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Book In the Shadow of the Past

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  • Author : J. E. Leak
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-07
  • ISBN : 9781955294010
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book In the Shadow of the Past written by J. E. Leak and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In wartime New York City, budding reporter Jenny Ryan is chasing the biggest story of her life. Everyone said the death of her beloved research scientist father was an accident, but she knows it was her fault. When an anonymous phone call puts the blame on wealthy industrialist Marcus Forrester, Jenny doesn't hesitate to act. Armed with absolution and a tenacious drive for justice, she will stop at nothing to bring him down. She didn't count on falling for the key to her plan ? Forrester's mistress. On the surface, Kathryn Hammond has it all: a successful nightclub singing career, elegant grace, and stunning good looks that draw all eyes to her when she enters a room. No one can see her tragic past, or the demons she battles daily as she toils stateside, carrying out what she considers dead-end missions for the OSS while the real war rages in Europe. She knows nothing short of her death in service to the greater good will redeem her for the lives lost on a mission gone bad. All that changes when Jenny Ryan becomes her latest dead-end mission and awakens long dormant concepts like hope, redemption, and the worst thing that could happen to an agent toward their subject: desire. These two women, on very disparate paths, are caught in a reluctant, slow burn that will save them, but at what cost, and are they willing to pay the price?

Book A Past Without Shadow

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  • Author : Zohar Shavit
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2005-02-22
  • ISBN : 1135880697
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book A Past Without Shadow written by Zohar Shavit and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-02-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this controversial study of postwar German's children's books, Zohar Shavit reveals a troubling perspective on the German understanding of the Holocaust.

Book Short History of the Shadow

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  • Author : Victor I. Stoichita
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 1997-08
  • ISBN : 9781861890009
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Short History of the Shadow written by Victor I. Stoichita and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1997-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the depiction and meaning of shadows in the history of Western art

Book A Shadow from the Past

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  • Author : B. Weston Rook
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2001-06-06
  • ISBN : 1469121522
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book A Shadow from the Past written by B. Weston Rook and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-06-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WWW.BWESTONROOK.COM Randy Curtis was a shy backward kid who grew up in the sleepy town of Edgewater. Naturally, the girl who he loved, Lori, didnt feel the same way about him. And of course, he was always the target of schoolyard bullies, particularly Brad Bedford. On the night of graduation, he finally and dramatically taught his tormentors a lesson and revealed his feelings for Lori, and then disappeared with no intentions of ever returning. But years later, when his mothers death is clouded in suspicion, he returns to Edgewater only to find that he not only has to face his past, but also deal with a complex set of new enemies and obstacles. A Shadow From the Past is an earnest novel, deeply felt and worked out with a good deal of honesty and force. Randy Curtis, returning to Edgewater after a mysterious 10-year absence for his mothers funeral is able at last to set his life to rights, reconcile and find true love with Lori, the girl who had abandoned him (and who he in turn had abandoned), and bring to justice the four teenagers who terrorized his helpless mother. But in the process Randy is forced to become something dark, something secret, something that he fears will ultimately be his own demise.

Book Spam

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  • Author : Finn Brunton
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2015-01-30
  • ISBN : 026252757X
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book Spam written by Finn Brunton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What spam is, how it works, and how it has shaped online communities and the Internet itself. The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, and pleas to send cash overseas. Most of it is caught by filters before ever reaching an in-box. Where does it come from? As Finn Brunton explains in Spam, it is produced and shaped by many different populations around the world: programmers, con artists, bots and their botmasters, pharmaceutical merchants, marketers, identity thieves, crooked bankers and their victims, cops, lawyers, network security professionals, vigilantes, and hackers. Every time we go online, we participate in the system of spam, with choices, refusals, and purchases the consequences of which we may not understand. This is a book about what spam is, how it works, and what it means. Brunton provides a cultural history that stretches from pranks on early computer networks to the construction of a global criminal infrastructure. The history of spam, Brunton shows us, is a shadow history of the Internet itself, with spam emerging as the mirror image of the online communities it targets. Brunton traces spam through three epochs: the 1970s to 1995, and the early, noncommercial computer networks that became the Internet; 1995 to 2003, with the dot-com boom, the rise of spam's entrepreneurs, and the first efforts at regulating spam; and 2003 to the present, with the war of algorithms—spam versus anti-spam. Spam shows us how technologies, from email to search engines, are transformed by unintended consequences and adaptations, and how online communities develop and invent governance for themselves.

