Download or read book The Silence of the Sirens written by Leo Ryji and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silence and Sirens written by Thomas Self and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silence and Sirens is a collection of short stories, vignettes, poems, and journal entries written by protagonist Anthony Miller as he travels from Louisville to Seattle and then begins to prepare for a new life in Europe. Miller, the middle child in a conservative Louisville family, finds refuge on the liberal side of his hometown until he finally moves to Seattle. As he tries to balance his love for stimulation and women and his need for solitude and spirituality, his passions bring him tumultuous yet significant relationships, while his conflicts bring insights and transcendence. Decadent, Miller is at times affably vulnerable and at other times brutally honest. For a few deceptive moments on a street in Seattle, he falls in love with a beautiful woman; and in a novella excerpt set in Louisville, he writes of his sudden repulsion after an illicit encounter. In the end, he is left with his thoughts, printed here for all to see. Miller's poetic lines and truth in his writing encourages all of us to take a step away from the ideal when it comes to finding love and happiness and instead embrace a walk down the path of reality-the rare and truly captivating moments that keep us in the present.
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:
Download or read book Enchanting Songs For Silent Sirens written by Laura Greenwood and published by Drowlgon Press. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter Obscure Academy, a university for supernaturals, and discover this light-hearted and sweet paranormal romance series. Enchanting Songs For Silen Sirens follows Melody, a siren who has to avoid singing, as she meets warlock Josh, who helps her in ways she never imagined. A run-in between a siren and a warlock leads to a connection. Melody loves to sing, which is a bit of a problem when doing that could enchant everyone around her with her siren magic. Instead, she doesn't talk to anyone about her love of Christmas carols and keeps her powers a secret. Until she meets Josh and the two of them form a connection deeper than any she's ever experienced before. Can he help her find her voice? - Enchanting Songs For Silent Sirens is a holiday story and part of the Obscure Academy series. It's a light-hearted m/f paranormal romance with a deaf love interest. It features a siren who knows she shouldn't sing and a deaf warlock who is determined to make the most of every moment. If you enjoy upbeat and light-hearted paranormal romances with new adult characters, an academy/university setting, guaranteed happy endings, and quirky supernaturals, start the Obscure Academy today! Obscure Academy Series Search Terms: paranormal romance, pnr, supernatural, light-hearted, coming of age, shifter romance, vampire romance, mermaids, sirens, vampires, tiger shifter, leopard shifter, fae, fairies, fairy, pixie, ghoul, necromancer, sprite, friends to lovers, close proximity, teammates, frenemies to lovers, amnesia, hellhounds, succubus, cupid, incubus, warlock, witch, witch romance, merman, mer, merfolk, coming of age, new adult romance, new adult paranormal romance, sweet romance, opposites attract, quirky paranormals, university, school, academy, paranormal academy, cheerleader, cheer squad, nerd, dragon shifters, dragons, gorgons, gargoyle, elves, enemies to lovers, sports romance, meet cute, minotaur, monster romance, bear shifters, bears, grumpy sunshine, friends with benefits
Download or read book A Silent Siren Song written by Al P. Nelson and published by Cooper Square Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the journey of Harry (1877-1956) and Roy Aitken (1882-1976), two brothers from the Wisconsin farmlands who pioneered the studio system of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Download or read book Silence in the Land of Logos written by Silvia Montiglio and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds. But how did silence fit into the mental framework of a society that valued speech so highly? Here Silvia Montiglio provides the first comprehensive investigation into silence as a distinctive and meaningful phenomenon in archaic and classical Greece. Arguing that the notion of silence is not a universal given but is rather situated in a complex network of associations and values, Montiglio seeks to establish general principles for understanding silence through analyses of cultural practices, including religion, literature, and law. Unlike the silence of a Christian before an ineffable God, which signifies the uselessness of words, silence in Greek religion paradoxically expresses the power of logos--for example, during prayer and sacrifice, it serves as a shield against words that could offend the gods. Montiglio goes on to explore silence in the world of the epic hero, where words are equated with action and their absence signals paralysis or tension in power relationships. Her other examples include oratory, a practice in which citizens must balance their words with silence in very complex ways in order to show that they do not abuse their right to speak. Inquiries into lyric poetry, drama, medical writings, and historiography round out this unprecedented study, revealing silence as a force in its own right.
Download or read book Silence the Siren written by Michele Israel Harper and published by Love2readlove2write Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ro is plunged into the ocean by the siren she's being paid to kill, presented the sirens' side of the story, and pressed to join them or die, Ro must decide whether to complete her mission, join the sirens, or something in between.
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 142 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!
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.
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.
Download or read book Warnings written by Michael Smith and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the heart of tornado alley, Smith takes us into the eye of America's most devastating storms and behind the scenes of some of the world's most renowned scientific institutions to uncover the relationship between mankind and the weather.
