Download or read book Saltwater Curiosities written by Danyelle Leafty and published by Curious Leaf Press. This book was released on with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Kya and Hearthorne as they leave the moon behind in their quest to keep their bargain with the moon dragon. In this Curiosity, they discover the perils of storms, exactly what it takes to sink a faerie ship, and answer the call from the sea herself. In this collection of Saltwater short stories you’ll also find a merstone, discover the power of wishing and remembering, learn the origins of the Bottomless Sea, and read Mira Morganstein’s next adventure as she journeys to Faerie and what she finds there. Series Order: The Curious Leaf: An Adventure in Wishing (#0) Curiosities of the Moon (#1) Saltwater Curiosities (#2) Curiosities of the Enchanted Forest (#3) Coming Soon!
Download or read book Curiosities of the Moon written by Danyelle Leafty and published by Curious Leaf Press. This book was released on with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the adventures of Kya and Hearthorne from The Curious Leaf: An Adventure in Wishing, the stories in this collection feature their next adventure as they journey to the moon. Included in this Collection: ---Kya and the Curious Leaf: A Journey to the Moon (serial*) ---The Tale of the Buried Moon (fairy tale retelling) ---Moonflower (short story) ---Moon Bait (short story from the world of Tales of the Snow Queen) ---Mira Morganstein, Queen of the Nearly Dead Fae: Pink Lemonade and the Eleventy Year (serial*) ---As well as fun little snippets featuring Cherrie and Thorn (Bitten: A Novel of Faerie), Ask Nerissa (The Fairy Godmother Dilemma), a word from Bettony (The Trouble with Toads) and a peek into Bodkins' files (Mira Morganstein). Series Order: The Curious Leaf: An Adventure in Wishing (#0) Curiosities of the Moon (#1) Saltwater Curiosities (#2) *Kya's adventures as well as Mira Morganstein are both told in a serial format. They are *not* a serialized novel--that is, a novel cut into pieces. Each "episode" is a complete adventure in itself with a beginning, a middle, and an ending. The ending, however, is open in order to allow for future adventures in each series.
Download or read book Curiosities written by Charles C. Case and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breverton s Nautical Curiosities written by Terry Breverton and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breverton's Nautical Curiosities is about ships, people and the sea. However, unlike many other nautical compendiums, the focus of this book is on the unusual, the overlooked or the downright extraordinary. Thus, someone most of us do not know, Admiral William Brown, is given equal coverage to Admiral Nelson. Without Admiral Brown releasing Garibaldi, modern Italy might not exist. And without the barely known genius John Ericsson designing the Monitor, the Confederacy might have won the American Civil War. Readers will be stimulated to read more about the remarkable men--explorers, admirals and trawlermen--who have shaped our world. The sea has had a remarkable effect upon our language. We hear the terms "steer clear," "hit the deck," "don't rock the boat," "to harbor a grudge" and the like, and give little thought to them. In the pages of this book, the reader will find the origin of "bumpkin," a "brace of shakes," "born with a silver spoon," "booby prize," "to take on board," "above board," "bombed" (in the sense of being drunk), the "blues," "blind-side," "blind drunk," "the pot calling the kettle black," "reach the bitter end," "wasters," "ahoy," "all at sea," "to keep aloof," "piss-artist," "taken aback," "barbecue" and "bamboozle." Other colourful terms, which have passed out of common usage, such as "bring one's arse to anchor" (sit down), "belly timber" (food) and "bog orange" (potato) are also included, as well as important pirate haunts, technical terms, famous battles, maritime inventors and ship speed records.
Download or read book Full Moon Suppers at Salt Water Farm written by Annemarie Ahearn and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full Moon Suppers at Salt Water Farm invites you to a series of magical, seasonal suppers where dear friends gather around a farm table to celebrate the bounty that the land and sea provide. This menu-driven cookbook offers twelve beautifully crafted meals derived from more than one hundred sold-out evening events at Salt Water Farm, the author’s cooking school in Maine. Even if you can’t make it to one of Annemarie’s monthly Full Moon Suppers, you can re-create them at home, beneath a full moon—or any night—for family and friends. Each supper includes a portrait of the month: its climate, its rewards, and its ritual kitchen tasks—and a menu inspired by those characteristics. A Full Moon Supper is not only a celebration of the earth and its bounty but a reward for the hard work that goes into food production. These meals pay respect to the elements, the conditions of the earth, soil, and sea, and seasonal traditions as we round the lunar cycle.
