Author: Amanda Hocking
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1429956518
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Harper only wanted a safe, normal life. But when her younger sister Gemma runs off with a dangerous clique of beautiful girls, Penn, Thea, and Lexi, everything changes. Vowing to get her sister back no matter what the cost, Harper must face dangers unlike any she's ever experienced. Fortunately, she has Daniel by her side, a gorgeous guy who's devoted to helping her find her sister—and who's immune to the girls' dark powers. While Harper searches for her sister, Gemma struggles to adjust to her new life. Gemma's powers are growing by the day, and the longer she lives with her new "sisters," the harder it is to resist entering their magical world. It's a realm both dark and beautiful, and where she's plagued by strange hungers and unspeakable needs. Just as she's drifting far away from her old life, Harper and Daniel find her...but no one can deny how much she's changed. All she wants is to return to her family and the mortal world, but how can she do that when she's become something else entirely—and will they still love her once they learn the truth? Prepare to fall under the spell of Lullaby, the second book in the Watersong series from New York Times bestselling author Amanda Hocking.
Lullaby
Author: Amanda Hocking
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1429956518
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Harper only wanted a safe, normal life. But when her younger sister Gemma runs off with a dangerous clique of beautiful girls, Penn, Thea, and Lexi, everything changes. Vowing to get her sister back no matter what the cost, Harper must face dangers unlike any she's ever experienced. Fortunately, she has Daniel by her side, a gorgeous guy who's devoted to helping her find her sister—and who's immune to the girls' dark powers. While Harper searches for her sister, Gemma struggles to adjust to her new life. Gemma's powers are growing by the day, and the longer she lives with her new "sisters," the harder it is to resist entering their magical world. It's a realm both dark and beautiful, and where she's plagued by strange hungers and unspeakable needs. Just as she's drifting far away from her old life, Harper and Daniel find her...but no one can deny how much she's changed. All she wants is to return to her family and the mortal world, but how can she do that when she's become something else entirely—and will they still love her once they learn the truth? Prepare to fall under the spell of Lullaby, the second book in the Watersong series from New York Times bestselling author Amanda Hocking.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1429956518
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Harper only wanted a safe, normal life. But when her younger sister Gemma runs off with a dangerous clique of beautiful girls, Penn, Thea, and Lexi, everything changes. Vowing to get her sister back no matter what the cost, Harper must face dangers unlike any she's ever experienced. Fortunately, she has Daniel by her side, a gorgeous guy who's devoted to helping her find her sister—and who's immune to the girls' dark powers. While Harper searches for her sister, Gemma struggles to adjust to her new life. Gemma's powers are growing by the day, and the longer she lives with her new "sisters," the harder it is to resist entering their magical world. It's a realm both dark and beautiful, and where she's plagued by strange hungers and unspeakable needs. Just as she's drifting far away from her old life, Harper and Daniel find her...but no one can deny how much she's changed. All she wants is to return to her family and the mortal world, but how can she do that when she's become something else entirely—and will they still love her once they learn the truth? Prepare to fall under the spell of Lullaby, the second book in the Watersong series from New York Times bestselling author Amanda Hocking.
Music of the Sirens
Author: Linda Austern
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253112071
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Whether referred to as mermaid, usalka, mami wata, or by some other name, and whether considered an imaginary being or merely a person with extraordinary abilities, the siren is the remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations from ancient Greece to present-day Africa and Latin America. This book, co-edited by a historical musicologist and an ethnomusicologist, brings together leading scholars and some talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cultural studies to consider the siren and her multifaceted relationships to music across human time and geography.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253112071
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Whether referred to as mermaid, usalka, mami wata, or by some other name, and whether considered an imaginary being or merely a person with extraordinary abilities, the siren is the remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations from ancient Greece to present-day Africa and Latin America. This book, co-edited by a historical musicologist and an ethnomusicologist, brings together leading scholars and some talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cultural studies to consider the siren and her multifaceted relationships to music across human time and geography.
