Author: Janeal Falor
Publisher: Chardonian Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Izlana, goddess of creation, is on her first journey to the human world. She thinks the god of war wants to accompany her as a friend—but he betrays her, delivering her to human slavers. These cruel men neutralize her powers with a magical collar, leaving her vulnerable and weak in a strange new world. After being bought by a man who is aware of her powers—and who appears to have sinister plans for her—Izlana seeks help from Marric, a servant who treats her with kindness no others show her in this harsh new world. She’s terrified to realize she’s falling for him, since it’s forbidden for a goddess to love a human. With her feelings just as trapped as she is, she’ll have to learn to live without him, regain her powers, and return home… alone. Except her bond with Marric isn't the only obstacle in her way. In order to return home, Izlana will have to fight her way through the growing war between the humans and the gods. If she fails, more than just her heart is at stake…both the heavens and the earth will crumble.
Goddess Ascending
Author: Janeal Falor
Publisher: Chardonian Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Izlana, goddess of creation, is on her first journey to the human world. She thinks the god of war wants to accompany her as a friend—but he betrays her, delivering her to human slavers. These cruel men neutralize her powers with a magical collar, leaving her vulnerable and weak in a strange new world. After being bought by a man who is aware of her powers—and who appears to have sinister plans for her—Izlana seeks help from Marric, a servant who treats her with kindness no others show her in this harsh new world. She’s terrified to realize she’s falling for him, since it’s forbidden for a goddess to love a human. With her feelings just as trapped as she is, she’ll have to learn to live without him, regain her powers, and return home… alone. Except her bond with Marric isn't the only obstacle in her way. In order to return home, Izlana will have to fight her way through the growing war between the humans and the gods. If she fails, more than just her heart is at stake…both the heavens and the earth will crumble.
Publisher: Chardonian Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Izlana, goddess of creation, is on her first journey to the human world. She thinks the god of war wants to accompany her as a friend—but he betrays her, delivering her to human slavers. These cruel men neutralize her powers with a magical collar, leaving her vulnerable and weak in a strange new world. After being bought by a man who is aware of her powers—and who appears to have sinister plans for her—Izlana seeks help from Marric, a servant who treats her with kindness no others show her in this harsh new world. She’s terrified to realize she’s falling for him, since it’s forbidden for a goddess to love a human. With her feelings just as trapped as she is, she’ll have to learn to live without him, regain her powers, and return home… alone. Except her bond with Marric isn't the only obstacle in her way. In order to return home, Izlana will have to fight her way through the growing war between the humans and the gods. If she fails, more than just her heart is at stake…both the heavens and the earth will crumble.
Goddess Ascending
Author: Heather Hildenbrand
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781795053655
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Promised to the Light. Hunted by the Dark. Two things happen the night Elidi Brant is attacked. She learns she's not human, and she is saved by the impressive and, also definitely not human, Kol Valco. Kol tells her something big and world-breaking is after her, but he promises to protect her until she "ascends." Elidi doesn't know what ascending means or how to access the abilities Kol insists she has, but she trusts him. The claws and fur he can sprout at will make her feel safe. However, safety is a fragile thing and the force after her is more powerful than Elidi can imagine. With the clock on Elidi's mortality ticking, she must find a way to access her gifts or kill them both in the process.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781795053655
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Promised to the Light. Hunted by the Dark. Two things happen the night Elidi Brant is attacked. She learns she's not human, and she is saved by the impressive and, also definitely not human, Kol Valco. Kol tells her something big and world-breaking is after her, but he promises to protect her until she "ascends." Elidi doesn't know what ascending means or how to access the abilities Kol insists she has, but she trusts him. The claws and fur he can sprout at will make her feel safe. However, safety is a fragile thing and the force after her is more powerful than Elidi can imagine. With the clock on Elidi's mortality ticking, she must find a way to access her gifts or kill them both in the process.
The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture
Author: Mary J. Magoulick
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496837096
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in contrast to the feminist, empowering levels many fans and critics observe. Building on critiques of other skeptical scholars, this feminist, folkloristic approach deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient past reflects a contemporary worldview and rhetoric. Structures of contemporary goddess myths often fit typical extremes as either vilified, destructive, dark, and chaotic (typical in film or television); or romanticized, positive, even utopian (typical in women’s speculative fiction). This goddess spectrum persistently essentializes gender, stereotyping women as emotional, intuitive, sexual, motherly beings (good or bad), precluded from complex potential and fuller natures. Within apparent good-over-evil, pop-culture narrative frames, these goddesses all suffer significantly. However, a few recent intersectional writers, like N. K. Jemisin, break through these dark reflections of contemporary power dynamics to offer complex characters who evince “hopepunk.” They resist typical simplified, reductionist absolutes to offer messages that resonate with potential for today’s world. Mythic narratives featuring goddesses often do, but need not, serve merely as ideological mirrors of our culture’s still problematically reductionist approach to women and all humanity.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496837096
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in contrast to the feminist, empowering levels many fans and critics observe. Building on critiques of other skeptical scholars, this feminist, folkloristic approach deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient past reflects a contemporary worldview and rhetoric. Structures of contemporary goddess myths often fit typical extremes as either vilified, destructive, dark, and chaotic (typical in film or television); or romanticized, positive, even utopian (typical in women’s speculative fiction). This goddess spectrum persistently essentializes gender, stereotyping women as emotional, intuitive, sexual, motherly beings (good or bad), precluded from complex potential and fuller natures. Within apparent good-over-evil, pop-culture narrative frames, these goddesses all suffer significantly. However, a few recent intersectional writers, like N. K. Jemisin, break through these dark reflections of contemporary power dynamics to offer complex characters who evince “hopepunk.” They resist typical simplified, reductionist absolutes to offer messages that resonate with potential for today’s world. Mythic narratives featuring goddesses often do, but need not, serve merely as ideological mirrors of our culture’s still problematically reductionist approach to women and all humanity.
