Wings debuted as a New York Times best-seller and reached the #1 spot on the Children's Best Seller list, making Pike the best-selling non-celebrity children's author to debut in 2009. This book became part of a four-book series written by Pike. Her first book to be published was Wings (2009) which became a New York Times best-seller. Pike tried to get published for several years without success. In addition to writing, she has worked as an editor, a waitress, and childbirth educator and doula. Aprilynne and her husband, Kenneth, have four children. She received a scholarship to Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, and earned her B.A. She enjoyed creative writing even as a young child. Aprilynne Pike is an internationally best-selling American author best known for her debut novel Wings, which was released in English on May 5, 2009.Īprilynne Pike was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Featuring specially-commissioned illustrations, this first English-language edition of Sun-mi Hwang's fable for our times beautifully captures the journey of an unforgettable character in world literature. And with its array of animal characters-the hen, the duck, the rooster, the dog, the weasel-it calls to mind such classics in English as Animal Farm and Charlotte's Web. An anthem for freedom, individuality, and motherhood featuring a plucky, spirited heroine who rebels against the tradition-bound world of the barnyard, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly is a novel of universal resonance that also opens a window on Korea, where it has captivated millions of readers. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild-and to hatch an egg of her own. The Korean Charlotte's Web More than 2 million copies sold This is the story of a hen named Sprout. She enjoyed the patronage of European aristocrats, actors, and writers, and was elected to art academies in ten cities. Vigée Le Brun created a name for herself in Ancien Régime society by serving as the portrait painter to Marie Antoinette. Her subject matter and color palette can be classified as Rococo, but her style is aligned with the emergence of Neoclassicism. Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo with elements of an adopted Neoclassical style. In addition to many works in private collecti Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - also known as Madame Lebrun or Madame Le Brun - was a prominent French portrait painter of the late eighteenth century. Vigée Le Brun created some 660 portraits and 200 landscapes. 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New York Times bestselling author Meljean Brook delivers a new story in her steampunk world of the Iron Seas…as a man who's lost everything returns home to find that not only is his marriage in jeopardy, but he must now fight air pirates who intend to steal his one remaining treasure-his wife.Īnd Lucy Monroe, national bestselling author of the Children of the Moon novels…unleashes the feral passions of a werewolf on the body, mind, and soul of his prey, his lover, his lifemate.Ī collection of stories by Meljean Brook, Alyssa Day, Lora Leigh and Lucy Monroe New York Times bestselling author Alyssa Day introduces the League of the Black Swan…and the dangerous game one woman plays when her family's curse dooms her to kill the man she loves. #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh returns to her sensual world of the Breeds…as one stubborn Breed meets her match, and can no longer deny her mate-or the fierce desires of her own heart. 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