The Court of Miracles

Author: Kester Grant
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1524772879
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
Les Misérables meets Six of Crows in this page-turning adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris's criminal underground in the wake of the French Revolution. In the violent urban jungle of an alternate 1828 Paris, the French Revolution has failed and the city is divided between merciless royalty and nine underworld criminal guilds, known as the Court of Miracles. Eponine (Nina) Thénardier is a talented cat burglar and member of the Thieves Guild. Nina's life is midnight robberies, avoiding her father's fists, and watching over her naïve adopted sister, Cosette (Ettie). When Ettie attracts the eye of the Tiger--the ruthless lord of the Guild of Flesh--Nina is caught in a desperate race to keep the younger girl safe. Her vow takes her from the city's dark underbelly to the glittering court of Louis XVII. And it also forces Nina to make a terrible choice--protect Ettie and set off a brutal war between the guilds, or forever lose her sister to the Tiger.

The Voice of the Wretched (The Court of Miracles Trilogy, Book 2)

Author: Kester Grant
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008254842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Sunday Times bestselling adventure inspired by Les Miserables continues.

Recognizing Miracles in Antiquity and Beyond

Author: Maria Gerolemou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311056355X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
In recent years, scholars have extensively explored the function of the miraculous and wondrous in ancient narratives, mostly pondering on how ancient authors view wondrous accounts, i.e. the treatment of the descriptions of wondrous occurrences as true events or their use. More precisely, these narratives investigate whether the wondrous pursues a display of erudition or merely provides stylistic variety; sometimes, such narratives even represent the wish of the author to grant a “rational explanation” to extraordinary actions. At present, however, two aspects of the topic have not been fully examined: a) the ability of the wondrous/miraculous to set cognitive mechanisms in motion and b) the power of the wondrous/miraculous to contribute to the construction of an authorial identity (that of kings, gods, or narrators). To this extent, the volume approaches miracles and wonders as counter intuitive phenomena, beyond cognitive grasp, which challenge the authenticity of human experience and knowledge and push forward the frontiers of intellectual and aesthetic experience. Some of the articles of the volume examine miracles on the basis of bewilderment that could lead to new factual knowledge; the supernatural is here registered as something natural (although strange); the rest of the articles treat miracles as an endpoint, where human knowledge stops and the unknown divine begins (here the supernatural is confirmed). Thence, questions like whether the experience of a miracle or wonder as a counter intuitive phenomenon could be part of long-term memory, i.e. if miracles could be transformed into solid knowledge and what mental functions are encompassed in this process, are central in the discussion.

An Affair of Poisons

Author: Addie Thorley
Publisher: Page Street YA
ISBN: 1624147143
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
No one looks kindly on the killer of a king. “Fast-paced and refreshing.” – SLJ, starred review “The perfect blend of history and dark fantasy.” – Mary Taranta, author of Shimmer and Burn “Thrilling, romantic, and addictive.” – Rosalyn Eves, author of Blood Rose Rebellion “The only cure is to finish it.” – Lyndsay Ely, author of Gunslinger Girl After unwittingly helping her mother poison King Louis XIV, seventeen-year-old alchemist Mirabelle Monvoisin is forced to see her mother’s Shadow Society in a horrifying new light: they’re not heroes of the people, as they’ve always claimed to be, but murderers. Herself included. Mira tries to ease her guilt by brewing helpful curatives, but her hunger tonics and headache remedies cannot right past wrongs or save the dissenters her mother vows to purge. Royal bastard Josse de Bourbon is more kitchen boy than fils de France. But when the Shadow Society assassinates the Sun King and half of the royal court, he must become the prince he was never meant to be in order to save his injured sisters and the petulant dauphin. Forced to hide in the sewers beneath the city, Josse’s hope of reclaiming Paris seems impossible—until his path collides with Mirabelle’s. She’s a deadly poisoner. He’s a bastard prince. They are sworn enemies, yet they form a tenuous pact to unite the commoners and former nobility against the Shadow Society. But can a rebellion built on mistrust ever hope to succeed?

