Download or read book The Shattered Crystal written by Christopher P. Todd and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many, the mind is one’s own. For a few, however, the inner self is a fragmentary and hellish nightmare of darkness, madness, and despair. Join us in a journey of pain, loss, and fragmentation. Join us in the darkness of the divided spirit. The strong survive indeed, but at what cost? When survival means becoming the Incarnation of Darkness and Death Magic, what then is the nature of survival? The one has become many, and the singular voice is dead, replaced by the chaotic, dissonant dirge. Is there some power that can possibly turn the screams in the darkness into a chorus of voices? The whole is destroyed, and what remains is a Shattered Crystal.
Download or read book The Shattered Crystal Ball written by James G. Blight and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1992 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '. . . an extraordinarily accurate and insightful account of the Cuban missile crisis. I remember well the fear of which he writes so persuasively.'--Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
Download or read book Shattered Crystals written by Mia Amalia Kanner and published by Cis Communications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crystal Secrets written by Genie Rayner and published by James Funfer. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crystal betrothals ended in ruin, and the nation is sure to follow. Crystara knows the Great Crystal has awoken, but she is the prisoner of a corrupt and twisted church official known only as
Download or read book Shattered Crystal written by M T Syler and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shattered Crystal Book One of the Crystal Fae Written by M.T. Syler Growing up, Melancholy Brown faced a series of hardships that tested her resolve. However, her dreams offered her an escape, as she found solace in a magical world filled with Fae. In this world, she watches the adventures of Kleptis Klein, a skilled assassin employed by the Thieves Guild in Jelaria, and his sister Mystic. Despite facing difficulties in the real world, Melancholy finds herself feeling more at home in this dream world and longs to stay there permanently. Although she acknowledges that the world she escapes to might just be a figment of her imagination, she doesn't mind. To her, it's a much-needed escape from reality. All my life I've always tried to roll with the punches, learning to keep myself calm when everything around me was going to shit. I'd learned a long time ago that fighting back against your fate only made things worse. Sometimes you just had to take what life gave you and make shitty lemonade out of it. Even if the lemons it gave you were moldy and full of worms. Jelaria is my escape, a world that I visit only in my dreams. It feels more real to me than my actual reality, and I long to stay there permanently. The fact that it may not be real does not matter to me, for it could just as easily be a fantasy created by a lonely child. All I know is that I want to stay there forever.
Download or read book Shattered Crystal written by Jasen Flint and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He married the girl of his dreams...and stepped headfirst into a nightmare. Tim and Crystal are blissfully happy together, until Shane moves into their quiet little trailer park. The outlaw biker is mysterious, a little dangerous, and ruggedly handsome. Crystal is instantly captivated by his sexy body and no-holds-barred lifestyle. Shane is happy to help fulfill their sexual fantasies...and then introduce Crystal to the steamy world of stripping, Meth addiction, and drug trafficking. She's the perfect drug mule...gorgeous, naive, seductively innocent. No one will ever suspect her of a thing...until it all comes crashing down around her ears! Excerpt "I met your mule today," Jingles admitted, then raised both hands when Shane looked at him sharply. "I just said hi, buddy. That's it." "Good. I need her...for now." Cautiously Jingles scanned the room, then turned back. "Look here, man. You got your mules, and you got the hook in 'em. That method works, and I use it, too...but eventually they ain't gonna be reliable enough to make deliveries. Too much risk to both our organizations. Know what I'm saying?" He knew exactly what Jingles was getting at. "I expect them to quit at some point." "Yeah, but they're still a risk to your club. I mean, what happens if one of them gets clean, or finds religion, or gets busted? You and your club could find yourselves in court or, worse, in another jail cell. "I got a better solution. Sell them to me." Jingles' expression was serious. "I'll take them off your hands, and I guarantee they'll never be a threat to your organization in the future." "Is that right?" Despite the fact that he knew the black man was trustworthy, Shane couldn't help sneering just a little. "For argument's sake, say I'm interested. How could you guarantee they wouldn't be a risk? You gonna babysit them?" "In a way," Jingles conceded very quietly. "Listen, I have another side of my business where these girls could be put to good use. It's extremely profitable, and I'll take care of any disposals." Silently Shane considered his offer. It would definitely solve his biggest problem, because Jingles was right-sooner or later the girls would be too hooked on Meth to be useful, and they'd become a security risk. Meth always took over. No exceptions. And since the club wanted to avoid simply murdering them, they were a loose end he hadn't figured out how to tie off yet. This would be both painless and profitable. "How much?" Jingles hid his