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Blood Of Angels

The Second Book Of Joy

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Thrillers, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

The Second Book of Joy: Blood of Angels is the first notebook of family lore that Professor Bo Wolfson researched in The Books of Joy: Burning Streams. These are the magical tales about their enslaved ancestors that his lover Eva Dennison fought with him to destroy.

In their collected memoirs, nine enslaved women tell how they freed themselves and took over their owners’ Mississippi breeding plantation, using African, African American, and European folktales to describe the magic and willpower that set them free.

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Blood Of Angels

The Second Book Of Joy

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Thrillers, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

The Second Book of Joy: Blood of Angels is the first notebook of family lore that Professor Bo Wolfson researched in The Books of Joy: Burning Streams. These are the magical tales about their enslaved ancestors that his lover Eva Dennison fought with him to destroy.

In their collected memoirs, nine enslaved women tell how they freed themselves and took over their owners’ Mississippi breeding plantation, using African, African American, and European folktales to describe the magic and willpower that set them free.

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Burning Streams

The First Book Of Joy

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Thrillers, Dark Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

When Eva Dennison learns that she has inherited the fallow sharecropping plantation in Mississippi that her parents fled to make a new life in L.A., she is eager to escape the big city and explore her historical roots. Eva abandons her dissertation about ancestral memory in African American literature and myth and takes with her Anastasia, her college-age daughter, and Charley, her investment broker cousin. Together, they plan to restore the old mansion and grounds and open a retreat and think-tank for activist women of the hard-hit Gulf region.

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Burning Streams

The First Book Of Joy

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Thrillers, Dark Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

When Eva Dennison learns that she has inherited the fallow sharecropping plantation in Mississippi that her parents fled to make a new life in L.A., she is eager to escape the big city and explore her historical roots. Eva abandons her dissertation about ancestral memory in African American literature and myth and takes with her Anastasia, her college-age daughter, and Charley, her investment broker cousin. Together, they plan to restore the old mansion and grounds and open a retreat and think-tank for activist women of the hard-hit Gulf region.

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Alexis Brooks de Vita

Chain Dance

The Third Book Of Joy

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Thrillers, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

The Third Book of Joy: Chain Dance is the second notebook of family lore, the collection of Joy’s magical stories about her enslaved ancestors, researched by Professor Bo Wolfson in Burning Streams; the first notebook was published in Blood of Angels. When Heaven’s heartbroken death in childbirth and Whip Man’s torture at her father’s hands lead her to resurrect herself as a death dancer, magic and terror drive the plantation’s owner off of his land. Most of the men and women who labor on the haunted plantation flee, following Heaven’s brother to his Louisiana swampland.

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Alexis Brooks de Vita

Chain Dance

The Third Book Of Joy

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Thrillers, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

The Third Book of Joy: Chain Dance is the second notebook of family lore, the collection of Joy’s magical stories about her enslaved ancestors, researched by Professor Bo Wolfson in Burning Streams; the first notebook was published in Blood of Angels. When Heaven’s heartbroken death in childbirth and Whip Man’s torture at her father’s hands lead her to resurrect herself as a death dancer, magic and terror drive the plantation’s owner off of his land. Most of the men and women who labor on the haunted plantation flee, following Heaven’s brother to his Louisiana swampland.

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Alexis Brooks de Vita

Dante's Inferno

A Wanderer In Hell

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Dark Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

For an urban English-speaker in the twenty-first century, the original language of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, the first act of his trilogy, the Comedy, would read like a shockingly accurate critique of today’s globalized society, if we could understand it. Dante’s Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell gives second-millennial English-language readers a chance to share the pathos, the humor, and the raw political aggression of Dante’s vision of Hell.

Dante’s Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell preserves the meaning of Dante’s verses, line by line.

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Alexis Brooks de Vita

Dante's Inferno

A Wanderer In Hell

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Dark Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

For an urban English-speaker in the twenty-first century, the original language of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, the first act of his trilogy, the Comedy, would read like a shockingly accurate critique of today’s globalized society, if we could understand it. Dante’s Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell gives second-millennial English-language readers a chance to share the pathos, the humor, and the raw political aggression of Dante’s vision of Hell.

Dante’s Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell preserves the meaning of Dante’s verses, line by line.

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Alexis Brooks de Vita

Left Hand Of The Moon

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Fantasy, Romance - general, Speculative Fiction

Left Hand of the Moon is an American Romeo and Juliet story about doomed love between the very young. In the early 1800s, as the fledgling United States completes the Louisiana Purchase and marches troops through the newly acquired state, executing by firing squad the freed adult children of enslaved women and their owners, an enslaved teen and her owner’s youngest son run away to live together. They have grown up together and have always trusted and loved each other.

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Left Hand Of The Moon

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Fantasy, Romance - general, Speculative Fiction

Left Hand of the Moon is an American Romeo and Juliet story about doomed love between the very young. In the early 1800s, as the fledgling United States completes the Louisiana Purchase and marches troops through the newly acquired state, executing by firing squad the freed adult children of enslaved women and their owners, an enslaved teen and her owner’s youngest son run away to live together. They have grown up together and have always trusted and loved each other.

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Tales In Firelight And Shadow

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction

Tales in Firelight and Shadow is a collection of short stories by well-known and fresh new writers of fantasy, speculative and science fiction, retelling folktales from many lands and cultures. Award-winning authors present challenging new twists on familiar tales: James Morrow’s museum curator and his university professor daughter discover the ultimate answer to the human condition; Mary Turzillo’s talking cat rats on a legendary illusionist; and Tenea D. Johnson’s fairies deal with the dream dolls of nightmare.

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Alexis Brooks de Vita

Tales In Firelight And Shadow

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction

Tales in Firelight and Shadow is a collection of short stories by well-known and fresh new writers of fantasy, speculative and science fiction, retelling folktales from many lands and cultures. Award-winning authors present challenging new twists on familiar tales: James Morrow’s museum curator and his university professor daughter discover the ultimate answer to the human condition; Mary Turzillo’s talking cat rats on a legendary illusionist; and Tenea D. Johnson’s fairies deal with the dream dolls of nightmare.