Reluctant Immortals

Author : Gwendolyn Kiste
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982172367

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Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste Pdf

2023 Lambda Literary Award Winner 2023 Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in a Novel For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature—from Lucy Westnera, a victim of Stoker’s Dracula, and Bertha Mason, Mr. Rochester’s attic-bound wife in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre—as they band together to combat the toxic men bent on destroying their lives, set against the backdrop of the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, 1967. Reluctant Immortals is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr. Rochester, and the two women who survived them, Bertha and Lucy, who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in 1967 when Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Combining elements of historical and gothic fiction with a modern perspective, in a tale of love and betrayal and coercion, Reluctant Immortals is the lyrical and harrowing journey of two women from classic literature as they bravely claim their own destiny in a man’s world.

Author : Jing Wang
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 082231195X

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The Story of Stone by Jing Wang Pdf

In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition--all concerning stones endowed with magical properties--Jing Wang develops a monumental reconstruction of ancient Chinese stone lore. Wang's thorough and systematic comparison of these classic works illuminates the various tellings of the stone story and provides new insight into major topics in traditional Chinese literature. Bringing together Chinese myth, religion, folklore, art, and literature, this book is the first in any language to amass the sources of stone myth and stone lore in Chinese culture. Uniting classical Chinese studies with contemporary Western theoretical concerns, Wang examines these stone narratives by analyzing intertextuality within Chinese traditions. She offers revelatory interpretations to long-standing critical issues, such as the paradoxical character of the monkey in The Journey to the West, the circularity of narrative logic in The Dream of the Red Chamber, and the structural necessity of the stone tablet in Water Margin. By both challenging and incorporating traditional sinological scholarship, Wang's The Story of Stone reveals the ideological ramifications of these three literary works on Chinese cultural history and makes the past relevant to contemporary intellectual discourse. Specialists in Chinese literature and culture, comparative literature, literary theory, and religious studies will find much of interest in this outstanding work, which is sure to become a standard reference on the subject.

Author : Greg Rucka
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:OCT190026

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The Old Guard: Force Multiplied #1 (of 5) by Greg Rucka Pdf

Soon to be a major motion picture starring CHARLIZE THERON and KIKI LAYNE! Andromache of Scythia and her band of soldiers are back in this second story chronicling the battles and burdens of their dubious immortality. Nile's addition to the team has given them new purpose and new direction, but when you've got 6,000 years of history at your back, the past is always ready to return with a vengeance. Written by GREG RUCKA and illustrated by the incomparable LEANDRO FERNéNDEZ, with colors by DANIELA MIWA, lettering by JODI WYNNE, and design by ERIC TRAUTMANN, the highly anticipated return of THE OLD GUARD is finally here! HOLLYWOOD NEWS! 12 Years a Slave star Chiwetel Ejiofor has signed on for the Netflix and Skydance adaptation of THE OLD GUARD, alongside co-star Charlize Theron who also produces. Harry Melling (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Veronica Ngo (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), KiKi Layne, Marwan Kenzari, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Luca Marinelli have all been previously announced as cast in the upcoming movie.

Author : Lynsay Sands
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062087966

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The Reluctant Vampire by Lynsay Sands Pdf

“Lynsay Sands writes books that keep readers coming back for more.” —Katie MacAlister, USA Today bestselling author of A Girl’s Guide to Vampires Readers can’t get enough of Lynsay Sands’ delightfully devilish novels featuring the Argeneau vampire family, and with The Reluctant Vampire, Sands soars to new heights on silken bat wings. The story of a sexy Rogue Hunter forced to babysit a new immortal with a handsome, brooding, millennia-old vampire still devastated over the loss of a lover, The Reluctant Vampire offers heart, humor, and sizzling sensuality in equal measure—hallmarks of the incomparable Lynsay’s bestselling paranormal fiction.

Author : Gabriel Blue Melchizedek
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781471023224

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Blue Zebra Agent Chronicles by Gabriel Blue Melchizedek Pdf

Author : Tamora Pierce
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781439115176

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Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce Pdf

Discover a land of enchantment, legend, and adventure in this first book of the Immortals series, featuring an updated cover for longtime fans and fresh converts alike, and including an all-new afterword from Tamora Pierce. Thirteen-year-old Daine has always had a special connection with animals, but only when she’s forced to leave home does she realize it’s more than a knack—it’s magic. With this wild magic, not only can Daine speak to animals, but she can also make them obey her. Daine takes a job handling horses for the Queen’s Riders, where she meets the master mage Numair and becomes his student. Under Numair’s guidance, Daine explores the scope of her magic. But she encounters other beings, too, who are not so gentle. These terrifying creatures, called Immortals, have been imprisoned in the Divine Realms for the past four hundred years—but now someone has broken the barrier. And it’s up to Daine and her friends to defend their world from an Immortal attack.

Author : Gwendolyn Kiste
Publisher : JournalStone
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781947654457

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The Rust Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste Pdf

Something’s happening to the girls on Denton Street. It’s the summer of 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, and Phoebe Shaw and her best friend Jacqueline have just graduated high school, only to confront an ugly, uncertain future. Across the city, abandoned factories populate the skyline; meanwhile at the shore, one strong spark, and the Cuyahoga River might catch fire. But none of that compares to what’s happening in their own west side neighborhood. The girls Phoebe and Jacqueline have grown up with are changing. It starts with footprints of dark water on the sidewalk. Then, one by one, the girls’ bodies wither away, their fingernails turning to broken glass, and their bones exposed like corroded metal beneath their flesh. As rumors spread about the grotesque transformations, soon everyone from nosy tourists to clinic doctors and government men start arriving on Denton Street, eager to catch sight of “the Rust Maidens” in metamorphosis. But even with all the onlookers, nobody can explain what’s happening or why—except perhaps the Rust Maidens themselves. Whispering in secret, they know more than they’re telling, and Phoebe realizes her former friends are quietly preparing for something that will tear their neighborhood apart. Alternating between past and present, Phoebe struggles to unravel the mystery of the Rust Maidens—and her own unwitting role in the transformations—before she loses everything she’s held dear: her home, her best friend, and even perhaps her own body.

