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Book Synopsis Royal Enchantment by : Sharon Ashwood
Download or read book Royal Enchantment written by Sharon Ashwood and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She married the king. She wanted the man. Guinevere's marriage to Arthur was a political partnership, never a romance. Merlin knows that the king's court, newly restored at a medieval theme park, will only be complete if Arthur has his lady. Little did anyone suspect that once Guinevere gets a taste of twenty-first-century freedoms that this ancient queen would lose interest in belonging to any man—even a royal one. It takes a dragon, and some passionate nights spent in each other's arms, to lure her back to her husband's side. Arthur is willing to accept Gwen's help in protecting the new Camelot from a fae menace, but the bigger challenge will be wooing back Guinevere for a second chance at love…
Book Synopsis Culture and Enchantment by : Mark A. Schneider
Download or read book Culture and Enchantment written by Mark A. Schneider and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-12-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Weber viewed modern life as disenchanted, an arena from which scientific inquiry had banished magic. In contrast, Mark Schneider argues intriguingly that enchantment—the sense that we are confronted by inexplicable phenomena—persists in the world today, although it has shifted from the natural to the cultural arena. Culture and Enchantment shows that students of culture today operate in social and intellectual circumstances similar to those of seventeenth-century natural philosophers. Just as Newton was drawn to alchemy, scholars today are fascinated by ghostly and mercurial agents thought to account for the meanings of cultural entities. For interpretive disciplines, Schneider suggests, meaning often behaves behaves as mysteriously as the apparitions pursued by centuries ago by natural philosophers. He demonstrates this using two case studies from anthropology: Clifford Geertz's description of Balinese cockfights and Yoruba statuary, and Claude Levi-Strauss's analyses of myths. These provide a basis for actively engaging disputes over the meaning and interpretation of culture. Culture and Enchantment will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience in anthropology, sociology, history, history and sociology of science, culture studies, and literary theory. Schneider's provocative arguments will make this book a fulcrum in the continuing debate over the nature and prospects of cultural inquiry.
Book Synopsis A Royal's Pursuit by : Makayla Roberts
Download or read book A Royal's Pursuit written by Makayla Roberts and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family comes first. Desire second. At least, that's how it's supposed to be... Lucian has better things to do than hunt down a creature who may or may not exist—a siren whose singing voice can heal anything. But with his brother's life depending on his success, he sets out, only to be distracted by a woman whose beauty is enough to stir the desire he'd long ago thought was gone. Unfortunately, courting her is as dangerous as the enemy hunting them down, for Siovon would rip his heart out before allowing him to find her sister. Siovon doesn't trust Lucian, no matter how much his every touch ignites her passion. After being held captive for the last decade, she will do anything it takes to find and protect her sister—including lying to strike a deal with the handsome vampire. If giving up her life means Calysta would be safe, then so be it. However, the more time she spends with Lucian, the harder it becomes to ignore the powerful truemate call binding them together. The line between true love and duty to family becomes blurred in this battle of the hearts, but Siovon and Lucian will learn the hard way that some sacrifice might be worth it in the end. That is, if it doesn't tear them apart first.
Download or read book Enchantments written by Kathryn Harrison and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK “Part love story, part history, this novel is a tour de force [told] in language that soars and sears.”—More St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin’s body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River, his eighteen-year-old daughter, Masha, is sent to live at the imperial palace with Tsar Nikolay and his family. Desperately hoping that Masha has inherited Rasputin’s healing powers, Tsarina Alexandra asks her to tend to her son, the headstrong prince Alyosha, who suffers from hemophilia. Soon after Masha arrives at the palace, the tsar is forced to abdicate, and the Bolsheviks place the royal family under house arrest. As Russia descends into civil war, Masha and Alyosha find solace in each other’s company. To escape the confinement of the palace, and to distract the prince from the pain she cannot heal, Masha tells him stories—some embellished and others entirely imagined—about Nikolay and Alexandra’s courtship, Rasputin’s exploits, and their wild and wonderful country, now on the brink of an irrevocable transformation. In the worlds of their imagination, the weak become strong, legend becomes fact, and a future that will never come to pass feels close at hand. Praise for Enchantments “A sumptuous, atmospheric account of the last days of the Romanovs from the perspective of Rasputin’s daughter, [told] with the sensuous, transporting prose that is Kathryn Harrison’s trademark.”—Jennifer Egan “[A] splendid and surprising book . . . Harrison has given us something enduring.”—The New York Times Book Review “[Harrison delivers] this oft-told moment with shocking freshness. . . . Masha re-invents our ideas of Rasputin, and the world of Nicholas and Alexandra is imbued with a glow whose fierceness is governed by the imminence of its loss.”—Los Angeles Times “A mesmerizing novel.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Bewitching . . . Harrison sets historic facts like jewels in this intricately fashioned work of exalted empathy and imagination, a literary Fabergé egg. . . . [A] dazzling return to historical fiction.”—Booklist (starred review) Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.
