Author: Amy Boyles
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781717375377
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
It only takes a second for life to go to heck-in-a-hand-basket!In less than twenty-four hours Pepper Dunn loses her job, her boyfriend, and her home. It's the worst day of her life. But when Pepper discovers she's a witch and has inherited the most important store in the magical town of Magnolia Cove, Alabama, she's as happy as a pig in mud. Too bad the shop is a familiar pet store and Pepper doesn't like animals-not even a teensy bit. Determined to sell the shop and get the heck out of town, Pepper's plans go haywire when a local storeowner winds up dead and Pepper gets accused of murder. Thrust into a magical mystery, Pepper teams up with a mysterious private detective and a cat so traumatized by the murder that she's not talking-and that cat could hold the key to Pepper's innocence. Now Pepper must avoid trouble, solve the mystery, and placate her new grandmother, who keeps a strict ten p.m. curfew that's enforced by the talking end of her shotgun. Sounds like a simple day in the life-as if. Can Pepper solve the mystery or will she become the next victim of the Magnolia Cove murderer? And most importantly, will Pepper learn to love the animals she's in charge of?Find out now!
Southern Magic
Author: Amy Boyles
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781717375377
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
It only takes a second for life to go to heck-in-a-hand-basket!In less than twenty-four hours Pepper Dunn loses her job, her boyfriend, and her home. It's the worst day of her life. But when Pepper discovers she's a witch and has inherited the most important store in the magical town of Magnolia Cove, Alabama, she's as happy as a pig in mud. Too bad the shop is a familiar pet store and Pepper doesn't like animals-not even a teensy bit. Determined to sell the shop and get the heck out of town, Pepper's plans go haywire when a local storeowner winds up dead and Pepper gets accused of murder. Thrust into a magical mystery, Pepper teams up with a mysterious private detective and a cat so traumatized by the murder that she's not talking-and that cat could hold the key to Pepper's innocence. Now Pepper must avoid trouble, solve the mystery, and placate her new grandmother, who keeps a strict ten p.m. curfew that's enforced by the talking end of her shotgun. Sounds like a simple day in the life-as if. Can Pepper solve the mystery or will she become the next victim of the Magnolia Cove murderer? And most importantly, will Pepper learn to love the animals she's in charge of?Find out now!
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781717375377
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
It only takes a second for life to go to heck-in-a-hand-basket!In less than twenty-four hours Pepper Dunn loses her job, her boyfriend, and her home. It's the worst day of her life. But when Pepper discovers she's a witch and has inherited the most important store in the magical town of Magnolia Cove, Alabama, she's as happy as a pig in mud. Too bad the shop is a familiar pet store and Pepper doesn't like animals-not even a teensy bit. Determined to sell the shop and get the heck out of town, Pepper's plans go haywire when a local storeowner winds up dead and Pepper gets accused of murder. Thrust into a magical mystery, Pepper teams up with a mysterious private detective and a cat so traumatized by the murder that she's not talking-and that cat could hold the key to Pepper's innocence. Now Pepper must avoid trouble, solve the mystery, and placate her new grandmother, who keeps a strict ten p.m. curfew that's enforced by the talking end of her shotgun. Sounds like a simple day in the life-as if. Can Pepper solve the mystery or will she become the next victim of the Magnolia Cove murderer? And most importantly, will Pepper learn to love the animals she's in charge of?Find out now!
Southern Magic Wedding
Author: Amy Boyles
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
It's Pepper's and Axel's wedding day. Finally, the big day has arrived and the entire town is ready to celebrate. And Pepper is ready, too. She can't wait to start her new life. The only problem is that suddenly Axel has ex-girlfriends oozing out of the woodwork. Worse, when a spell is cast on Axel the day before the wedding, his future with Pepper becomes murky. Pepper is shattered. From the looks of it, she and Axel will never get their happily ever after. But never say never to a Craple. Pepper's family rises to the challenge to save Pepper's wedding. Can they do it or will Pepper never get the wedding of her dreams?
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
It's Pepper's and Axel's wedding day. Finally, the big day has arrived and the entire town is ready to celebrate. And Pepper is ready, too. She can't wait to start her new life. The only problem is that suddenly Axel has ex-girlfriends oozing out of the woodwork. Worse, when a spell is cast on Axel the day before the wedding, his future with Pepper becomes murky. Pepper is shattered. From the looks of it, she and Axel will never get their happily ever after. But never say never to a Craple. Pepper's family rises to the challenge to save Pepper's wedding. Can they do it or will Pepper never get the wedding of her dreams?
