Download or read book Behind The Velvet Curtain written by Dominique Stone and published by Xlibris. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind The Velvet Curtain signifies why mankind continues to search for the purpose of life. We struggle to find our own identity. We consistently choose paths that may or may not lead to our desires, or our successes. More often than not, we become too comfortable with our failures and never try to move forward with a new attitude of determination. We become our own crucible by sending our feelings of failure on a downward spiral toward hopelessness and despair. Some of us however, regain our consciousness and manage to move forward again. Growing up in rural Orchard Creek, Mississippi during this time period was very hard for Paula, but playing it safe and fearing fear was not how she chose to live her life. With the help of a loving friend and caring grandmother, she finds her inner strength that last drop of hope that allows her to take risks and attack her fears head-on. The book is good reading, but hopefully you will search for your own paths that will lead to your own successes in life.
Download or read book Behind the Red Velvet Curtain written by Cindy Y. Lo and published by Lioncrest Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Event planning can be an exciting, rewarding, and fabulously fun vocation, but it takes more than just knowing how to throw a great party if you want to make it work. In Behind the Red Velvet Curtain, Cindy Y. Lo, DMCP, shares her insights and stories about how she built an international award-winning company, Red Velvet Events, a Global DMC Partner (RVE), and made it a roaring success. From Cindy's triumphs-and from her mistakes-you'll learn how to - Unlock your creativity - Find the right clients - Handle finances - Take risks - Master networking - Use social media as a powerful business tool - Define your company culture - And more Behind the Red Velvet Curtain is your guide to professional event planning greatness. With Cindy's help, you'll soon Outplan. Outplay. Outparty!(R) the competition with a profitable new career that you can be passionate about.
Download or read book Carry Me Down written by M. J. Hyland and published by Grove Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Man Booker Prize finalist is “a fast-paced psychological drama . . . of the pain of lost innocence and the price of pursuing the truth” (People). John Egan is a misfit—“a twelve year old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant”—who diligently keeps a “log of lies.” John’s been able to detect lies for as long as he can remember, it’s a source of power but also great consternation for a boy so young. With an obsession for the Guinness Book of Records, a keenly inquisitive mind, and a kind of faith, John remains hopeful despite the unfavorable cards life deals him. This is one year in a boy’s life. On the cusp of adolescence—from his changing voice and body, through to his parents’ difficult travails and the near collapse of his sanity—John is like a tuning fork sensitive to the vibrations within himself and the trouble that this creates for him and his family. Carry Me Down is “a spare, piercing testimony to the bewilderment and resiliency of youth” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). “Writing of the highest order.”—J.M. Coetzee “Surreal, heartbreaking . . . John Egan [is] a character the reader is privileged to meet. Hyland’s skill is commendable. Carry Me Down, in all its grossness and granular beauty, is a remarkable book.”—San Francisco Chronicle “In taut, simple prose, Hyland meticulously captures the specific pains of growing up poor and lonely in Ireland and deftly anatomizes her judgmental protagonist’s odd mixture of . . . little boy and grown lad.”—Entertainment Weekly
Download or read book Behind the curtain written by Henry Robert Addison and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Breath of Magic written by Hope Saphos DeVenuto and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Breath of Magic is a guide for magicians that are wanted and needed in the world to make a difference. Easy breathing instructions are included, and no batteries are needed. Our breath is the active ingredient of magic that manifests our wishes. The living message of this book is that magic is tangible when you breathe and merge with nature. For when you do, watch out, your world will transform just as the identical twins Nicholas and Gabriellas did one day after school. Their parents are struggling working two jobs each to make ends meet. George T., their neighbor and an illustrious retired professor, watches over them and walks them home on their last day of school and introduces them to the energy of nature and much more. They are initiated and are led to more experiences of its power that they find within themselves. The energy awakens their senses and inner core to a memory of the powerful magic that is theirs and that sparks its magical presence within their hearts. Their loving energy weaves their journey into a colorful tapestry, each thread displaying their inner wisdom, where through their hearts breath, they become the sole creators and true healers of their world.
