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Drawing on archives and oral histories, a detailed account of graduate folklore programs in American and Canadian academic institutions.
To ensure continuity and foster innovation within the discipline of folklore, we must know what came before. Folklore in the United States and Canada is an essential guide to the history and development of graduate folklore programs throughout the United States and Canada.
As the first history of folklore studies...
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When heritage becomes a commodity, when culture is instrumental in driving tourism, and when individuals assert ownership over either, social, ideological, political, and economic motivations intertwine. Bestowing value on "culture" is itself a culturally rooted act, and the essays gathered in Culture and Value focus on the motivations and value regimes people in particular times and contexts have generated to enhance the visibility and prestige of...
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William Jones, a sheep farmer from the Brecon Beacons, had led a happy life, until his wife, Sarah, died young. It left him devastated and seemingly bent on self-destruction. His daughter, Becky tried to help, but even she was losing patience with her father.
One evening, he is certain that he has died and been put out of his misery, but it was not to be. He recovered. However his life was never to be the same again.
He had discovered Annwn where...
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In our beloved fairy tales of old, Prince Charming always saves the damsel in distress. In our modern world, sometimes it's the damsel herself who has to find a way to save her prince. When Sarah White meets the ruggedly handsome Staff Sergeant Charlie Prince, she discovers a man with a pure heart, but one hidden beneath a warrior's façade. Before Charlie leaves with his unit for Afghanistan, he promises to stay in touch, but after nine months of...
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Libby the Loser. That's what everyone used to call me behind my back. I wasn't popular, I wasn't strong, I wasn't brave.All that changed after a chance encounter in a Canberra nightclub. Afterward, I began to dream; dream I was something else. A powerful creature of muscles and claws, something powerful and confident and everything I wasn't.I dreamed I was in love with a man I'd barely met.The dream world is a beautiful, wondrous place, but there's...
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War comes for us. The Altaican Rakshasa face the Rewa, and the seclusion of our underground home in the Brindabella is not enough to keep the darkness at bay. The storm gathers all around us; the shadow of war, its fingers long, reaches into our lives.It is a war we know we cannot win.The conflagration, a raging fire, looms over my world. It is building, coming, and the seeds of this terrible thing are already in motion. The shadowy underworld of...
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He took Katelyn.My best friend is missing, taken from me, her life in the hands of a killer. The Rakshasa are strong. We're confident. We're powerful. But the Champawat Tiger has found a weakness, a crack in the armour of our kind; our attachment to humans, to those we care about.Our friends.The killer casts a wide net and I fear for Katelyn's safety, but there are worse things coming for Ishan and I, things that pain me more than words can say.The...
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He found me.I don't know how he found me but he did. The Champawat Tiger... a hunter, a killer. A Rakshasa like me, but not like me.The story continues and I continue to grow, to discover who I truly am. To learn more about the man I love. I am an Altaican, he a Rewa. This divide conspires to keep us apart. That pain is worse than any wound.The dark shadow spreads over me and spills out, tainting everything I love. And the killer, stalking me always,...
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My fear, my power, my doubt, my strength, my heart.It's all come down to this.Everything that I am rests in the balance. Ishan is a breath away from oblivion, Katelyn's life slips away from her and the existence of my entire species is in my hands.The eclipse is here and I have but one way to prevent it.I'll die knowing that Ishan will live. I'll give him the greatest gift: a piece of myself, permanently left in his heart.I just hope that it's enough.Part...
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Harley, a New Jersey pack alpha, visits Boomer's pack to get away from all the bad memories of his marriage and how it brought Chief into his life. When he meets Chandra, he's immediately drawn to her but how can he trust his feelings after the mess he made with his ex-wife?Chandra is the last of Opal's kids to come and see her. But she's not just visiting, she has a vampire hunting her and a price on her head. Her marriage dissolved too but in the...
12) Hearts on Fire
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This story begins with a gorgeous guy dressed as Santa and a woman who has sworn off love.Have you ever wanted someone to look at you and see who you really are? That's all Jordan has ever wanted, so when she meets Samuel and the sparks fly, it's easy to become lost in the depths of his beautiful blue eyes. While she fights this attraction, Samuel is going to have to convince her that he sees her...really sees her.
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This book takes fairy tales and turns them upside down. It is intended for the middle grade reader. Younger kids may like it as well and adults with a good sense of humor should find themselves laughing out loud. It's a fun book to read.Little Red Riding Hood decides she needs to break away from her mundane life and decides to write a diary to tell her tale. She says she got the idea from reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid but she says she's a girl and...
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After the war that broke the world, the elves survived, yet defeated and in the chains of slavery. For a hundred generations the one power lay dormant, waiting for the true queen to be reborn. It began with the arrival of the ancient assassin. On that fateful night the sounds of a sleeping woman would change the world forever.
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WARNING! YOU COULD DIE READING THIS BOOK! When's the last time you had an intimate heart to heart chat with your death? Have you ever? Now is your chance. Hi, I am your Death and I am here for you. No wait, don't go! Aside from the fact that you can't get away, I'm not here for you in that way, at least not now, although to be honest with you we do have a date and I am always with you whether you acknowledge me or not. If you want to know the truth...
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