Everyone has slightly different taste when it comes to comedy, but this collection of magical jokes has something for everyone to enjoy. Age-appropriate jokes will have young readers bursting with laughter. This volume is a fun way to get young, perhaps reluctant, readers interested in books and printed text. Jokes are supported with colorful and hilarious illustrations and are concise enough that readers will easily be able to remember and share them with others. Once they pick it up, witty readers won't want to put this delightful book down.
Truly a Merry Christmas! Merry Mattson has come a long way in her life—from poor and unwanted child to successful musician. One of her few ties to childhood is her continuing friendship with Holden Drake. He'd been not only her best friend but the first boy she fell in love with; now he's a wealthy and decidedly cynical divorce lawyer in California. Out of long habit, Merry visits Holden every Christmas—although they both insist that Christmas means nothing to them. This Christmas is different, though. Because Merry's engaged and she won't be joining Holden in California. Holden's convinced that she's making a mistake—and he decides to join her in Minnesota instead.
In this spellbinding finale to the acclaimed YA fantasy romance trilogy, a teenage witch must save her brother from her evil archrival. Merry has finally learned to harness her powers. She’s also gotten used to breaking the rules. So when the coven forbids her from rescuing her brother, Leo, she defies them, with terrifying consequences. An evil sorcerer has abducted Leo and taken him to an alternate reality. To get him back, Merry will have to confront enemies from her past and present, and risk the lives of everyone she’s ever loved. As her efforts cause more chaos, she will ultimately have to decide how much she’s willing to sacrifice to make things right.
Deep within each one of us lies the ability to step up and care for those in need, even though we often feel overwhelmed by a complex world. In fact, more than 200 million people throughout the world offer their time and love to volunteering.
Magical Transformations on the Early Modern Stage furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. It considers the ways in which performances of magic reflect and feed into a sense of national identity, both in the form of magic contests and in its recurrent linkage to national defence; the extent to which magic can trope other concerns, and what these might be; and how magic is staged and what the representational strategies and techniques might mean. The essays range widely over both canonical plays-Macbeth, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Doctor Faustus, Bartholomew Fair-and notably less canonical ones such as The Birth of Merlin, Fedele and Fortunio, The Merry Devil of Edmonton, The Devil is an Ass, The Late Lancashire Witches and The Witch of Edmonton, putting the two groups into dialogue with each other and also exploring ways in which they can be profitably related to contemporary cases or accusations of witchcraft. Attending to the representational strategies and self-conscious intertextuality of the plays as well as to their treatment of their subject matter, the essays reveal the plays they discuss as actively intervening in contemporary debates about witchcraft and magic in ways which themselves effect transformation rather than simply discussing it. At the heart of all the essays lies an interest in the transformative power of magic, but collectively they show that the idea of transformation applies not only to the objects or even to the subjects of magic, but that the plays themselves can be seen as working to bring about change in the ways that they challenge contemporary assumptions and stereotypes.
