Download or read book Dark Epiphany written by Paul Valentine and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Epiphany pits two D.C. police homicide detectives against the dark forces behind the strangulation murder of an influential congressional aide, leading the detectives through a maze of bizarre clues and encounters that end in a chase scene in a cave deep under the hills of northern Alabama. The possible suspects include a motley array of Capitol Hill wonks and bureaucrats, an upscale department store buyer, a health food faddist and a classical guitar player. "Valentine has written a cop novel that's not only on the money with cops but also that has brains and compassion. He's written an erudite policier." Carl Schoettler, The Baltimore Evening Sun "Valentine's writing is crisp and the story moves along head over heels." Gene Williams, The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Valentine has taught his characters to speak in perfectly tuned idiom." David Bradley, The Pennsylvania Gazette
Download or read book The Drawing of the Dark written by Tim Powers and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Combining the best of mythology and real history, Tim Powers takes you on a rollicking magical adventure that is both tense and hilarious. You won’t read a more plausible explanation for Western civilization, or one that’s half so much fun.”—David Brin Brian Duffy, aging soldier of fortune, had been hired in Venice by a strange old man who called himself Aurelianus Ambrosius. He was supposed to go to Vienna and act as bouncer at an inn where the fabulous Herzwesten beer was brewed. That was clear enough. But why was he guided and guarded on the trip by creatures from the ancient legends? Why should he be attacked by ifrits and saved by mythical dwarfs? What was so important about the Herzwesten beer to the Fisher King—whoever he was? Why was Duffy plagued by visions of a sword and an arm rising from a lake? And what had a bunch of drunken, ancient Vikings to do with it all? Then there was no time for speculation as Vienna was besieged by the Turkish armies of Suleiman. Duffy found himself drawn into a war of desperation and magic. It was up to him to preserve the West until the drawing of the Dark.
Download or read book Invisible Now Bob Dylan in the 1960s written by John Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invisible Now describes Bob Dylan's transformative inspiration as artist and cultural figure in the 1960s. Hughes identifies Dylan's creativity with an essential imaginative dynamic, as the singer perpetually departs from a former state of inexpression in pursuit of new, as yet unknown, powers of self-renewal. This motif of temporal self-division is taken as corresponding to what Dylan later referred to as an artistic project of 'continual becoming', and is explored in the book as a creative and ethical principle that underlies many facets of Dylan's appeal. Accordingly, the book combines close discussions of Dylan's mercurial art with related discussions of his humour, voice, photographs, and self-presentation, as well as with the singularities of particular performances. The result is a nuanced account of Dylan's creativity that allows us to understand more closely the nature of Dylan's art, and its links with American culture.
Download or read book Knowing One s Place in Contemporary Irish and Polish Poetry written by Magdalena Kay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we allowed to choose where we belong? What pressures make us feel that we should belong somewhere? This book brings together four major poets-Heaney, Mahon, Zagajewski, and Hartwig-who ask themselves these questions throughout their lives. They start by assuming that we can choose not to belong, but know this is easier said than done. Something in them is awry, leading them to travel, emigrate, and return dissatisfied with all forms of belonging. Writer after writer has suggested that Polish and Irish literature bear some uncanny similarities, particularly in the 20th century, but few have explored these similarities in depth. Ireland and Poland, with their tangled histories of colonization, place a large premium upon knowing one's place. What happens, though, when a poet makes a career out of refusing to know her place in the way her culture expects? This book explores the consequences of this refusal, allowing these poets to answer such questions through their own poems, leading to surprising conclusions about the connection of knowledge and belonging, roots and identity.
