Download or read book Fates and Furies written by Lauren Groff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY MORE “Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Fates and Furies is an unabashedly ambitious novel that delivers – with comedy, tragedy, well-deployed erudition and unmistakable glimmers of brilliance throughout.” —The New York Times Book Review (cover review) From the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Florida and Matrix, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. Profound, surprising, propulsive, and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart.

Download or read book Aeneid written by Virgil and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.

Download or read book The Mystery of Fate written by Arlene Uslander and published by . This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of real stories by real people. FATE is a universal concept - destiny, luck, kismet or coincidence - whatever you want to call it. The common thread in this fascinating anthology is the presence of fate in everyday lives, a force that intervenes. The stories in this book will make you laugh, some will make you cry, some will amaze you, while still others will inspire and motivate you. But each true account carries the imprint of its author, allowing his or her perspective to light the way to a unique interpretation of fate. The ancient Greeks believed that fate was more powerful than the gods. What do you believe?

Download or read book Altered Fates written by Jeff Lyon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the scientists racing to develop gene therapy and their patients.

Download or read book Divided Fates written by Kazuko Suzuki and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, ASA Book Award on Asia/Transnational (2017) This book compares the Korean diasporic groups in Japan and the United States. It highlights the contrasting adaptation of Koreans in Japan and the United States, and illuminates how the destinies of immigrants who originally belonged to the same ethnic/national collectivity diverge depending upon destinations and how they are received in a certain state and society within particular historical contexts. The author finds that the mode of incorporation (a specific combination of contextual factors), rather than ethnic ‘culture’ and ‘race,’ plays a decisive role in determining the fates of these Korean immigrant groups. In other words, what matters most for immigrants’ integration is not their particular cultural background or racial similarity to the dominant group, but the way they are received by the host state and other institutions. Thus, this book is not just about Korean immigrants; it is also about how contexts of reception including different conceptualizations of ‘race’ in relation to nationhood affect the adaptation of immigrants from the same ethnic/national origin.

Download or read book The Christopher Bollas Reader written by Christopher Bollas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader brings together a selection of seminal papers by Christopher Bollas. Essays such as "The Fascist State of Mind," "The Structure of Evil," and "The Functions of History" have established his position as one of the most significant cultural critics of our time. Also included are examples of his psychoanalytical writings, such as "The Transformational Object" and "Psychic Genera," that deepen and renew interest in unconscious creative processes. Two recent essays, "Character and Interformality" and "The Wisdom of the Dream" extend his work on aesthetics and the role of form in everyday life. This is a collection of papers that will appeal to anyone interested in human experience and subjectivity.

Download or read book Forces of Destiny written by Christopher Bollas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Bollas is one of the most expressive and eloquent exponents of the ideas, meanings and experience of psychoanalysis currently writing. He has a real gift for taking the reader into the fine texture of the psychoanalytic process. Forces of Destiny examines and reflects on one of the most fundamental questions – what is it that is unique about us as individuals? How does it manifest itself in our personalities, our lives, relationships and in the psychoanalytic process? Drawing on classical notions of ‘fate’ and ‘destiny’ and Winnicott’s idea of the true self, Bollas develops the concept of ‘the human idiom’ to explore and show how we work out – both creatively and in the process of analysis – the ‘dialectics of difference’. In particular he reflects on how the patients may use particular parts of the psychoanalyst’s personality to express their own idiom and destiny drive. Forces of Destiny was Bollas’ second book. His first, The Shadow of the Object (1987), was described by the reviewer in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis as a ‘unique and remarkable book. I think of it as one of the most interesting and important new books on psychoanalysis which I have read in the last decade.’ Forces of Destiny confirmed his position as one of the most important, thoughtful and engaging psychoanalytic writers. With a new preface from Christopher Bollas, Forces of Destiny remains a classic of psychoanalytic literature, appealing to psychoanalysts as well as readers in art history, literature, philosophy, and cultural studies.

Download or read book Transcending Fates written by Floyd Bayly and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2023-01-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcending Fates, Arena Chronicles is an Action-Horror story rolled into a Sci-Fi Thriller with a splash of Erotic fantasy... The story takes place on a barren planet that has hidden beauty and fantasy fascinations to behold and revolves around a small group of humans that journeyed to attend a Melee' extravaganza tailored to be the defining moment between two champions of no holds-barred fighting. The thrilling event of a lifetime becomes more than a battle for survival when deception and deceit complicate every turn as they try and survive the event of a lifetime, which becomes a nightmare in a world of alien terror.

Download or read book Fates Destiny written by Dave Pilot and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every once and a while a chain of events transpires that results in a battle, a battle fought out of honor, pride and deep seeded true love. Inspired by actual events, Fates Destiny is a story of such a battle-a personal war of such magnitude that told and retold will become legendary.It's the story of Justin Fates, an unhappily married man suffering from an unexplainable emptiness. He finds his life's passion in aviation and while in flight school, away from his wife, Sydney, he stumbles upon the truth of what he is lacking in his life-real love. Fate eventually leads him down a path to Destiny. A relationship with the 17-year-old Destiny Phillips however, brings more tribulation to his life than he ever thought possible. Against all odds Justin must protect Destiny from her abusive parents while attempting to thwart their efforts to destroy his life through the abuse of the legal system.

