Download or read book Collision of Fate written by J. Gregory Griffis and published by America House Book Publishers. This book was released on 2001-11-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After discovering his fiancA(c)e brutally murdered in their Upper-East side townhouse, Jake Vestige turns his back on Wall Street and returns to the ways that had kept him alive as an undercover agent. In the months following her murder, he finds himself immersed in a quagmire of vicious New York fountain pens, ruthless Bahamian drug dealers, and his very own demons. As he wades through these powerful forces in search of the killer, he is faced with the ultimate realization that he is returning to a life that he had long left behind. Spiraling almost out of control, he finds himself closing in on the killer - but at what cost? After a series of events that lead to a horrific and shocking conclusion, Jake is left devastated and questioning his life and a love that he thought he knew so well.

Download or read book Reading Contingency written by David Wylot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction, David Wylot constructs an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accidents in twenty-first century British and American fiction, the phenomenology of reading, and a contemporary experience of time that is increasingly understood to be contingent and accidental. A synthesis of literary and cultural analysis, narratology, critical theories of time and the philosophy of contingency, the book explores the accident’s imagination of contemporary time and the relationship between reading and living in novels by writers including A.M. Homes, Nicola Barker, Noah Hawley, J.M. Coetzee, J.G. Ballard, Jesmyn Ward, Jennifer Egan, and Tom McCarthy.

Download or read book Fate s Highway written by Christine Shuck and published by Christine D. Shuck. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape into the captivating world of Fate's Highway, where love transcends time and death cannot sever the bonds between soulmates. After a tragic car accident claims the lives of his wife June and two children, Dean Edmonds struggles to pull his life back together. Still haunted by vivid dreams of the family he lost; he finds solace in the compassionate care of his nurse Maggie. An unexpected romance blossoms. But just when Dean dares to hope for lasting happiness, a supernatural force threatens to tear his newfound joy apart. On a dark and stormy night, Dean's car careens off the highway once again. He survives, only to wake up in a reality where nine years have suddenly vanished - and June and his children are still alive. Plagued by fragmented memories and mounting confusion, Dean searches desperately for answers. Has he lost his mind or did he cross into an alternate world? Dean faces a heartrending choice: abandon the family fate robbed him of years ago, or sacrifice the new life and love he fought so hard to build from the wreckage. Fans of emotionally gripping time travel romances like The Time Traveler's Wife and Outlander will devour Fate's Highway. Immerse yourself in a poignant tale overflowing with nostalgia, sacrifice, and enduring love that endures beyond this world. Readers who have loved A Bridge Across the Ocean, The Last Letter from Your Lover, The Rose Garden, The Winter Sea, or Somewhere in Time will enjoy this moving story.

Download or read book Fate s Call written by C.A. Szarek and published by Paper Dragon Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Novella from the World of the King’s Riders! A runaway daughter, seeking escape from abusive hands. A journeyman tanner willing to risk safety to aid her. When Jarek steps into the alley to toss out the trash, he finds Erron and can’t look away. Even when her father roughly jostles her out of sight, claiming she’d made a wrong turn. He should leave well enough alone, but those desperate eyes haunt him. And he’s never been one to turn his back on someone in trouble, especially the most beautiful lass he’s ever seen. He just never imagined it’d be his life in jeopardy, and his heart that needs saving.

Download or read book Star Wars Galaxy s Edge A Crash of Fate written by Zoraida Cordova and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A YA novel filled with adventure and romance set in the world of Galaxy's Edge, the Star Wars-themed land coming to Disneyland and Walt Disney World tin 2019.Izzy and Jules were childhood friends, climbing the spires of Batuu, inventing silly games, and dreaming of adventures they would share one day. Then, Izzy's family left abruptly, without even a chance to say goodbye. Izzy's life became one of constant motion, traveling from one world to the next, until her parents were killed and she became a low-level smuggler to make ends meet. Jules remained on Batuu, eventually becoming a farmer like his father, but always yearning for something more. Now, thirteen years after she left, Izzy is returning to Batuu. She's been hired to deliver a mysterious parcel, and she just wants to finish the job and get gone. But upon arrival at Black Spire Outpost she runs smack into the one person who still means something to her after all this time: Jules. The attraction between them is immediate, yet despite Jules seeming to be everything she's ever needed, Izzy hesitates. How can she drag this good-hearted man into the perilous life she's chosen? Jules has been trying to figure out his future, but now all he knows for certain is that he wants to be with Izzy. How can he convince her to take a chance on someone who's never left the safety of his homeworld? When Izzy's job goes wrong, the two childhood friends find themselves on the run. And all their secrets will be revealed as they fight to stay alive...