Download or read book Katherine Mansfield and Russia written by Galya Diment and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals diverse notions of distributed cognition in the early Greek and Roman worlds
Download or read book A Bloody and Barbarous God written by Petra Mundik and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 13: " In All That Dark and All That Cold": Good and Evil in No Country for Old Men -- 14: "All Things of Grace and Beauty": The Presence of the Sacred in The Road -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Back Cover
Download or read book Burying Ronald written by Keith Malinsky and published by Burying Ronald. This book was released on 2006-06-26 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes there are too many reasons to kill your best friend from high school. You just have to pick one. Maybe the way he always eats bologna sandwiches for lunch, the mayo oozing out onto his hands. Or maybe the fact that he once dated your kid sister. Or it could even be the fact that, after 20 years, he still hasnt changed, not one little bit. But it is NOT because you are gay and he is straight and youve been in love with him since you first met. No, its not that. That would be a silly reason to kill someone.
Download or read book Minor Prophets Major Themes written by Daniel Berrigan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Daniel Berrigan's best works, Minor Prophets, Major Themes, offers poetic, insightful commentary on the books of Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachai. From his own experience in the prophetic struggle to end war and injustice, Berrigan brings these ancient texts to new life and uses them to shed light on the life and death struggles for justice and peace today. The author takes these often neglected prophetic works and shows how they speak to us with even greater urgency, pushing us to become a prophetic people, to take up the major themes of justice, disarmament, nonviolence, compassion, and peace. There is simply no other commentary like it.
Download or read book The Image of the Black in Western Art written by David Bindman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New editions of the coveted five original books and the anticipated new volumes, which shall complete the series. The completed set will include ten sumptuous books in five volumes with up-to-date introductions and more full-color illustrations, printed on high-quality art stock for books that will last a lifetime. This monumental publication offers expert commentary and a lavishly illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs created by unknown hands to the works of the great European masters such as Bosch, Rembrandt, Rubens, and Hogarth to stunning new creations by contemporary black artists. Featuring thousands of beautiful, moving, and often little-known images of black people, including queens and slaves, saints and soldiers, children and gods, The Image of the Black in Western Art provides a treasury of masterpieces from four millennia--a testament to the black experience in the West and a tribute to art's enduring power to shape our common humanity"--Book Jacket.
Download or read book Literature of Guilt written by Patrick Reilly and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-06-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the roots of twentieth century pessimism as reflected in major European novels. Swift, Conrad, Thomas Mann, Orwell and Golding are linked through this analysis which is seen to stem from a violent reaction in literature against the axioms and assumptions of its predecessor.
Download or read book Graciously Keep Me This Night written by Steve Kruschel and published by New Reformation Publications. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Graciously keep me this night." Martin Luther once prayed those words to God. So many others have joined his plea. A man named Job lost his children in a freak accident, then struggled with the point of life itself. A woman named Ruth waited in the dark, hoping the man she loved would reciprocate her love. An apostle nervously watched his life hang in the balance as a storm wrecked his ship. In love, Jesus graciously watched over each and every one of them. In love, Jesus graciously keeps you, too. He has felt the pain that stabs your heart, the betrayals that send you to tears, and the guilt that keeps you awake. He endured them all to make you his own. Let these devotions remind you of that good news — that you belong to Jesus, even when the darkness comes.
Download or read book A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story written by David Malcolm and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story provides a comprehensive treatment of short fiction writing and chronicles its development in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Provides a comprehensive treatment of the short story in Britain and Ireland as it developed over the period 1880 to the present Includes essays on topics and genres, as well as on individual texts and authors Comprises chapters on women’s writing, Irish fiction, gay and lesbian writing, and short fiction by immigrants to Britain
Download or read book Racine written by Mary Reilly and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the nature of power in Racinian tragedy? This study looks beyond the conventional pageant of political power in the plays by exploring tensions inherent in the very concept of power, with each chapter elucidating how Racine's power relationships are concentrated in the question of language.
