"Sixteen-year-old Sam McKenna discovers that becoming one of the first girls to attend the revered Denmark Military Academy means living with a target on her back"--

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...

The narrative is one of transforming from a naive teen HS graduate to a member of the US Navy, the American military. This all occurred during a transformative time in generational attitudes and a transformative time in history. The timeline is the summer of 1967, the summer when everyone wore flowers in their hair and burned their draft cards. In the sixties, it was common practice for working-class teens to either pursue a job somewhere with "benefits"...

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.

The central question in all of our lives is how to live, and-one way or another-we find ourselves on this path, on a journey toward an answer. Here, thirty-five exceptional survivors who are either starting, in the middle, or nearing the end of their life's path tell of the secrets they've found. Nothing prepares you for life. No schooling asks the big questions, and you will find no direction outside yourself. Some of us look for meaning in the...

This book is a symphony of harmonized thoughts for the express dissemination of both tangibles and intangibles, in the sense of aversion and gaining contentment of the mind; of the heart. It is a similitude of an inquisition patterned in the authors and the readers sojourn. The journey enacted by choice and decision. The veritable decree of free from self-introspection and determined succession. The passing on of knowledge through metaphor and simile...

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,...

Plants and People is a close examination of the ways in which plant life and human life are intertwined in two rural villages of Hassan District, Karnataka State, India, via the symbolic uses of plants in of rites of passage. After presenting a general overview of South Asian cultural traditions related to symbolic uses of plants and basic ethnobotany concepts, the book describes rites of passage of multiple castes – birth, maturation, marriage,...

Rite of Passage Parenting Workbook teaches parents how to build into their children's lives the essential experiences every child needs: (1) an authentic Rite of Passage, (2) Significant Tasks, (3) Logical Consequences, and (4) Grace Deposits from parents, grandparents, and other caring adults. Writing from years of experience as a minister, family speaker, youth culture specialist, and father, Walker Moore shows parents how to guide their kids to...