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Book The Orphan and the Thief

Download or read book The Orphan and the Thief written by M. L. Legette and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quest is about to begin! Toad thought it'd be easy to steal from Mr. Edward P. Owl. Unfortunately for Toad, he isn't the best of thieves. Caught in the act, he's in more trouble than ever before. Now to save his hide, Toad must track down five rare potion ingredients for Mr. Owl. Or else. All Melena Snead wants is her family back, but after the Miggens Street Fire, that isn't very likely. Orphaned and miserable, forced to work in an apothecary, she's determined to find Milo, her missing brother. No matter what. When Melena finds Toad ransacking her apothecary, Toad gets a nasty shock: apothecaries don't carry Mr. Owl's ingredients. Luckily, Melena's willing to help, for a price. With Melena's pet Spit-Fire dragon and Toad's enchanted talking beer mug, they embark on a fantastical journey, traveling the country in search of the potion ingredients. But can they gather all of them in time, what with monsters, pirates, and axe-wielding thieves? And if they do, is there an even greater danger waiting for them at the end?

Book The Orphan Thief

    Book Details:
  • Author : Glynis Peters
  • Publisher : HarperCollins UK
  • Release : 2019-11-28
  • ISBN : 0008374627
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book The Orphan Thief written by Glynis Peters and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the international bestselling author of The Secret Orphan

Book The Thief Lord

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  • Author : Cornelia Funke
  • Publisher : Chicken House
  • Release : 2013-10-03
  • ISBN : 1909489158
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book The Thief Lord written by Cornelia Funke and published by Chicken House. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the crumbling splendour of wintertime Venice, two orphans are on the run. The mysterious Thief Lord offers shelter, but a terrible danger is gathering force...

Book The Secret Orphan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Glynis Peters
  • Publisher : HarperCollins UK
  • Release : 2018-11-09
  • ISBN : 0008300941
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book The Secret Orphan written by Glynis Peters and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The USA Today bestseller This is a stunning and memorable page-turner of love, loss and resilience for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz Don’t miss The Red Cross Orphans, the brand new historical novel from Glynis Peters coming in November 2021

Book The Orphan Sisters

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  • Author : Mary E. Bennett
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1899
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 788 pages

Download or read book The Orphan Sisters written by Mary E. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Memory Thief

Download or read book The Memory Thief written by Lauren Mansy and published by Blink. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thrilling YA fantasy debut follows seventeen-year-old Etta Lark as she navigates the underworld of Craewick to pull off the heist of a lifetime. A YALSA (The Young Adult Library Services Association) Teens' Top Ten Book for 2020, Mansy crafts a grim reality where memories are worth their weight in gold. In the city of Craewick, memories reign. The power-obsessed ruler of the city, Madame, has cultivated a society in which memories are currency, citizens are divided by ability, and Gifted individuals can take memories from others through touch as they please. Seventeen-year-old Etta Lark is desperate to live outside of the corrupt culture, but she grapples with the guilt of an accident that has left her mother bedridden in the city's asylum. When Madame threatens to put her mother up for auction, a Craewick practice in which a "criminal's" memories are sold to the highest bidder before being killed, Etta will do whatever it takes to save her. Even if it means rejoining the Shadows, the rebel group she swore off in the wake of the accident years earlier. To rescue her mother, Etta must prove her allegiance to the Shadows by stealing a memorized map of the Maze, a formidable prison created by the bloodthirsty ruler of a neighboring Realm. Etta faces startling attacks, unexpected romance, and, above all, her own past as she uncovers a conspiracy that challenges everything she knew about herself and the world around her. In a place where nothing is what it seems, can Etta ever become more than a memory thief? Perfect for fans of high-stakemagical heists such as: Leigh Bardugo (Six of Crows) Victoria Aveyard (Red Queen) Roshani Chokshi (The Gilded Wolves) "Mansy's debut will delight fantasy readers who revel in fully developed settings and unusual powers."- Booklist "A welcome addition to the YA fantasy canon, The Memory Thief is a suspenseful page-turner, delightfully chock full of unexpected twists and turns."- Shelf Awareness

Book The Orphan in Eighteenth Century Law and Literature

Download or read book The Orphan in Eighteenth Century Law and Literature written by Cheryl L. Nixon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheryl Nixon's book is the first to connect the eighteenth-century fictional orphan and factual orphan, emphasizing the legal concepts of estate, blood, and body. Examining novels by authors such as Eliza Haywood, Tobias Smollett, and Elizabeth Inchbald, and referencing never-before analyzed case records, Nixon reconstructs the narratives of real orphans in the British parliamentary, equity, and common law courts and compares them to the narratives of fictional orphans. The orphan's uncertain economic, familial, and bodily status creates opportunities to "plot" his or her future according to new ideologies of the social individual. Nixon demonstrates that the orphan encourages both fact and fiction to re-imagine structures of estate (property and inheritance), blood (familial origins and marriage), and body (gender and class mobility). Whereas studies of the orphan typically emphasize the poor urban foundling, Nixon focuses on the orphaned heir or heiress and his or her need to be situated in a domestic space. Arguing that the eighteenth century constructs the "valued" orphan, Nixon shows how the wealthy orphan became associated with new understandings of the individual. New archival research encompassing print and manuscript records from Parliament, Chancery, Exchequer, and King's Bench demonstrate the law's interest in the propertied orphan. The novel uses this figure to question the formulaic structures of narrative sub-genres such as the picaresque and romance and ultimately encourage the hybridization of such plots. As Nixon traces the orphan's contribution to the developing novel and developing ideology of the individual, she shows how the orphan creates factual and fictional understandings of class, family, and gender.

