Download or read book Shattered Dance written by Caitlin Brennan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gifted mage tackles threats to her family and to her empire in this conclusion of a dark romantic fantasy adventure trilogy. Once again the Aurelian Empire is in danger, and once again Valeria must risk more than her life to save it. With threats from without, including sorcerous attacks against the soon-to-be empress, and pressures from within—the need to continue the dynasty and Kerrec, the father of Valeria’s child, the first choice to do so—Valeria must overcome plots and perils as she struggles to find a place in this world she’s helped to heal. But her greatest foes have not been vanquished. And they won’t be forgotten or ignored. Nor will the restless roil of magic within Valeria herself. Soon the threat of Unmaking, a danger to all the empire, begins to arise in Valeria’s soul once more. It is subtle, it is powerful, and this time it might win out!
Download or read book Shattered Dance written by Caitlin Brennan and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once again the Aurelian Empire is in danger, and once again Valeria must risk more than her life to save it. With threats from without, including attacks against the soon–to–be empress, and pressures from within–the need to continue the dynasty–Valeria must overcome plots and perils as she struggles to find a place in this world she's helped to heal. But her greatest foes have not been vanquished. And they won't be forgotten or ignored. Nor will the restless roil of magic within Valeria herself. Soon the threat of Unmaking, a danger to all the empire, begins to arise in Valeria's soul once more. It is subtle, it is powerful, and this time it might win out! "Definitely a don't–put–this–down page–turner!"
Download or read book The Blue Jay s Dance written by Louise Erdrich and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novelist writes of her experiences during a 12 month period through pregnancy, new motherhood, and return to writing.
Download or read book Shattered Lives written by Sarah Ettritch and published by Norn Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torn apart at the end of Rymellan 1, Lesley and Mo haven’t seen each other for almost two years, but their love has endured. Are they Chosens, or will they be forced into relationships with other women? Tired of living lives on hold, they desperately want the Chosen Council to resolve the uncertainty that has hung over them since they first kissed. In Rymellan 2, the Chosen Council finally answers the question that has haunted Lesley and Mo for years, but the closure they desire eludes them when they’re thrust into a situation they never would have imagined. Rymellan 2 contains the following stories: Shattered Lives, Besieged, Closing Ranks, Shields Down, and Shattered Delusions. Keywords: lesbian fiction, lesbian science fiction, dystopia, totalitarianism, science fiction, soft science fiction, sociological science fiction
Download or read book A Time to Dance written by Padma Venkatraman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Padma Venkatraman’s inspiring story of a young girl’s struggle to regain her passion and find a new peace is told lyrically through verse that captures the beauty and mystery of India and the ancient bharatanatyam dance form. This is a stunning novel about spiritual awakening, the power of art, and above all, the courage and resilience of the human spirit. Veda, a classical dance prodigy in India, lives and breathes dance—so when an accident leaves her a below-knee amputee, her dreams are shattered. For a girl who’s grown used to receiving applause for her dance prowess and flexibility, adjusting to a prosthetic leg is painful and humbling. But Veda refuses to let her disability rob her of her dreams, and she starts all over again, taking beginner classes with the youngest dancers. Then Veda meets Govinda, a young man who approaches dance as a spiritual pursuit. As their relationship deepens, Veda reconnects with the world around her, and begins to discover who she is and what dance truly means to her.
