Download or read book Dark Fires Shall Burn written by Anna Westbrook and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspired by the true events of an unsolved murder. Sydney, 1946. Eleven-year-old Frances and her best friend, Nancy, are growing up in the doglegged streets of Newtown and into a world they do not understand. It is the aftermath of World War II, and thousands of damaged soldiers have returned to their homes, bearing the psychological scars of battle with them. Meanwhile, in the seediest part of the city, fifteen-year-old Templeton lives amid bootleggers, gangs, and prostitutes with his sister Annie and her friends. Threatened by Annie's abusive lover, the nefarious Jack Tooth, they are forced to seek protection from a Darlinghurst madam: the once-powerful grog runner Dolly Jenkins. Soon, Templeton is drawn into an enigmatic underbelly of violence, sexuality, and secrets. When Frances witnesses a shooting one night, these two worlds become inevitably intertwined. Templeton and the girls must grow up quickly and confront the darkness in the lives of those around them. Dark Fires Shall Burnis a superbly atmospheric, powerful debut about justice, vengeance, and the power of grief."

Download or read book A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900 written by Nicholas Birns and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh twenty-first century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive and multicultural sense.

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Download or read book The Dark Book Of Shadows A Grimoire of Sorcery and Dark Witchcraft written by S. M. Brennan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author presents this Grimoire as an educational guide to the teachings and practices of Sorcery and Dark Witchcraft. Beginning with the History of Darkness and the basic knowledge and teachings of the Dark Ways, this volume will guide the student through the Initiations, Dedications, and practices needed to walk this magickal path. The book includes information on basic rituals, teachings, banishments, and dedications. It also includes information on sensitives and sight, working with mediums, spell casting, healing magick, earth magick, money spells, banishments, love magick, sex magick, color magick, destructive magick, and sigils. Aslo included in this volume is an in depth chapter on Demonology and a hierarchy listing of Dark Path Powers and Spirits which a practicer can call upon in their workings.

Download or read book The Great Evil and The Sight of Hell written by Rev. John Furniss and published by Fivestar. This book was released on 2024-04-28 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thou hast broken my yoke and burst my bonds, thou hast said, I will not serve." Jer. ii. A child was bid by its father to go on an errand; the child answered, "I shan't go, I won't go." Everybody who heard this answer was shocked. How shocking, then, must it be when any one says to Almighty God, the God who has in his hands thy breath and all thy ways, who can cast a body and soul into hell, "Oh, God! I shall not, I will not do what you bid me!" Mal. iii.: "Shall a man afflict God?"

Download or read book Almost a Mirror written by Kirsten Krauth and published by Transit Lounge . This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Penguin Literary Prize Like fireflies to the light, Mona, Benny and Jimmy are drawn into the elegantly wasted orbit of the Crystal Ballroom and the post-punk scene of 80s Melbourne, a world that includes Nick Cave and Dodge, a photographer pushing his art to the edge. With precision and richness Kirsten Krauth hauntingly evokes the power of music to infuse our lives, while diving deep into loss, beauty, innocence and agency. Filled with unforgettable characters, the novel is above all about the shapes that love can take and the many ways we express tenderness throughout a lifetime. As it moves between the Blue Mountains and Melbourne, Sydney and Castlemaine, Almost a Mirror reflects on the healing power of creativity and the everyday sacredness of family and friendship in the face of unexpected tragedy.

Download or read book Chaucer in Modern English Prose The Canterbury Tales written by John Edmonds and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in modern English prose. Already Middle English is sufficiently obscure to deter even those interested in English literature. How many have read the whole of the Canterbury Tales? Even fewer will have read his other works. The purpose of this book is to allow the reader easy access to Chaucer's meaning apart from the poetic presentation. This is to put more emphasis on what he says rather than the way he says it. Chaucer's works are a commentary on 14th century life and literature, much of it in prose. There are then two reasons for reading Chaucer. One is for social history, and the other for his poetry. To separate the two can only make his work more accessible. Hopefully this will lead to a greater appreciation of medieval English literature in general.

