Download or read book Hidden written by Melody Grace Hicks and published by Melody Grace Hicks. This book was released on 2024-11-18 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a steamy encounter with Asgard's Black Prince unlocks her genetics, an unsuspecting scientist discovers not only are gods real, she is one. Can she survive mythological worlds that hold dangers she’s never imagined? When Shannon boards her flight to London, she's stunned her seatmate is a famous singer/songwriter and actor Tod Corvus. Their rawly sensual union forges an unbreakable connection, triggering her dormant genes, while uncovering his hidden identity as Loki, Asgardian God of Chaos, Story, and Song. With her worldview and sense of identity shattered, Shannon reels at the destruction of everything she's worked to build in her life. How can she trust her heart to another after her painful past? But more than her feelings are at stake. Mastering her awakened goddess powers presents its own challenges as anger generates a wall of fire or fear spawns a tornado. With mythology coming to life around her in an expanding universe beyond Earth, adjusting to her new reality requires time she may not have. Loki never expected to be blessed with a soulmate, especially after the murder of his Valkyrie wife and the tragic death of his oldest brother. Finding Shannon, then losing her within hours of her goddess transformation is devastating. And it's his fault. As a new immortal of unknown background, she has yet to learn the range of her abilities, how to protect herself, or even what threats await her. Asgard’s powerful Black Prince has never feared his enemies. Until now. Now, he has everything to lose. If you enjoy Katee Robert's Dark Olympus series, Sarah J. Maas’ Throne of Glass, ACOTAR, or Crescent City series, Rebecca Yarros' Fourth Wing, or Nalini Singh’s Archangel series, you won’t be able to put down Loki and Shannon’s story. Don’t miss out on this first book of the Triquetra Prophecy and introduction to the Gods Among Us universe.

Download or read book The Trickster written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an examination of the use of the trickster in classic literary works.

Download or read book The Bedtrick written by Wendy Doniger and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling. In a tour that runs from Shakespeare to Hollywood and from Abraham Lincoln to Casanova, the erudite and irrepressible Wendy Doniger shows us the variety, danger, and allure of the "bedtrick," or what it means to wake up with a stranger. The Bedtrick brings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the latest item in the Weekly World News, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people manage to get themselves into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands. You will read Lincoln's truly terrible poem about a bedtrick. You will learn that in Hong Kong the film The Crying Game was retitled Oh No! My Girlfriend Has a Penis. And that President Clinton was not the first man to be identified by an idiosyncratic organ. At the bottom of these wonderful stories, ancient myths, and historical anecdotes lie the dynamics of sex and gender, power and identity. Why can't people tell the difference in the dark? Can love always tell the difference between one lover and another? And what kind of truth does sex tell? Funny, sexy, and engaging, The Bedtrick is a masterful work of energetic storytelling and dazzling scholarship. Give it to your spouse and your lover.

Download or read book The Female Trickster written by Ricki Stefanie Tannen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Female Trickster presents a Post-Jungian postmodern perspective regarding the role of women in contemporary Western society by investigating the re-emergence of female trickster energy in all aspects of popular culture. Ricki Tannen explores the psychological aspects of what happened when women’s imagination was legally and psychologically enclosed millennia ago and demonstrates how the re-emergence of Trickster energy through the female imagination has the radical potential to effect a transformation of western consciousness. Examples are drawn from a diverse range of sources, from Jane Austen, and female sleuth narratives, to Madonna and Sex and the City, illustrating how Trickster energy is used not to maintain power and control but to integrate and unite the paradoxical through humour. Subjects covered include: imagination and metaphor the traditional trickster law and the imagination humour: Eros using logos the postmodern female trickster. This highly original perspective on women's role in contemporary culture will offer readers a new vision of how humour psychologically operates as a healthy adaptation to trauma and adversity. It will be of great interest to all analytical psychologists and psychoanalysts as well as those in women's, cultural, legal and literary studies.

Download or read book The Trickster Shift written by Allan J. Ryan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trickster Shift not only presents some of the most stunningly original examples of contemporary Native art but also allows the artists to offer their own insights into the creative process and the nature of Native humour.

