaman, nineteen, betrayed comrades and country during Algeria’s fight for independence from colonial rule. At the war’s end, the defeated French, grateful for his double-dealing service, whisked him to France, bestowing a new identity, Remy Montpellier. Years later, Remy is coerced by the French DGSE (their intelligence service) to return incognito to Algeria, where as Omar he is still branded as a traitor, in fact, as the last of the “Seven Devils,” the first six “great collaborators” having been tracked down and killed by Algerian agents. Sent to investigate the gay-bashing murder of an American embassy attaché, who (DGSE suspected) was trafficking classified documents, Remy gradually moves from pursuer to pursued. Will he fulfill the true purpose of his returning to Algiers, or will his treasonous past overtake him? How does the “Mysterious Plus” control the answers to these two questions and hence the resolution to the novel? In his previous book, The Saint of Sodomy (GLB, 1999), William Tarvin, who lived in the Middle East for two decades, satirized Muslim sexual hypocrisies. Though the same barbed wit infuses The Mysterious Plus, it is counterpoised by a darker strain, that materialistic/spiritual differences between West and Middle East threaten to sever the cords bonding humanity. Addendum: Since the novel incorporates ideas from around one thousand philosophical, religious, literary, social, psychological, historical, and political works, Tarvin has provided some commentary and definitions in end-of-chapter footnotes.

Download or read book Kingdom of Ash and Briars written by Hannah West and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Nissera, land of three kingdoms and home to spectacular magic. Bristal, a sixteen-year-old kitchen maid, finds herself in a gritty fairy tale gone wrong when she discovers she has magic in her blood. She's descended from an ancient line of immortal sorcerers called elicromancers—a race that has all but died out in her world, but only two remain in Nissera after a bloody civil war. Bristal joins their ranks without knowing that one of them has a dark secret . . . Tamarice is plotting a quest to overthrow the realm's nobility and take charge herself. Together, Bristal and Brack must guard the three kingdoms of Nissera against Tamarice's black elicromancy. There are princesses to protect, royal alliances to forge, and fierce monsters to battle—all with the hope of preserving peace. With clever homages to Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan, Hannah West makes a fast-paced, exciting, and wholly original debut. The Nissera Chronicles begin here and continue with Fields of Fire, a short story set against the events of Kingdom of Ash and Briars, and Realm of Ruins, a gripping companion novel. "One of the best books I've ever read."—C.J. Redwine, New York Times best-selling author of The Shadow Queen "A world both terrifying and wonderful."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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Download or read book The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple written by Dorothy Osborne and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dorothy Osborne, Lady Temple (1627?1695) was a British writer of letters and wife of Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet ... After refusing a long string of suitors put forth by her family, including her cousin Thomas Osborne, Henry Cromwell (son of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell) and Sir Justinian Isham, in 1654 Dorothy Osborne married Sir William Temple, a man with whom she had carried on a lengthy clandestine courtship that was largely epistolary in nature. It is for her letters to Temple, which were witty, progressive and socially illuminating, that Osborne is remembered. Only Osborne's side of the correspondence survived and comprises a collection of 77 letters held in the British Library (ADD. MSS. 33975)."--Wikipedia.

Download or read book The Tale of Briar Bank written by Susan Wittig Albert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Wickstead has died under a tree limb. The villagers are certain that his death had to do with a treasure he dug up last spring. But why was he in the wood on a frigid night? And what of the claw marks on the limb? And what was that treasure? As per us