Download or read book Bright Lights Glass Houses written by Ashton Raze and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reality made this factual. The monsters weren't the undead, the wolfmen or the creeping horrors. The monsters were living; they were alive. They lived among the population, waiting, watching and then, when they were content to watch no longer... they snapped." A shot is fired. Passengers on the Underground get too close for comfort. A stoic grandmother reaches out to her estranged granddaughter through her first computer. A familiar drive home takes an unfamiliar turn - literally. A Hollywood effects artist discovers that even heroes have a dark side. Twenty two tales of horror and mystery unearth dark secrets and terrible truths. From serial killers to short-order cooks, disillusioned office workers to child prodigies, the members of this braying human menagerie are on a collision course with the end times - and one another. Ashton Raze's debut short story collection weaves a series of narratives into a creepy, tangled, darkly comic whole.

Download or read book Glass Houses written by Rachel Caine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life. But they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. Watch a Windows Media trailer for this book.

Download or read book Glass House written by Max Overton and published by Writers Exchange E-Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysteries of Australia may just hold the answers mankind has been searching for millennium to find. When Doctor James Hay, a university scientist who studies the paranormal mysteries in Australia, finds an obelisk of carved volcanic rock on sacred Aboriginal land in northern Queensland, he realizes it may hold the answers he's been seeking. A respected elder of the Aboriginal people instructs James to take up the gauntlet and follow his heart. Along with his old friend and award-winning writer Spencer, Samantha Louis, her cameraman, and two of James' Aboriginal students, James embarks on a life-changing quest for the truth.

Download or read book Glass Houses written by Lux Miller and published by Lux Miler. This book was released on 2022-07-27 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poppy: My fairy tale is crumbling around me. My husband is abusive and controlling. My job is going nowhere fast. And my dreams were shattered by one grumpy animal. So when the brooding MMA fighter shows an interest in rescuing me from my personal hell, what do I have to lose? Except my marriage, my home, my job and my reputation as a sane person? Absolutely nothing... Storm: I grew up on the wrong side of town with the wrong color skin and learning to fight ensured my survival. Now, the very thing that saved me threatens to destroy me as I get devastating news. When the beautiful cocktail waitress with sadness written all over her face ends up on my radar, I decide that my final act as a world-class MMA fighter will be to save her... but the real question is - who is saving who? Glass Houses is intended for mature audiences and contains situations that may be inappropriate for readers under 18. The story is steamy and scandalou, but has a guaranteed happily ever after. If you like your fairy tales twisted, this is the book for you!

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Download or read book People in Glass Houses written by Jayne Castle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two people desperate for answers wade through smoke and mirrors within the alien world of Harmony in this new novel by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Castle. His name is Joshua Knight. Once a respected explorer, the press now calls him the Tarnished Knight. He took the fall for a disaster in the Underworld that destroyed his career. The devastating event occurred in the newly discovered sector known as Glass House—a maze of crystal that is rumored to conceal powerful Alien antiquities. The rest of the Hollister Expedition team disappeared and are presumed dead. Whatever happened down in the tunnels scrambled Josh’s psychic senses and his memories, but he’s determined to uncover the truth. Labeled delusional and paranoid, he retreats to an abandoned mansion in the desert, a house filled with mirrors. Now a recluse, Josh spends his days trying to discover the secrets in the looking glasses that cover the walls. He knows he is running out of time. Talented, ambitious crystal artist Molly Griffin is shocked to learn that the Tarnished Knight has been located. She drops everything and heads for the mansion to find Josh, confident she can help him regain control of his shattered senses. She has no choice—he is the key to finding her sister, Leona, a member of the vanished expedition team. Josh reluctantly allows her to stay one night but there are two rules: she must not go down into the basement, and she must not uncover the mirrors that have been draped. But her only hope for finding her sister is to break the rules…

Download or read book Glass Houses written by Francesca Reece and published by Tinder Press. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Through a dewy sheen of teen nostalgia, Reece deftly explores the weight of political events on individual lives. Her supple, visceral prose evokes North Wales in all its complexity, beautifully rendered in water, resin and sky' Jessica Andrews, author of Saltwater and Milk Teeth 'Francesca Reece is a devastatingly compelling new voice in literary fiction' Louise O'Neill, author of Asking For It and Idol _______ Somewhere, in a box in Margot Yates' attic there's a video of Gethin by the lake at Ty Gwydr. He's young - nineteen, maybe twenty. It's late spring and dusk, and a low sun leaks white light into the horizon behind the dark fringe of trees. Olwen is filming. Gethin narrows his eyes at the camera. Her bodiless voice says to him, I love it here. He says, good. This place is ours. Forester Gethin Thomas is struggling to make ends meet in his rural hometown in North Wales. Bright, charming, but unambitious, the thing that keeps him going is Ty Gwydr, a beautiful lakeside house that he keeps an eye on for absent English owners. The house has been empty for so long he's come to think of it as his own. That is until the owners decide to sell, sending Geth into freefall. And when he discovers that Olwen, his first love who left him and their small town for a new life in London, has returned to North Wales with her husband, Geth and Olwen will find themselves pulled back into the past and what could have been - or still could be. But soon mysterious messages start arriving at the house, and they must question whether this is the love story they thought it was, or whether there might be something altogether more sinister lurking beneath the surface.

