Tiger Queen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tiger Queen write by Annie Sullivan. This book was released on 2019-09-10. Tiger Queen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “TIGER QUEEN is a gorgeous, lush YA fiction…Highly recommend for anyone looking for a beautifully crafted stand-alone book.” (YA and Kids Book Central) Two doors. Two choices. Life or death. Kateri, an arrogant warrior princess, has to fight in the arena against her suitors to win her right to rule, and she is desperate to prove to her father that she is strong enough to take over his throne and rule the kingdom. But when she finds out her final opponent, she knows she cannot win. Kateri flees to the desert to train under the enemy she hates the most and the only one who might be able to give her a shot at winning. But what Kateri discovers in the desert twists her world—and her heart—upside down. There in the sand, away from the comforts of the palace, Kateri’s perception of her father is challenged and she discovers the truth about his treatment of her people. When she returns to the kingdom, the fate of the one she loves lies behind two doors in the arena—one door leads to happiness, and the other door releases the tiger. Secrets, suitors, thieves, and a fierce princess await readers in this YA fantasy re-telling. Tiger Queen: Is a fantasy re-telling of Frank Stockton’s famous short story, “The Lady, or the Tiger?” Features a slow-burn romance wrapped in fast-paced adventure Is set in a fantastical world wrought by fascism, classism, and climate crisis
Tiger Queen
Tiger Queen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tiger Queen write by Annie Sullivan. This book was released on 2019. Tiger Queen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Princess Kateri must fight for her right to rule, but when she senses she cannot win, she escapes to the desert and finds an unlikely ally among the Desert Boys, a gang of rebels who have been raiding the city for water.
The Tiger Queens
The Tiger Queens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tiger Queens write by Stephanie Thornton. This book was released on 2014-11-04. The Tiger Queens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the late twelfth century, across the sweeping Mongolian grasslands, brilliant, charismatic Temujin ascends to power, declaring himself the Great, or Genghis, Khan. But it is the women who stand beside him who ensure his triumph.... After her mother foretells an ominous future for her, gifted Borte becomes an outsider within her clan. When she seeks comfort in the arms of aristocratic traveler Jamuka, she discovers he is the blood brother of Temujin, the man who agreed to marry her and then abandoned her long before they could wed. Temujin will return and make Borte his queen, yet it will take many women to safeguard his fragile new kingdom. Their daughter, the fierce Alaqai, will ride and shoot an arrow as well as any man. Fatima, an elegant Persian captive, will transform her desire for revenge into an unbreakable loyalty. And Sorkhokhtani, a demure widow, will position her sons to inherit the empire when it begins to fracture from within. In a world lit by fire and ruled by the sword, the tiger queens of Genghis Khan come to depend on one another as they fight and love, scheme and sacrifice, all for the good of their family...and the greatness of the People of the Felt Walls.
The Queen's Tiger: Colonial Series Book 2
The Queen's Tiger: Colonial Series Book 2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Queen's Tiger: Colonial Series Book 2 write by Peter Watt. This book was released on 2019-11-12. The Queen's Tiger: Colonial Series Book 2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'One of Australia's best historical fiction authors' Canberra Weekly Peter Watt brings to the fore all the passion, adventure and white-knuckle battle scenes that made his beloved Duffy and Macintosh novels so popular. It is 1857. Colonial India is a simmering volcano of nationalism about to erupt. Army surgeon Peter Campbell and his wife Alice, in India on their honeymoon, have no idea that they are about to be swept up in the chaos. Ian Steele, known to all as Captain Samuel Forbes, is fighting for Queen and country in Persia. A world away, the real Samuel Forbes is planning to return to London - with potentially disastrous consequences for Samuel and Ian both. Then Ian is posted to India, but not before a brief return to England and a reunion with the woman he loves. In India he renews his friendship with Peter Campbell, and discovers that Alice has taken on a most unlikely role. Together they face the enemy and the terrible deprivations and savagery of war - and then Ian receives news from London that crushes all his hopes... PRAISE FOR THE QUEEN'S TIGER 'Watt has a true knack for producing captivating historical adventures filled with action, intrigue and family drama' Canberra Weekly
The Final Confession of Mabel Stark
The Final Confession of Mabel Stark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Final Confession of Mabel Stark write by Robert Hough. This book was released on 2013-04-23. The Final Confession of Mabel Stark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1910s and 1920s, when circus was the most popular form of entertainment in North America, Mabel Stark made her name in a man’s world as the greatest female tiger trainer in history, the centre-ring finale act for the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus. Brazen, courageous, obsessed with tigers and sexually eccentric, Stark survived a dozen severe maulings — and five husbands. Now, at age 80 and about to lose her job, she decides that there is one last thing she needs to do: Mabel Stark wants to confess.
