Download or read book Fractured Shadows written by SATINDER K. VIG and published by Annu Aggarwal. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is dedicated to all Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus who did not forsake their humanity during the partition of India and saved the lives of those who prayed differently even at the cost of their own lives. There is no vanity greater than the spiritual arrogance of the virtuous. A single unseasonal shower and the buried seeds of weeds spring to life to mock at your pseudo status of saintliness. It is not easy to keep spiritual chastity unsullied in a world where everything but truth prevails. Peshawar remains forever the burial ground of empires, armies and ambitions of those that wanted to grow rich at the expense of the EARTH. It will hold aloft only the Stoopas of harbingers of peace and goodwill for fellow humans. Buddha, the mendicant, towers over the landscape enriching the heritage of humanity and the bones of conquerors have enriched the fertile soil of unconquerable Peshawar. The Black Hole is a historical reminder and warning to all future imperialists. It is only in our era that truth is a piece of merchandise that has a limited shelf life as on a departmental store shelf. Falsehood has a rich, fancy wardrobe and need not wear the same ensemble twice. Eternal awareness is the only armor for a seeker of emancipation from the karmic cycle. My book “FS” is just like music, a catharsis that brings out my repressed feelings and memories into consciousness – a cleansing of my soul. “Fitrat ke Maqasid ki Karta hai Nigehbani, Ya Banda-e-Sehrai Ya Mard – e-Kuhistani” The man of the desert or of the mountains are chosen by Nature, for her aims to attain Regarding Afghanistan, Iqbal’s intuition about future-gazing was more insightful than his historical analysis of eras of antiquity. His Marde Kohistani often ran the gauntlets that history since Alexander’s invasion of India threw at him. Armies down the ages have been using the mountainous terrain for onward passage to plunder the prosperous peoples that lay beyond their passes. Fierce tribes, residing these inhospitable hills, given to warring among themselves in normal times were quick to sink their differences and vanquish any intruder daring to force their way through the countryside. Their ruthless tactics were more than a match for any invader. Greeks, Mughals, British, Russians and Americans have tested and tasted Afghan zest for fight and indomitable will to conquer their adversaries on home ground. So far, the tribes were able to scatter their foes and get back to their traditional infighting. American exodus is trying out the Marde-Kohistani by running a different gauntlet. Afghans are forced out of their citadels and fastnesses by internal foes of the same religious persuasion and scattered all over the world as refugees. Till yesterday, contingents of the most powerful, militarized nations won over the trust of 40 Million to step out of their traditional feudal order and join the comity of nations as a nascent modern state. For more than a decade fiercely independent people of Afghanistan reposed faith in the sincerity of their liberators, only to realize the extent of perfidious trap sprung upon them by the occupation armies out of sheer self-interest and preservation instinct. Reprisals visited on the betrayers may not be fast but have no doubt they will be furious. For an Afghan revenge and honor killing are non-negotiable. All this was avoidable till early July and August 2021 saw the most shameful capitulation by the mightiest military on this planet so far. The inevitable has to run its course and Marde Kohistani has to be its chosen instrument albeit from other locations. A similar scenario and fate was faced by me in another era and century in the month of August 1947 with an uncanny resemblance to Afghan betrayal when I fled Lahore. NANAK DEV JEE very wisely exhorted to respect SHABAD (word) and avoid mutilations leading to warfare.

Download or read book Fractured Shadows written by A. D. Davies and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fractured Shadows written by Kendra Moreno and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our lands are fractured. Split into three since before my birth.... but they were not always this way. Once we prospered, magic filling our lands before it was locked away with them. The monsters. Now we suffer, we starve even as our king grows stronger. Richer. And then one day my sister is called upon, to make the ultimate sacrifice. Unable to lose the one person I love, I take her place willingly. Protecting her the only way I can. My name is Cora Black and I'm barely twenty years old when I'm sacrificed to the monsters. If only they knew that I crave the same darkness that lives within their monstrous facades. If only the king knew I am just as much a monster as them. Shadows save me, Shadows guide me. Shadows fracture me.

Download or read book Broken Shadows written by A.J. Larrieu and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has a breaking point. Mina Tanner was once a converter, a human with telekinetic and telepathic abilities. After a vicious mental assault by an evil shadowmind stripped her of her powers, she was forced to flee her home to escape her attacker. Now, she's trying to start a new life in San Francisco, far away from any and all reminders of the gifts she grew up using. But her precariously balanced "normal" life topples as her apartment and her job fall victim to a new luxury development. Jackson Herring, an old family friend and powerful converter, offers Mina his spare bedroom while she gets on her feet, and she agrees…reluctantly. Mina's finding it difficult enough to adjust without a daily reminder of what she's lost, especially when that reminder is six-foot-four, super-talented and gorgeous. When a mugger attacks her and she somehow burns his hands, Mina realizes that despite everything she's lost, she may have gained something far more powerful—and dangerous—than she ever imagined. And when the rest of the shadowmind community learns about it, Mina will find herself on the run once again. Book three of The Shadowminds 93,000 words

