Download or read book Nothing Human Left written by Simon Ashe-Browne and published by Cargo Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathon stopped being funny months ago. Think he'll give up without a fight? That's not how he operates. Instead of ducking gracefully out of the limelight, this clown is scrabbling for centre stage.
Download or read book Nothing Left to Burn written by Jay Varner and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing Left to Burn is a remarkable memoir that looks into the life of a family that has spent years harboring secrets, both dark and volatile. It eloquently tells the story of a son’s relationship with his father, the fire chief and a local hero, and his grandfather, a serial arsonist. When Jay Varner, fresh out of college, returns home to work for the local newspaper, he knows that he will have to deal with the memories of a childhood haunted by a grandfather who was both menacing and comical and by a father who died too young and who never managed to be the father Jay so desperately needed him to be. In digging into the past, he uncovers layers of secrets, lies, and half-truths. It is only when he finally has the truth in hand that he comes to an understanding of the forces that drove his father, and of the fires that for all his efforts his father could never extinguish.
Download or read book Billie written by Anna Gavalda and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Parisians recount the story of their friendship while trapped in the Cévennes Mountains in this #1 international bestselling novel. When we meet Billie, she is trapped in a gorge in the Cévennes National Park of France. There with her, injured and delirious with pain, is her best friend Franck. The two have relied on each other since they met years ago in Paris. As darkness encroaches, Billie recounts stories from their lives to stave off panic. Alternating between recollections of their childhoods and their dire present predicament, what unfolds is a moving tale of friendship and resilience. A bright kid, Franck’s future was menaced at every turn by his judgmental father and the bigotry surrounding him. As for Billie, she was willing to do anything and everything to escape from her abusive and alcohol-addled family. From the moment they met, Billie and Franck watched out for each other. Soon they became each other’s chosen family through the best and worst moments of growing up in the City of Light. Translated into more than twenty-five languages, Billie is a beautifully crafted novel that conveys a positive message about overcoming life’s trials.
Download or read book God Human Animal Machine written by Meghan O'Gieblyn and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future." —Phillip Lopate “[A] truly fantastic book.”—Ezra Klein For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence—identity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itself—urgently require rethinking. Meghan O'Gieblyn tackles this challenge with philosophical rigor, intellectual reach, essayistic verve, refreshing originality, and an ironic sense of contradiction. She draws deeply and sometimes humorously from her own personal experience as a formerly religious believer still haunted by questions of faith, and she serves as the best possible guide to navigating the territory we are all entering.
Download or read book Nothing Human written by Nancy Kress and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told from the perspective of several generations of teenagers, this science fiction novel involves an Earth ravaged by mankind, high-tech manipulative aliens, and advanced genetics. Early in the 21st century, global warming has caused sickness and death among plants, animals, and humans. Suddenly aliens contact and genetically modify a group of 14-year-olds, inviting them to visit their spacecraft. After several months of living among the aliens and studying genetics, the students discover that the aliens have been manipulating them and rebel. Upon their return to Earth, the girls in the group discover that they are pregnant and can only wonder what form their unborn children will take. Generations later, the offspring of these children seek to use their alien knowledge to change their genetic code, to allow them to live and prosper in an environment that is quickly becoming uninhabitable from the dual scourges of global warming and biowarfare. But after all the generations of change, will the genetically modified creatures resemble their ancestors, or will nothing human remain?
Download or read book Twilight Of Humanity written by Shawn McCafferty and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fueled by the release of a deadly virus the dark children of the ancient fallen angels launch their assault upon mankind to subjugate and rule humanity. As dark forces and infected humans assault the cities of the earth a small group of humans must find each other and band together to discover the true nature of the virus and the forces behind it before all of humanity is dragged into darkness.
Download or read book Marienbad My Love With Mango Extracts written by Mark Leach (writer.) and published by Mark Leach. This book was released on 2011 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exiled on a deserted island, a Christ-haunted journalist-turned-filmmaker attempts to persuade a married women from his past to help him produce a skin care-themed pastiche to the 1960s French New Wave classic, "Last Year at Marienbad." Through this act of artistic creation, he expects to carry out the will of God by prophesizing the death of time and the birth of a new religion. If only he can make the woman remember him... "Marienbad My Love With Mango Extracts" is a 285,000-word reboot of "Marienbad My Love," the world's longest novel at 17 million words.