Download or read book The Zombie MEGAPACK written by Robert E. Howard and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resurrected corpses, voodoo conjuring, black magic (and blacker science)...these are all well known to cause zombie breakouts. Here are classic and modern tales, full of thrills and chills and the living dead...tales of zombies! These stories don't (well, mostly don't!) go for the gross-out. Great writing, lots of atmosphere and suspense (and the occasional laugh) -- if you want more than just extreme horror and gross-out scares, this is the zombie collection for you! Included are: SYMPATHY FOR ZOMBIES, by John Gregory Betancourt LARGER THAN LIFE, by Lawrence Watt-Evans PLAGUE PIT, by Sydney J. Bounds COOL AIR, by H.P. Lovecraft THE LAST BEST FRIEND, by C.J. Henderson UNDER THE SHADOW OF JONAH, by Jack Dann ZOMBIES ON BROADWAY, by Jack Dolphin SOME NOTES ON THE "ZOMBI," by Lafcadio Hearn THE HOLLOW MAN, by Thomas Burke OUTSIDE THE BOX, by John Haggerty WHILE ZOMBIES WALKED, by Thorp McClusky THE CORPSE MASTER, by Seabury Quinn WHAT THE MOON BRINGS, by George T. Wetzel NIGHTFALL ON THE DEAD SEA, by Ray Faraday Nelson BUB AND THE ZOMB BOYS, by A. R. Morlan THE MENTAL GANGSTER, by John Russell Fearn THE DIGGING AT PISTOL KEY, by Carl Jacobi CRIME AND AUTHORITY, by C.J. Henderson DEAD MEN WORKING IN THE CANE FIELDS, by William Seabrook HERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR, by H.P. Lovecraft I WALTZED WITH A ZOMBIE, by Ron Goulart BLACK CANAAN, by Robert E. Howard If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 260+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!
Download or read book Flashback written by Nevada Barr and published by Headline. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping a proposal of marriage from Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a grouping of tiny islands in a natural harbour seventy miles off Key West. This island paradise has secrets it would keep, not just in the present, but in shadows from its gritty past, when it served as a prison during the Civil War, and for the Lincoln assassination conspirators afterward. Here, on this last lick of the United States, in a giant crumbling fortress, Anna has little company besides the occasional sunburned tourist or unruly shrimper. When her sister, Molly, sends her a packet of letters from a great-great-aunt who lived at the fort with her husband, a career soldier, Anna?s fantasy life is filled with visions of this long-ago time. But a mysterious boat explosion and the discovery of unidentifiable body parts keeps Anna anchored to the present, and she soon finds crimes of yesterday and today closing in on her. A tangled web that was woven before she arrived threatens her sanity and her life. Cut off from the mainland by miles of water, poor phone service, and sketchy radio contact, Anna must find answers and weather a storm that rivals the hurricanes for which the islands are famous.
Download or read book Key to Eternity written by Mallory M. O’Connor and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychic detective Epiphany Mayall is enjoying a lovely evening when her peaceful reverie is suddenly interrupted by a vivid mental image of a naked man sprawled on the ground surrounded by two snakes. Moments later, she realizes her vision is somehow connected to the ancient Mesopotamian story, the Epic of Gilgamesh—a legendary King Gilgamesh who left his home to search for the secret of immortality. Now she must wait for Spirit to send her another clue. Soon, Epiphany finds herself on a new quest to solve a complex mystery. While tracking stolen antiquities and a clay tablet relating to the Epic, Epiphany relies on her psychic abilities and help from private investigator, Maro Gaido, and the FBI’s art-crimes division to help her hone in on the mysterious conspirators lurking in the shadows of the shady, global underworld of the arts and antiquities black market. Can Epiphany and her team locate the Gilgamesh tablet with its map to the flower of immortality before the treasure disappears forever into the private vault of a billionaire art thief? Key to Eternity is the exciting tale of a psychic detective’s new mission to solve the mystery of the Gilgamesh tablet as she is transported around the world in search of stolen treasures.
Download or read book A Detective s Odyssey written by Gilbert McLeod and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Detective's Odyssey is a story of Warren Carey, a police detective, that begins, from a simple police report, a search for a brother from whom he was separated and believed died in childhood may be alive. His search uncovers corruption, and a Dark Brotherhood with tentacles that reach around the world. He also finds love and a mystical elixir that bestows health and longevity but burdens him with a necessity to conceal it from all but a select few.