Snakebite Lullaby
Author: Kat Blackthorne
Publisher: eXtasy Books
ISBN: 1487436629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Kitty Cash is an exotic dancer fighting to foster the pre-teen she babysat as a child, living in Miami above her ex-boyfriend’s tattoo parlor, working at a gentlemen’s club, with little resources. That is, until the night she meets fallen mafia king Rock-well DiMarco. He kills a man for touching her before they’ve even met. He offers her a job she never could have expected. Now she’s thrust into a world of beautiful men, opulence, mystery, and crime. Someone is after her, her found-family in her ex-boyfriend is on shaky ground, and Rockwell is demanding she be his. But secrets lurk around every corner just waiting to strike. If Kitty isn’t careful, she’ll be snakebit.
Publisher: eXtasy Books
ISBN: 1487436629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Kitty Cash is an exotic dancer fighting to foster the pre-teen she babysat as a child, living in Miami above her ex-boyfriend’s tattoo parlor, working at a gentlemen’s club, with little resources. That is, until the night she meets fallen mafia king Rock-well DiMarco. He kills a man for touching her before they’ve even met. He offers her a job she never could have expected. Now she’s thrust into a world of beautiful men, opulence, mystery, and crime. Someone is after her, her found-family in her ex-boyfriend is on shaky ground, and Rockwell is demanding she be his. But secrets lurk around every corner just waiting to strike. If Kitty isn’t careful, she’ll be snakebit.
Lullaby
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400075572
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the New York Times bestseller Choke and the cult classic Fight Club, a cunningly plotted novel about the ultimate verbal weapon, one that reinvents the apocalyptic thriller for our times. "A harrowing and hilarious glimpse into the future of civilization.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune Ever heard of a culling song? It’s a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World, an anthology that is sitting on the shelves of libraries across the country, waiting to be picked up by unsuspecting readers. Reporter Carl Streator discovers the song’s lethal nature while researching Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and before he knows it, he’s reciting the poem to anyone who bothers him. As the body count rises, Streator glimpses the potential catastrophe if someone truly malicious finds out about the song. The only answer is to find and destroy every copy of the book in the country. Accompanied by a shady real-estate agent, her Wiccan assistant, and the assistant’s truly annoying ecoterrorist boyfriend, Streator begins a desperate cross-country quest to put the culling song to rest.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400075572
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the New York Times bestseller Choke and the cult classic Fight Club, a cunningly plotted novel about the ultimate verbal weapon, one that reinvents the apocalyptic thriller for our times. "A harrowing and hilarious glimpse into the future of civilization.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune Ever heard of a culling song? It’s a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World, an anthology that is sitting on the shelves of libraries across the country, waiting to be picked up by unsuspecting readers. Reporter Carl Streator discovers the song’s lethal nature while researching Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and before he knows it, he’s reciting the poem to anyone who bothers him. As the body count rises, Streator glimpses the potential catastrophe if someone truly malicious finds out about the song. The only answer is to find and destroy every copy of the book in the country. Accompanied by a shady real-estate agent, her Wiccan assistant, and the assistant’s truly annoying ecoterrorist boyfriend, Streator begins a desperate cross-country quest to put the culling song to rest.
The Lullaby Shriek (The AEON Files, #3)
Author: Selena I. R. Drake
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365370135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
For Jinx, the AEON Agency's only teenage Shadow Demon, the summer has been a never-ending stream of nightmares and little rest. So when a fuzzy, little messenger shows up with a message from the Queen of the Banshees asking for assistance, Jinx is glad for the distraction. But the case takes a turn for the worse right off the bat and Jinx is left scrambling for answers as to how to stop a deadly Lullaby. Just when everything is spiraling out of control and it seems the Netherworld has won the war for the Mortal Realm, an unexpected ally comes to Jinx's aid, but at a steep price. And, to make things even more frustrating, Jinx is about to discover a shocking secret: a revelation that will change her life forever.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365370135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
For Jinx, the AEON Agency's only teenage Shadow Demon, the summer has been a never-ending stream of nightmares and little rest. So when a fuzzy, little messenger shows up with a message from the Queen of the Banshees asking for assistance, Jinx is glad for the distraction. But the case takes a turn for the worse right off the bat and Jinx is left scrambling for answers as to how to stop a deadly Lullaby. Just when everything is spiraling out of control and it seems the Netherworld has won the war for the Mortal Realm, an unexpected ally comes to Jinx's aid, but at a steep price. And, to make things even more frustrating, Jinx is about to discover a shocking secret: a revelation that will change her life forever.
