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Persistence Of Memory
''Persistence of Memory'' is the tenth novel by American teen author Amelia Atwater-Rhodes and is the fifth novel in her Den of Shadows series. Published on December 9, 2008 the novel tells the story of Erin Misrahe and her struggles with her alter-ego Shevaun, who is in fact a vampire with whom Erin has a link. The novel also mentions a character from Atwater-Rhodes's previous novel, ''In the Forests of the Night'' (1999), Alexander, the brother of the protagonist, Risika. The poem by Edgar Allan Poe entitled "A Dream Within a Dream" is featured in the novel. Summary Erin Mishare is a sixteen-year-old girl who has an alter-ego named Shevaun. Erin has always struggled with this and has seen many therapists but none of them can figure out why Shevaun exists. The real Shevaun is a vampire on the other side of the world. When Erin gets stressed out, Shevaun is pulled away from her body and is switched into Erin's and vice versa, though neither are fully aware of it. When Shevaun st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Amelia Holt Atwater-Rhodes (born April 16, 1984), known professionally as Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, is an American author of fantasy and young adult literature and a Language Arts/Literature teacher at Learning Prep School in West Newton, MA. She was born in Silver Spring, Maryland and has lived most of her life in Concord, Massachusetts. Her debut novel, '' In the Forests of the Night'', was published in 1999,CNN.com, ''Top-selling teen author pens vampire tales''. Published February 25, 2000. when she was fourteen years old. By Charles Taylor. Published on July 16, 1999. She has moved from her family's Sudbury home to a nearby Massachusetts town. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon
Amazon most often refers to: * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company Amazon or Amazone may also refer to: Places South America * Amazon Basin (sedimentary basin), a sedimentary basin at the middle and lower course of the river * Amazon basin, the part of South America drained by the river and its tributaries * Amazon Reef, at the mouth of the Amazon basin Elsewhere * 1042 Amazone, an asteroid * Amazon Creek, a stream in Oregon, US People * Amazon Eve (born 1979), American model, fitness trainer, and actress * Lesa Lewis (born 1967), American professional bodybuilder nicknamed "Amazon" Art and entertainment Fictional characters * Amazon (Amalgam Comics) * Amazon, an alias of the Marvel supervillain Man-Killer * Amazons (DC Comics), a group of superhuman characters * The A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Vampire Novels
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 American Novels
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shapeshifter
In mythology, folklore and speculative fiction, shape-shifting is the ability to physically transform oneself through an inherently superhuman ability, divine intervention, demonic manipulation, sorcery, spells or having inherited the ability. The idea of shape-shifting is in the oldest forms of totemism and shamanism, as well as the oldest existent literature and epic poems such as the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' and the ''Iliad''. The concept remains a common literary device in modern fantasy, children's literature and popular culture. Folklore and mythology Popular shape-shifting creatures in folklore are werewolves and vampires (mostly of European, Canadian, and Native American/early American origin), ichchadhari naag and ichchadhari naagin (shape-shifting cobras) of India, the huli jing of East Asia (including the Japanese ''kitsune'' and Korean '' kumiho''), and the gods, goddesses, and demons and demonesses like succubus and incubus and other numerous mytholog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Dream Within A Dream
"A Dream Within a Dream" is a poem written by American poet Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The poem has 24 lines, divided into two stanzas. Analysis The poem dramatizes the confusion felt by the narrator as he watches the important things in life slip away.Silverman, Kenneth. ''Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance''. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. p. 402 Realizing he cannot hold on to even one grain of sand, he is led to his final question whether all things are just a dream.Sova, Dawn B. ''Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z''. New York: Checkmark Books, 2001: 73. It has been suggested that the "golden sand" referenced in the 15th line signifies that which is to be found in an hourglass, consequently time itself.Poe, E. A. (1969). Poems Collected in 1829. In T. O. Mabbott (Ed.), ''Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume I: Poems'' (pp. 130). Massachusetts: Belknap Press. Another interpretation holds that the expression evokes an image derived from the 1848 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature. Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction. Poe is the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. Poe was born in Boston, the second child of actors David and Elizabeth "Eliza" Poe. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and when his mother died the following year, Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. They never formally adopted him, but he was with them wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Forests Of The Night