Download or read book Alabama Curiosities written by Andy Duncan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover Alabama's curious underside with this oddly entertaining little guide! Travelers with a taste for the bizarre, tacky, and hilarious can visit the Coon Dog Cemetery, learn about the cattle-mutilation mystery, view the world's largest boll weevil, and sip Kudzu Tea. Only a true Southerner could capture the essence of these and other authentic Alabama phenomena, and Andy Duncan does his home state proud.
Download or read book Of Firebirds and Frost written by Danyelle Leafty and published by Curious Leaf Press. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aneira thought she had accepted her fate, but the longing for home grows strong enough that she sneaks into the Babas’ cottage to see if she can find a way to spell herself home. Instead, she stumbles in upon a theft in progress. To make matters worse, the Babas had simply been waiting to spring their trap. They need both Aneira and the thief’s help, and they aren’t above threatening life and limb to get it. As before, the Babas offer a choice: retrieve a firebird egg and the maiden they wish to apprentice, and the baby firebird in their possession will be free to find a more hospitable home. Refuse, and the selfsame firebird may well end up plucked and lightly seasoned. The tasks are far from simple—especially when their journey takes them to the heart of Summer’s country. (An unpleasant proposition when your heart is made entirely of frost.) Time grows short, and Aneira must decide if her heart—and the hope of returning home—is worth more than the fate of a baby firebird and a maiden she has never met. The choice she makes will set her on a course that will either save who she is or destroy who she has the potential to become. Key Words: fairy tales, the snow queen, fantasy, magic, children, juvenile fiction, juvenile fantasy, danyelle leafty, magic apples, kids books, fairy tale, series
Download or read book Slippers of Pearl written by Danyelle Leafty and published by Curious Leaf Press. This book was released on with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shoes, unlike magic, are predictable. They don’t change shape, bite, or alter a person’s destiny. And that’s just how Faryn likes it. But his Uncle Harvey has a bad habit of dying. While inconvenient, this hasn’t ever been a problem until now. Thanks to an evil witch and a poisoned apple turnover, Harvey is dead again—permanently this time. As his uncle’s heir, Faryn has to give up shoemaking in order to accept and refine his magic. Magic he never wanted. Unwilling to let go of his dream, but unable to escape his destiny, Faryn combines the two and discovers a knack for making magical shoes. He also learns that turning a person into a goose is a lot easier than turning her back, and that he severely underestimated how much trouble magic can be. The witch who killed his uncle is trying to control all the magic of the land, and it’s up to Faryn to stop her. If only he can get his magic to cooperate in time.
Download or read book Of Indigo and Ice written by Danyelle Leafty and published by Curious Leaf Press. This book was released on 2015-10-24 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It isn’t often that a Baba Yaga makes a mistake. And still more seldom when she admits to it. But when the world is on the brink of eternal winter, she’s willing to make an exception. Only Aneira is no longer the mortal girl Baba Yaga spirited away so many years ago. Her heart is completely frozen, and she has cut ties with all she was before. Unfortunately the consequence of her actions is an endless winter that would cocoon the world in ice and snow. Unless they are able to anchor her heart to balance the magics and what is left of her mortality. Only one creature knows how to anchor a heart and banish the winter from it: the great ice dragon Indigo who has been imprisoned in an enchanted slumber. He is willing to help them in exchange for the answers to three riddles of his own. Riddles that are every bit as dangerous as a heart filled with the power of winter and frozen through with ice. Read the series in order: Bottomless (prequel short story) Of Wind and Winter (#1) Of Firebirds and Frost (#2) Of Indigo and Ice (#3) Of Secrets and Snow (#4) Key Terms: fairy tale, the snow queen, winter, magic, fantasy, fairy tales for kids, fairy tales for tweens, danyelle leafty, middle grade, upper middle grade, mg, fairy tale retelling, winter fairy tale, fairy tale series, the snow queen series
Download or read book The Trouble With Toads written by Danyelle Leafty and published by Curious Leaf Press. This book was released on with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time a young girl wanted revenge. But first, she wanted to be beautiful. Twelve-year-old Bettony has read enough stories that begin with once upon a time to know what happens to the ugly stepsisters at the end, and she’s determined to escape that fate by any means necessary—even by magic. Unfortunately, when it comes to magic, there is no place for regret, refunds, or exchanges. Even if you accidentally turn your older sister into a toad. If Bettony wants her happily ever after to end well, she’s going to have to find a way to turn her sister back into a person before their mother finds out she’s been dabbling with magic and grounds her for life. And if she wants to do that, she’s going to need more magic. Tracking down the family magic turns out to be surprisingly easy. Now, if only it came with instructions . . .