Book History s Shadow

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  • Author : Steven Conn
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2008-09-15
  • ISBN : 0226115119
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book History s Shadow written by Steven Conn and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were the Native Americans? Where did they come from and how long ago? Did they have a history, and would they have a future? Questions such as these dominated intellectual life in the United States during the nineteenth century. And for many Americans, such questions about the original inhabitants of their homeland inspired a flurry of historical investigation, scientific inquiry, and heated political debate. History's Shadow traces the struggle of Americans trying to understand the people who originally occupied the continent claimed as their own. Steven Conn considers how the question of the Indian compelled Americans to abandon older explanatory frameworks for sovereignty like the Bible and classical literature and instead develop new ones. Through their engagement with Native American language and culture, American intellectuals helped shape and define the emerging fields of archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, and art. But more important, the questions posed by the presence of the Indian in the United States forced Americans to confront the meaning of history itself, both that of Native Americans and their own: how it should be studied, what drove its processes, and where it might ultimately lead. The encounter with Native Americans, Conn argues, helped give rise to a distinctly American historical consciousness. A work of enormous scope and intellect, History's Shadow will speak to anyone interested in Native Americans and their profound influence on our cultural imagination. “History’s Shadow is an intelligent and comprehensive look at the place of Native Americans in Euro-American’s intellectual history. . . . Examining literature, painting, photography, ethnology, and anthropology, Conn mines the written record to discover how non-Native Americans thought about Indians.” —Joy S. Kasson, Los Angeles Times

Book Shadows of the Past

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  • Author : Carly Fall
  • Publisher : Carly Fall-Fantasy & Romance
  • Release : 2018-05-29
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book Shadows of the Past written by Carly Fall and published by Carly Fall-Fantasy & Romance. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attacked by a demon. Rescued by an Angel of Death. A reincarnated princess with no clue of her past. When an astrological event causes the universal seals to break, the sleepy town of Saint's Grove, Virginia, is overrun with paranormal entities. In the mayhem, bakery owner, Arabella "Bella" Franklin is attacked by a demon, and Jayden, an Angel of Death, comes to her rescue. Unlike Bella, who cannot recall her past life, Jayden has never forgotten the passion they shared centuries earlier. Their reunion will give him an opportunity to rekindle their bond, as well as regain his life as a human. But first, he must convince Bella of her former life and the love they once felt for one another. With only seven days until the universal seals repair, memories of Bella's past life begin to surface, as does the knowledge that if she can't kill the demon before the time is up, she-and possibly Jayden-may be forced to spend eternity in Hell.

Book History s Shadow

Download or read book History s Shadow written by David Maisel and published by Nazraeli Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of re-photographed x-rays of art objects from antiquity.

Book Things Half in Shadow

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  • Author : Alan Finn
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-12-30
  • ISBN : 1476761736
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Things Half in Shadow written by Alan Finn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postbellum America makes for a haunting backdrop in this historical and supernatural tale of moonlit cemeteries, masked balls, cunning mediums, and terrifying secrets waiting to be unearthed by an intrepid crime reporter. Edward Clark is a successful young crime reporter in comfortable circumstances with a lovely, well-connected fiancée. Then an assignment to write a series of exposés on the city’s mediums places all that in jeopardy. In the Philadelphia of 1869, photographs of Civil War dead adorn dim sitting rooms, and grieving families attempt to contact their lost loved ones. Edward’s investigation of the beautiful young medium Lucy Collins has unintended consequences, however. He uncovers her tricks, but realizes to his dismay that Lucy is more talented at blackmail than she is at a medium’s sleights of hand. And since Edward has a hidden past, he reluctantly agrees that they should collaborate in exposing only her rivals. The mysterious murder of noted medium Lenora Grimes Pastor as Lucy and Edward attend her séance results in a plum story for Edward—and a great deal more. The pair want to clear themselves from suspicion, but a search spanning the houses of the wealthy to the underside of nineteenth-century Philadelphia unearths a buzzing beehive of past murder, current danger, and supernatural occurrences that cannot be explained…

Book DwarrowDelve  Paths of Rock and Shadow

Download or read book DwarrowDelve Paths of Rock and Shadow written by Nicholas. P. Turner and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where Light threatens to corrupt and conquer, Taithe, a prisoner, possesses something invaluable: a formidable sword. This relic lures enemies from every corner – human, Effelin, and Dwarf alike – all desperate to claim its power and conceal their betrayals. But amidst this chaos, dark magic rises, vying to curb Light’s dominance. Rescued from the clutches of the malevolent Spite and on the brink of death, Taithe is transported to Dwarrowdelve, the fabled lost mine of Dwarvern legends. Here, alongside the fierce Effelin Caliphe and the legendary Tunnel-Hunters, The Styx, he confronts a multitude of foes, from vicious black wolves to lurking Orcs and other treacherous beings. But the most insidious threat of all is the Imp who shadows Taithe, hungry for the stolen treasure. In the depths of Dwarrowdelve, alliances will be tested, loyalties forged, and a choice must be made: to stand with the Light or embrace the Rock and Shadows. The balance of the world teeters on this decision, with Spite’s freedom – and the potential downfall of all – in the balance. The true enemy isn’t always as it seems; will they discern it in time?

