Download or read book Dreamveil written by Lynn Viehl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: View our feature on Lynn Viehl’s Dreamveil.From the New York Times bestselling author Rowan Dietrich grew up on the streets. Now she's out to start anew, find a job-and keep her identity as a Kyndred secret, as well as her ability to "dreamveil" herself into the object of others' desires. But Rowan isn't using her gift when world-class chef Jean-Marc Dansant is stricken by her beauty and strength. And when dark secrets from her past threaten her new life and love, Rowan realizes she can't run forever...

Download or read book Tiny Tina s Wonderlands Strategy Guide written by GamerGuides.com and published by GamerGuides.com. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience all of the Borderlands zaniness in the Dungeons and Dragons setting. The guide for Tiny Tina's Wonderlands features all of the collectibles in the game, as well as information on all of the classes, including some builds to help you along. - Information on all classes - Builds for the classes - Locations of every collectible - In-depth analysis on Weapons and Armor - Breakdown of the Chaos Chamber - Locations of the more prolific Legendaries

Download or read book In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel written by Genevieve Plunkett and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young mother finds herself caught between a love affair and the wrath of her husband, who will do anything to put an end to it—even use his wife's bipolar diagnosis against her When faced with newfound feelings for Theo, the drummer of her band, married young mother Portia must decide whether to follow her heart or question her sanity. Going off her medication feels like waking up for the first time. But could this clarity be harmless daydreaming, or a symptom of something more serious? Portia’s husband, a well-respected prosecutor in their small Vermont town, is convinced of the latter. He retaliates, initiating an intervention, claiming that Portia’s behavior is proof of her bipolar disorder. With lawyer-like cunning, he uses elements from her past to break her resolve until she agrees to being committed to a psychiatric hospital. In the hospital, Portia’s sense of reality is tested, and hard truths about her marriage, her love for Theo, and her most vulnerable hopes and desires are revealed. In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel is a potent and at times devastating story of stark tenderness. Written like a dream, this novel brings us toward new understandings of the flawed, yearning, multifaceted self.

Download or read book When Animals Dream written by David M. Peña-Guzmán and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreaming Are humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep? When Animals Dream brings together behavioral and neuroscientific research on animal sleep with philosophical theories of dreaming. It shows that dreams provide an invaluable window into the cognitive and emotional lives of nonhuman animals, giving us access to a seemingly inaccessible realm of animal experience. David Peña-Guzmán uncovers evidence of animal dreaming throughout the scientific literature, suggesting that many animals run “reality simulations” while asleep, with a dream-ego moving through a dynamic and coherent dreamscape. He builds a convincing case for animals as conscious beings and examines the thorny scientific, philosophical, and ethical questions it raises. Once we accept that animals dream, we incur a host of moral obligations and have no choice but to rethink our views about who animals are and the interior lives they lead. A mesmerizing journey into the otherworldly domain of nonhuman consciousness, When Animals Dream carries profound implications for contemporary debates about animal cognition, animal ethics, and animal rights, challenging us to regard animals as beings who matter, and for whom things matter.

Download or read book Spooks Welcome to the Great Beyond written by Nathan Reese Maher and published by Nathan Reese Maher. This book was released on with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spooks! Welcome to the Great Beyond Tabletop Role-playing in the Afterlife The gates to paradise are shut, the dead are restless and a shadow war between the pharaohs threatens to consume the Great Beyond... and you just got here. Congratulations, you're dead! and the afterlife isn't what we thought. In this fantastical game you play as a spook, otherwise known as the dearly departed, in an Ancient Egyptian inspired hereafter known as the Great Beyond. Play as a bhoot, doll, ghost, ghoul, skeleton, vampire, wraith or zombie in a predominate Victorian society. Meet people from history, explore a rich and infinite world under the shinning lights of Necropolis, city of the dead. Tour infamous locations such as the River of Styx, manifest into the Spirit Realm to haunt the living, unravel the dreams of yesterday and today through the Dream Veil, brave the dangers of the Hellfire Lands or quest for the lost paradises of old such as Elysium, Valhalla or Avalon. How will you spend your afterlife? Game Features d6 mechanic that pools dice for purposes of determining fate and skill rolls. Non-class system where players choose their spook, select their skills and buy equipment without feeling restricted by class abilities. Watch this video for how to make a character: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfsOEKxQ9G4 Statistic point-buy system that is determined on character level and not a variety of rolls. Characters don't die, they just faint. Improvise-friendly game where challenges and denizens can be created in a manner of minutes without spending hours ahead of game in preparation or cause large amounts of in-game downtime. Spell card magic system, where players can either use an official Spooks! WTTGB spell deck or use any playing card deck to track their spells. No memorization or spell slots on how often a spell can be used. Magic is tracked by magic points, much like hit points, and regenerate quickly. 24 historical non-player characters (NPCs) that the players can meet including George Washington, Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron, Edgar Allan Poe and more. 12 organizations characters can encounter or possibly join in the afterlife. 34 magic items specific to the game 41 denizens to incorporate into your stories Plus all the rules you need to create your own spells, equipment, magic items and denizens.

