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Called into the headmistress's office on the first day.Wonderful.---------------Freezing cold winters, constant hunger: This was the life of a homeless orphan. This was my life. Then I got the letter.I've been on the streets since I was born. It got very rough after my aunt got sick and died. But I made do.The streets of New York city can very unforgiving, especially when times get desperate. Like in winter.At least I never had to worry about the cold.But then I got hurt. Things were looking very bad.Then Chance showed up with the letter.The letter that said I was misborn of the fae. A bastard, but the magic still counted.The letter that said I'd been accepted into Titania Academy.When the magic blood of the fae runs through your veins, they will find you, no matter what.~ ~ ~So I get to the school. The Faerie Academy Chance said was soooo great. And before I even step one toe on the ground, these girls are doing double takes and giggling behind their backs at me and I just want to plant my fist in their faces.Then I get upstairs to my dorm room and find some Barbie doll is bullying a girl.Then she mouths off at me, giving me attitude.Well, that was it. I couldn't hold back.I punched her. Yeah, I did it.Called into the headmistress's office on the first day.Wonderful.

“The layman’s impression of a trial frequently comes from stage, motion picture, and television sources, which, while invariably exciting, are a pale simulation of a real trial. My quarrel with these presentations is not that they are technically incorrect, but that they are substantially inadequate. They lack emotional authenticity. They tend to become stereotyped. Their falsity largely defeats their authors’ purpose because the excitement, surprise, and meaningfulness of a real court contest are incomparable and elude imagination. In fictional court scenes one sharp contradiction often breaks the witness, who then hysterically screams a confession. In real life the witness’s fortitude in the face of exposure is as remarkable as a human body’s resistance to incredible torment. The need to survive creates desperation, and desperation makes possible survival. This circle of determination is not easily broken, and in the succeeding pages one will find dozens of entrapments and startling contradictions, leaving the witness no retreat and compelling him to admit his error. Yet he continues to fight back and clutch for the remote chance that the tide will turn and he will not go under. Sometimes, it does, and the bizarre developments that bring it about are also beyond inventiveness. This gruesome struggle exceeds the artificial concept of authors of what constitutes court drama in the same way that true human experience in any sphere exceeds the patterned concept of some fiction.”This gripping legal classic is organized as follows:Prologue: Opening the Green Doors1. Reputation: The Libel Case of Quentin Reynolds vs. Westbrook Pegler2. Divorce: The “War of the Roses” and Others3. Talent: The Case of the Plagiarized Song “Rum and Coca-Cola”4. Honor: Issue of Nazism in America5. Life and Limb: Two Cases of Negligence6. Proxy Battle: The Struggle Over Loew’s

They want a war? They'll get it!It's bad enough that they're interrupting my classes at Titania Academy. This semester, classes include Concealment and Heredity, and I'll learn about my true Fae Folk form. And Advanced Glamour, and Herbology. And Flying!I'm supposed to be kissing Chance - yes, he's my boyfriend now! - under the moonlight.But noooooooooooo. Instead, I have to FIGHT because this "Faction" as they now call themselves, has decided to DECLARE WAR?A faerie war? What does that even mean?Well, I'm from New York, and I know how to survive. I don't want to fight, but since they insist...They've already kidnapped my uncle, The Oak King. I'm sure they're going to use his power to try to take back the Elfen Lands and to take over the entire Faerie realm.And I'm just as sure they want to kill my father, The Holly King. And probably everyone else I care about, too.Do you think I'm going to let that happen? I don't THINK SO.I may be just 15, but they have no idea who they're messing with. Elemental magic scared them enough to try to kidnap me. Imagine how scary it will be for them when I unleash it on their treasonous....Control yourself, Holly. Save your anger for them. You're gonna need it. Because this is war.Yeah, it's ON! ⚡

“Holly, there’s someone to see you in the headmistress’s office.”“What? Who?” I didn’t have any relatives to speak of, except for my father. And it was already arranged that I’d be staying with him over winter break.“An emissary from the Elfen court.”AN EMISSARY FROM THE WHAT??!Please tell me you’re kidding …~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~The Oak King Faction has filed a formal protest with the Elfen Ministry: They don’t want me attending Titania Academy. They’re trying to pull me into the Elfen world instead, away from everything I know. All my friends, all my classes. Away from my father. Away from Chance. ♥~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~“The Oak King Faction knows how powerful you are. They know they’re at a disadvantage as long as you’re here at the Academy. They’re trying to force you to move to the Elfen lands.”“What do you mean? ‘Elfen lands’?”“The land to the northwest is Elfen land. You’d be forced to go to school there. We wouldn’t see you again for years.”“Holly …” Chance took me in his arms and pulled me in tight. “Please don’t leave …” He kissed me tenderly. My heart swooned.— I made my way downstairs to the headmistress’s office. I was determined to fight tooth and nail to stay at Titania Academy, even if it meant bringing my father in to speak on my behalf.Chance and I had just gotten together, something I’d been daydreaming of since the day he’d first said “hello” to me.I knocked on the door.“Go right in, Miss Ó Cuilinn,” the secretary said, indicating the inner door. The door where my life would be decided. The door that led either to staying at the Academy — staying with Chance — or moving to an unknown realm, an unknown school, and unknown people.I turned the doorknob and stepped in the room.The headmistress of Titania Academy, Professor Ó Baoghill, was sitting behind her desk, talking with someone sitting opposite her. I couldn’t see who it was, but something was off… The headmistress was blushing. And she stammered when she talked. Was she ill?The visitor was rising from his seat, turning to greet me …Oh dear God … He had platinum blonde hair, just like me. It was long and was arranged in several braids as well as hanging loose and long down his back. He was dressed in a royal silver outfit, with blue-silver brocade edging. He wore a short traveling cape.His face was slim, his jaw was strong, his eyes piercing, and his smile contagious. He held my gaze as he came forward, bowed, took my hand, and kissed it in greeting.“Mistress Holly, we finally meet,” he murmured in deep, warm voice.I couldn’t speak. I just stared, a silly smile on my face.The emissary from the Elfen court was drop-dead gorgeous.................................................................................Includes bonus content from The Pirates of Moonlit Bay................................................................................

