Valeskas
Valeskas

Author: Myrica Moss

Publisher: Myrica Moss

Published: 2023-12-06

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13:

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An incantation transferred a Dragon Lord’s spirit into a human’s body. Can two companions reverse it before it becomes permanent? A dark priestess, intent on escaping through an enchanted door into another world, invokes a dragon from his prison, The Void, into the human body of a pirate so he can locate and capture a young but powerful light goddess to assist her in gaining her freedom. However, the longer the dragon stays in the pirate’s body, the more human he becomes, and as he frantically searches for the young goddess, she is also searching for him to break the priestess’s enchantment and send him back to The Void, and free the pirate. This fourth and final book in the Dragon’s Tear Chronicles follows the stories of Kaida and Meelay as they attempt to break Hariah’s enchantment and return the Blood Dragon, Valeskas, to The Void.

Valeska Soares
Valeska Soares

Author: Vanessa K. Davidson

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780692932841

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"This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition Valeska Soares: Any Moment Now, organized by Julie Joyce and Vanessa Davidson, and presented at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, September 17-December 31, 2017, and the Phoenix Art Museum, March 24-July 15 2018."

Saressa's Child
Saressa's Child

Author: Myrica Moss

Publisher: Myrica Moss

Published: 2021-12-11

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 1737034824

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A dark priestess-backed tyrannical lord hunts and slaughters followers of another faith. Can an alliance of strangers defeat him before he succeeds? A warlord orders raiding parties to find and destroy the faithful followers of a goddess. A priest and followers flee and hide in a cave for safety, but the attackers are approaching their location. A young woman who has just discovered her true identity joins forces with others determined to rescue the trapped group and escort them to another world and safety. A peaceful king joins them after one of his subjects is kidnapped and tortured at the direction of the warlord. Together they plan to combine forces to end his tyranny. A high priestess of a dark god assists the warlord to build an army against the goddesses’ followers. However, her true purpose is to locate the young woman heading towards his compound because she needs her power to escape the confines of a ruined temple. She has also summoned a demon lord from his prison in the Void and transferred him into an innocent pirate’s body to assist her. The dragon guarding the greatest source of magic in existence, The Dragon’s Tear, discovers her plans and summons assistance of his own to stop her. This second book in The Dragon’s Tear Chronicles series follows the story of Raven and Shayla and their animal companions, a wolf named Motomo and a horse named Daybreak.

The Hunting Wind
The Hunting Wind

Author: Steve Hamilton

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Published: 2002-04-15

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1429905093

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Before he became a private investigator, before he served in the Detroit police, and long before he retreated to the wintry reaches of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Alex McKnight played ball in the minor leagues. He doesn't spend much time thinking about those days, at least not until a former teammate comes looking for him. . . . The man's here to ask a favor. He wants Alex to help him find the woman with whom he had a brief, passionate affair three decades ago. Who is Alex to deny his friend a chance to ward off a classic midlife chill by rekindling an old flame? But as the search deepens, McKnight begins to suspect that he hasn't been told the full story. And there might just be a reason why this mysterious woman is so hard to find. The Hunting Wind continues Steve Hamilton's award-winning and New York Times-bestselling Alex McKnight series.

Out For Good
Out For Good

Author: Dudley Clendinen

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-07-30

Total Pages: 741

ISBN-13: 1476740712

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The definitive account of the gay rights movement, Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney's Out for Good is comprehensive, authoritative, and excellently written. This is the definitive account of the last great struggle for equal rights in the twentieth century. From the birth of the modern gay rights movement in 1969, at the Stonewall riots in New York, through 1988, when the gay rights movement was eclipsed by the more urgent demands of AIDS activists, this is the remarkable and—until now—untold story of how a largely invisible population of men and women banded together to create their place in America’s culture and government. Told through the voices of gay activists and their opponents, filled with dozens of colorful characters, Out for Good traces the emergence of gay rights movements in cities across the country and their transformation into a national force that changed the face of America forever. Out for Good is the unforgettable chronicle of an important—and nearly lost—chapter in American history.

