Download or read book A Veil of Footsteps written by Breyten Breytenbach and published by Human & Rosseau. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main character and narrator, the nomad Breyten Wordfool, takes the reader on a journey, on many journeys, through his own history and the places where he lives and works and regularly visits: Paris, Spain, Gorée (Senegal), Cape Town, New York, Vietnam: This should be kept in mind as I write Breyten Wordfool's black book of impressions. One must not let go of the memories; maggots and grubs are always needed to transform that which has been lived. Memories and impressions of real events ' being arrested in 1975 at Johannesburg airport for alleged terrorist activities, witnessing the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York in 2001 ' are alternated by surrealistic fantasies, dreamlike sequences, philosophical thoughts, fictions. He reports angrily, lyrically, humorously, daringly on our troubled times. Of Africa he says: ' . . . impossible to rationally get hold of in all its complexity, horror, madness and beauty. No understanding except through invention.' And this is Breyten Breytenbach's achievement, that he can use his inventive powers and imagination to illuminate life in all its horror and beauty. To force us to observe equally with indignation and wonder.
Download or read book Ordained Footsteps written by DeiAdra NiCole and published by DeiAdra NiCole. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ordained Footsteps” is a series of fictitious, inspirational short stories. The story is about a group of church members who plan a weekend hiking trip. The group, after a long day of hiking, comes together, where they all sit around a campfire, sharing their life stories. In sharing their life stories, they will share the trials and tribulations they endured before dedicating their lives to Christ.
Download or read book Veil of Secrecy written by Margaret Franceschini and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious young woman who dreams of leaving her small town to follow her dreams learns the heartbreak of reckless love. As a young woman trapped in the confines of her small Newfoundland fishing village, sixteen-year-old Julie dreams of someday making her way out into the world and becoming a journalist. The daughter she gave up at birth must learn the same lesson, but will she follow in her mother's footsteps and give up her dreams? What happens when a daughter, given up at birth, makes the same tragic mistake as the mother she never knew? In 1950 Julie was deceived in love and had to give up not only the child of that union, but her dreams of escaping her small fishing village to become a journalist. Twenty years later, Marina, too, is deceived in love and has to forfeit her child, but dreams are not to be thwarted the second time around. The only refuge for young teen girls at that time was an old plantation pavilion called The Fold located in Nova Scotia. Hidden away on acres of lush green grass and surrounded by the wonder of the sea, The Fold holds the mystery and secrets of those who suffered emotions of forfeiting their infant and the suffering that remains within their veil of secrecy.
Download or read book The Divine Footsteps in Human History written by Daniel Reid and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guardian of the Veil written by Gregory Spencer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the fabric of our world were stretching or tearing...or getting thinner...and we could step through that veil into another world? It's been a month since the Misfits -- four friends who like to commiserate -- were catapulted out of their adventures in the land of Welken and back into an ordinary summer in the small town of Skinner, Oregon. Mysterious reminders of those exciting days begin popping up everywhere. A mountain lion. A sailboat. A children's story. Could Lizbeth, Bennu, Len, and Angie be needed, once again, in Welken? If so, for what purpose? And things seem different this time. Are little signs of Welken rippling through Skinner? Do the multiplying wonders mean that two worlds are about to collide? Or has Welken been within the Misfits' reach all along, but they just hadn't seen it?
Download or read book Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash written by Tammy Pasterick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s Pittsburgh, 1910—the golden age of steel in the land of opportunity. Eastern European immigrants Janos and Karina Kovac should be prospering, but their American dream is fading faster than the colors on the sun-drenched flag of their adopted country. Janos is exhausted from a decade of twelve-hour shifts, seven days per week, at the local mill. Karina, meanwhile, thinks she has found an escape from their run-down ethnic neighborhood in the modern home of a mill manager—until she discovers she is expected to perform the duties of both housekeeper and mistress. Though she resents her employer’s advances, they are more tolerable than being groped by drunks at the town’s boarding house. When Janos witnesses a gruesome accident at his furnace on the same day Karina learns she will lose her job, the Kovac family begins to unravel. Janos learns there are people at the mill who pose a greater risk to his life than the work itself, while Karina—panicked by the thought of returning to work at the boarding house—becomes unhinged and wreaks a path of destruction so wide that her children are swept up in the storm. In the aftermath, Janos must rebuild his shattered family with the help of an unlikely ally. Impeccably researched and deeply human, Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash delivers a timeless message about mental illness while paying tribute to the sacrifices America’s immigrant ancestors made.