Book Synopsis Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment by : Ronald G. Asch
Download or read book Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment written by Ronald G. Asch and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France and England are often seen as monarchies standing at opposite ends of the spectrum of seventeenth-century European political culture. On the one hand the Bourbon monarchy took the high road to absolutism, while on the other the Stuarts never quite recovered from the diminution of their royal authority following the regicide of Charles I in 1649. However, both monarchies shared a common medieval heritage of sacral kingship, and their histories remained deeply entangled throughout the century. This study focuses on the interaction between ideas of monarchy and images of power in the two countries between the execution of Mary Queen of Scots and the Glorious Revolution. It demonstrates that even in periods when politics were seemingly secularized, as in France at the end of the Wars of Religion, and in latter seventeenth- century England, the appeal to religious images and values still lent legitimacy to royal authority by emphasizing the sacral aura or providential role which church and religion conferred on monarchs.
Book Synopsis Enchanted Islands by : Mary D. Sheriff
Download or read book Enchanted Islands written by Mary D. Sheriff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Enchanted Islands, renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and other objects. Some of the islands were mythical and found in the most popular literary texts of the day—islands featured prominently, for instance, in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso,Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, and Fénelon’s, Telemachus. Other islands—real ones, such as Tahiti and St. Domingue—the French learned about from the writings of travelers and colonists. All of them were imagined to be the home of enchantresses who used magic to conquer heroes by promising sensual and sexual pleasure. As Sheriff shows, the theme of the enchanted island was put to many uses. Kings deployed enchanted-island mythology to strengthen monarchical authority, as Louis XIV did in his famous Versailles festival Les Plaisirs de l’île enchantée. Writers such as Fénelon used it to tell morality tales that taught virtue, duty, and the need for male strength to triumph over female weakness and seduction. Yet at the same time, artists like Boucher painted enchanted islands to portray art’s purpose as the giving of pleasure. In all these ways and more, Sheriff demonstrates for the first time the centrality of enchanted islands to ancient regime culture in a book that will enchant all readers interested in the art, literature, and history of the time.
Download or read book Enchantment's Trap written by Sela Croft and published by Camden Lee Press, LLC. This book was released on with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vampire Prince risks it all in the war with the Fae. Callie discovers untold powers, connects with her past, and transforms in a way she never expected. The rescue of her sister teeters in the balance. A centuries-old sorceress, vampire magic, and a horrifying blood exchange thrust her into a new state and unexpected consequences. Logan taps into his supernatural abilities to save Callie and her sister. Yet he meets with forces more powerful than anticipated. A life-changing event releases his strength as never before. The prince must save the woman he loves, and the very world he lives in.
Download or read book Divided Loyalties written by Lia Davis and published by Davis Raynes Publishing Group, LLC. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trained to hunt rogues and protect the human race from the threat of shifters, Christa Baker is beginning to rethink her career choice. Especially when her niece and nephew—who she’s raised on her own—end up in the crossfire. Now she’s looking for a way out and disappear off Shield’s radar for good. She never thought her out would be a gorgeous wolf who kidnaps her after raiding Shield HQ. Hayden Raines has always followed the rules. As the Ashwood Fall wolf Marshal, he has to set the example for those working under him. When he sets his sights on the beautiful human hunter things go downhill, fast. Fate has a funny way of turning things inside out—because the woman he kidnaps, the enemy he might need to protect his family from, just happens to be his mate.
