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Book Siren s Silence

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  • Author : Richard Quan
  • Publisher : Q Vision Press & Multimedia
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780977740901
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Siren s Silence written by Richard Quan and published by Q Vision Press & Multimedia. This book was released on 2006 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City attorney Victor takes his Ukrainian-born former lover, Siren Myskina, for dead until he receives an unexpected phone call at work. Jolted by the voice from his past, Victor must unearth the true identity of the woman who had warned him to run when they made love for the first time. Siren's Silence portrays the tale of two young lovers whose relationship comes to an abrupt end shortly after their cross-country journey to Stillwater, Minnesota. Victor Frantiska - the handsome son of a four-star general - and Siren Myskina - a stunning mysterious green-eyed girl - are both freshmen at Duke when they first meet. Siren immediately captured Victor's heart. What strings their fate together is not Siren's beauty but her oddity of personality, a personality that spawns Victor's desperate attempts to root out the source of her elusiveness. This contemporary literary work, influenced by authors such as Thomas Wolfe and F. Scott Fitzgerald, weaves in lyrical elements to create a tapestry that narrates an intricate tale of love, lust, obsession and suspense that vividly reflects the reality of our time. It is for students, teachers, scholars, and avid readers of classic literary novels. The theme of this novel - love is war - serves as a reminder to all of us that love can bring peace, or it can bring terror, uncertainty, and unbearable pain.

Book Silence the Siren

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  • Author : Michele Israel Harper
  • Publisher : Love2readlove2write Publishing, LLC
  • Release : 2021-08-17
  • ISBN : 9781943788545
  • Pages : 494 pages

Download or read book Silence the Siren written by Michele Israel Harper and published by Love2readlove2write Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huntress Ro LeFèvre is hired to hunt the sirens who have been sinking the king of Angleterre's ships, and in turn, vast amounts of his wealth. All who have gone before her have failed. Fleeing heartbreak, Ro gladly accepts, but there's just one problem. The king will credit the Marquis de la Valère, and no other women are allowed on the voyage. Ro will just see about that. Hiring an all-female pirate crew without the king's knowledge, Ro hopes they will follow her to the Caribbean, not take the gold and flee. But when Ro is plunged deep into the ocean by the siren she's being paid to kill, presented the sirens' side of the story at knife point, and pressed to join them or die, Ro must decide whether to complete her mission, join the sirens, or something in between. Before the sirens sink the ship full of men above.

Book Sirens

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  • Author : Michael Bull
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2020-02-06
  • ISBN : 1501305026
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book Sirens written by Michael Bull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sirens are sounds that confront us in daily life, from the sounds of police cars and fire engines to, less often, tornado warnings. Ideologies of sirens embody the protective, the seductive and the dangerous elements of siren sounds – from the US Cold War public training exercises in the 1950s and 1960s to the seductive power of the sirens entrenched in popular culture: from Wagner to Dizzee Rascal, from Kafka to Kurt Vonnegut, from Hans Christian Andersen to Walt Disney. This book argues, using a wide array of theorists from Adorno to Bloch and Kittler, that we should understand 'siren sounds' in terms of their myth and materiality, and that sirens represent a sonic confluence of power, gender and destructiveness embedded in core Western ideologies to the present day. Bull poses the question of whether we can rely on sirens, both in their mythic meanings and in their material meanings in contemporary culture.

Book The Silence of the Sirens

Download or read book The Silence of the Sirens written by Adelaida García Morales and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1988 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Siren

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  • Author : Kiera Cass
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2016-01-26
  • ISBN : 0062392018
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book The Siren written by Kiera Cass and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestseller A sweeping stand-alone fantasy romance from Kiera Cass, author of the bestselling, beloved Selection series. Kahlen is a Siren—bound to serve the Ocean by luring humans to their watery graves with her voice, which is deadly to any human who hears it. Akinli is human—a kind, handsome boy who’s everything Kahlen ever dreamed of. Falling in love puts them both in danger… but will Kahlen risk everything to follow her heart? This star-crossed YA romance is sure to captivate readers who grew up loving The Little Mermaid or fans of Jennifer Donnelly’s Waterfire Saga. Originally self-published, The Siren has been completely rewritten for this edition. Don’t miss The Betrothed, a glittering royal romance sure to captivate Kiera Cass’s legion of loyal readers and lovers of courtly intrigue alike!

Book Basti

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  • Author : Intizar Husain
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2012-12-26
  • ISBN : 1590175824
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Basti written by Intizar Husain and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NYRB Classics Original Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common place, and Intizar Husain’s extraordinary novel begins with a mythic, even mystic, vision of harmony between old and young, man and woman, Muslim and Hindu. Then Zakir, the hero, wakes to the modern world. Crowds gather. Slogans echo. Cities burn. Whether hunkered down with family or furtively meeting to exchange news with friends in cafés, Zakir is alone in a country lost to the politics of loneliness.