Chased through New York City!!!Faerie students are on a hunt, using their familiars as foxhounds. And I'm the prey!★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★Titania Academy Book Two: First Year, Second SemesterHolly thought her second semester at Titania Academy would be easier.Her father had charged the academy's students to protect his daughter, and his directive seemed ironclad.But Holly and her father may have seriously misjudged the power and tenacity of the Oak King's rival faction.The new year brings with it new courses of study.As first-year students enter a new semester, Holly and her friends learn about faefolk magic, and the nature of their own powers.About concentrated shifting, and glamours.But as the headmistress, Professor Ó Baoghill, begins a year-long sabbatical, her place is taken by a harsh new headmaster who questions Holly's scholarship.And the Oak King faction is on the move again, gaining power and supporters, especially after the students learn what Holly's special fae power is: control of the elements.Some students feel threatened.Some just want her gone.So when the Master of Quests puts out a call for an archaic book of magic supposedly lost in New York City, Holly decides to take her own weekend sabbatical to find it, hoping the craziness will calm down in her absence.But the Oak King's supporters have other ideas, and they are out for blood.Will Holly survive her second semester at Titania Academy?★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Little Ellen Elizabeth Barlow lived in Connecticut in the troublous days of 1777, when enemy war vessels and Tory bands were ravaging the coast settlements of the Colony. The first time she ever left her home was when she took a stage-coach at her father’s door and traveled down to Hartford to visit her grandmother, carrying her new silk bonnet in a bandbox. Something else was slipped into the box, also—a mysterious package from a Tory prisoner, which caused the little girl some anxious hours before Governor Jonathan Trumbull set her mind at rest. Each of the other books of this series, “A Little Maid of Province Town,” “A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony,” “A Little Maid of Narragansett Bay,” “A Little Maid of Ticonderoga,” also tells the story of a girl in the days of the American Revolution that cannot fail to interest young patriots of today.

Jeremy Taylor (1613-67), chaplain to King Charles I and Bishop of Down and Connor, was known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for the beauty of his devotional writing. His chief claim to fame lies in his twin devotional manuals Holy Living and Holy Dying, which were admired by John Wesley for their spiritual useful and by Samuel Coleridge for their literary quality.

"Away to the head waters of the Platte, where several small streams run into the south fork of that river, and head in the broken ridges of the “Divide” which separates the valleys of the Platte and Arkansas, were camped a band of trappers on a creek called Bijou. It was the month of October, when the early frosts of the coming winter had crisped and dyed with sober brown the leaves of the cherry and quaking ash belting the brooks; and the ridges and peaks of the Rocky Mountains were already covered with a glittering mantle of snow, sparkling in the still powerful rays of the autumn sun.The camp had all the appearance of permanency; for not only did it comprise one or two unusually comfortable shanties, but the numerous stages on which huge stripes of buffalo meat were hanging in process of cure, showed that the party had settled themselves here in order to lay in a store of provisions, or, as it is termed in the language of the mountains, “to make meat.” Round the camp fed twelve or fifteen mules and horses, their forelegs confined by hobbles of raw hide; and, guarding these animals, two men paced backward and forward, driving in the stragglers, ascending ever and anon the bluffs which overhung the river, and leaning on their long rifles, while they swept with their eyes the surrounding prairie. Three or four fires burned in the encampment, at some of which Indian women carefully tended sundry steaming pots; while round one, which was in the center of it, four or five stalwart hunters, clad in buckskin, sat cross-legged, pipe in mouth ..."

Margare (1863 — 1936), was the Irish nanny to the four daughters of Emperor and Empress Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, from 1898 to 1904.This classic, written in 1906, contains the following chapters:1. Concerning My Journey2. Concerning the Winter Palace3. Concerning St. Petersburg4. Concerning St. Petersburg5. Concerning Easter6. Concerning Peterhoff7. Concerning Father John8. A Glimpse of Poland9. The Rough Life of the Russian Peasantry10. Searching for the Magic Bloom11. A Russian Christmas12. Life in the Kremlin13. In Belovege14. The Young Officer and the Dolls15. The Little Prison Opener16. My First Meeting With the King17. Lost in the Forest18. Concerning the Children19. Chersonese20. The Priest21. Princess Ella22. The Outbreak of War23. The Russian Soldiers24. Attacks on the Czar’s Life25. Social Life in Russia26. Post Office Vagaries in Russia27. The True Story of Kishineff28. The Russian Clergy29. More About the Children30. Education in Russia31. The Birth of an Heir