Download or read book Surgical Wing written by Kristin Robertson and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In Surgical Wing, you will find yourself in phone booths, county fairs, fishing boats, and among ghosts. Strange birds will enter hospital waiting rooms. You will be seduced by knot-makers. You will witness illness, grief, and healing. Finally, the book itself will become the wings that steer you to a greater understanding of yourself and the world.” —Anna Silver In Surgical Wing, surrealistic poems visit an experimental hospital ward, manifesting visions of winged angels and medical tests, as we bear witness to a doctor’s’ meddling and miracles. Robertson’s poems challenge the internal and external metamorphoses of the human condition and the juxtaposition between death and life by personifying the soul through images of birds. From “You’re About to Fold a Paper Airplane”: Build evidence of air. Pull the results of your blood test from the mailbox. Fold in half: you have wings already. Abnormal? Fold again. You can’t see the inner-workings of an aircraft. And when you’re folding, you can’t study much else. Book your tumor markers a flight to Bora Bora. Vector, Victor. Clearance, Clarence. On any scrap of paper write carry. Write heavenward. Write I choose this over you. Replace this. With flying. With peregrination. Or write I can’t fear you another morning. And fold. Kristin Robertson is a native of East Tennessee, and she graduated with a PhD in creative writing from Georgia State University in Atlanta. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Harvard Review, Indiana Review, TriQuarterly, Third Coast, and Verse Daily, among other journals. Kristin lives outside Los Angeles and teaches at the University of California, Riverside.
Download or read book Anya and the Dragon written by Sofiya Pasternack and published by Versify. This book was released on 2019 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an alternate ninth century, twelve-year-old Anya and a new friend face a Viking and a Tsar to protect the water dragon that saved her life, putting her family's home at risk.
Download or read book Anya Seton written by Lucinda H. MacKethan and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anya Seton was the bestselling author of ten historical novels, including the masterpieces Katherine and The Winthrop Woman, which are still widely beloved over sixty years after their original publication. Yet there has never before been a book-length biography of this great American writer. Author Lucinda MacKethan, with the support of Seton's daughters and unprecedented access to the novelist's decades' worth of journals detailing her writing throughout her career, has crafted an intimate look at the writer in her own words. Ann Seton was born in 1904 the daughter of two celebrity writers: Ernest Thompson Seton, a renowned naturalist and illustrator, and Grace Gallatin Seton, a women's suffrage leader who received medals for her volunteer work in France during World War I. The pair's literary output gave them enduring fame, but as a teenager Ann explicitly rejected her parents' careers—because, she said, they showed her the drudgery of a writer's life. Still, she was always confident that she had inherited her parents' talent. At age thirty-six and self-renamed Anya, she placed her first novel with a major publisher. Anya the author was protective of her private life yet also mused, "I suppose I write myself over and over again in the heroines" of her books. She reinvented herself within carefully researched historical settings and biographical frameworks that provided both escape and wish fulfillment. Through Seton's own journal entries, letters, and self-analyses, MacKethan provides an intimate study of what it meant to her to be a writer. She details Seton's creative process, as well as the difficulties she faced balancing writing with the duties of homemaking and raising three children, and the gratitude or more often frustration she felt toward editors and reviewers. A compelling portrait emerges of a deeply dedicated writer whose life was full of inner turmoil, most of it self-inflicted.
Download or read book Anya S Story written by Hilda Journey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anya was a nurse in her late twenties when she moved from California to Wyoming and met a handsome pastor. But as they began seriously dating, it soon became evident that Frederick was battling personal demons. Despite several red flags, Anya shunned her misgivings, accepted Fredericks proposal, and settled into what she hoped would be blissful married life. Unfortunately, she couldnt have been more wrong. In a poignant memoir, Hilda Journey shares a glimpse into the complex and frightening aspects of an abusive marriage as Anya lived trapped in fear, grappled with feeling lost and alone, and wondered if God was hearing her pleas for help. While revealing her long and difficult journey through the next twenty-seven years, Hilda discloses how as angry confrontations developed into violent scenarios, hid her horrible secrets from her family, and searched for answers through prayer. Finally, as she divulges how she summoned the courage to leave the marriagewith help from counselors and friendsHilda provides inspiration to anyone suffering through abuse to escape the violence and find their true selves again. Anyas Story details one womans journey through and beyond an abusive marriage that provides hope to other victims to take the steps today to live happier, healthier lives.