Download or read book Footsteps to the holy Bible in pleasant paths signed J A N M written by J A N. M and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Silent Footsteps written by Stephen Buckley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-08-27 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silent Footsteps is a book of one choice, to live or die. The decision is not always a conscious one, but one of destiny. It follows the never-ending battle of parent vs. child, age vs. youth, experience vs. inexperience, all of which continue from beyond the shroud of death. What is it like to die? And is it fair that 'forever' results from one bad decision? Only one person can answer these questions and that person is dead. Silent Footsteps looks at death from the deceased's point of view; where education never stops, and the lessons learned while in the flesh teach the dead.
Download or read book Stranger Book Two written by Tim O'Rourke and published by Tim O'Rourke. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something sinister is happening in the desolate town of Grey Edge. Wizard, Jake Stranger, knows that he must discover who and what Mary Briggs was but more importantly why she seemingly came back from the dead. With the rest of the Talismen unwilling to face what is really taking place in the small town, and with the body count rising, Jake seeks the help of an old friend and lover, the wiser Witch – Holly Felderstafe. But with his feelings growing for the beautiful young Taliswoman, Franziska Rubik, will Jake be creating trouble for himself as the events that are unfolding about him become ever more dangerous. As Jake begins to unravel the truth about the terrifying events in Grey Edge, he soon discovers that not all the townsfolk are who or what they claim to be and have come from a very different world – a world that is far stranger than anything Jake could have imagined. Book 3 Now Available! Search Terms: vampire, romance, werewolf, fantasy, horror, mystery, new adult & college romance, occult, urban, young adult fantasy, paranormal, paranormal romance, fantasy witches, shapeshifter wolf romance, dystopian, superhero fantasy ebooks, demon, werewolf romance, angels, vampire romance, young adult paranormal, paranormal new adult romance, shade of, werewolf romance, vampires, diaries, demons and devils, shapeshifter wolf romance, academy, twilight, horror, angels, saga, new adult fantasy romance, journals, coming of age, new adult, young adult, gothic, shifter, lycan, vampire books, vampire romance books, vampire and werewolf books, werewolf books, fantasy books, coming of age fantasy, genetic engineering, science fiction, mash ups, bad girlfriend, vampire girl, vampire vengeance, anti-heroes, vengeance, science fiction, free science fiction books vampire, supernatural, strong female lead fantasy, strong female characters, strong female vampire, vampire romance, young adult paranormal, paranormal new
Download or read book Shelley with Benjamin written by Mathelinda Nabugodi and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yet what surprises me most of all at this time is that what I have written consists, as it were, almost entirely of quotations. – Compositions so produced are to poetry what mosaic is to painting. – It is the craziest mosaic technique you can imagine – and the very mind which directs the hands in formation is incapable of accounting to itself for the origin, the gradations, or the media of the process. Shelley with Benjamin: A critical mosaic is an experiment in comparative reading. Born a century apart, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Walter Benjamin are separated by time, language, temperament and genre – one a Romantic poet known for his revolutionary politics and delicate lyricism, the other a melancholy intellectual who pioneered a dialectical method of thinking in constellations. Yet, as the above montage of citations from their works demonstrates, their ideas are mutually illuminating: the mosaic is but one of several images that both use to describe how literature lives on through practices of citation, translation and critical commentary. In a series of close readings that are by turns playful, erotic and violent, Mathelinda Nabugodi unveils affinities between two writers whose works are simultaneously interventions in literary history and blueprints for an emancipated future. In addition to offering fresh interpretations of both major and minor writings, she elucidates the personal and ethical stakes of literary criticism. Throughout the book, marginal annotations and interlinear interruptions disrupt the faux-objective and colourblind stance of standard academic prose in an attempt to reckon with the barbarism of our past and its legacy in the present. The book will appeal to readers of Shelley and Benjamin as well as those with an interest in comparative literature, literary theory, romantic poetics, and creative critical writing.