satisfaction behind a casual smile. "Well, let's take the mule I met this afternoon. If you were interested in selling her today, I'd go as high as $50k, cash on delivery. Man, she just looks like a walking, talking good time. "The girls I buy from you will either work for me, or I'll sell them to buyers overseas. In most cases, they'll start by working with higher-end clients...but eventually we'll move them to the street. They won't stay in one place for long, for a variety of reasons, and we'll manage their drug use as much as possible. "Sooner or later," he admitted, glancing at Shane, "they reach a point where their expenses outweigh their income. When that happens, we sell them to organizations in other countries, and those girls never return. It's one of our stipulations. Less profit that way," he added, cautiously glancing around again, "but I still make money, and the girls still disappear. "Once in a while, a girl like Crystal comes along, and my overseas clients will buy her immediately. It doesn't happen very often," he conceded, leaning back on the bench. "But when it does, the chick brings a really high price." Shane softly whistled. "And once they're out of the country?" Jingles' eyes hardened. "You don't want to know," he said firmly. White slavery. Brutal and ugly, but efficient...and a good option for the club, Shane thought dispassionately. Eliminating the mules' security risk was more important than the money, and he knew Lobo would approve"
Download or read book Dragonmist The Shattered Crystal written by Helen McLean and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shattered Land written by Keith Baker and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intent on saving one of their own, a band of heroes travels to Eberron’s most isolated continent—facing drow elves and powerful magics along the way Xen'drik, the dark continent. A land of once-proud empires that now lie in ruin. A land shrouded in mystery where monsters and dark powers stalk the jungles, where only the bravest and most foolhardy will venture. Now, a band of former soldiers must brave the depths of Xen'drik to save Daine—their fearless leader, close companion, and the hero of the City of Towers. After joining forces with a mysterious woman, the friends venture to the dark continent, where they hope to find the ancient artifact that is the last hope to save Daine’s life.
Download or read book Shattered Crystal written by Sarah Hauer and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crystal is a fighter. A single mother and paralegal from Southern California, she is fighting crime, abuse, and, most of all, Lupus. Through it all, she finds reasons to keep on fighting. Witness to the horrific murder of a new friend, Crys becomes more engaged in her own life even as it is in danger of ending. Family, friendship, and love create the moments of joy that keep her pressing forward.
Download or read book Tales from the Shattered Crystal written by Bonnie Mutchler and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy to read book of verse about life, love, fantasy and horror, not for children.
Download or read book On Form written by Angela Leighton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is form? Why does form matter? In this imaginative and ambitious study, Angela Leighton assesses not only the legacy of Victorian aestheticism, and its richly resourceful keyword, 'form', but also the very nature of the literary. She shows how writers, for two centuries and more, have returned to the idea of form as something which contains the secret of art itself. She tracks the development of the word from the Romantics to contemporary poets, and offers close readings of, among others, Tennyson, Pater, Woolf, Yeats, Stevens, and Plath, to show how form has provided the single most important way of accounting for the movements of literary language itself. She investigates, for instance, the old debate of form and content, of form as music or sound-shape, as the ghostly dynamic and dynamics of a text, as well as its long association with the aestheticist principle of being 'for nothing'. In a wide-ranging and inventive argument, she suggests that form is the key to the pleasure of the literary text, and that that pleasure is part of what literary criticism itself needs to answer and convey.
Download or read book General Report Together with the Departmental Reports written by Jamaica and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual General Report Together with the Departmental Reports written by Jamaica and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Helvena written by Terry Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnificent sound explodes from excruciating silence in space. God is created from this sound divine. He then creates his mate, Helvena. Together, they build great kingdoms. The Garden of Eden blossoms into seven continents separated by vast oceans. When satisfied that man is capable of caring for himself, God and Helvena enter other dimensions, creating new worlds. Returning to earth, they find the planet in modern time. God and Helvena appear on the streets of New York City and introduce themselves as deities. They are deemed insane. God and Helvena investigate earth until God resolves that he needs to speak with man. He says that humans are ridiculous and out of control. He warns that if they do not treat where they are as heaven, he will destroy them as he did dinosaurs. Initially, man is terrified. In time, he loses his fear and believes that God's appearance in the sky was a terrible hoax or extraordinary terrorism. When fear subsides, there is rejoicing and laughter until moments before judgment--when man is, indeed, judged.
