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- Jack and Jill
2018
EN
Pulp magic and adventure for young people, and those of us that never grew up. A great escape for the restless heart.Magic is real. Her parents never bothered to tell her.After the death of her beloved Aunt Gloria, Jill Wright will do anything to hang on to her last memento – a golden locket. If only it were that easy.When a violent pickpocket becomes fixated on the trinket, it’s clear that there’s a larger plot at work. But with her absent...
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Jack Lantern 3
Grave Matters
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- Jack Lantern
2018
EN
Mia Lannigan has everything to lose. Tyrannous Grave will see that she does.For the first time in her short memory, Mia’s life is normal. Having defeated the Sons of Coffins Croft, she has finally found a balance between school, friends, and her clandestine training in magic. Her only complaint is that she’s had very little contact with the friends from her abnormal life.So when Jack Lantern shows up at her school, she expects to finally get some a...
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Jack Lantern
...Brains...
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- Jack Lantern
2018
EN
The Pumpkin-Headed P.I. Meets the Living Dead Girl.Falling from the sky into Jack Lantern’s life, Mia Lannigan has brought a creeping evil in her wake. A cult bent on blasphemous deeds have their sights set on Mia’s brains and the secrets she holds.With no memory of her life before that night, it’s unclear if Mia has anything to bargain with, or if she is doomed to an ignominious end. With time running out, Mia is beginning to sense that dying did more to h...
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Jack Lantern 2
Dead or Alive
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- Jack Lantern
2018
EN
Life after the zombie uprising should have been easy.Mia Lannigan thought they’d won. They beat the evil Baron von Reich and stopped the Sons of Coffins Croft in their tracks. Finally reunited with her family, everything should have returned to normal.But Mia has had a taste of Magic, and she can’t make herself let go. When her mentor Jack Lantern takes on a missing persons case, Mia jumps at the chance to help out. However, it’s no coincidence that it all ...
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Arts of Dying
Literature and Finitude in Medieval England
2020
EN
People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory—but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability wasn't due to religion, but philosophy: saying someone is dead is nonsense, as the person no longer is. The one thing that can talk about something that is not, as D. Vance Smith shows in this innovative, provocative book, is literature.Covering the emergence of English literature from the Ol...
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Atlas's Bones
The African Foundations of Europe
2025
EN
A major new look at Africa's influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe.Virgil. Chaucer. Petrarch. These names resonate with many as cornerstones of European culture. Yet, in Atlas's Bones, D. Vance Smith reveals that much of what is claimed as European culture up to the Middle Ages—its great themes in literature, its sources in political thought, its religious beliefs—originated in the writings of Af...
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- Jack and Jill
2018
EN
Pulp magic and adventure for young people, and those of us that never grew up. A great escape for the restless heart.The Crown is broken. The Titan-Spawn are coming.Jill Wright has been through a lot as the protégé to Jack Lantern, Private Investigator. Together, they’ve defeated villains, forged friendships and escaped certain death. Now, with a new baby brother in the household, it might be time to take a break from saving the world.Of co...
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2018
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Good evening,You hold in your hands, a collection of short stories of the most unfortunate verity. Bound within this volume are tales of revenge, mystery, kidnapping and unimaginable horror. Perhaps it is our duty to warn you of the sheer madness that you will find, if you choose to read further. In each story, you will find heroes, villains and monsters that defy the laws of sanity. Of course, these stories are meant to entertain… but they may, in fact, chill you.If you are ...
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- Jack and Jill
2018
EN
Pulp magic and adventure for young people, and those of us that never grew up. A great escape for the restless heart. Experience the full adventure. Books one and Three available now!She might destroy the world. She might be the only one who can save it.Two years after defeating the nefarious Reckoning, Jill Wright has honed her powers under the tutelage of pumpkin-headed private investigator Jack Lantern. Finding victory after victory, the team ha...
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The Invisible Ache
Black Men Identifying Their Pain and Reclaiming Their Power
Unabridged
10 hours 10 min
2023
EN
From an award-winning actor and a #1 bestselling author, a unique combination of moving memoir and practical tools that offers guidance for Black men seeking to reclaim their mental well-being–and, ultimately, to live wholeheartedly.In America, we teach that strength means holding back tears and shaming your own feelings. In the Black community, these pressures are especially poignant. Poor mental health outcomes—including diagnoses of depression and anxiety, relia...
The Invisible Ache
Black Men Identifying Their Pain and Reclaiming Their Power
2023
EN
From an award-winning actor and a #1 bestselling author, a unique combination of moving memoir and practical tools that offers guidance for Black men seeking to reclaim their mental well-being–and, ultimately, to live wholeheartedly.In America, we teach that strength means holding back tears and shaming your own feelings. In the Black community, these pressures are especially poignant. Poor mental health outcomes—including diagnoses of depression and anxiety, relia...
Medieval Literature
Criticism and Debates
2023
EN
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Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates combines classic critical essays alongside new voices and approaches, highlighting vibrant debates on medieval literature that will continue to shape critical conversations for the coming decades.Holly A. Crocker and D. Vance Smith present a fascinating collection of essays from leading contemporary scholars of medieval literature and culture, examining topics including gender, sexuality, politics...
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