Author: Alison Gibbons
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496234618
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Reading the Contemporary Author brings together leading scholars in cultural theory, literary criticism, stylistics, narratology, comparative literature, and autobiography studies to interrogate how we read the contemporary author in public and cultural life, in life writing, and in literature.
Author: Elisa Allison Sproule
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 166429161X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Rachel and best friend Leisa arrive at the airport to pick up the love of Rachel’s life her husband, Lawrence. As Rachel watches from the glass door into the control room she suddenly realizes there is a problem with landing. Following the accident Lawrence’s best friend Matthew commits to stand by Rachel. Soon it is more than Rachel’s hand Matthew is wishing to hold. When the two leave for a short trip and return married. Heads turn, along with Rachel’s accounts. Rachel struggles for the future as she holds the past in her heart. Realizing dreams do not always come true. Daughter Leigh worries that her mother is in love, but also in danger. Attorney Franklin moves to protect Rachel and the family company. A meeting is called and all eyes are on the arrest of Matthew. When a beautiful coworker Sheree enters the room with an envelope that holds damaging information, everyone gasps as Rachel is arrested. Franklin runs to Rachel’s rescue. A shocked Rachel seeks for answers to her many questions. Returning to her old home place in Atlanta Rachel finds more than memories. Proving that often we must step back to move forward. While the wages of sin rage anger that seeks to destroy her, Rachel finds that her life is more important than anger. Someone follows Rachel and his presence feels familiar. Secrets are exposed, bringing power and suspense that unleash a jaw dropping twist that no plans could have prepared. Proving that what is in the past, does not always stay there.
Author: Dimitri Liountris
Publisher: Partridge Africa
ISBN: 148287850X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Suddenly, it’s a world flooded with magic and danger draws closer with every passing second. When the powers of sixteen gods are inherited by four teenagers, destruction is not far behind. In Maxton City, everything changes in the blink of an eye. When a portal to the Chaos Realm – a place of torment, a world of horrors – opens up over Maxton City Park, the monsters begin to appear. Then comes the First Queen of Earth. Unbeknownst to anyone, four teenagers have found the means to battling these enemies deep in the Cradle of Humankind. They have found the Amulets of the Spirits, artefacts that house the souls of long-dead gods and grant the four powers beyond their wildest dreams, creating the new Guardians. Using these amulets, they can take the forms of the gods, and wield power that would incinerate mortals. But even that might not be enough... Serena, the First Queen, the Demon Queen, is searching for the most powerful artefact in existence, an artefact capable of granting the power of a god: The Oracle’s Journal. If she ascends, then not even the guardians can stop her. And there’ll be no gods to help them for what comes next...
Author: Inga Simpson
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 075157855X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Award-winning writer Inga Simpson terrifies and enthralls with this truly remarkable novel of a woman who must face her worst fears to survive and find beauty in the Australian bush. Fear is her cage. But what's outside is worse... It's night, and the walls of Rachel's home creak in the darkness of the Australian bush. Her fear of other people has led her to a reclusive life as far from them as possible, her only occasional contact with her sister. A hammering on the door. There stand a mother, Hannah, and her sick baby. They are running for their lives from a mysterious death sweeping the Australian countryside - so soon, too soon, after everything. Now Rachel must face her worst fears to help Hannah, search for her sister, and discover just what terror was born of us. . . and how to survive it. For fans of STATION ELEVEN, BIRDBOX and A QUIET PLACE, this remarkable, frightening yet ultimately hopeful novel holds a mirror up to the world we live in today.
Author: James Wasserman
Publisher: Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
ISBN: 0892545984
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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In this daring expose by a survivor of a unique era in the New York occult scene, James Wasserman, a longtime proponent of the teachings of Aleister Crowley, brings us into a world of candlelit temples, burning incenser, and sonorous invocations. The author also shares an intimate look at the New York Underground if the 1970s and introduces us to the company of such avant-garde luminaries as Alejandro Jodorowsky, Harry Smith and Angus MacLise. A stone's throw away form the Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol's Factory, William Burrough's "bunker," and the legendary Chelsea Hotel was a scene far more esoteric than perhaps even they could have imagined. When James Wasserman joined the O.T.O. in 1976, there were fewer than a dozen members. Today the Order numbers over 4,000 members in 50 countries and has been responsible for a series of groundbreaking publications of Crowley's works. The author founded New York City's TAHUTI Lodge in 1979. He chronicles its early history and provides a window into the heyday of the Manhattan esoteric community. This is also a saga with a very human tableau filled with tender romance, passionate friendships, an abiding spiritual hunger, danger, passion, and ecstasy. It also explores several hidden magical byways including the rituals of Voodoo, Tibetan Buddhism, and Sufism. Reconstructed from personal memories, magical diaries, multiple interviews, court transcripts, witness depositions, trial evidence, and extensive correspondence, this book elucidates a hithero misreported and ill-understood nexus of modern magical history.
