The curse was with the trauma. It was with growing up that the winds of it affected my life. The scene changed with identity and personality. It became many who were lost.
At the young age of seventeen, Princess Estrella is saddled with a daunting task. When her brother, Gideon, is called away to join King Arthurs round table, Estrella must assume command of her kingdom and family. Confident and obedient, she accepts the task but soon realizes the responsibility is much too big for one princess to handle alone. Estrella is suddenly called away on her own quest by the Lord God Almighty to seek friends and help those in need. Leaving in the night, she abandons her familyas well as the life shes always knownfor the wide world beyond her kingdom walls. Once in the real world, however, she discovers that there is much to see and do, and her spark for adventure is born. She finds friends in unlikely places and meets strange creatures: some good, some bad, and some only believed to exist in myth and legend. Estrella faces many challenges along the way, but she comes to learn that every experience teaches something. On this mad journey, will she grow into the strong woman she must be to rule a kingdom, or will she wander forever?
"For a calculated 1,400 years, Snaketown was a viable village, but unlike so many tells in the Near East, the people remained the same while their culture changed. The smoothly graded typological sequences for most attributes suggest to me that the ethnic identity of the inhabitants was not interrupted, that they were one and the same people experiencing normal internal evolutionary cultural modifications with occasional boosts of features and ideas newly arrived from the outside." —Emil W. Haury
This deep cosmic remembering belongs to each of you "The Rainbow Tablets channellings have been shared by the Rainbow Race. We are your 'unified' selves. And if you have come upon this manuscript, it is because you are ready to start living and creating as the great master that you are. "This transmission contains activations to help you re-embody your true cosmic essence. That moment of remembering yourself is pure bliss. You have waited eons for this moment and now it is here. "We will help you step into your highest embodiment through nine core areas: our cosmic history; time and multi-dimensionality; living from the heart; nurturing your energetic and physical bodies; ego death; unifying the divine feminine and divine masculine; divine union; twin flames and soul contracts; and sacred sexuality. "We wish you a joyful journey back to wholeness!" - The Rainbow Race
Bestselling author Alice Hoffman tears a page from history and melds it with mysticism to create a spellbinding, highly acclaimed tale about the persecution of Jewish people during the sixteenth century. Estrella is a Marrano: During the time of the Spanish Inquisition, she is one of a community of Spanish Jews living double lives as Catholics. And she is living in a house of secrets, raised by a family who practices underground the ancient and mysterious way of wisdom known as kabbalah. When Estrella discovers her family's true identity--and her family's secrets are made public--she confronts a world she's never imagined, where new love burns and where friendship ends in flame and ash, where trust is all but vanquished and betrayal has tragic and bitter consequences. Winner of numerous "best book" citations and infused with the rich context of history and faith, Incantation is a transcendent journey of discovery and loss, rebirth and remembrance that Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry described as "Magical and spellbinding...Painful and exquisitely beautiful."
Race in the Vampire Narrative unpacks the vampire through a collection of classroom ready original essays that explicitly connect this archetypal outsider to studies in race, ethnicity, and identity. Through essays about the first recorded vampire craze, television shows True Blood, and Being Human, movies like Blade: Trinity and Underworld, to the presentation of vampires of colour in romance novels, graphic novels, on stage and beyond, this text will open doorways to discussions about Otherness in any setting, serving as an alternative way to explore marginality through a framework that welcomes all students into the conversation. Vampires began as terrors, nightmares, the most horrifying of creatures; now they are sparkly antiheroes more likely to kill your dog than drink you to death; commodified, absorbed, and defanged. Race in the Vampire Narrative demonstrates that the vampire serves as a core metaphor for the constructions of race, and the ways in which we identify, manufacture, and commodify marginalized groups. By drawing together disparate discussions of non-white vampires in popular culture, the collection illustrates the ways in which vampires can be used to explicitly help students understand ethnicity in the modern world making this the perfect companion text to any course from First Year Studies, Sociology, History, Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies, Criminal Justice, and so much more.