Another Witch Bites The Dust

JOIN USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR CAROLYN RIDDER ASPENSON ALONG WITH ABBY ODELL AND CREW IN THE 4TH BOOK OF THE WITCHES OF HOLIDAY HILLS COZY MYSTERY SERIES! Being a witch is complicated. Our powers have limits, and as a newer witch, I'm still getting used to what I can and cannot do. In a perfect witchy world, that works like a charm. But the witchy world isn't perfect. Not at all. Witches don't always follow the rules, and when they don't, bad things happen. Like Cassandra Bloom's death, for starters. Cassandra Bloom was the bad witch in every fairytale, the one with the ugly wart and long, stringy gray hair, taunting everyone as she flew on her broom over town. But she didn't just look scary. She was scary. Holiday Hills residents, magical and humans, were afraid of Cassandra. Sure, everyone in town might feel secretly relieved she's no longer with us, but they're missing the bigger picture. Cassandra didn't die of old age. She was murdered. And now I've got to figure out the why, how, and who, before the killer strikes again. Because until I do, no one in Holiday Hills is safe, especially not us witches.

Welcome to Holiday Hills, where there is magic & mystery in the air...

Jensen Murphy is back in the spooky sequel to Only the Good Die Young. Some people think that ghosts are spirits that refuse to go to the other side because they have unfinished business. Take my word—that’s true. I should know. I’m a ghost. I was an ordinary eighties California girl, dead before my time, until psychic Amanda Lee Minter pulled me out of the time loop where I was reliving my death over and over. Now I’m Jensen Murphy, Ghost for Hire. I decided to put my spooky talents to use in helping Amanda Lee track down bad guys and killers (including my own). It’s taken time to figure out exactly how that will work (our first case was definitely a learning experience for all involved), so when a young woman asks Amanda Lee for help convincing her best friend to leave a dangerously hot-tempered boyfriend, I’m ready and willing to use our collective powers on her behalf. But some people are dangerous not only to the living—especially when there are darker forces involved....

Throughout the twentieth century, Western thinkers engaged in a politically charged, often highly personal and acrimonious debate over the mental and rational capacity of people from traditional nonliterate societies. The issue was a question of whether or not humanity was, at bottom, psychologically and rationally unified and equal as a species. Redefining Reason offers the first in-depth, critical history of that debate and its repercussions in modern Western thought and society. Divided into three sections, this book first sets the twentieth-century “primitive” mentality debate within its historical context so that it may be better understood. It then focuses on some of the highlights of the debate. The next section suggests that this debate was, in reality, a chapter itself in (or in an aspect of) a much larger story: the story of what may be appropriately referred to as the hyperrationalization of human society. To conclude, this book follows the debate into the twenty-first century and offers the clarification and resolutions developed in earlier chapters to contemporary students, scholars, and educated lay readers.

Over the last several decades, the study of discourse processes has moved from the complementary efforts characteristic of multidisciplinary research, to the explicitly integrative focus of interdisciplinary research. Some organizations have supported the methodological and conceptual merger of areas like literary studies, psychology, linguistics, and education. As evident in this special issue, research concerning personal involvement in narrative discourse has benefited from these developments. The five studies supported in this issue examine a range of potential determinants of personal involvement in narrative discourse. These include overt verbalization of thoughts and feelings, foregrounding, preference for genre and protagonists, relevance of the content of a text to the reader, and identifying with a character. These studies also examine different aspects of what is absorbed by the reader, including sophisticated forms of questioning, lasting appreciation of story points, involvement with story characters, commitment to story-consistent beliefs, and changes in the sense of self. Collectively, these studies challenge the conception of what it means to understand media presentations of fictional narratives as well as the conception of the strategies through which such understanding is attained.

Michelle Jackson was disabled following a traffic accident when she was younger. A chance download allows a swarm of nanites called Nexus to occupy her body. They hold the key to all knowledge and symbiotic, they are slowly repairing the damage to her spine. Her father, Howard Jackson, had been imprisoned for sexually assaulting her. The authorities, though, had released him in error some four years too early, and now he's heading for Ottawa from prison in Saskatoon, intending to go after her again. How will Michelle react when he turns up at her house armed with a knife? And how will Nexus avoid the Hunters, an F.B.I. task force charged with assimilating them for their knowledge? Join Michelle, Alex and Nexus as they travel the timeline and fight to keep Nexus safe.

Convinced that Mrs. Matthews, the new neighbor, is a witch, twelve-year-old Jenny debates whether to expose her or exorcise her.

This exploration of author Laurell K. Hamilton's work examines the many novels of her series and shows how her writing has been a major influence on contemporary visions of the vampire—an ideal reference text for book club leaders. Long before Twilight achieved epic levels of popularity, Laurell K. Hamilton was reshaping the image of the vampire with her own take on the vampire mythos in her Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter fantasy novel series. While Hamilton's work draws on traditional vampire and fairy lore, her interpretation of these subjects brought new dimensions to the genres, influencing the direction of urban fantasy over the past two decades. Reading Laurell K. Hamilton focuses upon Hamilton's two bestselling series, the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series and the Merry Gentry series. The volume is intended as a resource for leaders of book clubs or discussion groups, containing chapters that examine Hamilton's role in the current vampire literature craze, the themes and characters in her work, and responses to Hamilton on the Internet. The book also provides a brief overview of Hamilton's life.