This eclectic, wide-ranging anthology of essays, art, poetry, fiction, and memoir gathers distinguished contributors, from Wole Soyinka to Joyce Carol Oates

There were many countries in the Twin Moon Continent, and each country had their own Immortals. There were three thousand worlds in the ten-sided universe. On the night of Seven Stars, the successor of the Ancient Tomb Sect, Huang Xiao, accidentally broke through the Domain Gate at Wu Mountain and teleported from Earth to Twin Moon Continent. He discovered that the Cultivation Methods here was very different from the Earth. In order to return to Earth, Huang Xiao exhausted all means available to him. From then on, he went through a cycle of reincarnation.Huang Xiao had the unique Earth Elementalist Body Refining Stage System, which was able to shake the world on Twin Moon Continent. In the pre-Qin cultivation Body Refining Stage system, the human body was a great treasure, and one's entire life would be filled with a sea of suffering. In the sea of suffering, there was a Fate Plate, and within it flowed the Spring of Life. However, the other side was only the first step in the development of his own treasure.

This book, written by an anonymous author, contains a collection of love, protectional, binding, household spells, spells that bring financial luck and many others. Also, the book contains a detailed description of the rituals, as well as items needed for their implementation. This book will help you to learn magic. If you are interested in witchcraft, and you decided to move from theory to practice, then this book will help you in this case. It contains the spells that really work. The book contains a detailed description of the ritual of calling the spirits through the power of the magic circle. It will help you to solve money, love and other everyday problems. I hope you find these magic spells interesting and informative and the book will be useful for you. Spells from the book are very ancient and efficient. I'm sure that this book of spells will be a great addition to your collection of magic books and will help you to become a real magician or witch as your true will calls you. Includes easy but powerful love spells, money spells, and spells healing or protection. Blessed Be!

At the age of five, good witch, Beatrice Manchester, comes into her powers. Her doting, magical Grandpa reads her bedtime stories from the Book of Cauldrons, Spells, and Legends. He tells the tale of the Chromium Cauldron. While wintering in Palm Beach, Florida with her family in 1912, she meets a young merman, Prince Peter of Atlantis. Just like the story from the Book of Cauldrons, Peter presents Bea with a Chromium Cauldron. With the proper spell and potion, the cauldron allows her to breathe underwater. The sea nymphs prophesize that Bea and Peter will wed on her 16th birthday. They also predict that Poseidon, angered with the humans, plans to sink the Titanic. A heart wrenching memory loss and an overprotective King of the mermaids, keeps Bea and Peter apart. Ten years later, in the roaring 20s, Bea’s parents take her to the Biltmore Estate to mingle with the heirs of America’s wealthiest tycoons—Carnegie, Astor, Flagler, Morgan, and Vanderbilt. The spellbinding, beautiful heiress is smothered by sought after suiters. But something prickles her memory, and she knows her parents are hiding something important—something significant that’s supposed to happen soon. Just before her 16th birthday, Bea’s memory is completely restored. But the Gods are angry at the humans again and plan to create the largest and strongest hurricane ever formed to annihilate the islands and the entire state of Florida, and Atlantis is directly in it’s path. From the Breakers to the Biltmore to Atlantis, Bea encounters countless magical creatures—sea nymphs, mermaids, Gods, and angels. With the powerful Manchester coven, they fight the massive Hurricane. Will the Manchesters defeat Mother Nature, forced by the Gods? Will Bea and Peter, true loves, be reunited at last and fulfill the prophecy?

The goal of this volume is to explore the social and political dynamics of rumor and the related concept of urban or contemporary legend. These forms of communication often appear in tandem with social problems, including riots, racial or political violence, and social and economic upheavals. The volume emphasizes the connection of rumor to a set of social concerns from government corruption and corporate scandal, to racial, religious, and other prejudices. Central to the dialogue are issues of truth, belief, history, public policy, and evidence.Rumor has been recognized as one of the most important contributing factors to violence and discrimination. Yet, despite its significance in exacerbating social discord and mistrust, little systematic scholarly attention has been paid to the political origins and consequences of rumor. Rumor is defined as a proposition for belief that is not backed by secure standards of evidence. Rumor can be traditional or not, and can be expressed as a simple claim of fact. In both instances groups of claim-makers, operating out of their own interests and with a set of resources, attempt to depict reality, and if possible, impact the future.The need for this book is underscored by changing patterns of technology. What in the past was grounded in face- to-face interaction is now often found on the Internet, which is a major source of rumor. An appreciation of how new electronic forms of communication affect communal belief is essential for explicating rumor dynamics. The volume is comprehensive. Essays cover race and ethnicity, migration and globalization, corporate malfeasance, and state and government corruption. While editors and contributors well appreciate the dynamic nature of rumors and legends, the high quality of the effort make it evident that the issues that are raised and reoccur will serve to channel and inspire research in this major field of communications research for years to come.

