Download or read book Broken Illusions written by Ellie James and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Mardi Gras approaches and another girl goes missing, sixteen-year-old Trinity Monsour sets out on a dark odyssey to better understand her psychic abilities and prevent her terrifying visions from coming true, despite the opposition of her aunt and
Download or read book Broken Illusions written by Laura Greenwood and published by Drowlgon Press. This book was released on with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join former vampire hunter Ashryn Barker as she joins the ranks of the undead and realises that not everything is as it seems in this action-packed urban fantasy romance series. What happens when the hunter becomes the hunted? Everything was going so well for me before I became a vampire. Now, I've got a target on my back, and my main ally is a vampire who still hates me. Why did it have to be Bram sent on a mission with me? My name is Ashryn Barker, and I'm now what I once hunted. - Broken Illusions is book two of the complete Ashryn Barker series, an action-packed urban fantasy with a poly romance subplot. If you enjoy urban fantasy, vampires & vampire hunters, enemies to lovers, poly romance, and plenty of action, start the Ashryn Barker series today with Shattered Illusions. Ashryn Barker Search Terms & Keywords: urban fantasy, uf, vampires, vampire hunters, contemporary fantasy, action, supernatural suspense, complete series, paranormal romance, supernatural romance, pnr, reverse harem, whychoose, poly, multiple love interests, enemies to lovers, opposites attract, action and adventure, fantasy, modern fantasy
Download or read book Broken Illusions Poems on Love Relationship and Human lives written by Shivaji Pandhare and published by StoryMirror Infotech Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book: On reading this collection of poems, the reader will appreciate the different perspectives about love, relationships, and human lives and values. The poet writes with hope that humaneness, compassion and gallantry will pervade humanity but at times it seems impossible and feels like swimming against the stormy waves. Every poem weaves unique characters where people seem obsessed with materialistic happiness losing his own identity and existing in a lonely lost world with his subtle woes; and life seems simply becomes hard task for everyone. The poet shares his bitter life experiences with loved ones and tries in his words to capture their myriad shades of faces. Given the uncertainty of life and how it constantly changes, the poet turns to introspection and mediation on the mystic ways of life; he urges the readers to observe the weird drama of life and the monkey mind. About the Author: Shivaji has enjoyed writing poems since his early childhood days. He was fond of reading English novels and poems of renowned authors and poets. He was awed by their whole-hearted dedication to the art of writing and how the painted mankind which sensitized the poet against the illusionary existence of humans, their concerns and hopes. Only art can serve as the medium to express one's real emotions, passions and perspectives. It makes one question why the world is full of sadness and tragedy and why are humans persevere in their search for the ream meaning of life. it's the poet believes that art is a potent weapon to unleash the power of his cryptic mind, and the immortal wealth of knowledge and has plunged himself into the world of art and literature.
Download or read book Shattered Illusions written by Hannah E Parker and published by Hannah Parker. This book was released on 2024-05-26 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a post-apocalyptic world where vampire clans rule the city, Silas, a lone wolf shapeshifter, survives by keeping a low profile. One night, he rescues Aria, a human girl with mysterious powers, from a group of vampires. Intrigued by her abilities and sensing an opportunity to change the status quo, Silas decides to protect Aria while uncovering the secrets behind her powers. As Silas and Aria navigate the dangerous city, they face numerous challenges and encounters with the vampire clans, led by the ruthless Valerius and the cunning Isadora. They seek help from Zephyr, a reclusive witch who reveals that Aria's power has the potential to reshape the world, but warns of the risks involved. Throughout their journey, Silas confronts his haunted past and opens up to Aria as their bond deepens. They infiltrate Isadora's clan, seeking information about Aria's power and the dreamscape, a mysterious realm that underlies their reality. As they uncover the truth about their world, Silas and Aria realize that their reality is a shared dreamscape, and Aria's power is the key to awakening. Silas grapples with the choice to help Aria break free from the dream, risking losing her forever, or keeping her trapped in the illusion. In a climactic confrontation, Silas and Aria face off against the vampire clans. During the battle, Aria's power reaches its peak, and she begins to unravel the fabric of their world. Silas's love for Aria triumphs, and he helps her shatter the dreamscape, leading to a final showdown with the vampires. As their world crumbles around them, Silas and Aria awaken in a new, unknown reality. They come to terms with the consequences of their actions and the nature of their existence, setting the stage for an uncertain but hopeful future together. "Shattered Illusions" is a thrilling, action-packed journey through a post-apocalyptic world where the lines between reality and illusion are blurred. It's a story of love, sacrifice, and the power of the human spirit to overcome even the most daunting challenges. With richly drawn characters, vivid world-building, and a mind-bending plot, this novel is sure to captivate fans of urban fantasy, paranormal romance, and post-apocalyptic fiction.
