Download or read book Welcome Descent written by Cam Wolfe and published by CAM Wolfe Books. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Psychological Horror for fans of the dark and the chilling. 'A labyrinth of disturbing horrors.' All it takes is one bad week... In just seven days, Joseph Ridley lost everything. His beautiful wife, gone. His fast cars, gone. Even the expensive suits - they're all gone now. Life's a bitch, and it has treated Joe unfairly. Now there's a storm on the horizon, a storm unlike any other. Long buried memories and voices from the dark are at the door.. Joseph is about to find out that rock bottom is not the furthest a man can fall. The storm has arrived. Content Warning Graphic & Sexual Violence Self Harm Alcoholism Hateful Language Please read at your discretion. www.camwolfebooks.com Find the Author on Youtube: Page Nomad ...
Download or read book Descent written by Tim Johnston and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Breakout NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller An Indie National Bestseller “Outstanding . . . The days when you had to choose between a great story and a great piece of writing? Gone.” —Esquire “The story unfolds brilliantly, always surprisingly . . . The magic of his prose equals the horror of Johnston’s story; each somehow enhances the other . . . Read this astonishing novel.” —The Washington Post “Tim Johnston’s high-wire literary thriller . . . will leave you gasping.” —Vanity Fair “A riveting literary thriller of the can’t-stop-turning-the-page, stay-up-all-night variety.” —Alice LaPlante, author of A Circle of Wives The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, a young family from the plains taking a last summer vacation before their daughter begins college. For eighteen-year-old Caitlin, the mountains loom as the ultimate test of her runner’s heart, while her parents hope that so much beauty, so much grandeur, will somehow repair a damaged marriage. But when Caitlin and her younger brother, Sean, go out for an early morning run and only Sean returns, the mountains become as terrifying as they are majestic, as suddenly this family find themselves living the kind of nightmare they’ve only read about in headlines or seen on TV. As their world comes undone, the Courtlands are drawn into a vortex of dread and recrimination. Why weren’t they more careful? What has happened to their daughter? Is she alive? Will they ever know? Caitlin’s disappearance, all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning of the family’s harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths until all that continues to bind them together are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point will a girl stop fighting for her life? Written with a precision that captures every emotion, every moment of fear, as each member of the family searches for answers, Descent is a perfectly crafted thriller that races like an avalanche toward its heart-pounding conclusion, and heralds the arrival of a master storyteller.
Download or read book The Expositor written by Samuel Cox and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Of Irish Descent written by Catherine Nash and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be of Irish descent? What does Irish descent stand for in Ireland? In Northern Ireland? In the United States? How are the categories of “native” and “settler” and accounts of ethnic origin being refigured through popular genealogy and population genetics? Of Irish Descent addresses these questions by exploring the contemporary significance of ideas about ancestral roots, origins, and connections. Moving from the intimacy of family stories and reunions to disputed state policies on noble titles and new applications of genetic research, Nash traces the place of ancestry in interconnected geographies of identity—familial, ethnic, national, and diasporic. Underlying these different practices and narratives are potent and profoundly political questions about who counts as Irish and to whom Ireland belongs. Examining tensions between ideas of plurality and commonality, difference and connection that run through the culture and science of ancestral origins, Of Irish Descent is an original and timely exploration of new configurations of nation and diaspora as communities of shared descent.
Download or read book Going Home Information and Insights on How to Prepare to Visit Repatriate or Live as an Expatriate in Africa written by Kofi Quaye and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-11-23 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is the ideal continent for those seeking the excitement of visiting places considered to be exotic, full of ancient monuments and primitive people. It is also described in travel related books and media as a continent of fascinating cultures, beautiful scenery, extraordinary animals and the best safari and wild game hunting in the world. Nothing short of a tourist paradise. For those with a tourist based interest in Africa, information and data about the African continent are easily accessible on travel websites, books and publications. But there’s a lot more to Africa. To millions of people, Africa represents a continent to be proud of, to call the motherland and to regard as their ancestral home. These are people of African descent from around the globe who relate to Africa in the context of their ancestral connection to the oldest continent on earth and what it means to them. For such people, questions that come to mind include which country to travel to when they decide to visit or repatriate to Africa, are they welcome, how would they cope with the change in cultures, general lifestyles, traditions and social mores they know nothing about. Lately, for those repatriating to live in Africa on a permanent basis, it becomes even more complicated and brings on the absolute necessity of making adequate preparations. This is the main reason for the publication of this book. Our goal is to provide readers with real insight, valuable information and data on current trends in the new Africa with the aim of making it a lot easier for them to have a better understanding of Africa and Africans, regardless of how long they will be in Africa or the reason for going there.
Download or read book The Descent written by Alma Katsu and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The Hunger delivers a “daring, soaring, and ultimately gut-wrenching” (The New York Times) conclusion to her critically acclaimed Taker Trilogy, bringing Lanore McIlvrae to a final encounter with Adair, her powerful nemesis. Dismayed by Adair’s otherworldly powers and afraid of his passionate temper, Lanore has run from him across time, even imprisoning him behind a wall for two centuries to save Jonathan, her eternal love. But instead of punishing her for her betrayal, Adair declared his love for Lanore once more and set her free. Now, Lanore has tracked Adair to his mystical island home to ask for one last favor. The Queen of the Underworld is keeping Jonathan as her consort, and Lanore wants Adair to send her to the hereafter so that she may beg for his release. Will she honor her promise to return to Adair? Or is her true intention to be reunited with Jonathan at any cost?
