03861cam a2200553 4500 1268933149 TxAuBib 20240509120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781338809466 1338809466 B0CD3BH2VF Amazon df851413-6b88-48c0-a97c-6ba9da52741e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10042809 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Donnelly, Jennifer. Beastly Beauty [Libby]. Scholastic Inc., 2024. empowering. Belle. beauty and the beast. beauty standards. girl power. happy ever after. fractured fairytale. ambitious women. Feminist reading. retold fairytales. gender swapped. feminist telling. new age fairytale. beastly female desires. challening norms. feminst stories. gender-swapped beauty and the beast. girls who run the world. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 6477kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fantasy. Romance. Folklore. Young Adult Fiction. HTML:<p><b>*"A dreamy, sublimely written tale." — <i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review</b></p> <p><b>From <i>New York Times</i> bestselling, award-winning author Jennifer Donnelly comes a revolutionary, gender-swapped retelling of <i>Beauty and the Beast</i> that will forever change how you think about beauty, power, and what it really means to follow your heart.</b></p> <p>What makes a girl "beastly?" Is it having too much ambition? Being too proud? Taking up too much space? Or is it just wanting something, <i>anything</i>, too badly?</p> <p>That's the problem Arabella faces when she makes her debut in society. Her parents want her to be sweet and compliant so she can marry well, but try as she might, Arabella can't extinguish the fire burning inside her — the source of her deepest wishes, her wildest dreams.</p> <p>When an attempt to suppress her emotions tragically backfires, a mysterious figure punishes Arabella with a curse, dooming her and everyone she cares about, trapping them in the castle. As the years pass, Arabella abandons hope. The curse is her fault — after all, there's nothing more "beastly" than a girl who expresses her anger — and the only way to break it is to find a boy who loves her for her true self: a cruel task for a girl who's been told she's impossible to love.</p> <p>When a handsome thief named Beau makes his way into the castle, the captive servants are thrilled, convinced he is the one to break the curse. But Beau — spooked by the castle's strange and forbidding ladies-in-waiting, and by the malevolent presence that stalks its corridors at night — only wants to escape. He learned long ago that love is only an illusion. If Beau and Arabella have any hope of breaking the curse, they must learn to trust their wounded hearts, and realize that the cruelest prisons of all are the ones we build for ourselves.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-05-08 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=df851413-6b88-48c0-a97c-6ba9da52741e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=df851413-6b88-48c0-a97c-6ba9da52741e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=df851413-6b88-48c0-a97c-6ba9da52741e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)