Download or read book The Future Life of Trauma written by Jennifer Yusin and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future Life of Trauma elaborates a transformation in the concepts of trauma and event by situating a groundbreaking encounter between psychoanalytic and postcolonial discourse. Proceeding from the formation of psychical life as presented in the Freudian metapsychology, it thinks anew the relation between temporality and traumatized subjectivity, demonstrating how the psychic event, as a traumatic event, is a material reality that alters the character of the structure of repetition. By examining the role of borders in the history of the 1947 partition of British India and the politics of memorialization in postgenocide Rwanda, The Future Life of Trauma brings to light the implications of trauma as a material event in contemporary nation-formation, sovereignty, and geopolitical violence. In showing how the form of the psyche changes in the encounter, it presents a challenge to the category of difference in the condition of identity, resulting in the formation of a concept of life that elaborates a new relation to destruction and finitude by asserting its power to transform itself.
Download or read book The Shattered Sea Series 3 Book Bundle written by Joe Abercrombie and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the fantasy novels that have earned raves from George R. R. Martin and Maze Runner author James Dashner, won a Locus Award and an Alex Award, and claimed best-of-the-year honors in Time, The Washington Post, and BuzzFeed. From a crippled slave whose appearance belies his dangerous ambitions, to “a girl who makes Katniss Everdeen look like Dorothy” (Chicago Tribune), an unforgettable cast of characters populate this addictive series, now together in one epic ebook bundle: HALF A KING HALF THE WORLD HALF A WAR Prince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted. But first he must survive cruelty, chains, and the bitter waters of the Shattered Sea. And he must do it all with only one good hand. Born a weakling in the eyes of his father, Yarvi is alone in a world where a strong arm and a cold heart rule. He cannot grip a shield or swing an axe, so he must sharpen his mind to a deadly edge. Gathering a strange fellowship of the outcast and the lost, he finds they can do more to help him become the man he needs to be than any court of nobles could. But even with loyal friends at his side, Yarvi learns that his path may end as it began—in twists, and traps, and tragedy. Praise for the Shattered Sea series “The Shattered Seas trilogy has worked its way into a very exclusive group of my favorite fantasy novels of all time. The pacing is perfect, the characters deep and true and real, the world rich and authentic, the plot full of twists and turns. Perhaps my favorite part is that no one is purely good or evil: Each and every character has layers upon layers that are a joy to discover. I tore through all three books and truly hope that someday Joe Abercrombie returns to this magnificent, captivating world.”—James Dashner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maze Runner “A fast-paced tale of betrayal and revenge that grabbed me from page 1 and refused to let go.”—George R. R. Martin, on Half a King “Abercrombie’s Shattered Sea is a fantastic yet believable backdrop to Yarvi’s struggle, a vivid imaginary land.”—The Seattle Times, on Half a King “An excellent page-turner . . . full of drama and energy.”—New York Daily News, on Half the World “Compelling . . . [Thorn] makes Katniss Everdeen look like Dorothy.”—Chicago Tribune, on Half the World “A fantasy for all ages, and all times, [that] rends the soul as compulsively as anything Abercrombie has written to date . . . Half a War is a success in every way, putting a stupendous capstone on the entire Shattered Sea Trilogy.”—Tordotcom “Abercrombie piles on shocking betrayals and charges his characters a high price for vengeance in this powerful and fitting final volume.”—Publishers Weekly, on Half a War
Download or read book Deleuze Altered States and Film written by Anna Powell and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deleuze, Altered States and Film offers a typology of altered states, defining dream, hallucination, memory, trance and ecstasy in their cinematic expression. The book presents altered states films as significant neurological, psychological and philosophical experiences. Chapters engage with films that simultaneously present and induce altered consciousness. They consider dream states and the popularisation of alterity in drugs films. The altered bodies of erotic arousal and trance states are explored, using haptics and synaesthesia. Cinematic distortions of space and time as well as new digital and fractal directions are opened up. Anna Powell's distinctive re-mapping of the film experience as altered state uses a Deleuzian approach to explore how cinema alters us by 'affective contamination'. Arguing that specific cinematic techniques derange the senses and the mind, she makes an assemblage of philosophy and art, counter-cultural writers and filmmakers to provide insights into the cinematic event as intoxication. The book applies Deleuze, alone and with Guattari, to mainstream films like Donnie Darko as well as arthouse and experimental cinema. Offering innovative readings of 'classic' altered states movies such as 2001, Performance and Easy Rider, it includes 'avant-garde' and 'underground' work. Powell asserts the Deleuzian approach as itself a kind of altered state that explodes habitual ways of thinking and feeling.
