Download or read book The Deep Breath written by Dr. Anthony G. Johnson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Deep Breath is a science-fiction novel about the chronicles of Nicolas Cain/Khan Antonius, a human assassin who has been named the newest Khan, an immortal protector of all the free peoples within this quadrant of twenty-eight million light years. This is a story that centers on Cains past, his family, and his involvement in the future of humanity and all of its allies. Recently, his home planet has come under siege in the Milky Way, and it is up to him and his loyal deadly troops to raise Earth to its rightful place within the Terran Alliance, unify warring groups, and hold off the deadliest enemies in the known universe. The deadliest enemies of free will and liberty are on their way to the Milky Way Galaxy, and Earth is considered the greatest threat to their conquest of universal dominance. With enemies at their doorstep and coming from deep space, it will take all the courage, skill, and character to hold his beloved Terran Alliance together, while so many are trying to tear it apart.

Download or read book written by Darryl T. Mallard and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Misery loves company. 2. Two wrongs don't make a right. 3. The truth will set you free. At some time or another in our lives, either by our parents, teachers or religious leaders, we have all heard these sayings or something similar. A young married woman in Japan learns the hard way, that there can be serious consequences for ignoring these simple rules. Hell is not a place where wrong doers might go when they die, but what their lives will become by willingly making the wrong choices. In one moment of weakness, fueled by jealousy, Aya's happy home life is destroyed forever and sets in motion events that will affect everyone in her life for decades!

Download or read book The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria Vol 4 light novel written by Eiji Mikage and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are you truly wishing for?Kazuki Hoshino is still trapped in the cruel game of Kingdom Royale, where players have to fulfill the victory conditions of the roles they are assigned-which nearly always means killing the others. But this time, he has a plan to take charge and break everyone out once and for all. Unfortunately, the key to his success is Daiya, the trickiest one of the group. Before Kazuki can end the game, he must discover the truth behind it...

Download or read book Femininity Self harm and Eating Disorders in Japan written by Gitte Marianne Hansen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1980s onwards, the incidence of eating disorders and self-harm has increased among Japanese women, who report receiving mixed messages about how to be women. Mirroring this, women’s self-directed violence has increasingly been thematised in diverse Japanese narrative and visual culture. This book examines the relationship between normative femininity and women’s self-directed violence in contemporary Japanese culture. To theoretically define the complexities that constitute normativity, the book develops the concept of ‘contradictive femininity’ and shows how in Japanese culture, women’s paradoxical roles are thematised through three character construction techniques, broadly derived from the doppelgänger motif. It then demonstrates how eating disorders and self-harm are included in normative femininity and suggests that such self-directed violence can be interpreted as coping strategies to overcome feelings of fragmentation related to contradictive femininity. Looking at novels, artwork, manga, anime, TV dramas and news stories, the book analyses both globally well known Japanese culture such as Murakami Haruki’s literary works and Miyazaki Hayao’s animation, as well as culture unavailable to non-Japanese readers. The aim of juxtaposing such diverse narrative and visual culture is to map common storylines and thematisation techniques about normative femininity, self-harm and eating disorders. Furthermore, it shows how women’s private struggles with their own bodies have become public discourse available for consumption as entertainment and lifestyle products. Highly interdisciplinary, it will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Japanese studies, Japanese culture and society and gender and women's studies, as well as to academics and consumers of Japanese literature, manga and animation.

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Download or read book The Sweetest Thing You Can Sing written by C.K. Kelly Martin and published by DCB. This book was released on 2014 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Losing weight over the summer gains Serena some popularity, but it also means discovering first-hand the pains of being a fifteen-year-old girl in a world that both sexualizes and shames young women. After narrowly avoiding exploitation in a short-lived relationship, Serena aligns with a new friend who was the victim of an explicit image that was shared at school. When Serena finds herself in a relationship with a new guy, she is surprised to find a different set of expectations. But have her previous experiences damaged her too much to make it work? As Serena struggles to find who she is as opposed to who she is expected to be, she begins sighting Devin — her older brother who disappeared months earlier.

