Download or read book Devious Ritual written by Julie Thorn and published by Julie Thorn. This book was released on with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say Halloween is the ‘Day of the Dead.’ Some even say it’s the safest day to kill someone, especially because no one will think it’s real. But is it also the best and safest day of the year to kidnap a girl you’ve been infatuated with? Quite possibly, yes. Liam has been obsessed with Audrey ever since they almost kissed. Now he has to make up for lost time. But just how far is he willing to go? Content Warning: This is a short story of around 12,000 words. It contains explicit sex scenes, adult themes and adult language. Also, please note that this book contains instalove and instalust. There are also supernatural elements that can be considered unrealistic. If any of that bothers you, you won’t enjoy this story. Trigger Warning: Please read the content warning at the beginning of the book as there are themes that might be triggering for some readers. Intended for readers 18 and older! With that said, curl up with your favorite blanket, some wine and enjoy this steamy Halloween-themed fantasy romance story! "Your e-reader might melt after you read this hot book. You've been warned!"~Julie ❤ Keywords that best describe this book include: halloween romance, dark romance, erotic horror romance, erotic thriller, paranormal romance, paranormal sex, obsessed, possessive hero, primal play, stalker, instalove, erotic suspense, romantic suspense, romantic erotica, short erotica, erotic horror, erotic short, alpha male romance, contemporary romance, dating, dirty talk, forced proximity, hot hero, love story, new release, novella, secret obsession, sexy, short reads, short story, small town, stalker romance, stalker romance books, strong heroine, paranormal erotica, supernatural erotica, paranormal adult romance, paranormal adult, steamy paranormal, halloween steamy romance *Readers who read books by Julie Thorn also enjoy books by: Jenika Snow, Jessa Kane, Olivia T. Turner, Jenna Rose, Lena Little, Lucy Darling, Ever Lilac, Penny Wylder, Cassie Mint, Ella Goode

Download or read book Changed Forever Volume I written by Arnold Krupat and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changed Forever is the first study to gather a range of texts produced by Native Americans who, voluntarily or through compulsion, attended government-run boarding schools in the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth centuries. Arnold Krupat examines Hopi, Navajo, and Apache boarding-school narratives that detail these students' experiences. The book's analyses are attentive to the topics (topoi) and places (loci) of the boarding schools. Some of these topics are: (re-)Naming students, imposing on them the regimentation of Clock Time, compulsory religious instruction and practice, and corporal punishment, among others. These topics occur in a variety of places, like the Dormitory, the Dining Room, the Chapel, and the Classroom. Krupat's close readings of these narratives provide cultural and historical context as well as critical commentary. In her study of the Chilocco Indian School, K. Tsianina Lomawaima asked poignantly, "What has become of the thousands of Indian voices who spoke the breath of boarding-school life?" Changed Forever lets us hear some of them.

Download or read book Reel Rituals written by Parley Ann Boswell and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boswell (English, Eastern Illinois U., Charleston) and Loukides (English, Albion College) examine cinematic renditions of the rituals of the godfathers, childhood occasions, weddings, wakes, funerals, burials, and luminous moments. They include no illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book From Ritual to Record written by Allen Guttmann and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978, From Ritual to Record was one of the first books to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of societies. In this reissue, Guttmann emphasizes the many ways that modern sports, dramatically different from the sports of previous eras, have profoundly shaped contemporary life.

Download or read book Jack the Ripper s Black Magic Rituals written by Ivor Edwards and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, the horrific, fascinating mystery of Jack the Ripper has endured. The ghastly crimes of the world's most notorious serial killer have gone down in history as the most nauseating acts one man could ever inflict upon his fellow human beings; and since they were committed, contemporary sleuths have spent many lifetimes attempting to identify the man behind the myth. Bizarrely, nobody has yet revealed the identity of the true murderer to the satisfaction of ripperologists everywhere. This book seeks to change this. Taking the reader on a step-by-step journey through the precise events at the core of the Ripper's reign of terror, the text covers a sickening, twisted melange of murder and black magic, aiming to change forever the way these crimes are perceived

Download or read book Black Rituals written by Sterling Plumpp and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sterling Plumpp contrasts the rituals of Africa with African American rituals that have emerged in the twentieth century.