Author : J.R. Ward
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698158726

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Immortal by J.R. Ward Pdf

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author who has kept readers on the edge of their seats with her phenomenal Fallen Angels novels, comes one of the most heart-stirring and eagerly anticipated events in that acclaimed series. The Creator invented the game, and the stakes are nothing less than the fate of the quick and the dead: seven souls, seven crossroads. Reluctant savior Jim Heron has compromised himself, his body and his soul, and yet he’s on the verge of losing everything... ...Including Sissy, the innocent he freed from Hell. Jim’s determined to protect her—but this makes her a weakness the demon Devina can exploit. With Jim torn between the game and the woman he’s sworn to defend, evil’s more than ready to play dirty. Humanity’s savior is prepared to do anything to win—even embark on a suicide mission into the shadows of Purgatory. True love is Jim’s only hope for survival—and victory. But can a man with no heart and no soul be saved by something he doesn’t believe in?

Author : Vincent Bobbe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : England
ISBN : 1527201236

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Immortals' Requiem by Vincent Bobbe Pdf

"They are the dreams and nightmares of humanity, the ancient seeds of fairy-tale and superstition. These are the Immortals, creatures of magic that should live forever ... and they are fading. When a horror two thousand years dead returns to contemporary England, creatures long thought lost to myth and legend collide in a scramble for survival that could tumble civilisation back into the dark ages of blood and death." -- Amazon.com.

Author : K. T. Rombough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1491745886

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Immortal Academy by K. T. Rombough Pdf

To anyone outside of the family, Kade was just another little boy growing up with normal abilities in a normal family. But within his family, he knew better. As a child of Pure Air, he was immortal, born with the ability to manipulate one of the core elements of existence. When his family moves from the Immortalibus world to live a non-magical life among the Mortalem-a place where magic was never to be used under any circumstances-everything changes. There, he and sister, Alexis, grow to young adulthood in a world that is never really their own. They are thrilled to learn that they are not the only immortals in town, and soon, they are inseparable from their new friends, Piper, a pretty young witch, and Desmond, an enchanting young vampire. In their senior year, Kade's friendship with Desmond begins to blossom into something rare and beautiful and powerful, a force that is undeniable between their two souls. The young men experience a love that no mortal could ever hope to understand-or survive. Their love is the true magic in their lives, a love story that will span eternity. Two secrets are revealed one fateful night-of a brother Kade never knew and of another secret that threatens the stability of the immortal world. Kade is forced into an impossible decision: in order to keep what matters to him most, he must betray the rules of his immortal world. How much is he willing to sacrifice?

Author : John Montgomery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0985442808

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Real Immortals by John Montgomery Pdf

Since they were old enough to crawl, Stephen James and Leah Mitchel had been raised by Real Immortals. Their adopted parents were immensely powerful angelic beings chosen to protect humanity against the relentless threat of demonic destruction. Chamuel is forced to choose between saving Stephen?s life and defending his earthly home. He is taken prisoner by Legion the most dangerous demon immortal on earth. His plan?to lure out and defeat the Archangel Michael in the ultimate battle of good vs. evil. With the help of their friends, Stephen and Leah race to free his adopted father before it is too late. But Stephen?s mysterious past is unexpectedly revealed and threatens to destroy everything they worked so hard to create. Would Stephen even want to know his real mother after being forced to live without her his entire life?

Author : Andrew Neiderman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451682571

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Immortals by Andrew Neiderman Pdf

When it comes to staying young, some people will pay any price… What if Ponce de Leon really did discover the fountain of youth? Mr. Leon is alive in the twentieth century and is the owner of a high-end cosmetics company. His handpicked salespeople are his disciples. They remain forever young and healthy, but the cost is soul-wrenching. When Cynthia Edwards realizes her husband has become part of this madness she tries in vain to make her husband understand…but Mr. Leon demands terrible sacrifices.

Author : Erwin S. Strauss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015023927059

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Index to the S-F Magazines, 1951-1965 by Erwin S. Strauss Pdf

Author : Gwendolyn Kiste
Publisher : JournalStone
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945373541

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And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe by Gwendolyn Kiste Pdf

A murdered movie star reaches out to an unlikely fan. An orchard is bewitched with poison apples and would-be princesses. A pair of outcasts fail a questionnaire that measures who in their neighborhood will vanish next. Two sisters keep a grotesque secret hidden in a Victorian bathtub. A dearly departed best friend carries a grudge from beyond the grave. In her debut collection, Gwendolyn Kiste delves into the gathering darkness where beauty embraces the monstrous, and where even the most tranquil worlds are not to be trusted. From fairy tale kingdoms and desolate carnivals, to wedding ceremonies and summer camps that aren’t as joyful as they seem, these fourteen tales of horror and dark fantasy explore death, rebirth, and illusion all through the eyes of those on the outside—the forgotten, the forsaken, the Other, none of whom will stay in the dark any longer.

Author : Judith Merril
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Fantasy fiction
ISBN : OSU:32435059729830

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The 8th Annual of the Year's Best SF by Judith Merril Pdf