Download or read book Dragonspell written by Danyelle Leafty and published by Curious Leaf Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fairy godmother can never catch a break. Nerissa should have been getting ready to celebrate another successful Happily Ever After. Instead, she has to track down her runaway DID—Damsel in Distress—who may or may not have been kidnapped by a dragon. A dragon who happens to be a close, personal friend. But time is running out. Her DID has attracted the attention of some very powerful winds bent on gaining their freedom—and they aren’t above using her DID to gain it. So that’s one fairy tale temporarily on hold while Nerissa deals with a dragon, seven errant winds, and her DID. Because if there’s one thing a fair godmother won’t tolerate, it’s an Unhappily Ever After. Read the complete series in order: Dragonspell Catspell Firespell Applespell Frogspell Trollspell A boxed set containing the entire Fairy Godmother Dilemma series (60% cheaper than buying individual books) is also available. Key words: fairy tale, fractured fairy tale, fairy godmother, tween, teen, ya, fantasy, magic, young adult, upper middle grade, first in series, prequel, the fairy godmother dilemma, ya fantasy
Download or read book Of Wind and Winter written by Danyelle Leafty and published by Curious Leaf Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Aneira awakens to find she has been sprited away into the night by none other than the dread witch Baba Yaga, she is faced with a choice: help Baba Yaga find her sisters' magical skins and Aneira can go home to her family or refuse to help and lose her mother and sisters forever. The task is simple. She just has to steal the Lord of Winter’s heart by lulling him to sleep with the Harp of the Seven Winds. Once she has it, all Aneira has to do is lock it in a magic jar Baba Yaga gives her. After that, she’s free to go home. The only way to obtain the harp, however, is to succeed at the three tasks set forth by the winds themselves—winds that are bent on protecting the harp from mortal hands at all costs. But stealing the Lord of Winter’s heart turns out to be more complicated than Aneira realized, and she must decide whether returning to her family is worth the price of the world losing Winter forever. Key Words: fairy tales, fairy tale, the snow queen, series, middle grade, children's, fantasy, magic, baba yaga, the north wind, quests, high fantasy Key Words: fairy tale retelling, fairy tale, fantasy, magic, high fantasy, epic fantasy, baba yaga, the snow queen, ya fantasy, fairy tale series, tales of the snow queen, fantasy series
Download or read book The Fairy Godmother Series written by Danyelle Leafty and published by Curious Leaf Press. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy Godmothers are heartless by tradition. Their heartlessness is what allows them to watch, help, and then fade back into the shadows when the ball is over, hearts have been won, and the Happily Ever After Arrives. Unfortunately, Nerissa has never been one for tradition. She has never been above bending the rules, befriending dragons, or threatening to skewer a certain Small Flaming Nuisance who just happens to be the fairy queen’s chosen messenger. After years of working hard to secure the happiness of her Damsels in Distress, the very last thing she expected to get out of it was one very real-- --working-- --beating-- --heart of her own. She doesn’t want it, but she can’t get rid of it. So there’s only one thing left to do: find a way to work around it. It truly is a fairy godmother’s dilemma. Included in this box set is the Complete Dilemma: DragonspellCatspellFirespellApplespellFrogspellTrollspell Key words: fairy tale, fairy tale retelling, fairy tale adaptation, the white cat, swan lake, snow white and rose red, snow white, the bluebird, east of the sun west of the moon, fairy godmother, fantasy, magic, children's, kid books, children books, tween, juvenile fiction, juvenile fantasy, upper middle grade, princesses, danyelle leafty, the fairy godmother dilemma, box set, fairy tale box set, pre-order, sale
Download or read book The Curious Leaf written by Danyelle Leafty and published by Curious Leaf Press. This book was released on with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A flower. A faerie. The power of a wish. This short fairy tale tells the story of a flower who longs to do more than stand reliably in her pot day after day. Instead, she wishes she could sprout wings and fly high enough to brush against the stars and sky. A passing faerie hears her wish and is willing to grant it . . . for a price. The Curious Leaf: An Adventure in Wishing is a short story (approx. 30 pages) and is a prequel for Curiosities of the Moon. Series Order: The Curious Leaf: An Adventure in Wishing (#0) Curiosities of the Moon (#1) Saltwater Curiosities (#2) Curiosities of the Enchanted Forest (#3) Coming Soon!