Download or read book Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America written by Mark Christopher Carnes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of American 19th-century secret orders, the author argues that religious practices and gender roles became increasingly feminized in Victorian America and that secret societies, such as the Freemasons, offered men and boys an alternative, male counterculture.

Download or read book India written by Aline Dobbie and published by Melrose Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From her infancy the author has been fascinated by that most magnificent and elusive of beasts, the tiger. Her second book on India, [this] is a personal account of her pilgramage to India's great wildlife parks and tiger sanctuaries ... and provides a comprehensive study of Ranthambhore, Bandhavgarh, Kanha and Corbett Tiger Reserves as well as detailed backgrounds to Nagarahole, Kaziranga, Pench, Bharatpur and Gir National Park, home of the rare Asiatic Lion ... In addition, the author highlights the continuing threat to India's tigers and the on-going efforts to protect them ... Dobbie is a Hindi speaker and uses her many contacts and childhood reminiscences to great effect throughout this book. The reader will also find valuable information on some of India's historical gems such as Gwalior, Orchha, Sonagiri, Mandu, Sanchi and Bhimbetka as well as the hill station of Nainital. India: The Tiger's Roar is certainly not a travel guide, nor a guide to the wildlife of India, although it is an excellent source of information on both subjects. Instead it is a heady blend of travelogue and personal insight, cultural and political philosophy, anecdotes, cautionary tales, historical and religious references and a thesis on the state of Indian wildlife conservation.

Download or read book Mandarins and Heretics written by Junqing Wu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mandarins and Heretics, Wu Junqing explores the denunciation and persecution of lay religious groups in late imperial (14th to 20th century) China. These groups varied greatly in their organisation and teaching, yet in official state records they are routinely portrayed as belonging to the same esoteric tradition, stigmatised under generic labels such as “White Lotus” and “evil teaching”, and accused of black magic, sedition and messianic agitation. Wu Junqing convincingly demonstrates that this “heresy construct” was not a reflection of historical reality but a product of the Chinese historiographical tradition, with its uncritical reliance on official sources. The imperial heresy construct remains influential in modern China, where it contributes to shaping policy towards unlicensed religious groups.

Download or read book Interaction Ritual Chains written by Randall Collins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force: interaction rituals. Interaction Ritual Chains is a major work of sociological theory that attempts to develop a "radical microsociology." It proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group membership and pump up individuals with emotional energy, while failed rituals drain emotional energy. Each person flows from situation to situation, drawn to those interactions where their cultural capital gives them the best emotional energy payoff. Thinking, too, can be explained by the internalization of conversations within the flow of situations; individual selves are thoroughly and continually social, constructed from the outside in. The first half of Interaction Ritual Chains is based on the classic analyses of Durkheim, Mead, and Goffman and draws on micro-sociological research on conversation, bodily rhythms, emotions, and intellectual creativity. The second half discusses how such activities as sex, smoking, and social stratification are shaped by interaction ritual chains. For example, the book addresses the emotional and symbolic nature of sexual exchanges of all sorts--from hand-holding to masturbation to sexual relationships with prostitutes--while describing the interaction rituals they involve. This book will appeal not only to psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists, but to those in fields as diverse as human sexuality, religious studies, and literary theory.