Download or read book 50 Years Before Crack written by and published by Virtualbookworm Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Angela's Ashes" tells of life in Ireland in the mid-twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of a poor boy. "Fifty Years Before Crack" describes the culture of blue-collar Baltimore during that same period, fifty years before crack cocaine distribution became the principal industry. In an era before credit cards, two-car garages, shopping malls, mutual funds, designer jeans, Little Leagues, TV, PCs and civil rights legislation; boys earned pennies to supplement family income, parents believed the word of adults rather than that of their children, and the kids had a knack for entertaining themselves without adult involvement. It also was a time when politicians were servants of the people rather than being self-serving, and teachers, pastors, police and lawyers were held in high esteem.
Download or read book Film and Television After DVD written by James Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film and Television after DVD argues that DVD technology is part of a shift that heralds a new age for film and television, critically examining the implications of DVD technology for key concerns within the fields of television, film and new media studies.
Download or read book Available Darkness Book Three written by Sean Platt and published by Sterling & Stone LLC. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling authors of Yesterday’s Gone, No Justice, and The Karma Police series comes Available Darkness: Book Three, a character-driven reinvention of the vampire story. Darkness is Spreading. In the conclusion to the Available Darkness trilogy, the paths of vampire brothers John, Jacob, and Caleb converge in an epic battle for two worlds. The vampiric Valkoer have been exiled to the Forgotten Kingdom on Otherworld in the Great Purge. The technologically advanced North, with help from The Hand of the Seven Gods, control their magick and keep the population of deviants, monsters, and slave traders contained. Jacob’s father, the Valkoer King, refuses to fight for their freedom. But Jacob has collected the six crystals, and he threatens to unleash the power of the Last Great Wizard, triggering a war that will destroy Otherworld and enslave the humans remaining on Earth. Caleb has reluctantly partnered with The Hand of the Seven Gods to destroy Jacob, while 11-year-old Abigail is searching for freedom from her violent past. When John returns in search of Abigail, he joins the forces fighting to save Otherworld. Will the unlikely allies have the power to keep Otherworld safe from Jacob and the Valkoer? ★★★★★ "Personally, I thought it was well worth the wait. I loved the first two books and was getting anxious waiting for the conclusion. Abigail, John, Hope, Caleb, Jacob and Larry have one heck of a story." -- Christian Burch ★★★★★ "Great series. I read the whole series over a weekend. I couldn't put it down till I finished it. These guys do not write a bad book." -- dina garza ★★★★★ "Available darkness three........best one of the whole series!! Loved it! The characters are just so brilliant and you get really invested in them and their backstories." -- paulaamy ★★★★★ "Well worth the wait although I was impatient for it!! I look for everything these guys put out knowing it will be a great read full of unique twists and turns. They take a story line and make it so new and intriguing that you can't help but become a Fan!" -- Mary C Mattison ★★★★★ "Sean and David are the best writers since Stephen King.....loved this book!!" -- Barb Kimpel Available Darkness: Book Three is the final book in the 3-Book Available Darkness series, a paranoid, page-turner populated by characters you won’t want to stop spending time with. It's a cat and mouse cop story, between a cop on the hunt for a supernatural serial killer, and an amnesiac vampire. Read the entire completed series today.
Download or read book The Legion of Shadow written by Michael J. Ward and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have no memory of your past. With only a sword and a backpack to your name, you must discover your destiny in an unfamiliar world full of monsters and magic. As you guide your hero through this epic adventure, you will be choosing the danger that they face, the monsters that they fight and the treasures that they find. Every decision that you make will have an impact on the story - and, ultimately, the fate of your hero. With hundreds of special items to discover in each book, you can completely customise your hero. You can choose their weapons, their armour, their special abilities - even the boots on their feet and the cloak on their back! No two heroes will ever be alike, which means your hero will always be unique to you. Welcome to a new world. Welcome to Valeron. Welcome to DestinyQuest. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALTHOUGH THE EBOOK VERSION IS FULLY HYPERLINKED, YOU WILL STILL NEED DICE, PAPER AND A PENCIL TO PLAY!
