![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their true stories shed light on a variety of topics, including awakening to vampirism, the compulsion to feed and feeding practices, donor ethics and etiquette, and vampire traditions and codes of behavior. Sometimes provocative, sometimes surprisingly down-to-earth, these candid firsthand accounts come from both psi vampires who feed on energy and sanguine vampires who drink actual blood. For Piercing the Darkness I learned about how elastic the vampire concept is. Gordon Melton, Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion, and author of The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undeadįor this anthology, vampire Michelle Belanger convinced nearly two dozen real-life vampires to break the code of silence that has kept their fascinating subculture shrouded in secrecy. 10 1998 by Katherine Ramsland (Author) 45 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 2. Katherine Ramsland and I met nearly 10 years ago at the Greater Lehigh. An important sourcebook for both the scholar and inquiring public."-J. "Belanger gives empathetic access to an emergent new magical-religious community. ![]() John Douglas Piercing the Darkness: Undercover with Vampires in America Today A riveting read, a model of engaged journalism. "There's no book available on the vampire culture today with the range, depth, and diversity of Belanger's Vampires in Their Own Words."-Katherine Ramsland, author of Piercing the Darkness and The Science of Vampires With the mind of a true investigator, Ramsland demystifies the world of forensics with authentic and vivid detail. ![]()
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![]() ![]() My husband and I have a house in the country, a house that now seems too big because our sons are grown, but I love to putter in a garden that slopes down to a creek. I live in the Hudson Valley because for more than thirty years I’ve taught film history at Vassar College. ![]() Hi Sarah! Tell us a little about yourself! You can find Sarah on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, along with at her website with all of her tour dates. She chats about its inspiration, her writing process, book recommendations, and more! ![]() We had the pleasure of chatting to debut author Sarah Kozloff about her upcoming release, A Queen In Hiding. Debut author Sarah Kozloff offers a breathtaking and cinematic epic fantasy of a ruler coming of age in A Queen in Hiding, and all four books will be published within a month of each other, so you can binge your favourite new fantasy series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Beneath Akaran’s magic, Maya begins to suspect her life is in danger. As Amar’s wife, she finds friendship and warmth.īut Akaran has its own secrets – thousands of locked doors, gardens of glass, and a tree that bears memories instead of fruit. As Akaran’s queen, she finds her voice and power. But when her wedding takes a fatal turn, Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her world is upheaved when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. ![]() SUMMARY: Cursed with a horoscope that promises a marriage of Death and Destruction, sixteen-year-old Maya has only earned the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. GENRE: Young-A dult, Fantasy, Magic Romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Worse, Dresden suspects that there is another game afoot that no one is talking about. 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Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. ![]() He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. He campaigned against creationism and proposed that Stephen Jay Gould was a prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. In evolutionary theory, he opposed strict selectionism, sociobiology as applied to humans, and evolutionary psychology. ![]() Stephen Jay Gould was a prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. ![]() ![]() ![]() She did things halfway and called it good. We signed her up for soccer and she refused to go back no matter how much I threatened and bargained. ![]() ![]() We signed her up for guitar lessons and she refused to go back after two times. My oldest child was the classic mama-pleaser, while Rhia dug in her heels about anything she didn’t want to do. LOL She is passionate, artistic, smart and determined (some might say dramatic, volatile, pigheaded, stubborn, resistant, etc.). She’s definitely the kid who helped me grow most as a parent of our five kids. People ask a lot of questions here about how unschoolers and almost unschoolers grow up and whether they get into college or are “successful.” This is my second oldest, Rhia, 22. It’s been a while since I’ve posted an update on Rhia (Anna in the tags, Rhiannon officially) so I thought I’d post it here. I posted this to a homeschooling group I help run on Facebook, Almost Unschoolers, and some people asked hey could share it. ![]() |