Download or read book The Identity of Angiarts written by Angi Perretti and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTRODUCING !! An Art Zealot with Super Powers from the Art Gods! An Adventurous Muse for Artistic Inspiration!! A perpetually adventurous muse is on a mission to inspire the cultural history of the City Beautiful! The Identity of AngiArts is a modern-day legend that stages the fictitious life and identity transformation of a 21st century comic-book-style cartoon character for the Arts. I created this identity with the sole intention to rally and promote the arts and culture movement in downtown Orlando. The story narrates her fairy-tale life before the reality of her current presencewhere she came from and how she got here; who she is today and why she landed in downtown Orlando. This Letterbook Story you hold in your hands was written to be read while relaxing on a picnic blanket on the shores of the beautiful Lake Eola. It stages an interactive, literary theatre experience like no other. This vintage letterbook story book becomes a keepsake for all cultural book lovers. Journal your "genie magic" experience inside the book to document a soulful revelation that may lead to unimaginable places of joy. After a brief adventure through story-book fantasy, art sculpture lovers, letterboxing enthusiasts, and other literary adventurers are instructed to follow the monument map at the end of the story to find the legendary landing spot of AngiArts. Your mission is to ponder a moment of soulful self-prophecy, while embarking on a personal quest for artistic inspiration. Letterboxers, seek the letterbox treasure cache hidden somewhere at the AA landing sight. Poof! Youre there! Dont forget to bring your logbooks. And, Leave No Trace. You are standing at the Monument for Artistic Inspiration. But what is this book really about? Its about a lot of things at once! Its about a soulful revelation in my life to reinvent myself; Its about a little farm girl from Miami who tells the story of her childhood dreams in fairy-tale format; Its about imagining something very original. Yet, I was totally inspired by all the great artistic icons of the second millennium, like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and even the great American icons like Norman Rockwell and Charles M. Schulz. But reallyits all about making art happen in my community the AngiArts way. The Identity of AngiArts is the result of a personal, inner-thought process that has possessed me to react with such intensity. It dramatizes a heart-quakin and a soul-shakin adventure, delving deeply into the fantasy of my dreams, but resurfacing its way upwardright back into my present lifeturning full circle to portray my unique Walking~Works~of~Art creations to you. I hope you get just as much fun and laughter reading this book as I did writing it!

Download or read book City of Virtues written by Chuck Wooldridge and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Nanjing’s history, writers have claimed that its spectacular landscape of mountains and rivers imbued the city with “royal qi,” making it a place of great political significance. City of Virtues examines the ways a series of visionaries, drawing on past glories of the city, projected their ideologies onto Nanjing as they constructed buildings, performed rituals, and reworked the literary heritage of the city. More than an urban history of Nanjing from the late 18th century until 1911 — encompassing the Opium War, the Taiping occupation of the city, the rebuilding of the city by Zeng Guofan, and attempts to establish it as the capital of the Republic of China — this study shows how utopian visions of the cosmos shaped Nanjing’s path through the turbulent 19th century.

Download or read book Dark Blue written by Elliott Motl and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ryland Ferris is a well-known television ghost hunter. When the cameras are off he’s a psychic medium able to see and hear the very ghosts he investigates. The living and the dead fight for his attention and help. Both collide when Ryland’s latest investigation brings him back to his hometown in Rhode Island. Old rivals and estranged family members plead for the medium to stop a sinister, looming presence. An ancient spirit oppresses the town and sinks its claws into the people Ryland cares for most. He soon realizes the dead are controlling the living. The masked spirit has an agenda. It isn’t looking for absolution. It isn’t preparing for damnation. The spirit plans on living again and Ryland Ferris is its only way back to life.

Download or read book The Hako a Pawnee Ceremony written by Alice Cunningham Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hako written by Alice Cunningham Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Devious written by Lisa Jackson and published by Bentz/Montoya Novel. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the body of young novice Sister Camille is found garroted in St. Marguerite's cathedral, New Orleans Detectives Bentz and Montoya are called in. Bentz is sure Father O'Toole is their man. But there are other suspects, too, including a ruthless murderer believed to have died years ago.

Download or read book Art and Ritual in the Black Diaspora written by Paul Griffith and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archetypes of Transition in Diaspora Art and Ritual examines residually oral conventions that shape the black diaspora imaginary in the Caribbean and America. Colonial humanist violations and inverse issues of black cultural and psychological affirmation are indexed in terms of a visionary gestalt according to which inner and outer realities unify creatively in natural and metaphysical orders. Paul Griffith’s central focus is hermeneutical, examining the way in which religious and secular symbols inherent in rite and word as in vodun, limbo, the spirituals, puttin’ on ole massa, and dramatic and narrative structures, for example, are made basic to the liberating post-colonial struggle. This evident interpenetration of political and religious visions looks back to death-rebirth traditions through which African groups made sense of the intervention of evil into social order. Herein, moreover, the explanatory, epistemic, and therapeutic structures of art and ritual share correspondences with the mythic archetypes that Carl Jung posits as a psychological inheritance of human beings universally.