Download or read book The Underground Trilogy written by Anna Kyss and published by Kyss Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far beneath the streets of London, in abandoned tunnels of the London Underground, the age-old battle between Light and Dark brews. Are you ready to enter The Underground? When Meghan Kelly, eighteen-years-old and backpacking across England, descends into the century-old stone tunnels of the Underground, she plans on a hot date at a secret nightclub. Instead, she finds herself imprisoned and in a fight for her very survival. Kiernan has lived in the Underground nearly all his life. After his encounters with Meghan, he must choose between loyalty to his father or saving the human girl he yearns for. Not an easy decision when his people face extinction and Meghan might hold the key to saving them. In this box set edition of The Underground Trilogy, join Meghan and Kiernan in their epic race for survival that spans hearts, paranormal civilizations, and continents. The box set contains all three books in the trilogy: Wings of Shadow, Wings of Memory, and Wings of Light. keywords: paranormal romance, urban fantasy, magic, faeries, fairies, Fae, Fey, fairy, elves, elf, selkies, supernatural creatures, young adult, YA, new adult, NA, London, The London Underground, England, Cotswolds, Costa Rica, Seattle, herbalism, coming of age, love story, Mayans, Stonehenge, The Green Man, lore, legends, quests
Download or read book Heart of Her Wolves written by Tara West and published by Shifting Sands Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witch with no past…A Fae with no future…Two shifters with no hope. Their entwined fates could be their doom or salvation. I have no memories of whatever life I left behind. No clues indicating why the mage pretending to be my father was hiding me away. And now I’m fleeing for my life, hunted by mercenaries who want me dead. My only friends are a possessive rebel Fae, his temperamental dragon, and his two exiled wolf-shifter brothers. Though I’m drawn to the Fae and his brothers, the last thing I need is three jealous lovers fighting for me when I still don’t know who or what I am. Even if my wolf shifters may hold the key to my heart and my memories. Of one thing I do know—my magic is strengthening, and if I can’t learn how to wield it, I could very well burn this world down.
Download or read book Maharashtra CET MBA 2020 with Solved Papers Mock Papers written by RK Jha and published by Arihant Publications India limited. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (MHT CET 2020) is a state level common entrance test for the admission to PG Courses. After clearing the MHT CET test, a candidate qualifies for admission to all MBA/MMS courses in the state of Maharashtra. The exam is conducted through online mode i.e. Computer Based test comprises of objective-type questions. Maharashtra CET – MBA 2020 with Solved Papers & Mock Papers is designed as a complete reference Manual for this exam, has been prepared to meet all the needs of the students who are taking this exam. This book provides comprehensive treatment of all four sections i.e. Logical Reasoning, Abstract Reasoning, Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension and Quantitative Aptitude is the distinguishing feature of the book. The treatment of the subject matter is according to subject level required for MBA/MMS CET and according to the test pattern. It also includes the Solved Papers [2019-2006] & 3 Mock Tests that gives 100% detailed explanation so that students can understand the question paper pattern, types of important questions and concepts provided in every question help them to understand easily and make them absolutely exam ready. TABLE OF CONTENT Solved Papers [2019-2006], Mock papers: Crack MHT CET MBA Mock (1-3).
Download or read book Maharashtra CET MBA 2021 with Solved Papers Mock Papers written by RK Jha and published by Arihant Publications India limited. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (MHT CET 2020) is a state level common entrance test for the admission to PG Courses. After clearing the MHT CET test, a candidate qualifies for admission to all MBA/MMS courses in the state of Maharashtra. The exam is conducted through online mode i.e. Computer Based test comprises of objective-type questions. Maharashtra CET – MBA 2020 with Solved Papers & Mock Papers is designed as a complete reference Manual for this exam, has been prepared to meet all the needs of the students who are taking this exam. This book provides comprehensive treatment of all four sections i.e. Logical Reasoning, Abstract Reasoning, Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension and Quantitative Aptitude is the distinguishing feature of the book. The treatment of the subject matter is according to subject level required for MBA/MMS CET and according to the test pattern. It also includes the Solved Papers [2019-2006] & 3 Mock Tests that gives 100% detailed explanation so that students can understand the question paper pattern, types of important questions and concepts provided in every question help them to understand easily and make them absolutely exam ready. TABLE OF CONTENT Solved Papers [2019-2006], Mock papers: Crack MHT CET MBA Mock (1-3).
Download or read book Brain Game Puzzels for Competitive Exams written by Arihant Experts and published by Arihant Publications India limited. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puzzles are an essential part of reasoning section of various competitive exams promoting ‘Out of the Box Thinking’ approach in candidates. Taking the huge beneficial amount of puzzle solving in every best possible areas into consideration, bank, SSC, Management Entrances and almost every competition have included this tough yet fun way of assessment to their exam syllabus. Puzzles for Competition is a comprehensive book covering more than 350 challenging puzzles for all competition exams. Every chapter of this book comes with finest illustrations required for understanding the basic concepts of puzzles solving. Along with chapters, three levels of exercises (Base, Expert & Advanced Level) are set to promote the learning from the scratch. Fundamental guidelines on Puzzle solving have been presented at the beginning of the book which is useful. Created with the purpose of enabling students in solving every kind of puzzles in a given time-period, this book will surely prove as a correct choice of study material in working out with puzzles. Table of Content Let’s Start (Sitting Arrangement, Sequential Arrangement on the Basis of Comparison, Blood Relations, Steps to be Kept in Mind While Solving Puzzles), Puzzles Based on Classification, Puzzles Based on Sitting and Order Arrangement, Puzzles Based on Sequential Order of Events, Complex Family Puzzles, Puzzles Based on Condition, Grouping and Team Formation.
