Download or read book The Illustrated American written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stabman written by Mark Sewell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-12-29 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city reels under a wave of violent crimewhat would you do? If youre like Stabman, you would stand up and oppose it. And if youre really like Stabman, you would probably go about it all wrong, especially at first. Armed with nothing more than mental imbalance and an unquenchable thirst for Justice, Stabman is a one-man wrecking ball aimed at the dark heart of criminal scum across the land. Understanding and rehabilitation are not words in his vocabulary, but ultra-violence most certainly is. Dark, violent, and surprisingly funny in places, this is a journey into the mind of someone psychotic enough to take the fight to scum on their own terms, only at a level they cannot comprehend. Join Stabmanif you dareas he bungles and murders his way to full hero status. This isnt your typical superhero storynot recommended for timid readers.

Download or read book Forged by Angel Hellfire written by Inka York and published by Inklore Books. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cruel bishop. An ancient weapon. An ultimatum. My mind is unravelling in the Bishop’s secluded mansion, where the mysterious General Scarth reveals a passion for torture. It’s only a matter of time before I give in to the Bishop’s demands, but how much am I prepared to sacrifice along the way? And why is Albert stalling our escape? When the full moon rises, the grounds once used by the Mouldering Duke for his infamous werewolf hunts loom before me in a vicious game of survival. And the howling begins… *** Forged by Angel & Hellfire is book 4 of Not the Same River, which follows Violet as she goes from gobby orphan to gobby warrior in this complete six-book series. This book features a blood club owning succubus, a legendary vaewolf, and an archangel who definitely wasn't at the nativity.

Download or read book Experimental Selves written by Christopher Braider and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, Experimental Selves argues that 'person, ' as early moderns understood this concept, was an 'experimental' phenomenon--at once a given of experience and the self-conscious arena of that experience. Person so conceived was discovered to be a four-dimensional creature: a composite of mind or 'inner' personality; of the body and outward appearance; of social relationship; and of time. Through a series of case studies keyed to a wide variety of social and cultural contexts, including theatre, the early novel, the art of portraiture, pictorial experiments in vision and perception, theory of knowledge, and the new experimental science of the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the book examines the manifold shapes person assumed as an expression of the social, natural, and aesthetic 'experiments' or experiences to which it found itself subjected as a function of the mere contingent fact of just having them.

Download or read book This Nearly Was Mine written by Nancy Farkas and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1980, Annie, fresh out of graduate school, escapes a doomed engagement by fleeing to the Costa del Sol in Spain. The young traveler is seduced by the striking landscape and the shimmering sea, but not as profoundly as she was by Francisco, a local musician with a complicated past and a troubled soul. Her adventures propel her into adulthood and a life teased with what might have been. Twenty-six years later, Annie's teenage daughter Marielle, curious about her mother's stories, searches for Francisco while on a backpacking trip through Spain. When Marielle's search is successful, Annie's thoughts return to her romantic past amidst the magnificent backdrop of the steamy Mediterranean coast. Francisco's unexpected reappearance ignites powerful feelings she didn't know were still simmering. Annie obsessively questions every decision she made that summer and wonders about a life that could have been hers had she stayed. She is torn between her love and devotion to her husband and the intercontinental pull to the life she has fantasized about for decades. Will she sacrifice the life she's built with her husband for one that nearly was hers so many years ago?

Download or read book Many Drops Make a Stream written by Adrian Harley and published by Duck Prints Press LLC. This book was released on 2024-01-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memory-stealing cult. The ever-watchful City of Eyes. Making small talk. Join Droplet as she faces all these horrors and more… Vigilante shapeshifter Droplet has trained her entire life to take down those with more power than scruples, but she still makes mistakes. When a rescue mission goes wrong, a memory-stealing cult of blood mages escapes with kidnapped captives in tow. To save them, Droplet reluctantly teams up with the outgoing, tenacious Azera. Droplet knows better than to trust a human—she made that mistake once, and that person’s betrayal scattered her community across the known world—and she can tell Azera is hiding secrets behind her sunny smile. But if they can’t learn to work together, even Droplet’s own memories could be lost.

Download or read book The Actualization of Self Transcendence written by Patrick Mooney and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sadly, western civilization has seemingly lost its sense of Christian identity and heritage. In recent decades, humanity has become so indoctrinated by the atheistic paradigm that our matrix is controlled by corporate greed and competition rather than cooperation and compassion. While reflecting on a world that is ever changing, Patrick Mooney shares essays that explore the effect of atheism on a variety of topics that include sexuality, the most binary aspect of humanity that is love, the courage of conviction, endowments and the elite as it relates to education, the reality of death, an inner-city Dublin schoolmistress, and much more. Throughout his writings, Mooney reminds us that although the modern world has brought us to a moral impasse, it is possible to adopt the spirituality that Christ preached, embrace our destiny to be spiritual, and refine our higher selves to search for and find meaning and divine purpose in our lives. The Actualization of Self-Transcendence is a collection of personal essays that shares a priest’s candid reflections on the effects of the atheistic paradigm on the modern world.

Download or read book Wicked Obsession written by Kathy Ivan and published by Kathy Ivan. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an old danger surfaces, everything in Sheri Vernon’s life turns upside down. She doesn’t know who she can trust—except former fiancé, Nate Blackwell, the man whose heart she broke when she walked away. A key member of Carpenter Security’s elite team, Nate Blackwell loves his new home in New Orleans, but his ex is the last person he expects to find on his doorstep needing help. Seeing her again stirs up feelings he thought long buried, but he can’t turn his back on her. Embers of passion reignite and fuel the flames of obsession in a madman. Can Nate keep the woman he still loves safe, or lose her forever to another’s twisted desires?