Set in San Francisco in the 1970s, Winter's Edge is an acclaimed working-class feminist novel.

The author of Hidden History offers a fascinating tour through centuries of buried riches, stolen artifacts, and other true tales of treasure. The allure of treasure has captivated people for centuries. But is it purely a desire for wealth that draws us to tales of hidden riches, or is it also the romantic appeal of uncovering lost ancient artifacts? The stories behind the loss and recovery of ancient treasures often read like historical suspense fiction. In Ancient Treasures, readers discover the true histories of lost hoards, looted archaeological artifacts, and sunken treasures, including: The Sevso Treasure, a hoard of large silver vessels from the late Roman Empire—estimated to be worth $200 million—looted in the 1970s and sold on the black market. The Amber Room, a chamber decoration of amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors, stolen by the Nazis in 1941 and brought to the castle at Königsberg in Russia, from which it disappeared. The fabulous wealth of Roman and Viking hoards buried in the ground for safekeeping, only to be unearthed centuries later by humble metal detectorists. The wrecks of the Spanish treasure fleets, whose New World plunder has been the target of elaborate salvage attempts by modern treasure hunters

Su Chen brought the system through! The music industry, the endangered ballad he saved, he pushed rock music to its true peak! In the literary world, he was the founder of the Obscure Poetry School. He used "Winter is here, but will spring still be far away?" Shocking the entire world! In the movie business, he was the only universally recognized Chinese godfather! Not only that, but in the world of comics, medicine, and metaphysics ... His figure could be seen almost everywhere, even his legend could be seen ...

In these seven stories set in Alaska and New Mexico, Detroit and Chicago, Andre Miftaraj gives us characters who encounter situations in the physical world, and sometimes beyond the physical world, that through danger and heartbreak deliver them to someplace strange. There Were Bears and Rumors of Bears explores spiritual injury and recovery through stories that are both haunting and frightening and that depict the profane and sacred, the mundane and non-ordinary aspects of experience, and find the bass note, the truth that hums beneath.

What is fanfiction, and what is it not? Why does fanfiction matter? And what makes it so important to the future of literature? Fic is a groundbreaking exploration of the history and culture of fan writing and what it means for the way we think about reading, writing, and authorship. It's a story about literature, community, and technology—about what stories are being told, who's telling them, how, and why. With provocative discussions from both professional and fan writers, on subjects from Star Trek to The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Harry Potter, Twilight, and beyond, Fic sheds light on the widely misunderstood world(s) of fanfiction—not only how fanfiction is transforming the literary landscape, but how it already has. Fic features a foreword by Lev Grossman (author of The Magicians) and interviews with Jonathan Lethem, Doug Wright, Eurydice (Vivean Dean), and Katie Forsythe/wordstrings. Cyndy Aleo (algonquinrt; d0tpark3r) V. Arrow (aimmyarrowshigh) Tish Beaty (his_tweet) Brad Bell Amber Benson Peter Berg (Homfrog) Kristina Busse Rachel Caine Francesca Coppa Randi Flanagan (BellaFlan) Jolie Fontenot Wendy C. Fries (Atlin Merrick) Ron Hogan Bethan Jones Christina Lauren (Christina Hobbs/tby789 and Lauren Billings/LolaShoes) Jacqueline Lichtenberg Rukmini Pande and Samira Nadkarni Chris Rankin Tiffany Reisz Andrew Shaffer Andy Sawyer Heidi Tandy (Heidi8) Darren Wershler Jules Wilkinson (missyjack) Jen Zern (NautiBitz)