Download or read book Anya s War written by Andrea Alban and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anya Rosen and her family have left their home in Odessa for Shanghai, believing that China will be a safe haven from Hitler's forces. At first, Anya's life in the Jewish Quarter of Shanghai is privileged and relatively carefree: she has crushes on boys, fights with her mother, and longs to defy expectations just like her hero, Amelia Earhart. Then Anya finds a baby—a newborn abandoned on the street. Amelia Earhart goes missing. And it becomes dangerously clear that no place is safe—not for Jewish families like the Rosens, not for Shanghai's poor, not for adventurous women pilots. Based on a true story, here is a rich, transcendent novel about a little-known time in Holocaust history.
Download or read book Shadow in the Reflection written by Joe Niehaus and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can destiny be fulfilled in just one lifetime? Dr. Gregory Ambrose thinks so. Through past-life regression therapy with a young woman named Anne, he finds himself carried over the centuries to not only a different time but a different reality. Anne's memories act like tendrils, drawing Ambrose into this most savage time with her. Frustrated and confused Dr. Ambrose reaches out to a colleague for help. During their conversations, he learns that one of this doctor's past-life regression patients believes that he was some kind of Viking in another time not unlike the Vikings in Anne's memories. The coincidence is too much, and Ambrose's imagination and ambition tempt him down a dangerous path. Determined to know the truth and understand the connection, he begins to push the limits of his ethics. What evolves is a story from another time, when wizards and warriors battle for power. The fate of two lands one fighting for unity, the other for safety hangs in the balance as two druids play out their own endgame strategies. At the same time, two hearts seek their destiny with true love. Fate lends a hand as all meet in a final battle. Is it truly the end or just the beginning?
Download or read book Curse of the Gargoyles written by Rebecca Chastain and published by Mind Your Muse Books. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mika was trying to save a gargoyle, not doom the world... "If you enjoyed Magic of the Gargoyles then Curse of the Gargoyles will blow you away!" (Feeling Fictional ★★★★★) Mika Stillwater isn’t known for her skills with combat magic. As a gargoyle healer, she spends her days mending broken appendages and curing illnesses in the living-quartz bodies of Terra Haven’s gargoyles. But when a squad of the city’s elite Federal Pentagon Defense warriors requests her assistance in freeing a gargoyle ensnared in a vicious invention, Mika jumps into the fray. No one could have predicted that her involvement would ignite a chain reaction set to destroy the city, the world, and magic itself. Brimming with epic magic and loveable gargoyles, Curse of the Gargoyles is the second story in Rebecca Chastain's mesmerizing Gargoyle Guardian Chronicles. Fantasy fans young and old will delight in this highly original world and exciting, action-packed adventure. Grab your copy to continue the thrilling series today! “Pick up a book by this author—any book—because her writing is so worth it!!” (Happy Tails and Tales ★★★★★) NOVELS OF TERRA HAVEN GARGOYLES GUARDIAN CHRONICLES Magic of the Gargoyles Curse of the Gargoyles Secret of the Gargoyles Lured (newsletter exclusive) Flight of the Gargoyles TERRA HAVEN CHRONICLES Deadlines & Dryads Leads & Lynxes Headlines & Hydras Muckrakers & Minotaurs
Download or read book Nebula Andra Synchronicity Abyss written by Niki Bond and published by Nova Remnant Publications, LLC. This book was released on 2013-06-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of an epic fantasy series that takes you into a world that mixes magic with astrology. Anya Ciran sets out across a country torn by a dark lord in order to find a friend she's only met through telepathy. But how will she find him when all she knows is the name that she gave him--Raymond?