Download or read book written by Janette Turner Hospital and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissue of a novel first published 1988. It is a story of passion and obsession that ranges in setting from an Australian rainforest to Boston and Toronto. A mysterious and elusive love affair haunts the lives of three women in Australia. Twenty years later, on the other side of the world, Charade Ryan sorts through story and counter-story for her father, the legendary Nicholas, and the truth about her origins. This novel was included in the 'New York Times Book Review's' 50 most notable novels of the year, was in the top 16 for the Booker Prize, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin, the Banjo and the Adelaide Festival National Fiction Awards. Author has written many award-winning novels including 'The Last Magician' and 'The Ivory Swing' and the short story collections 'Dislocations' and 'Isobars'.

Download or read book Sixty written by Steve Fly and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psyfly slack comedy that streams leaking tongues and 3D printed rituals. E.T is building home using C60 technology, peanut butter and audio equipment. Introducing an A.I VR 3D music research program, and the strange paranormal events taking place within the laboratory on the hill, various electrical stores, and within the minds of our intrepid trippers. DJ, Drummer and writer, Steve Fly presents his first experimental novel: Sixty. He currently resides in Bristol, England. However this novel was constructed in Amsterdam 2010-2015.

Download or read book Trailer Park Trickster written by David R. Slayton and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are my harvest, and I will reap them all. Returning to Guthrie, Oklahoma, for the funeral of his mysterious and beloved aunt Sue, Adam Binder once again finds himself in the path of deadly magic when a dark druid begins to prey on members of Adam’s family. It all seems linked to the death of Adam’s father many years ago—a man who may have somehow survived as a warlock. Watched by the police, separated from the man who may be the love of his life, compelled to seek the truth about his connection to the druid, Adam learns more about his family and its troubled history than he ever bargained for, and finally comes face-to-face with the warlock he has vowed to stop. Meanwhile, beyond the Veil of the mortal world, Argent the Queen of Swords and Vic the Reaper undertake a dangerous journey to a secret meeting of the Council of Races . . . where the sea elves are calling for the destruction of humanity.

Download or read book An Ordinary Girl s Book written by Tina Mack and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In An Ordinary Girls Story a simple girl has taken her life and exposed some of the bare secrets. A collection of thoughts and life messages are outlined to try and help people understand people with borderline personality disorder. Living life with a personality disorder isnt the easiest, but understanding it is even harder for some people. This book will take you right inside the mind and let you see how some thoughts are processed. Exposing how misunderstood one could be. I hope you enjoy my story and my poems.

Download or read book December s Thorn written by Phillip DePoy and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "December's thorn, cruelest in the wood, Will give no rose, but still draw blood" —Traditional Fever Devilin is an academic with a complicated past and an unusual view of the world. A folklorist by training, he's returned to his family home in Blue Mountain, a small town in the heart of Georgia's Appalachian Mountains, where nothing is ever quite what it seems, and the past is always complicated. Still recovering from a near-death experience, Fever is visited by a woman who claims to be his wife. And she's there to deliver some shocking news: Fever has a son. His friends don't really believe the woman exists—they think she's another hallucination of a mind still slowly recovering from a long-term coma. Fever's fiancée is torn between being outraged and concerned for his mental health. None of this is helped by the fact that Fever, even in the best of times, has a tendency to see things that others don't and that may not, strictly speaking, exist. But when someone starts shooting very real bullets from a very real rifle in Fever's direction, the one thing that everyone can agree upon is that there's something very deadly going on. In this novel from Phillip DePoy, all Fever has to do is sort out who is trying to kill him—and why—before they succeed.

