Magic and Misrule

Author: KM Merritt
Publisher: Blue Fyre Press
ISBN: 1951009150
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
They’re only badass by accident... Vola might be new to this whole adventuring thing, but she’s pretty sure this isn’t how you’re supposed to save the day. No one at her academy wanted an orc as a paladin, so they’ve sent her to the back end of a swamp, hoping she’ll never find a quest good enough to earn her shield. Well, screw that. Vola’s got divine help, and even a laughingstock of a goddess can do some righteous smiting. Armed with a new mission to find some missing orphans, Vola just needs a team to help her track them down. Beggars can’t be choosers but couldn’t her goddess have sent her at least one competent fighter? Now she’s stuck with a hyperactive halfling, a klutzy spell caster, and a cloaked mystery who’s a little too good with their knives. Can a half-orc paladin keep her new party alive in a swamp that’s determined to eat them, or are all the naysayers right and Orcs really can’t be heroes?

The Master of Misrule

Author: Laura Powell
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375865888
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
"Originally published in paperback in Great Britain by Orchard Books ... London, in 2010"--T.p. verso.

Misrule

Author: Heather Walter
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 1984818708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Does true love break curses or begin them? The dark sorceress of “Sleeping Beauty” reclaims her story in this sequel to Malice. “Fans of reimagined fairy tales and LGBTQ+ themes will be delighted with the conclusion of this fantasy duology.”—Booklist (starred review) The Dark Grace is dead. Feared and despised for the sinister power in her veins, Alyce wreaks her revenge on the kingdom that made her an outcast. Once a realm of decadence and beauty, Briar is now wholly Alyce’s wicked domain. And no one will escape the consequences of her wrath. Not even the one person who holds her heart. Princess Aurora saw through Alyce’s thorny facade, earning a love that promised the dawn of a new age. But it is a love that came with a heavy price: Aurora now sleeps under a curse that even Alyce’s vast power cannot seem to break. And the dream of the world they would have built together is nothing but ash. Alyce vows to do anything to wake the woman she loves, even if it means turning into the monster Briar believes her to be. But could Aurora love the villain Alyce has become? Or is true love only for fairy tales? Book Two of the Malice Duology

Magic Misfit

Author: A. Caprice
Publisher: Alice Weiss
ISBN: 1944802274
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255

Book Description
The Raven Academy could save my life… if it doesn’t kill me first. Waitressing might pay my bills, but it’s my cage fighting at night that really cranks my gears. Until some weird hidden power helped me win a fight. Now everyone is too scared to step in the ring with me. And my life is going from weird to worse. The same night a werewolf tried to tear out my throat, a guy shows up telling me magic exists AND goes on to prove it. And, oh yeah, my life is in danger now that my abilities have started to show. Apparently the answer is for me to follow this hottie professor to some Raven Academy and learn magic. School was never my jam, but at least this one comes with a hot demon who’s helping me train and a sexy fellow student who seems to be interested in more than just study hall. Throw in Professor Sexy Pants tutoring me privately to improve my magic, and it’s every girl’s dream. Until I find out I’m part of some save-the-world prophecy, and the fate of all supernatural creatures rests on my shoulders. Great. If my sexy consorts and I can’t pummel my magic into shape soon, we’re all doomed… Magic Misfit is the first book in the Raven Academy series, a reverse harem romance with a university-age heroine having all the fun. Get this book if you like kick-ass heroines, steamy heroes, and smexy scenes so hot they’ll steam up your e-reader,. All characters are 18+.

The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature

Author: Sophie Chiari
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317038169
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 299

Book Description
With its many rites of initiation (religious, educational, professional or sexual), Elizabethan and Jacobean education emphasized both imitation and discovery in a struggle to bring population to a minimal literacy, while more demanding techniques were being developed for the cultural elite. The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature examines the question of transmission and of the educational procedures in16th- and 17th-century England by emphasizing deviant practices that questioned, reassessed or even challenged pre-established cultural norms and traditions. This volume thus alternates theoretical analyses with more specific readings in order to investigate the multiple ways in which ideas then circulated. It also addresses the ways in which the dominant cultural forms of the literature and drama of Shakespeare’s age were being subverted. In this regard, its various contributors analyze how the interrelated processes of initiation, transmission and transgression operated at the core of early modern English culture, and how Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton, or lesser known poets and playwrights such as Thomas Howell, Thomas Edwards and George Villiers, managed to appropriate these cultural processes in their works.

