Melissa Blair
Melissa Blair (she/her/kwe) is an Anishinaabe-kwe of mixed ancestry living on Turtle Island. She splits her time between Treaty 9 in Northern Ontario and the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg in Ottawa, Canada. She has a graduate degree in applied linguistics and discourse studies, loves movies, and hates spoons. Melissa has a BookTok account where she discusses and reviews her favorite books, including Indigenous and queer fiction, feminist literature, and nonfiction. She is the author of A Broken Blade, the first book in the Halfling Saga. Find her on TikTok at @melissas.bookshelf.
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A Broken Blade
- By: Melissa Blair
- Narrator: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 13 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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My body is made of scars,some were done to me,but most I did to myself.
Keera is a killer. As the King’s Blade, she is the most talented spy in the kingdom. And the king’s favored assassin. When a mysterious figure moves against the... Read more
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A Shadow Crown
- By: Melissa Blair
- Narrator: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 14 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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The highly anticipated second installment of the new adult fantasy saga that took BookTok by storm picks up where A Broken Blade left off.
To the kingdom, Keera is the king’s Blade, his most feared and trusted spy and assassin. But in the shadows,... Read more
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The Queen and the Arts
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II acquired a cultivated appreciation of the arts from an early age, with the study of a picture a week in her schooldays, and in maturity has consistently proven herself a dutiful, conscientious, and enthusiastic patron of the arts.In this impressive volume, Helen Cathcart guides the listener through the public galleries, state apartments, and private rooms of royal ...
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Girl Gurl Grrrl
“One of the year’s must-reads.” -ELLE
“[A] provocative, heart-breaking, and frequently hilarious collection.” -GLAMOUR
“Essential, vital, and urgent.” -HARPER’S BAZAAR
In the vein of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist and Issa Rae’s The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, but wholly its own, a provocative, humorous, and, at times, heartbreaking collection of essays on what it means to ...
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Biology of Birds
An esteemed professor of biology at Wheaton College, John Kricher leads a fascinating discussion of the approximately 10,000 species of birds that share our world. In these engaging lectures, Kricher expands on such topics as bird anatomy, the mechanics of flight, migration, reproduction, and song. The professor’s lively presentation demonstrates how understanding the traits, life cycle, and ...
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The Hero’s Guide to Storming the Castle
Your favorite princes and princesses are back in the hilarious and action-packed sequel to the breakout hit The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by author Christopher Healy, which the New York Times selected as one of its best books of the year.
Prince Liam. Prince Frederic. Prince Duncan. Prince Gustav. You remember them, don’t you? They’re the Princes Charming, who finally got some ...
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The Power of Protest
Times of great change did not occur by man’s desire for change, but through protest and persistence. Across the globe, it seems we are in an era of protest and drive. Not since the ’60s have we seen political divides and awareness of this magnitude and it is shaping all aspects of our day to day life. While some feel lost in despair and fear, we can look to the past and RISE UP ourselves. ...
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The Wednesday Daughters
Hope Tantry arrives at cottage in England’s pastoral Lake District where her mother, Ally, spent the last years of her life. Ally – one of a group of women who called themselves the Wednesday Sisters – had used the cottage while she worked on her unpublished biography of Beatrix Potter. Traveling with Hope are friends Anna Page and Julie, first introduced in The Wednesday Sisters, now grown ...
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Rose in Bloom
Everyone seems to think lovely, wealthy Rose Campbell should get married. Everyone, that is, except Rose.
In this sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose returns to the Aunt Hill after two years of traveling around the world. Suddenly, she is surrounded by male admirers. But before she marries anyone, Rose is determined to establish herself as an independent young woman. To begin with, she is learning that ...
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Don’t Worry Life Is Easy
Diane needs to start over again. After returning from Ireland and turning the page on her stormy relationship with Edward, the brooding Irish photographer, she is determined to rebuild her life in Paris with help from her best friend Felix. She focuses solely on getting her literary cafe back on track-until she meets Olivier. He is kind and thoughtful, and she may have a future with him.until she ...
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Poison Spring
“That was the year we had no food.” It’s the spring of 1864, and times are hard in Washington County, Arkansas, especially for thirteen-year-old Travis Ford. He hasn’t heard from his father, a sergeant in the Second Arkansas Cavalry, in months. His mother is struggling to make ends meet on the family farm and abandoned sawmill near Poison Spring. All Travis really wants to do is to follow ...
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Streets of Gold
To save her brother Stefan’s life, Marisia and her family must leave their home in Poland and sail to America, where they have heard people are free to do as they choose and the streets are paved with gold. After a rough ocean passage to the New World, Marisia and Stefan must face the harsh reality of immigrant life in New York, searching for work and struggling to find a safe place to live. ...
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