There Will Be No Miracles Here

Author: Casey Gerald
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735214212
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR AND THE NEW YORK TIMES A PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK "Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside himself. Extraordinary." —Marlon James "Staccato prose and peripatetic storytelling combine the cadences of the Bible with an urgency reminiscent of James Baldwin in this powerfully emotional memoir." —BookPage The testament of a boy and a generation who came of age as the world came apart—a generation searching for a new way to live. Casey Gerald comes to our fractured times as a uniquely visionary witness whose life has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides. His story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to see which of them will be carried off. His beautiful, fragile mother disappears frequently and mysteriously; for a brief idyll, he and his sister live like Boxcar Children on her disability checks. When Casey--following in the footsteps of his father, a gridiron legend who literally broke his back for the team--is recruited to play football at Yale, he enters a world he's never dreamed of, the anteroom to secret societies and success on Wall Street, in Washington, and beyond. But even as he attains the inner sanctums of power, Casey sees how the world crushes those who live at its margins. He sees how the elite perpetuate the salvation stories that keep others from rising. And he sees, most painfully, how his own ascension is part of the scheme. There Will Be No Miracles Here has the arc of a classic rags-to-riches tale, but it stands the American Dream narrative on its head. If to live as we are is destroying us, it asks, what would it mean to truly live? Intense, incantatory, shot through with sly humor and quiet fury, There Will Be No Miracles Hereinspires us to question--even shatter--and reimagine our most cherished myths.

Rivers of Miracles

Author: Jewelie Shukla
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578596761
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Have you ever been so desperate that without a miracle, a divine intervention, you simply would not survive? Jewelie knows this place all too well. She found herself facing one extreme challenge after another when she was expecting her firstborn son, Ryvers. Born into a world of silence, Ryvers' life swiftly spiraled down into complete darkness. If it wasn't already overwhelming enough for a single mother to raise a deaf and blind son, the unraveling of many more disabling diagnoses, complicated surgeries, and near-death encounters was nothing short of insurmountable. Rivers of Miracles is the miraculous true story of a mother's heart-rending journey of love, tenacity, and faith in a God she couldn't see, but Whose presence has been very real in her world. Only by her resilient trust in God was Jewelie able to navigate through these harsh realities. No matter how challenging your circumstances may look, this book will build your faith to see the invisible that opens the flow to experience the impossible. You'll be greatly encouraged as you witness how Ryvers' life has indeed been a steady stream of incredible miracles ... rivers that have not stopped flowing yet!

The Court of Miracles

Author: Kester Grant
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 1524772887
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417

A Court of Miracles

Author: Kester Grant
Publisher: Voyager
ISBN: 9780008254803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Les Misérables meets Six of Crows in this page-turning adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris's criminal underground in the wake of a failed French Revolution. A CITY DIVIDED A DEADLY BETRAYAL The French Revolution of 1828 has failed, and Paris is in mourning. The wretched of the city have gathered into guilds of thieves, assassins and worse, to form the Court of Miracles. When Eponine's sister is sold into the Guild of Flesh, both their fates are sealed. The only chance Eponine has of rescuing her is to join the Miracle Court and steal back what was taken. But to do that she'll have to become the greatest thief the city has ever known. '[A] twisty, turny and fiercely told tale of revenge and redemption' DAILY MAIL 'A book with both big heart and a nicely nasty streak' THE I PAPER 'Beguiling, an an Angela Carter-like way' SFX 'Come for the world-building and Les Mis connections, stay for the heroine' STARBURST

A Court of Miracles

Author: Iakōvos Kampanellēs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description

Court of Miracles

Author: Rene Highway Collection
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
The Court of Miracles was an area in Paris dating back to the Middle Ages, in which the inhabitants gained their livelihoods through their imaginations.