Download or read book Defy the Fates written by Claudia Gray and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning finale to the Defy the Stars trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Lost Stars and Bloodline. Hunted and desperate. Abel only has one mission left that matters: save the life of Noemi Vidal. To do that, he not only has to escape the Genesis authorities, he also must face the one person in the galaxy who still has the means to destroy him. Burton Mansfield's consciousness lives on, desperate for a home, and Abel's own body is his last bargaining chip. Alone in the universe. Brought back from the brink of death, Noemi Vidal finds Abel has not only saved her life, but he's made her into something else, something more. Not quite mech, yet not quite human any longer, Noemi must find her place in a universe where she is utterly unique, all while trying to create a world where anyone--even a mech--can be free. The final battle between Earth and the colony planets is here, and there's no lengths to which Earth won't go to preserve its domination over all humanity. But together, the universe's most advanced mech and its first human-mech hybrid might have the power to change the galaxy for good.

Download or read book Small Language Fates and Prospects written by Nancy Dorian and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Small-language Fates and Prospects Nancy C. Dorian gathers findings from decades of documenting an endangered Scottish Gaelic dialect, presenting detailed evidence of contraction and loss but also recording a positive role for imperfect speakers. Retention of language skills undervalued by linguists but positively viewed by the community has supported the survival of local Gaelic-English bilingualism well beyond early predictions. Nonetheless, potent factors that threaten small-language survival everywhere have also operated here. Negative social attitudes towards the minority population, loss of a traditional occupation, the increasing impact of majority-culture ideologies, are recurrent phenomena in small-language settings. Maintenance or revitalization efforts pose special challenges under these circumstances, as does fieldwork itself when adverse sociohistorical forces have left very few fluent speakers.

Download or read book Tempting the Fates written by Dare Wilson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2006-11-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Dare Wilson saw action in France 1940 (Dunkirk), Italy and North West Europe (where he won his MC) with the Northumberland Fusiliers and later the Recce Regiment. He then served in Palestine and Korea which he rates as the most vicious war he fought in. He was picked to command 22 SAS and was responsible for basing them at Hereford. His account of the world record-breaking free fall jump free falling from 34,000 feet makes thrilling reading one member died. He went on to fight the Mau Mau in Kenya and was in the last party to leave Aden when we withdrew in 1968. Dare then learnt to fly helicopters and commanded the fledgling Army/Air Corps. We believe that this is one of the most enthralling of the many superb memoirs we have published. Certainly it is the widest in its scope and makes for thrilling reading.

Download or read book Christmas Fates written by Marina Pacheco and published by Marina Pacheco. This book was released on 2022-03-09 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Christmas short story Aurora Dawn is about to learn the true meaning of Christmas and it has nothing to do with how many of the latest must haves she can sell.

Download or read book Altering Fate written by Michael Lewis and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1998-07-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people question the pervasive belief that early childhood exerts an inordinate power over adult achievements, relationships, and mental health. Once robbed of our potential by the inadequacies of our upbringing, the theory goes, we risk being trapped in maladaptive patterns and unfulfilling lives. But does early experience really seal our fate? Daring to challenge prevailing models of child development, this provocative book argues that what enables us to survive--and sets us free from our pasts--is our astonishing adaptability to change, shaped by the uniquely human attributes of consciousness, will, and desire.

Download or read book Fates and Visions written by Keira Blackwood and published by Liza Street. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’m a prisoner. I’m told it’s for my own protection. But I know the truth. My sexy shifter bodyguards are my jailors, preventing me from running off to save my sister. She’s a prisoner, too. Only her situation is far worse than mine. My solution? Manipulate my guards into helping me find my sister. There’s kind of a big problem with that, though: the longer we’re together, the less it feels like manipulation, and the more it feels like love. Trust is hard, love is harder. I need to decide who to love and who to trust. My sister’s life is at stake, and time is running out. Fates and Visions includes all four books in the paranormal reverse harem Spellbound Shifters: Fates & Visions series: Oracle Defiant, Oracle Adored, Spellcaster Hidden, and Spellcaster Embraced.

Download or read book Feminine Fates written by Robert Sanasi and published by Robert Sanasi. This book was released on 2024-05-11 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nazi-occupied Abruzzo, Italy, in '43, the seventeen-year-old Lina, an aspiring poet and marked by faith, is secretly in love with one of her peers but when things start to go wrong, she decides to "enter the war", merging, amidst strong inner conflicts and Catholic sense of guilt, a personal and a universal mission. She abandons her pen and takes up a rifle, organizing with her friends a special plan to eliminate the Nazis: to kill them after seducing them. Will God be on her side?

Download or read book Trapped By A Dream When Fates Collide written by Leola Butler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped By A Dream: When Fates Collide is the true account of a young Russian girl who is deceived and abducted. Her rescue mission is detailed from the personal journals of Boots Butler, the team leader. This story involves the collective abilities of Boots, working with an extraordinary group of comrades in arms, to extract a prisoner. The rescue takes Boots and his clan to Amsterdam where their most hated enemy, the Russian Mafia, stands between them and the object of the operation. They do this with complete selflessness and courage. Once engaged, they will not quit. Their motto is “failure is not an option.” These are the words they live by, and will die by, if necessary.