Book The Soul  a Study of Past and Present Beliefs

Download or read book The Soul a Study of Past and Present Beliefs written by Lonna Dennis Arnett and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Shadow to Star Fire

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  • Author : Rohit Tandava
  • Publisher : Amazon
  • Release : 2024-02-11
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 70 pages

Download or read book From Shadow to Star Fire written by Rohit Tandava and published by Amazon. This book was released on 2024-02-11 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tara, a 12-year-old living in our modern world, is haunted by strange whispers from the past. Visions of an ancient darkness threaten to break through, and her secretive father Vikram is the only one who understands. Together, they embark on a thrilling adventure to unravel the secrets of their family's past and fight the shadows that threaten to engulf the world. As Tara delves deeper, she discovers a hidden legacy that connects her to a forgotten battle against evil. Ancient symbols, hidden archives, and forgotten legends become their weapons as they unlock the truth about their power and destiny. Their journey strengthens the bond between Tara and her father, who reveals his past battles with the darkness. Each step brings them closer to understanding the enemy's plan but also throws them into the face of fearsome creatures and chilling truths. With courage and resourcefulness, Tara and Vikram face a showdown that could decide the fate of their world. Will they be able to defeat the ancient darkness and protect the future? This story is perfect for young adults who love fantasy, mystery, and adventure. It explores themes of family legacy, confronting the past, and finding strength in unity. Join Tara on her journey and discover the truth about the Whispers of Shadow and how she becomes from Shadow to Star fire

Book In History s Shadow

Download or read book In History s Shadow written by John Connally and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1994-11-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful, acclaimed autobiography of a major political figure is now available in trade paperback. The late John Connally learned the ropes of rural Texas politics under Lyndon Johnson and worked his way up, getting wounded along the way allegedly by the same bullet that killed JFK. Connally's story is an essential contribution to our understanding of recent American history. Photographs.

Book In the Shadow of the Past

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  • Author : Miriam Lewin
  • Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 1984-01
  • ISBN : 9780231053037
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book In the Shadow of the Past written by Miriam Lewin and published by New York : Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1984-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Other People s Property

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  • Author : Jason Tanz
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2011-01-15
  • ISBN : 1608196534
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Other People s Property written by Jason Tanz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last quarter-century hip-hop has grown from an esoteric form of African-American expression to become the dominant form of American popular culture. Today, Snoop Dogg shills for Chrysler and white kids wear Fubu, the black-owned label whose name stands for "For Us, By Us." This is not the first time that black music has been appreciated, adopted, and adapted by white audiences-think jazz, blues, and rock-but Jason Tanz, a white boy who grew up in the suburban Northwest, says that hip-hop's journey through white America provides a unique window to examine the racial dissonance that has become a fact of our national life. In such culture-sharing Tanz sees white Americans struggling with their identity, and wrestling (often unsuccessfully) with the legacy of race. To support his anecdotally driven history of hip-hop's cross-over to white America, Tanz conducts dozens of interviews with fans, artists, producers, and promoters, including some of hip-hop's most legendary figures-such as Public Enemy's Chuck D; white rapper MC Serch; and former Yo! MTV Raps host Fab 5 Freddy. He travels across the country, visiting "nerdcore" rappers in Seattle, who rhyme about Star Wars conventions; a group of would-be gangstas in a suburb so insulated it's called "the bubble"; a break-dancing class at the upper-crusty New Canaan Tap Academy; and many more. Drawing on the author's personal experience as a white fan as well as his in-depth knowledge of hip-hop's history, Other People's Property provides a hard-edged, thought-provoking, and humorous snapshot of the particularly American intersection of race, commerce, culture, and identity.

Book Substance and Shadow

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  • Author : Stephen R. Kandall
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780674853614
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Substance and Shadow written by Stephen R. Kandall and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work uncovers the history of women and addiction in America and how dependent women have been treated. The author is critical of doctors who have often been quick to prescribe narcotics to female patients.

Book Navigating the Shadow World

Download or read book Navigating the Shadow World written by Liv Spencer and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration as well as a literary celebration of the fascinating young adult fantasy series, this companion guide takes readers deep into the rich universe of Cassandra Clare’s New York Times–bestselling Shadowhunter Chronicles franchise. With intelligent yet accessible dissections of each volume of both the Mortal Instruments series and the Infernal Devices series, Liv Spencer delivers the next best thing to a Shadowhunter’s codex with commentary on the books as well as their references to folklore, legends, and literature. The guide also recounts Cassandra Clare’s publishing story, from journalist and fan fiction writer to bestselling author; explores the cast and crew who brought the first book to life in the film The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, premiering in August 2013; and delves into the franchise’s fans, a passionate community that is anything but mundane. From the Clave to Chairman Meow and demon pox to dastardly ducks, Navigating the Shadow World is both an insightful introduction to the world of Cassandra Clare and a satisfying companion book for fans.