Download or read book Shattered Illusions written by Olavi Veltheim and published by Arena books. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true but incredible story of the survival of the Finn, Olavi Veltheim, in Soviet Russia and how his experiences in this "e;land of dreams"e; turned into a nightmare. A civil war was raging in Finland, and one of Veltheim's brothers was fighting on the side of the Reds and the other on the side of the Whites. Olavi's disability meant that he was unfit for combat and had no future. He left for England to study shipping, was taken on by the Anglo-Russian company, Arcos, and shortly thereafter married an Englishwoman. When the British authorities refused Olavi a visa and he was unwilling to return to Finland, the Soviet Union offered the family the chance of a new life free of "e;exploitation."e; But the reality of this promise was not what they expected. The family lived in poverty and could not find work. Conditions worsened further, and eventually culminated in Lubyanka prison and the suffering of the labour camps in the Urals and Siberia which lasted for 6 long years before his repatriation. Olavi Veltheim's memoirs are a unique archive find. The book was originally published as a Dutch translation entitled De avonturen van een Finn in Sovjet-Rusland (Amsterdam 1939). Olavi Veltheim destroyed the original manuscript at the end of the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union in 1944, and it was only through the re-discovery of the Dutch version in the 1980s and its re-translation into Finnish that it is now appearing in an English edition for a much wider world readership.
Download or read book Shattered Illusions written by Candice Poarch and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for the truth behind the murder of his beloved foster brother, former Special Forces officer Carter Matthews journeys to a small island off the coast of North Carolina, where he meets Delcia Adams, the independent owner of a local island campground, but their growing feelings for each other are jeopardized by an unknown enemy who will do anything to prevent old secrets from being revealed. Original.
Download or read book Shattered Illusions written by Bill Valiontis and published by Bill Valiontis. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bustling city of Metropolis, a renowned fashion designer named Isabelle Montclair appears to have it all - beauty, talent, success, and a seemingly perfect life. However, beneath the facade of glamour and luxury lies a web of secrets, betrayals, and buried truths that threaten to shatter her world. As Isabelle navigates the cutthroat world of high fashion, she grapples with a tumultuous past that she thought she had left behind. A chance encounter with an enigmatic photographer sparks a forbidden romance that puts everything she has worked for at risk. As their relationship deepens, long-buried secrets begin to resurface, unraveling the carefully constructed image Isabelle has cultivated.
Download or read book Illusion of Order written by Bernard E. Harcourt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to challenge the broken-windows theory of crime, which argues that permitting minor misdemeanors, such as loitering and vagrancy, to go unpunished only encourages more serious crime. The theory has revolutionized policing in the United States and abroad, with its emphasis on policies that crack down on disorderly conduct and aggressively enforce misdemeanor laws. The problem, argues Bernard Harcourt, is that although the broken-windows theory has been around for nearly thirty years, it has never been empirically verified. Indeed, existing data suggest that it is false. Conceptually, it rests on unexamined categories of law abiders and disorderly people and of order and disorder, which have no intrinsic reality, independent of the techniques of punishment that we implement in our society. How did the new order-maintenance approach to criminal justice--a theory without solid empirical support, a theory that is conceptually flawed and results in aggressive detentions of tens of thousands of our fellow citizens--come to be one of the leading criminal justice theories embraced by progressive reformers, policymakers, and academics throughout the world? This book explores the reasons why. It also presents a new, more thoughtful vision of criminal justice.
