Download or read book Haunted Pasts written by Lisa Uptain and published by Lisa Uptain. This book was released on 2024-04-13 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1 "Tracy Jax, a retired First Lieutenant of the U.S. Army and cold case private eye, thought she had seen it all. But when she's assigned the case of a missing person from ten years ago, she's faced with a challenge like never before. With no clues or witnesses, Tracy must rely on her expertise and determination to unravel the mystery. Little did she know, this case would lead her to encounter Captain Jeff Watkins, a man who would turn her world upside down. Set in the picturesque city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tracy and Jeff must work together to crack the decade-old case. But with their undeniable chemistry and troubled pasts, the two struggle to keep their focus on the case at hand. As they get closer to the truth, they must also fight their growing attraction, knowing that their forbidden love could jeopardize the case and their careers. But when Jeff starts experiencing unexplainable sightings and Tracy is haunted by her own demons, they realize that this case is much more than just a missing person. As they dig deeper, they uncover a web of lies, betrayal, and secrets that threaten to tear them apart. And when the truth finally comes to light, they must face the ultimate question: can they forgive and forget, or will they succumb to their desires and put everything at risk? For fans of romantic suspense and intense chemistry, "The Missing Girl" will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end. With twists and turns that will leave you guessing, this book is a must-read for anyone who loves a heart-pounding mystery with a touch of romance. Don't wait any longer
Download or read book Haunted Pasts written by TW Smith and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lana is struggling her way through high school. Oh, her grades are fine, perfect really, but that’s actually part of the problem. She was friends with a rather quiet girl from church and had an intimate relationship with the library. Navigating the social structure of school, however, is quite a different story. Somehow she usually found the strength to make it through another day. Bullying was terrible for Lana who already struggled with numerous issues not the least of which was her weight. When Lana met someone unusual, someone that she could turn to, someone that could help her sort her life out, everything began to change. Could this be the answer to Lana’s prayers or is she out of time? The gift of life is more precious than diamonds for a girl that knows what it means to be without.
Download or read book Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts written by Amanda Howell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts speaks to how a transnational array of recent screen entertainments participate, through horror, in public discourses of history, the social and creative work of reshaping popular understanding of our world through the lens of the past. Contemporary film and television – and popular screen cultures more generally – are distinguished by their many and varied engagements with history, including participation in worldwide movements to reconcile past losses and injuries with present legacies. The chapters in this collection address themselves to 21st-century screen horror's participation in this widespread fascination with and concern for the historical - its recurrent reimagining of the relation between the past and present, which is part of its inheritance from the Gothic. They are concerned with the historical work of horror's spectral occupations, its visceral threats of violence and its capacity for exploring repressed social identities, as well as the ruptures and impositions of colonization and nationhood. Trauma is a key theme in this book, examined through themes of war and genocide, ghostly invasions, institutionalized abuse, apocalyptic threat and environmental destruction. These persistent, fearful reimaginings of the past can take many lurid – sometimes tritely generic – forms. Together, these chapters explore and reflect upon horror's ability to speak through them to the unspoken of history, to push the boundaries and probe the fault-lines and ideological impositions of received historical narratives – while reminding us that history and the historical imagination persist as sites of contention.
Download or read book Ghosts of Futures Past written by Molly McGarry and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Simpson, imprint in humanities"--Page opposite title page.
Download or read book Haunted Landscapes written by Ruth Heholt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted Landscapes offers a fresh and innovative approach to contemporary debates about landscape and the supernatural. Landscapes are often uncanny spaces embroiled in the past; associated with absence, memory and nostalgia. Yet experiences of haunting must in some way always belong to the present: they must be felt. This collection of essays opens up new and compelling areas of debate around the concepts of haunting, affect and landscape. Landscape studies, supernatural studies, haunting and memory are all rapidly growing fields of enquiry and this book synthesises ideas from several critical approaches – spectral, affective and spatial – to provide a new route into these subjects. Examining urban and rural landscapes, haunted domestic spaces, landscapes of trauma, and borderlands, this collection of essays is designed to cross disciplines and combine seemingly disparate academic approaches under the coherent locus of landscape and haunting. Presenting a timely intervention in some of the most pressing scholarly debates of our time, Haunted Landscapes offers an attractive array of essays that cover topics from Victorian times to the present.
Download or read book The Politics of Irish Memory written by E. Pine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish culture is obsessed with the past, and this book asks why and how. In an innovative reading of Irish culture since 1980, Emilie Pine provides a new analysis of theatre, film, television, memoir and art, and interrogates the anti-nostalgia that characterizes so much of contemporary Irish culture.
Download or read book Ghosts of Presidents Past A Reckoning written by James Mikel Wilson and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
“Ghosts of Presidents Past – A Reckoning” serves as a metaphor for the chaos in American politics from 2015 -2020. The work combines historical fiction with political parody and humor.