Lullaby of Death
Author: Skye MacKinnon
Publisher: Peryton Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Shadow monsters, undead relatives, and a bodice that cuts into her boobs—in Avery’s opinion, the faerie realm isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Supposedly, it was Avery’s fate to journey to the Evermist. Here, she’s regarded as a symbol of hope and everyone has expectations of her, including her three guardians. While she hadn’t expected an amusement park full of little girls in princess dresses, Avery also hadn’t expected to be scared at every turn. But the Evermist is full of cruel monsters and terrifying shadows. As Avery navigates her new role, her deepening relationship with her guardians, and a wardrobe full of beautiful-yet-uncomfortable dresses, she’ll have to make choices that will have repercussions worlds away. With intrigues and betrayals at every corner, Avery will need to explore her magic and strength to fight the evil that has taken over the realm of her ancestors. The second book in the Lost Siren series, Lullaby of Death is a steamy reverse harem adventure that will take you far from the familiar and into a magical yet dangerous land. Keywords: paranormal romance, post-apocalyptic romance, fantasy romance, shifter, werewolf, magic, siren, vampire, fae, fairy, faerie, apocalypse, reverse harem, why choose, menage, mfmmm, steamy romance, polyandry, polyamory, PNR, portal romance.
Publisher: Peryton Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Shadow monsters, undead relatives, and a bodice that cuts into her boobs—in Avery’s opinion, the faerie realm isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Supposedly, it was Avery’s fate to journey to the Evermist. Here, she’s regarded as a symbol of hope and everyone has expectations of her, including her three guardians. While she hadn’t expected an amusement park full of little girls in princess dresses, Avery also hadn’t expected to be scared at every turn. But the Evermist is full of cruel monsters and terrifying shadows. As Avery navigates her new role, her deepening relationship with her guardians, and a wardrobe full of beautiful-yet-uncomfortable dresses, she’ll have to make choices that will have repercussions worlds away. With intrigues and betrayals at every corner, Avery will need to explore her magic and strength to fight the evil that has taken over the realm of her ancestors. The second book in the Lost Siren series, Lullaby of Death is a steamy reverse harem adventure that will take you far from the familiar and into a magical yet dangerous land. Keywords: paranormal romance, post-apocalyptic romance, fantasy romance, shifter, werewolf, magic, siren, vampire, fae, fairy, faerie, apocalypse, reverse harem, why choose, menage, mfmmm, steamy romance, polyandry, polyamory, PNR, portal romance.
Music Asylums: Wellbeing Through Music in Everyday Life
Author: Tia DeNora
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317092139
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Taking a cue from Erving Goffman’s classic work, Asylums, Tia DeNora develops a novel interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing. Considering health and illness both in medical contexts and in the often-overlooked realm of everyday life, DeNora argues that these identities are by no means mutually exclusive. Moreover, she suggests that the promotion of health and more specifically, mental health, involves a great deal more than a concern with medication, genetic predispositions, clinical and neuro-scientific procedures. Adopting a holistic, interactionist focus, Music Asylums reconnects states of wellness and wellbeing to encounters with others and - critically - to opportunities for aesthetic experience. Building on DeNora's earlier work on music as a technology of self in everyday life, the book presents music as an active ingredient of action, identity, capacity and consciousness. From there, it suggests that access to, and evaluation of, music is an important ethical matter. Intended for scholars and practitioners in psychiatry and psychology, palliative care, socio-music studies, music psychology and the allied health professions, Music Asylums showcases music's role in the existential project of being and staying well, mentally and physically, from moment-to-moment and across all realms of social life.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317092139
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Taking a cue from Erving Goffman’s classic work, Asylums, Tia DeNora develops a novel interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing. Considering health and illness both in medical contexts and in the often-overlooked realm of everyday life, DeNora argues that these identities are by no means mutually exclusive. Moreover, she suggests that the promotion of health and more specifically, mental health, involves a great deal more than a concern with medication, genetic predispositions, clinical and neuro-scientific procedures. Adopting a holistic, interactionist focus, Music Asylums reconnects states of wellness and wellbeing to encounters with others and - critically - to opportunities for aesthetic experience. Building on DeNora's earlier work on music as a technology of self in everyday life, the book presents music as an active ingredient of action, identity, capacity and consciousness. From there, it suggests that access to, and evaluation of, music is an important ethical matter. Intended for scholars and practitioners in psychiatry and psychology, palliative care, socio-music studies, music psychology and the allied health professions, Music Asylums showcases music's role in the existential project of being and staying well, mentally and physically, from moment-to-moment and across all realms of social life.
