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It's all fun and games until someone pisses off a Witch Queen… Weeks following the events that led to her awakening and her initiation into the New York coven as the Witch Queen prophesized to rule the world of magic, Mae Jin is still trying to get a semblance of her life back together. But disaster strikes when her apartment gets attacked by ghouls, driving her into the thick of the action as she helps Nikolai Stanisic figure out the origins and...
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What can a necromancer do when the dying won't die?Kezia Bernard is a necromancer and hoodoo worker who comforts the dying, guiding them to their ancestors on the other side.But when a witch doctor with a rare talent prevents Kezia's sick, elderly patients from dying, Kezia is the only person who can end his cruel manipulation of life, suffering, and death.The only problem? The witch doctor in question is already dead.With hoodoo and death magic at...
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Corrine is near exhaustion on the downward trail. Pausing for breath on an open ridge, she hears a strange, whistling sound. At first, she is unable to identify it. Anxiety rising, she whirls about and raises her eyes to the sky to see the she-eagle plummeting toward her. She doesn't know whether to expect a greeting or an attack. She only knows she mustn't run.The wind from the eagle's strong beating wings whips her hair wildly about her face. The...
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Blending humor with romance and magical realism, Rites of Passage, immerses the listener in a 6-hour mystical adventure featuring the Jefferson Airplane's Somebody to Love as part of a unique sound design that includes over 85 additional pieces of music, hundreds of sound effects and a cast of 26 actors playing 37 comic characters caught in the midst of the Sexual Revolution in the backwoods of Northern California in the late 1960's where... everyone...
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The central question in all of our lives is how to live, and-one way or another-we find ourselves on this path, on a journey toward an answer. Here, thirty-five exceptional survivors who are either starting, in the middle, or nearing the end of their life's path tell of the secrets they've found.
Nothing prepares you for life. No schooling asks the big questions, and you will find no direction outside yourself. Some of us look for meaning in the...
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This classic work of anthropology explores the transitional stages of an individual's life and the societal rituals involved.
Arnold van Gennep's masterwork, The Rites of Passage, has been a staple of anthropological education for more than a century. First published in French in 1909, and translated into English by the University of Chicago Press in 1960, this landmark book explores how the life of an individual in any society can be understood...
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This book is a symphony of harmonized thoughts for the express dissemination of both tangibles and intangibles, in the sense of aversion and gaining contentment of the mind; of the heart. It is a similitude of an inquisition patterned in the authors and the readers sojourn. The journey enacted by choice and decision. The veritable decree of free from self-introspection and determined succession. The passing on of knowledge through metaphor and simile...
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Scott Morrow and his Venturer Unit organise a scuba dive and a special ceremony to welcome a new scout into the Unit at a picturesque seaside setting.
Calm is shattered when a vicious war between two motorcycle gangs erupts at the dive site. Scott and his fellow Venturers are forced to answer questions of courage when the lives of a group of Girl Guides are threatened.
Will they stand and be counted when their own lives are at dire risk? Will...
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Bounty hunter Mercy St. Clair is without peer, but her skills as a babysitter leave something to be desired. Safeguarding a vulnerable young woman en route to her home world seems like easy money, but exactly where they're going and why is a closely guarded secret. But her need for protection becomes apparent when a steady stream of cyborg mercenaries look to assassinate Mercy's ward . . . and Mercy! Ron Randall's Trekker returns in Rites of Passage,...
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In Leadership Rites of Passage: The Journey of the Aspiring Leader and the Methods of the Mentor, accomplished author, Rick Tirrell, examines the sixteen universal challenges every leader must master as well as the methods of great mentorship.
This book is designed to help you build your own leadership skills, become an exceptional mentor, or conduct leadership seminars.
This compelling business fable begins with the naïve and overwhelmed young...
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Rite of Passage Parenting Workbook teaches parents how to build into their children's lives the essential experiences every child needs: (1) an authentic Rite of Passage, (2) Significant Tasks, (3) Logical Consequences, and (4) Grace Deposits from parents, grandparents, and other caring adults. Writing from years of experience as a minister, family speaker, youth culture specialist, and father, Walker Moore shows parents how to guide their kids to...
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c2006
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"From Nobel laureate William Golding's (Lord of the flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government."--Container.
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Middle School Blues, Rite of Passage is about a day in the life of a small group of 6th, 7th and 8th grade students who live in a farming community north of Chicago, Illinois. The characters experience peer pressure, question their identity and struggle with physical changes occurring in their bodies. Some characters experiment with substances and some consider themselves transgender. This is a unique period of time between elementary school and high...
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For generations, other religions and cultures have put their children through a rite of passage to adulthood. Many people are aware of the Jewish practice of the Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, for example. The reality, however, is that many children today don't learn how to become adults on purpose; rather, they ride the wave of adolescence toward an unknown adult future. Moms, dads, and other perfectly placed adults have the unique opportunity to guide the...
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African Centered Rites of Passage and Education was first published in 1996; originally, Dr. Goggins' master's thesis for Cultural Foundations of Education. African Centered Rites of Passage and Education sought to explore if there was a connection between education and rites of passage by examining the philosophical foundations that frame each concept, identifying the common outcomes, and understanding the implications of the practice.
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