![]() ![]() ![]() First, I’ll group these by series rather than the order they came out to make them easier to follow. Thanks a bunch! All of the Rick Riordan Presents Books So FarĪ couple very quick notes. If you decide to buy through them, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you. Now, let’s check out all of the books published through the imprint so far!įYI, I used affiliate links to link to the books on Amazon. Like RR’s stories, these books weave mythology and folklore into fun, engaging and relatable adventures that encourage readers to explore new cultures (or learn more about their own). The books chosen by his editor all have elements that Riordan’s fans know so well and love so much. ![]() Rather than appropriating them for his own gain, he openly admits this and chooses instead to help elevate the right authors. Riordan knows he’s not the right author to tell these stories. Basically, Riordan uses his massive success and well-known name to, in his words, “…publish great middle-grade authors from underrepresented cultures and backgrounds, to let them tell their own stories inspired by the mythology and folklore of their own heritage.” You can learn more about the imprint on Riordan’s page, but here’s the short version. I first learned about Riordan’s imprint back when I partnered with Disney Book Group to promote The Storm Runner and The Fire Keeper over on my other site, Pretty Opinionated (although I believe Aru Shah came before those). ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Love for her home, her family, her duty, and for the man who will stay at her side until the world's end. Vi embarks on a perilous journey across land and sea that will unveil shocking truths about her dying world, explore the mysteries of primordial magic, and have her fighting for the one thing that remains when all else is lost: love. And, despite herself, she's falling for that charming sorcerer with pointed ears and haunted eyes as he trains her in secret. Assassins anointed by the evil she seeks to thwart hunt her relentlessly. Making matters worse, her empire falters under political turmoil, and her disappearance as the crown princess might just be what causes it to buckle. And that she is the only one who can put a stop to it. That the mysterious plague ripping through her empire is the first warning an ancient evil threatens to rise anew. Now, a sorcerer from a distant land tells her she must leave her home to claim her true power as champion of the goddess. That is, until the day she manifested a powerful sorcery unlike any other. To save her world, she must sacrifice everything she holds dear.ĭespite descending from a long line of powerful sorcerers, Vi Solaris lacked all magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though Stephaney "Stef" Rawls has her own romance-adventure strip for the largest black newspaper, she still has to work brutal hours as a maid to make ends meet. He's black uptown and white downtown, and he has an eye for the ladies, and they for him-including his boss' wife, who knows Cliff's creation, the Phantom Avenger, is about to be stolen from him. Cliff Murphy is matinee handsome, a light-skinned, straight-haired black man and a comics artist known for his glamour girl art. In the turbulent era of late 1950s Manhattan-with jazz, the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, and the Red Scare as the volatile ingredients-three groundbreaking black cartoonists defy convention and pay the price. ![]() ![]() ![]() Withholding the fact that he has discovered her gender, he teaches her to fence and finds himself enamoured of her unfailing spirit. Keeping the promise she has made to herself, Lady Winterbourne covertly enters the male domain of Angelo’s, the most prominent fencing academy in London where she meets Lord Lyndhurst once again. Fleeing to London dressed as a boy, in order to petition Parliament for an annulment, she meets the amiable Lord Lyndhurst, Earl of Croxdale who penetrates her disguise and determines to find out exactly who she is. ‘I shall learn to shoot, fence and fight like the rest of them!’ Being tricked into a disastrous marriage, Lady Penelope Winterbourne is determined never to trust a man again. ![]() ![]() ![]() Serilda and Gild must try to thwart his plans, all while solving the mystery of Gild's forgotten name, freeing his younger sister who is trapped inside Gravenstone Castle, and trying to protect their unborn child. But as the story progresses, it becomes clear he doesn't want just one god-he wants to capture all seven, and force them to bring down the veil that keeps the Dark Ones separate from the land of the mortals. Serilda and Gild attempt to break the curses that tether their spirits to Adalheid's haunted castle before the Endless Moon, when the Erlking means to capture one of the seven gods and make a wish to return his lover, Perchta, from the underworld. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer concludes her young adult retelling of Rumpelstiltskin in Cursed, the sequel to Gilded. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Riika takes care of the house so that Minna can fill her days with writing about the inequalities of surrounding society. Riika shows Minna the real world outside the seminar bubble. When Minna is about to get buried to depression, Ferdinand provides her with a maid. In the seminar Minna meets a science professor Ferdinand Canth, gets married and derails from her dream of becoming a professor herself. Minna wants to become a teacher and attend a seminar and against all odds Minna’s parents provide her with a possibility that many other girls cannot even dream of – Minna gets to study. ROUVA C is a story of Minna Johnson, daughter of a salesman in 19th century Finland. Even more so, it is a performance about the people around her who made it possible. ROUVA C is a performance about a feisty adolescent who became one of the bestknown writers of 19th century Finland. What gave birth to “Minna Canth” – the icon of Finnish feminist literature? ![]() ![]() ![]() In her YA paranormal romance debut, Jessica Shirvington combines the badass-action of Vampire Academy, the complex love triangles of Twilight, and the angel mythology of Fallen, taken one step further. In a world of dark and light, he is all shades of gray. PHOENIX: No one knows where his loyalties lie, yet he's the only one there to pick up the pieces and protect her after Lincoln's lies. Only he never told her he's Grigori-part human, part angel-and that he was training her for an ancient battle between Angels and Exiles. ![]() LINCOLN: He's been Violet's one anchor, her running partner and kickboxing trainer. If angels seek vengeance and humans are the warriors, you could do a lot worse than betting on Violet Eden. It's a battle Violet doesn't want, but she lives her life by two rules: don't run and don't quit. She will have to decide just how much she's willing to sacrifice.Ī centuries old war between fallen angels and the protectors of humanity chooses a new fighter. On her 17th birthday, everything will change for Violet Eden. It starts with a whisper: It's time for you to know who you are. The wrong choice could cost not only her life, but her eternity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the first issue of the title, she used her illusion powers to humiliate one Captain Boomerang. Ostrander wrote Mindboggler like she was going to be a major player in the Squad: a tough as nails punk rock chick with the power to cast illusions who stood out amongst the Squad’s original line-up. Her death was one of the most important in Squad history as it established that any character could die at any moment. After being defeated by Firestorm, she took Amanda Waller’s offer to go on the Squad’s first mission in return for having her sentence shaved down. Mindboggler was Leah Wasserman, a member of the group of killers known as the Assassination Bureau. Let’s just say Firestorm villains did not fare well in the pages of Suicide Squad. 2 #29 (1984) Death: Suicide Squad #2 (1987) Writer: John Ostrander Penciler: Luke McDonnell Mindboggler First Appearance: Firestorm Vol. Join Amazon Prime – Watch Thousands of Movies & TV Shows Anytime – Start Free Trial Nowīlockbuster’s brother became a major player in the pages of Nightwing after the first Blockbuster’s violent demise, but the original Blockbuster will always be part of history as the first victim of Amanda Waller’s meat grinder. ![]() ![]() ![]() Overall, I really enjoyed this book and I can’t wait for the rest of this series. There’s nothing like being obsessed with a literal psychopath in a book. The constant push and pull between them is addictive. If anything I was even more intrigued by their dynamic. The chemistry, obsession, and darkness between them never let me lose interest. ![]() Killian and Glyndon are such a different couple than others I’ve read in the past. I had no clue what was going to happen and I just enjoyed the ride. I’ve never read a book so slow on purpose in my life, but there’s a first time for everything, right? This book had me questioning everything and everyone. From the beginning, to the end of this book, it kept me on my toes. This was my first time reading a Rina Kent book and, wow, what a rollercoaster. ![]() I received an eARC in exchange for an honest review. Narrated by: Sebastian York, Josie Minor, Aaron Shedlock, Wen Ross, & Kylie Stewart Download today or read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited:Īmazon | Amazon Worldwide | Paperback | Hardcover | Special Edition Paperback | Special Edition Hardcover | Audiobook The worst part is that no one sees his devil side. He’s cold-blooded, manipulative, and lacks limits. Killian Carson is a predator wrapped in sophisticated charm. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pindar’s epinikia, or victory odes, commissioned to celebrate athletic victors at the periodic panhellenic games, challenge their original audiences to play the role of what we may call “savvy interpreters” of these stylistically and compositionally complex choral praise poems. By using the tools provided by the framework of Cognitive Sciences, I shall try to show that the architecture of Pindar’s epinicians invite such an approach, and that they are, in fact, designed to elicit a visual, rather than syntactical, parsing of the odes’ content in the audience. On the contrary, what I shall be proposing is that we move from a textual unity to a gestalt unity approach, which, as I shall try to show, is more akin to the dynamics of grasping the odes contents in the context of an oral delivery. Since I understand Pindar’s epinicians to be the entextualized script of an oral performance, I shall claim that the tools of traditional textual criticism will usually fall short of grasping the very unity after which they strive by forcing the odes to comply to a "centripetal" notion of unity (Heath, 1986). ![]() The problem of unity has plagued Pindaric criticism for generations and, although it has been a driving force in advancing the understanding of many aspects of the odes, it has also contributed to an excessive rationalization of its poetry by means of logical analysis that are inextricably bound to the literary form of the epinicians. ![]() |