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Heir of Novron
Royce and Hadrian discover the true Heir of Novron on the day the New Empire celebrates its victory over the Nationalists by executing the fake heir.
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Heirs through Fear
Beginning with nineteenth-century Indian curse rhetoric as a national jeremiad, and continuing into the twentieth century through Puritan-derived landscapes in fiction by Howard Philips Lovecraft and Jay Anson, Indian curses and accursed lands stand apart from other paranormal beliefs in the explicit voice they give to Euro-American anxieties over cultural authority. By imagining themselves as living in Indian terrains, accursed though they are, white Americans lay claim to the land, articulating an indigenized myth of national origin. Since the 1970s, neo-charismatic Protestants have taken a keen interest in Lovecraft-inspired religions and Indian curse lore, engaging in various deliverance ministries to exorcise individuals and landscapes, and to symbolically claim the nation for themselves.
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The last great heir
Rival heirs, Merriment and Rue, prepare for a customary duel on their thirteenth birthday to determine the next ruler, but a shared enemy compels them to work together to save their loved ones.
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Heirs of the Great Carraway
For doubters, the enduring renown of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is mystifying. It seems a wonder to them that Gatsby should cling to its lofty place on lists of Great American Novels, despite being so slender and so dated, and not withstanding its ham-handed symbolism, simplistic structure, clunky plot machinery, and flat characters. There is a solution to the mystery of Gatsby's lasting fame, and that solution is voice. The elixir that transforms the novel's inert matter into music--that turns its static iconography into poetry--is its first-person narration: the subtle, compounded, compromised voice of Nick Carraway. Hahn discusses three novelists--Donna Tartt, Lorrie Moore, and Richard Ford--who despite their obvious differences are crucially linked by their appropriation of the Carraway narration. For them, Fitzgerald is more than a master who merits homage; he is the source of a transformative voice, a voice that in each case is central to the novelist's intentions, and to the novel's impact.
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Wings of fire. Book two, The lost heir : the graphic novel
\"The lost heir to the SeaWing throne is going home at last. She can't believe it's finally happening. Tsunami and her fellow dragonets of destiny are journeying under the water to the great SeaWing Kingdom. Stolen as an egg from the royal hatchery, Tsunami is eager to meet her future subjects and reunite with her mother, Queen Coral. But Tsunami's triumphant return doesn't go quite the way she'd imagined. Queen Coral welcomes her with open wings, but a mysterious assassin has been killing off the queen's heirs for years, and Tsunami may be the next target. The dragonets came to the SeaWings for protection, but this ocean hides secrets, betrayal--and perhaps even death\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Nomenclature of Enslaved Africans as Real Property or Chattels Personal: Legal Fiction, Judicial Interpretation, Legislative Designation, or Was a Slave a Slave by Any Other Name
The enslaved Africans' attachment to the land on which they toiled was multifaceted. Beyond their classification as slaves, the question of whether or not they should be deemed chattel property or real property did little to detract from the moral repugnance of enslavement. The classification of slaves by courts and legislatures reflected how those institutions sought to maximize the value of slaves to their owners. As slavery became the foundation of the South's economy and the value of slave labor increased, courts and legislatures became less inclined to annex slaves to the land. Slaves were deemed transitory, thereby allowing slaveholders to lease the enslaved's labor. The emphasis was thus focused on the slaves' value as \"things,\" and as such the humanity of the enslavement of Black people was never a factor in the opinions of the courts or in the statutory enactments of legislatures.
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Comics will break your heart
\"[A] sensitive and funny \"Romeo and Juliet\" tale about modern romance, geek royalty, and what it takes to heal the long-festering scars of the past (Spoiler Alert: love)\"--Provided by publisher.
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Sephardism and Marranism in Native American Fiction of the Quincentenary
[...]a number of Native American activists, artists, and scholars have employed Holocaust analogies to advance their critiques of the Columbus myth.
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Takane & Hana
\"After her older sister refuses to go to an arranged marriage meeting with Takane Saibara, the heir to a vast business fortune, high schooler Hana Nonomura agrees to be her stand-in to save face for the family. But when Takane and Hana pair up, get ready for some sparks to fly between these two utter opposites!\"--Back cover of Volume 1.
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\MORTE ARTHURE\, THE MONTAGUS, AND MILAN
An outer limit is set by the copying of the Thornton manuscript at some time in the years 1420-50, probably in the 1430S.10 Echoes of aMA in The Awntyrs of Arthur push that date back if, as now seems likely, the latter poem can be dated to 1424/5.11 Hamel's argument from the effect of Henry IVs marriage might move it further still, but it assumes a questionable degree of sensitivity in fourteenth-century authors and authences to implicit correspondences with the present in works of fiction set in a distant past. The event most likely to make a late fourteenth-century English author think of Milan, millions in gold, and a British king was the spectacular wedding of Giangaleazzo's sister Violante to Lionel, Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III, in 1368, for which the Visconti paid a dowry of two million gold florins.92 Lionel died soon after the wedding, but he left a retinue of 2,000 Englishmen to tell the world about it.93 It is worth noting that Hawkwood, who some said was one of the originators of the whole marriage project, was a member of that retinue and took part (with Chaucer and Petrarch) in the wedding feast.94 In 1375, the terminus a quo for the composition of aMA, memories of Lionel's wedding and Bernabò 's campaigns of 1370- 1 will still have been fresh.
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