Ediciones Rubí Jun 2026 (8 results)
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Published by Ediciones Rubí Jun 2026, 2026
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Some debts span centuries. Some daughters refuse to pay. Eva Beauford tried to cheat a blood covenant older than this country.Using her own potent blood, she believed she could protect the man chosen for her before she drew her first breath and shatter the pact that has bound Beauford daugh…ters for two centuries. Veidrel knew. And the ancient entity answered the only way it knows. With a blight.Now black ash falls on Beauford Grove like snow. The soil turns to ash. The people are falling sick with blackened veins beneath their skin, just as they did in Haiti two centuries ago, when a plantation dared to defy the covenant.Rafe, Eva's scientist, her partner, her heart, is Veidrel's now, possessed and slipping further away with every passing hour.Eva is pregnant with a child that shouldn't exist. Born of the ritual, carrying both Beauford and Durand blood, and an inheritance her ancestors predicted and Veidrel never anticipated. A child who could end this war.If Eva can survive long enough to bring him into the world.The Grove kept its end of a dark bargain for two hundred years. Now the debt comes due, and Eva Beauford refuses to pay.Book Two of the Beauford Grove Series.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - For centuries, crowds gathered beneath painted banners, inside travelling tents, outside fairground booths, and along the noisy midways of circuses and dime museums to stare at human beings advertised as wonders, marvels, monsters, curiosities, living miracles, and strange mistakes of natur…e. Behind the bright posters and theatrical promises stood a darker and far more complicated history: one shaped by poverty, showmanship, exploitation, survival, medicine, disability, racism, public curiosity, and the human need to turn difference into spectacle.The History of the Freak Show examines the rise, popularity, decline, and uneasy legacy of one of the most controversial forms of entertainment in modern history. From early cabinets of curiosities and travelling fairs to Victorian sideshows, American dime museums, circus midways, medical exhibitions, photographic postcards, and early cinema, this book explores how the so-called 'freak show' became a powerful commercial industry and a disturbing mirror of the societies that supported it.This is not a book written to mock or sensationalise the people who appeared on those stages. Instead, it looks beyond the poster paint and promotional lies to consider the real individuals behind the banners: performers who were exploited, displayed, misrepresented, managed, controlled, celebrated, pitied, feared, admired, and sometimes able to turn public curiosity into income, independence, travel, and fame. Some were victims of cruel showmen and unforgiving social conditions. Others were skilled professionals who understood the stage, negotiated their identities, and survived in a world that offered them few alternatives.Through detailed historical discussion, the book examines the role of showmen such as P. T. Barnum, the rise of human curiosity exhibitions, the language of old sideshow advertising, the display of disabled bodies, the racial and colonial fantasies built into many acts, the lives of women performers, the use of children in entertainment, the relationship between medicine and spectacle, and the changing moral attitudes that eventually helped bring the traditional freak show into decline.Dark, serious, and deeply human, The History of the Freak Show is a study of far more than circus tents and sideshow stages. It is a history of the public gaze itself. It asks why people paid to look, what they believed they were seeing, who profited from that attention, and what the whole disturbing spectacle reveals about cruelty, fascination, survival, and the uncomfortable boundaries between entertainment and exploitation.This book uncovers a world where the real subject was never only the people on display, but the society that bought the ticket.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Strange balls of light haunt the night skies over Half Moon Bay, and two young girls are on a collision course with evil when people begin to spontaneously combust. Eighteen-year-old Claire Weatherly flees Cincinnati, Ohio for Half Moon Bay, CA when her family dies in a mysterious fire. She… hopes by reconnecting with her aunt and uncle she can out run her grief, her guilt, and death itself. But she quickly discovers that Half Moon Bay isn't her salvation. Seventeen-year-old Lucy escapes imprisonment from a house outside Half Moon Bay when a red ball of light attacks and incinerates her captor. She's been praying for salvation and at first believes the ball of light is the answer to those prayers. But after witnessing the carnage, she doubts the ball's intent and runs for her life. It's only by luck that the two girls find each other and form a bond of inseparable friendship, trust, and love. Together they must solve the mystery of the balls of light and discover their evil intentions. Together they must put an end to the fiery holocaust plaguing Half Moon Bay. Together they must overcome and survive these Days of Fire and Ash.
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Published by Ediciones Rubí Jun 2026, 2026
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Nestled in the shadow of theBerchtesgaden Alps, the HotelGeneral Walker hides secretsthat some would kill toprotect. When Grace notices aman whose presence seemsout of time, she uncovers thedark legacy of a Nazi officerand a hunt for lost treasureshidden within the hotel's walls.As danger c…loses in, Gracemust outwit him, reveal thesecrets of the past, andpreserve priceless historybefore it's lost forever.
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