Private investigators Brandon Harrison and Tina Wolffe never believed in magic, witchcraft, or the occult until a Wiccan witch known as Andreika walks into their office with a case guaranteed to chill their blood. Andreika's half brother has been murdered, but a police investigation determined his death a suicide. Andreika believes that someone hired Golar, an evil warlock, to cast his powerful Death Spell on her brother and tries to convince Harrison and Wolffe of her suspicions. Despite their doubts, the detectives readily agree to take the case. Andreika is very persuasive, or she has cast a spell on the duo Entering a deadly occult world of modern-day witches and warlocks, Harrison and Wolffe encounter a strange assortment of weird suspects, any one of which has motive, opportunity, and desire to hire a wicked warlock as a hit man. But they focus on Golar and follow him into the darkest corners of San Francisco. As their investigation continues, the detectives soon realize that the warlock may have once again cast his Death Spell-and they are his targets.

DEATH SPELL

Literature & Fiction

Ziegler, Robert

Genre Fiction

iUniverse

Private investigators Brandon Harrison and Tina Wolffe never believed in magic, witchcraft, or the occult until a Wiccan witch known as Andreika walks into their office with a case guaranteed to chill their blood.  Andreika’s half brother has been murdered, but a police investigation determined his death a suicide. Andreika believes that someone hired Golar, an evil warlock, to cast his powerful Death Spell on her brother and tries to convince Harrison and Wolffe of her suspicions. Despite their doubts, the detectives readily agree to take the case. Andreika is very persuasive, or she has cast a spell on the duo …  Entering a deadly occult world of modern-day witches and warlocks, Harrison and Wolffe encounter a strange assortment of weird suspects, any one of which has motive, opportunity, and desire to hire a wicked warlock as a hit man. But they focus on Golar and follow him into the darkest corners of San Francisco. As their investigation continues, the detectives soon realize that the warlock may have once again cast his Death Spell—and they are his targets.

Death Spell

Sharing Care: The Integration of Family Approaches with Child Treatment

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Bush, Andrew

Mental Health

Routledge

Freed from words and images, released from books which sleep, spellbound, on library shelves, artistic inspiration remains, in Mirbeau’s novel, on the level of pain that cannot be voiced in words. –Robert Ziegler Octave Mirbeau would soon rankle bourgeois sensibilities with such fin-de-siècle literary provocations as The Torture Garden (1899) and Diary of a Chambermaid (1900), but in 1892 the French anarchist and litterateur signaled the arrival of modernism with Dans le ciel (In the Sky), an emotionally arresting fictional portrait of a reclusive painter tragically undone by the vaulting, annihilative power of his own ineffable vision. Informed by the author’s active engagement with the late nineteenth-century avant garde, this obscure novel illuminates the Impressionist milieu while presenting a timeless meditation on the bond of friendship and the volatile communion between madness and art. Originally serialized in the French literary journal L’Echo de Paris between September 1892 and May 1893, In the Sky remained unpublished until 1989 when preeminent Mirbeau scholars Jean-François Nivet and Pierre Michel edited and released the first standalone edition as an unfinished novella. Over a century after its initial publication, Mirbeau’s overlooked classic now appears in English for the first time. The present text has been faithfully translated by the American novelist Ann Sterzinger with assistance by Mirbeau scholars Robert Ziegler and Claire Nettleton, who also contributes an introduction.

In the Sky

MIRBEAU, Octave

Literary

Nine-Banded Books

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

A Dead Rose

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Publishamerica Inc

In the darkness of early morning, as the city slept, an act of heart-stopping violence swept across the San Fernando Valley and southern California. It moved into every corner of every home, building, and into every life. The magnitude 7.0 Northridge Earthquake struck at 4:31 a.m., January 17, 1994. It lasted less than 30 seconds, a lifetime for the millions terrorized by its terrible strength as it crumpled the earth, trampled dreams, killed and injured without caprice. Caught up in the terror at the epicenter, Private Investigators Brandon Harrison and Tina Wolffe track an elusive murderer through the rubble and debris. But unlike the Killer 7.0 quake, the murderer kills selectively.      Robert Ziegler is the author ten Harrison/Wolffe Investigations mystery novels including A TASTE FOR MURDER (2013), A CHRISTMAS TO DIE FOR (2012, and PRESUMED GUILTY (2009). He has also penned four science fiction novels: SHADOW WORLD (2005), ALTAIR RISING (2010), APROIDEAN TREK (2011), and A TALE OF HALLEY (2013). Mr. Ziegler lives and writes in his southern California home where he continues to pen his fascinating stories.