Download or read book Moses Jesus and the Trickster in the Evangelical South written by Paul Harvey and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Harvey uses four characters that are important symbols of religious expression in the American South to survey major themes of religion, race, and southern history. The figure of Moses helps us better understand how whites saw themselves as a chosen people in situations of suffering and war and how Africans and African Americans reworked certain stories in the Bible to suit their own purposes. By applying the figure of Jesus to the central concerns of life, Harvey argues, southern evangelicals were instrumental in turning him into an American figure. The ghostly presence of the Trickster, hovering at the edges of the sacred world, sheds light on the Euro-American and African American folk religions that existed alongside Christianity. Finally, Harvey explores twentieth-century renderings of the biblical story of Absalom in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom and in works from Toni Morrison and Edward P. Jones. Harvey uses not only biblical and religious sources but also draws on literature, mythology, and art. He ponders the troubling meaning of “religious freedom” for slaves and later for blacks in the segregated South. Through his cast of four central characters, Harvey reveals diverse facets of the southern religious experience, including conceptions of ambiguity, darkness, evil, and death.

Download or read book Don t Taunt The Trickster written by Melody Grace Hicks and published by Melody Grace Hicks. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When my fictional character invaded my reality, this fantasy romance writer resorts to underhanded tricks of her own to deal with Loki. *** Asgard’s Dark Prince warned me. Almost from his first appearance, he told me he wants my attention, and he’s not a fan of sharing me with my other characters. Yet, despite all the possessive looks and words, he’s yet to follow through. Maybe he’s just all hot air, but that’s not how I’ve written the character, so what’s going on? Perhaps Loki needs a little more inspiration to finally act. He’s certainly got me curious to see what else he might have in store for me. After all, sometimes to get what you want, you have to play dirty. *** If you like hot Norse mythology tales featuring spicy gods, a dash of magic, and humour woven around a predominately urban fantasy, dive into this metafiction series. In this third episode, you'll find themes of scandalous hero, bargain comes due, polyamory, dominant alpha male, love triangle, and fish out of water. Season One consists of twelve episodes, each telling the tale of a fantasy romance writer and her ongoing struggle to write her trilogy while her characters turn her once boring life into chaos every time they invade her reality. She wouldn't be foolish enough to fall in love with a character, would she?

Download or read book The Trickster written by Jane Downing and published by Pandanus Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in contemporary times and incorporating the legends of the trickster god Letao, this novel addresses issues large and small: evangelical Christianity, mother-child bonding, turtle flesh for sale in the supermarket, how a coconut can talk...

Download or read book Some Honeymoon written by Charles Everett Hall and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Trickster in the Ashes written by Felicity Savage and published by Knights Hill Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his birth in the back of a truck, Crispin Kateralbin has been a daemon handler, a trapeze artist, a fighter pilot, a street entertainer, a deckhand, a dock laborer, and a wanted man. Now the war that divided Oceania for a hundred years is over, and Crispin has achieved wealth and anonymity as a middleman for a drug-smuggling monopolist. On the far side of the continent, Crispin’s first lover Rae Akila has joined a cult that worships daemons. And in Okimako, Mickey Ash fights Greater Significance for the right to live. When these three come together again, the world will change.

Download or read book Playing Games written by Randolph Feezell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is sport? Why does sport matter? How can we use philosophy to understand what sport means today? This engaging and highly original introduction to the philosophy of sport uses dialogue – a form of philosophical investigation – to address the fundamental questions in sport studies and to explore key contemporary issues such as fair play, gender, drug use, cheating, entertainment and identity. Providing a clear, informative and accessible introduction to the philosophy of sport, every chapter includes current sporting examples as well as review questions and guides to further reading. The dialogue form enables students to engage in debate and raise questions, while encouraging them to think from the perspectives of athlete, coach, spectator and philosopher. The issues raised present real and complex ethical dilemmas that relate to a variety of sports from around the world such as soccer, athletics, baseball, basketball, hockey and tennis. No other book brings this rich subject to life through the use of dialogue, making this an indispensable companion to any course on the philosophy or ethics of sport.

Download or read book The Gates of Heaven written by Curt Benjamin and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evil sorcerer Markko has sworn to capture the last of Prince Llesho's brothers. If Markko succeeds, Llesho will not be able to save Thebin, or reopen the Gates of Heaven. As murder and dark magic threaten Llesho's alliances, he realizes his only chance lies in finding his brothers first. So begins a desperate hunt that will lead the prince from the slave market to a sea voyage fraught with perils, and an incredible discovery about the sorcerer who seems bent on his destruction.