Download or read book FDR and the American Crisis written by Albert Marrin and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of president Franklin Delano Roosevelt for young adult readers, from National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin, is a must-have for anyone searching for President's Day reading. Brought up in a privileged family, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had every opportunity in front of him. As a young man, he found a path in politics and quickly began to move into the public eye. That ascent seemed impossible when he contracted polio and lost the use of his legs. But with a will of steel he fought the disease—and public perception of his disability—to become president of the United States of America. FDR used that same will to guide his country through a crippling depression and a horrendous world war. He understood Adolf Hitler, and what it would take to stop him, before almost any other world leader did. But to accomplish his greater goals, he made difficult choices that sometimes compromised the ideals of fairness and justice. FDR is one of America’s most intriguing presidents, lionized by some and villainized by others. National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin explores the life of a fascinating, complex man, who was ultimately one of the greatest leaders our country has known.
Download or read book Stone Cold written by Devon Monk and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest Broken Magic novel from national bestselling author Devon Monk. Marked by Life and Death magic, Shame Flynn and Terric Conley are "breakers"--those who can use magic to its full extent. Most of the time, they can barely stand each other, but they know they have to work together to defeat a common enemy--rogue magic user Eli Collins. Backed by the government, Eli is trying to use magic as a weapon by carving spells into the flesh of innocents and turning them into brainless walking bombs. To stop him, Shame and Terric will need to call on their magic, even as it threatens to consume them--because the price they must pay to wield Life and Death could change the very fate of the world...and magic itself.
Download or read book The Magistrates of Hell written by Barbara Hambly and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vampire hunting spy goes to China to investigate a new form of Undead lurking among Peking’s criminal underworld in this “lush and delicious read” (Publishers Weekly). China, 1912. James Asher, his brilliant wife Lydia, and the old occultist and vampire hunter Dr. Solomon Karlebach have journeyed to the new-born Republic of China to investigate the rumor that a mindless breed of Undead known as the Others have begun to multiply in the hills west of Peking. Even vampires fear the Others, but some factions of the criminal underworld plan to turn the powerful horde into an unstoppable weapon. Alongside his old vampire partner, Don Simon Ysidro, Asher embarks on a dangerous hunt. But meanwhile, somewhere in the city’s labyrinth, the Peking vampires—known as the Magistrates of Hell—are waiting with their own sinister agenda. “Balancing the excitement of dangerous chases through mines full of Undead with the intellectual satisfaction of solving a political mystery, this is a lush and delicious read.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Theological Interpretation of Culture in Post Communist Context written by Dr Ivana Noble and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years after the fall of Communism in Central and East Europe is an ocassion to reevaluate the cultural and theological contribution from that region to the secularization - post-secularization debate. Czech theologian Ivana Noble develops a Trinitarian theology through a close dialogue with literature, music and film, which formed not only alternatives to totalitarian ideologies, but also followed the loss and reappeareance of belief in God. Noble explains that, by listening to the artists, the churches and theologians can deal with questions about the nature of the world, memory and ultimate fulfilment in a more nuanced way. Then, as partakers in the search undertaken by their secular and post-secular contemporaries, theologians can penetrate a new depth of meaning, sending out shoots from the stump of Christian symbolism. Drawing on the rich cultures of Central and East Europe and both Western and Eastern theological traditions, this book presents a theological reading of contemporary culture which is important not just for post-Communist countries but for all who are engaged in the debate on the boundaries between theology, politics and arts.
Download or read book Stars Were Never Promised Paperback written by Susan Joyner-Stumpf and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, STARS WERE NEVER PROMISED, is a LANDMARK book because of the symbolic number 25 associated with this book. It's my 25th book; Dec 15th marked my 25th Wedding Anniversary. And I am releasing this book around Christmas Dec 25th. Is that all coincidence? I think NOT. This book is a Sign. This book is special. I hope you think so too. This is the PAPERBACK version. There is a HARDBACK Version available as well on Lulu.
Download or read book Dominion written by Matt Hilton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-04 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spec-Ops First Sergeant Ellis Kirby leads a JSOC unit into the Tora Ghar cave system seeking WMDs, but finds something much worse. Infected by an ancient power summoned by an evil cleric Kirby and his companions are whisked back to secret military laboratories in the US. The plague of creatures - known as rakes - that is subsequently unleashed threatens to wipe out the entire population of the United States and perhaps the world. Through a country rapidly overwhelmed by the ravenous creatures, Kirby must fight for his life if he's to take the fight back to the monsters and their master. Across the same devastated landscape travel Bree and Jill Adams, sisters at odds, who must face their past to survive the future, and three misfits collectively known as the Ruby gang. Each must endure their travails before they are thrown together with Kirby, in a race to the eastern seaboard where the final conflict between man and beast is about to play out in a battle encompassing modern warfare and ancient magic.
