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If all you had was one choice, would you choose your soulmate, or the fate of the world? An Arthurian retelling packed with a slow burn romance, a tortured knight, a bad guy with Merlin issues, and a talking dog/demon lord/ancient deity. Welcome to the new Camelot. Vivienne du Lac has everything she could wish for – a normal life, easy-going job, cushy nest egg, and the best dog a girl could ask for. If only these recurring dreams of medieval times, mercurial knights and evil sorcerers would stop, she’d even call it the perfect life. One night, the thin veil between reality and dreams snaps – and Vivienne’s magical past tumbles into her orderly reality. Because she’s not just a regular person… She’s the reincarnation of the Lady of the Lake, mythical sorceress from King Arthur's time, and Merlin's apprentice. Sébastien Dubois is trapped. Ages ago, he made a choice that would define his future lives, all to save the woman he loves. Now, Vivienne is back in his life, yet despite the sizzling chemistry between them and his desire to forget the past, outside forces demand their separation. And then there’s the people he swore allegiance to, and an old foe with his own twisted agenda… Caught between darkness and light, Vivienne quickly finds out not even her closest allies can be trusted. Can she look within and access powers from long past, become the enchantress Merlin meant her to be… Or will she sacrifice it all for Sébastien’s salvation? Book I in a completed trilogy with a happily ever after.
Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. In Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and ’40s, Andrew Berish attempts to right this wrong, showcasing how American jazz defined a culture particularly preoccupied with place. By analyzing both the performances and cultural context of leading jazz figures, including the many famous venues where they played, Berish bridges two dominant scholarly approaches to the genre, offering not only a new reading of swing era jazz but an entirely new framework for musical analysis in general, one that examines how the geographical realities of daily life can be transformed into musical sound. Focusing on white bandleader Jan Garber, black bandleader Duke Ellington, white saxophonist Charlie Barnet, and black guitarist Charlie Christian, as well as traveling from Catalina Island to Manhattan to Oklahoma City, Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams depicts not only a geography of race but how this geography was disrupted, how these musicians crossed physical and racial boundaries—from black to white, South to North, and rural to urban—and how they found expression for these movements in the insistent music they were creating.
A novel of England during the Viking era, from an author who “has vividly and colorfully portrayed life during the tumultuous Dark Ages” (Historical Novels Review). The last quarter of the tenth century was a time of conflict and exploration—while the Anglo-Saxons fought against the Vikings, Norsemen voyaged into the unknown looking for new lands to pillage, and so discovered America. Prince Rumon of France, descendant of Charlemagne and King Alfred, was a searcher. He had visions of the Islands of the Blessed, perhaps King Arthur’s Avalon, “where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow.” Merewyn grew up in savage Cornwall—a lonely girl, sustained by stubborn courage and belief in her descent from great King Arthur. Chance—or fate—in the form of a shipwreck off the Cornish coast brought Rumon and Merewyn together, and from that hour their lives were intertwined. Bound by his vow to her dying mother, Rumon brings Merewyn safely to England, keeping hidden the shameful secret of her birth. He considers his responsibility ended. At court, he is dazzled by the beautiful Queen Alfrida—but when a murderous truth is revealed, he turns to Merewyn, only to discover that he may have lost her. And he will journey across the Atlantic to find her again . . . From the beloved bestselling author of Katherine and Dragonwyck, this is a romantic tale of history and adventure “characterized by an authentic sense of time” (The New York Times Book Review).
King Arthur's soul lingers in Avalon's enchanted halls, while his daughter Rhianna seeks the four magical Lights that can bring him back to life. She must venture deep into Dragonland to find the Crown of Dreams, the third Light, which contains all the secrets of her ancestors. But Mordred knows that any Pendragon who wears the Crown can claim the throne and he wants both for himself . . .
The first comprehensive compendium of works by one of the groundbreaking pioneers of psychedelic poster art in the late ’60s, California Dreams is a career-spanning collection of 240 pieces pages created over more than five decades of nonstop artistic inspiration. Stanley Mouse is, of course, best known for the eye-popping and iconic posters, album covers and T-shirt designs he—often in collaboration with Alton Kelley—made during the hey-day of San Francisco’s counterculture renaissance and well into the 1970s. His influential work during that era captured the color, fun, mystery, passion and creatively liberating experimentalism of those tumultuous times. But this book also explores other sides of Mouse’s art, as well. Before taking Haight-Ashbury by storm, Mouse enjoyed tremendous success in his native Detroit detailing hot rods and airbrushing shirts and posters with whimsical drawings and paintings of crazy monsters and extreme cars. And more recently, in addition to satisfying ongoing demand for music-related commissions, Mouse has delved deeply into fine art, painting vivid landscapes and wonderfully evocative figurative pieces. Many of the works here have never been published before, and an added bonus is the inclusion of early versions of several of Mouse’s best-known pieces, and a glimpse into his personal
"This volume delivers a concise, clear round-up of American history starting from America's colonial era to current days of political disagreements and social uncertainty. Covering central themes and events of American history, Masur evaluates the contested meanings of the American dream and questions its viability"--
Fortune twists in the strongest hands. This is no repeat; this is what happens next. A man, once a legend who bound his soul to his sword as he lay dying, is now all but a boy nearing the end of his acolyte training. Stifled by life in the undersea city of Avalon, Arthur wants to fight side by side with the air-breathing Terrans, not spend his life as servant to the incorporeal sentient known as the Archive. Despite the restrictions put on him by Sanctuary, he is determined to help the surface-dwellers defeat predators whose sole purpose is to ensure their own survival, no matter the cost. Ashira, War Maid and princess of the surface-world, is ready to sacrifice her life to defend her kin, but when she is betrayed and cast out of the life chosen for her, she must choose whether to die with honor or become one of the creatures her kinsmen fear and loathe. Following two threads of time, CN Lesley's new incarnation of the Arthurian tales of old delivers the perfect blend of science fiction and fantasy.
Arthur's imprisoned and unsanctioned augmented humans are on the verge of being outlawed and contained. It's been years since the capture of Arthur. Avallach and the Chevalier Corps have merged to become the Kin, a dominant augmented human force around the world. But the world is changing. The Augmented Human Weapons Convention has passed, which outlaws anyone who does not have a registered augmented human force--that is, anyone but the five UNSC powers. Leto, frustrated at the lack of progress in Arthur's trial, formulates a new plan. He knows of the Prophecy--and is taking steps to prevent it from happening. He creates an alliance between the American Centurions and the Russian Cosmos augments and hatches a plan to stop the Kin for good. Gal Brand is the Prophet. There's only one problem--she's lost her ability to see the future. Armed with only her mother's memories and her father's new power suit, she takes a team on a quest--a quest for the Grail to save her father and lead humanity through its next phase of evolution. Will she succeed or drive humanity backward into another Dark Age? Read the final installment in this modern day Arthurian tale today!
Newly accepted as a Special Agent of the star-spanning United Planets organization, Ronny Bronston found that his first assignment was one which had taken the lives of dozens of agents before him: he was to track down a man named Tommy Paine. 'We've been trying to catch him for twenty years,' said Ronny's section chief. 'How long before that he was active, we have no way of knowing. It was some time before we became aware that half the revolts, coups d'états and assassinations that occur in the United Planets have his dirty finger stirring around in them.' 'But what motivates him?' Ronny asked. 'What's he get out of all the war and killing he stirs up?' 'Nobody seems to know. But the best guess is that he's insane - a homicidal maniac on an intergalactic scale. He's dangerous, Ronny, and you've got to get him!'