Shattered Mirror

Sarah Vida is a witch and a vampire hunter — and a loner. Christopher Ravena is a vampire trying to pass as a normal high school student who wants to know Sarah better. Drawn to him despite her better judgment, Sarah’s forced to admit that there’s room for gray in her otherwise black-and-white world of good versus evil — until she meets Nikolas, Christopher’s twin and one of the most hunted vampires in history.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Silencing Eve (January 2014) comes Shattered Mirror, a new explosive thriller featuring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is once again thrown into a deadly game of intrigue when she receives a cryptic package containing a skull and a two sided mirror. Eve is determined to reconstruct the skull and uncover the mystery of the person’s identity, and when she does, the face of a beautiful woman begins to emerge. But who is she? As Eve gets closer and closer to finding the answer, she becomes swept up in a lethal chase that spans continents and threatens to destroy the family that she has worked so hard to bring together. Eve and her team must work quickly to discover who is behind the murder – and maybe even prevent more loss of life. But how do you fight a killer who is willing to destroy anyone as a means to an end? No one is safe in #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen’s next explosive, high-stakes thriller that will keep readers on the edge of their seat through every heart-pounding chapter.

Willa Hillicrissing, a thirteen-year-old human-alien Hybrid with golden eyes and a wild mane of fox-fur hair, was raised amid the green forests and peaceful seaside setting of Port Dublin in Ireland where, as an apprentice to her Hybrid mentor, Holly Cotton, she takes her first steps on the path to becoming a Cryptic.

Popular images of women in Mexico—conveyed through literature and, more recently, film and television—were long restricted to either the stereotypically submissive wife and mother or the demonized fallen woman. But new representations of women and their roles in Mexican society have shattered the ideological mirrors that reflected these images. This book explores this major change in the literary representation of women in Mexico. María Elena de Valdés enters into a selective and hard-hitting examination of literary representation in its social context and a contestatory engagement of both the literary text and its place in the social reality of Mexico. Some of the topics she considers are Carlos Fuentes and the subversion of the social codes for women; the poetic ties between Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Octavio Paz; questions of female identity in the writings of Rosario Castellanos, Luisa Josefina Hernández, María Luisa Puga, and Elena Poniatowska; the Chicana writing of Sandra Cisneros; and the postmodern celebration—without reprobation—of being a woman in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate.

A shattered mirror can never project a perfect image of what we want others to see in us. And somehow in this autobiography Jay Burton painted a portrait unlike any other gritty street-life legend. Jay's experience growing up in Watts California, from raising Pitbulls and Roller Pigeons. To playing sports, then trading it all in for the "Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods" And drug dealing. It's a seductive testament to him. Shattered Mirror, is the first half of a two-part autobiography. " Love, Loyalty, & Betrayal " picks up where this rollercoaster ride ends. Where Jay colors in all the consequences of the causes and effects, of manchild growing wild in search of steeet fame. That leads to a crooked L.A Sheriff's Division, crossing Jay up with a murder at the tender age of 16. This story crosses all racial and economical boundaries. The portrait is framed a posted. Readers will identify themselves, or someone they know or heard of, within this well written true story. "Love, Loyalty, and Betrayal" Part 2 is coming soon!

The Shattered Mirror: Irish Literature and Film, 1990-2005 is a response to changing representations of Irish identity. Interrogating the period of the 'Celtic Tiger' in Ireland, which was accompanied by widespread social change, the book draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis to explore issues such as prosperity, Europeanism, Diaspora, multi-culturalism, decline in religious faith and gender norms. Examining three writers and filmmakers in each section on narrative, drama and film, The Shattered Mirror argues that, in this fifteen years, Irish identity has changed radically.

Deep emotions, the fragility of relationships, love, breakups, depression but also the beauty of impermanence, healing, self-love and finding happiness in the little things - these and other topics are the main focus of "A Thousand Golden Suns Reflected by Pieces of a Shattered Mirror", an anthology of poems and prose written by Vanessa Rose. She also writes about philosophical and spiritual questions of society and humanity. As a German with an American mother, Vanessa Rose grew up bilingual and English is her favored language for her poetry and prose. The poems were written from 2018 - 2022 in Germany, Ireland, England and Italy and were revisited and updated for this book in 2023. Take some time for yourself, explore deep and meaningful thoughts and allow the author to take you to foreign lands and places.

Out of nowhere, a stranger approached Eve, saying he’d never let her run away again! Anger visible in his handsome face, he tells Eve she’s his wife and that he has been looking for her since she went missing two years ago. And it was two years ago that Eve was found with memory loss. A kind nurse at the hospital offered Eve a place to live and found her a job. Eve was just starting to feel content with her life when the man appeared. Was she really married to this beautiful man? Her heart trembled at the thought.