Awakening Starseeds
Author: Radhaa Nilia
Publisher: Radhaa Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Awakening Starseeds: Shattering Illusions, Volume 1 We are in a time of great change. One where we must make a choice that will shape our collective destiny. We must choose to either wake up or continue to be a sleepwalker in the slumber of mundane life. Awakening Starseeds is filled with mystical experiences, abrupt awakenings, and real-life stories shared by nineteen Starseeds worldwide. The authors offer their inner strength, vulnerability, and visions of an old and new paradigm. These stories are a bridge to other Starseeds looking for inspiration and guidance during these turbulent times. Raw and revealing experiences, real-life stories shared by authors who openly recognize they are in the process of shedding the old paradigm. Each author offers their inner strength, courage, vulnerability. Collectively, these authors creating a light grid, offering healing by speaking truths that would not have been readily embraced just a few years ago. One of the most unusual books on the market today because it is a collaborative effort from our international community. Authors come from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Canada, and, of course, the United States of America. Awakening Starseeds encompasses diversity, brilliance, precious knowledge, wisdom, and gifts of healing. The Starseed Authors for this first edition collaboration include: Radhaa Nilia, Michael Pestano, Maya The Shaman, Michelle Kearney Lopez, Lyn Pacificar, Stasia Bliss, Joshua Hathaway, Captain Cosmic, Robert Rubin, Susan Hassen, Raziel Arcega, Cristal Ortiz, Arrameia Auraire Araiss, Byron Bradley Carrier, Teza Zialcita, Lillie Love, Karuna Chinchkhede, Lalitah Sunra, Abigail Diaz Juan
Publisher: Radhaa Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Awakening Starseeds: Shattering Illusions, Volume 1 We are in a time of great change. One where we must make a choice that will shape our collective destiny. We must choose to either wake up or continue to be a sleepwalker in the slumber of mundane life. Awakening Starseeds is filled with mystical experiences, abrupt awakenings, and real-life stories shared by nineteen Starseeds worldwide. The authors offer their inner strength, vulnerability, and visions of an old and new paradigm. These stories are a bridge to other Starseeds looking for inspiration and guidance during these turbulent times. Raw and revealing experiences, real-life stories shared by authors who openly recognize they are in the process of shedding the old paradigm. Each author offers their inner strength, courage, vulnerability. Collectively, these authors creating a light grid, offering healing by speaking truths that would not have been readily embraced just a few years ago. One of the most unusual books on the market today because it is a collaborative effort from our international community. Authors come from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Canada, and, of course, the United States of America. Awakening Starseeds encompasses diversity, brilliance, precious knowledge, wisdom, and gifts of healing. The Starseed Authors for this first edition collaboration include: Radhaa Nilia, Michael Pestano, Maya The Shaman, Michelle Kearney Lopez, Lyn Pacificar, Stasia Bliss, Joshua Hathaway, Captain Cosmic, Robert Rubin, Susan Hassen, Raziel Arcega, Cristal Ortiz, Arrameia Auraire Araiss, Byron Bradley Carrier, Teza Zialcita, Lillie Love, Karuna Chinchkhede, Lalitah Sunra, Abigail Diaz Juan
The Historical Romances of Louisa Mühlbach: Goethe and Schiller
Author: Luise Mühlbach
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Lebende Blumen
Author: Sophie (Mödinger) Alberti (Frau)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Death's Assassin
Author: Janeal Falor
Publisher: Chardonian Press
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Struggling to live in a body that has betrayed her, Ryn refuses to give up, even if that means working alongside her sworn enemy to take down an even bigger threat. Daros was once the most hated man in Ryn's life, but now he just may be her salvation… if she can convince him that her side is the right one. While the First Queen invades Ryn's thoughts and leaves havoc in her wake, there's little room for mistakes in the fight for Ryn’s life and country. But as the crown’s enemy grows ever closer to success and targets the people Ryn loves the most, the young queen must dig deep inside herself for the strength and courage needed to win this war… or risk leaving her country in the hands of a madwoman.
