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Danny Firoth returns home from a magical, yet deceitful, summer at the White Rock Academy of Illumination, only to face a new terror, high school. However, the woes of the school's halls are quickly forgotten when Danny is summoned to the high Council of the Elvin Elders in Elsmelda, the capital city of the Elves. Danny learns that being the Light's prophesized savior, the Mageknight, comes with a fancy new title and massive new responsibilities. Distraught with trying to meet his new station's requirements and coming to terms with the loss of his father's Bonded and the perplexing relationship with his infatuation, Sabrina Drake, Danny is tested even more as a second-year squire. Danny and ...
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Returning from a less than magical year at the White Rock Academy of Illumination, which resulted in a friend’s death, the loss of a powerful Shadow weapon, the Black Bonded, and the continued perceived betrayal of those he trusts, Danny Firoth finds himself torn between the competing ideals of the Light and his own. Given the magnitude of the ongoing clash between the forces of Light and the forces of Dark, Danny finds the scale of high school trifles rather trivial in comparison. Reinforcing this viewpoint, his fears become all too real as the ancient battle between the Light and the Dark spills directly into the halls of the school. Danny is confronted with a new threat, wielding the ve...
Sometimes humorous, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, sometimes deeply sad and moving — such are the biographies of fifteen Texas bad girls. Husband killers, run-of-the-mill murderers, whorehouse madams, prostitutes, gamblers, bank robbers, floozies — each contributes immeasurably to a rowdy, ribald history that dates from the state's earliest settlers to yesterday's biggest news story.
The essays in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence, whether they are murder victims or killers. The book’s extensive cultural contexts acknowledge and engage with contemporary theories and practices of identity politics and debates about the ethics and politics of representation itself. Does representation produce or reproduce the conditions of violence? Is representation itself a form of violence? This book adds significant new dimensions to the characterization of gender and violence by discussing nationalism and war, feminist media, and the depiction of violence throughout society.
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