Download or read book The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria Vol 1 light novel written by Eiji Mikage and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kazuki Hoshino treasures nothing more than his ordinary life, and March 2 should have been an ordinary day. The arrival of a transfer student, the mysterious Aya Otonashi, shouldn't have shattered the world he knows. He's never seen this girl before in his life, but she says she's met him thousands of times--and declares war on him for a crime he can't even remember... As the truth begins to unravel, nothing is as it seems, and at the heart of it all is a wish powerful enough to change everything...

Download or read book House of Sand written by Rojana Krait and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From WLW author Rojana Krait comes a sapphic vampire tale that blazes through the boundaries between physical and emotional bondage, love and pain, given and found family, and the myriad complicated relationships that women form with one another. House of Sand features an ice queen on the brink of shattering, a topsy-turvy take on the grumpy sunshine trope, and a slow-burn, masc x femme love story with an ending that's both heartbreaking and HEA. I broke the chains that bound me at birth but I’ll never escape from the shackles of love and duty, irons that get heavier with each passing year, threatening to pull me down into an abyss of madness and pain. I don’t think I can bear the weight of yet another lost soul but when my soulmate is thrust into my world broken and afraid, I get a brief taste of the only magic that can save me from drowning in the murky waters of the womb. This spiraling angel is searching for her savior, but how can I be the hero she needs when I’m slowly being poisoned by my own blood? About the series DELIRIUM NOCTURNUM is a collection of 4 standalone volumes about a coven of contemporary lesbian vampires sworn to protect and avenge the innocent. Each volume contains 4 novellas that tell the tale of one sapphic vampire and the woman who makes her want to break her vows. These books contain adult content and graphic violence, please see the authors website for the VERY MANY trigger warnings for each volume.

Download or read book The Stars Askew written by Rjurik Davidson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stars Askew is the highly anticipated sequel to the New Weird adventure begun by talented young author Rjurik Davidson. With the seditionists in power, Caeli-Amur has begun a new age. Or has it? The escaped House officials no longer send food, and the city is starving. When the moderate leader Aceline is murdered, the trail leads Kata to a mysterious book that explains how to control the fabled Prism of Alerion. But when the last person to possess the book is found dead, it becomes clear that a conspiracy is afoot. At its center is former House Officiate Armand, who has hidden the Prism. Armand is vying for control of the Directorate, the highest political position in the city, until Armand is betrayed and sent to a prison camp to mine deadly bloodstone. Meanwhile, Maximilian is sharing his mind with another being: the joker-god Aya. Aya leads Max to the realm of the Elo-Talern to seek a power source to remove Aya from Max's brain. But when Max and Aya return, they find the vigilants destroying the last remnants of House power. It seems the seditionists' hopes for a new age of peace and prosperity in Caeli-Amur have come to naught, and every attempt to improve the situation makes it worse. The question now is not just whether Kata, Max, and Armand can do anything to stop the bloody battle in the city, but if they can escape with their lives. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Entanglements written by Sheila Williams and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the intersection of Soonish and Netflix's Black Mirror, award-winning science fiction authors from around the world offer original tales of relationships in a future world of evolving technology. In a future world dominated by the technological, people will still be entangled in relationships--in romances, friendships, and families. This volume in the Twelve Tomorrows series considers the effects that scientific and technological discoveries will have on the emotional bonds that hold us together. The strange new worlds in these stories feature AI family therapy, floating fungitecture, and a futuristic love potion. Contributions include Xia Jia's novelette set in a Buddhist monastery, translated by the Hugo Award-winning writer Ken Liu; and a story by Nancy Kress, winner of six Hugos and two Nebulas.

Download or read book Book of Earth written by Robin Brande and published by Ryer Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destiny demands a price. In a brutal kingdom run by tyrants, murderers, and thugs, it’s the brutality of her home life that finally makes young Bradamante say enough. With one rash act, she takes away one of her mother’s favorite weapons against her. And with it, unlocks a vision of a future for herself. A future as a warrior. As a bold young woman with power and skills beyond any Bradamante could have imagined. And she meets her teacher, a mystical warrior named Manat, who speaks of destiny and sacrifice … and hope for a better future. Not only for Bradamante, but for the entire kingdom. But Bradamante is about to learn that destiny demands a price—including giving up the ones that she loves. Will she follow the path she seems born to, or will she choose one of her own?

