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Bring a touch of witchcraft into your tarot practice with this
illustrated deck inspired by Hocus Pocus! Beloved since its release
in 1993, Hocus Pocus has put a spell on fans with its humor and
heart. Now, tarot enthusiasts and Hocus Pocus fans alike can
celebrate their love for the film with this official tarot deck. -
A MUST-HAVE FOR FANS: Featuring original illustrations of the
Sanderson sisters and the wider world of Hocus Pocus, this deck
matches characters from the film with tarot archetypes, making it a
fresh interpretation of a traditional tarot deck. - COMPLETE TAROT
EXPERIENCE: This deluxe set of 78 cards consists of both major and
minor arcana, perfect for anyone beginning their tarot practice, as
well as for experienced practitioners. - BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED:
Each card features a full-color illustration of a character from
Hocus Pocus, including the Sanderson Sisters, the Dennisons, Ernie,
Billie Butcherson and more. - DETAILED GUIDEBOOK: Includes a
128-page guidebook with explanations of each card's meaning and
simple spreads for easy readings. - GREAT GIFT: Packaged in a
sturdy and decorative gift box, Hocus Pocus: The Official Tarot
Deck and Guidebook will enchant fans of the film and tarot
practitioners alike. - COMPLETE YOUR COLLECTION: Hocus Pocus: 13
Frights of Halloween also available! See corrections and errata
here.
The pregnant, birthing, and nurturing body is a recurring topos in
early modern French literature. Such bodies, often metaphors for
issues and anxieties obtaining to the gendered control of social
and political institutions, acquired much of their descriptive
power from contemporaneous medical and scientific discourse. In
this study, Kirk Read brings together literary and medical texts
that represent a range of views, from lyric poets, satirists and
polemicists, to midwives and surgeons, all of whom explore the
popular sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century narratives of
birth in France. Although the rhetoric of birthing was widely used,
strategies and negotiations depended upon sex and gender; this
study considers the male, female, and hermaphroditic experience,
offering both an analysis of women's experiences to be sure, but
also opening onto the perspectives of non-female birthers and their
place in the social and political climate of early modern France.
The writers explored include Rabelais, Madeleine and Catherine Des
Roches, Louise Boursier, Pierre de Ronsard, Pierre Boaistuau and
Jacques Duval. Read also explores the implications of the
metaphorical use of reproduction, such as the presentation of
literary work as offspring and the poet/mentor relationship as that
of a suckling child. Foregrounded in the study are the questions of
what it means for women to embrace biological and literary
reproduction and how male appropriation of the birthing body
influences the mission of creating new literary traditions.
Furthermore, by exploring the cases of indeterminate birthing
entities and the social anxiety that informs them, Read complicates
the binarisms at work in the vexed terrain of sexuality, sex, and
gender in this period. Ultimately, Read considers how the narrative
of birth produces historical conceptions of identity, authority,
and gender.
The pregnant, birthing, and nurturing body is a recurring topos in
early modern French literature. Such bodies, often metaphors for
issues and anxieties obtaining to the gendered control of social
and political institutions, acquired much of their descriptive
power from contemporaneous medical and scientific discourse. In
this study, Kirk Read brings together literary and medical texts
that represent a range of views, from lyric poets, satirists and
polemicists, to midwives and surgeons, all of whom explore the
popular sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century narratives of
birth in France. Although the rhetoric of birthing was widely used,
strategies and negotiations depended upon sex and gender; this
study considers the male, female, and hermaphroditic experience,
offering both an analysis of women's experiences to be sure, but
also opening onto the perspectives of non-female birthers and their
place in the social and political climate of early modern France.
The writers explored include Rabelais, Madeleine and Catherine Des
Roches, Louise Boursier, Pierre de Ronsard, Pierre Boaistuau and
Jacques Duval. Read also explores the implications of the
metaphorical use of reproduction, such as the presentation of
literary work as offspring and the poet/mentor relationship as that
of a suckling child. Foregrounded in the study are the questions of
what it means for women to embrace biological and literary
reproduction and how male appropriation of the birthing body
influences the mission of creating new literary traditions.