Download or read book The Shattered Gourd written by Okediji and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shattered Gourd uses the lens of visual art to examine connections between the United States and the Yoruba region of western Nigeria. In Yoruba legend, the sacred Calabash of Being contained the Water of Life; when the gourd was shattered, its fragments were scattered over the ground, death invaded the world, and imperfection crept into human affairs. In more modern times, the shattered gourd has symbolized the warfare and enslavement that culminated in the black diasporas. The "re-membering" of the gourd is represented by the survival of people of African origin all over the Americas, and, in this volume, by their rediscovery of African art forms on the diaspora soil of the United States. Twentieth-century African American artists employing Yoruba images in their work have gone from protest art to the exploration and celebration of the self and the community. But because the social, economic, and political context of African art forms differs markedly from that of American culture, critical contradictions between form and meaning often appear in African American works that use African forms. In this book -- the first to treat Yoruba forms while transcending the conventional emphasis on them as folk art, focusing instead on the high art tradition -- Moyo Okediji uses nearly four dozen works to illustrate a broad thematic treatment combined with a detailed approach to individual African and African American artists. Incorporating works by such artists as Meta Warrick Fuller, Hale Woodruff, Aaron Douglas, Elizabeth Catlett, Ademola Olugebefola, Paul Keene, Jeff Donaldson, Howardena Pindell, Muneer Bahauddeen, Michelle Turner, Michael Harris, Winnie Owens-Hart, and John Biggers, the author invites the reader to envision what he describes as "the immense possibilities of the future, as the twenty-first century embraces the twentieth in a primal dance of the diasporas," a future that heralds the advent of the global as a distinct movement in art, beyond postmodernism.
Download or read book Dance When You re Broken Open written by Jalaal al-Dain Raumai and published by . This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trinity of the Hive The Complete series Books 1 3 written by Grayson Sinclair and published by Starlit Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 1689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When they took my life, I thought I had nothing left to lose. I was a fool. The Ouroboros Project was my last chance at salvation, but the new, virtual reality was just as bad as the world I’d left. Backroom deals with corrupt nobles, slavery, and murder were all swept under the rug in the pursuit of gold. Despite everything, I found mercenary life fulfilling, until my guild was attacked. Now, I've got unknown, extremely rich enemies on all sides, a mysterious woman with strange magic and compound eyes, and a guild to save. They brought their war to my home. It’s only fair I return the favor. The Trinity of the Hive is a complete collection of the a dark fantasy series by Grayson Sinclair, featuring a dystopian real world and a gritty, bleak and immersive VR world. Disclaimer: Not for the faint of heart or those with weak constitutions (roll a saving throw). Doesn't contain a harem.
Download or read book Hive Knight written by Grayson Sinclair and published by Starlit Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When they took my life, I thought I had nothing left to lose. I was a fool. The Ouroboros Project was my last chance at salvation, but the new, virtual reality was just as bad as the world I’d left. Backroom deals with corrupt nobles, slavery, and murder were all swept under the rug in the pursuit of gold. Despite everything, I found mercenary life fulfilling, until my guild was attacked. Now, I've got unknown, extremely rich enemies on all sides, a mysterious woman with strange magic and compound eyes, and a guild to save. They brought their war to my home. It’s only fair I return the favor. Hive Knight is book 1 of the Trinity of the Hive series, the first in a dark fantasy series by Grayson Sinclair. Hive Knight features a dystopian real world and a gritty, bleak and immersive VR world. Disclaimer: Not for the faint of heart or those with weak constitutions (roll a saving throw). Doesn't contain a harem.
Download or read book Shattered Dreams and Scarred Pages written by Afreen Rahat and published by XinXii. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the depths of human emotion, revealing the echoes of one's heart and soul, and the courage to face pain and heal from wounds. The poems are not meant to be easy or comfortable, but to challenge and make readers think and feel. The verses explore bitter secrets, love ache, and yearning for an absent soul. These poetic tunes resonates with both wanderers and heavenly loves, providing an elixir darker than blood. The book explores life and death, love and conflict, and the beauty of a moonlit ballet, creating a brilliant light that reveals the intricacy of human emotion. It acknowledges the challenges and tribulations inherent in the human experience and speaks a solid truth: light will be revealed even in the deepest darkness.
Download or read book Reincarnation Of The Strongest Sword God 3 Anthology written by Lucky Old Cat and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on with total page 1321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting over once more, he has entered this ¡°living game¡± again in order to control his own fate. This time, he will not be controlled by others. Previously the Level 200 Sword King, he will rise to a higher peak in this life. Methods to earn money! Dungeon conquering strategies! Legendary Quests! Equipment drop locations! Undiscovered battle techniques! Even the secrets Beta Testers were unknowledgeable of, he knows of them all. Massive wars, life advancement, entering Godhood, sword reaching to the peak; a legend of a man becoming a Sword God has begun.