Download or read book The Penguin Book of Hell written by Scott G. Bruce and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guantánamo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." --The New York Times Book Review Three thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along the way, you'll take a ferry ride with Aeneas to Hades, across the river Acheron; meet the Devil as imagined by a twelfth-century Irish monk--a monster with a thousand giant hands; wander the nine circles of Hell in Dante's Inferno, in which gluttons, liars, heretics, murderers, and hypocrites are made to endure crime-appropriate torture; and witness the debates that raged in Victorian England when new scientific advances cast doubt on the idea of an eternal hereafter. Drawing upon religious poetry, epics, theological treatises, stories of miracles, and accounts of saints' lives, this fascinating volume of hellscapes illuminates how Hell has long haunted us, in both life and death.

Download or read book Burning Down the Dark written by Brenda Poppy and published by Glass Fish Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kasis teeters on the edge of war, with the Peace Force tightening their grip on power and the rebels relegated to the shadows. Behind the scenes, the Shadow Assembly pulls the strings, bending the world to its will. With their identities compromised, gifted sisters Burn and Scar must navigate their new reality as fugitives, searching for a way to destroy their enemy without destroying themselves. For Burn, that means giving up the only family she's ever known in order to infiltrate the elite, scouring the highest tiers for answers. Down below, Scar embraces the darkness, discovering her true strength and setting the world on a collision course that could kill them all. Simmering tensions come to a head in the final saga of the Burn this City trilogy. With their very world hanging in the balance, can Burn and Scar do what it takes to save their city - or will it all come crashing down around them?

Download or read book Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett written by Dorothy Hewett and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading Australian literary figure, Dorothy Hewett is remembered and rediscovered in this very personal book of selected poetry. Compiled by Dorothy's daughter, the poet and literary scholar Kate Lilley, Selected Poems encapsulates Hewett's enduring themes of grief, loss, despair and memory.

Download or read book Firestorm written by Edward Struzik and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Frightening...Firestorm comes alive when Struzik discusses the work of offbeat scientists." --New York Times Book Review "Comprehensive and compelling." --Booklist "A powerful message." --Kirkus "Should be required reading." --Library Journal In the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire "the Beast." It seemed to be alive with destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it again. Yet it's not a stretch to imagine we will all soon live in a world in which fires like the Beast are commonplace. In Firestorm, Edward Struzik confronts this new reality, offering a deftly woven tale of science, economics, politics, and human determination. It's possible for us to flourish in the coming age of megafires--but it will take a radical new approach that requires acknowledging that fires are no longer avoidable. Living with fire also means, Struzik reveals, that we must better understand how the surprising, far-reaching impacts of these massive fires will linger long after the smoke eventually clears.

Download or read book The Burn written by Laurie J. Tyger and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes place in the fall of 1989 then the spring of 1991 in a small town at the edge of industrial Weston in the northeast (a composite locale in Pennsylvania). Part 1, Fire in the Dark, relates the story of high school senior, hothead, and soccer star Maryl O'Donnell and her conflicted relationship with Millerville's hunky linebacker, Derek Teaberry. Their families were friends until tough times forced a wedge between them. Maryl tangles with Derek's younger sister, who is injured in the incident, and Derek pushes Maryl's twin, Megan, into an intimacy she did not want. A series of events, culminating in a fire at the O'Donnells' small business, results in Maryl being suspected of conspiring to collect insurance money. Her often-violent responses to pressure don't help, and memories of her part in a childhood kidnapping cloud her judgement. Maryl must enlist the help of her nemesis, Derek, in uncovering who is behind the fires—with a long-ago death as the key to solving the mystery—while the real culprit seeks to avenge one tragedy with another, the life of a talented young goalkeeper. Part 2, A Shot in the Dark, finds Maryl at the end of her freshman year at a small college. On a scholarship, Maryl tries to find a balance between academia, athletics, and recreation; in addition, she must maintain a part-time job and keep her boyfriend at bay until the time is right . . . and then the past intrudes, in the form of the young man she helped put in jail who has been released and wastes no time making her aware of it. A ghost appears from the past, further complicating matters. Faced with choices she never asked for, Maryl must choose between helping someone she thought was lost to her forever, keeping her scholarship or her personal integrity, and in the end, protecting herself from a terrible fate.

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