Download or read book Cicada Dreams written by Roger E. Carrier and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a midsummer night’s dream that lingers during the day Arkansas 1935. Rarely, and always in summer, a strange carnival will come to a town. The town is never too large or too small and never a city. Furthermore, it is always a place isolated in space and time. Never today but fifty or a hundred years ago when things were as different from today as they are the same. The owner of this particular carnival is a black woman and devotee of voodoo. But Lady Priscilla conceals this fact, allowing everyone to believe that Wildcat, who runs the carnival’s wrestling and boxing show, is the owner. In the South, it is not wise to antagonize the Klan by letting it be known that a black woman has money or power. When the carnival sets up in a pasture outside Redmond, Arkansas, Priscilla drinks a cup of belladonna tea and soon finds herself in the land of the dead, where she is given a vision. A dark-hearted man lives in the area and has killed six young women. They are all blondes. And when Birdie, the carnival’s beautiful blond trapeze artist, disappears and is held as a sex slave, a mystery begins to unfold. The midway lies before us, and it is into this “carnival of dreams” that we now tread.
Download or read book Full Cicada Moon written by Marilyn Hilton and published by Dial Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.
Download or read book And Dreams Are Dreams written by Vassilis Vassilikos and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greece's most acclaimed living novelist gives us a magical realist portrait of contemporary Europe and contemporary Europeans. Here are seven tales that explore the themes of materialism, post Cold War politics, love, religious faith, and the power of imagination. In the tradition of Gabriel García Márquez and Luigi Pirandello, Vassilikos writes of the fantasies within reality, the spirit in existence, and the art within life.
Download or read book Romance Novel Drunken Encounters with Fairies written by Maolin Guo and published by Maolin Guo. This book was released on with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cicada Summer A Novel written by Erica McKeen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman, her grandfather, and her lover quarantine in the remote lakeside wilderness—where their world splits apart at the seams. In the summer of 2020, with a heat wave bearing down and a brood of periodical cicadas climbing into the trees, Husha mourns the recent death of her mother while quarantining with her ailing grandfather, Arthur, at his lakeside cabin in remote Ontario. They’re soon joined by Husha’s ex-lover, Nellie, who arrives without explanation to complete their trio. Also among them is a strange book, discovered by Husha while cleaning out her mother’s house. When she, Arthur, and Nellie begin to read it together, they learn that her mother’s last missive was a short story collection, crawling with unsettling imagery and terrifying transformations. As the stories bleed into their cloistered life in the cabin, they must each reckon with loss, longing, and what it means to truly know another person. Incantatory and atmospheric, Cicada Summer is a dazzlingly original novel about how we grieve and care for one another.
Download or read book Summer of Sun and Shadows written by Roger E. Carrier and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This optimistic story about love, prejudice, evil, and overcoming grief involves a relentless contrast between innocent teenage sexuality and the psychotic lust of a murderer of young boys. After sixteen-year-old Tom Miller is harassed by a teenage hoodlum. His girlfriend, Sabrina, obtains a voodoo doll from her godmother, ninety-year-old Lady Priscilla. Its purpose is not to kill the hoodlum but to scare him off, but in the process of payback of his tormentor, Tom, who doesn’t believe in voodoo dolls, makes an unsettling discovery about an important businessman. One windy night, he follows Sabrina as she sleepwalks to a local church. From there, the story marches adventure by adventure through a cemetery and other night prowling, including Tom’s secret yard work for the murderer’s beautiful wife, who has seduction in mind.
Download or read book the other lives of natascha written by haziran and published by haziran. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When does a seed become a tree? Is there an exact moment? Didn’t your life on this earth begin as soon as you fell into your mother’s womb? As you know, you lived inside there for months, and during that, you didn’t breathe at all. You lived in an aquarium filled with some liquid. That liquid is what you are made of. Your eyes were shut, your nose was useless, you were able to say a word as much as a fish does, and were hearing your mother’s gas more than your father’s talks. You were moving in absolute darkness. That’s something you can’t achieve even if you close your eyes and cover them with your hands. One day you got out of there and vomited all that precious liquid out. Your life didn’t start as you emerged from that darkness; it ended, and you started another one. The life you mentioned didn’t start with a breath, it started with puke. Your life didn’t start with a movement. It started with a dream; a dream that has always been there, even before you were born. The question is: When did we stop following that dream?
Download or read book Cicada written by Phoebe Giannisi and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi explores connections between language, life, and the natural world By one of Greece’s foremost contemporary poets, Cicada is Phoebe Giannisi’s second collection in English. The cicada signifies metamorphosis in this breathtaking, lyrical book, which evokes the spirits of Archilochus, Plato, Empedocles, and Heraclitus. As the translator Brian Sneeden remarks: “The ‘I’ in Giannisi’s poetry is never static, never a fixed point, but part of a process of rebodying the ambient.” Yet, despite the fluid, mythic nature of Giannisi’s poems, they are also exquisitely rooted in the everyday: the sea heard through a window, the murmur of a distant mechanical crane, a damp wind, a photo of John and Yoko. Giannisi is a poet internationally known for her idiosyncratic eco-poetics, as well as her poetic multimedia works and performances, and most of all for her brilliant vision glowing at the borders of language, voice, place, and memory.