Download or read book Literary Composition written by Sherwin Cody and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Destiny Domesticated written by Jos de Mul and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes contemporary technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy. Destiny Domesticated investigates three ways Western civilization has tried to tame fate: the heroic affirmation of fate in the tragic culture of the Greeks, the humble acceptance of divine providence in Christianity, and the abolition of fate in modern technological society. Against this background, Jos de Mul argues that the uncontrollability of technology introduces its own tragic dimension to our culture. Considering a range of literary texts and contemporary events, and drawing on twenty-five centuries of tragedy interpretation from philosophers such as Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, literary critics George Steiner and Terry Eagleton, and others, de Mul articulates a contemporary perspective on the tragic, shedding new light on philosophical topics such as free will, determinism, and the contingency of life.

Download or read book Caraval written by Stephanie Garber and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed New York Times bestseller Welcome, welcome to Caraval--Stephanie Garber's sweeping tale of the unbreakable bond between two sisters. It's the closest you'll ever find to magic in this world... Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett's father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over. But this year, Scarlett's long-dreamt of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to the show. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval's mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season's Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner. Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. But she nevertheless becomes enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic with the other players in the game. And whether Caraval is real or not, she must find Tella before the five nights of the game are over, a dangerous domino effect of consequences is set off, and her sister disappears forever. Welcome, welcome to Caraval . . . beware of getting swept too far away. New York Times bestseller #1 IndieNext Pick Publishers Weekly Flying Start Entertainment Weekly Best 10 YA Books of 2017 Teen Vogue Best YA Book of the Year Amazon Best Book of the Year Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year BuzzFeed Best Book of the Year "The Hunger Games meets The Night Circus. Grade: A-." --Entertainment Weekly "Impressive, original, wondrous." --USA Today "Spellbinding." --US Weekly "Magnificent." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "I lost myself in this world." --Sabaa Tahir, author of An Ember in the Ashes "Beautifully written." --Ren e Ahdieh, author of The Wrath and the Dawn "Shimmers with magic." --Marie Rutkoski, author of The Winner's Curse "Darkly enchanting." --Kiersten White, author of And I Darken "Decadent." --Roshani Chokshi, author of The Star-Touched Queen "Like stepping into a living dream." --Stacey Lee, author of Outrun the Moon "Destined to capture imaginations." --Kirkus Reviews "Ideal for fans of The Night Circus, Stardust, and The Hunger Games." --School Library Journal

Download or read book The Metaphysics of Hyperspace written by Hud Hudson and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hud Hudson offers a fascinating examination of philosophical reasons to believe in hyperspace. He begins with some stage-setting discussions, offering his analysis of the term 'material object', noting his adherence to substantivalism, confessing his sympathies regarding principles of composition and decomposition, identifying his views on material simples, material gunk, and the persistence of material objects, and preparing the reader for later discussions with introductory remarks on eternalism, modality and recombination, vagueness, bruteness, and the epistemic role of intuitions. The subsequent chapters are loosely organized around the theme of hyperspace. Hudson explores nontheistic reasons to believe in hyperspace in chapter 1 (e.g. reasons arising from reflection on incongruent counterparts and fine-tuning arguments), theistic reasons in chapter 7 (e.g. reasons arising from reflection on theistic puzzles known as the problem of the best and the problem of evil), and some distinctively Christian reasons in chapter 8 (e.g. reasons arising from reflection on traditional Christian themes such as heaven and hell, the Garden of Eden, angels and demons, and new testament miracles). In the intervening chapters, Hudson inquires into a variety of puzzles in the metaphysics of material objects that are either generated by the hypothesis of hyperspace, focusing on the topics of mirror determinism and mirror incompatibilism, or else informed by the hypothesis of hyperspace, with discussions of receptacles, boundaries, contact, occupation, and superluminal motion. Anyone engaged with contemporary metaphysics will find much to stimulate them here.

