Ashes And Stones

Author : Allyson Shaw
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781529395471

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Ashes and Stones by Allyson Shaw Pdf

'Beautiful... A moving reminder for us all to connect with what's gone before' STYLIST A moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and through remote villages and cities, in search of the traces of those accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland. In Ashes and Stones we visit modern memorials and standing stones, and roam among forests and hedge mazes, folklore and political fantasies. From fairy hills to forgotten caves, we explore a spellbound landscape. Allyson Shaw untangles the myth of witchcraft and gives voice to those erased by it. Her elegant and lucid prose weaves together threads of history and feminist reclamation to create a vibrant memorial. This is the untold story of the witches' monuments of Scotland and the women's lives they mark. Ashes and Stones is a trove of folklore linking the lives of contemporary women to the horrors of the past, a record of resilience and a call to choose and remember our ancestors. 'Allyson Shaw has built a monument in words to the thousands persecuted as witches in Scotland. A fascinating and necessary book.' Peter Ross 'A compelling and intimate pilgrimage across Scotland' Helen Callaghan

Author : Allyson Shaw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781639365302

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Ashes and Stones by Allyson Shaw Pdf

A moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and through remote villages and cities, in search of the traces of those accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland. 'It's summer. I stand where perhaps Ellen stood, in this ground thick with new thistle and long grass. She would have kenned this coast in all weathers: in the summer when it was as gentle as a lake and in the winter, with the high winds and stinging salt spray.' In Ashes and Stones we visit modern memorials and standing stones, and roam among forests and hedge mazes, folklore and political fantasies. From fairy hills to forgotten caves, we explore a spellbound landscape. Allyson Shaw untangles the myth of witchcraft and gives voice to those erased by it. Her elegant and lucid prose weaves together threads of history and feminist reclamation to create a vibrant memorial. This is the untold story of the witches' monuments of Scotland and the women's lives they mark. Ashes and Stones is a trove of folklore linking the lives of contemporary women to the horrors of the past, a record of resilience and a call to choose and remember our ancestors.

Author : Daniel Danis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015054041648

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Stone and Ashes by Daniel Danis Pdf

Author : Sarah Ashwood
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798686727373

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Ashes on the Earth by Sarah Ashwood Pdf

Shapeshifters exist. Monsters are real. And no good deed goes unpunished. Nursing student Ellie St. James didn't mean to get involved in a war between rival gangs of shifters, but saving the life of a local mob boss's child has dragged her into one. When Ellie's life is threatened because of her involvement, she's forced to go on the run, protected by Carter Ballis, head of security for the mobster's family, and a lethal shifter himself.Blood, fire, and warfare weren't part of Ellie's plans, but even if she survives, her life will never be the same. The world is more than she knew, and she's seen too much. People capable of morphing into deadly creatures from legends and folklore around the globe are coming for her.The cost of staying alive means trusting Carter to defend her, and he's every bit as frightening as the creatures that want her dead...

Author : Judith Grossman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0801861713

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How Aliens Think by Judith Grossman Pdf

Ethan Harris never thought monsters and darkness would consume his daily thoughts, but every night the same visions repeat in his dreams. He's careful to project a semblance of normalcy, keeping the suffocating darkness locked inside. As much as he wishes he could focus on girls, sports, and cars like other seventeen-year-olds; nothing distracts him from his own demons or shines through. Until Nara Collins crosses his path. The blonde fascinates and intrigues him, giving him a measure of peace he's never felt before. When Ethan discovers there's more to Nara than she allows others to see, that she might have a unique secret of her own, suddenly his world comes into focus.

