5/31/2023 0 Comments Little thieves review![]() And with a feral guardian half-god, Gisele’s sinister fiancé, and an overeager junior detective on Vanja’s tail, she’ll have to pull the biggest grift yet to save her own life. Vanja has just two weeks to figure out how to break her curse and make her getaway. Then, one heist away from freedom, Vanja crosses the wrong god and is cursed to an untimely end: turning into jewels, stone by stone, for her greed. Now, Vanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess and jewel thief, charming nobility while emptying their coffers to fund her great escape. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place. That was when Vanja’s otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back… by stealing Gisele’s life for herself. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. ![]() Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother’s love-and she’s on the hook for one hell of a debt. Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl. ![]() ![]() YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults SelectionĪ scrappy maid must outsmart both palace nobles and Low Gods in a new YA fantasy by Margaret Owen, author of the Merciful Crow series. ![]() "Gorgeous prose, delicious magic." - V.E. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Queen of ruin by tracy banghart![]() ![]() But first they'll have to get rid of Asa, and only Nomi knows how. They plan to sweep across the entire kingdom, issuing in a new age of freedom for all. It is an island in the grip of revolution, and Serina-polite, submissive Serina-is its leader.īetrayal, grief, and violence have changed both sisters, and the women of Mount Ruin have their sights set on revenge beyond the confines of their island prison. But when Nomi and Malachi arrive, it is not the island of conquered, broken women that they expected. ![]() Their only hope is to find Nomi's sister, Serina, on the prison island of Mount Ruin. Now that Asa sits on the throne, he will stop at nothing to make sure Malachi never sets foot in the palace again. Banished by Asa at the end of Grace and Fury, Nomi and Malachi find themselves powerless and headed towards their all-but-certain deaths. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Reading Judas by Elaine Pagels![]() ![]() Most contemporary readers will find passages in the ancient Gospel of Judasdifficult to comprehend outside of its context in the ancient world. ![]() ![]() In Reading Judas, the two celebrated scholars illustrate how the newly discovered text provides a window onto understanding how Jesus followers understood his death, why … More Judas betrayed Jesus, and why God allowed it. Elaine Pagels and Karen King are the first to reflect on this newfound text and its ramifications for telling the story of early Christianity. Description: The two leading, bestselling experts on the Gnostic Gospels weigh in on the meaning of the controversial newly discovered Gospel of Judas When the Gospel of Judaswas published by the National Geographic Society in April 2006, it received extraordinary media attention and was immediately heralded as a major biblical discovery that rocked the world of scholars and laypeople alike. ![]() |