![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So, this was one of Dokey’s first offerings to the Once Upon a Time series, and it was the first one that I read. Honestly, do you even read the books you’re summarizing, or are you summarizing from a summary? And it wasn’t just needles she was kept away from – it was anything that could be considered remotely sharp and/or dangerous. In fact, her going outside coincided with learning to embroider. But to be factually inaccurate about parts of the book? Aurore didn’t spend time outside because she wasn’t allowed to embroider. Oh, Once Upon a Time summary writers, what am I going to do with you? To be misleading is one thing. The princess's bravery will be rewarded as she finds adventure, enchantment, a handsome prince, and ultimately her destiny. Unwilling to cause suffering, she will embark on a quest to end the evil magic. On her sixteenth birthday, Aurore learns that the impending curse will harm not only her, but the entire kingdom as well. their devotion to the spirited princess grows as she does. Unable to sew or embroider like most little princesses, Aurore instead explores the castle grounds and beyond, where her warmth and generosity soon endear her to the townspeople. So, to protect her, Aurore's loving parents forbid any task requiring a needle. Cursed at birth, Aurore is fated to prick her finger at the age of sixteen and sleep for one hundred years - until a prince awakens her with a kiss. Summary: The Princess Aurore has had an unusual childhood. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Previous owner's initials on front endpaper. Some of the journeys were 2,000 miles long and lasted three weeks, and all of them were made in the depth of the sub-Arctic winter in fishing boats from fifty to seventy feet long, sailing alone between Norway and Shetland in some of the stormiest seas of the world." - from dust-jacket blurb of a different edition. Their object was to land men and cargo in Norway for the Norwegian Underground, and to rescue refugees and carry them to Britain. The heroes of the book are Norwegian sailors, fishermen and merchant seamen, who had escaped to Shetland after the invasion of Norway by Germany in 1940. A story of heroism and endeavour and of adventure at sea. "The Story of the Special Norwegian Naval Unit based on Scotland. 253, pages + 5 illustrations on 2 plate leaves. 1955 paperback reprint of a title first published in 1951. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() There are, here and there, some fine passages as the "I am a Camera" eye takes in a supermarket, a gym, a hospital, the campus, and some strange California blooms. Intermittent sequences take him from his home where he is given to some petulant picture-window observation of his neighbors, to his classroom in a California state college-a faltering dominion-to a drunken evening with the ever-hopeful Charlotte whom he had first known in England, to a night with a student whom he initiates as Jim's successor. This is his nasty commentary on the world he views as "The Enemy" (Woman too shares that designation). ![]() ![]() Its title character is George, a flaccid 58, not only the victim of his failing functions but emotionally devastated now that Jim is dead. A Single Man, like its forerunner Down There on a Visit, is perhaps not best read as a novel and is just hazily fictional. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin’s scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar’s crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move. Opening line: Of course the Parshendi wanted to play their drums.Īfter forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over two decades later, all across the planet, "flash" technology allows individuals the ability to transfer their consciousness into other bodies for specified periods, paid, registered and legal. What begins as a botched experiment will change her life-and the world-forever. Inside a barn in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a scientist searching for an Alzheimer's cure throws a switch-and finds herself mysteriously transported into her husband's body. Soon to be adapted for television by Carnival, creators of Downton Abbeyīestselling author of The Oracle Year, Charles Soule brings his signature knowledge-and wariness - of technology to his new novel set in a realistic future about a brilliant female scientist who creates a technology that allows for the transfer of human consciousness between bodies, and the transformations this process wreaks upon the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() We may think we love Bill Clinton now, and we may yearn for him to be miraculously - and unconstitutionally - restored to the presidency, but my God, we patronised him something rotten when he was actually there. In fact, over the past half century, such disrespect towards the man in the White House has been far more the norm than the exception. It would be a dreadful mistake to suppose that George W Bush was the first American president who has failed to capture the hearts and minds of liberal-left British opinion. ![]() ![]() ![]() And so begins his awkward courtship of the woman, with her chained to the bed for security reasons.Ĭhained like a dog and forced to spend her every waking moment with a creep, albeit a good-looking one, Ros is determined to escape. The first chance she gets, she attacks the ex-army man and attempts to escape, forcing Nick to contain her. It's the deal of the century given the state of the world. In exchange, of course, for sexual favors. He'll treat Roslyn like a queen, devoting the rest of his life to protecting and providing for her. The stranger at the gate has supplies that will ensure the group's ongoing survival but at a cost. But now the shelves in the school canteen are bare. Six months since the zombie plague struck, former librarian Roslyn Stewart has been holed up in a school with eight other survivors. ![]() From romance master Kylie Scott comes Skin, the second installment in the sizzling Flesh series. ![]() |
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