Normally we don’t see ghosts and phantoms except on Halloween when trick-or-treaters knock on front doors. If Halloween in government existed, how might twenty-three former US presidents, beginning with George Washington, respond to the siren call to visit a president who ignores the Constitution and suppresses and manipulates information for political gain?What if that president disrespected his obligations to the Nation’s revered institutions and the American public? What if he lacked moral fiber and used the office for personal gain? What if he had attained the highest office in the land through unscrupulous means? What if his ego drove him to manipulate the truth to enhance his image? What if he bullied his opponents and called them sophomoric names? What if he alienated friends and stalwart allies?
What if that president disrespected his obligations to the Nation’s revered institutions and the American public? What if he lacked moral fiber and used the office for personal gain? What if he had attained the highest office in the land through unscrupulous means? What if his ego drove him to manipulate the truth to enhance his image? What if he bullied his opponents and called them sophomoric names? What if he alienated friends and stalwart allies?
In “Ghosts of Presidents Past,” President Daniel Hands violates the public trust. He desecrates the Oval Office so egregiously that past occupants return to confront him. What could they say to POTUS that might reform him? During their journey, each shares some relevant success and regrets while in office.
“Ghosts of Presidents Past – A Reckoning” encapsulates many of the more shocking public utterances and events over the last several years where each new one often eclipses its predecessor.
“Ghosts” will entertain readers who enjoy presidential history. The visiting presidents bring some surprises and share some little known or forgotten moments in their lives. The book will speak primarily to moderate Republicans, Democrats, and Independents.
Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” provided the inspiration for this book. And like his work, it is political satire and a statement of the times.
The author is a Proud Supporter of NPR and PBS, Houston Public Media stations. Readers can follow the author on www.jamesmikelwilson.com, Instagram and The Authors Guild.
Download or read book The Top 10 Most Haunted Places in South Carolina written by Larry Slawson and published by Larry Slawson. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook examines (and ranks) the 10 scariest and most haunted places in South Carolina. It provides a brief history of each historical site, along with an explanation of the various ghost sightings and disturbances that have plagued these areas over the last few centuries.
Download or read book The Haunting Past written by Henry Rousso and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2002-02-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Haunting Past is a brief but richly textured treatment of the role of the historian in dealing with information about contemporary political and legal matters."—Libraries and Culture
Download or read book Shadows of the Past A Collection of Historical Ghost Stories written by DEEP BANERJEE and published by DEEP BANERJEE. This book was released on 2024-11-13 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Shadows of the Past: A Collection of Historical Ghost Stories” explores the rich tradition of ghost storytelling in South Asia, examining its historical context, significance, and evolution. The text delves into the interplay between folklore and cultural beliefs, the impact of technology on modern narratives, and the themes of fear, redemption, and love beyond the grave. It emphasizes the relevance of these stories in addressing contemporary societal issues while preserving cultural heritage.
Download or read book The Haunting Past written by Alvin O. Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2015. This book places in firm historical perspective the roots of Caribbean dependency, highlighting the ways in which the region has been and continues to be a pawn in Great Power politics and economics. The past is both haunting and daunting, seriously hampering the region's capacity to pursue an autonomous path. The author develops his argument by focusing on how politics, economics and race have shaped Caribbean history and contemporary life. Discussions and analysis include examples from the Anglophone, Spanish, French and Dutch speaking Caribbean islands and countries. Thompson also attempts to provide prescriptions that would free the region from the shackles of the past and place the countries on the path to independence.
Download or read book Haunting in Chinese Australian Writing written by Xiao Xiong and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines haunting in terms of trauma, languaging, and the supernatural in works by Chinese Australian writers born in Australia, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. It goes beyond the conventional focus on identity issues in the analysis of diasporic writing, considering how the memory of past trauma is triggered by abusive systems of power in the present. The author unpacks how trauma also brings past violence to haunt the present. This book considers how different Chinese diasporic communities present a dynamic and multiple state through partial erasure between different Chinese subcultures and other cultures. Showing the supernatural as a social and cultural product, this book elucidates how haunting as the supernatural refers to the coexistence of, and the competition between, different cultures and powers. It takes a wide-ranging view of different diasporic communities under the banner ‘Chinese’, a term that refers not only to Chinese nationals in terms of citizenship, but also to the Chinese diaspora in terms of ancestry, and Chinese culture more generally. In analysing haunting in texts, the author positions Chinese culture as in a constant state of flux. It is relevant to literary scholars and students with interests in Australian literature, Chinese and Southeast Asian migration writing, and those with an interest in the Gothic and postcolonial traditions.
