Octavia Girl Vol. I

Octavia Girl Vol. I
Author: Stephanie Van Orman
Publisher: Stephanie Van Orman
Total Pages: 121
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1990217311

Jenna Fairchild has a secret she has been keeping since she was a baby. Under her headband, under her grandfather's fedora, under her headphone strap, and under her messy bun, she has been hiding a black crown. No one could understand it, so she had to keep it hidden. That is, she had to keep it hidden until she was abducted by aliens, given riches beyond her wildest dreams, a palace to herself on an alien world, and been tasted head-to-foot by an enormous alien octopus. Then she was ready to take her place on the political stage of the universe. Jenna is not a princess, she's a diplomat. Armed with arms that are less plentiful than an octopus's, with fewer suction cups, and only one person who can help her... Sardius, who is only a voice speaking to her through an earpiece, Jenna has to crown seven more diplomats or blue and red blood will spill.

Octavia Girl

Octavia Girl
Author: Stephanie Van Orman
Publisher: Stephanie Van Orman
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2024-04-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1990217338

Jenna Fairchild should be enjoying her new position as the chair of the Octavian/Adamis Alliance, but she isn't. With the last sound of Sardius' clenched teeth ringing in her ear and the AAMC officers trashing her palace, Jenna flees through midnight waters to Favel's underwater mansion to take refuge. If only her own military wasn't against her! If only she knew if Sardius was alive! If only she knew what she was doing! Join Jenna as she crowns new diplomats, taunts the AAMC, gets new staff, and fights to protect peace in the universe the only way she knows how... By being fabulous!

Star Child

Star Child
Author: Ibi Zoboi
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2022-01-25
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0399187383

A Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book A Walter Dean Myers Honor Book From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler, author of Parable of the Sower and Kindred. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler experienced an American childhood that shaped her into the groundbreaking science-fiction storyteller whose novels continue to challenge and delight readers fifteen years after her death.

Kindred

Kindred
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2004-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0807083704

From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.” Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present. Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction’s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. “Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise” (New York Times). “Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it’s absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.” —N. K. Jemisin Developed for television by writer/executive producer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), executive producers also include Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields (The Americans, The Patient), and Darren Aronofsky (The Whale). Janicza Bravo (Zola) is director and an executive producer of the pilot. Kindred stars Mallori Johnson, Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, and Gayle Rankin.

Oarses-Zygia

Oarses-Zygia
Author: William Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1420
Release: 1880
Genre: Biography
ISBN:

The Disowned Queen’s Consulting Detective Agency: Volume 1

The Disowned Queen’s Consulting Detective Agency: Volume 1
Author: Sarasa Nagase
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2023-02-22
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718316968

When it comes to light that Octavia de Reine isn’t a legitimate member of the noble House of Reine, she swiftly finds herself disowned. At first she takes this in stride...until her power hungry father and ex-suitor start vying for the house full of mysterious heirlooms that her doting grandmother left her. Little does her family know that she’s destined to inherit an even greater legacy. Olivia hopes to follow in Granny’s footsteps and become a famous detective, after all! She’ll face off against young noblemen, phantom thieves, and magical items corrupted by demonic forces. Oh, and one vengeful angel queen. Moreover, who’s this suspiciously young marquis that seems so smitten with her...?

The Greatest Christmas Tales & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)

The Greatest Christmas Tales & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 4179
Release: 2016-12-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 8026872363