Faultline

1st Book Library

Political firebrand, tireless reformer, champion of the avant-garde, Octave Mirbeau embraced his role as disturber of the peace. Inspired by Kropotkin and Dostoyevsky, Mirbeau became the social conscience of the era, speaking in a clear voice to impugn capitalist ideology, to defend the cause of the worker, the child, the pauper, the prostitute, and the soldier sacrificed as cannon fodder. Mirbeau’s critiques of society seethe with indictments of indoctrinating agencies: the family, which stifled the child’s freedom and expressive creativity, the school, which besotted students with the aridity of its curriculum, the army, which privileged patriotism over the sanctity of life, the church, which sanctified suffering, perverted instinct, and alienated the faithful from nature. Yet Mirbeau shared the admiration of fin-de-siècle zealots for the pariahs, tramps, and beggars rehabilitated in the Scripture. The personal trials of the misbegotten became an insignia of election. Those marginalized by society experienced damnation here below yet had glimpses of the bliss they hoped might await them somewhere higher. Yet it was not just in the less fortunate that Mirbeau sought evidence of the supra-rational. Generally neglected by critics, Mirbeau’s interest in the unknown and the inexpressible informed virtually all of his writing and helped shape his views on artistic work and political struggle. For this reason, this study sets out to analyze the spiritual politics of the author. As Mirbeau was becoming involved in the escalating controversy over the Dreyfus case and cementing his alliance with prominent anarchists, he was also undergoing a uniquely personal spiritual evolution. This volume breaks new ground, exploring the author’s secular metaphysic, charting his investigation of the spiritually transfiguring experience that redeems man’s desolate existence. What begins as Mirbeau’s indictment of Catholicism’s death-glorifying ethos, his attempt to find refuge from life’s pain in the blessedness of Nirvana, becomes a pursuit of mystical diffusion into the community of others. Showing how Mirbeau controverts the existence of a Christian god, this study argues that Mirbeau never abandons his exploration of life’s mysteries, apprehensions of the infinite that come from a refinement of his art and an identification with his brothers.

Octave Mirbeau's Fictions of the Transcendental

Religion & Spirituality

University of Delaware Press

In an era when reality was aestheticized as collectibles, Octave Mirbeau unleashed his fiction like a destructive machine, setting fire to stale material and discredited ideologies, burning them as fuel and expelling texts as clean emissions. In this first English-language overview of all the novels published under Mirbeau's name, this study argues that Mirbeau is unique among his fin-de-siècle peers. Unlike the Decadents, whose art was a reliquary in which dead inspiration was preserved, Mirbeau disengaged himself from the corpses of past works. Abhorring tradition and complacency, Mirbeau elaborated a kinetics of fiction that made the novel into an agent of violent transformation. Contrasting the Decadents' aesthetic of elegant morbidity with Mirbeau's vitalistic view of fiction, this volume shows Mirbeau modeling himself on the figure of the torture artist, cutting up his finished works, building novels to disassemble them, fitting them together in revolutionary ways. Creativity for Mirbeau fertilizes un jardin des supplices, a cemetery smoldering with decomposing texts that are resolved into their constituent parts and then reemerge in different guises. In Mirbeau's writing, lives and art works are only transient aggregates of material, and creativity is immortalized through the perishing of old forms.

The Nothing Machine: The Fiction of Octave Mirbeau (Faux Titre)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Brill Academic Pub

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DEATH SPELL

Death Spell

Sharing Care: The Integration of Family Approaches with Child Treatment

In the Sky

Sharing Care: The Integration of Family Approaches with Child Treatment

Sharing Care: The Integration of Family Approaches with Child Treatment

A Dead Rose

Faultline

Octave Mirbeau's Fictions of the Transcendental

The Nothing Machine: The Fiction of Octave Mirbeau (Faux Titre)