Download or read book The Comparative Perspective on Literature written by Clayton Koelb and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few would deny that comparative literature is rapidly moving from the periphery toward the center of literary studies in North America, but many are still unsure just what it is. The Comparative Perspective on Literature shows by means of twenty-two exemplary essays by many of the most distinguished scholars in the field how comparative literature as a discipline is conceived of and practiced in the 1980s. Nearly all of them published here for the first time, the essays discuss and themselves reflect significant changes at the core of the field as well as evolving notions as to what comparative literature is and should be. The volume editors, Clayton Koelb and Susan Noakes, have included essays that address the scope and concerns of comparative literature today, historical and international contexts of the field, and the relationship of literary criticism to other disciplines, as well as affording comparative perspectives on current critical issues.
Download or read book Silent Siren written by Matthew Franklin Sias and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twenty-three-year veteran of emergency medical services, paramedic Matthew Sias took a detour in his career to pursue the death care business and found a complementarity between seemingly divergent careers. Silent Siren: Memoirs of a Life Saving Mortician is the record of some of the more memorable calls he has responded to through the years.
Download or read book Music of the Sirens written by Linda Austern and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-21 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether referred to as mermaid, usalka, mami wata, or by some other name, and whether considered an imaginary being or merely a person with extraordinary abilities, the siren is the remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations from ancient Greece to present-day Africa and Latin America. This book, co-edited by a historical musicologist and an ethnomusicologist, brings together leading scholars and some talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cultural studies to consider the siren and her multifaceted relationships to music across human time and geography.
Download or read book Reading Sounds written by Sean Zdenek and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of writing closed captions for television and DVD is not simply transcribing dialogue, as one might assume at first, but consists largely of making rhetorical choices. For Sean Zdenek, when captioners describe a sound they are interpreting and creating contexts, they are assigning significance, they are creating meaning that doesn t necessarily exist in the soundtrack or the script. And in nine chapters he analyzes the numerous complex rhetorical choices captioners make, from abbreviating dialogue so it will fit on the screen and keep pace with the editing, to whether and how to describe background sounds, accents, or slurred speech, to nonlinguistic forms of sound communication such as sighing, screaming, or laughing, to describing music, captioned silences (as when a continuous noise suddenly stops), and sarcasm, surprise, and other forms of meaning associated with vocal tone. Throughout, he also looks at closed captioning style manuals and draws on interviews with professional captioners and hearing-impaired viewers. Threading through all this is the novel argument that closed captions can be viewed as texts worthy of rhetorical analysis and that this analysis can lead the entertainment industry to better standards and practices for closed captioning, thereby better serve the needs of hearing-impaired viewers. The author also looks ahead to the work yet to be done in bringing better captioning practices to videos on the Internet, where captioning can take on additional functions such as enhancing searchability. While scholarly work has been done on captioning from a legal perspective, from a historical perspective, and from a technical perspective, no one has ever done what Zdenek does here, and the original analytical models he offers are richly interdisciplinary, drawing on work from the fields of technical communication, rhetoric, media studies, and disability studies."
Download or read book The Cursed written by Shaun Herbert and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jack Edmunds, a reporter for the Daily Tribune visits the quiet backwater village of Ellsworth, North Yorkshire he gets a little more than he bargained for. Witness to the casting of an ancient gypsy curse following allegations of corruption by the authorities- Jack along with Suzie Brown, his accomplice, are drawn into an ever increasing maelstrom of events and strange happenings beyond belief. Cut off from the outside world the village of Ellsworth rapidly descends into a bizarre blood-bath of demonic possession as friend turns against friend in a frenzie of unstoppable carnage. Can the realms of superstition be as tangible as they seem or are they merely a form of self-imposed psycho-babble that preys upon the mind? Either way their journey won't be easy as they confront an ever increasing maelstrom of sinister events, exposing them to the darker side of human nature at its worst.
Download or read book Siren s Secret written by Debbie Herbert and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Debbie Herbert's debut novel, there are two secrets, each one with a deadly consequence... Shelly Connors's worlds--on land and in the sea--are turned upside down when an evening swim turns into a nightmare. On a sweltering night deep in the bayou, the mystical mermaid witnesses a horrifying act. With a monstrous killer now hot on her trail, her life and the lives of her kin are in jeopardy. Terrified of becoming the next victim, Shelly has no choice but to turn to Sheriff Tillman Angier. Tillman has had his intense gray eyes on the sultry honey-haired beauty for a while. The feelings are mutual...and impossible to ignore. But he's determined to solve the murders, and he knows Shelly's hiding something. Can she trust him with her deepest secret?