Download or read book People in Glass Houses written by Tanya Levin and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2007-07-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighties were my formative years, and while other teenagers were gyrating to rock 'n' roll, we were praying for revival. We were taking communion, not cocaine. We treated virginity like a wedding present, not a cold sore. And why wouldn't we? We were told we could be, we already were, anything we wanted to be... We were armed and dangerous. Armed with the power of God and dangerous in the eyes of Satan. Tanya Levin grew up in the church that became Hillsong—the country’s most ambitious, entrepreneurial and influential religious corporation. People in Glass Houses tells how a small Assemblies of God church in a suburban school hall became a multi-million dollar tax-free enterprise and a powerful force in Australia today. Opening up the world of Christian fundamentalism, this is a powerful, personal and at times very funny exploration of an all-singing, all-swaying mega church.

Download or read book The Centipedes from Mars written by Richard Beverley and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If a chimpanzee drifted across the galaxy clutching a suitcase what would it contain?Is it ever a good idea to synthesise narcotics?Do things that glow in the dark glow in daylight? Reluctant musician and reality freak Steven has been banished to a mediaeval farmhouse. It's cold, it's wet, and it's Candlemas. Somewhere in the darkness there's a rave and two buses with stove pipe chimneys.Steven's fairly confident he's sussed the first question, the second's multi-choice, his girlfriend will explain the third - but the licensed-to-kill clone on the train? There's a mystery...

Download or read book The New Seaman s Guide and Coaster s Companion containing complete sailing directions for ships both outward and homeward bound To which are subjoined copious tables of latitudes and longitudes also new tables of the sun s declination from 1809 to 1824 Improved from the original work of J Chandler by M Downie G Eunson M McKenzie J Diston The eighteenth edition of the work and the fourth of the new arrangement written by John CHANDLER (of Orford, Pilot.) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Seaman s New Guide and Coaster s Companion written by John Chandler (of Orford, Pilot.) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plant by Numbers written by Steve Asbell and published by Cool Springs Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspirational DIY guide for painting a stunning portrait in houseplants. Hot Pink Limeade, Café Au Lait, Raspberry Margarita . . . wait, are we talking about plants here? It’s not often that we think of decorative houseplants as “delicious,” but in Plant by Numbers, there’s no denying that author Steve Asbell makes his powerful debut as a “gourmet chef” of the floral color palette. With his unique and fun recipe-style approach, visually tantalizing full-color photography, and crystal-clear step-by-step instructions, Asbell takes interior container gardening to a sophisticated but foolproof new level. Each of the 50 projects within features a comprehensive shopping list and functional plant-a-gram (that’s a custom planting diagram), showing you precisely how to plant the container combinations to achieve the most beautiful results in your living space. Even better, interiorscaping has never been more affordable: you’ll impress friends, family, and visitors with your luxurious-looking interior plant designs, and you won’t break the bank in the process. You’ll be entertained while you do it, too: Asbell’s signature wit and original planting projects—with titles like “Flavor Trippin’,” “Jurassic Spark,” “Shower Caddy,” and “Femme Fatale”—make the beautiful designs in Plant by Numbers as much fun to read as they are to plant. With this book as a guide, container gardening really is as simple as making art with a paint-by-numbers kit.

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Download or read book The Photographic News A Weekly Record of the Progress of Photography Ed by William Crookes and by G Wharton Simpson written by William Crookes and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Glass Houses written by Louise Penny and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times Bestseller and August 2017 LibraryReads pick! “Penny’s absorbing, intricately plotted 13th Gamache novel proves she only gets better at pursuing dark truths with compassion and grace.” —PEOPLE “Louise Penny wrote the book on escapist mysteries.” —The New York Times Book Review “You won't want Louise Penny's latest to end....Any plot summary of Penny’s novels inevitably falls short of conveying the dark magic of this series.... It takes nerve and skill — as well as heart — to write mysteries like this. ‘Glass Houses,’ along with many of the other Gamache books, is so compelling that, for the space of reading it, you may well feel that much of what’s going on in the world outside the novel is ‘just noise.’” —Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead. From the moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. Yet he does nothing. What can he do? Only watch and wait. And hope his mounting fears are not realized. But when the figure vanishes overnight and a body is discovered, it falls to Gamache to discover if a debt has been paid or levied. Months later, on a steamy July day as the trial for the accused begins in Montréal, Chief Superintendent Gamache continues to struggle with actions he set in motion that bitter November, from which there is no going back. More than the accused is on trial. Gamache’s own conscience is standing in judgment. In Glass Houses, her latest utterly gripping book, number-one New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny shatters the conventions of the crime novel to explore what Gandhi called the court of conscience. A court that supersedes all others.

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Download or read book Polarized Light and Polarization Vision in Animal Sciences written by Gábor Horváth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers advances made since the 2004 Springer volume “Polarized Light in Animal Vision” edited by Horvath and Varju, but also provides reviews and synopses of some areas. Part I examines polarization sensitivity across many animal taxa including vertebrates and invertebrates and details both terrestrial and aquatic life. Part II is devoted to the description of polarized light in nature and explores how the physics of light must be taken into account when understanding how polarized light is detected by the visual system. This includes underwater polarization due to scattering; polarization patterns reflected from freshwater bodies; polarization characteristics of forest canopies; normal and anomalous polarization patterns of the skies; skylight polarization transmitted through Snell’s window and both linearly and circularly polarized signals produced by terrestrial and aquatic animals. This Part also examines polarized “light pollution” induced by anthropogenic factors such as reflection off asphalt surfaces, glass panes, car bodies, and other man-made structures that are now known to form ecological traps for polarotactic insects. Part III surveys some of the practical applications of polarization vision including polarization-based traps for biting insects, ground-based polarimetric cloud detectors and an historical examination of the navigational abilities of Viking seafarers using the sky polarization compass. The deterrent qualities of ungulate pelage to polarization-sensitive biting insects is also examined in this section.