The Magic Christian
Author: Terry Southern
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453217312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
DIVDIVIn this uproarious and wicked cult-classic, Southern skewers American greed and pomposity /divDIVGuy Grand, an eccentric billionaire prankster, is rich enough to do whatever he likes. And what he likes is to carefully execute projects where he can cauterize by ridicule what the rest of the world ignores: complacency, greed, corruption, and idiocy. Determined to “make it hot for people,” Grand spends his billions staging a series of hilarious, sometimes bewildering stunts, lampooning along the way the American holy cows of money, status, power, beauty, media, and stardom. Concocting deliciously perverse mayhem, he throws a million one-hundred-dollar bills into an enormous vat of steaming offal, proving just what people will do for money, and he promotes a new silky shampoo that turns hair to wire and a deodorant that becomes a time-released stench-bomb. He inserts subliminally suggestive and perverse images into well-loved classic films, takes a howitzer on safari, and brings a panther to a kennel club dog show. His most elaborate adventure is an ultra-exclusive cruise aboard the S.S. Magic Christian, where elite passengers are treated to a series of madcap indignities./divDIV /divDIV The Magic Christian is a hilarious and savagely satiric view of American commercialism, rich in Southern’s deft handling of detail, dialogue, and delightful deviancy./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate./div/div
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453217312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
DIVDIVIn this uproarious and wicked cult-classic, Southern skewers American greed and pomposity /divDIVGuy Grand, an eccentric billionaire prankster, is rich enough to do whatever he likes. And what he likes is to carefully execute projects where he can cauterize by ridicule what the rest of the world ignores: complacency, greed, corruption, and idiocy. Determined to “make it hot for people,” Grand spends his billions staging a series of hilarious, sometimes bewildering stunts, lampooning along the way the American holy cows of money, status, power, beauty, media, and stardom. Concocting deliciously perverse mayhem, he throws a million one-hundred-dollar bills into an enormous vat of steaming offal, proving just what people will do for money, and he promotes a new silky shampoo that turns hair to wire and a deodorant that becomes a time-released stench-bomb. He inserts subliminally suggestive and perverse images into well-loved classic films, takes a howitzer on safari, and brings a panther to a kennel club dog show. His most elaborate adventure is an ultra-exclusive cruise aboard the S.S. Magic Christian, where elite passengers are treated to a series of madcap indignities./divDIV /divDIV The Magic Christian is a hilarious and savagely satiric view of American commercialism, rich in Southern’s deft handling of detail, dialogue, and delightful deviancy./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate./div/div
Magic
Author: Ernesto De Martino
Publisher: Hau
ISBN: 9780990505099
Category : Basilicata (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Though his work was little known outside Italian intellectual circles for most of the twentieth century, anthropologist and historian of religions Ernesto de Martino is now recognized as one of the most original thinkers in the field. This book is testament to de Martino's innovation and engagement with Hegelian historicism and phenomenology--a work of ethnographic theory way ahead of its time. This new translation of Sud e Magia, his 1959 study of ceremonial magic and witchcraft in southern Italy, shows how De Martino is not interested in the question of whether magic is rational or irrational but rather in why it came to be perceived as a problem of knowledge in the first place. Setting his exploration within his wider, pathbreaking theorization of ritual, as well as in the context of his politically sensitive analysis of the global south's historical encounters with Western science, he presents the development of magic and ritual in Enlightenment Naples as a paradigmatic example of the complex dynamics between dominant and subaltern cultures. Far ahead of its time, Magic is still relevant as anthropologists continue to wrestle with modernity's relationship with magical thinking.
Publisher: Hau
ISBN: 9780990505099
Category : Basilicata (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Though his work was little known outside Italian intellectual circles for most of the twentieth century, anthropologist and historian of religions Ernesto de Martino is now recognized as one of the most original thinkers in the field. This book is testament to de Martino's innovation and engagement with Hegelian historicism and phenomenology--a work of ethnographic theory way ahead of its time. This new translation of Sud e Magia, his 1959 study of ceremonial magic and witchcraft in southern Italy, shows how De Martino is not interested in the question of whether magic is rational or irrational but rather in why it came to be perceived as a problem of knowledge in the first place. Setting his exploration within his wider, pathbreaking theorization of ritual, as well as in the context of his politically sensitive analysis of the global south's historical encounters with Western science, he presents the development of magic and ritual in Enlightenment Naples as a paradigmatic example of the complex dynamics between dominant and subaltern cultures. Far ahead of its time, Magic is still relevant as anthropologists continue to wrestle with modernity's relationship with magical thinking.
