A Bed for the King's Daughter

A Bed for the King's Daughter
Title A Bed for the King's Daughter PDF eBook
Author Shahla Ujayli
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 57
Release 2021-01-19
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1477322302

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A groundbreaking collection of experimental short fiction by award-winning Syrian author and Booker International Prize for Arabic Fiction nominee Shahla Ujayli, A Bed for the King’s Daughter uses surrealism and irony to examine such themes as women’s agency, the decline of collective life and imagination under modernity, and the effects of social and political corruption on daily life. In “The Memoir of Cinderella’s Shoes,” Cinderella uses her famous glass slipper as a weapon in order to take justice into her own hands. In “Tell Me About Surrealism,” an art history professor’s writing assignment reveals the slipperiness of storytelling, and in “Merry Christmas,” the realities of apartheid interfere with one family’s celebration. Through twenty-two short stories, Ujayli animates—with brevity and inventiveness—themes relevant to both the particularities of life in the Arab world and life outside it.

The Marsh King's Daughter

The Marsh King's Daughter
Title The Marsh King's Daughter PDF eBook
Author Karen Dionne
Publisher Penguin
Pages 353
Release 2018-04-17
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0735213011

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “Brilliant....About as good as a thriller can be.”—The New York Times Book Review “[A] nail-biter perfect for Room fans.”—Cosmopolitan “Sensationally good psychological suspense.”—Lee Child Praised by Karin Slaughter and Megan Abbott, The Marsh King’s Daughter is the mesmerizing tale of a woman who must risk everything to hunt down the dangerous man who shaped her past and threatens to steal her future: her father. Helena Pelletier has a loving husband, two beautiful daughters, and a business that fills her days. But she also has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Helena, born two years after the abduction, loved her home in nature, and despite her father’s sometimes brutal behavior, she loved him, too...until she learned precisely how savage he could be. More than twenty years later, she has buried her past so soundly that even her husband doesn’t know the truth. But now her father has killed two guards, escaped from prison, and disappeared into the marsh. The police begin a manhunt, but Helena knows they don’t stand a chance. Knows that only one person has the skills to find the survivalist the world calls the Marsh King—because only one person was ever trained by him: his daughter. A Michigan Notable Book!

The Spider King's Daughter

The Spider King's Daughter
Title The Spider King's Daughter PDF eBook
Author Chibundu Onuzo
Publisher Faber & Faber
Pages 270
Release 2012-03-13
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0571268900

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Winner of a Betty Trask Award Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize Longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize The Spider King's Daughter is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet set against the backdrop of a changing Lagos, a city torn between tradition and modernity, corruption and truth, love and family loyalty. Seventeen-year-old Abike Johnson is the favourite child of her wealthy father. She lives in a She lives in a sprawling mansion in Lagos, protected by armed guards and ferried everywhere in a huge black jeep. But being her father's favourite comes with uncomfortable duties, and she is often lonely behind the high walls of her house. A world away from Abike's mansion, in the city's slums, lives a seventeen-year-old hawker struggling to make sense of the world. His family lost everything after his father's death and now he runs after cars on the roadside selling ice cream to support his mother and sister. When Abike buys ice cream from the hawker one day, they strike up an unlikely and tentative romance, defying the prejudices of Nigerian society. But as they grow closer, revelations from the past threaten their relationship and both Abike and the hawker must decide where their loyalties lie.

Daughter of the Pirate King

Daughter of the Pirate King
Title Daughter of the Pirate King PDF eBook
Author Tricia Levenseller
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 320
Release 2017-02-28
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1250095964

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A 17-year-old pirate captain INTENTIONALLY allows herself to get captured by enemy pirates in this thrilling YA adventure from debut author Tricia Levenseller.

The Sea King's Daughter

The Sea King's Daughter
Title The Sea King's Daughter PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Skyhook Press
Pages 31
Release 2011-04
Genre Folklore
ISBN 9780938497493

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A talented musician from Novgorod plays so well that the Sea King wants him to marry one of his daughters.

Search of the Moon King's Daughter

Search of the Moon King's Daughter
Title Search of the Moon King's Daughter PDF eBook
Author Linda Holeman
Publisher Tundra Books
Pages 322
Release 2003-09-02
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0887766099

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Included in one of the 2004 YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults lists Nominated for the White Pine Reading Program of the Durham District School Board Gentle Emmaline loves nothing more than books and flowers and her little brother Tommy. Sadly, her idyllic country life in Victorian England comes to an abrupt end when her father dies of cholera. The family is forced to move to a mill town, where Emmaline’s mother is dreadfully injured in a factory accident. To ease her pain she takes laudanum and is soon addicted, craving the drug so badly that she sells Tommy into servitude as a chimney sweep in London. Emmaline knows that a sweep’s life is short and awful. Small boys as young as five are forced to climb naked into dark chimneys, their bare feet prodded by nail-studded sticks to keep them working. If Tommy is to survive, it is up to Emmaline to find him. Linda Holeman brings a bygone period to life in a book of serious historical fiction for young adults.

The Dragon King's Daughter

The Dragon King's Daughter
Title The Dragon King's Daughter PDF eBook
Author Denice K. Fawcett
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2002
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781564744067

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