The Princess Bride

"They say I'm a Yankee -- but if wanting peace is Yankee -- then I am one. I am tired of Disunion of husband & wife." In 1858, nineteen-year-old Priscilla "Mittie" Munnikhuysen began a new diary t

Charged with murder and treason, half-human Rhiannon, awaiting trial in Sorrowgate Tower, is plagued by prophetic dreams involving the spiteful ghost of an evil queen and discovers that a princess, us

As Prince Tayy prepares to assume the leadership of the Qubal clans, treacherous enemies threaten his ascension with dark magic-and only the apprentice shaman destined to be Tayy's bride can save him

17 intermediate-level arrangements include: Believer * Corpse Bride (Main Title) * The Batman Theme * Breakaway * Chamber of Secrets * Double Trouble * Everything Burns * For You I Will * How Do I Liv

Who are the women of Windsor? We know them as Elizabeth, the Queen; Elizabeth, the Queen Mother; Princess Margaret; Anne, the Princess Royal. Their images have been with us on film and in print for

For years, Lady Julia Barrowby has acted the part of an old man’s ornamental bride, never revealing that she has secretly helped the ailing Lord Barrowby in his work with the Royal Four. Now th

A noblewoman is hacked to death, a Russian princess is boldly robbed, a lord's lifeless body is found in a trunk. It is the work of Fantomas, a master of disguise whose diabolical crimes paralyze Pari

Here comes the substitute bride. . . .Violet Brantford has always longed for the passionate embrace of Adrian Winter, the wealthy Duke of Raeburn. Problem is, he’s set to marry Violet’s vivacious, mor

Princess Anatopsis Solomon wants to be a knight-errant. But hermother, chairwoman of Amalgamated Witchcraft Corporation, plans for her immortal daughter to take over the family business. The Queen has

After years in Canada, Simon St. Bride is ready to return to England. But his plans are delayed by a duel and a young woman he feels honor-bound to marry, knowing that his family is unlikely to welco

Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop was the largest landowner and richest woman in the Hawaiian kingdom. Upon her death in 1884, she entrusted her property--known as Bishop Estate--to five trustees in orde

Everything about choosing he best style for the bride to be. This is the ideal guidebook for the bride as she begins her search for the perfect wedding dress. Filled with inspiring ideas and visual

Orphan heiress and Scotswoman, Regan MacLaren, is a bride of but one day when her husband is murdered. As a result, Regan loses her memory and with it her place in the world. Laird and warrior, Iain C

The thought-provoking, aesthetically pleasing animated films of Hayao Miyazaki attract audiences well beyond the director's native Japan. Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away were critically acclaimed

So far, Han and her new friends have been able to overcome everything thatthe enemy's thrown at them. But what happens when their next enemy turns out tobe one of their own? The feared Nobunaga is fin

Once Upon a Time ...A haughty princess paraded in front of her people but ended up showing off far more than her leadership skills. A modern-day Cinderella went to the ball in a pair of black patent-l

A WEDDING WITH SPIRIT has been written for the bride and groom who are searching for something more for their wedding—not more as in bigger, grander, or more lavish, but more as in more meaningful, gr

Join the princess and her magical unicorn in their adventure as they battle the dark forces to reclaim Balinor. Books 1-3.

An easy-to-read retelling of the tale of a clever cat who wins a fortune and the hand of a princess for his master.

Enraged at not being invited to the princess's christening, a wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years.

“The teenager, the bride to be, the exhausted young mother, the lonely widow . . . they are funny and often touching in these four monologues deftly written by Joanna Murray-Smith. Little gems,

Ariel loves playing hide-and-seek with her little seal friend. But when the princess can’t find him anywhere she begins to worry. After a long search through the ocean, Ariel finally finds him. The ha

Scholastic is proud to present the final installment of The Royal Diaries series. Drama and intrigue explode in the story of young Princess Catherine's incredible journey to greatness.Fourteen-year-ol

Don Carlos is passionately in love with Elizabeth, the French Princess to whom he was once betrothed. Carlos' tyrannical father, King Philip II of Spain, decides to marry Elizabeth himself. The young

Being a bridesmaid is one of the greatest honors a dear friend can bestow. But actually wearing the dress the bride picks out? That's the true test of friendship. You Can Wear It Again pays loving tr

Alice is planning a special midnight feast for a beautiful princess and she sends her little brother, Freddie, to collect the things they need ? pomegranates and lobsters, a golden cushion, and an enc

The only Angel Princess of Heaven is betrothed to the Emperor of the Underworld. Unable to accept her future with the Demon King, she realizes that her only choice is to run away. Her plan is to join

Cultural Writing. Memoir. Fiction. Cross Genre. Asian Studies. Born in the Year of the Tiger, Hu Nu, unwanted female child, is nearly given away as a one-year-old bride in a Chinese village. She grows

One of the most anticipated experiences in every bride-to-be’s wedding planning is choosing her bouquet. However, when faced with the real-life sea of styles and flowers, a bride-to-be may

In addition to her wedding planner, every bride needs this checklist book to keep track of the thousands of details of planning a wedding.The Busy Bride's Essential Wedding Checklists vastly outdoes i

SYAORAN OVERMATCHED?!Young Syaoran and his friends are on a quest to retrieve the magically potent feather-shaped shards of Princess Sakura’s memory. The search has led them to the country of Oto, a w

Willa knows exactly what she wants to be when she grows up?a fairy princess, complete with wings, wand, and fairy dust. But being a fairy princess is not as easy as it looks, and soon Willa’s in troub

Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess. An appropriate gift indeed for her impending trip to Seoul, but Barbara doesn

Small enough to fit in the tiniest purse, big enough to hold all the names, numbers, and dates a bride needs to plan her wedding—that’s The Bride’s Mini 411. It includes a checklist

The practice of dowry in modern India epitomizes the gulf between the ideal and the real. Stridhan or dakshina were gifts traditionally given at marriage to ensure the well-being of the bride in her n

This book describes and analyses the notion of Mahr, the Muslim custom whereby the groom has to give a gift to the bride in consideration of the marriage. It explores how Western courts, specifically

Between 1915 and 1923, Marcel Duchamp created one of the most mystifying art works of the early twentieth century: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (also known as the Large Glass). The w

The Comentarios reales de los incas, a classic of Spanish Renaissance prose narrative, was written by Garcilaso Inca de la Vega, the son of an Inca princess and a Spanish conquistador. It is full of ideological tensions and apparent contradictions as Garcilaso attempts to reconcile a pagan new-world culture with the fervent Christian evangelism of the period of the discovery and conquest of America. This study of the Comentarios is original both in adopting the perspective of discourse analysis and in its interdisciplinary approach. Margarita Zamora examines the rhetorical complexities of the Comentarios, and shows how, in order to present Inca civilization to Europeans, Garcilaso turned to disciplines other than traditional historiography, and in particular to the linguistic strategies of humanist philology and hermeneutics. Professor Zamora reveals how Garcilaso's views of the Incas were shaped by the dual nature of his background, by his commitment to humanism and Christianity, by t

From fake moon landings to the murder of Princess Diana to the faked death of Jim Morrison, a modern-day paranoiac has plenty of reasons to keep looking over his shoulder. According to one survey, two

The bride has chosen well; the man of her future is a glass of clear water. But the muddy river of her past can't stop flowing.This new version of Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding by Tanya Ronder