Lucia's Revenge
Lucia's Revenge

Author: Henry G. Brechter

Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing

Published: 2018-09-28

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1457565331

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From the strange adventures of Oona Neeci… A New England family, with roots older than the trees from which the ill-famed Salem witches were hanged, grieves for the man whose lost life strengthened their love for him. Moving quickly to fill the void left by the family’s sudden loss is Oona Neeci, the brilliant, young metaphysicist and sorceress. Oona’s abrupt relocation puts into motion an unforeseen struggle among three powerful witches, and a desperate effort to prevent what has already happened. Written with passion and care, Lucia’s Revenge is exciting, clever, and earnestly constructed, at times poetic and lyrical, with intense characters and a strong, well-paced plot. Lucia’s Revenge offers a new voice of captivating, unfiltered adult fiction

Opera on the Couch
Opera on the Couch

Author: Steven H. Goldberg

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-06-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1000591557

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In this widely ranging collection of essays, a group of contemporary psychoanalyst/authors turn their finely-honed listening skills and clinical experience to plumb the depths and illuminate themes of character, drama, myth, culture, and psychobiography in some of the world’s most beloved operas. The richly diverse chapters are unified by a psychoanalytic approach to the nuances of unconscious mental life and emotional experience as they unfold synergistically in opera’s music, words, and drama. Opera creates a unique bridge between thought and feeling, mind and body, and conscious and unconscious that offers fertile ground for psychological exploration of profound human truths. Each piece is written in a colorful and non-technical manner that will appeal to mental health professionals, musicians, academics, and general readers wishing to better understand and appreciate opera as an art form.

Unfinished Business
Unfinished Business

Author: Dana Renga

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1442615583

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Unfinished Business is the first book to examine Italian mafia cinema of the past decade. It provides insightful analyses of popular films that sensationalize violence, scapegoat women, or repress the homosexuality of male protagonists. Dana Renga examines these works through the lens of gender and trauma theory to show how the films engage with the process of mourning and healing mafia-related trauma in Italy. Unfinished Business argues that trauma that has yet to be worked through on the national level is displaced onto the characters in the films under consideration. In a mafia context, female characters are sacrificed and non-normative sexual identities are suppressed in order to solidify traditional modes of viewer identification and to assure narrative closure, all so that the image of the nation is left unblemished.

Melodies of the Mind
Melodies of the Mind

Author: Julie Jaffee Nagel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 0415692784

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In this book, Nagel invites us to take a journey on an aural and oral road that explores music and emotion, and their links to the unconscious.

Ascendant's Rite
Ascendant's Rite

Author: David Hair

Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 1008

ISBN-13: 1681444038

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Love. Betray. Fight. Ascend. In the much-anticipated conclusion to The Moontide Quartet, the fate of Urte will be decided on the mighty Leviathan Bridge. Emperor Constant is finally ready to conquer the world. As Alaron and Ramita struggle to recover the key to the Ascendants' magic as well as one of Ramita's infant sons, Queen Cera must fight to take the reins of power and Seth Korion's Lost Legions desperately search for safety while trapped between two massive armies. The time has come for the Rite of Ascendancy to be performed, and for new powers to rise to save - or damn - Urte. The Moontide is ending.

MAPP AND LUCIA
MAPP AND LUCIA

Author: E. F. Benson

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-11-28

Total Pages: 1229

ISBN-13:

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Make Way For Lucia, also known as Mapp and Lucia, is a collective name for a series of novels by E. F. Benson about Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas and Elizabeth Mapp. The novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and one-upmanship in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery. Several of them are set in the small seaside town of Tilling, closely based on Rye, East Sussex, where Benson lived for a number of years and served as mayor. Contents: Queen Lucia Miss Mapp Lucia in London Mapp and Lucia Lucia's Progress or The Worshipful Lucia Trouble for Lucia The Male Impersonator Desirable Residences Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. He started his novel writing career in 1893 with the fashionably controversial Dodo, which was an instant success, and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural melodrama. He repeated the success of Dodo, with sequels to this novel, but the greatest success came relatively late in his career with The Mapp and Lucia series consisting of six novels and two short stories. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories.

Queen Lucia & Miss Mapp
Queen Lucia & Miss Mapp

Author: E. F. Benson

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2015-11-10

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 1101912111

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E. F. Benson’s beloved Mapp and Lucia novels are sparkling, classic comedies of manners set against the petty snobberies and competitive maneuverings of English village society in the 1920s and 1930s. Benson’s series revolves around two unforgettable characters, both forceful and irrepressible women who dominate their respective villages in southern England and who will eventually end up hilariously at war with each other. Lucia is the more deadly of the two, with her pretentious tastes, treacherous charm, and lust for power. Miss Elizabeth Mapp, on the other hand, is younger and more forceful and able to terrify her opponents into submission. Benson introduces these splendid comic creations in the first two novels of the series, Queen Lucia (1920) and Miss Mapp (1922).

The Cat Has Claws
The Cat Has Claws

Author: Viviana Rivera

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2021-08-09

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1664187154

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Everyone knows everyone and yet no one knows anyone at all. In a world where Earth is gifted with mystical creatures, one of a kind plantlife, and magic like no other, the gods finally meet their match. Wren, the Sun God, the Sun King, the man in charge of the creation of all things and is the one that brings about the Sun and Gray, the Moon God, the Moon King, the man in charge of all mortality and brings about the Moon and tide are faced with a disturbance that threatens both them and their existence. All while the threat prowls, others face their own inner demons. If they want to help their beloved gods save the world, they’ll all have to come clean. A lot is riding on the success of both royalty and commoners. The fate of existence is in their hands. Should they fail in their efforts, nothing will be left. And it will all be because the one they're up against, will always land on his feet.