Download or read book THE MIGHT OF THE TWIN HANDS written by VEDASRI KRISHNA and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felina and Celina, twin sisters entwined in fate, face a harrowing choice: attend a school ruled by a nefarious clique or defend a realm brimming with enchantment and life. Their journey is fraught with perilous decisions: rescue their mother or unmask a betrayer hidden within their circle of confidants. As they embark on a quest for answers, the sisters must overcome their discord, banding together to thwart the looming threats. Can they reconcile their differences in time to avert disaster and preserve their world? The fate of everything they hold dear hangs in the balance.
Download or read book The Hand of the Mighty and Other Stories written by Vaughan Kester and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an absorbing collection of the most beloved stories of Vaughn Kester, an American novelist, and journalist. These short stories were collected from various magazines and published posthumously. Two stories in this volume, "Mr. Feeny's Social Experiment" and "The Hand of the Mighty, " are of special interest for their partially socialistic criticisms of capitalism. Kester is an influential figure in the history of early twentieth-century American literature who gave life to native characters and portrayed a lifelike image.
Download or read book I Know This Much Is True written by Wally Lamb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-03 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.
Download or read book The Hand of the Mighty written by Vaughan Kester and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chronicles of Rhydin written by Aaron Gooding Jr and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a decade has passed since the fall of Sekmet’s dark rule. While the Krystal Kingdom rebuilds, and hunts down the remnants of Sekmet’s dark empire, a new, more sinister threat arises to curse the family of Zidane and Maia. From the depths of the Shadow Realm, the Shadow Lord and his horde seek to swallow the Kystal Kingdom and plunge it into darkness. Zidane and the rest of the Krystal Kingdom must overcome this darkness, and save their world from the Shadow Realm’s grasp. New, and unlikely alliances are forged in this war of light against darkness.
Download or read book The Twin written by Gerbrand Bakker and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return to the small family farm. He resigns himself to taking over his brother's role and spending the rest of his days 'with his head under a cow'. After his old, worn-out father has been transferred upstairs, Helmer sets about furnishing the rest of the house according to his own minimal preferences. 'A double bed and a duvet', advises Ada, who lives next door, with a sly look. Then Riet appears, the woman once engaged to marry his twin. Could Riet and her son live with him for a while, on the farm?'The Twin' is an ode to the platteland, the flat and bleak Dutch countryside with its ditches and its cows and its endless grey skies. Ostensibly a novel about the countryside, as seen through the eyes of a farmer, 'the Twin' is, in the end, about the possibility or impossibility of taking life into one's own hands. It chronicles a way of life which has resisted modernity, is culturally apart, and yet riven with a kind of romantic longing. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Download or read book The Gift of Consciousness written by Gitte Bechsgaard and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meticulously researched and compellingly written, The Gift of Consciousness is an engaging and approachable overview of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras through the prism of both Eastern and Western psychology. Grounded in a thorough knowledge of the Sanskrit original and training in psychology, Gitte Bechsgaard opens out these complex texts to the general reading public. Bechsgaard's clear-eyed approach makes this ancient text relevant to anyone interested in Yoga philosophy and practice. This book ...
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Download or read book Cerebral Laterality written by Frederick L. Kitterle and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on clinical populations and studies of normal individuals support the conclusion that there are functional differences between the cerebral hemispheres. This book captures some of the major developments in the field of cerebral laterality research of the last five years. These include lateralization in non-human primates, computational models of hemispheric processing, hemispheric transfer and interaction, perceptual asymmetries, techniques to measure dynamic changes in hemispheric processing of information, and new conceptualizations of the relation between handedness and cerebral laterality. The topics discussed exhibit an interconnectedness such that the approaches and techniques used in one area of cerebral laterality research have implications for research in other disciplines. They also reflect changes in the conceptualization of general theoretical issues regarding cerebral laterality research.
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Download or read book Two Seconds From Glory written by Meldrick Taylor and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meldrick Taylor was a young prodigy 8 year old kid, who had a dream to become a boxer not any ordinary boxer, but a World Boxing Champion and was raised by Ruby and Ronald Taylor living in Philadelphia Pennsylvania North Philly and his goals and aspirations was to be a fighter and he accomplish many achievements in his amateur boxing career winning the National Golden Glove's and National ABF at only 16 years old and at 17 years old won a Olympic Gold Medal in the 1984 Olympic games in Los Angeles California and turn Professional and became the IBF Junior Welterweight Champion at the age of 21 and his 5 Title defense, he fought Julio Czar Chavez the WBA Junior Welterweight Champion to consolidate the Title Belts, the Billing for the Match was Lightning vs Thunder for Meldrick speed and fast hands and Chavez great power, this was a action pack fight every single round entertaining leading up to the 12 and final round and Taylor is ahead and winning the fight in dramatic fashion and Chavez needing a knockout to be able to come out victorious, landed a right hand that landed on Taylor face and he went down to the canvas 9 seconds left in the fight Taylor grap the ropes and lifting himself up on his feet and the referee Richard Steele looking at Taylor stop the fight with only 2 Seconds remaining in the fight and the crowd went into a frenzy and Taylor corner man Lou Duva went bazooka, this was the most infamous and Controversial Stoppard in Boxing History
Download or read book A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences Embracing the Entire Range of Scientific and Allied Sciences written by Albert Henry Buck and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
