A reluctant predator, Eleisha Clevon is determined to locate all vampires still existing in isolation, so she might offer them sanctuary at her home in Portland-and more importantly, so she can teach them to feed without killing. But the beautiful and delicate Simone Stratford doesn't want to be saved. Made into a vampire in the Roaring Twenties, she enjoys playing her own elaborate games with mortals, stoking their passion for her before finally draining them of their blood. And soon Eleisha and her protector, Philip Branté, find themselves caught up in one of Simone's games, which turns into a battle for Eleisha's life and Philip's soul...
Shocked when an old friend destroys himself by walking into the sunlight in front of her, vampire Eleisha Clevon finds herself the target of two very special police detectives with some unique gifts of their own and a knowledge of who and what she really is. Original.
The renowned Christian preacher and New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching world religions to undergraduates in Baptist-saturated rural Georgia, revealing how God delights in confounding our expectations. Christians are taught that God is everywhere--a tenet that is central to Barbara Brown Taylor's life and faith. In Holy Envy, she continues her spiritual journey, contemplating the myriad ways she encountered God while exploring other faiths with her students in the classroom, and on field trips to diverse places of worship. Both she and her students ponder how the knowledge and insights they have gained raise important questions about belief, and explore how different practices relate to their own faith. Inspired by this intellectual and spiritual quest, Barbara turns once again to the Bible for guidance, to see what secrets lay buried there. Throughout Holy Envy, Barbara weaves together stories from her classroom with reflections on how her own spiritual journey has been challenged and renewed by connecting with people of other traditions--and by meeting God in them. At the heart of her odyssey is her trust that it is God who pushes her beyond her comfortable boundaries and calls us to "disown" our privatised versions of the divine--a change that ultimately deepens her relationship with both the world and with God, and ours.
The co-author of the bestselling Noble Dead novels continues her ?exhilarating?(SF Revu) new vampire series. Eleisha Clevon has begun a correspondence with fellow vampire Rose de Spenser. Both reluctant predators, they venture outside only when the hunger becomes unbearable, trying not to draw attention to themselves?and feel guilty when ending human lives. But Eleisha has learned a way to draw blood from her victims without killing them. She wants to share this knowledge with like-minded vampires and create a haven where they can exist together?and forge a united front against Julian Ashton, a vampire who has been hunting down and destroying his own kind?
Krasny brings his wide-ranging knowledge and perceptive intelligence to a thoughtful and thought-provoking exploration of belief--and lack of belief. He helps believers and nonbelievers alike understand their own questions about faith and religion. Personal and universal, timely and timeless, this is a deeply wise yet warmly welcoming conversation, an invitation to ask one's own questions--no matter how inconclusive the answers.
Book 1 in The Series EnvyEnvy wakes to a life she doesn't remember and a husband she doesn't know. She tries to do what is expected but nothing seems or feels right about a life on a farm. Allen, her husband she's told, is frustrated and afraid of losing her completely, so tries to readjust his life for her. Unhappy in the quietness of the country she wants Paris and excitement. Allen is willing to try anything and takes them away for change in lifestyle. Envy is reunited with an old flame which sparks her first real memories since the surgery that caused her memory loss. Will she stay with a husband she doesn't know or start her life a new with a man she has a few flashes of memory of?Butler, Envy's little brother, comes in with his own method of helping her get over the nonsense of Envy and Paris, with an education on her life. This spurs on another move back to the farmhouse and then another to the beginning of her and Allen's relationship. They have a fresh start on the college campus that they fell in love on. But even returning to the roots of their love isn't enough if trust isn't there. Will the return of her memories change their fragile relationship? With still another move Envy starts her life over alone, only to be faced with the choice of Allen or her old flame Forrest. Will Allen let her go without a fight, or can they find a way back to their love? Series Chances by Tammy BurnetteTaking My Chance (Jill and Dex)Second Chance (Jill and Dex)Taking My Chance (Lexie and Jake)No Regrets (Lexie and Jake)Taking My Chance (Alyssa and Dexter)Our Family (Love and Survival) Summer and Sunshine (Love and Contracts)Music and Love (DNA and Contracts)Two Cities (Two Primes)Builder of Cities (Kane's Journey)Sisters by Choice (Silver and Gold)Other Books That One PhotoSorrow and HeartbreakLucky to Have HimA Path in LifeShit and PissFrying PanThe Water's EdgeSapphireI Trust YouCastles in the SandSeries EnvyEnvyNot a One-Night Stand
Can we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit catastrophic histories not through direct recollection but through haunting postmemories--multiply mediated images, objects, stories, behaviors, and affects passed down within the family and the culture at large. In these new and revised critical readings of the literary and visual legacies of the Holocaust and other, related sites of memory, Marianne Hirsch builds on her influential concept of postmemory. The book's chapters, two of which were written collaboratively with the historian Leo Spitzer, engage the work of postgeneration artists and writers such as Art Spiegelman, W.G. Sebald, Eva Hoffman, Tatana Kellner, Muriel Hasbun, Anne Karpff, Lily Brett, Lorie Novak, David Levinthal, Nancy Spero and Susan Meiselas. Grappling with the ethics of empathy and identification, these artists attempt to forge a creative postmemorial aesthetic that reanimates the past without appropriating it. In her analyses of their fractured texts, Hirsch locates the roots of the familial and affiliative practices of postmemory in feminism and other movements for social change. Using feminist critical strategies to connect past and present, words and images, and memory and gender, she brings the entangled strands of disparate traumatic histories into more intimate contact. With more than fifty illustrations, her text enables a multifaceted encounter with foundational and cutting edge theories in memory, trauma, gender, and visual culture, eliciting a new understanding of history and our place in it.
National bestselling authors Barb and J. C. Hendee present the newest breathtaking chapter in the epic Noble Dead saga.... Waylaid in their quest for the orb of the Air, Magiere, Leesil, Chap, and Wayfarer have all been wrongly imprisoned. But it is Magiere, the dhampir, who suffers the most as a cloaked interrogator employs telepathic torture. Arriving at the Suman port city in search of Magiere, Wynn Hygeorht and her companions--including vampire Chane Andraso--seek out Domin Ghassan il'Sänke for assistance, which proves no easy task. The domin is embroiled in a secret hunt for a spectral undead with the power to invade anyone living and take the body as its host. Even if Wynn can manage to free her friends from prison, battling this entirely new kind of undead hidden inside host bodies may be a challenge none of them can survive....
