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| Author | : Donna Jo Napoli |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0385746555 |
A retelling of Snow White from the evil step mother's point of view as fifteen-year-old Dolce grows up on islands in a Venetian lagoon where she learns how to make mirrors, but when her mother dies she is taken in by a widower and his daughter while she secretly continues making mirrors and slowly goes mad from mercury poisoning.
| Author | : Donna Jo Napoli |
| Publisher | : Wendy Lamb Books |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2015-09-08 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 037598917X |
Set in medieval Venice, this captivating fairy tale retelling by award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli explores belonging, beauty, and the transformative power of love through the eyes of a teenage girl. Dolce has grown up hidden away on an island in a lagoon. She is a giant, a freak, tormented by everyone but her loving mother. She spends her time learning the valuable secret of making mirrors. Following a tragedy, Dolce swims away and lands on an island where people see her as normal, even beautiful. Marin, a kind widower, and his little daughter bring Dolce to live with them in their grand palazzo. Eventually, Dolce and Marin marry. She secretly continues to make mirrors, not realizing that quicksilver endangers her . . . and so evil begins in innocence.
| Author | : Sameer Kohli |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
The title Dark & Darker holds the clue to unraveling this multifaceted book of short stories, where trauma, lust, sportsmanship, guile, separation, patriotism, hunger, love, hate, melancholy, and death, all find their exclusively carved space. This compilation is a remarkable effort to both coalesce and scatter, the kaleidoscopic expressions of human life. The writers combine their respective professional expertise to conjure up celluloid-like visions with a perceptive insight into human character and social issues. In a narrative style that breaks all prescribed boundaries, themes ranging from modernization, poverty, communalism, sexuality, madness, terrorism, and disability, have been examined through various dramatic situations and circumstances. The twist in the tale at the end of each story gives them all a precarious edge.
| Author | : Nickalynn Rose |
| Publisher | : Nickalynn Rose |
| Total Pages | : 171 |
| Release | : 2024-01-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Dark Realms In the dark realm of Scoria, a tale of rebellion and hope unfolds as Queen Lily of Luminafay shines as a beacon against Zirmtra's tyranny. Wielding the dark wand Vorastrix, Zirmtra commands ancient magics, casting shadows of despair. Yet, Queen Lily's courage inspires a fierce resistance. Within this struggle, Sakara, a Zarabethel spiritshifter, and her guide Zeya, confront the dark forces threatening Scoria, including the fearsome Grunterroch and life-draining Gravemorsel. Their journey is perilous, intertwined with Queen Lily's fight, as they navigate Scoria's treacherous paths to challenge Zirmtra's rule. This saga of defiance against darkness, with Sakara's powers and Zeya's wisdom at the forefront, rallies the forces of light in a climactic battle for freedom. The story captures the indomitable spirit of its heroes, promising a clash of light and darkness where the fate of Scoria hangs in balance, embodying heroism, sacrifice, and the pursuit of hope.
| Author | : Keri Arthur |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2012-06-26 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101588764 |
New York Times bestselling author Keri Arthur has been hailed for her “smart, sexy”* urban fantasy novels. Now, she continues her Dark Angels series set in the realm of danger and desire known as the Guardian World… Half-werewolf, half-Aedh Risa Jones can enter the realm between life and death, and she can see the Reapers who collect the souls of the dead. Now, she is using her gifts—and the investigative know-how of a man who broke her heart—to find a cabal searching for the power to control time, reality, and fate. And this is besides her work for the Vampire Council, half of whom want her dead. But for now the Council needs her alive. Someone is killing blood-whore addicted vampires, and Risa must find the guilty party. If she succeeds, she may finally convince the council to lift the execution order on her life. But before she succeeds, she must first survive…
| Author | : Eliza Steinbock |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 157 |
| Release | : 2019-02-14 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1478004509 |
In Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change. Drawing on Barthes's idea of the “shimmer” and Foucault's notion of sex as a mirage, the author shows how sex and gender can appear mirage-like on film, an effect they label shimmering. Steinbock applies the concept of shimmering—which delineates change in its emergent form as well as the qualities of transforming bodies, images, and affects—to analyses of films that span time and genre. These include examinations of the fantastic and phantasmagorical shimmerings of sex change in Georges Méliès's nineteenth-century trick films and Lili Elbe's 1931 autobiographical writings and photomontage in Man into Woman. Steinbock also explores more recent documentaries, science fiction, and pornographic and experimental films. Presenting a cinematic philosophy of transgender embodiment that demonstrates how shimmering images mediate transitioning, Steinbock not only offers a corrective to the gender binary orientation of feminist film theory; they open up new means to understand trans ontologies and epistemologies as emergent, affective, and processual.
| Author | : D.J. Anderson |
| Publisher | : Archway Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2014-09-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1480810568 |
In the small mountain town of Legerdemain, Colorado, weird doesn't even begin to describe things. Something or someone is making public buildings disappear, and no one in authority seems to have any idea why or how. Everyone in town has a theory, but Samantha Gillenwater and her Aunt Kat know the truth. The town was founded by her ancestors, so they have a better understanding of what's really happening. Truth is; their relatives in Legerdemain were different from the other settlers. They were witches who fled the horrors of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. As the curious eyes of the town start looking deeper into the shadows for answers, Samantha and Kat need to work even harder to keep their family's secrets safe. In order to do that, they have to solve the mystery before anyone else does. The last thing they want is for the townspeople to have proof that magick is real and part of life in their small community. They have a suspect. Matthew Douthitt-a black-arts warlock-has been the bane of Samantha's existence since she was a child. Now he's back, and more powerful than ever, to make her life miserable. Can Samantha figure out how to break his spells and save her beloved town, or will the dark arts consume everything and everyone she loves?
| Author | : Harish Johari |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 1996-09-01 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 1620550792 |
Drawing on the ancient Hindu disciplines of Tantra and Ayurveda, as well as astrology and his own family tradition of gemology, Harish Johari offers practical methods to utilize the power stored in gems to maximize physical and psychological balance and well-being. The origins of gem healing can be traced to the earliest Sanskrit scriptures, in which gems are valued for their ability to absorb and transmit vital life forces. Ayurvedic healers, Indian astrologers, and Tantric alchemists all made use of gem formulas in their various practices. The author describes these in vivid detail as well as the attributes and powers of the sun and planets according to Hindu astrology and legend as they relate specifically to the use of gems. Here they play a critical role in enhancing the positive power of the planets and reducing their negative influence. Charts are included that determine the appropriate gems to be worn according to one’s astrological sun sign and ascendant. Detailed instructions necessary for the creation of gem talismans and the rituals that use gems to obtain desired effects are also supplied by the author. The Healing Power of Gemstones, the most comprehensive survey of this subject available today, is both a practical guide to the chemical and subtle nature of gemstones and a traditional overview of their use throughout the ages.
| Author | : Derek Conrad Murray |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2021-11-19 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0429552394 |
This collection explores the cultural fascination with social media forms of self-portraiture, "selfies," with a specific interest in online self-imaging strategies in a Western context. This book examines the selfie as a social and technological phenomenon but also engages with digital self-portraiture as representation: as work that is committed to rigorous object-based analysis. The scholars in this volume consider the topic of online self-portraiture—both its social function as a technology-driven form of visual communication, as well as its thematic, intellectual, historical, and aesthetic intersections with the history of art and visual culture. This book will be of interest to scholars of photography, art history, and media studies.
