Ergebnis für "Magisch" in LGBT

Buying into the dream that education is the road out of poverty, a teen mom takes a chance on bettering herself, gets on welfare rolls, and talks her way into college. But once she's there, phallocratic narratives permeate every subject, and creative writing professors depend heavily on Freytag's pyramid to analyze life. So Ariel turns to a rich subcultural canon of resistance and failure, populated by writers like Audre Lorde, Tillie Olsen, and Kathy Acker. Wryly riffing on feminist literary tropes, We Were Witches documents the survival of a demonized single mother.

Celeste flieht vor Mobbing und Diskriminierung nach London. Doch selbst in der Millionenmetropole geht alles schief. Nicht etwa, weil sie blind und curvy ist, sondern plötzlich wieder Auren sehen kann. Und das bleibt nicht ihre einzige außergewöhnliche Fähigkeit. Als sie im Gaming-Café »V R Awesome« mitten hinein in ein Spiel katapultiert wird, ist es ausgerechnet der Hacktivist Blaze, der sie rettet. Blaze will sie für sein Team rekrutieren, um die angesagte Beauty-Influencerin Magnolia und ihre suchtbringenden Produkte zu stoppen. Er vermutet, dass sie für ihren Erfolg Magie einsetzt.

Alles könnte so schön sein. Die Hexe Mona und ihr angetrauter Erzdämon Balthasar haben sich ihre Liebe gestanden, ein gefräßiges Dämonenschweinchen adoptiert und wollen heiraten, diesmal absichtlich... Doch dann holen die Vampirbrüder der Familie Nosdrof zum alles entscheidenden Schlag aus. Nun ist nicht nur Monas Realität bedroht - die ganze Weltordnung scheint auf dem Spiel zu stehen. Himmel und Hölle müssen endlich ihre Differenzen beilegen, um die Bedrohung durch die Vampirbrüder aufzuhalten.

On the day Concord Webster turned eighteen, the Devil died. The Devil's real name was Judge Martin, but Concord's mother called him the Devil. She said he boiled babies for dinner and made lampshades out of human skin. So why did she, who hated him so venomously, have a key to his house? The key will unlock more than just Judge's front door. It will also unlock a multitude of stories - where magic children talk to crows, men disappear in piles of leaves, and James Dean lookalikes kiss in dark alleys - and reveal a secret history that will change Concord's life forever.

Aurora and Leela have succeeded in their quest to balance work and family. Aurora has risen in the ranks at her company and has become a well-known environmental advocate. Leela’s business has grown and is the president of the farmers’ market. They have done this all while raising their conceived-by-magic eleven-year-old daughter, Kari. However, the time has come for them to tell Kari about her mystical origins, as Kari’s mind and body start to evolve in powerful ways.

After losing someone precious to them, Gabriel has thrown himself headlong into learning magic, Florian has taken an enthusiastic apprentice under his wing, and Solomon has deepened his faith in order to grapple with an ever-changing world. But with a new year comes new problems, and the trees in Augarten are getting sick... even the one that has proven to be so critical to Gabriel's survival. As Gabriel himself falls ill, he digs into Florian's old journals, looking for answers to his past in the tear-soaked pages.

Detective Inspector Marco Ramirez of the Cornwall Police Major Investigation Team is called to the remote Island of St. Mary to investigate a suspicious arson. With the discovery of a mysterious amulet and the uncovering of the victim's true identity, he is unwillingly thrown into the centre of an ancient prophecy.

Navigating the intricacies of life and self-identity is an eternal quest that literature often delves into, but rarely do we come across a book that so profoundly captures this voyage with such ethereal elegance as Maya Realm's "Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light." From the outset, Realm pulls us into Macallah's enigmatic world—a blend of the familiar and the fantastical, wrapped in luminous prose and intricate narrative layers.

Jackson Bishop doesn't know what's real. He had a birthday. He met a man. He buried his mother. He got lost in the woods, and then.... Jackson woke up. It's his birthday again and his mother is alive, but the man from his dream is selling him a coffee and he doesn't know Jackson's name.

Shoot Me, Jesus is a “novel in short stories”, what writer Jane Lawless called “erotic magic realism with a Southwestern spiciness.” Humor is an essential element of each story. The 11 linked tales move forward and backward in time in the manner of flashbacks and foreshadowing in a novel, though the plots are always character-driven. It is their realizations, insights, and inner changes that move the collection along.

Twenty-seven-year-old Jared has lived in the same little town in the Appalachian Mountains with the same people and the same traditions his entire life. Gossip travels fast. When Jared realizes he is trans, everything changes. Naming herself Claire, she tries to come out to her family and is shattered when she is rejected by everyone besides her twin sister.

Daryl spends his days working at the hospital as a caring orderly, but he spends his nights listening to his gorgeous neighbor Jessica get intimate with her husband through the paper-thin walls of his apartment. It's not so bad until he gets a mysterious package containing an old wooden carving that gives him some very vivid, very personal dreams...dreams where he's not only with Jessica, but where he is Jessica! Daryl takes care of all the patients at St. Mary's, a special hospital where most of the city's saddest cases end up, but he's especially caring towards one patient.

When life’s got you down, it’s often difficult to be grateful for the good things you have. We often long for different circumstances in our past with hopes of making our present better.