Publisher: Chardonian Press
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Struggling to live in a body that has betrayed her, Ryn refuses to give up, even if that means working alongside her sworn enemy to take down an even bigger threat. Daros was once the most hated man in Ryn's life, but now he just may be her salvation… if she can convince him that her side is the right one. While the First Queen invades Ryn's thoughts and leaves havoc in her wake, there's little room for mistakes in the fight for Ryn’s life and country. But as the crown’s enemy grows ever closer to success and targets the people Ryn loves the most, the young queen must dig deep inside herself for the strength and courage needed to win this war… or risk leaving her country in the hands of a madwoman.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476679525
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This literary companion surveys the young adult works of American author Marion Zimmer Bradley, primarily known for her work in the fantasy genre. An A to Z arrangement includes coverage of novels (The Catch Trap, Survey Ship, The Fall of Atlantis, The Firebrand, The Forest House and The Mists of Avalon), the graphic narrative Warrior Woman, the Lythande novella The Gratitude of Kings, and, from the Darkover series, The Shattered Chain, The Sword of Aldones and Traitor's Sun. Separate entries on dominant themes--rape, divination, religion, violence, womanhood, adaptation and dreams--comb stories and longer works for the author's insights about the motivation of institutions that oppress marginalized groups, especially women.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476679525
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This literary companion surveys the young adult works of American author Marion Zimmer Bradley, primarily known for her work in the fantasy genre. An A to Z arrangement includes coverage of novels (The Catch Trap, Survey Ship, The Fall of Atlantis, The Firebrand, The Forest House and The Mists of Avalon), the graphic narrative Warrior Woman, the Lythande novella The Gratitude of Kings, and, from the Darkover series, The Shattered Chain, The Sword of Aldones and Traitor's Sun. Separate entries on dominant themes--rape, divination, religion, violence, womanhood, adaptation and dreams--comb stories and longer works for the author's insights about the motivation of institutions that oppress marginalized groups, especially women.
One Last Look
Author: Susanna Moore
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307826597
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Calcutta in 1836: an uneasy mix of two worlds–the patient, implacably unchangeable India and the tableau vivant of English life created of imperialism’s desperation. This is where Lady Eleanor, her sister Harriet, and her brother, Henry–the newly appointed Governor-General of the colony–arrive after a harrowing sea journey “from Heaven, across the world, to Hell.” But none of them will find India hellish in anticipated ways, and some–including Harriet and, against her better judgment, Eleanor–will find an irresistible and endlessly confounding heaven. In Lady Eleanor–whose story is based on actual diaries–we have a keenly intelligent and observant narrator. Her descriptions of her profoundly unfamiliar world are vivid and sensual. The stultifying heat, the sensuous relief of the monsoon rains, the aromas and colors of the gardens and marketplaces, the mystifying grace and silence of the Indians themselves all come to rich life on the page. When she, Harriet, Henry, and ten thousand soldiers and servants make a three-year trek to the Punjab from Calcutta under Henry’s failing leadership, Eleanor’s impressions of the people and landscape are deepened, charged by her own revulsion and exaltation: “My life,” she says, “once a fastidious nibble, has turned into an endless disorderly feast.” Harriet, whose passivity conceals a dazed openness to the true India, and Henry, with his frightened adherence to the crumbling ideals of empire, become foils to Eleanor’s slow but inexorable seduction. Historically precise, gorgeously evocative, banked with the heat of unbidden desires, One Last Look is a mesmerizing tale of the complex lure of the exotic and the brazen failure of imperialism–both political and personal. It is a powerful confirmation of Susanna Moore’s remarkable gifts.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307826597
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Calcutta in 1836: an uneasy mix of two worlds–the patient, implacably unchangeable India and the tableau vivant of English life created of imperialism’s desperation. This is where Lady Eleanor, her sister Harriet, and her brother, Henry–the newly appointed Governor-General of the colony–arrive after a harrowing sea journey “from Heaven, across the world, to Hell.” But none of them will find India hellish in anticipated ways, and some–including Harriet and, against her better judgment, Eleanor–will find an irresistible and endlessly confounding heaven. In Lady Eleanor–whose story is based on actual diaries–we have a keenly intelligent and observant narrator. Her descriptions of her profoundly unfamiliar world are vivid and sensual. The stultifying heat, the sensuous relief of the monsoon rains, the aromas and colors of the gardens and marketplaces, the mystifying grace and silence of the Indians themselves all come to rich life on the page. When she, Harriet, Henry, and ten thousand soldiers and servants make a three-year trek to the Punjab from Calcutta under Henry’s failing leadership, Eleanor’s impressions of the people and landscape are deepened, charged by her own revulsion and exaltation: “My life,” she says, “once a fastidious nibble, has turned into an endless disorderly feast.” Harriet, whose passivity conceals a dazed openness to the true India, and Henry, with his frightened adherence to the crumbling ideals of empire, become foils to Eleanor’s slow but inexorable seduction. Historically precise, gorgeously evocative, banked with the heat of unbidden desires, One Last Look is a mesmerizing tale of the complex lure of the exotic and the brazen failure of imperialism–both political and personal. It is a powerful confirmation of Susanna Moore’s remarkable gifts.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description