Download or read book House of the Wolf written by M.K. Wren and published by Diversion Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Shadow of the Swan, the conclusion to the Phoenix Legacy trilogy—the space saga of a doomed civilization and the heroes who fight to save it. In an empire on the brink of implosion, the Society of the Phoenix is the only alternative to catastrophe, yet it is regarded by the rulers of the Concord as treasonable and a greater threat than the ominous rumblings of a Bond uprising. The Phoenix is led by Alex Ransom, formerly known as Alexand, the first born of the House of DeKoven Woolf—but he now lies in an underground infirmary, critically wounded and comatose after a vital foray into Concord territory. Still, the mission of the Phoenix remains steadfast, and a new leader emerges: Jael the Outsider. Meanwhile, one of the original founders of the Phoenix, Dr. Erica Radek, fights for Ransom’s life as hard as she fights for the survival of the Concord. Erica has a third mission: to find Lady Adrien Eliseer, who has vanished without a trace from the Two Systems. Erica knows that Adrien is the key to Alexand’s survival. As war looms, the Concord must face the Phoenix, and only one will rise from the ashes. “A new classic! Has the sweep and power of Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy.” —Jean M. Auel, author of the Earth’s Children series
Download or read book Passages from a Common Place Book written by Rev. Samuel HAYMAN and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Veil of Isis written by Pierre Hadot and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "Phusis kruptesthai philei." How the aphorism, usually translated as "Nature loves to hide," has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. Taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess Isis as a guide, and drawing on the work of both the ancients and later thinkers such as Goethe, Rilke, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, Hadot traces successive interpretations of Heraclitus' words. Over time, Hadot finds, "Nature loves to hide" has meant that all that lives tends to die; that Nature wraps herself in myths; and (for Heidegger) that Being unveils as it veils itself. Meanwhile the pronouncement has been used to explain everything from the opacity of the natural world to our modern angst. From these kaleidoscopic exegeses and usages emerge two contradictory approaches to nature: the Promethean, or experimental-questing, approach, which embraces technology as a means of tearing the veil from Nature and revealing her secrets; and the Orphic, or contemplative-poetic, approach, according to which such a denuding of Nature is a grave trespass. In place of these two attitudes Hadot proposes one suggested by the Romantic vision of Rousseau, Goethe, and Schelling, who saw in the veiled Isis an allegorical expression of the sublime. "Nature is art and art is nature," Hadot writes, inviting us to embrace Isis and all she represents: art makes us intensely aware of how completely we ourselves are not merely surrounded by nature but also part of nature.
Download or read book The Veil of Cadence Shadowsoul written by JOHN L. BISOL and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third in a Series: The House on South Street has a new owner. The only constant to the property is the continued relentless overgrowth of brush and brambles as unseen forces strive to hide the secrets of the land. Hauntings are challenged and an evil entity finally meets its destruction. All who pass through the house need to beware that beyond the veil, Cadence Shadowsoul watches and plots to keep what is hers. Human souls are lost in the struggle as well - they did not consider the volume of evil nesting in the ready for the naive. Perhaps the next family will fare better...perhaps not!"
Download or read book Journey from the Land of No written by Roya Hakakian and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emotional, evocative coming-of-age story about one deeply intelligent and perceptive girl’s attempt to find her own voice in prerevolutionary Iran “An immensely moving, extraordinarily eloquent, and passionate memoir.”—Harold Bloom Roya Hakakian was twelve years old in 1979 when the revolution swept through Tehran. The daughter of an esteemed poet, she grew up in a household that hummed with intellectual life. Family gatherings were punctuated by witty, satirical exchanges and spontaneous recitations of poetry. But the Hakakians were also part of the very small Jewish population in Iran who witnessed the iron fist of the Islamic fundamentalists increasingly tightening its grip. It is with the innocent confusion of youth that Roya describes her discovery of a swastika—“a plus sign gone awry, a dark reptile with four hungry claws”—painted on the wall near her home. As a schoolgirl she watched as friends accused of reading blasphemous books were escorted from class by Islamic Society guards, never to return. Only much later did Roya learn that she was spared a similar fate because her teacher admired her writing. Hakakian relates in the most poignant, and at times painful, ways what life was like for women after the country fell into the hands of Islamic fundamentalists who had declared an insidious war against them, but we see it all through the eyes of a strong, youthful optimist who somehow came up in the world believing that she was different, knowing she was special. A wonderfully evocative story, Journey from the Land of No reveals an Iran most readers have not encountered and re-creates a time and place dominated by religious fanaticism, violence, and fear with an open heart.
Download or read book Sights A foot written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