These Our Offerings
Author: William P. Baldwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781929647118
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A book of poetry and photography depicting both famous and ordinary scenes of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Each poem is a lyrical celebration of the ordinary, like the photographs that inspired them.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781929647118
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A book of poetry and photography depicting both famous and ordinary scenes of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Each poem is a lyrical celebration of the ordinary, like the photographs that inspired them.
This One and Magic Life
Author: Anne C. George
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061850950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
In the deep South, where love and hatred run deep and close, dissension often summers just beneath the surface.When a family gathers for a funeral as its old homestead above the waters of Mobile Bay, it must carry out the last wish of the aunt and sister whom it has come to mourn. It is a wish that will unearth a terrible secret, one that will either tear her siblings and their offspring apart or allow them to accept buried memories, wounds , and love. In This and Magic Life, Anne Carroll George has created as brilliant portrait of a Southern family in all its glory, captured in a moment of searing intensity and lyric truth. Rich with wisdom and deep understanding this compelling saga the twentieth century -- and tells a story that is truly timeless.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061850950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
In the deep South, where love and hatred run deep and close, dissension often summers just beneath the surface.When a family gathers for a funeral as its old homestead above the waters of Mobile Bay, it must carry out the last wish of the aunt and sister whom it has come to mourn. It is a wish that will unearth a terrible secret, one that will either tear her siblings and their offspring apart or allow them to accept buried memories, wounds , and love. In This and Magic Life, Anne Carroll George has created as brilliant portrait of a Southern family in all its glory, captured in a moment of searing intensity and lyric truth. Rich with wisdom and deep understanding this compelling saga the twentieth century -- and tells a story that is truly timeless.
Root Magic
Author: Eden Royce
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062899600
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
“A poignant, necessary entry into the children’s literary canon, Root Magic brings to life the history and culture of Gullah people while highlighting the timeless plight of Black Americans. Add in a fun, magical adventure and you get everything I want in a book!”—Justina Ireland, New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation Debut author Eden Royce arrives with a wondrous story of love, bravery, friendship, and family, filled to the brim with magic great and small. It’s 1963, and things are changing for Jezebel Turner. Her beloved grandmother has just passed away. The local police deputy won’t stop harassing her family. With school integration arriving in South Carolina, Jez and her twin brother, Jay, are about to begin the school year with a bunch of new kids. But the biggest change comes when Jez and Jay turn eleven— and their uncle, Doc, tells them he’s going to train them in rootwork. Jez and Jay have always been fascinated by the African American folk magic that has been the legacy of their family for generations—especially the curious potions and powders Doc and Gran would make for the people on their island. But Jez soon finds out that her family’s true power goes far beyond small charms and elixirs…and not a moment too soon. Because when evil both natural and supernatural comes to show itself in town, it’s going to take every bit of the magic she has inside her to see her through. Walter Dean Myers Honor Award for Outstanding Children's Literature!
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062899600
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
“A poignant, necessary entry into the children’s literary canon, Root Magic brings to life the history and culture of Gullah people while highlighting the timeless plight of Black Americans. Add in a fun, magical adventure and you get everything I want in a book!”—Justina Ireland, New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation Debut author Eden Royce arrives with a wondrous story of love, bravery, friendship, and family, filled to the brim with magic great and small. It’s 1963, and things are changing for Jezebel Turner. Her beloved grandmother has just passed away. The local police deputy won’t stop harassing her family. With school integration arriving in South Carolina, Jez and her twin brother, Jay, are about to begin the school year with a bunch of new kids. But the biggest change comes when Jez and Jay turn eleven— and their uncle, Doc, tells them he’s going to train them in rootwork. Jez and Jay have always been fascinated by the African American folk magic that has been the legacy of their family for generations—especially the curious potions and powders Doc and Gran would make for the people on their island. But Jez soon finds out that her family’s true power goes far beyond small charms and elixirs…and not a moment too soon. Because when evil both natural and supernatural comes to show itself in town, it’s going to take every bit of the magic she has inside her to see her through. Walter Dean Myers Honor Award for Outstanding Children's Literature!