Download or read book Bound to Them written by Lia Davis and published by Davis Raynes Publishing Group, LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’ve been on the run and underground for too long. I’m Brooke Walker, witch/wolf hybrid and tracker for Sunshine Lives. I've been off of Harrison's radar since I mated with the twins: Reid and Raven. The bond between us gives me a false sense of protection. However, I’m still looking over my shoulder. Because one day my past will catch up to me. When I learn my father has control of the council and Harrison is the one being hunted, a new fear rises within me. The evil ex-councilman is desperately looking for the relics to complete a spell that could save all paras or curse them. I contact my Source to confirm the information that could send me on the run, again. He wants to meet in person. He’s always been an informant. No name. No face. When we finally meet, he reveals secrets I’m not ready for. Including the fact that he’s my third mate. Bound to Them is the fourth installment of the action-packed paranormal, reverse harem series, Witches of Rose Lake by USA Today Bestselling Author Lia Davis. Reading Order Marked for Them Fighting for Them Hunted by Them Bound to Them Sacrifice for Them
Download or read book Moon Mated written by Lia Davis and published by Davis Raynes Publishing Group, LLC. This book was released on 2020-07-11 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana Kelly is the baby of three witches and, like her sisters, cursed. She must find her one true mate before midnight on her thirty-third birthday or risk becoming undesirable to everyone outside of her family. With her sisters happily mated and curse-free, Diana holds on to hope for a miracle. However, the clock is ticking, and she’s running out of time, and options. Terrence Miles is a lone wolf, loyal only to his Alpha. When he meets the youngest Kelly sister, he’s mesmerized by her beauty and soft curves. His wolf pushes him to claim her, but the man is hesitant. He’s never imagined himself mated. Could their mating break her curse and satisfy something in him he didn’t know was missing?
Download or read book Lucifer's War written by Lia Davis and published by Davis Raynes Publishing Group, LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lilith Lucifer turned me into what I am. The mother of the Vampires. He gave me that gift. Our son is the High King of all supernatural creatures on Earth—the Vampires, the Lycans, and now the Witches. He gave us that gift. Now he’s called me back to Hell. This time, he needs me. I’ve spent hundreds of years fighting my attraction to the demon that saved me and turned me into the most powerful woman in existence. Lucifer longed for the day I would stand at his side. That day has come. It’s not all sunshine and hellfire. Together we face a road paved with demon uprisings and betrayal. When Hell’s deadliest souls are released from their sealed prison by Lucifer’s twin brother, we fear for the safety of our family and all of humanity. Being a vampire is difficult enough, but now I must be the devil's assassin, eliminating the evil that threatens to unleash Hell on Earth. Lucifer Lilith has consumed my mind since the day I found her—beautiful and dying. My visions predicted I’d need her, and the time nears. To make her happy, I’d let her go, but now I need her at my side. Hell needs her. She is the key to saving my life, my throne, and possibly my heart. Funny. I’d never known I had a heart before Lilith.
Book Synopsis Shifters of Ashwood Falls Volume One by : Lia Davis
Download or read book Shifters of Ashwood Falls Volume One written by Lia Davis and published by Davis Raynes Publishing Group, LLC. This book was released on 2023-04-09 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winter Eve, Book 1 Danica Welsh was born to be the leopard pack healer. An accident involving a drug-induced youth left her badly burned and scared—emotionally and physically. All hope of mating and family become a distant dream. When she finally starts to accept the long, lonely existence ahead of her, a stranger crashes into her life, and her heart. A Tiger’s Claim, Book 2 As the Alpha’s only daughter Shayna Andrews has always been treated like a rare gem, protected like royalty, and she’s suffocating. Her longing to be independent has driven her to sneak out one evening after dinner. After relishing in being able to run free without an escort, she finds herself face-to-face with the enemy, miles from home, and nearly loses her life until a lone wolf comes to her aid. But when he discovers she wears the enemy’s brand, things will go from bad to worse. A Mating Dance, Book 3 Senior enforcer, Cameron Nickels has found her perfect mate. Blaine Andrews, leopard Pack Marshal, is strong, dominant, loyal, and passionate. He knows all her strengths and weaknesses—not to mention her pleasure points. Cam’s known Blaine most her life, but she’s always felt like something was missing and her jaguar refuses to fully accept him. Yet, she can’t walk away from him. When architect and sexy mountain lion shifter, Graham Griffin, comes to town to design the new den nursery and school, Cameron finds herself in a mating dance that throws her and her jaguar into flight mode while Blaine must decide if he cannot only share his mate but welcome another.
Download or read book Devil's Consort written by Lia Davis and published by Davis Raynes Publishing Group, LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The road to Hell is paved with deadly desires. Lucifer Morningstar's thoughts have always been consumed with visions of a dark-haired beauty. She is the key to stopping the darkness that is coming. She’s the key to his heart, if he still has one. He saved her from death then set her free. Still, he didn’t gain her trust. She is the only woman he has ever loved. And now war is brewing. Hell cannot survive without her. And neither can Lucifer. She’s the mother of all vampires. Lilith used to be human before Lucifer changed. He made her to be the most powerful woman in existence. But power comes with many costs. For hundreds of years she fought her attraction to the King of Hell. Even though he saved her. Even though he gave her everything, including a son. Unfortunately, Lucifer also took away Lilith’s humanity. He turned her into a demon. Despite her best efforts to resist him, Lucifer convinces Lilith to return to Hell. He needs her, after all. And perhaps it is time to accept her fate. Can she truly be happy being the devil's consort?