The Dragon's Tear Chronicles
The Dragon's Tear Chronicles

Author: Myrcia Moss

Publisher: Myrica Moss

Published: 2020-12-13

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13:

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A demon-backed necromancer hunts a powerful source of magic. Can an alliance of strangers defeat evil before they're all destroyed? In times long past, an evil god invades a peaceful goddess's universe with Dark Ones, blood drinkers. Her beloved dragons become infected, and the other gods and goddesses intervene to assist her. They create a pact with the evil god. This pact allows the goddess to cast the Dark Ones into an unfinished world of hers. Her infected dragons agree to sacrifice themselves to create an orb of great power from their souls, named the Dragon's Tear. One dragon remains to guard it. A Gypsy seeking darker powers finds a crystal that opens a door into another world. There he learns of the Dragon's Tear and wants it. He believes he can discover powerful magic from the Dark Ones to help him find it. He creates a rift into their world by accident, setting them free. Now bitten, he is also infected, and the released Dark Ones are causing chaos. So, he creates a magical seal to close the rift and resumes his search for the Tear, now joined by a demon lord. The dragon, who guards it, is forced to summon help to stop them. A group of characters joins to assist the dragon, avenge wrongs and prevent the perpetrator from gaining possession of the most significant power source ever created. In this epic fantasy story, a small group of heroes join to try and stop an evil perpetrator from gaining possession of the greatest power source ever created, unaware that he has the assistance of a demon lord who desperately wants it too.

Watching Weimar Dance
Watching Weimar Dance

Author: Kate Elswit

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-07-17

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0199844828

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Watching Weimar Dance asks what audiences saw on stages from cabaret and revue to concert dance and experimental theatre in the turbulent moment of the Weimar Republic. Spectator reports that performers died or became half-machine archive not only the physicality of past performance, but also the ways audiences used the temporary world of the theatre to negotiate pressing social issues, from female visibility within commodity culture to human functioning in an era of increasing technologization. Archives of watching a range of performance artists, including Oskar Schlemmer, Valeska Gert, Kurt Jooss, Mary Wigman, Bertolt Brecht, Anita Berber, and the Tiller Girl troupes also revise and complicate our understanding of Ausdruckstanz as the representative dance of this moment in Germany. They further reveal how such practices came to be imbued with different significance in the postwar era as well as in transnational context. By bringing insights from theatre, dance, and performance studies to German cultural studies, and vice versa, Watching Weimar Dance develops a culturally-situated model of spectatorship that not only offers a new narrative but also demonstrates new methods for dance scholarship to shape cultural history.

Entering History
Entering History

Author: Silke von der Emde

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9783039101580

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This book offers a thorough examination of the novels of Irmtraud Morgner (1933-1990), one of the most talented, compelling and overlooked writers within East German feminist and avant-garde circles. Using a combination of theoretical approaches - including Adorno's aesthetic theories and Bakhtinian analyses of dialogism and the carnivalesque - the author traces Morgner's engagement with postmodernist aesthetic strategies back to her efforts, beginning in the early 1970s, to pose questions about effective political practices. Morgner's work sheds new light on the fraught relationship between GDR intellectuals and the state, a hotly debated topic that marks most recent attempts to understand literary culture in the German Democratic Republic. Situating Morgner's fiction at the intersection of postmodern and feminist theory, this study also offers new evidence for viewing literature from the GDR as significantly more complex and aesthetically interesting than has been previously assumed.

Back to the Future of the Body
Back to the Future of the Body

Author: Dominic Janes

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2013-02-14

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1443846309

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What can the past tell us about the future(s) of the body? The origins of this collection of papers lie in the work of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities which has been involved in presenting a series of international workshops and conferences on the theme of the cultural life of the body. The rationale for these events was that, in concepts as diverse as the cyborg, the questioning of mind/body dualism, the contemporary image of the suicide bomber and the patenting of human genes, we can identify ways in which the future of the human body is at stake. This volume represents an attempt, not so much to speculate about what might happen, but to develop strategies for bodily empowerment so as to get “back to the future of the body”. The body, it is contended, is not to be thought of as an “object” or a “sign” but as an active participant in the shaping of cultural formations. And this is emphatically not an exercise in digging corpses out of the historical archive. The question is, rather, what can past lived and thought experiences of the body tell us about what the body can be(come)? “The continuing vitality of debate around the body was proven by the range and depth of the papers presented at the workshop on which this volume is based, ‘does the body have a future?’ Our overall theme required contributors to think through embodiment in the past. This they did with considerable interdisciplinary vigour, rigorousness and imagination.” Prof. Donna Dickenson, Director, Birkbeck Institute of the Humanities