Moonshine & Magic
Author: Bella Falls
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781984313102
Category : Wizards
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Charli Goodwin doesn't expect her homecoming to go without a hitch--after all, she skipped town, leaving her fiancé and family without a clue as to where she was going or why. Now that she's ready to return home, she plans to lay low and sip some of her Nana's sweet tea while the town gossips come out to play. Unfortunately, on her first night back, Charli discovers the body of her crazy great-uncle, and suddenly finds herself at the center of a mystery that threatens the very foundations of Honeysuckle Hollow and the safety of every paranormal citizen in it--starting with Charli herself. With the clock ticking, will Charli's special magical talents be enough to save not only the town but also her own life?
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781984313102
Category : Wizards
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Charli Goodwin doesn't expect her homecoming to go without a hitch--after all, she skipped town, leaving her fiancé and family without a clue as to where she was going or why. Now that she's ready to return home, she plans to lay low and sip some of her Nana's sweet tea while the town gossips come out to play. Unfortunately, on her first night back, Charli discovers the body of her crazy great-uncle, and suddenly finds herself at the center of a mystery that threatens the very foundations of Honeysuckle Hollow and the safety of every paranormal citizen in it--starting with Charli herself. With the clock ticking, will Charli's special magical talents be enough to save not only the town but also her own life?
Southern Spells
Author: Amy Boyles
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781719540575
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Even the best laid plans of egg-laying chickens can go awry...All Pepper Dunn wants is a quiet life in the witchy town of Magnolia Cove, Alabama. But when the Cotton and Cobwebs Festival arrives, her dream goes up in smoke. This year, grandmother Betty is determined to win the award for best magical creature against Melbalean Mayes, the contest matron. To win, Betty needs Pepper's help.But when Melbalean winds up dead and Betty is accused of the murder, Pepper is thrust into one role she never expected-she must complete a list of chores that keeps her town running. Pepper has her hands full-she must ensure the safety of her town, try to clear Betty's name, and make sure no one else winds up a victim of the Magnolia Cove murderer. Can she do it? Or will she become the next victim?
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781719540575
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Even the best laid plans of egg-laying chickens can go awry...All Pepper Dunn wants is a quiet life in the witchy town of Magnolia Cove, Alabama. But when the Cotton and Cobwebs Festival arrives, her dream goes up in smoke. This year, grandmother Betty is determined to win the award for best magical creature against Melbalean Mayes, the contest matron. To win, Betty needs Pepper's help.But when Melbalean winds up dead and Betty is accused of the murder, Pepper is thrust into one role she never expected-she must complete a list of chores that keeps her town running. Pepper has her hands full-she must ensure the safety of her town, try to clear Betty's name, and make sure no one else winds up a victim of the Magnolia Cove murderer. Can she do it? Or will she become the next victim?
Southern Beginnings
Author: Amy Boyles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Pepper Reign is only weeks away from giving birth to her first-born child when the biggest challenge of her career rears its head. She's been charged with finding a unicorn for a spoiled teenager. Problem is, Pepper's not sure that she wants to hand over a magical creature to the kid. When she reveals this to Betty, her grandmother, the old woman almost has a cow. Betty tells Pepper that has to find the unicorn, and if she doesn't, then something very bad will happen in Magnolia Cove. Pepper is tempted to blow off Betty's concerns, but when bad things begin to unfold, she realizes that her grandmother might be right after all. Now Pepper has to find a unicorn and stop an evil presence from taking over her town before the baby is born. Can she do it? Or will Pepper and Magnolia Cove wind up in worse shape than when they began?
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Pepper Reign is only weeks away from giving birth to her first-born child when the biggest challenge of her career rears its head. She's been charged with finding a unicorn for a spoiled teenager. Problem is, Pepper's not sure that she wants to hand over a magical creature to the kid. When she reveals this to Betty, her grandmother, the old woman almost has a cow. Betty tells Pepper that has to find the unicorn, and if she doesn't, then something very bad will happen in Magnolia Cove. Pepper is tempted to blow off Betty's concerns, but when bad things begin to unfold, she realizes that her grandmother might be right after all. Now Pepper has to find a unicorn and stop an evil presence from taking over her town before the baby is born. Can she do it? Or will Pepper and Magnolia Cove wind up in worse shape than when they began?