Rebecca Hornsby, Elf Princess

Rebecca Hornsby, Elf Princess
Author: F. Carmine
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2015-08-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781516895830

Follow Rebecca as she navigates the pitfalls of the seventh grade while dealing with her class and becoming an elf, pointy ears and all. Rebecca must navigate around a clueless school administration, resolve a feud with a former friend, hide a growing list of elven changes and her poorly controlled magical powers, and hopefully attend the year-end Spring Dance. Her human and Elven worlds collide as the struggle between Elves of Light and Elves of Dark converge on her and the prophesy that she bears.

Rebecca Hornsby and The Great Prophesy

Rebecca Hornsby and The Great Prophesy
Author: F Hampton Carmine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2019-08-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781086819939

Rebecca Hornsby had completed a great seventh grade year, during which she discovered that she was actually an Elf hidden in the human world for her own safety. She decides to visit the Elven Realm and take on the role of her Elven identity, Princess Azeelia, for the summer. Little does she realize that the hate and distrust between the Elves of the Light and Elves of the Dark is so powerful, or that the prophesy she represents is so despised by both sides.Her summer visit in the magic Realm begins with Elf school where she tries to catch up on all things Elven but it quickly progresses to real, life and death battles with lasting consequences. Azeelia also learns that the prophesy has been misinterpreted and she is not alone in the prophesy. There are actually three Elves that make up the Tool of Prophesy destined to stop the millennia old feud between the Elven factions before it destroys the entire realm.She meets Aurora, an Elf her age with an attitude, and they become friends just before the Gargoyles, the magical Realm's protectors and monitors, take them both to their country for special training. There, Azeelia and Aurora finally meet Cellairia, an Elf of the Dark, who is the last third of the tool of prophesy. Cellairia's and Aurora's parents had both been killed by the others relatives when they had been three years old, and they had both been raised by the Gargoyles ever since and trained for their roles in the prophesy. But they had never met and an initial level of distrust is evident in their attitudes.However, they must develop a deep, unshakable sense of sisterhood to be able to mesh their special powers of The Heart, The Focus, and The Power into a magical force powerful enough to save the Realm from destruction. Their initial efforts in the use of the powers as a team fail spectacularly until they begin to bond and learn to trust each other. After their training session with the Gargoyles, they return to the Castle of the Light and continue to practice on their own, learning valuable lessons about when to fight and when to talk. During a serious battle with real combatants, they try their skills in a true battle situation. Though, they are elated with their success, they realize that the prophesy is changing and their very existence is threatened. It is decided that for their protection and the preservation of the prophesy that the three must be kept apart so that all of them wouldn't be killed or captured at the same time. The Realm becomes ever more dangerous as everybody against the prophesy escalates their efforts to capture or kill the bearers of prophesy, endangering everyone associated with the three girls.New dangers are discovered even in the human world and terrible decisions have to be made that effect the lives of Azeelia, Aurora, and Cellairia. Just how much of their personal lives must they forfeit for the prophesy? Can their hard-won sisterhood stay strong in face of the dangers?

Queen of None

Queen of None
Author: Natania Barron
Publisher: Solaris
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-05-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781837860616

First in a sumptuous, female-led Arthurian Fantasy Romance trilogy When Anna Pendragon was born, Merlin prophesied: "Through all the ages, and in the hearts of men, you will be forgotten." Married at twelve, and a mother soon after, Anna - the famed King Arthur's sister - did not live a young life full of promise, myth, and legend. She bore three strong sons and delivered the kingdom of Orkney to her brother by way of her marriage. She did as she was asked, invisible and useful for her name, her status, her dowry, and her womb. Twenty years after she left her home, Anna returns to Carelon at Arthur's bidding, carrying the crown of her now-dead husband, Lot of Orkney. Past her prime and confined to the castle itself, she finds herself yet again a pawn in greater machinations and seemingly helpless to do anything about it. Anna must once again face the demons of her childhood: her sister Morgen, Elaine, and Morgause; Merlin and his scheming Avillion priests; and Bedevere, the man she once loved. To say nothing of new court visitors, like Lanceloch, or the trouble concerning her own sons. Carelon, and all of Braetan, is changing, though, and Anna must change along with it. New threats, inside and out, lurk in the shadows, and a strange power begins to awaken in her. As she learns to reconcile her dark gift, and struggles to keep the power to herself, she must bargain her own strength, and family, against her ambition and thirst for revenge.