Author: BethFowkes Tobin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135153680X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
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Examining the compelling and often poignant connection between women and the material culture of death, this collection focuses on the objects women make, the images they keep, the practices they use or are responsible for, and the places they inhabit and construct through ritual and custom. Women?s material practices, ranging from wearing mourning jewelry to dressing the dead, stitching memorial samplers to constructing skull boxes, collecting funeral programs to collecting and studying diseased hearts, making and collecting taxidermies, and making sculptures honoring the death, are explored in this collection as well as women?s affective responses and sentimental labor that mark their expected and unexpected participation in the social practices surrounding death and the dead. The largely invisible work involved in commemorating and constructing narratives and memorials about the dead-from family members and friends to national figures-calls attention to the role women as memory keepers for families, local communities, and the nation. Women have tended to work collaboratively, making, collecting, and sharing objects that conveyed sentiments about the deceased, whether human or animal, as well as the identity of mourners. Death is about loss, and many of the mourning practices that women have traditionally and are currently engaged in are about dealing with private grief and public loss as well as working to mitigate the more general anxiety that death engenders about the impermanence of life.
Author: Jim Lee
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1644247895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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In this dark fantasy of sexual obsession, Doug Hailey, a banged-up ex-cop from LA, leaves his family to seek a fresh start in peaceful, family-friendly Salt Lake City. If things work out, Rachel and Doug Jr can join him. His quiet new life is quickly disrupted when he meets Monique, an exotic dancer with a big secret: She prowls the night as a werewolf. He feels drawn into a torrid affair with her like he has no choice. Then bizarre dreams invade his life. The dreams become more and more real, in spite of the presence of mystical beings. The creatures warn Doug about the shape changer he calls Monique and hint at her sinister intentions. Strange events build up and make him feel torn between Rachel and Monique. This way for loyalty, and that way for lust. He knows all hell will break loose, no matter which path he takes, but it's time for Doug Hailey to make his choice.
Author: Irwin Wolfe
Publisher: Goodbye Beaver Lake
ISBN: 9781931207447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Separatist madness engulfs Quebec in this saga of a society torn asunder by French-Canadian nationalists hellbent on Quebec's secession from Canada. It might be described as a historical/political metaphor, a cautionary tale, recounting some of the momentous events which have occurred in the Province of Quebec between the late 50s and present day. The story also dips back into the 30s and 40s.
Author: Hanna Johansson
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1646221710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson—a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo On a Greek island rich with ancient beauty, a lonely woman in her thirties upends the relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter. Lust and admiration for Helena, a chic older artist, brings Antiquity’s unnamed narrator to Ermoupoli, where Helena’s daughter, Olga, seems at first like an obstacle and a nuisance. But the unpredictable forces of ego and desire take over, leading our narrator down a more dangerous path, and causing the roles of lover and beloved, child and adult, stranger and intimate to become distorted. As the months go by, the fragile web connecting the three women nears rupture, and the ominous consequences of their entanglement loom just beyond a summer that must end. With echoes of Death in Venice, Call Me by Your Name, and The Lover, but wholly original and contemporary, Antiquity probes the depths of memory, beauty, morality, and the narratives that arrange our experience of the world.
Author: Jason Camlot
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000625710
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Collection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and museum studies to understand the meaning of "collection" as an entity and as an act. It offers new models for understanding how collections have been imagined and defined, assembled, created, and used as cultural phenomena. Featuring over 70 illustrations and 21 original chapters that explore cases from a wide range of fields, including library and archival studies, literary studies, art history, media studies, sound studies, folklore studies, game studies, and education, Collection Thinking builds on the important scholarly works produced on the topic of the archive over the past two decades and contributes to ongoing debates on the historical status of memory institutions. The volume illustrates how the concept of "collection" bridges these institutional and structural categories, and generates discussions of cultural activities involving artifactual arrangement, preservation, curation, and circulation in both the private and the public spheres. Edited and introduced collaboratively by three senior scholars with expertise in the fields of literature, art history, archives, and museums, Collection Thinking is designed to stimulate interdisciplinary reflection and conversation. This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners interested in how we organize materials for research across disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. With case studies that range from collecting Barbie dolls to medieval embroideries, and with contributions from practitioners on record collecting, the creation of sub-culture archives, and collection as artistic practice, this volume will appeal to anyone who has ever wondered about why and how collections are made.