Download or read book I'm With Cupid written by Lia Davis and published by Davis Raynes Publishing Group, LLC. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ava Harper’s life has taken more twists and turns over the last few months than a mountain highway. It started when she arrived back home in Shipton Harbor, Maine. She wears many hats: Part-time bookstore clerk, part-time author, necromancer in training, full-time caretaker of a ghoul, soon to be girlfriend to the town sheriff. She’s still in denial of the latter. Now she has to add neighbor to Lucifer himself to that list. Fine. Whatever. She can make her peace with living next door to the devil. But then, when she’s finally out on a first date with the hotter-than-sin local sheriff, who shows up to crash the date? Luci himself. And he has a date of his own. To add to all the crazy in her life, she answers her door to find an animated skeleton standing on her doorstep, hoping she can help him find his murderer. What else can go sideways this Valentine’s Day in Shipton Harbor?
Download or read book A Tiger for Two written by Lia Davis and published by Davis Raynes Publishing Group, LLC. This book was released on with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Shield Special Ops Agent, Jonathan Coleman spent his career tracking down shifters until the fateful day he suffered severe burns from an explosion at the rogue Onyx Pack den. He wakes from his coma to discover he’s half tiger and unable to resist a certain male wolf and female Healer. Wolf Sentry, Tanner Raines is more like his father than he will admit. He holds in his anger for what the male did to his mother, anger that keeps his wolf on edge. He focuses on killing rogues without becoming one himself. That means never claiming his mates, keeping them at a distance. Wolf Healer, Sasha Brooks has known Tanner is her mate since childhood, and she’s growing tired of waiting for him to claim her. When Jonathan comes into the Ashwood Falls medical center, her wolf goes wild. Two mates! While her wolf is all for claiming both males, her human heart is confused. When Tanner’s mom—the wolf Pack Alpha—is kidnapped, it takes all his focus and control to not kill everyone in sight to get to her. The two people he’s avoided and pushed away may be the only ones who can help him hold it together. And they need to work together. Because if they fail, his mom’s life isn’t the only one on the line. Evil is brewing and threatens to destroy everyone involved, including his mates and the Pack.
Book Synopsis Shifters of Ashwood Falls Volume Two by : Lia Davis
Download or read book Shifters of Ashwood Falls Volume Two written by Lia Davis and published by Davis Raynes Publishing Group, LLC. This book was released on 2023-04-09 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrendering to the Alpha Ashwood Falls book 4 Ashwood Falls’ leopard Alpha, Keegan Andrews holds onto the pain of his deceased mate as his own personal hell—a reminder that not all things are what they seem. The Pack Scribe, Addyson Lewis is no exception. She’s intrigued him like no other since the day she stumbled into Ashwood territory about twenty-five years ago. When he discovers that just being near her calms the storm inside him, he can’t stay away even if it means exposing her to the evil she tried to escape. A Rebel’s Heart Ashwood Falls book 5 Widow and mother of five full-grown males, Sarah Matthews lives the best she can—one day at a time. Now that her babies are having babies, she relishes in spoiling her grandkids. But her inner mountain lion is restless and Sarah can’t shake the feeling something is lurking in the woods surrounding her home. The unease becomes a reality when a man she thought died with her mate five years ago comes back into her life with trouble on his heels. Divided Loyalties Ashwood Falls book 6 Hayden Raines has always followed the rules. As the Ashwood Fall wolf Marshal, he has to set the example for those working under him. When he sets his sights on the beautiful human hunter things go downhill, fast. Fate has a funny way of turning things inside out—because the woman he kidnaps, the enemy he might need to protect his family from, just happens to be his mate.
Download or read book Artemis's Hunt written by Lia Daivs and published by Davis Raynes Publishing Group, LLC. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artemis, goddess of the hunt, has lived with heartache for the last fifteen hundred years, believing her only love is dead. That’s what her father—Zeus, king of the gods—told her. After recent events brought the truth to light, Artemis must gather the courage to face her lost love again. Evangelos, former god of messengers, was content living in the mortal world until he discovered he has a daughter and her mother is Artemis. When the goddess shows up at his place of employment with tales of renewing his god status, he’s skeptical. Zeus wouldn’t reverse the curse out of the goodness of his heart. There is always a catch. The god king wants something in return. When Artemis explains she has to hunt down her stepmother, Hera, in order to get Evan back into Zeus’s good graces, Evan demands to accompany her. However, the journey turns out to be a test that could bring them closer together or tear them apart forever.