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Greatest Christmas Tales & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Christmas Tales A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The First Christmas of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe (Elizabeth Harrison) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) A Kidnapped Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown) Toinette and the Elves (Susan Coolidge) Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope) The Mistletoe Bough (Anthony Trollope) The Fir Tree (Hans Christian Andersen) The Little Match Girl (Hans Christian Andersen) The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Hans Christian Andersen) The Snow Queen (Hans Christian Andersen) A Little Book of Christmas (John Kendrick Bangs) Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman) Little Girl's Christmas (Winnifred E. Lincoln) The Elves and the Shoemaker (Brothers Grimm) Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy)… The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) A Visit From Saint Nicholas (Clement Moore) Happy Hearts (June Isle) The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe (Amanda M. Douglas) The Chimes (Charles Dickens) Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions (Charles Dickens)…. Poems & Carols Silent Night King Winter The Night After Christmas The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Christmas Bells (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Twelve Days of Christmas Minstrels (William Wordsworth) Ring Out, Wild Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson) Christmas In India (Rudyard Kipling) The Magi (William Butler Yeats) The Mahogany Tree (William Makepeace Thackeray) Hymn On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity (John Milton) A Christmas Carol (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) The Oxen (Thomas Hardy) The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman …

African American Adolescent Female Heroes

African American Adolescent Female Heroes
Author: Melanie A. Marotta
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2023-03-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1496844998

In the wake of the second wave of the Black Lives Matter movement, inequalities and disparities were brought to light across the publishing industry. The need for more diverse, representative young adult literature gained new traction, resulting in an influx of young adult speculative fiction featuring African American young women. While the #BlackGirlMagic movement inspired a wave of positive African American female heroes in young adult fiction, it is still important to acknowledge the history and legacy of enslavement in America and their impact on literature. Many of the depictions of young Black women in contemporary speculative fiction still rely on stereotypical representations rooted in American enslavement. African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative investigates the application of the neo-slave narrative structure to the twenty-first-century young adult text. Author Melanie A. Marotta examines texts featuring a female, adolescent protagonist of color, including Orleans, Tankborn, The Book of Phoenix, Binti, and The Black God’s Drums, as well as series like the Devil’s Wake series, Octavia E. Butler’s Parable series, and the Dread Nation series. Taken together, these chapters seek to analyze whether the roles for adolescent female characters of color are changing or whether they remain re-creations of traditional slave narrative roles. Further, the chapters explore if trauma, healing, and activism are enacted in this genre.

The Christmas Holiday Cheer: 180+ Novels, Tales & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)

The Christmas Holiday Cheer: 180+ Novels, Tales & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)
Author: Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 4984
Release: 2023-11-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In 'The Christmas Holiday Cheer: 180+ Novels, Tales & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated Edition),' readers are invited to explore the rich tapestry of holiday-themed literature through an impressive compilation that spans various genres, literary movements, and historical periods. The anthology seamlessly weaves together the voices of some of the most revered authors in Western literature, presenting a collection that is as diverse in style as it is unified in theme. From the nostalgic recollections of Selma Lagerlöf and Louisa May Alcott to the poignant observations of Charles Dickens and Leo Tolstoy, this volume stands as a testament to the multifaceted nature of Christmas storytelling. Key pieces delve into themes of love, generosity, spiritual reflection, and social critique, offering a panoramic view of the holiday seasons influence on literary creativity. The contributing authors and editors of this anthology bring a wealth of cultural, historical, and literary backgrounds, enriching the collection with their unique perspectives and narratives. Their works reflect not only the individual literary heritages of countries such as England, America, Russia, and Scandinavia but also belong to broader literary movements, including Romanticism, Realism, and the Victorian era, among others. This diverse assembly of texts invites readers to traverse the globe and centuries, providing insight into the universal and enduring appeal of Christmas as a source of inspiration for storytellers. The anthology serves as a gateway to understanding the complex ways in which Christmas has been celebrated, contemplated, and reimagined through literature. 'The Christmas Holiday Cheer: 180+ Novels, Tales & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)' is an indispensable collection for anyone interested in the literary articulations of the Christmas spirit. It offers a unique opportunity to engage with the works of literary giants across time and space, all the while exploring the universally beloved theme of Christmas. This anthology is not merely a compilation of holiday stories; it is a journey through the evolving landscape of Christmas literature, making it an educational treasure trove for students of literature, history, and culture. Readers are encouraged to delve into this voluminous collection, which promises not only a festive holiday read but also a profound exploration of the human condition during the season of giving.