''In the Forests of the Night'' is a vampire novel written by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, and published in 1999. It was originally entitled ''White Wine''. Atwater-Rhodes wrote it at the age of thirteen, but it was published on May 11, 1999, about a month after she turned fifteen. It is the first novel in the ''Den of Shadows'' series. It tells the story of a three-hundred-year-old vampire named Risika and her struggles throughout her life, both before and after she was turned into a vampire. The novel is told in first-person narrative by the protagonist, Risika. It was well-received by critics. The title refers William Blake's poem "The Tyger", which appears at the beginning of the book. Atwater-Rhodes' second book, ''Demon in My View'', was published in 2000 when the author was 16 and is the sequel to ''In the Forests of the Night''. '' Persistence of Memory'', published in 2008, makes mention and features an appearance of the main character's brother. Writing process According ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Token Of Darkness
''Token of Darkness'' is the eleventh novel by American author, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes and is the sixth novel in the Den of Shadows ''Den of Shadows'', is a set of fantasy novels written by American author, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. The novels follow an interconnected group of supernatural creatures, such as vampires, ghosts, and shapeshifters. It is the predecessor of Atwater-Rho .... The novel was published on February 9, 2010. " The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe is featured in the book. Summary Cooper Blake is a high school football player who dreamed of going pro until a car accident that destroyed it all. Now he sees this ghost named Samantha, who wants a body. Intent on helping her Cooper goes to the library to find a way to help her. Along the way he meets Delilah and Brent, both who know of Samantha and realize the danger Cooper is in. Intent on helping him they must discover more about Samantha and where she came from, which puts all of them in more danger than they can handle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Den Of Shadows
''Den of Shadows'', is a set of fantasy novels written by American author, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. The novels follow an interconnected group of supernatural creatures, such as vampires, ghosts, and shapeshifters. It is the predecessor of Atwater-Rhodes' five volume series, known as The Kiesha'ra Series. The novels included in ''Den of Shadows'' are ''In the Forests of the Night'', ''Demon in My View'', ''Shattered Mirror'', ''Midnight Predator'', '' Persistence of Memory'', ''Token of Darkness'', ''All Just Glass'', '' Poison Tree'', '' Promises to Keep'' and the books from the Maeve’ra Trilogy, ''Bloodwitch'', ''Bloodkin'', and ''Bloodtraitor''. The Den of Shadows is also the name of Atwater-Rhodes' official site. The site was originally called Nyeusigrube, which translated to "den of shadows" in the books' constructed language. Novels 1999 ''In the Forests of the Night'' This novel follows a woman named Risika, who was born under the name Rachel Weatere in 1684. She later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wyvernhail
''Wyvernhail'' is the fifth book in the Kiesha'ra Series by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. The preceding four books in order are: ''Hawksong'', ''Snakecharm'', ''Falcondance'', and ''Wolfcry''. It is told from the point of view of Hai the gyrfalcon, cobra mix, who is struggling to find a way out of Ecl, or the darkness. It was released on September 11, 2007. Plot Wyvernhail is the story of Hai - the mongrel daughter of the Falcon Darien and Zane The name Zane may be a given name or a surname. Its western usage derives from the Venetian form of ''Gianni'' or an alternate spelling of the German and Jewish name ''Zahn''. An Arabic name Zain, Zayn, or as it is often anglicized Zane, is an Arab ...'s older brother, Anjay - putting her in line for the Cobriana throne (though crippled and powerless). Hai is a creature out of place - not Avian, but a falcon poisoned with cobra blood . When Hai's cousin, Oliza Shardae Cobriana, abdicates the throne of Wyvern's Court, Hai has visions only of de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
