{"id":2163,"date":"2017-01-07T21:39:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T21:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/?post_type=project&#038;p=2163"},"modified":"2021-04-05T19:20:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T19:20:06","slug":"alina-boyden","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/project\/alina-boyden\/","title":{"rendered":"Alina Boyden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_team_member admin_label=&#8221;Person&#8221; name=&#8221;ALINA BOYDEN&#8221; image_url=&#8221;http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AlinaBoyden.jpeg&#8221; animation=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; facebook_url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Alina-Boyden-225794985002126\/&#8221; twitter_url=&#8221;https:\/\/twitter.com\/alinaboyden?lang=en&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><b>Alina Boyden<\/b>\u00a0is a trans rights activist, author, and PhD candidate in cultural anthropology.\u00a0 As an ACLU client, her case secured healthcare rights for transgender employees in the state of Wisconsin. Her work in cultural anthropology centers on the civil rights struggles of transgender women in India and Pakistan, and consequently she divides her time between the United States and South Asia. When she\u2019s not writing, traveling, or working on her dissertation, she spends her free time indulging in two of her childhood passions \u2013 swordplay and flying airplanes.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;Row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_team_member admin_label=&#8221;Person&#8221; name=&#8221;GIFTING FIRE &#8221; image_url=&#8221;http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/GiftingFire.jpg&#8221; animation=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Ace Penguin, 2021<\/p>\n<p><b>The battle has been won, but the war is just beginning.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Although at long last Razia Khan has found peace with herself and love with her prince, Arjun, her trials are far from over. In order to save her prince and his city from certain destruction, Razia made a deal with the devil&#8211;her father, the Sultan of Nizam. Now the bill has come due.<\/p>\n<p>Razia must secure the province of Zindh, a land surrounded by enemies, and loyal to a rebel queen who has survived her father&#8217;s purge.\u00a0 But when her old tormentor Prince Karim invades her new home and forces her into a marriage alliance, Razia finds herself trapped in the women&#8217;s quarters of a foreign palace, with her beloved Prince Arjun exiled from her side.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in order to free herself, and her province, from Karim&#8217;s clutches, she must call upon all of her training as a royal princess, a cunning courtesan, and a daring thief to summon new allies and old friends for a battle that will decide her fate, and the fate of an empire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/gifting-fire\/9781984805485\">Bookshop.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/gifting-fire-alina-boyden\/1137365002?ean=9781984805485\">B&amp;N<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gifting-Fire-Alina-Boyden\/dp\/1984805487\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=GIFTING+FIRE+ALINA+BOYDEN&amp;qid=1617649882&amp;sr=8-1\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;Row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_team_member admin_label=&#8221;Person&#8221; name=&#8221;STEALING THUNDER&#8221; image_url=&#8221;http:\/\/andreasomberg.com\/aslitagent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/StealingThunder.jpg&#8221; animation=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Ace\/Penguin, 2020<\/p>\n<p><strong>Protecting her identity means life or death in this immersive epic fantasy inspired by the Mughal Empire.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a different life, under a different name, Razia Khan was raised to be the Crown Prince of Nizam, the most powerful kingdom in Daryastan. Born with the soul of a woman, she ran away at a young age to escape her father\u2019s hatred and live life true to herself.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the hijras of Bikampur, Razia finds sisterhood and discovers a new purpose in life. By day she\u2019s one of her dera\u2019s finest dancers, and by night its most profitable thief. But when her latest target leads her to cross paths with Arjun Agnivansha, Prince of Bikampur, it is she who has something stolen.<\/p>\n<p>An immediate connection with the prince changes Razia\u2019s life forever, and she finds herself embroiled in a dangerous political war. The stakes are greater than any heist she\u2019s ever performed. When the battle brings her face to face with her father, Razia has the chance to reclaim everything she lost\u2026and save her prince.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSTEALING THUNDER\u00a0was immersive from the very first page. Razia is everything you want in a protagonist.\u201d\u2014Peter V. Brett, New York Times bestselling author<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA breakout novel any way you choose to look at it, STEALING THUNDER features an appealing young dragon-loving heroine sure of who she is but still figuring out where she belongs.\u00a0 Between Razia\u2019s capers, romances, and political intrigues, Boyden weaves fantasy threads into a fascinating tapestry\u2026 I loved her fresh take on dragons and their riders.\u201d\u2014E.E. Knight<\/p>\n<div id=\"iframeContent\" dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781984805461\">Indiebound<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/stealing-thunder-alina-boyden\/1133013348\">B&amp;N<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stealing-Thunder-Alina-Boyden\/dp\/1984805460\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1572983854&amp;sr=1-1\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alina Boyden\u00a0is a trans rights activist, author, and PhD candidate in cultural anthropology.\u00a0 As an ACLU client, her case secured healthcare rights for transgender employees in the state of Wisconsin. 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