Download or read book A Less Familiar Plato written by Kevin Corrigan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Kevin Corrigan sheds light on aspects of Plato's thought that are less familiar to contemporary readers. He reveals a Plato who believes in Forms but is not essentialist, who develops a scientific view of perception in the middle and late dialogues, and who offers positive models of art and science. Corrigan shows how Plato articulates a broader view of intelligible reality in which embodiment is affirmative and the mind-soul-body continuum has an eidetic structure, and where even failure and the imperfect are included. He also demonstrates that Plato developed an ideal, yet finely layered view of love that provided a practical guide throughout antiquity; and that the dialogues and unwritten teachings can be understood in a mutually open-ended, non-antagonistic way. Corrigan's book provides a guide to Plato in an unexpected key and poses important questions regarding imagination, divine inspiration, and Forms and the Good, among other topics.

Download or read book A Murderous Affair written by Stacey Whatling and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in London, Norfolk’s Blakeney, and Suffolk’s Southwold, Orford and Aldeburgh, A Murderous Affair? is a scandalous, thrilling, and humorous tale written from a mistress’s perspective which recounts her relationship, the changes in social and sexual habits around her and so much more. The protagonist describes her relationship with the man she has fallen in love with, who cheats on her as well as his Tory MP wife, over twenty years in the eighties into the noughties. The mistress offers ridiculous, funny, painful anecdotes and vignettes as she recounts the start of their relationship and how it blossomed even as she was being betrayed. Along the way, she muses on the loneliness of being a mistress, what it is like to be the third person in a marriage and in turn what it feels like to be cheated on, as well as aging and other musings about life in general. As the years push her to the edge, does she casually and unwittingly take what she might think is her revenge, only to discover her lover or even his wife has been one step ahead of her…?

Download or read book Gilded Deceit written by Tracy Grant and published by NYLA. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Malcolm & Suzanne Rannoch Historical Mystery 13 The secrets of Suzanne Rannoch’s scandalous past have forced Suzanne and her husband Malcolm— also a spy — to flee London's intrigues and ballrooms. Suzanne fears they will go mad from boredom in their gilded refuge on Lake Como. But before they even reach the villa, they are attacked by bandits who think the Rannochs possess a mysterious treasure. Are their past deeds catching up with them or were they mistaken for someone else? As they settle in at the lake, they encounter Italian revolutionaries, gun smugglers, an English nobleman living in self-imposed exile with a beautiful contessa, and Lord Byron and Percy and Mary Shelley, who have their own reasons for fleeing Britain. The exquisite beauty of the villas and gardens holds layers of deceit, tied to the very enemies the Rannochs sought to escape. When a golden afternoon on the lake turns crimson with murder, Malcolm and Suzanne realize that boredom is the least of their concerns...but they may have to fear for their lives and the lives of those closest to them... "Shimmers like the finest salons in Vienna." —Deborah Crombie "Meticulous, delightful, and full of surprises." —Tasha Alexander "Glittering balls, deadly intrigue, sexual scandals. . .the next best thing to actually being there!"— Lauren Willig "A superb storyteller."— Deanna Raybourn

Download or read book Elizabethan Renaissance written by Peter G. Bailey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking to turn the clock back several centuries, a dedicated group of intellectuals and servicemen set out to restore English royal prerogatives and regain lost colonies and dominions by taking advantage of political unrest in a number of countries. Through intrigue, guile, patronage, flattery and inducements they achieve some of their aims, but emotional problems frustrates others and personal ambitions intrude fatally. The tense action is gripping, unpredictable and exciting. Women readers will love the high emotion involvement as much as the men strive to keep up with the plots twist and turns. Definitely a him and her narrative with lots to discuss and fight over: better buy two books or get the spare room ready.

Download or read book Myth Magic and Farce written by Sterling Houston and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These plays represent Sterling Houston's themes and styles. High Yellow Rose deflates the Alamo myth by casting the heroes as women. Isis in Nubia sets the Isis/Osiris myth in West Africa. Black Lily and White Lily is a domestic drama exploring racial tensions. Miranda Rites enacts Martha Mitchell's last days in hospital.

Download or read book Beyond Companionship written by Diana R. Garland and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-01-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Beyond Companionship - Christians In Marriage', Diana and David Garland examine some of the prevailing ideas about marriage that are held by many church leaders, social scientists, counselors, and therapists. Among the myths they dispel: There is a pattern for Christian married life applicable in all times and places. Couples can have a good marriage if they work at it hard enough. Marriage is the most important relationship in life. In an ideal marriage the partners talk continuously about their relationship. Beyond discussion of the marriage myths, the authors look at current biblical interpretations of marriage, being married in America, a good marriage and the need for a sense of task, the role of anger and conflict, sexuality, and, finally, the unresolved differences that can lead to divorce. Diana and David Garland bring to this book special insights from their respective fields - social work and biblical studies - and the experience gained from being married to each other.

Download or read book HER DAUGHTER S FATHER written by Anna Adams and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She didn't know how wrong the right decision could be Her Daughter's Mother: India Stuart wants to know her child, but she gave up that right fifteen years ago. Still, she feels compelled to make sure her daughter's safe and happy with her adoptive parents. Her Daughter's Father: India has a simple plan—sneak into town and observe her daughter from a distance. But things don't work out that way. Before she knows it, she's involved in her daughter's life…and falling in love with her daughter's widowed father. Her Daughter: India's daughter, Colleen, has a plan, too. Get her father and India together. India can almost believe that Colleen's play will work. But deep down she knows it can't. Because once the truth is out, no one will forgive her for lying.

Download or read book Dare to Live Passionately written by Joe D. Batten and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-05-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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