Download or read book The Modern 1001 Nights Inspirational Stories for the New Age Vol 13 written by Kem Lai and published by Kem Lai. This book was released on 2024-09-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Modern 1001 Nights - Inspirational Stories for the New Age" weaves together a captivating collection of stories that blend ancient wisdom with contemporary themes. As Sheherazade shares her nightly tales, readers are transported into a world where courage, innovation, and compassion shine. Each story, crafted with modern sensibilities, explores themes of perseverance, leadership, and personal growth. From the inspiring journey of a determined athlete to the transformative impact of a visionary inventor, these narratives highlight the power of dedication and the importance of community. This book invites readers to embrace the lessons of the past while finding inspiration for the future. With its rich tapestry of characters and themes, "The Modern 1001 Nights - Inspirational Stories for the New Age" offers a profound and engaging reading experience, promising to resonate with audiences of all ages.

Download or read book The Awakened City written by Victoria Strauss and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the remarkable sequel to The Burning Land, a man of peace is forced to confront his unwanted destiny in a fantasy realm torn apart by magic, religious intolerance, and holy war For years they were oppressed, outlawed, and hunted. But the Brethren have finally prevailed, and now the kingdom of Arsace is theirs once more. Unbending in their single-minded devotion to the slumbering god Ârata, the Brethren will not allow their religious authority to be questioned. Therefore, all of the remaining heretical renegade mages known as Shapers must be eliminated, their magic rendered impotent, and Refuge, their hidden desert sanctuary, destroyed. Of all the Shapers who survived an earlier attack on Refuge, the one known as Râvar possesses the greatest power, and he has declared himself the Next Messenger who will usher in a new, illuminated age. But the false prophet’s decision to take Axane the Dreamer as his captive could have unforeseen, world-shattering consequences, for it has drawn the seer’s devoted husband, Gyalo Amdo Samchen, away from his chosen path of peace. To rescue his endangered beloved, the former priest will have to confront his greatest fear, for in the terrible flames of holy war the true Next Messenger will be revealed. The Awakened City is the powerful sequel to Victoria Strauss’s acclaimed fantasy masterwork The Burning Land. A story of faith, fate, love, and magic that unfolds in a richly imagined world plagued by violence, intolerance, and religious persecution, this is a stunning and intelligent work of literary artistry from a uniquely talented fantasist.

Download or read book Prudence written by Dr. Albert Joseph Jefferson III and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prudence, a young French woman, lives in a city named St. Luciano, a province of France. Her saga unravels during the mid-1800s. under the guidance of her mentor, Melca. Melca is a hierophant in good standing with the kings court. Melca has been searching for a prodigy that she might pass her vast storehouse of knowledge onward to the following generation. She finds such a student in Prudence. Under the guidance of Melca, Prudence learns wisdom that leads to her own awakening. However, no one is quite ready for the impact that Prudence is to have on those who come under her influence. No one can deny the blessings that follow in her wake, or her ability to heal bodies, or change lives. The reader who follows Prudence, and is able to decipher her nature, understand her principles, cannot helped but be blessed because that is what Prudence does to all who come to really know her. I invite you to meet her, and find out for yourself. Dr. Albert Joseph Jefferson III

Download or read book World Wheel written by Frithjof Schuon and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A four-volume collection of spiritual poetry by Frithjof Schuon, who wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German. These poems express the experience of the sacred through the medium of poetry.