Book The Philosophical Power of Fairy Tales from Around the World

Download or read book The Philosophical Power of Fairy Tales from Around the World written by Wendy C. Turgeon and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book H O  Pub

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  • Author : United States. Hydrographic Office
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book H O Pub written by United States. Hydrographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sometimes

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  • Author : Joel Bernard
  • Publisher : Author House
  • Release : 2013-11
  • ISBN : 1491810890
  • Pages : 151 pages

Download or read book Sometimes written by Joel Bernard and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy has been cursed by a classmate for some inexplicable reason. The curse is verified in his mind by the death of a buddy. He and his best friend Butcher wander the dark alleys of adolescence seeking the meaning of their lives.

Book The Beckoning Silence

Download or read book The Beckoning Silence written by Joe Simpson and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brash and colorful, Simpson has never been more entertaining.

Book Audio Book

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  • Author : Mikko Keskinen
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780739118313
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Audio Book written by Mikko Keskinen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audio Book deals with the ways in which various technologies enabling the transmission or storing of sound and voice are figured in selected works drawn from contemporary narrative fiction. The sound technologies are shown to influence the narrative structure, metaphorics, and style of the works studied.

Book Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging

Download or read book Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging written by Nick Rumens and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for students, academics and the general reader alike, Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging provides theoretical and empirical insights into the linkages between sexualities and forms of desire, and ways of belonging and relating to others in specific contexts and moments in time. Opening with a substantial introduction by one of the editors, this collection of thirteen essays is organised into three parts, each section making important contributions to contemporary debates regarding the sexual politics of citizenship, marriage, friendship, pornography, intimacies, eroticism and desire. As such, the essays introduce fresh perspectives for thinking about how individuals construct senses of belonging and modes of relating to others in their everyday lives, within the disciplinary frameworks of sociology, organisational analysis and cultural studies. As well, the volume analyses representations of desire and eroticism in British Pop Art, trauma and feminist fiction, polyamory self-help literature, Hollywood films, and sociological and psychoanalytic theory. Analytical insights offered within these essays will do much to stimulate debate about aspects of the socially and historically constituted relationship between desire and sexuality. Because of the diverse approaches and conclusions it contains, the volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in engaging with inter- and multidisciplinary perspectives in order to understand the dynamics between constructions of desire and belonging, and discourses of gender, sex and sexuality.

Book K

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  • Author : Roberto Calasso
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2006-02-14
  • ISBN : 1400076129
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book K written by Roberto Calasso and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-02-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony comes one of the most significant books in recent years on a writer of perennial interest–a virtuoso interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka. What are Kafka’s fictions about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Countless answers have been offered, but the essential mystery remains intact. Setting out on his own exploration, Roberto Calasso enters the flow, the tortuous movement, the physiology of Kafka’s work to discover why K. and Josef K.–the protagonists of The Castle and The Trial–are so radically different from any other character in the history of the novel, and to determine who, in the end, is K. The culmination of Calasso’s lifelong fascination with Kafka’s work, K. is also an unprecedented consideration of the mystery of Kafka himself.

Book Sound

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  • Author : J. W. Capstick
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-03
  • ISBN : 1107674581
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Sound written by J. W. Capstick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1922 book was created to provide students of physics with an introduction to the properties of sound.

Book HEAR

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  • Author : Danilo Mandic
  • Publisher : University of Westminster Press
  • Release : 2023-02-14
  • ISBN : 191438637X
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book HEAR written by Danilo Mandic and published by University of Westminster Press. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing is an intricate modality of sensory perception. It is continuously enfolded in the surroundings in which it takes place. While passive in its disposition, hearing is integral to the movement and fluctuations of one’s environment. At all times, hearing remains open, (in)active but attuned to the present and continuously immersed in the murmur of its background. A delicate perception that is always situated but fundamentally overarching and extended into the open. Hearing is an immanent modality of being in and with the world. Beyond the capacity of sensory perception, hearing is also the ultimate juridical act, a sense-making activity that adjudicates and informs the spatio-temporal acoustics of justice. This penultimate volume of ‘Law and the Senses’ gathers contributions from across different disciplines working on the relationship between law and hearing, the human vocalisations and non-human echolocations, the spatial and temporal conditions in which hearing takes place, as well as the forms of order and control that listening entails. Through notions and practices of improvisation and noise, attunement and audibility sonic spatiality and urban sonicity they explore, challenge and expand the structural and sensorial qualities of law. Moreover, they recognise how hearing directs us to perceiving and understanding the intrinsic acoustic sphere of simultaneous relations, which challenge and break the normative distinctions that law informs and maintains. In an attempt to hear the ambiguous, indefinable and unembodied nature of hearing, as well as its objects – sound and silence – this volume approaches hearing as both an ontological and epistemological device to think with and about law.

Book Dead Silent

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  • Author : Mark Roberts
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-05-05
  • ISBN : 1784082910
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Dead Silent written by Mark Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why can't she say what she saw? She watched her father die... A gripping serial killer thriller, perfect for fans of Angela Marsons. Leonard Lawson was a respected professor of medieval art. He lived a quiet life in a suburb of Liverpool with his grown-up daughter. He had no enemies. Louise Lawson witnessed her father's murder. Before she blacked out, she saw his body mutilated and deformed, twisted into a parody of the artworks he loved. DCI Eve Clay must overcome her own demons to decode a message written in blood – before another life is taken.