Furthermore, by exploring the cases of indeterminate birthing
entities and the social anxiety that informs them, Read complicates
the binarisms at work in the vexed terrain of sexuality, sex, and
gender in this period. Ultimately, Read considers how the narrative
of birth produces historical conceptions of identity, authority,
and gender.
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Black City (Paperback)
Christian D Read
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Snake City (Paperback)
Christian D Read; Cover design or artwork by Justin Randall
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Valni (Paperback)
Graham D. Read
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Alone, standing amid the wreckage of the House of Urantz, the last
of Valni's strength ebbed. She trembled, a young girl wearing a
parvis oil soaked sack dress, her head hanging forward, her long
hair caught in a shaft of sunlight. Slowly she descended to her
knees, sinking them in the ash and charcoal which covered the floor
of the fire gutted hall. The fire and smoke blackened sculptures of
her ancestors and her parents remained on their pedestals where the
Mools had left them in dread of magic. The stone eyes stared
blankly at the scarred and blackened opposite walls. Gradually the
girl toppled forward and stretched out amid the charred debris,
wriggling in it and covering herself with it despairingly. Her
weeping was a lone, unheard anguish, lost on the empty plain, the
last sound of a living Latannese between the horizons.
Sheel-Da was caught between her own world and the beguiling powers
of beings who wandered black seas and fire islands of the cosmos.
Her life had been cast in the image of a dark order which had
rescued her from death and raised her to serve an alien master. She
had fought and clawed for her betterment, endured indignities and
suffered pain. No one who knew her would have thought she could be
turned from the order which had moulded her. She touched the
diamond armband given to her by Thoromaz the adventurer, lightly
with the tips of her fingers. She had never owned a jewel of her
own, they were extremely rare in her own time and place. Later,
when the ship was settling down for its second night on the sea of
the floating islands, she stood on deck and watched the moon,
enjoyed the cool breeze and privately admired the only gift anyone
had ever given her without expecting something in return. When
Thoromaz consulted Jastogal the clairvoyant, he was told, "The
woman named Sheel-Da is like a ghost over the sea on a still night.
She is a misplacement from beyond our understanding and she will
fade from us through a gate we cannot open." The cause of the
misplacement was the Stream of Arobo, and its mission was to
destroy the empire that Sheel-Da served.
David Vidardal felt that if he was not careful he could go quite
mad here, surrounded by the ghosts of a bygone age and a breeze
whispering in the enveloping trees. His musings were disturbed by a
movement at the entrance to his studio, a brief blink of the
intense, African sunlight as someone crossed the threshold.
Michaela appeared as quietly as though she had been carried to the
room by a mist. Her hair was in a pony tail, she wore a plain
T-shirt, and was so blonde it seemed she had no eyebrows or
eyelashes. She stared at him with intense, green eyes while she
made a vague gesture to her right, "I live in the house next door,
with my aunt Julia, and my cousin." The meeting was the beginning
of a journey into obsession and dangerous friendship where reality
mixed with illusion, passion and murder.
James Benson had an astute eye for a good deal, or a shapely leg.
Shrewd appreciations of circumstances were his benchmarks. He
wasn't right all the time but he accepted that as a natural part of
life. The important thing to him, as he grew older, was being
rarely, if ever, badly wrong. The facts were that he had been
hugely unobservant and grievously wrong about diabolical events and
characters close to him, and his life had run parallel to a
monstrous evil he had not even suspected.
Imagine for a moment a world of superheroes, saviors and everyday
sinners without masks, no posing or cover ups, no secrets to be
held . All of us have secrets that we would like to reveal. We have
an innate need to understand the dark side of our lives. And every
man and woman has desires to connect, to be known by others on a
basic human level. D. S. Reade feels this way. He has haunting
secrets and can't help but dream of escaping into a life of hope
and closeness with Christ. "Superheroes, Saviors and Sinners
without Secrets" chronicles Reade's walk with God on a journey
through personal challenge, passion, and purpose. Having survived
sexual abuse, depression, suicidal thoughts, and secret struggles,
Dr. Reade not only unveils his way out of the shadows of these
nightmares but also helps others to move through their own darkness
and into dreams of deep meaning and eternal impact.
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