The Dictionary of Magic and Mystery

Author: Melusine Draco
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1846944627
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 377

Book Description
Every good reference book is both a product and a reflection of its time. The Dictionary of Magic & Mystery is not just another compendium or dictionary of occultism: it is a jumping-off point for further research. Here, the reader will find the ancient and modern interpretation for magical and mystical terms, together with explanations for the differences between the varied (and often conflicting) approaches to magic.

Magic Misfire

Author: A. Caprice
Publisher: Alice Weiss
ISBN: 1944802282
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description
How’s a girl supposed to save the world with three hot men eager to distract her? Prophecies, Explosions… Pie. My life has ups and downs, but it’s always full of surprises. I sure never expected magic to exist, or that I would be attending a magic academy. Or that the fate of the world might rest on my shoulders. I was just me, Delaney Jones, a waitress and amateur fighter from Detroit. Now I’m a newbie witch, just barely scraping by in my classes, and, oh yeah, fighting off attempts on my life from people who think I’m some Chosen One. Good thing the cafeteria is stocked with all the comfort food I need. And I need a lot. Most of the students hate me. The council that runs the academy might be dirty. And it’s putting it nicely to say my witchy powers are a tad bit erratic. But I’m up to the challenge. Especially with two hot men and one scorching demon by my side. And if I thought this new world was confusing, I have no idea what to think about the heat flaring between the four of us. I mean, any one of these guys would be every girl’s dream. But all three… The fight of my life is steamrolling straight at me, and unless we sort our sh*t out and work together, some of us might not make it out of the battle alive… Magic Misfire is the second book in the Raven Academy series, a reverse harem romance with a university-age heroine having all the fun. Get this book if you like kick-ass heroines, steamy heroes, and smexy scenes so hot they’ll steam up your e-reader,. All characters are 18+.

Iznogoud - Volume 8 - Rockets to Stardom

Author: René Goscinny
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 184918660X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 49

Book Description
Or even better: You send the person you hate the most on a one-way trip. Like, for example, a caliph you’d like to replace... Will outer space be the answer to Iznogoud’s eternal problem? Or should he try through education, or the arts? Maybe his dreams hold the key to his success? Many questions, but only one certainty: When it inevitably goes wrong for the evil grand vizier, it’s the reader who will be the one laughing!

Silverlance

Author: Peter Thomas Crowell
Publisher: Peter Crowell
ISBN: 9780974029092
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Misrule magic, Midwinter's magic ... Byron Thorn's twelfth birthday is no ordinary day. The western wolves are howling and the animals have broken their winter sleep. The centaur Ravinath and his sinister followers are uneasy and the king's Chief at Arms is keeping watch on the Fencewood. The sign of an ancient prophecy suddenly appears, and before his Misrule's Day is over, Byron Thorn will be running for his life.

Schools for Misrule

Author: Walter Olson
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594035342
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
From Barack Obama (Harvard and Chicago) to Bill and Hillary Clinton (Yale), many of our current national leaders emerged from the rarefied air of the nation's top law schools. The ideas taught there in one generation often shape national policy in the next. The trouble is, Walter Olson reveals in Schools for Misrule, our elite law schools keep churning out ideas that are catastrophically bad for America. From class action lawsuits that promote the right to sue anyone over anything, to court orders mandating the mass release of prison inmates; from the movement for slavery reparations, to court takeovers of school funding—all of these appalling ideas were hatched in legal academia. And the worst is yet to come. A fast-rising movement in law schools demands that sovereignty over U.S. legal disputes be handed over to international law and transnational courts. It is not by coincidence, Olson argues, that these bad ideas all tend to confer more power on the law schools' own graduates. In the overlawyered society that results, they are the ones who become the real rulers.