What can a necromancer do when the dying won't die?Kezia Bernard is a necromancer and hoodoo worker who comforts the dying, guiding them to their ancestors on the other side.But when a witch doctor with a rare talent prevents Kezia's sick, elderly patients from dying, Kezia is the only person who can end his cruel manipulation of life, suffering, and death.The only problem? The witch doctor in question is already dead.With hoodoo and death magic at...

A anthropology student wants a ceremony to mark his transition into manhood. He guides his party-going classmates to his family's abandoned ranch where his brother lives in a psychotic world of drugs, guilt and Chumash Indian rituals.

This classic work of anthropology explores the transitional stages of an individual's life and the societal rituals involved. Arnold van Gennep's masterwork, The Rites of Passage, has been a staple of anthropological education for more than a century. First published in French in 1909, and translated into English by the University of Chicago Press in 1960, this landmark book explores how the life of an individual in any society can be understood...

Jamie Goldberg suspects his homosexuality at an early age. He manages to hide it from his homophobic Seventies Detroit community, his Jewish political activist parents, and even from himself until his rape, at the hands of a male prostitute, at the age of 16. Profoundly ashamed, he hides in two worlds. One world is an intellectual cocoon spun from music, art, theater, and literature. The other is a darker world where sadomasochistic desires attempt...

Bounty hunter Mercy St. Clair is without peer, but her skills as a babysitter leave something to be desired. Safeguarding a vulnerable young woman en route to her home world seems like easy money, but exactly where they're going and why is a closely guarded secret. But her need for protection becomes apparent when a steady stream of cyborg mercenaries look to assassinate Mercy's ward . . . and Mercy! Ron Randall's Trekker returns in Rites of Passage,...

This is a close examination of the ways in which plant life and human life are symbolically intertwined in two rural villages of Hassan District, Karnataka State, India. After presenting a general overview of South Asian cultural traditions related to symbolic uses of plants, the author shares results of an in-depth study of the ways that plants have been used in rites of passage by multiple castes. The author, her partner, and a local team conducted...

Rites of Passage is a much-needed, practical homiletic resource for priests and deacons who preach Christian baptisms, weddings, and funerals. The three authors, a religious priest, a diocesan priest, and a permanent deacon, draw from the scriptural and liturgical resources available to the preacher for these three important ritual moments to suggest ways to build an effective homily. This book will serve as a helpful and engaging resource for priests...

Bobby and Connor's bonding weekend out on the land becomes a fight for survival.

This is a true-life story of a young man's life in the Royal Navy during the early 1970s. The book provides insight into what life was like for young men joining Her Majesty's Forces at that time and of the journeys that followed during a five-year period. The book takes the reader through basic naval training and to far-flung places visited aboard HMS Albion (RO7) "The Old Grey Ghost", a 22,000-ton Centaur-class Light Fleet Carrier, until its decommission....