Shades of Moonlight

Shades of Moonlight
Author: Stephanie Julian
Publisher: Moonlit Night Publishing
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2016-02-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Race Aragon knows Mara Marrucini is meant to be his. And he’s not about to let anyone or anything get in his way of protecting her and her baby. As a soldier in the shifter king's army, he knows exactly how to make her safe. She’d been the prisoner of a madman for years. Now she’s free and he’s going to make damn sure she gets to live her life—with him at her side. Mara has been betrayed by men all her life and trust isn't easy for her. Race is the first man to make her feel like a woman. His touch ignites her desire but she fears for his safety. Her presence in his life puts him in the crosshairs.

The Night and Its Moon

The Night and Its Moon
Author: Piper CJ
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2022-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1728270693

An addictive fantasy romance from TikTok sensation Piper CJ, now newly revised and edited. Two orphans grow into powerful young women as they face countless threats to find their way back to each other. Farleigh is just an orphanage. At least, that's what the church would have the people believe, but beautiful orphans Nox and fae-touched Amaris know better. They are commodities for sale, available for purchase by the highest bidder. So when the madame of a notorious brothel in a far-off city offers a king's ransom to purchase Amaris, Nox ends up taking her place — while Amaris is drawn away to the mountains, home of mysterious assassins. Even as they take up new lives and identities, Nox and Amaris never forget one thing: they will stop at nothing to reunite. But the threat of war looms overhead, and the two are inevitably swept into a conflict between human and fae, magic and mundane. With strange new alliances, untested powers, and a bond that neither time nor distance could possibly break, the fate of the realms lies in the hands of two orphans — and the love they hold for each other.

Infinity Reverie

Infinity Reverie
Author: Ndifreke Ukpong
Publisher: Digital2Draft
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2022-02-02
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

"Infinite Reverie" is a poetic journey through the realms of imagination, where words weave tapestries of dreams and emotions. This collection of verses explores the delicate dance between reality and fantasy, inviting readers to embrace the ethereal beauty that resides in the quiet corners of their minds. Each poem is a brushstroke on the canvas of introspection, inviting contemplation beneath the soft glow of metaphorical moonlight. "Infinite Reverie" is an ode to the boundless landscapes of thought and the enchantment found within the limitless expanse of the human spirit.

Romantic Shades and Shadows

Romantic Shades and Shadows
Author: Susan J. Wolfson
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2018-06-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1421425556

Haunting’s consequences for the literary imagination. Reading is a weirdly phantasmic trade: animating words to revive absent voices, rehearing the past, fantasizing a future. In Romantic Shades and Shadows, Susan J. Wolfson explores spectral language, formations, and sensations, defining an apparitional poetics in the finely grained textures of writing and their effects on present reading. Framed by an introductory chapter on writing and apparition and an afterword on haunted reading, the book includes chapters of sustained, revelatory close attention to the particular, often peculiar, literary imaginations of William Wordsworth, William Hazlitt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, W. B. Yeats, and John Keats. Wolfson also explores the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (a self-confessed Ghost-Theorist), Mary Shelley, and other writers of the Long Romantic era, canonical as well as less familiar. All are encountered in freshly pointed ways on an arc of investigation that builds with generative force. Romantic Shades and Shadows is written with a lucidity, wit, and accessibility that will appeal to general readers, and with a critical sophistication and scholarly expertise that will engage advanced students, critics, and professional peers.

Seduced By Moonlight

Seduced By Moonlight
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2004-02-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345472063

I am Meredith Gentry, P.I. and Princess Merry, heir to the throne of Fairie. Now there are those among me who whisper I am more. They fear me even as they protect me. And who can blame them? I’ve awakened the dazzling magic that’s slumbered in them for thousands of years. But the thing is, I can’t figure out why. My aunt, the Queen of Air and Darkness, is no longer distracted by her usual sadistic hobbies. Her obsession has turned unwaveringly to me. The mission to get me pregnant and beat my cousin Prince Cel to the crown is taking longer than expected. Even though I spend each night with the Queen’s Ravens, my immortal guards, no child has come of our decadent pleasures. But something else is happening. My magic courses through me uncontrollably. And as I lock my half-mortal body with their full-Sidhe blooded ones, the power surges like never before. It all began with the chalice. I dreamed of it, and it appeared, cool and hard, beside me when I awoke. My guards know the ancient relic well—its disappearance ages ago stripped them of their vital powers. But it is here with us now. My touch resonates with its force, and they’re consumed with it, their Sidhe essences lit up by it. But even as they cherish me for this unexpected gift, there are those who loathe me for it. Me, a mongrel, only half fey and part mortal. The Unseelie court has suffered for so long, and there are some who would not have it weakened further by an impure queen. My enemies grow in number every day. But they do not know what I am capable of. Nor, for that matter, do I. . . . In Seduced by Moonlight, Laurell K. Hamilton brings the dark, erotic reign of the immortal fey to a startling new depth. Full of sensuality and the consuming anticipation of latent powers unleashed, this world of gods, shapeshifters, and immortal souls is unveiled in all of its supreme magnificence and its treacherous deceits.

World of Color

World of Color
Author: Kerby Rosanes
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2022-10-18
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0593472098

From the global coloring sensation, a new, dazzling compilation of colorists' favorite images from Kerby Rosanes's stupefying Worlds series. World of Color is a book of coloring challenges that showcase the internationally bestselling illustrator's astounding artistic skill through eighty pages of super-detailed artwork in Kerby's signature style. Loyal fans and newcomers alike will be entranced and enthralled as they step into his singular imagination. Featuring a full-color sixteen-page section at the beginning to display the work of some of Kerby's most talented fans, the original art in this section will demonstrate the incredible, unique approaches that colorists can try their hands at in the subsequent pages.

The Journal

The Journal
Author: Society of Dyers and Colourists, Bradford, Eng. (Yorkshire)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 676
Release: 1912
Genre:
ISBN:

The Complete Guide to Photorealism for Visual Effects, Visualization and Games

The Complete Guide to Photorealism for Visual Effects, Visualization and Games
Author: Eran Dinur
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2021-11-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0429534345

This book offers a comprehensive and detailed guide to accomplishing and perfecting a photorealistic look in digital content across visual effects, architectural and product visualization, and games. Emmy award-winning VFX supervisor Eran Dinur offers readers a deeper understanding of the complex interplay of light, surfaces, atmospherics, and optical effects, and then discusses techniques to achieve this complexity in the digital realm, covering both 3D and 2D methodologies. In addition, the book features artwork, case studies, and interviews with leading artists in the fields of VFX, visualization, and games. Exploring color, integration, light and surface behaviour, atmospherics, shading, texturing, physically-based rendering, procedural modelling, compositing, matte painting, lens/camera effects, and much more, Dinur offers a compelling, elegant guide to achieving photorealism in digital media and creating imagery that is seamless from real footage. Its broad perspective makes this detailed guide suitable for VFX, visualization and game artists and students, as well as directors, architects, designers, and anyone who strives to achieve convincing, believable visuals in digital media.

The Moon

The Moon
Author: David Jefferis
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780778737315

Describes the Earth's moon, its relation to the Earth, and the history of lunar exploration.