Author : Emily LaForge
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Love stories
ISBN : 0743456130
Twenty years after the mysterious disappearance of her father, Catherine Carmichael returns to Ravenwood, the family manor built by her grandfather. Amid ghostly servants, she must confront an evil legacy and a handsome stranger who wants to help her unlock her family's secrets. Original.
Author : Silver Ravenwolf
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Grandmothers
ISBN : 9781567187229
The winding plot of this occult fiction turns sharply on a generations-old battle between two powerful families in the small Southern town of Whiskey Springs. There the inhabitants are being manipulated by a dark force that's driving its victims to the local funeral parlor.
Author : Garth Stein
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 2010-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061969516
“Deeply moving, superbly crafted, and highly unconventional.” —Washington Times Raven Stole the Moon is the stunning first novel from Garth Stein, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Art of Racing in the Rain. A profoundly poignant and unforgettable story of a grieving mother’s return to a remote Alaskan town to make peace with the loss of her young son, Raven Stole the Moon combines intense emotion with Native American mysticism and a timeless and terrifying mystery, and earned raves for a young writer and his uniquely captivating imagination. When Jenna Rosen abandons her comfortable Seattle life to visit Wrangell, Alaska, it’s a wrenching return to her past. The old home of her Native American grandmother, Wrangell is located near the Thunder Bay resort, where Jenna’s young son Bobby disappeared two years before. His body was never recovered, and Jenna is determined to lay to rest the aching mystery of his death. But whispers of ancient legends begin to suggest a frightening new possibility about Bobby’s fate, and Jenna must sift through the beliefs of her ancestors, the Tlingit -- who still tell of powerful, menacing forces at work in the Alaskan wilderness. Jenna is desperate for answers, and she appeals to a Tlingit shaman to help her sort fact from myth, and face the unthinkable possibilities head-on. Armed with nothing but a mother’s ferocious protective instincts, Jenna’s quest for the truth about her son -- and the strength of her beliefs -- is about to pull her into a terrifying and life-changing abyss....
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Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Birds
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Author : Lenore Hart
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 142999424X
When eight-year-old Virginia "Sissy" Clemm meets her handsome cousin, Eddy, she sees the perfect husband she's conjured up in childhood games. Thirteen years her elder, he's soft-spoken, brooding, and handsome. Eddy fails his way through West Point and the army yet each time he returns to Baltimore, their friendship grows. As Sissy trains for a musical career, her childhood crush turns to love. When she's thirteen, Eddy proposes. But as their happy life darkens, Sissy endures Poe's abrupt disappearances, self-destructive moods, and alcoholic binges. When she falls ill, his greatest fear– that he'll lose the woman he loves– drives him both madness, and to his greatest literary achievement. Part ghost story, part love story, this provocative novel explores the mysterious, shocking relationship between Edgar Allan Poe and young Sissy Clemm, his cousin, muse and great love. Lenore Hart, author of Becky, imagines the beating heart of the woman who inspired American literature's most demonized literary figure– and who ultimately destroyed him.
Author : Marjorie Kowalski Cole
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1602231567
Bellwether Prize-winner Cole pays homage to the strength and beauty of the people and landscape of her adopted home, Alaska.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) The final collection of stories by award-winning writer Marjorie Kowalski Cole, The City Beneath the Snow is a portrait of contemporary Alaskans, their interactions, and their foibles. These stories reveal the moral decisions that lurk at unexpected corners in daily life as the characters confront a world at once magical and ordinary, joy-filled and tragic. Together, they give the reader an intimate portrait of a people and place more often portrayed through wilderness specials and reality adventure shows. “Marjorie Kowalski Cole’s characters live, work, and struggle in interior Alaska, and she depicts life here with a keen eye and with compassion. We see the daughter of a Fairbanks junkyard owner struggling with her isolation. We meet a bartender at Circle Hot Springs who’s also a certified nurse’s assistant at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital . . . These are inner lives, revealed with care and with skill, the true material of good literature.”—Peggy Shumaker, Alaska State Writer Laureate “These are indeed short stories, but each has its own unquestionable beauty . . . Each story in The City Beneath the Snow begs re-reading, whether to absorb the poetic prose once more, or to attempt to resolve an ending that left a question mark. The characters are real, their situations elicit compassion, and Cole’s writing deserves to be savored.” —Foreword Reviews
Author : Malcolm MacLean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 1317554310
Philosophical Perspectives on Play builds on the disciplinary and paradigmatic bridges constructed between the study of philosophy and play in The Philosophy of Play (Routledge, 2013) to develop a richer understanding of the concept and nature of play and its relation to human life and value. Made up of contributions from leading international thinkers and inviting readers to explore the presumptions often attached to play and playfulness, the book considers ways that play in ‘virtual’ and ‘real’ worlds can inform understandings of each, critiquing established norms and encouraging scepticism about the practice and experience of play. Organised around four central themes -- play(ing) at the limits, aesthetics, metaphysics/ontology and ethics -- the book extends and challenges notions of play by drawing on issues emerging in sport, gaming, literature, space and art, with specific attention paid to disruption and danger. It is intended to provide scholars and practitioners working in the spheres of play, education, games, sport and related subjects with a deeper understanding of philosophical thought and to open dialogue across these disciplines.
Author : Neptune E. Kosi
Publisher : Transnational Press London
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1801351376
Sometimes there are moments that are so dreamy that they take you through the streets of the city in the arms of magical imagination. Some dreams get caught on the hook of the imagination and stay there for centuries. Some wait on the gloomiest and foggy street of the city… In London, there's a world most people could never even dream of. A city of ravens, fairies, angels, half raven half-human creatures, and the others... A Saturday morning that started on Portobello Road was also the beginning of a brand-new London for Mila. As she awakened, many unknowns were awakening above and below London. London was no longer the old London. People and Ravens too. London is always grey, but this was the most threatening grey she has ever seen!
Author : Dannika Dark
Publisher : Dannika Dark
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 2023-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The ultimate series companion for the USA Today bestselling Crossbreed series. The most comprehensive guide for the Breed world to date! Crossbreed fans will delight in a behind-the-scenes look at these unforgettable stories. Included is a detailed character breakdown, hidden spoilers, the author’s perspective in the making of both the stories and the covers, fun facts, favorite quotes, Easter eggs, and much more! BONUS: two brand-new short stories included. This insider’s guide is not just for Crossbred fans. Mageriverse addicts will devour the Breed profiles, which provide detailed facts about each Breed’s customs, physical traits, laws, history, and gifts—just to name a few! An expanded glossary is also included. This guide contains spoilers and a riveting short story about Christian Poe that’s sure to please! THE CROSSBREED SERIES Book 1: Keystone Book 2: Ravenheart Book 3: Deathtrap Book 4:Gaslight Book 5: Blackout Book 6: Nevermore Book 7: Moonstruck Book 8: Spellbound Book 9: Heartless Book 10: Afterlife Book 11: Quicksilver Book 12: Evildoer Book 13: Forevermore Keywords: Keywords: vampires, mages, paranormal, supernatural, shifters, wolves, romance, paranormal romance, secrets, mystery, magic, modern magic, alpha male, sexy, brotherhood, strong woman, ghosts, psychic, sensors, tracker, bounty hunter, villains, sleuth, series, demons, devils, swords, sorcery, daggers, spell, adventure, journey, action, hybrids, werewolves, werewolf, curse, enchantment, castle, mercenary, rogues, assassins, kidnap, transformed, steamy, slow love story, tattoo, hunters, dark, fantasy, raven, special powers, snarky, banter, chemistry, humor, sidekicks, series, urban fantasy, blind, lgbtqa, enemies to lovers, cinnamon roll hero, opposites attract, insiders guide, companion, found family, who hurt you, burn the world for you, spicy romance
Author : Mike Hockney
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 10,63 MB
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1445201402
King Solomon is one of the Bible's most famous figures, responsible for building the Holy Temple that housed the Ark of the Covenant. Yet Solomon died as an apostate. How could a man fabled for his wisdom reach the conclusion that God was false? The Armageddon Conspiracy reveals the answer to this greatest Biblical mystery. The Temple of Solomon was not the house of God at all but a special chamber designed to contain a unique weapon, for which Solomon had the most astounding purpose in mind. Solomon, a man obsessed with witchcraft and magic, believed he had found the key to the supreme mystery of life, but he died before he could complete his mission. The world's oldest secret society, of which Solomon was the Grand Master, still exists and now its members are about to perform the final cataclysmic ceremony Solomon had planned for so long.