Download or read book Fractured Shadows 2 written by Satinder K Vig and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Curse of Broken Shadows written by Laura Winter and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assassin, a powerful dagger, and a magic that shouldn't exist. Shadow magic is extinct. The Veil Worshippers who honor the shadow god's wall are hunted for their artifacts, including the Veil shards that break off the wall in Valisea. Brela vows to steal it all back. With the dagger of her people and a Veil shard embedded in her collarbone that has infected her with shadow-cursed magic, she is determined to keep her secrets or suffer a fate worse than death. That was a lot easier when the uptight and infuriatingly handsome Captain Cason Valkip wasn't hunting her. Cason has spent his entire life hiding--from the raids on Valisea, from his emotions, and from his multiple gods-blessed magics that everyone is afraid of... everyone except Brela. The chaotic, non-magic wielding assassin who drives him insane is also the only person who has never looked at his tainted magic without any ounce of fear. Which is why being forced to work with her to discover the source of the breaking wall sets his already uncontrollable fire magic ablaze. With tension growing in the remaining kingdoms and mythical beasts threatening her at every turn, Brela's secrets might not remain hidden for much longer. To survive, she will have to work with the one man who could burn her. Because if shadow hell is released, no one will be safe. For fans of Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series, Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone, and Shelby Mahurin's Serpent & Dove series. Dive into this epic, enemies to lovers fantasy with magic, found family, and knives. Lots and lots of knives.

Download or read book The Mirror Broken Wish written by Julie C. Dao and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Elva has a secret. She has visions and strange powers that she will do anything to hide. She knows the warnings about what happens to witches in their small village of Hanau. She's heard the terrible things people say about the Witch of the North Woods, and the malicious hunts that follow. But when Elva accidentally witnesses a devastating vision of the future, she decides she has to do everything she can to prevent it. Tapping into her powers for the first time, Elva discovers a magical mirror and its owner-none other than the Witch of the North Woods herself. As Elva learns more about her burgeoning magic, and the lines between hero and villain start to blur, she must find a way to right past wrongs before it's too late. The Mirror: Broken Wish marks the first book in an innovative four-book fairy-tale series written by Julie C. Dao, Dhonielle Clayton, Jennifer Cervantes, and L. L. McKinney, following one family over several generations, and the curse that plagues it.

Download or read book Shadow written by Kara Swanson and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Pan has crash-landed back on Neverland. But this is not the island he remembers. Desperate to rescue Claire and the fractured Lost Boys, Peter must unravel what truly tore his dreamland apart. But with each step, he is haunted by more of his own broken memories. Not even Pan himself is what he seems. Claire Kenton is chained to a pirate ship, watching the wreckage of Neverland rocked by tempests. When she finally finds her brother, Connor is every bit as shattered as the island. Claire may have pixie dust flowing in her veins--but the light of Neverland is flickering dangerously close to going out forever.

Download or read book Reborn written by C. C. Hunter and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter Shadow Falls: After Dark and meet a vampire named Della, who's about to discover what her own story is meant to be. . . . Della had the perfect life-the family, a boyfriend, and a bright future-until she was turned, and abandoned by everyone she loves. She takes refuge at Shadow Falls, a camp for teens with paranormal powers. It's where she and her best friends, Kylie and Miranda, heal their heartbreak with laughter, and where Della is training to be a paranormal investigator-and she refuses to be distracted. That means there's no time for romance with Steve, a gorgeous shapeshifter whose kisses melt her heart. When a new vampire named Chase shows up at camp, Della's world is thrown into even more chaos. Arrogant and annoyingly sexy, Chase is a mystery . . . and the only mystery Della likes is one she can solve. She can't solve Chase, at least not while she's dealing with ghostly hauntings, vampire gangs and a web of family secrets. Can she prove herself as an investigator and keep her life-and her heart-intact? From bestselling author C. C. Hunter comes Reborn, the first book in a new series set once more in the world of Shadow Falls.

Download or read book Pretty Little Wife written by Darby Kane and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darby Kane thrills with this twisty domestic suspense novel that asks one central question: shouldn't a dead husband stay dead? Lila Ridgefield lives in an idyllic college town, but not everything is what it seems. Lila isn’t what she seems. A student vanished months ago. Now, Lila’s husband, Aaron, is also missing. At first these cases are treated as horrible coincidences until it’s discovered the student is really the third of three unexplained disappearances over the last few years. The police are desperate to find the connection, if there even is one. Little do they know they might be stumbling over only part of the truth…. With the small town in an uproar, everyone is worried about the whereabouts of their beloved high school teacher. Everyone except Lila, his wife. She’s definitely confused about her missing husband but only because she was the last person to see his body, and now it’s gone.

Download or read book Fractured written by Karin Slaughter and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slaughter, one of the best crime novelists in America ("Washington Post"), brings back the characters from her "New York Times"-bestselling work "Triptych" for a shocking showdown of heart-stopping suspense.