Download or read book Whispers from Eternity written by Paramhansa Yogananda and published by Crystal Clarity Publishers. This book was released on 2008-08-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many poetic works can inspire, but few, like this one, have the power to change your life. These verses rank with the greatest mystical poetry of all time: the works of St. John of the Cross, Rumi, Kabir, Mirabai, and Omar Khayyam. In this book Paramhansa Yogananda—the great master of yoga and author of the classic Autobiography of a Yogi—shares his exquisitely beautiful thoughts and words filled with longing for the divine. Yogananda was not only a spiritual master, but a master poet, whose poems revealed the hidden divine presence behind even everyday things. Each of these prayer-poems has been spiritualized by this great man of God. Open this book, pick a poem at random and read it. Mentally repeat whatever phrase appeals to you. Within a short time, you will see your consciousness transformed. This book has the power to rapidly accelerate your spiritual growth, and provides hundreds of delightful ways for you to begin your own conversation with God. This wonderful collection includes: Sacred demands to the Infinite Prayers of devotion Chants and poems Invocations to great world teachers How to see this world as a dream Prayer-demands for: Devotion, Illumination and Bliss Wisdom, Prosperity and Balance Health, Guidance and Discipline Calmness and Overcoming Fears Divine Love . . . and much more.
Download or read book A Broken Beauty written by Theodore L. Prescott and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Broken Beauty examines recent ideas about beauty and the human image in light of the Western Classical and Christian traditions of the human figure. The book's five essays trace the historical fusion of Classical and Christian ideas about beauty, as well as their rejection by much modern art, provocatively suggesting that the difficulties encountered by the beautiful in modernity may be related to a loss of faith." "This volume culminates in a look at fifteen postmodern North American artists whose haunting pieces unite brokenness and beauty in a way that is uncommon within contemporary art. These artists, like the book's essayists, find significance in beauty that is cultivated amidst the perennial human struggle for goodness, meaning, and dignity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Century Readings in the American Short Story written by Fred Lewis Pattee and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shattered Goddess written by Darrell Schweitzer and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1982-12-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy novel by the World Fantasy Award-winning editor and author. "Few writers can genuinely touch the quality of nightmare...the fear that formless and almost banal stems from the sleeping mind. John Bellairs did it with THE FACE IN THE FROST... James Blaylock can do it. And now there is also THE SHATTERED GODDESS." --Mary Gentle
Download or read book Last Features written by Reinhild Steingröver and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on archival research and interviews with directors, writers, and editors, Last Features is the story of forgotten films made during the time of German unification. Last Features is the story of forgotten films made during the time of German unification. With leftover GDR funds and under chaotic conditions, a group of young East German filmmakers produced around thirty stylistically diverse films. Most of these films were lost in the political upheaval of the Wende, disappearing until the 2009 Wendeflicks festival in Los Angeles brought them back for an international audience. Now available on DVD, these films provide unique insights into the generational struggle in the DEFA studio, East German youth culture in the 1970s, women directors at DEFA, the relationship between the artist and the state, and the protests of 1989. Last Features focuses in particular on the production group "DaDaeR," the creation of which in 1989 fulfilled a longstanding request by the last generation of DEFA directors for freer production conditions. Drawing onarchival research and interviews with the directors, writers, and editors of the films in question, each chapter examines specific films from the last year of DEFA, contextualizing the analysis of these "last features" with a comprehensive discussion of the directors' overall oeuvres, the historical changes in the studio and the country, and the lasting importance of these films today. Reinhild Steingröver is Associate Professor of German and Film Studies in the Department of Humanities at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.
Download or read book After the Avant garde written by Randall Halle and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filmmaking in Germany and Austria has changed dramatically with digitalization and the use of video and the Internet. Introducing the work of filmmakers, this volume offers an assessments of the intent and effect of their productions, and describes overall trends.