Download or read book Leap Beyond Blue Sky Veil written by Sally Eccleston and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the autobiography of Sarah Winnemucca, a Nevadan Paiute of the 19th century Silver Rush era, this historical work of fiction vividly reenacts events of Sarah’s life, highlighting the slaughter of twenty-three members of her tribe by a U.S. cavalry. The deaths of two dear sisters in the massacre are the pivotal event that transforms Sarah into a fiery advocate for the Paiutes’ right to their land and preservation of their ancient culture. Woven into the narrative is the present-day fictional character of Edwina Winnemucca, an aged university professor, medicine woman/shaman, and niece of Sarah Winnemucca, whose supernatural activities are fraught with drama. Edwina lectures her class on Sarah’s remarkable life, her endearing personality, and her fight to save her tribe from starvation and mistreatment. A prophecy of reincarnation, heralded by Edwina’s shaman father, is fulfilled. Edwina befriends three of her students who possess remarkable similarities to Sarah and her sisters. The girls experience a series of harrowing trials at the hands of their lecherous landlord while Edwina has visions of grave danger. The exhilarating climax of the story displays Edwina’s amazing powers.
Download or read book The Velvet Room written by Zilpha Keatley Snyder and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFinding a special place where you can be at peace is difficult—but holding onto it is even harder/divDIV The last three years of Robin Williams’s life have been very difficult. She’s had to move with her large, poor family multiple times as her father seeks jobs as a migrant worker. Now, her father has a new job at the McCurdy Ranch and Robin often wanders off in order to cope with the constant change and difficulty surrounding her./divDIV /divDIVNear the McCurdy Ranch is the Palmeras House, an old abandoned house that Robin is told repeatedly not to explore. However, with a little help, she finds herself inside the building, in the one place it seems she has always been looking for: the Velvet Room. This plush room is the most beautiful place she has ever seen. Robin is fascinated and enchanted, but she can’t help but wonder: Why is it there? /divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an extended biography of Zilpha Keatley Snyder./div
Download or read book Leopold s Assassin written by J.R. Rogers and published by JR Rogers. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1902 – It is a cold and rainy Saturday morning the 15th of November in Brussels, Belgium. Gennaro Cataldo, an Italian anarchist, has traveled incognito to Brussels from London and Paris. In the Belgian capital he plans to assassinate Leopold II, King of the Belgians. Positioning himself on a roof Rubino fires repeatedly at King Leopold’s carriage as the cortege, returning from a memorial service for the King’s deceased wife, passes below. Unable to determine whether or not he succeeded, Rubino escapes to France. We find Cataldo hiding in Brittany, living with his sister in wooded Saint-Enogat, a hamlet adjoining Dinard, France, a then fashionable seaside resort of stunning cliff top villas, a fabulous casino and a burgeoning art colony favored by American and British aristocrats and European royalty. Descending on Dinard every summer, they occupy the only first class hotel in town rather than rent villas, give lavish parties for one another and, in the evenings, book every restaurant in town. But when Cataldo learns that Leopold II, accompanied by his nineteen-year old mistress, will be arriving in Dinard aboard his yacht to gamble at the famous casino he jumps at the chance. He aims to finish what he failed to accomplish that day in Brussels. The murderer flees first to Peru aboard The City of Bruges a transatlantic steamer sailing from the walled city of Saint Malo across the bay. Once aboard he attempts to fit in with a hoard of thieves and crooks and con men who, like him, are escaping to South America to find new adventures and to remake their lives. But close behind comes George Remi, a well-funded and determined Belgian Secret Service detective who has set off from Brussels to bring Rubino to justice. Unprepared for a life on the run Cataldo treks across Latin America in search of a refuge but in the end he makes the mistake of his life by deciding to settle in Kourou, French Guiana, the overseas capital of the French colonial penal system and infamous Devil’s Island.