Download or read book The Power of Gifts written by Felicity Heal and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gifts are always with us: we use them positively to display affection and show gratitude for favours; we suspect that others give and accept them as douceurs and bribes. The gift also performed these roles in early modern English culture: and assumed a more significant role because networks of informal support and patronage were central to social and political behaviour. Favours, and their proper acknowledgement, were preoccupations of the age of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Hobbes. As in modern society, giving and receiving was complex and full of the potential for social damage. 'Almost nothing', men of the Renaissance learned from that great classical guide to morality, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 'is more disgraceful than the fact that we do not know how either to give or receive benefits'. The Power of Gifts is about those gifts and benefits - what they were, and how they were offered and received in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It shows that the mode of giving, as well as what was given, was crucial to social bonding and political success. The volume moves from a general consideration of the nature of the gift to an exploration of the politics of giving. In the latter chapters some of the well-known rituals of English court life - the New Year ceremony, royal progresses, diplomatic missions - are viewed through the prism of gift-exchange. Gifts to monarchs or their ministers could focus attention on the donor, those from the crown could offer some assurance of favour. These fundamentals remained the same throughout the century and a half before the Civil War, but the attitude of individual monarchs altered specific behaviour. Elizabeth expected to be wooed with gifts and dispensed benefits largely for service rendered, James I modelled giving as the largesse of the Renaissance prince, Charles I's gift-exchanges focused on the art collecting of his coterie. And always in both politics and the law courts there was the danger that gifts would be corroded, morphing from acceptable behaviour into bribes and corruption. The Power of Gifts explores prescriptive literature, pamphlets, correspondence, legal cases and financial records, to illuminate social attitudes and behaviour through a rich series of examples and case-studies.
Download or read book Snakes Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life written by Catherine Cooper Hopley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-29 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Cooper Hopley's "Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life" is a captivating journey into the enigmatic realm of these often-misunderstood creatures. Hopley's deep fascination with snakes shines through as she unravels their intriguing behaviors, dispels myths, and explores their ecological importance. This comprehensive exploration not only educates but also awakens a sense of wonder for the diverse world of serpents. Whether you're a herpetology enthusiast or simply curious about the natural world, this book promises to be an enlightening and mesmerizing read.
Download or read book The Labyrinth of Curiosities written by Fay Moss-Rider and published by Odd Dot. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect gift for your smartest friends and family (or you), The Labyrinth of Curiosities is a maze of 400 pages of trivia where each factoid and tidbit leads unexpectedly to the next. This never-before-seen, full-color, maze-like format makes for an entirely new way of discovering cool trivia in history, science, pop culture, and more! What do sign language puns have to do with Shakespearean cats? How do secret languages involve infamous twins? And how are gingko trees and tidal waves related? Open the labyrinth to embark on a voyage of exploration. Start at the beginning or open anywhere in the book, pick a fact that catches your eye, and see where it leads you—you’ll never know what peculiar trivia is waiting on the next page!