Download or read book The Echoes of Eden written by Dan Bune and published by Cadeus Solutions LLC. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting: In a post-scarcity future, humanity thrives in floating space cities, space colonies and continent sized o’neill cylinders. A restored Earth teeming with revived wildlife, including mythical unicorns, dragons, and even dinosaurs. However, the reintroduction of these ancient creatures brings unexpected challenges. Character Profiles: Anya Mironova: Role: Brilliant Bio-Engineer Abilities: Emerging Telekinetic Powers Personality: Witty, cautious, and compassionate. Anya is conflicted about the dinosaur reintroduction project, considering the potential consequences. She grapples with ethical concerns and discovers her own telekinetic abilities during the adventure. Backstory: Raised in a floating city, Anya’s fascination with genetic engineering led her to become a bio-engineer. She believes in the harmony of nature and technology. Dr. Barnaby “Rex” Rex: Role: Enthusiastic Paleontologist Abilities: Super Strength, Limited Control over Taurus Field Energy Personality: Eccentric, optimistic, and slightly clueless. Rex’s passion for dinosaurs is unmatched, and his enthusiasm often leads to comedic mishaps. His super strength and energy powers create chaos but also contribute to the team’s success. Backstory: Growing up surrounded by holographic dinosaurs, Rex always dreamed of bringing them back to life. A lab experiment granted him super strength and energy powers, making him the perfect candidate for the project. Sparky: Role: Comedic AI Sidekick Abilities: Advanced Artificial Intelligence Personality: Sarcastic, glitch-prone, and endearing. Sparky, a neural network created by Anya, contributes to the chaos with its occasional malfunctions. Despite its quirks, Sparky becomes an essential part of the team, offering comedic relief and unexpected solutions. Cosmic Creatures: Role: Fantastical Wildlife Abilities: Varied magical and extraordinary powers Personality: Diverse personalities, from mischievous unicorns to wise dragons. Earth is now home to a myriad of creatures with magical abilities, adding a whimsical element to the story. The Council of Floating Cities: Role: Governing Body Personality: Bureaucratic, diverse, and wise. The council oversees the harmony between the floating cities and Earth, providing guidance and occasionally meddling in Anya and Rex’s adventure. The Ancient Guardian: Role: Mysterious Being Abilities: Time Manipulation, Cosmic Knowledge Personality: Enigmatic and wise. The guardian appears at pivotal moments, guiding Anya and Rex toward their ultimate discovery.
Download or read book Red Shoes for Rachel written by Boris Sandler and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Shoes for Rachel, Sandler’s award-winning collection of three novellas, features tightly wound tales that seamlessly incorporate diverse genres, including magic realism, satire, and autobiography, and profound psychological profiles to create touching portrayals of the human experience. Zumoff’s translation of Sandler’s original Yiddish collection makes the J. I. Segal Award–winning volume available to English readers for the first time. In the collection’s eponymous novella, Rachel, a daughter of Holocaust survivors raised in Brighton Beach, encounters a Moldovan Jewish immigrant divorcee as she is tending to her disabled, elderly mother along the Coney Island boardwalk. As the two begin a relationship, the story reveals their past and the commonalities between two children of Holocaust survivors raised in very different societies. In the novella Karolina Bugaz, an exhausted Moldovan Jewish immigrant architect leaves his wife and newly religious son behind to go on a cruise to a mysterious island, which may just be a direct voyage through space and time into his past. In the volume’s most acclaimed story, Halfway Down the Road Back to You, an elderly Moldovan Holocaust survivor in Israel separated from her children by emigration must confront her past as her failing mind begins to blur the boundaries between her daily life and the horrors of war sixty years before. The novella was adapted by the author into an acclaimed play, which has been staged in the United States, Belgium, and France.
Download or read book Heron Fleet written by Paul Beatty and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not far in the future, Francesca is an apprentice in the idyllic, agrarian community of Heron Fleet. She loves her impetuous partner Anya and the community acts as mother and father to her, as its founders intended. But outside Heron Fleet, the world is violent. Only a remnant of city populations, organised into violent despotic scavenger gangs, cling on by combing through rubble in search of food. They are the survivors of an ecological disaster. The causes have been forgotten, but the climate suffers with harsh, cold winters and short, hot summers.Between these two worlds, Tobias trades food gathered from agrarian communities for raw materials from the cities. But most of all he seeks books that might help him understand what happened to the climate; he believes that if humans are to have a long-term future, the agrarian communities must expand. Francesca rescues Tobias when his boat is wrecked by a storm and his arrival coincides with a crisis in Francesca and Anya’s relationship. This pushes Heron Fleet into a turmoil, which threatens the community’s cohesion and brings the ethical basis on which the community was originally formed into doubt.Heron Fleet asks many questions. To what extent is necessity an excuse for the suppression of basic human rights? How easy would it be for our comfortable society to become poor, nasty and brutish? Is there a natural urge to be literate? What is the proper duty of the individual to the community? The book, which has been inspired by a number of authors, including Margaret Atwood, John Christopher and Russell Hoban, will appeal to fans of speculative literature. Author Paul weaves gripping dystopian fiction with an underlying theme of global warming, posing questions about human nature and needs – both for today’s society and for the future.
