Courting Magic
Courting Magic

Author: Stephanie Burgis

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12-27

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13:

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"A blast of fresh air, pure romantic joy" - Gail Carriger In Kat Stephenson's Regency England, magic is even more shocking than a stolen kiss. But now that she's eighteen, it's time for wild and magical Kat to be introduced to high society by her older sisters, whether she likes it or not...and to finally have a romance of her own! Of course, her true love is hopelessly ineligible. But when has Kat ever let Society's opinion stop her from making up her own mind? Once she realizes she's found her perfect match, she's not going to let anything or anyone stand in their way - even if she does have to solve a magical mystery, matchmake for an old friend, and break a few rules along the way! "Courting Magic" is a sparkling 34,000-word Regency novella set in the world of Kat, Incorrigible. "A joy from start to finish" - Keris Stainton, author of 'Emma Hearts LA' and 'Starring Kitty' "Fast-paced and full of wit and humor" - Page Morgan, author of 'The Beautiful and the Cursed' and 'The Lovely and the Lost'.

A Magical Court: (Magic and Mischief Book 4)
A Magical Court: (Magic and Mischief Book 4)

Author: N. R. Hairston

Publisher: Fire Ink Media

Published: 2023-07-28

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Five stories of supernatural Vengeance. Including five kick-ass women. With five unique powers. On five different worlds. A Royal Slaughter Rye is called to the royal court of Yezn. What should have been a routine investigation ends up being a fight for her life. A Royal Betrayal They call her the Destroyer. She tries to keep that part of herself at bay. But when the royal court of Julo plots against her, she releases her fury on them. How will she answer for this slaughter? A Royal Rebellion Leah inadvertently offends the crown princess of Gango. The crown princess calls for her head. Will Leah and her crew be able to fight their way out of this one? A Royal Deception Kerry and her team are tasked with finding the kidnapped Crown Princess of Halgo. They discover a sinister plot that has them fighting to survive. A Royal Succubus Kia’s grandmother is the empress of all magical creatures. Kia's team is sent to investigate when her grandmother and all the kings and queens under her go missing. What Kia finds is a deadly plot that has them all fighting to stay alive.

A Reckless Magick: An Improper Adventure 3
A Reckless Magick: An Improper Adventure 3

Author: Stephanie Burgis

Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1848776470

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With only days to go before her sister Angeline's long-delayed wedding to Frederick Carlyle, the impetuous Kat Stephenson has resigned herself to good behaviour. But Kat's initiation into the magical Order of the Guardians is fast approaching, and trouble seems to follow her everywhere. Kat must contend with the wretched Mrs. Carlyle's attempts to humiliate her sister, the arrival of the mysterious Marquise de Valmont, who bears a suspicious resemblance to Kat's late mother, and Frederick's bewitching cousin Jane, who has Charles Stephenson tripping over his feet. But when a menacing boy with powerful magic starts hunting Kat, a dastardly villain tries to kill Angeline, and the Guardians face a magical robbery that could spell the end of their Order, propriety becomes the least of Kat's concerns. Can Kat save her sister's life, the Order of the Guardians, and England itself before it's too late?

Sensual Relations
Sensual Relations

Author: David Howes

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2010-02-22

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0472026224

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With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating exploration of the relationship between sensory experience and cultural expression, Sensual Relations contests the conventional exclusion of sensuality from intellectual inquiry and reclaims sensation as a fundamental domain of social theory. David Howes is Professor of Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.

Renegade Magic
Renegade Magic

Author: Stephanie Burgis

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-04-03

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1416994491

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Twelve-year-old Kat tries to use her untrained magical powers to prevent use of the wild magic of Sulis Minerva found in Bath, England, where Stepmama has brought the family in hopes of finding Kat's sister a proper match.

Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 Volume 8
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 Volume 8

Author: Miya Kazuki

Publisher: J-Novel Club

Published: 2024-01-10

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1718346565

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“I’ll do anything to save him. Anything.” Greater duchies, the Sovereignty, the royal family, even the gods themselves—Rozemyne will take on anyone in her quest to rescue Ferdinand. She uses her newly acquired Book of Mestionora to activate Kirnberger’s long-dormant country gate. Then, with Dunkelfelger on her side, she speeds to Ahrensbach even faster than Steifebrise. To war! As the battle against Lanzenave commences, Georgine finally begins her invasion and triggers the Defense of Ehrenfest. Can the combined forces of the temple and the lower city’s commoners help keep the duchy safe? And can Rozemyne secure victory in this game of true ditter?! The newest volume of this biblio-fantasy contains more than one hundred pages of original content not featured in the web novel. And as always, look forward to more four-panel manga by You Shiina!

Courting Carolina
Courting Carolina

Author: Janet Chapman

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-08-28

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1101581379

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In New York Times bestselling author Janet Chapman’s magical town of Spellbound Falls, anything can happen, even love that defies time itself… While building a wilderness trail for a new five-star resort in Spellbound Falls, underachieving playboy Alec MacKeage rescues a beautiful woman who is being chased by kidnappers and agrees to let her hide out with him for a few days. But when those days stretch past a week, Alec finds himself fighting his attraction to the mysterious Jane Smith—despite knowing the woman isn’t who she claims to be. Then again, neither is he… On the run from her own life, Jane is really Carolina Oceanus—and she’ll do anything to avoid the six ancient-minded men her father has brought to Maine to vie for her hand in marriage. But as the maddening competition heats up, Carolina realizes that she’ll have to come clean to Alec, the seductive loner who’s managed to capture her heart…

Gender, Song, and Sensibility
Gender, Song, and Sensibility

Author: Pamela J. Stewart

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2002-08-30

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0313012679

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The authors present a historical picture of gender relations in Highlands New Guinea by exploring domains of imagination as revealed in courting songs, ballads, and folktales from across the Highlands but with particular reference to field areas in the western Highlands. Texts and/or translations are from a rich corpus of materials previously unpublished in English. The examples draw the reader into the imaginative world of the people, while the analytical framework sets the discussion firmly into debates within interpretive anthropology. The aim is to re-examine the images of gender relations in Highlands New Guinea by revealing the sensuous and emotional modalities of expressive folk genres and their aesthetic qualities. Ideas and practices centered on female spirit entities are shown to be important and pervasive in cult contexts, and these spirits were felt to have a significant influence on relations of courtship, marriage, and reproduction. Both women and men are also shown to have complex expressions of emotional dispositions in the spheres of courting and the choice of marital partners. By entering into these domains, the book modifies earlier analyses that have concentrated on antagonism, behavioral taboos, separation, and domination as themes in gender relations in Highland societies.

On the Order of Chaos
On the Order of Chaos

Author: Mark S. Mosko

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9781845450243

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The essays in this volume collectively transform perspectives previously experienced as divergent, conflicting, and inconsistent into a common and complex orientation to problems central to the natural and social sciences involving transitions between order and disorder."--Jacket.

People of Foxwick and Their Neighbors
People of Foxwick and Their Neighbors

Author: Cherie Reich

Publisher: Surrounded by Books Publishing

Published: 2014-12-09

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13:

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The kingdom hangs in the balance. War threatens Foxwick on all sides. The dreaded Shadowlands gains more souls. From the shrouded trees in Greymist Forest to the arid Blackden Barrens, monsters roam in search of their next victim. Sirens lure ships beneath Merrilea Sea. In cold and snowy Wintermill, royals plot to claim Foxwick as their own, even if they must use dragons and sorcery. Marriage between Foxwick’s king and Lochhollow’s princess creates a perilous alliance. Although brave Valdale will come to Foxwick’s aid, the cost may be more than a true friend can stomach. Set over a hundred years, these seventeen fantasy short stories explore the people, creatures, and lands in and around the Kingdom of Foxwick. Short stories in the collection: Common Love, Blind Scribe, Lady Bard, Siren’s Call, Tribal Abandonment, Dragon's Sacrifice, Dragon Spy, Dragon Seer, Sword Master, Lady Death, Mage Game, Courting Magic, Monster Hunger, Mourner’s Lament, Magic Seeker, Prince’s Price, and Love’s Challenge.