Author : Tony Barnstone,Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780375712401

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Monster Verse by Tony Barnstone,Michelle Mitchell-Foust Pdf

Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman brings to life a colorful menagerie of fantastical creatures from across the ages. Humans have always defined themselves by imagining the inhuman; the gloriously gruesome monsters that enliven our literary legacy haunt us by reflecting our own darkest possibilities. The poems gathered here range in focus from extreme examples of human monstrousness—murderers, cannibals, despotic Byzantine empresses—to the creatures of myth and nightmare: dragons, sea serpents, mermaids, gorgons, sirens, witches, and all sorts of winged, fanged, and fire-breathing grotesques. The ghastly parade includes Beowulf’s Grendel, Homer’s Circe, William Morris’s Fafnir, Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwock, Robert Lowell’s man-eating mermaid, Oriana Ivy’s Baba Yaga, Thom Gunn’s take on Jeffrey Dahmer, and Shakespeare’s hybrid creature Caliban, of whom Prospero famously concedes, “This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.” Monster Verse is both a delightful carnival of literary horror and an entertainingly provocative investigation of what it means to be human.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Japan
ISBN : CORNELL:31924007204716

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The Japan Times by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lewis Ryers Thompson,Rollo Herbert Britten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UFL:31262082651067

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Public Health Bulletin by Lewis Ryers Thompson,Rollo Herbert Britten Pdf

Author : Christa Parrish
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781401689025

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Stones for Bread by Christa Parrish Pdf

A solitary artisan. A legacy of bread-baking. And one secret that could collapse her entire identity. Liesl McNamara’s life can be described in one word: bread. From her earliest memory, her mother and grandmother passed down the mystery of baking and the importance of this deceptively simple food. And now, as the owner of Wild Rise bake house, Liesl spends every day up to her elbows in dough, nourishing and perfecting her craft. But the simple life she has cultivated is becoming quite complicated. Her head baker brings his troubled grandson into the bakeshop as an apprentice. Her waitress submits Liesl’s recipes to a popular cable cooking show. And the man who delivers her flour—a single father with strange culinary habits—seems determined to win Liesl’s affection. When Wild Rise is featured on television, her quiet existence appears a thing of the past. And then a phone call from a woman claiming to be her half-sister forces Liesl to confront long-hidden secrets in her family’s past. With her precious heritage crumbling around her, the baker must make a choice: allow herself to be buried in detachment and remorse, or take a leap of faith into a new life. Filled with both spiritual and literal nourishment, Stones for Bread provides a feast for the senses from award-winning author Christa Parrish. "A quietly beautiful tale about learning how to accept the past and how to let go of the parts that tie you down." —RT Book Reviews, 4.5 stars, TOP PICK!

Author : Luke Courtney
Publisher : Author House
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496977212

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From The Ashes by Luke Courtney Pdf

Born in a secluded village in the kingdom of Verdenta, ruled over by the iron fist of the Empire of the Phoenix and its cruel, domineering ruler, Empress Maeivra, the so-called 'Witch Queen', Diarmud never imagined he would experience anything out of the ordinary. But overnight, he finds himself caught up in a struggle to free the world from the tyranny of a sorceress in thrall to far greater and more terrible powers who watch the races of the world with hateful eyes... Hounded from his home by the Empress's agents, Diarmud finds himself to be the sole survivor of a secretive project to create a breed of warrior from a forgotten age of the world, a weapon meant for conquest, to be the first of Maeivra's new order. Accompanied by his guardian, the old bard Cameron, and his closest friend Tabitha, Diarmud must race across hostile territory to find those devoted to keeping him safe and their world free from the clutches of the mad queen and the entities she worships, and prepare for the struggle that is to come...

Author : Eggert Ólafsson,Bjarni Pálsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1805
Category : Iceland
ISBN : HARVARD:HNVYX7

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Travels in Iceland by Eggert Ólafsson,Bjarni Pálsson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1114 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE NEW AMERICAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA: A Popular Dictionary OF GENERAL KNOWLEDGE by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alphie McCourt
Publisher : Sterling & Ross Publishers, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drinking of alcoholic beverages
ISBN : 0981453554

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A Long Stone's Throw by Alphie McCourt Pdf

"The McCourt family gained fame and notoriety through the books of brothers Frank and Malachy, and in the two popular documentaries that followed. In A Long Stone's Throw, the youngest brother, Alphie, adds his gifted voice to this literary chorus with a vivid, emotional memoir that begins in Limerick, Ireland. Like his brothers, Alphie details his escape from a miserable childhood in Limerick to the U.S., where the Irish curse, aimless jobs, women, the Army and business ventures lead him to steady ground in, of all places, New York City."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000108970595

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London Encyclopædia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature, and Practical Mechanics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11390526

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The pharmacist and chemist by Anonim Pdf