Download or read book Fractured written by CE Guard and published by CE Guard. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some magic is worth killing for… Avery retrieved the book and saved Hunter but at a steep cost to her soul. She took a life and in doing so became the thing she set out to defeat; a killer. Caught in a battle with the darkness of her own mind, she begins to lose her grip with reality as guilt consumes her. With her alliances crumbling, the line between friend and foe begins to blur. Learning of Mira’s deception is all she needs to be convinced that she can’t trust anyone; especially those closest to her. As the deadline of the Blood Moon approaches, she’ll do anything to find a cure; even strike a forbidden deal with the Master of Death himself. It feels like her only option but the price for his help may be too high. She’ll be forced to make an impossible choice; break their deal and risk the wrath of a god, or surrender to the shadows forever. Warning: This book contains epic displays of magic, twists you’ll never see coming and a swoon worthy fated mates romance. Proceed with caution!

Download or read book Whispers of Shadow Flame written by L. Penelope and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mantle that separates the kingdoms of Elsira and Lagrimar is about to fall. And life will drastically change for both kingdoms. Born with a deadly magic she cannot control, Kyara is forced to become an assassin. Known as the Poison Flame in the kingdom of Lagrimar, she is notorious and lethal, but secretly seeks freedom from both her untamed power and the blood spell that commands her. She is tasked with capturing the legendary rebel called the Shadowfox, but everything changes when she learns her target’s true identity. Darvyn ol-Tahlyro may be the most powerful Earthsinger in generations, but guilt over those he couldn’t save tortures him daily. He isn’t sure he can trust the mysterious young woman who claims to need his help, but when he discovers Kyara can unlock the secrets of his past, he can’t stay away. Kyara and Darvyn grapple with betrayal, old promises, and older prophecies—all while trying to stop a war. And when a new threat emerges, they must beat the odds to save both kingdoms.

Download or read book Moon Tide written by Dawn Tripp and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lush and haunting first novel, Moon Tide follows the lives of three women in a small fishing town on the Massachusetts coast, from 1913 to the Great New England Hurricane of 1938. Through sensual and interwoven stories, Moon Tide explores the secret workings of the heart—the violence of desire and memory, the redemptive power of longing—matched against society’s rules of class and the unpredictable tempers of the natural world. At the center of the novel is Eve, who takes refuge in silence and art after the death of her mother. Eve can sense how the past nips at the heels of the living, and her ethereal beauty inspires a quiet passion in Jake, the son of a local stonemason. For Elizabeth, Eve’s wealthy, eccentric grandmother, one summer at Westport Point extends into a lifetime. She stays on in the town year-round, building a great library in her house for the cold New England winters, haunted by the Ireland of her youth and by one man’s doomed obsession with nature. And then there is Maggie, the exotic stranger with a peculiar clairvoyance. Maggie lives in the precarious space between the locals and the rich—a balance that is ultimately compromised by Wes, a ruthless rum-smuggler, whose desire for her triggers small cruelties and then a staggering act of violence. With lyrical prose, wisdom, and insight, Dawn Clifton Tripp maps the shifting tensions in a small town on the verge of change. Like the growing weight of a storm, the lives in Westport Point build in emotional momentum even as the Great Hur-ricane approaches, and the landscape of the earth comes to reflect the geography of the mind. A novel of love and loss, survival and revelation, Moon Tide is an extraordinary debut.

Download or read book A Phenomenology of Working Class Experience written by Simon J. Charlesworth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the personal effects of poverty, social deprivation and inequality using a phenomenological approach.

Download or read book The Creator s Map written by Emilio Calderón and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josâe Marâia, a young Spaniard studying at the Real Academia Espaänola in Rome during the Spanish Civil War, and his beloved Montse become involved with Junio, a pro-Nazi Italian prince, in a search for the map God used to create the Earth.

Download or read book Compelling as a Piper written by Kendra Moreno and published by Kendra Moreno. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the Enchanted Forest one last time… Five stories. Five adventures. New things will come to light in this final installment of the Keepers of Enchantment. COMPELLING AS A PIPER Fenwick knows he’s destined for greatness. Unfortunately for him, no one else seems to see it. He’ll show them. He’ll show them all. THE RULES OF BEING WOLVEN Vilkas will always follow the rules. . . THE GREAT ESCAPE Jill won't stay in Under, even if she has to fight her way out tooth and nail. . . ORIGINS: THE TENANTS; FOLLOWERS OF THE CRIMSON MERGE Every tenant has a story. Every follower has a question. ZAVEN'S FIRST WORDS If you like Sarah J Maas, Gena Showalter, J.R. Ward, Laura Thalassa, or Jennifer L. Armentrout, you won’t be able to put down this highly addictive twisted fairy tale. Reading Order: The Sons of Wonderland Mad as a Hatter Late as a Rabbit Feral as a Cat Cruel as a Queen The Daughters of Neverland Vicious as a Darling Fierce as a Tiger Lily Wicked as a Pixie Monstrous as a Croc The Heirs of Oz Heartless as a Tin Man Empty as a Scarecrow Cowardly as a Lion Vengeful as a Beauty The Lords of Grimm Cunning as a Trickster Bitter as a Captain Twisted as a Princess Hateful as a Sister The Keepers of Enchantment Charming as a Killer Ethereal as a Swan Tricky as a Thief Compelling as a Piper The Gods of Under Golden as a King