Download or read book Forever Yours written by Marci Bolden and published by Pink Sand Press. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you give your ex a second chance? Four years after having her heart shattered, Meg Tanaka is finally over her good-for-nothing ex. By focusing on her career and helping her loved ones navigate their lives, Meg has recovered from—or at least buried—the hurt Aiden caused. Unfortunately, her old resentment rushes to the surface the moment she finds out he’s back in town. Aiden Howard has made a lot of mistakes in his life, but never one as bad as choosing his medical career over the love of his life. Still unable to get over losing Meg, he’s come home with one mission: earning her forgiveness. Despite Aiden’s attempts to make amends for the past, Meg is determined not to give him another chance to break her heart. But how can she resist the one man she believes is her forever love? Forever Yours is a standalone within the overarching six book Stonehill Series from your new favorite author Marci Bolden. If bearing your heart to your ex who broke it previously while breaking down respective barriers sounds like your idea of a good time . . . this book is for you! Guaranteed HEA & No Cheating.

Download or read book House of Glass written by Rojana Krait and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From WLW author Rojana Krait comes a sapphic vampire tale bleeding with desire and obsession, ecstasy and agony, a dangerous thirst for vengeance, and a forbidden, slow-burn, femme x femme love story with a shocking conclusion. I slay the beasts that stalk this city of decay, but don't be fooled. None of them are as monstrous as me. One hundred years of blood stains my tongue and the only two things that keep me going are my vows to my sisters and my dark angel, my Aya. I'll do anything to protect her from her demons, but who is going to protect her from me? About the series DELIRIUM NOCTURNUM is a collection of 4 standalone volumes about a coven of contemporary lesbian vampires sworn to protect and avenge the innocent. Each volume contains 4 novellas that tell the tale of one sapphic vampire and the woman who makes her want to break her vows. These books contain adult content and graphic violence, please see the authors website for the VERY MANY trigger warnings for each volume.

Download or read book Willing Sacrifice written by Gloria Oliver and published by Zumaya Publications LLC. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in isolation, La'tiera has been coddled and secluded, her mission too important to risk anything happening to her. The Herald--a harbinger comet--has appeared in the sky, telling all the Time of Trial is near. She is ready to do as her duty requires, though the very world she will die to preserve is one she will never see. Dal has led a free life, serving the Order established centuries ago to find and instruct the Bearer in how to perform the Trial established by the covenant made between the Four Gods and the Demons who seek to take over his world. Yet as the latest Trial approaches, there has been no news of the Bearer. The Order is worried… A lively child draws these two together. La'tiera is elated at seeing a person or two from the outside, even as she worries her selfish desire for companionship might put all in jeopardy. Suspicion then arises on both sides, as what she has been taught and what Dal knows to be true are widely different. La'tiera knows the truth--she is the sacrifice that will save the world, no matter who says it should be otherwise. Her task has always been clear. She will not be swayed from her course. But Dal knows her death will open their world to the savage Demons--the exact opposite of what she has been told. He must find a way to get her to accept this before it is too late. But can he? Her very dedication and stubbornness might just doom their world to destruction. Let the battle of wills begin.

Download or read book Ever Since written by Dorothy Callahan and published by Somerwynd Services. This book was released on 2017-01-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gorgeous. Scottish. A musician—but not in the traditional sense. No, Matteu MacKenzie is one of the best bagpipe players around—a Master Piper. And Cora had given her heart to him, only to have him break it by choosing his music over her. But a secret they share is tearing them apart, and unless Cora is willing to acknowledge what happened, Matty feels their love can never be redeemed. And by midnight on New Year’s Eve, their chances will expire. EVER SINCE they met as teens, they clicked. Completely. EVER SINCE they started dating, they knew they belonged together. EVER SINCE the car accident that ended innocent lives, Cora has been on her own—abandoned, bereft, betrayed by the only man she’d ever loved. EVER SINCE the day Matty’s distracted driving almost cost Cora her life, he’s been unable to cope with how deeply he failed her. They have not been the same EVER SINCE.

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Download or read book Obasan written by Joy Kogawa and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the American Book Award Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.