Preparations are underway in New York for an exclusive gala hosted by the city's wealthy, powerful Blue Bloods. But it is an after-party masquerade where true danger lurks, and a young vampire's destiny is changed.
Schuyler Van Alen begins to wonder if the legends of vampires are really true. When she turns 15, she starts to crave raw food and is having flashbacks to ancient times. After a classmate is found dead--and bloodless--Schuyler doesn't know what to think. Hyperion Books for Children
Schuyler Van Alen's blood legacy has just been called into question: Is the young woman in fact a Blue Blood, or is it the sinister Silver Blood that runs through her veins? When one of the Gates of Hell is breached by the Silver Bloods, the Blue Bloods will need Schuyler on their side.
The three best friends--Eliza, Jacqui, and Mara--are another year older and back to rule the Hamptons . . . but that doesn't mean that this summer will be any less scandalous.
Nothing's hotter than the summer before college, and Eliza, Mara, and Jacqui are determined to make their time in the Hamptons the best yet in this third book in the sizzling Au Pairs series.
The author of "Cat's Meow" introduces three au pairs for one of New York's "better" Upper East Side families, and their adventures in the Hamptons, where they'll brave bratty kids, deal with bitchy bosses, and handle some very hot bad boys.
Drawing on rich new scholarship, this translation restores Sor Juana's own emphasis and diction. Known as the First Feminist of America, the Mexican nun Sor Juana InA(c)s de la Cruz (1648/51 - 1695) was a brilliant and popular poet, playwright, and essayist whose feminist theory stands as a link between that of Christine de Pizan and Mary ...
Your favourite bikini-clad au pairs - good-girl-turned-It-Girl Mara, spoiled Eliza and Brazilian bombshell Jacqui - are back for another season of skinny-dipping in Georgica Pond, tanning on Main Beach, and oh yeah, baby-sitting for the Perry kids too.
A bilingual collection of revealing autobiographical sonnets, secular love poems, playful verses, reverential religious poetry, and lyrical tributes to New World culture. The text also includes a translation of Sor Juana's masterpiece the "Primero Sueno".
They have it all: money, looks, popularity, anything their little platinum-encased hearts desire. They also have a new face. After Lauren Page's unexpected and brilliant maneuver at the fall VIP dance, she is in so tight with Ashley Spencer, the number one Ashley, that she might as well be Ashley's favorite pair of leggings. But a new website, www ...
Filled with the glamour and excitement of the L.A. club-hopping scene and fueled with vital energy from the most popular Web site among the under-18 set, this novel is a fast-paced story of the hot boys and beautiful girls who soon discover there is a dark side to Tinseltown's bright lights.
Ashley Spencer considers her birthday party to be "the" most important event ever. She intends to prove that there's a reason she's been at the top of the social food chain her entire life. Will all her birthday wishes come true?
Seventh grade is a cutthroat social scene, and Lauren Page has learned to swim with the sharks. Her former best friend, Sadie Graham, has teamed up with Ashley-imitator Sheridan Riley to form the S Society, whose sole purpose is to overthrow the Ashleys.
In her first-ever tween series, the author of the bestselling Au Pairs books channels "Heathers" with this introduction to the Ashleys--three private-school princesses and one new kid, whose real name is Lauren, who discovers theres nothing scarier than seventh grade.
A literary "Will & Grace," this collection of essays from a diverse array of contributors celebrates the relationship between straight women and their gay best friend.
In this hilarious tell-all guide, join the authors on a whirlwind tour as they catapult themselves to celebrity in 14 days--and share their tips on mastering the fame game. Along the way, readers learn how they did it, with practical tips on how to follow in their stiletto-clad footsteps.
"The Journey of Tunuri and the Blue Deer" is a modern adaptation of a traditional story of the Huichol Indians of western Mexico. Young Tunuri becomes lost in the woods and meets the magical Blue Deer, who introduces Tunuri to Father Sun and Mother Earth while leading him back to his human family. Through this lovely tale and the traditional ...
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, known as "The Tenth Muse" of America, has been widely anthologized as a poet, intellectual, and defender of women's rights. Her calling as a nun, often overlooked, is clear in THE DIVINE NARCISSUS, an allegory ostensibly written to explain Christian concepts to the Aztecs whose plight under colonization it also ...
In a semi-autobiographical, funny, heartbreaking, first-person narrative, a fresh new voice tells of 14-year-old Vicenza, recently arrived in San Francisco from the Philippines, in a touching story about a young girl who despairs of ever fitting in. Young Adult.
16th-century codex was first herbal and medical text compiled in the New World, with ancient remedies for everything from hiccoughs to gout. Extraordinarily rare, valuable; amazing in scope, detail, accurate description. Index. New Introduction. Over 180 black-and-white illus. 38 color illus.
A fashionista is a girl who always looks current and cutting edge, even when her clothes are vintage 1975. A fashionista can tell her Pucci from her Gucci and her Blahniks from her Choos, but she’s as comfortable in Kmart as she is in Chanel. She wears what she likes and always looks fantastic. She’s a clothing chameleon: a sharp tweed ...
No se puede dudar de que la poesia de San Juan de la Cruz es una de las cumbres de la literatura espanola, lo cual no excluye su enorme valor doctrinal, mistico. Esta poesia puede verse como comunicacion de experiencias personales cuya expresion, encualquier caso, se inserta en el quehacer artistico de un periodo: el siglo XVI. Esta edicion da ...
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Sor Juana: Or, the Traps of Faith
by
Octavio Paz, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)
