![]() ![]() Get ready for me to talk about nothing else but this series for the next few weeks and months, because BOY AM I OBSESSED! “A cage is a cage, no matter how gilded.” ![]() It is not intended for anyone under 18 years of age. Please Note: This book contains explicit content and darker elements, including mature language, violence, and non-consensual sex. With romance, intrigue, and danger, the gilded world of Orea will grip you from the very first page. ![]() This compelling adult fantasy series is as addictive as it is unexpected. But the monsters on the other side might make me wish I’d never left. And I realize that everything I thought I knew about Midas might be wrong.īecause these bars I’m kept in, no matter how gilded, are still just a cage. Until war comes to the kingdom and a deal is struck. And even though I don’t leave the confines of the palace, I’m safe. He gave me protection, and I gave him my heart. I’m the woman he Gold-Touched to show everyone that I belong to him. Dug me out of the slums and placed me on a pedestal. In Highbell, in the castle built into the frozen mountains, everything is made of gold. Gold floors, gold walls, gold furniture, gold clothes.
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![]() ![]() Purple publisher's cloth, with gorilla illustrated in gilt. later issue Although the copyright page says 1867, and the title page says 1872, Peter Parley to Penrod says the copyright was actually received by the Library of Congress on January 3, 1868. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1872. Du Chaillu sold his hunted gorillas to the Natural History Museum in London and his "cannibal skulls" to other European collections. ![]() ![]() A subsequent expedition, from 1863 to 1865, enabled him to confirm the accounts given by the ancients of a pygmy people inhabiting the African forests. He brought back dead specimens, and presented himself as the first white person to have seen them. During his travels from 1856 to 1859 he observed numerous gorillas, known to non-locals in prior centuries only from an unreliable report by Hanno the Navigator of Carthage in the 5th century BC, and known to scientists in the preceding years only by a few skeletons. He later researched the prehistory of Scandinavia. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas and the Pygmy people of central Africa. Paul Belloni du Chaillu (1835-1903) was a French-American traveler and anthropologist. Binding is tight with heavy wear to the boards with frayed edges & torn spine page edges are soiled with some age toning to the pages. Decorative Victorian binding with embossed gilt designs and gilt lettering. ![]() ![]() ![]() Caught in a web of lies, Ella is faced with two options-confess her deception or live her sister's life. Soon, Ella realizes that Maddy's life was full of secrets. Feeling responsible for Maddy's death and everyone's grief, Ella makes a split-second decision to pretend to be Maddy. When-after a heated argument-Maddy and Ella get into a tragic accident that leaves her sister dead, Ella wakes up in the hospital surrounded by loved ones who believe she is Maddy. Soon, Ella realizes that Maddys life was full of secrets. In fact, she's chosen the quiet, safe confines of her sketchbook over the constant battle for attention that has defined Maddy's world. Feeling responsible for Maddys death and everyones grief, Ella makes a split-second decision to pretend to be Maddy. Ella has spent her high school years living in popular Maddy's shadows, but she has never been envious of Maddy. A girl takes over her twin sister's identity in this emotionally charged story about the complicated bond between sisters.Įlla and Maddy Lawton are identical twins. ![]() ![]() Warning: The story contains explicit content, violence, profanity, and topics that may be sensitive to some listeners. Genres Romance Contemporary Contemporary Romance Adult New Adult Fiction Dark 530 pages, Kindle Edition First published JBook details & editions About the author Ana Huang 16 books30.1k followers Ana Huang is a USA Today, international, and 1 Amazon bestselling author. ![]() It’s the fourth and final book in the Twisted series but can be enjoyed as a standalone. Twisted Lies is a steamy fake dating romance. ![]() Theirs is a love twisted with secrets and tainted by lies…and when the truths are finally revealed, they could shatter everything. Because despite Christian’s cold nature, he makes her feel everything when she’s with him. But when a threat from her past drives her into the arms-and house-of the most dangerous man she’s ever met, she’s tempted to let herself feel something for the first time in a long time. Between her two jobs, she has little time or desire for a relationship. Sweet, shy and introverted despite her social media fame, Stella Alonso is a romantic who keeps her heart in a cage. And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal she can’t refuse. She’s the object of his darkest desires, the only puzzle he can’t solve. By Rebekah Valentine Posted: 6:36 pm The dark, Souls-like twist on the story of. ![]() ![]() He has little use for morals and even less use for love, but he can’t deny the strange pull he feels towards the woman living just one floor below him. Lies of P, the Twisted Pinocchio Action Game, Will Release This August A disturbing new trailer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way, she reconnects with Bowe Huntley, a 39-year-old tennis player she once had a fling with. At times, it seems like everyone is waiting for her to fail, but when Carrie wants something, she doesn’t give up easily. Carrie was never a friendly player, preferring to focus on both a brutal game and brutal honesty, and now the media has a field day with her return to the sport as a 37-year-old. Nicki is on the verge of breaking Carrie’s record, and Carrie decides she can’t let that happen: She’s coming out of retirement, with her father coaching her, to defend her record…and her reputation. But then, in 1994, Nicki Chan comes along. ![]() By the time she retires in 1989, she holds the record for winning 20 Grand Slam singles titles. Her father, Javier, is a former tennis champion himself, and he's dedicated his life to coaching her. A retired tennis player returns to the game to defend her Grand Slam record.