No Magic Eden

No Magic Eden
Author: Shirley Guiton
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1972
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

Spellbound

Spellbound
Author: Ava Marie Salinger
Publisher: Ava Marie Salinger
Total Pages: 245
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Can Cassius and Morgan overcome an elusive enemy and save a young girl’s life? Eden Monroe has spent her entire existence believing she has no magic. Shunned by her mother Brianna and the magical bureau Hexa, she runs away from home when she is forced to embrace a future she never chose, only to fall into the hands of ghastly monsters from the Nine Hells. After being rescued by a mysterious Dryad with secrets of his own, Eden realizes there is more to her past and future than she could ever have imagined. When San Francisco PD asks Argonaut to assist them in solving a series of strange bank robberies, Cassius Black and Morgan King uncover a disturbing plot that points to an unknown artifact hidden somewhere in the city. Their investigation soon has them crossing paths with a desperate Brianna, who seeks their help in finding her missing daughter. When the witch reveals the shocking circumstances surrounding her daughter’s birth as well as the deadly magic sealed inside the young girl’s body, the Argonaut agents realize their case is linked to Eden and the weapon of devastating power the bank robbers are after. Can Cassius and Morgan defeat the malevolent organization behind it all and save Eden from her cursed fate? Or will the young girl suffer a destiny worse than death itself? Spellbound is the second novel in the gay urban fantasy romance series Fallen Messengers. This is an MM paranormal adventure full of action, magic, snark, and a host of steamy angels and demons. Visit Ava's author store at Shop AD Starrling to get digitally signed books and discounted bundles!

Eden's Everdark

Eden's Everdark
Author: Karen Strong
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2023-08-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1665904488

Twelve-year-old Eden, on a visit to her late mother's birthplace of Safina Island, Georgia, discovers a creepy sketchbook that leads her to Everdark--a spirit world ruled by an evil witch who Eden must defeat in order to make it back home.

The Jungle Inside

The Jungle Inside
Author: Avril Sabine
Publisher: Cracked Acorn Productions
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2014-10-18
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1925617297

Genre: Young Adult Urban Fantasy. Word Count: 25025 All Eden wanted was one normal weekend. She finally had a friend who knew nothing about her family. A friend who didn't believe the rumours, because witches don't exist. But as usual, nothing was going according to plan. Her mother had promised no magic while Tory was visiting, but she couldn't help doing one simple spell before Tory arrived. It was a pity there was nothing simple about the results. This story was written by an Australian author using Australian spelling. Keywords: teen/young adult, strong female character, witches and wizards, adventure, modern sword and sorcery, royal conspiracy, labyrinth maze.

Eden's Sins

Eden's Sins
Author: Jaclyn Tracey
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2021-08-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1509235310

One impetuous love spell should've had Jovan Hause dancing with destiny. Instead, she found herself flat on her back with no memory of her past. Her future looking royally smashing as she gazed into the perilous blue eyes of the man of her dreams until she passed out. Tired of chasing one ghoul in a city of walking cadavers, André St. James found someone much more intriguing to pursue after being tossed on his royal behind. Drawn to the unconscious beauty, he knew one way to wake her: True love's kiss. The silly tale worked, just not the way he'd hoped. Together they'd killed monsters, found a number of Eden's Sins quite divine, and made plans for a future. Fate however, had other ideas. Maybe, with a wee bit of magic, mayhem, and a beautiful blue moon they'd find their way back to each other, kiss, and make up. Maybe…

Breaking the Bank

Breaking the Bank
Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2009-09-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439126992

A fresh and whimsical novel featuring a single mother in Brooklyn who suddenly discovers an ATM machine that gives her free (and unrecorded) cash; what she does with that money changes many lives—including her own. Mia Saul is down on her luck. She’s been dumped by her husband, fired from her job, and forced to move with her ten-year-old daughter Eden to a crummy apartment. Juggling temp jobs, arguing over child support, and trying to keep Eden’s increasingly erratic behavior in check leaves Mia weary and worn out. So when a routine stop at an ATM turns into a stroke of luck Mia never expected, the results are nothing short of...magical. Teetering between guilt and generosity, Mia takes advantage of her sudden windfall in small ways. She also develops relationships with a variety of neighborhood characters she ordinarily would never have crossed paths with—and turns her life around in ways she never thought possible. Poignant, smart, and utterly captivating, this quirky "pay-it-forward" tale captures the everyday concerns of women everywhere.

Italian Venice

Italian Venice
Author: R. J. B. Bosworth
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2014-09-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300210116

In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice—not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalor of the belle époque and the dark underbelly of modernization, the two world wars, and the far-reaching oppressions of the fascist regime, through to the “Disneylandification” of Venice and the tourist boom, the worldwide attention of the biennale and film festival, and current threats of subsidence and flooding posed by global warming. He draws out major themes—the increasingly anachronistic but deeply embedded Catholic Church, the two faces of modernization, consumerism versus culture. Bosworth interrogates not just Venice’s history but its meanings, and how the city’s past has been co-opted to suit present and sometimes ulterior aims. Venice, he shows, is a city where its histories as well as its waters ripple on the surface.

Smoke

Smoke
Author: Val St. Crowe
Publisher: Punk Rawk Books
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2017-07-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth

Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth
Author: Tom Brass
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2014-05-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004273948

Using examples from different historical contexts, this book examines the relationship between class, nationalism, modernity and the agrarian myth. Essentializing rural identity, traditional culture and quotidian resistance, both aristocratic/plebeian and pastoral/Darwinian forms of agrarian myth discourse inform struggles waged 'from above' and 'from below', surfacing in peasant movements, film and travel writing. Film depictions of royalty, landowner and colonizer as disempowered, ‘ordinary’ or well-disposed towards ‘those below’, whose interests they share, underwrite populism and nationalism. Although these ideologies replaced the cosmopolitanism of the Grand Tour, twentieth century travel literature continued to reflect a fear of vanishing rural ‘otherness’ abroad, combined with the arrival there of the mass tourist, the plebeian from home.