Download or read book The Illusion of God s Presence written by John C. Wathey and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential feature of religious experience across many cultures is the intuitive feeling of God's presence. More than any rituals or doctrines, it is this experience that anchors religious faith, yet it has been largely ignored in the scientific literature on religion. Starting with a vivid narrative account of the life-threatening hike that triggered his own mystical experience, biologist John Wathey takes the reader on a scientific journey to find the sources of religious feeling and the illusion of God's presence. His book delves into the biological origins of this compelling feeling, attributing it to innate neural circuitry that evolved to promote the mother-child bond. Dr. Wathey, a veteran neuroscientist, argues that evolution has programmed the infant brain to expect the presence of a loving being who responds to the child's needs. As the infant grows into adulthood, this innate feeling is eventually transferred to the realm of religion, where it is reactivated through the symbols, imagery, and rituals of worship. The author interprets our various conceptions of God in biological terms as illusory supernormal stimuli that fill an emotional and cognitive vacuum left over from infancy. These insights shed new light on some of the most vexing puzzles of religion, like the popular belief in a god who is judgmental and punishing, yet also unconditionally loving; the extraordinary tenacity of faith; the greater religiosity of women relative to men; religious obsessions with sex; the mysterious compulsion to pray; the seemingly irrepressible feminine attributes of God, even in traditionally patriarchal religions; and the strange allure of cults. Finally, Dr. Wathey considers the hypothesis that religion evolved to foster reproductive success, arguing that, in an age of potentially ruinous overpopulation, magical thinking has become a luxury we can no longer afford, one that distracts us from urgent threats to our planet. Deeply researched yet elegantly written in a jargon-free and accessible style, this book presents a compelling interpretation of the evolutionary origins of spirituality and religion.
Download or read book Torn Illusions written by Pamela Stott-Kendall and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following voluntary cosmetic surgery for breast enlargement, the author suffered respiratory problems, convulsions, bouts of paralysis, and brain seizures as beads of the silicone traveled undetected through her body.
Download or read book Shattered Illusions written by Nicolas J. Costa and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounting the tumultuous recent history of the Balkan region, this interdisciplinary study follows a bloody trail of guerrilla warfare from the post World War I era through World War II, the civil wars, and the communist rise to power in Albania, Greece and Yugoslavia.
Download or read book Peerless Soldier King is in the City written by Mu Mu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 1552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slow traffic, the skyscrapers, that's all the city people are? Compared to the speeding war chariots on the battlefield and the stray bullets coming and going, this was just a child's play. Now that we're in this city, let's have fun. I'd like to ask the big man who controls everything behind this city: Why do you think you're a hunter and not my prey?
Download or read book Broken Illusions His Agenda 3 written by Dori Lavelle and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *WARNING: Due to sexual situations and adult content, this dark and disturbing psychological thriller is not intended for readers under the age of 18, and anyone who is unable to read books containing the following issues: kidnapping, murder, graphic rape, and extreme violence.* Jude Macknight is gone forever, and I can finally start my new life with Dustin Brannon. But it's not so easy to move on. When I close my eyes at night, I still see Jude's face. And sometimes, I swear I feel his presence. When will he stop haunting me? And when will I stop waiting for the other shoe to drop? This is the breathtaking conclusion to the His Agenda serial.
Download or read book The Company of Strangers written by Paul Seabright and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, history, psychology and literature, Seabright explores how our evolved ability of abstract reasoning has allowed institutions like money, markets and cities to provide the foundation of social trust.
Download or read book Broken Illusions written by Ashish Jain and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small town young young girl Natashaaspiring to be an air hostess is ditched and bluffed by people at every step even by her own love. Story eventually turns to a murder mysteryunfolding reality of world on Natasha shattering her illusions about life and love.
Download or read book Shattered Illusion Broken Promise written by Tekie Fessehatzion and published by Red Sea Press(NJ). This book was released on 2002 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When the government of Mengistu Hailemariam was overthrown and replaced by a new government headed by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in 1991, Eritreans had hoped that there was finally a government in Ethiopia that had foresworn hegemonic ambitions towards Eritrea. The war (1998-2001) shattered this illusion. Eritreans had also hoped that with the conclusion of the war of independence and a presumably friendly new government in Ethiopia, Eritrea would focus on rebuilding political, social, and economic institutions. The war derailed such hopes. By carefully documenting the events of the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the author unravels the complexity of the dispute and places it in the context of both a regional and international political dynamic."
