Involuntary Questing

Ah, home sweet home... or so I thought. Not long after I return to my hometown, I get an eviction notice pinned to my door. No, this isn't an eviction, it's a deportation. By the queen's orders, half-orcs are no longer welcome in the city. That includes me. I'm forced to leave my pub and go “questing,” for lack of a better word. And because pretty Ed Muskin still owes me a favor, he's coming with me. What kind of trouble are we going to get into now, I wonder?

Archangel Reyla is a low-key Archangel enjoying a quiet afterlife of slaying shadowlings, granting human wishes... and crocheting. Out of the blue, she gets a text from Archangel Gabriel, who she's never met before. Because of her high rating and aptitude for fighting (Reyla's great with a bow), she's being scouted as a possible member of The Echelon, an elite group of Archangels who are privy to the afterlife's secrets. Archangel Gabriel will be in charge of training Reyla, as well as another Echelon candidate named Mikah. Gabriel makes her nervous, and Mikah is critical of her in a way that's highly frustrating. Not only that, she doesn't want the extra attention! Still, Reyla decides to undergo the special training to sate her curiosity. After all, what's the worst that could happen? School for Spirits: Loneliest Archangel features a more adult set of characters, while retaining the spirit (pun intended) of the series. Content warning: Mentions of suicide, sexual assault

Slowly but surely, I've been adjusting to my new life in Daimonas, the city of demonicas. I've regained my sight, the mayor seems to like me, I'm making new friends, and it's nice to have Deep at my side. However, I really miss my brother... and there's trouble on the horizon. Daimonas isn't the safe haven I hoped it would be.

Robert Torrance's wide-ranging, innovative study argues that the spiritual quest is rooted in our biological, psychological, linguistic, and social nature. The quest is not, as most have believed, a rare mystical experience, but a frequent expression of our most basic human impulses. Shaman and scientist, medium and poet, prophet and philosopher, all venture forth in quest of visionary truths to transform and renew the world. Yet Torrance is not trying to reduce the quest to an "archetype" or "monomyth." Instead, he presents the full diversity of the quest in the myths and religious practices of tribal peoples throughout the world, from Oceania to India, Africa, Siberia, and especially the Americas. In theorizing about the quest, Torrance draws on thinkers as diverse as Bergson and Piaget, van Gennep and Turner, Pierce and Popper, Freud, Darwin, and Chomsky. This is a book that will expand our knowledge—and awareness—of a fundamental human activity in all its fascinating complexity.

This book is the result of intensive, multiyear international and interdisciplinary cooperation. From many perspectives, the book's contributors address themes of freedom and slavery; self-determination and concepts of freedom; God-given and imprinted freedom; freedom as an ethos of belonging and solidarity; and relations between freedom, human rights, and theological orientation.

Exploring travellers' tales of wonder in contemporary literature, this study challenges a sensibility of disenchantment with travel. It reassesses travel writing as an aesthetically and ethically innovative form in contemporary international literature, and demonstrates the crucial role of wonder in the travel narratives of writers such as Bruce Chatwin, V.S. Naipaul, and W.G. Sebald. Their 'travellers' tales of wonder' are read as a challenge to the hubris of thinking the world too well known, and an invitation to encounter the world - including its most troubling histories - with a sense of wonder.

Welcome to the beautiful fantasy world of Teyvat. Along the way, you will freely explore this wondrous world, join forces with a diverse range of characters, and unravel the countless mysteries that Teyvat holds. The guide for Genshin Impact features all there is to see and do including a walkthrough containing coverage of all Archon Quests, detailed analysis of all characters, breakdown on artifacts, domains, items, and much more! **Based on version 2.0 (Inazuma)** - Full coverage of all current Archon Quests including Inazuma - Detailed Character pages of all playable characters - Knowledge on all of the current known regions of Teyvat - Details on all items, materials and currencies. - Coverage of World Quests and all Story Quests - All Weekly Bosses covered with expert strategies - All Domains including Inazuma laid bare with expert strategies - How to conquer the Spiral Abyss - How to get the optimal outcomes on Hangout Events - Full Housing guide using the Serenitea Pot including a full blueprints and furnishings list - All details on Gardening

Autobiography of David Burns, 1928-1949. Book-obsessed childhood in the Depression in a small town in Kentucky; running away from home on his 15th birthday; three years in Washington in Capitol Page School, dropping out many times, never completing first semester of tenth grade; copy boy and photographer's apprentice at The Evening Star newspaper; three years in the Air Force. Managing somehow to be admitted to Princeton. The autobiography is interspersed with four vivid chapters of imaginary ancestors: Long Hunters in 18th century Kentucky; pioneers on The Wilderness Road from Cumberland Gap; building gristmills and sawmills; and the legacy of coal mining… which has left much of Appalachia, land AND people, 'HOLLOWED OUT'.