Download or read book The End of the World written by Geoffrey Dennis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The End of the World" by Geoffrey Dennis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book Good Grief 38 poems about loss perspective and remembrance written by Blinco Roeper and published by Field Books. This book was released on with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed poet Blinco Roeper presents their second collection of poetry. This time the focus is grief; and the positives that can come from it.

Download or read book Aristotle s Theory of Poetry and Fine Art with a Critical Text and Translation of the Poetics written by Samuel Henry Butcher and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A T rt nelmi Reg ny written by Georg Lukács and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georg Lukács (1885–1971) is now recognized as one of the most innovative and best-informed literary critics of the twentieth century. Trained in the German philosophic tradition of Kant, Hegel, and Marx, he escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to the Soviet Union in 1933. There he faced a new set of problems: Stalinist dogmatism about literature and literary criticism. Maneuvering between the obstacles of censorship, he wrote and published his longest work of literary criticism, The Historical Novel, in 1937. Beginning with the novels of Sir Walter Scott, The Historical Novel documents the evolution of a genre that came to dominate European fiction in the years after Napoleon. The novel had reached a point at which it could be socially and politically critical as well as psychologically insightful. Lukács devotes his final chapter to the anti-Nazi fiction of Germany and Austria.

Download or read book I Heart Your Fate written by Anthony McCann and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LA-based poet returns with humor, irreverence, and sincere longing to sever the distinction between dream and reality, person and animal.

Download or read book Bottleneck written by William Robert Catton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecological roots of our toubled time are deeper than its economic manifestations. Anguished posterity will look back on this 21st century as "the bottleneck century." Bottleneck: Humanity's Impending Impasse was written to show how and why three converging trends have put humankind in much deeper peril than is generally acknowledged. First, there are many more of us inhabiting this planet than it can sustain. Second, technological advances of recent centuries have made gigantic and prodigal our per capita resource appetites and our per capita environmental impacts. Third, even though, as the symbol-using species, we humans conceivably could do better at anticipating future circumstances and planning ahead, our evolutionary heritage together with unanticipated dysfunctions of modern division of labor have kept us too preoccupied with short-term concerns. People today are dependent upon a fantastically intricate web of exchange relations ("the market"). Even when functioning normally and not in a collapsed condition, as currently this system of relations has a serious and pervasive dehumanizing effect not adequately discerned by economists nor sociologists. Recognition of and adequate adaptation to the deteriorating ecological context of human life has been impeded. Human societies (even our own) are almost certainly going to act in ways that will make an inevitably difficult future unnecessarily worse. Factors analyzed in this book have made people seriously averse to the kind and extent of cooperation our difficult future will require. Together with the basic trio of disturbing trends humans having become so numerous, so ravenous, and so short-sighted this has made the nature of today's human prospect far more dire than most policymakers dare admit. It tempts even the wisest and most civic-minded to seek or promote "remedial" policies that will worsen the real predicament.

Download or read book Colliding With Destiny written by Sarah Jakes and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find a fuller, richer life by letting God direct your destiny. The story of Ruth is a journey of transformation. By allowing God to transform her circumstances, Ruth went from a widow who would be excluded from society to a wife with a secure and protected future, a future that ultimately paved the way for the birth of King David! Her story is full of collision--loss, heartache, poverty, even shame--but she never let her past define her. Instead, the most painful time of her life became her most pivotal, propelling her to a destiny she never imagined. Perhaps you have a past you're struggling to overcome. If disappointments, whether a result of your own choices or the actions of others, have kept you from being your true self, this book is for you. Follow Ruth's life and discover the hope available to each of us. Your yesterday does not have to dictate your tomorrow. Despite your past pain, you, too, can find redemption and restoration.