Download or read book Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque written by Richard K Sherwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque explores the profound impact that visual digital technologies are having on the practice and theory of law. Today, lawyers, judges, and lay jurors face a vast array of visual evidence and visual argument. From videos documenting crimes and accidents to computer displays of their digital simulation, increasingly, the search for fact-based justice inside the courtroom is becoming an offshoot of visual meaning making. But when law migrates to the screen it lives there as other images do, motivating belief and judgment on the basis of visual delight and unconscious fantasies and desires as well as actualities. Law as image also shares broader cultural anxieties concerning not only the truth of the image but also the mimetic capacity itself, the human ability to represent reality. What is real, and what is simulation? This is the hallmark of the baroque, when dreams fold into dreams, like immersion in a seemingly endless matrix of digital appearances. When fact-based justice recedes, laws proliferate within a field of uncertainty. Left unchecked, this condition of ontological and ethical uneasiness threatens the legitimacy of law’s claim to power. Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque offers a jurisprudential paradigm that is equal to the challenge that current cultural conditions present.

Download or read book Veil written by George C. Chesbro and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychic ex–CIA agent finds himself entangled in a conspiracy and hunted by a killer in this wild adventure from the author of the Mongo Mysteries. After a brain infection at birth almost killed him, Veil Kendry developed a unique power: His vivid dreams can transport him to the edges of time and to the minds of other men. A Vietnam veteran, martial arts instructor, and former CIA agent, Veil now makes a living painting landscapes unlike anything anyone has ever seen. The highly regarded Institute for Human Studies has invited Veil to undergo a battery of tests at their Big Sur facility to better understand his abilities as an artist. Although Veil is game for anything, nothing can prepare him for the secrets hidden behind the walls of the institute—or the ensuing fight to stay alive. Veil is the 1st book in the Veil Kendry Suspense Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Download or read book The Burning Land written by Victoria Strauss and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a hidden desert sanctuary, the sorcerer-priest of a reborn faith uncovers dark truths about his world and its masters in the first book of Victoria Strauss’s fantasy masterwork, the Way of Ârata A realm long held in the iron grasp of godless tyrants, Arsace is finally free to worship its beloved, once-outlawed deity, Ârata. But decades of cruelty and oppression have left their mark—evidenced not only by the desecrated Âratist temples throughout the holy city of Baushpar but by the widespread mistrust and suspicion that has lately fallen on the Shapers, the powerful mages whose magic is beholden to no religious or government institution. Both a Shaper and a deeply devout priest, Gyalo Amdo Samchen has embarked on a great mission into the sacred Burning Land to rescue the renegades who, years before, fled into the desert to escape the city’s madness—among them the Dreamer Axane, who dares not reveal her forbidden visions of a world beyond. But shocking truths await Gyalo in the hidden sanctuary of Refuge—and what he learns there of his quest, his land, its leaders, and its faith will cause him to question everything he fervently believes while providing the terrible spark that could ignite the war to end all wars. In a magnificent feat of world building, Victoria Strauss has created a unique, vividly imagined land, society, and religious culture while spinning a riveting tale of duty, revelation, destiny, and magic that places her in the top ranks of contemporary fantasists.

Download or read book India s Gracious Gift To Mankind written by Crystaqueous and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INDIA'S GRACIOUS GIFT TO MANKIND IS: 1) A book about mortality being clothed upon with Blissful Immortality in the Here and Now. 2) A book which succinctly renders the concepts of birth, ageing, disease, suffering, and death- as though they NEVER were. 3) A book which is designed to strip the swaddling clothes of delusion from the entire human race. 4) The Crest Of The Wave that ushers in- in all Its Glorious Fullness, the Truth regarding Transcended God Consciousness and Body Ascension which sweeps the earth clean of mortal or death consciousness in a single generation. 5) The revelation that Man erases his every limitation through His True Divine Self completely arisen. 6) A book which defines the other delusion called Self-realization. 7) A book revealing the True Nature of The Greater Works- showing in no uncertain terms, that the Ascended Master identifies Him or Herself alone with and as the Reality of Absolute Perfection- and therefore does not in any instance, deal with delusion. 8) A Prophetic View of America and the world beyond from the significant viewpoints of- The Ascended Masters of the Far East- The Hopi Prophecy and the Mayan calendar ending- Dec.21, AD 2012 www.usunlimited.co.uk Is Dedicated to the Timeless Emanation of Infinite Consciousness in Boundless Expression As Immortality and Perfection Absolute In Radiant Light Body or Physical Form- Here, Now, and Always.