Download or read book Haints written by Arthur F. Redding and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Haints, Arthur Redding examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fiction, not as frivolous or supernatural entertainments, but to explore and memorialize the ghosts of their heritage. Ghosts, Redding argues, serve as lasting witnesses to the legacies of slaves and indigenous peoples whose stories were lost in the remembrance or mistranslation of history. No matter how much Americans willingly or unwillingly repress the true history of their ancestry, their ghosts remain unburied and restless. Such authors as Toni Morrison and Leslie Marmon Silko deploy the ghost as a means of reconciling their own violently repressed heritage with their identity as modern Americans. And just as our ancestors were haunted by ghosts of the past, today we are haunted by ghosts of contemporary crises: urban violence, racial hatred, and even terrorism. In other cases that Redding studies--such as James Baldwin's The Evidence of Things Not Seen and Toni Cade Bambara's Those Bones Are Not My Child--writers address similar crises to challenge traditional American claims of innocence and justice. Finally, Redding argues that ghosts emphasize a growing worry about a larger impending crisis: the apocalypse. Yet the despair the apocalypse inspires is vital to providing the grounds for new solutions to modern issues. In the end, the armies of the dispossessed enlist the forces of the spirit world to create a better future--by ensuring that mistakes of the past are not repeated, that Americans do not deny their heritage, and that accountability exists for any given crisis."--book jacket.
Download or read book Encountering the Past within the Present written by Siobhan Kattago and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encountering the Past within the Present: Modern Experiences of Time examines different encounters with the past from within the present – whether as commemoration, nostalgia, silence, ghostly haunting or combinations thereof. Taking its cue from Hannah Arendt’s definition of the present as a time span lying between past and future, the author reflects on the old philosophical question of how to live the good life – not only with others who are physically with us but also with those whose presence is ghostly and liminal. While tradition may no longer command the same authority as it did in antiquity or the middle ages, individuals are by no means severed from the past. Rather, nostalgic longing for bygone times and traumatic preoccupation with painful historical events demonstrate the vitality of the past within the present. Divided into three parts, chapters examine ways in which the legacies of World War II, the Holocaust and communism have been remembered after 1945 and 1989. Maintaining a sustained reflection on the nexus of memory, modernity and time in tandem with ancient questions of responsibility for one another and the world, the volume contributes to the growing field of memory studies from a philosophical perspective. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory and philosophy with interests in collective memory and heritage.
Download or read book Paranormal Family Incorporated Ghosts of Christmas Past written by William J. Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Smith-and-Smith Paranormal Agency is back and this time they are asked to help a family named the DiMarco family rid themselves of unwanted guests for Christmas.Bill and Erica Smith come to the rescue of the DiMarco family but they get more than they bargained for as they try to help the DiMarco family and the spirits haunting their house, get the rest and peace they all so desperately need
Download or read book The Politics of Postsecular Religion written by Ananda Abeysekara and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abeysekara contends that democracy--along with its cherished secular norms--is founded on the idea of a promise deferred to the future. The belief that ethnic-political identities--such as Buddhist, Hindu, Sinhalese, and Tamil--can be critiqued, neutralized, improved, and changed, even if they remain inseparable from their genocidal pasts, is rooted in democracy's messianic promise. Abeysekara compels us to consider our ethical-political legacies not as "problems" but as "aporias" in the Derridean sense--contradictions or impasses that cannot be resolved. Abeysekara locates distinct aporias in our modernity and situates them in the places and cultures of America, France, England, Sri Lanka, India, and Tibet. He presents concrete examples of religion in public life and calls into question the projects of refashioning the aporetic premises of liberalism and secularism.
Download or read book Mind the Ghost written by Sonja Stojanovic and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spectrality disrupts and fissures our conceptions of time, unmaking and complicating binaries such as life and death, presence and absence, the visible and the invisible, and literality and metaphor. A contribution to current conversations in memory studies and spectrality studies, Mind the Ghost is an experiment in reading ghosts otherwise. It explores, through contemporary fiction in French, sites of textual haunting that take the form of names, lists, objects, photographs, and stains. The book turns to Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous to rethink what constitutes and functions as a ghost, proposing that this figure solicits readers’ investment in mnemonic practices. Considering the memories and legacies of violence that have marked the greater part of the twentieth-century – in Algeria, Bosnia, Croatia, France, and Rwanda – this book traces absences, disappearances and reappearances, textual omissions and untimely irruptions to posit literature’s power to both remember and communicate beyond the bounds of chronological time. Through close readings of recent fiction by Kaouther Adimi, Jakuta Alikavazovic, Gaël Faye, Jérôme Ferrari, Patrick Modiano, Lydie Salvayre, Leïla Sebbar, and Cécile Wajsbrot, Mind the Ghost articulates the mechanisms through which readers themselves become haunted.