Download or read book Denial written by Jared Del Rosso and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this new book, Jared Del Rosso argues that to understand contemporary social problems we need to become aware of the strategies that people use to deny the existence of those very problems. Drawing on research in sociology, criminology, psychology, and communication studies, Del Rosso develops a new vocabulary for describing denial and its consequences. With examples from everyday observations, current events, and social scientific research, Del Rosso also reveals just how widespread and varied the uses of denial are. Some uses of denial can help people repair their interactions and relationships with others. But most uses of it allows problems to fester, unrecognized. We need, Del Rosso concludes, forms of acknowledgement to surface long-denied problems. But more than that, we need collective forms of action to remedy the harms that those problems and our denial of them have done"--
Download or read book Terror at 5280 written by Stephen Graham Jones and published by Denver Horror Collective. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A neighborhood won’t let its residents forget the past. One taste draws two lovers into a nightmarish addiction. A harsh winter forces strange creatures down from the mountains. At sea level, where it’s safe, things like this can’t happen. But when you’re sky high in Denver, Colorado, anything goes...including your sanity. Beware of Terror at 5280’, a horror fiction anthology featuring dark tales set in and around Denver and the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, penned exclusively by local authors. Edited by: Josh Schlossberg, Gary Robbe, Melinda Bezdek, Bobby Crew, Desi D, Lisa Mavroudis, Thomas C. Mavroudis, and Jeamus Wilkes. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface – Denver Horror Collective Foreword – John Palisano The Depths – Matthew Lyons Laffing Sal – Lindsay King-Miller This Was Always Going to Happen – Stephen Graham Jones Electric Stalker – Rebecca S.W. Bates Gaze with Undimmed Eyes and the World Drops Dead – Carina Bissett Grave Mistake – Joshua Viola & Carter Wilson There is Something Up There – Joy Yehle Scrape – Gary Robbe The Copper Door Karma Jar – Cindra Spencer Block 12 – Thomas C. Mavroudis A Place for Cady – Melinda Bezdek Taste – Henry Snider Chronic Cold – Josh Schlossberg The Dead Spot – Angela Sylvaine The Ghosts of Cheesman Park – Grace Horton Old Golden Road – Jay Seate If I Shall Wake – Desi D The Blue Lady – Sean Murphy Mountain Lovers – Bobby Crew Left Behind – P.L. McMillan Deep Veins – Travis Heermann That Time Maggie Ghosted Me – Jeamus Wilkes Last Words: Cannibal Kings and Queens – Larry Berry
Download or read book The Day is Now Far Spent written by Robert Cardinal Sarah and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Cardinal Sarah calls The Day Is Now Far Spent his most important book. He analyzes the spiritual, moral, and political collapse of the Western world and concludes that "the decadence of our time has all the faces of mortal peril." A cultural identity crisis, he writes, is at the root of the problems facing Western societies. "The West no longer knows who it is, because it no longer knows and does not want to know who made it, who established it, as it was and as it is. Many countries today ignore their own history. This self-suffocation naturally leads to a decadence that opens the path to new, barbaric civilizations." While making clear the gravity of the present situation, the cardinal demonstrates that it is possible to avoid the hell of a world without God, a world without hope. He calls for a renewal of devotion to Christ through prayer and the practice of virtue.
Download or read book The forgotten planet Mystique written by Alain Costea and published by Costea Alain. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthly year: 2833 Planet: Mystique, under the influence of the Solar Empire "... From the moment she set foot, she couldn't get enough. If she could, she would have embraced it all in a single hug. The endless fields of plants, their soft green stems rising up to 50-70 cm, leafless and ending in clusters of intensely luminous red-to-pink peonies, the low grass forming a dense carpet of the same dark green—all of it gave the impression that the flowers were actually floating above the ground. She walked among them, as if walking on water… each touch creating ripples through the sea of blossoms. Unaware, she had come very close to the weeping willow wall. She wasn't sure where the name came from, but somehow it seemed to fit these trees perfectly—up to 40 meters tall, with trunks in the same omnipresent shade of dark green that turned almost fluorescent lime green toward the middle, adorned with small pink streaks where countless thin branches originated. These branches fell toward the ground, creating an illusion of perpetual levitation. ..."