Download or read book Law on the Screen written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proliferation of images of law, legal processes, and officials on television and in film is a phenomenon of enormous significance. Mass-mediated images are as powerful, pervasive, and important as are other early twenty-first-century social forces--e.g. globalization, neo-colonialism, and human rights--in shaping and transforming legal life. Yet scholars have only recently begun to examine how law works in this new arena and to explore the consequences of the representation of law in the moving image. Law on the Screen advances our understanding of the connection between law and film by analyzing them as narrative forms, examining film for its jurisprudential content--that is, its ways of critiquing the present legal world and imagining an alternative one--and expanding studies of the representation of law in film to include questions of reception.

Download or read book Nightborn written by Lynn Viehl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The High Lord of the Immortal Darkyn has sent his most trusted warrior, Korvel, to retrieve a coveted scroll that's rumored to contain maps to Templar treasures and the secrets to eternal life. Uniting with Korvel to recover the dangerous artifact is Simone Derien, the daughter of the scroll's guardian, and a woman with many deadly secrets...

Download or read book Uncloaked written by Marina Liaros Naples and published by GAEA PRESS. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a beginner’s book as well as an entertaining one, so no matter if you are new to all things Norse or a follower of Norse, you are sure to enjoy these short stories “with a new twist” that lie ahead. Each story is different yet the lives of each character are linked to the beings who lived during those ancient and magical times. The why and how unfolds one story at a time in this fun novella. So begin your journey here and step into the worlds of Odin, Thor, Loki, and others and learn how their worlds helped to create ours today. Then once you arrive at The End, you will also arrive at a clearer understanding of many things Norse and some of the beings within the myths. This book was written to precede my Yggdrasil series to bridge the gap from confusion to enlightenment of Norse mythology for an enjoyable and exciting read. My series that follows tells the tales of the beings from each of the nine worlds within the Yggdrasil tree as they move through space and time while heading toward Ragnarök -their ultimate battle. I hope you will enjoy each book beginning with Journey To Jotunheim, land of the ice giants. Please follow me along on Facebook and TikTok listed under my name.

Download or read book Ghost Words and Invisible Giants written by Lheisa Dustin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ghost Words and Invisible Giants, Lheisa Dustin engages psychoanalytic theory to describe the “language of suffering” of iconic modernist authors H.D. and Djuna Barnes, tracing disconnection, psychic splitting, and virulent thought patterns in creative works that have usually been read as intentionally enigmatic. Dustin imbricates Barnes and H.D.’s sense of tenuous psychic boundaries with others – parent figures, otherworldly and divine beings, and ambivalent or malignant love objects – in their creative brilliance, suggesting that the writers’ works stage – and also help manage – their psychic suffering in language in which signifier (the sound or image of the word) and signified (what it means) are radically disconnected. The cryptic and ineffable styles of these texts thus involve attempts to embody the meanings that cannot be expressed through language. Dustin reads two of H.D.’s later works as examples of language that does not differentiate words, thoughts, and people from one another, and instead tries to include everything in its formulations of meaning. However, H.D., she argues, also seeks an end to this mental proliferation– an end that she associates with the hallucinatory return of difference as such. In contrast, Dustin reads two novels by Barnes as invoking and denying childhood secrets through the use of fetishized words. To supplement her psychoanalytic readings, Dustin considers the authors’ familial and romantic histories and their broader social involvements or noninvolvement (for instance, H.D.’s Occultist practices and psychoanalytic sessions, Barnes’s fascination with spectacle and her later reclusion), rendering a detailed and compelling analysis of the forces at play beneath enigmatic, “difficult” modernist literary works. Read in this light, the spectral and otherworldly figures and strange patterns of expression appearing in H.D.’s and Barnes’s writing, and perhaps much or our writing, signal the traumatic content that it tries to negate.