Em's Awful Good Fortune

Em's Awful Good Fortune
Author: Marcie Maxfield
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1647421438

“Em’s Awful Good Fortune takes its reader across the world and deep into the heart of its trapped, privileged, suffering, and, ultimately, invincible narrator.” —Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Set against the backdrop of the expat lifestyle, Em’s Awful Good Fortune is about marriage—love and family, work and compromise, betrayal and heartbreak, resentment and resolution. Weaving back and forth in time and between cities and countries, Em’s booming voice—fierce, funny, and relatable—is the engine that drives this story. Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Detroit, Los Angeles and Seoul—Em stomps her way around the world on the personal journey to reimagine and reclaim her voice. True to life, this is a disorderly journey—one that ultimately leads to a new understanding of partnership and the complexity of relationships. For lovers of books by Jennifer Egan, Sally Rooney, and Elizabeth Strout.

The Counterfeit Captain

The Counterfeit Captain
Author: Henry Vogel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781938834820

Captain Nancy Martin expects a lonely death. Passing out as her battle-damaged starfighter bleeds the last of its air, she comes to in the cavernous and deserted docking bay of an unknown starship. Leaving her crippled fighter to seek help, she finds she's been scooped up by a gigantic generation ship inhabited by the descendants of the original crew and passengers-people whose entire universe is the ship! Mistaken for the vast ship's long-lost and near-mythical Captain, Nancy is welcomed as a savior. She believes she's found the allies she needs in her desperate fight for survival. But an even greater menace lurks in the shadows of the ship-one that controls every inch of the ship and every life aboard it. One that will stop at nothing to destroy- "The Counterfeit Captain." Set in the same universe as Vogel's best-selling novel, "The Fugitive Heir," "The Counterfeit Captain" further expands the stage for Vogel's exciting brand of star-spanning science fiction adventure.

Developing Early Literacy

Developing Early Literacy
Author: Susan Hill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2006
Genre: Language arts (Early childhood)
ISBN: 9781741482539

Focuses on the development of reading, writing, speaking and listening for children from birth to eight years.

Interstellar Cinderella

Interstellar Cinderella
Author: Deborah Underwood
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2015-05-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1452137846

Once upon a planetoid, amid her tools and sprockets, a girl named Cinderella dreamed of fixing fancy rockets. With a little help from her fairy godrobot, Cinderella is going to the ball. But when the prince's ship has mechanical trouble, someone will have to zoom to the rescue! Readers will thank their lucky stars for this irrepressible fairy tale retelling, its independent heroine, and its stellar happy ending. Plus, this is the fixed format version, which will look almost identical to the print version. Additionally for devices that support audio, this ebook includes a read-along setting.

A Tuna Christmas

A Tuna Christmas
Author: Jaston Williams
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 110
Release: 1995
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573695377

"In this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, it's Christmas in the third smallest town in Texas. Radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on various Yuletide activities, including hot competition in the annual lawn display contest. In other news, voracious Joe Bob Lipsey's production of 'A Christmas Carol' is jeopardized by unpaid electric bills. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some appearing here for the first time, join in the holiday fun."--

The Sister-in-Law

The Sister-in-Law
Author: Pamela Crane
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2021-08-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062984942

From the USA Today bestselling author of Little Deadly Secrets comes a gripping story about the frailty of family and a battle of wills between a wife and a sister-in-law, bent on revenge. She stole my husband. So I’d steal her life. The Wife Lane won Candace’s heart over chocolate martinis and karaoke. But weeks into their whirlwind marriage, Candace realized Lane came with burdensome baggage in the form of his possessive live-in sister and her eerily watchful six-year-old son. Lane had a secret that seemed to hold him hostage, and Candace would do anything to uncover it. The Sister-in-Law Harper was the kind of woman who cooked homemade meals and dusted under the furniture. It was the least she could do for her brother after her husband’s mysterious death, and Lane took her and her kids in. Then Candace showed up like a tornado passing through, threatening and destructive. But Harper had other plans for her new “sister,” plans Lane could never find out about. The Husband All Lane had ever wanted was a white-picket-fence life. The wife. The two-point-five kids. The happy little family. Everything seemed to be falling into place with Candace … until Harper’s jealous streak got in the way, again. But choosing between his sister and wife would be costly … and knowing Harper, the price would be blood.