Ĭarrie Soto is the best tennis player in the world, and she knows it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, on the afternoon and evening before his prom, he is trying to come to grips with all of it, and the method he uses is fascinating. Chris works hard and has an easy life, but he discovers a few truths during his last year in high school, and they shake things up. But knowing when that's the case, which "something" is the one to go for, is not as easy as it may seem. Sometimes risking everything is worth it. Josh is handsome and green-eyed and just what Chris doesn’t want-or does he? Some things Chris has admitted only to his digital diary, but by the time prom comes around, he needs to make a decision: risk the pain of honesty about himself and his feelings for Josh, or play it safe and lose what matters most. ![]() At his dad’s suggestion, he spends a summer working at a law firm to gain experience, but he never bargained on meeting Josh. Chris Bishop has everything a high school senior could want-a loving family, a perfect girlfriend, and a bright, shining future. ![]() ![]() The story draws to a close with the two sisters wrapped in an embrace, both girls beginning to navigate the new and potentially scary territory of welcoming new family members into their lives. However, later in the story when she asks for Cedar’s assistance in cleaning her filthy room, she reveals her vulnerability and her need for positive adult influences in her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Initially, she is incredibly hostile towards Cedar when they meet, and clearly feels threatened by the arrival of an older sister she has never met. Little Mary’s personality is similarly divided between the scary and the sweet. Little Mary self-describes her style as “Gothlolita”-a mix between a tough, Halloween-esque, punk look and an infantilizing, sexualized aesthetic (Cedar picks up the reference to the novel Lolita, though Little Mary hasn’t heard of the book and only found the term “Gothlolita” on the internet). Although Mary Potts believes that her daughter doesn’t use drugs, as she herself used to, Little Mary’s drug use is clear to Cedar and to the reader. A chilling dystopian novel both provocative and prescient, Future Home of the Living God is a startlingly original work from one of our most acclaimed writers: a moving meditation on female agency, self-determination, biology, and natural rights that speaks to the troubling changes of our time. Mary Potts Almost Senior’s daughter and Cedar’s younger sister. It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe. ![]() ![]() ![]() Every part of her life that most women feel vulnerable about is catered to, without exception. ![]() The wish fulfillment is so over the top, it’s annoying. * she looks 40, but has the metabolism and health of a 20 year old in her prime. * the second most powerful mage “in the world” wants to be her mentor and help her because she’s “sensational, amazing, etc.” He literally doesn’t stop gushing about how awesome she is from the time he’s introduced in book 4 ![]() * the only female gargoyle “in the world” * mated to the most powerful shifter “in the world” * the richest woman “in the world” (160 billion dollars from who knows where) Now, because she moved into ivy house, she’s: Jessie was just a normal divorced 40 year old woman starting over without direction for her life a year ago. I usually love Breene’s series, but this one has been going too far off the rails for me to find enjoyment. So over the top, I can’t help rolling my eyes ![]() ![]() Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice-for instance, try not to get wounded, for “injury turns you from a giver to a taker. Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.” Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. ![]() Are we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing. ![]() ![]() 'What the Dog Knows is a fascinating, deeply reported journey into scent, death, forensics and the amazing things dogs can do with their noses: sniffing out graves, truffles, bedbugs, maybe even cancer. With an additional chapter included in the paperback, What the Dog Knows reveals the science, the intense training, and the skilled handling that lie behind those abilities : and shows why we keep finding new uses for the wonderful noses of working dogs." ![]() Working dogs sometimes seem magical, as they distinguish scent, cover territory, and accomplish tasks that no machine is yet capable of. What the Dog Knows tells the stories of cadaver dogs, drug and bomb detecting K9s, tracking and apprehension dogs : even dogs who can locate unmarked graves of Civil War soldiers and help find drowning victims more than two hundred feet below the surface of a lake. ![]() ![]() The fascinating concepts behind the complex capabilities of working dogs emerge as Warren weaves the world of science and dog cognition with her own experiences in the field : all with an unsentimental yet sensitive touch. "Taking the reader from crime scenes to training sites and science labs, talking and working with other handlers and trainers, and interviewing animal psychologists, forensic anthropologists, breeders, and scent researchers, Warren explains how working dogs can capture the hidden worlds their noses know and translate that arcane knowledge for humans. ![]() |