Squitter-wits and Muse-haters
Author: Peter C. Herman
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814325711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This study offers an approach toward Renaissance literary production, demonstrating that antipoetic sentiment, previously dismissed as an unimportant aspect of Tudor-Stuart literary culture, constituted a significant shaping presence in Sidney, Spenser and Milton.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814325711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This study offers an approach toward Renaissance literary production, demonstrating that antipoetic sentiment, previously dismissed as an unimportant aspect of Tudor-Stuart literary culture, constituted a significant shaping presence in Sidney, Spenser and Milton.
Songs of the Baka and Other Discoveries
Author: Dennis James
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510713522
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Abandoning the comfort and security of a typical retirement, a couple travels and treks through the most isolated parts of the world. After their retirement, Dennis James and Barbara Grossman decide to travel where tour buses won’t and where the US government says “don’t,” incorporating trekking into their travels as a way to see untouched areas of the world considered inhospitable by many. Armed with a passport, an interest in non-Western and indigenous cultures, a spirit for adventure, and a sense of humor, they hike through the forests in the highlands of Papua New Guinea; visit the traditional hunter-gatherer Baka Pygmy community in Cameroon; stay with the cliff-dwelling Dogon people in Mali; explore Roman ruins in Algeria; meet a nervous mother rhino in Nepal; and witness bull-jumping, a coming-of-age ritual for young Hamer men in Ethiopia. In defiance of typical tourist travel, ignoring State Department warnings, and with a curiosity and hardiness that belies their ages, Dennis and Barbara choose to travel the roads not taken so frequently—to places like Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, and Gaza—seeking the truth behind the headlines and exploring the deeper questions about the local cultures they encounter. Why do these people cling to the art, sexual mores, economic and political hierarchies, and spiritualities that govern their lives? And how and why do they remain resistant to the pressures of globalization? A journey into the other sides of the world, Songs of the Baka and Other Discoveries puts aside preconceptions and combines the wisdom of age with the stamina of youth.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510713522
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Abandoning the comfort and security of a typical retirement, a couple travels and treks through the most isolated parts of the world. After their retirement, Dennis James and Barbara Grossman decide to travel where tour buses won’t and where the US government says “don’t,” incorporating trekking into their travels as a way to see untouched areas of the world considered inhospitable by many. Armed with a passport, an interest in non-Western and indigenous cultures, a spirit for adventure, and a sense of humor, they hike through the forests in the highlands of Papua New Guinea; visit the traditional hunter-gatherer Baka Pygmy community in Cameroon; stay with the cliff-dwelling Dogon people in Mali; explore Roman ruins in Algeria; meet a nervous mother rhino in Nepal; and witness bull-jumping, a coming-of-age ritual for young Hamer men in Ethiopia. In defiance of typical tourist travel, ignoring State Department warnings, and with a curiosity and hardiness that belies their ages, Dennis and Barbara choose to travel the roads not taken so frequently—to places like Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, and Gaza—seeking the truth behind the headlines and exploring the deeper questions about the local cultures they encounter. Why do these people cling to the art, sexual mores, economic and political hierarchies, and spiritualities that govern their lives? And how and why do they remain resistant to the pressures of globalization? A journey into the other sides of the world, Songs of the Baka and Other Discoveries puts aside preconceptions and combines the wisdom of age with the stamina of youth.
Saturday Review of Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description