Download or read book Alaska written by Walter R. Borneman and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 1069 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuable resources should be used: Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of "Gold!"; soldiers battling out a decisive chapter in world war; oil wildcatters looking for a different kind of mineral wealth; and always at the core of these disputes is the question of how the land is to be used and by whom. While some want Alaska to remain static, others are in the vanguard of change. Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land shows that there are no easy answers on either side and that Alaska will always be crossing the next frontier.
Download or read book You re Welcome Universe written by Whitney Gardner and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant, edgy, fresh new YA voice for fans of More Happy Than Not and Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, packed with interior graffiti. Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award! When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a “mainstream” school in the suburbs, where she’s treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy himself could convince her to give that up. Out in the ’burbs, Julia paints anywhere she can, eager to claim some turf of her own. But Julia soon learns that she might not be the only vandal in town. Someone is adding to her tags, making them better, showing off—and showing Julia up in the process. She expected her art might get painted over by cops. But she never imagined getting dragged into a full-blown graffiti war. Told with wit and grit by debut author Whitney Gardner, who also provides gorgeous interior illustrations of Julia’s graffiti tags, You’re Welcome, Universe introduces audiences to a one-of-a-kind protagonist who is unabashedly herself no matter what life throws in her way. "[A] spectacular debut...a moving, beautifully written contemporary novel full of quirky art and complicated friendships...this book is a gift to be thankful for."—BookRiot
Download or read book McClure s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shadow s Descent written by Joseph J. Bailey and published by Joseph Bailey. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their world assaulted by an extradimensional invasion of life-devouring Shadow, Yip and his companions must find a way to halt the incursion before the Cabal and their loathsome allies drain the living energies of their planet, destroying all life and potential on Ea’ae. Aided by Aroganji the Fang Shi, master of the elements of change, Wrindanneth Priest of Maeth Onai, wielder of divine and arcane magics, and Slate the Dwarven axe-wielding Bor’Banna, imbued by the powers of the All-Father’s first forge, Yip ventures to Taerris’thule, the City of the Fallen Gods, in an effort to restore the seal of Eldre’gheu, one of the fourteen seals protecting Ea’ae from extraplanar intrusion. Shadow’s Descent is the second book of the Chronicles of the Fists, an epic fantasy trilogy recounting Yip and his friends’ adventures against the forces of Darkness.
Download or read book The Anglo Saxon Century and the Unification of the English speaking People written by John Randolph Dos Passos and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guilt by Descent written by N. J. Sewell-Rutter and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blighted and accursed families are an inescapable feature of Greek tragedy, and many scholars have treated questions of inherited guilt, curses, and divine causation. N.J. Sewell-Rutter gives these familiar issues a fresh appraisal, arguing that tragedy is a medium that fuses the conceptual with the provoking and exciting of emotion, neither of which can be ignored if the texts are to be fully understood. He pays particular attention to Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes and the Phoenician Women of Euripides, both of which dramatize the sorrows of the later generations of the House of Oedipus, but in very different, and perhaps complementary, ways. All Greek quotations are translated, making his study thoroughly accessible to the non-specialist reader.
Download or read book The Descent of Alette written by Alice Notley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Descent of Alette, Alice Notley presents a feminist epic, a bold journey into the deeper realms. Alette, the narrator, finds herself underground, deep beneath the city, where spirits and people ride endlessly on subways, not allowed to live in the world above. Traveling deeper and deeper, she is on a journey of continual transformation, encountering a series of figures and undergoing fragmentations and metamorphoses as she seeks to confront the Tyrant and heal the world. Using a new measure, with rhythmic units indicated by quotation marks, Notley has created a “spoken” text, a rich and mesmerizing work of imagination, mystery, and power.
Download or read book Alex Valentine Descent of the Damned written by C A McGrail and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captured by the Giovanni army, Alex and Ira, the Midnight Children, are trapped within the walls of the Hall of Vampires. Suffering from the scars of the Ar Novad’s tragedy, Alex has all but given up. However, when the Giovanni Authorities deal the Midnight Children’s death sentence, Alex and Ira are forced to fight for their lives. With the First closing in, the Authorities on their backs and Argon testing Alex’s resolve, Alex, Ira, and their reluctant allies are thrust towards inevitable war. The First must be stopped. The Authorities must be put to justice. Power must be taken from the Giovanni Authorities’ bloody hands. Bodmin must be reclaimed at any cost. However, Alex and Argon’s unbreakable bond threatens everything the allies have fought for. With fractured loyalties and trust in Alex put to the test, it seems this is more than inevitable war but a march towards inevitable death.
Download or read book Blind Descent written by Brian Dickinson and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Navy air rescue swimmer Brian Dickinson was roughly 1,000 feet from the summit of Mount Everest—also known as “the death zone”—when his Sherpa became ill and had to turn back, leaving Brian with a difficult decision: Should he continue to push for the summit or head back down the mountain? After carefully weighing the options, Brian decided to continue toward the summit—alone. Four hours later, Brian solo summited the highest peak in the world. But the celebration was short lived. After taking a few pictures, Brian radioed his team to let them know he had summited safely and began his descent. Suddenly, his vision became blurry, his eyes started to burn, and within seconds, he was rendered almost completely blind. All alone at 29,035 feet, low on oxygen, and stricken with snow blindness, Brian was forced to inch his way back down the mountain relying only on his Navy survival training, instincts, and faith. In Blind Descent, Brian recounts his extraordinary experience on Mount Everest, demonstrating that no matter how dire our circumstances, there is no challenge too big for God.
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Choiseul Island Social Structure written by H. W. Scheffler and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.