Book Brief Narrative of Facts Relative to the Orphan Houses  to the New Orphan Houses     on Ashley Down  Bristol  and Other Objects of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home and Abroad

Download or read book Brief Narrative of Facts Relative to the Orphan Houses to the New Orphan Houses on Ashley Down Bristol and Other Objects of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home and Abroad written by Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home and Abroad (Bristol) and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Orphan in Eighteenth Century Fiction

Download or read book The Orphan in Eighteenth Century Fiction written by E. König and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances. Analysing sixteen major novels from Defoe to Austen, this original study explains the undiminished popularity of literary orphans and reveals their key role in the construction of gendered subjectivity.

Book Our Paper

Download or read book Our Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Republic of Thieves

Download or read book The Republic of Thieves written by Scott Lynch and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The third book of the suspense-filled, enduringly popular Gentleman Bastard Sequence about a roguish group of conmen, which George R. R. Martin has called “fresh, original, and engrossing . . . gorgeously realized.” “Fast paced, fun, and impossible to put down . . . Locke and company remain among the most engaging protagonists in fantasy.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) ONE OF PASTE’S BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF THE DECADE With the greatest heist of their career gone spectacularly sour, con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora and his trusted partner, Jean, have barely escaped with their lives. Or at least Jean has. Locke is slowly succumbing to a lethal poison that no alchemist can cure. With the end nearing, Locke’s only hope is to accept a mysterious Bondsmage’s offer: act as a political pawn in the Magi elections, and in exchange be healed. But the lifesaving sorcery promises to rival even the most excruciating death, and Locke refuses. Until the Bondsmage invokes the name of Sabetha, the love of Locke’s life, his equal in skill and wit . . . and now his greatest rival. From his first glimpse of Sabetha as a fellow orphan and thief-in-training, Locke was smitten. But after a tumultuous courtship, she broke away. Now they will reunite in another clash of wills. Faced with his only equal in both love and trickery, Locke must choose whether to fight Sabetha—or woo her. It is a decision on which both of their lives may depend. Don’t miss any of Scott Lynch’s epic fantasy Gentleman Bastard Sequence: THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA • RED SEAS UNDER RED SKIES • THE REPUBLIC OF THIEVES

Book The Muse s Mirrour

Download or read book The Muse s Mirrour written by and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Body of Practical Divinity  Consisting of Above One Hundred Seventy Six Sermons on the Lesser Catechism Composed by the     Assembly of Divines at Westminster  With a Supplement of Some Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture   With Preface by W  Lorimer

Download or read book A Body of Practical Divinity Consisting of Above One Hundred Seventy Six Sermons on the Lesser Catechism Composed by the Assembly of Divines at Westminster With a Supplement of Some Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture With Preface by W Lorimer written by Thomas WATSON (Rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook.) and published by . This book was released on 1692 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oliver

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marc Napolitano
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2014-09-12
  • ISBN : 0199364834
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Oliver written by Marc Napolitano and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the show was first produced in 1960, at a time when transatlantic musical theatre was dominated by American productions, Oliver! already stood out for its overt Englishness. But in writing Oliver!, librettist and composer Lionel Bart had to reconcile the Englishness of his Dickensian source with the American qualities of the integrated book musical. To do so, he turned to the musical traditions that had defined his upbringing: English music hall, Cockney street singing, and East End Yiddish theatre. This book reconstructs the complicated biography of Bart's play, from its early inception as a pop musical inspired by a marketable image, through its evolution into a sincere Dickensian adaptation that would push English musical theatre to new dramatic heights. The book also addresses Oliver!'s phenomenal reception in its homeland, where audiences responded to the musical's Englishness with a nationalistic fervor. The musical, which has more than fulfilled its promise as one of the most popular English musicals of all time, remains one of the country's most significant shows. Author Marc Napolitano shows how Oliver!'s popularity has ultimately exerted a significant influence on two separate cultural trends. Firstly, Bart's adaptation forever impacted the culture text of Dickens's Oliver Twist; to this day, the general perception of the story and the innumerable allusions to the novel in popular media are colored heavily by the sights, scenes, sounds, and songs from the musical, and virtually every major adaptation of from the 1970s on has responded to Bart's work in some way. Secondly, Oliver! helped to move the English musical forward by establishing a post-war English musical tradition that would eventually pave the way for the global dominance of the West End musical in the 1980s. As such, Napolitano's book promises to be an important book for students and scholars in musical theatre studies as well as to general readers interested in the megamusical.

Book Violet Russell  or  The orphan s troubles  by the author of  Little Georgie

Download or read book Violet Russell or The orphan s troubles by the author of Little Georgie written by Violet Russell (fict.name.) and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: