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Book Synopsis Desperate Magic by : Amanda-Jane Newton
Download or read book Desperate Magic written by Amanda-Jane Newton and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the loss of her best friend, strange things have started happening to Maddie. The stranger the things get, the more Maddie finds herself involved in a world she didn't know existed, quickly discovering that there are more to some people than what meets the eye and that somebody has been watching her every move. As fate throws her in an unseen direction, Maddie finds herself fighting for her life on more than one occasion. Desperate to find answers, Maddie dives into untouched waters, searching for the truth.
Book Synopsis Desperate Magic by : Valerie A. Kivelson
Download or read book Desperate Magic written by Valerie A. Kivelson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the courtrooms of seventeenth-century Russia, the great majority of those accused of witchcraft were male, in sharp contrast to the profile of accused witches across Catholic and Protestant Europe in the same period. While European courts targeted and executed overwhelmingly female suspects, often on charges of compacting with the devil, the tsars' courts vigorously pursued men and some women accused of practicing more down-to-earth magic, using poetic spells and home-grown potions. Instead of Satanism or heresy, the primary concern in witchcraft testimony in Russia involved efforts to use magic to subvert, mitigate, or avenge the harsh conditions of patriarchy, serfdom, and social hierarchy.Broadly comparative and richly illustrated with color plates, Desperate Magic places the trials of witches in the context of early modern Russian law, religion, and society. Piecing together evidence from trial records to illuminate some of the central puzzles of Muscovite history, Kivelson explores the interplay among the testimony of accusers, the leading questions of the interrogators, and the confessions of the accused. Assembled, they create a picture of a shared moral vision of the world that crossed social divides. Because of the routine use of torture in extracting and shaping confessions, Kivelson addresses methodological and ideological questions about the Muscovite courts' equation of pain and truth, questions with continuing resonance in the world today. Within a moral economy that paired unquestioned hierarchical inequities with expectations of reciprocity, magic and suspicions of magic emerged where those expectations were most egregiously violated.Witchcraft in Russia surfaces as one of the ways that oppression was contested by ordinary people scrambling to survive in a fiercely inequitable world. Masters and slaves, husbands and wives, and officers and soldiers alike believed there should be limits to exploitation and saw magic deployed at the junctures where hierarchical order veered into violent excess.
Download or read book A Wicked Magic written by Sasha Laurens and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets The Craft when modern witches must save teens stolen by an ancient demon in this YA fantasy-thriller debut. Dan and Liss are witches. The Black Book granted them that power. Harnessing that power feels good, especially when everything in their lives makes them feel powerless. During a spell gone wrong, Liss's boyfriend is snatched away by an evil entity and presumed dead. Dan and Liss's friendship dies that night, too. How can they practice magic after the darkness that they conjured? Months later, Liss discovers that her boyfriend is alive, trapped underground in the grips of an ancient force. She must save him, and she needs Dan and the power of The Black Book to do so. Dan is quickly sucked back into Liss's orbit and pushes away her best friend, Alexa. But Alexa has some big secrets she's hiding and her own unique magical disaster to deal with. When another teenager disappears, the girls know it's no coincidence. What greedy magic have they awakened? And what does it want with these teens it has stolen? Set in the atmospheric wilds of California's northern coast, Sasha Laurens's thrilling debut novel is about the complications of friendship, how to take back power, and how to embrace the darkness that lives within us all.
Download or read book Tragic Magic written by Wesley Brown and published by . This book was released on 2025-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Desperate Girls written by Laura Griffin and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin’s Desperate Girls is a tightly wound, fast-paced romantic thriller that follows a desperate woman on the run as she hides from a killer’s symbolic revenge spree. Defense attorney Brynn Holloran is right at home among cops, criminals, and tough-as-nails prosecutors. With her sharp wit and pointed words, she has a tendency to intimidate, and she likes it that way. She’s a force to be reckoned with in the courtroom, but in her personal life, she’s a mess. When a vicious murderer she once helped prosecute resurfaces and starts a killing spree to wipe out those who put him behind bars, one thing becomes clear: Brynn needs to run for her life. When the police come up empty-handed, Brynn turns to a private security firm for protection. But when she defies advice and gets involved in the investigation, even the former Secret Service agent assigned to protect her may not be able to keep her safe. With every new clue she discovers, Brynn is pulled back into the vortex of a disturbing case from her past. As the clock ticks down on a manhunt, Brynn’s desperate search for the truth unearths long-buried secrets and reignites a killer’s fury.
Download or read book Magic Lessons written by Alice Hoffman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1600s, Maria was abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. Under the care of Hannah Owens, who recognizes that Maria has a gift, she learns about the 'Unnamed Arts.' When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. She invokes a curse that will haunt her family for generations. And she learns the lesson that she will carry with her for the rest of her life: Love is the only thing that matters.
Download or read book Hatching Magic written by Ann Downer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poor Theodora Oglethorpe! Her biologist father has gone off to explore the jungles of Laos without her, her two best friends are away on vacation, and a long, hot, lonely Boston summer is all she has to look forward to. Poor Gideon! Wycca, his pet wyvern, has disappeared through a magic hole in time in search of a place to lay her egg. Kobold, Gideon's rival wizard, wants nothing more than to capture Wycca and turn her against her master. In a desperate attempt to rescue Wycca from Kobold's evil clutches, Gideon follows her through the magic hole...and finds himself transported from his castle in thirteenth-century England to the terrifyingly modern world of Boston, Massachusetts, in the year 2002. Little does Gideon know that what he needs most in order to find his wyvern is stuck to the bottom of Theodora's shoe. And little does Theodora know that Gideon is the reason why her summer vacation has begun to seem a whole lot more interesting...
Download or read book Magic written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 by : Valerie A. Kivelson
Download or read book Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 written by Valerie A. Kivelson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For any serious scholar of Russian and Ukrainian witchcraft and magic, this volume is a 'must read.'... Scholars of folklore and popular culture also will find much of value.― Folklorica This sourcebook provides the first systematic overview of witchcraft laws and trials in Russia and Ukraine from medieval times to the late nineteenth century. Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 weaves scholarly commentary with never-before-published primary source materials translated from Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. These sources include the earliest references to witchcraft and sorcery, secular and religious laws regarding witchcraft and possession, full trial transcripts, and a wealth of magical spells. The documents present a rich panorama of daily life and reveal the extraordinary power of magical words. Editors Valerie A. Kivelson and Christine D. Worobec present new analyses of the workings and evolution of legal systems, the interplay and tensions between church and state, and the prosaic concerns of the women and men involved in witchcraft proceedings. The extended documentary commentaries also explore the shifting boundaries and fraught political relations between Russia and Ukraine.
Download or read book Desperate Pawns written by B.R. Stateham and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2024-02-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war between Dragon and Man continues unabated, as it has for over a thousand years. Roland and Ursala have decided to stop fleeing from those who wish to destroy them. Both Dragonkind and Humankind have renounced Roland as Malus Apostate. Ursala, the promised Fifth Sister among Dragonkind, is prophesied to unite all of her kind and lead them into the ultimate war against humanity. She, too, must die. But is the prophecy immutable, and truly from the gods... or can it change in ways no mortal could imagine? An epic fantasy adventure, DESPERATE PAWNS is the third book in B.R. Stateham's Roland Of The High Crags series.
Book Synopsis The Magic Skin by : Honoré de Balzac
Download or read book The Magic Skin written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wounded Magic written by Megan Crewe and published by Another World Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic can heal the fiercest wounds... or cut them even deeper. Rocío Lopez and Finn Lockwood survived the deadly trials of the Mages' Exam in a bid to keep their magic. But the world outside presents vicious threats of its own. Forced into the Confed's military special ops unit, Rocío must walk a fine line between complicity and resistance, or everyone she loves could pay the price. With the magic's pleas growing increasingly urgent, can she make her stand in time? Stripped of his talent, Finn is determined to fight the corrupt magical government—and to find his way back to the girl he's fallen for. When his new mission clashes with his family's legacy, how many people will he have to betray? Revolution is brewing. And as enemies rise at home and abroad, both Rocío and Finn will be caught in the crossfire. Picking up where the acclaimed Ruthless Magic left off, Wounded Magic delves deeper into the alternate modern-day world of the Conspiracy of Magic series. Prepare for a thrilling, heart-wrenching ride.
Book Synopsis The magic skin, The quest of the absolute, and other stories by : Honoré de Balzac
Download or read book The magic skin, The quest of the absolute, and other stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dukker's Revenge by : JennaKay Francis
Download or read book Dukker's Revenge written by JennaKay Francis and published by Writers Exchange E-Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the land of Glede during a time when the Nydiri intend to destroy not only Treyas but the whole of the elven empire. Elek is missing and Dukker has returned. The Nydiri will not stop until not only Treyas is destroyed but the whole of the elven empire. When the palace is infiltrated, chaos ensues. Floy, the son of a visiting dignitary, becomes an unwitting pawn in Dukker's plans. Through him, Dukker captures three of the royal youth. Treyas and his companions set out to rescue the young people, but their TravelSpell is severely compromised, sending them in different directions. They will all need to rely on new friends, and a powerful, mysterious dagger, to set things right and defeat the Nydiri.
Download or read book Index written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Programme by : Boston Symphony Orchestra
Download or read book Programme written by Boston Symphony Orchestra and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis God, Tsar, and People by : Daniel B. Rowland
Download or read book God, Tsar, and People written by Daniel B. Rowland and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God, Tsar, and People brings together in one volume essays written over a period of fifty years, using a wide variety of evidence—texts, icons, architecture, and ritual—to reveal how early modern Russians (1450–1700) imagined their rapidly changing political world. This volume presents a more nuanced picture of Russian political thought during the two centuries before Peter the Great came to power than is typically available. The state was expanding at a dizzying rate, and atop Russia's traditional political structure sat a ruler who supposedly reflected God's will. The problem facing Russians was that actual rulers seldom—or never—exhibited the required perfection. Daniel Rowland argues that this contradictory set of ideas was far less autocratic in both theory and practice than modern stereotypes would have us believe. In comparing and contrasting Russian history with that of Western European states, Rowland is also questioning the notion that Russia has always been, and always viewed itself as, an authoritarian country. God, Tsar, and People explores how the Russian state in this period kept its vast lands and diverse subjects united in a common view of a Christian polity, defending its long frontier against powerful enemies from the East and from the West.