Download or read book Shrines of Gaiety written by Kate Atkinson and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to a restless London in the wake of the Great War—a city bursting with money, glamour, and corruption—in this spellbinding tale of seduction and betrayal. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE GUARDIAN, BOOKLIST "Set during Jazz Age London, in all its fizzy madness and desperation.... As dark as [Atkinson's] stories can get, within them always shines a beacon of humanity.” —Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of Dark Places 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven, whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme. But success breeds enemies, and Nellie’s empire faces threats from without and within. For beneath the dazzle of Soho’s gaiety, there is a dark underbelly, a world in which it is all too easy to become lost. With her unique Dickensian flair, Kate Atkinson gives us a window in a vanished world. Slyly funny, brilliantly observant, and ingeniously plotted, Shrines of Gaiety showcases the myriad talents that have made Atkinson one of the most lauded writers of our time.
Download or read book The Shapeshifter s Secret written by Heather Ostler and published by Cedar Fort Publishing & Media. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like any sixteen-year-old, Julia's used to dealing with problems. From her overprotective father to her absent mother to a teacher who definitely has it in for her. But everything changes when Julia's reactions become oddly vicious and angry---more animal than human. This action-packed adventure has it all: humor, romance, and a plot that will keep you guessing to the very last page.
Download or read book Text in Contemporary Theatre written by Guna Zeltiņa with Sanita Reinsone and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles is devoted to the relationship between text and performance in contemporary theatre. In this volume, nineteen theatre and drama researchers from the Baltic countries, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Hungary, Russia and China discuss the results of their research into these issues in academic articles and essays. The book mainly focuses on the experience of the Baltics in the creation of theatrical texts, but it also provides a wider insight into the changing processes of world drama and theatre. Three sections of the volume provide numerous examples of the functionality of traditional texts in today’s theatre, as well as introducing the reader to new names in contemporary drama and the different models of practice in theatre companies. This book, with its rich collection of material and detailed analysis of different methods and experiences of contemporary theatre, is recommended for both theatre and drama theoreticians and practitioners.
Download or read book Women Beyond Belief written by Karen L. Garst and published by Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA). This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have made great strides toward equal rights over the past hundred years, especially in the West. But when considering the ongoing fight over reproductive rights and equal pay—and the prevalence of sexual violence and domestic abuse—it is clear that a significant gap still exists. With scripture often cited as justification for the marginalization of women, it is time to acknowledge that one of the final barriers to full equality for women is religion. Much has been written about the great strides humankind has made in knocking down many long-held religious beliefs, whether related to the age of the earth or the origin of the species. But religion's negative impact on women has been less studied and discussed. This book is a step toward changing that. Twenty-two women from a variety of backgrounds and Judeo-Christian traditions share their personal stories about how they came to abandon organized religion, and how they discovered life after moving away from religious and supernatural beliefs. Their words serve both as a celebration of all who have taken similar steps under the weight of thousands of years of religious history—and as a source of inspiration for those individuals, especially women, who have deep doubts about their own belief traditions but who don't yet know how to embrace life without falling back on religion.
Download or read book Tsar written by Ted Bell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere in Russia is a man so powerful that no one even knows his name. Yet though he is all but invisible, he is pulling strings - and pulling them hard. For suddenly Russia is a far bigger threat than even the most devoted Cold War warriors ever thought possible. With her finger on the switch to the European economy and her sights on the American jugular, Russia gains a new leader. Not just a president, he has been appointed Tsar, a signal to the world that the old imperial power is back - and plans to have her day. At the same time, a mysterious killer brutally murders an innocent American family, literally blowing up the small midwestern town in which they lived. Just a taste, according to the new Tsar, of what will happen if America does not step aside in preventing Russia's plans to 'reintegrate' her rogue states. Onto this nightmarish stage steps special agent extraordinaire Alex Hawke, the only man - both the British and Americans agree - who can stop the madness.