Download or read book Guard Innocent Campus Beauty written by Yi TongJiangHu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 1051 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being injured by an accident, the grandson of a medical student had gained the ability to communicate with the ancient divine doctors! Faced with the decline of traditional Chinese medicine, Sun Sinian, Hua Tuo, Zhang Zhongjing, and Bian Que all fought over the ancient doctors to teach their grandson the Divine level medical skills! It was not my intention to treat the pure school beauty, to protect the female star's skin, to treat the police flower, or to see the beauty CEO fall ill. " Sun Xuan helplessly said, "I just want to revitalize Chinese medicine!"
Download or read book Ghosts in the Flesh written by Roger E. Carrier and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late one night in a tragic twist of fate, Dan Peterson is murdered after witnessing a man leave an apartment complex. This serial killer feigns a heart attack and slashes Dan’s throat when the Good Samaritan runs to help him. Dan dies a silent, gurgling death, but after a flash of light, Dan wakes up on a park bench next to a statue of Mark Twain. It is spring, and fifty-three-year-old Dan is young again. The only problem is that nobody can see him, and he cannot interact with any person in the park. In panic, Dan believes that he is dying in a hospital bed and his experience is the result of a drug-induced vision. Soon after, Dan meets Hannah, who also awoke from death on the Mark Twain bench. The murdered Hannah and Dan are solid and real to each other, but invisible to the outside world. At last, the two unconventional ghosts set out to find their killer and seek revenge. The first problem they must solve is to find a means of communicating with the police.
Download or read book An Ancient Dream Manual written by Peter Thonemann and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artemidorus' Oneirocritica ('The Interpretation of Dreams') is the only dream-book which has been preserved from Graeco-Roman antiquity. Composed around AD 200, it comprises a treatise and manual on dreams, their classification, and the various analytical tools which should be applied to their interpretation, making Artemidorus both one of the earliest documented and arguably the single most important predecessor and precursor of Freud. Artemidorus travelled widely through Greece, Asia, and Italy to collect people's dreams and record their outcomes, in the process casting a vivid light on social mores and religious beliefs in the Severan age: this volume, published as a companion to the new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams by Martin Hammond in the Oxford World's Classics series, aims to provide the non-specialist reader with a readable and engaging road-map to this vast and complex text. It offers a detailed analysis of Artemidorus' theory of dreams and the social function of ancient dream-interpretation, while also aiming to foster an understanding of the ways in which Artemidorus might be of interest to the cultural or social historian of the Graeco-Roman world. Alongside chapters on Artemidorus' life, career, and world-view, it also provides valuable insights into his conceptions of the human body, sexuality, the natural world, and the gods; his attitudes towards Rome, the contemporary Greek polis, and the social order; and his knowledge of Greek literature, myth, and history. In addition, its accessible exploration of the differences and similarities between ancient traditions of dream-analysis and modern psychoanalytic approaches will make this volume of interest to anybody with an interest in the history of dreams and dream interpretation.
Download or read book Bartholomew and the Morning Monsters written by Sophie Berger and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mornings are never easy - especially when the monsters from last night's dreams want to stay and play! Bartholomew struggles to get himself ready as the monsters from last night's dreams sabotage the most simple of morning routines. A vast purple monster sits on his chest, making it hard to get up. A slug monster slimes his clothes, so he can't get dressed. Brushing teeth, eating breakfast, and even going to the toilet all present challenges as the monsters mess around at Bartholomew's expense. Will Bartholomew's dad ever manage to get him out the door? Hilarious illustrations bring Bartholomew's frustration and befuddlement alive in this deceptively simple story that anyone who is not a morning person is bound to relate to.
Download or read book The Alchemy of Dreams I written by Wesley Wyatt and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the stories are true? What if dreams represent a largely untapped resource that could transform your life and relationships? After all - everyone dreams, every night. In this, the first of three books in The Alchemy of Dreams Series, author Wesley Wyatt provides a rich and nuanced discourse on the potential of dreams, the language of symbolism and dream interpretation. Utilizing the psychic readings of the Edgar Cayce readings, the author provides practical tools for accessing the inspiration and counsel offered in dreams. - Increase your recall of dreams. - Discover the causes and meaning of repetitive and disturbing dreams. - Learn how dreams can assist you in expressing your true nature and aptitudes. - Deepen your understanding of the language of the soul - symbolism. - Learn specific techniques for translating the personalized symbolism in your dreams. - Learn to 'incubate' a dream on a specific concern.
Download or read book The Sword Has Two Edges written by Lienfung Li and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Last Dream written by W. E. Gutman and published by CCB Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his newest and most chilling dystopia, W.E. Gutman takes fellow insomniacs on a dark, eerie journey into a netherworld of visions that skirt the nightmarish regions of insanity. Written for the stage and screen, ONE LAST DREAM asks disquieting questions: Do the dreams we spin, the thoughts we ponder betray us? Can our musings be censored? Will the neurons in our brains be rewired to turn us into servile conformists? Is the clash of dreams the real cause of mankind's afflictions? If neuroscientists succeed, there will soon be a way to access and decipher the brain's most quirky constructs.
Download or read book Dream On Amber written by Emma Shevah and published by Chicken House. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amber is facing up to life without Dad. He left when she was little, but now she really needs him, and if he isn't coming back she'll have to dream up other ways to sort things out. But replying to her little sister's 'Dear Dad' letters was definitely not one of her best ideas ...
Download or read book Paper Kites and Day Lit Dreams written by William Burkholder and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collected poetry of William Burkholder, Author, Poet and founder of 5 Acre Press.
