Download or read book The Tales of The Chosen Illusion written by Matthew Faulkner and published by Matthew Faulkner. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cherry and Gingerbread continue their journey while forming new alliances with Chief's underground rebel group. Surprisingly, everything goes perfectly; a little too perfect. Cherry begins to suspect the unexpected while creating a false front to ward off the other weary eyes. Not everyone is fooled, Cherry only has so much time left. Come read the EPIC conclusion of the Tales of the Chosen Book Series!
Download or read book The World of Illusions written by Temple H. Hernlund and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the gospel revealed in the Garden of Eden? What happened to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Why was it necessary for Christ to spend three days in the grave? These answers and much more are explained in Cursed Out: The Gospel Told from the Beginning. This book gives an in depth discussion and a fresh look at the gospel from the book of Genesis. It is designed as an evangelistic tool to win souls once they recognize and understand the significance of what happened in the beginning. The Gospel Told from the Beginning proves God was not taken off guard due to the fall of man. God had a plan. In the beginning, God promised and prophesied the birth of a Savior. Wanda Robinson is a very gifted and anointed teacher. Frequently she is asked to preach at various churches in the local area. Her background spans some thirty years, plus as a mathematics instructor in the public school system. She was ordained in 1998. She currently ministers Ihe word of God to female inmates in jails, prisons, and work release programs, as well as, teaches at Faith Christian University. She holds a Master's degree in Theology and is presently finishing up her Doctoral degree in Theology. She is a fine role model of a single woman that loves the Lord.
Download or read book Ovid s Poetics of Illusion written by Philip R. Hardie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-07 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid's poetry is haunted obsessively by a sense both of the living fullness of the texts and of the emptiness of these 'insubstantial pageants'. This major study touches on the whole of Ovid's output, from the Amores to the exile poetry, and is an overarching treatment of illusionism and the textual conjuring of presence in the corpus. Modern critical and theoretical approaches, accompanied by close readings of individual passages, examine the topic from the points of view of poetics and rhetoric, aesthetics, the psychology of desire, philosophy, religion and politics. There are also case studies of the reception of Ovid's poetics of illusion in Renaissance and modern literature and art. The book will interest students and scholars of Latin and later European literatures. All foreign languages are accompanied by translations.
Download or read book The Illusion of Murder written by Carol McCleary and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intrepid Nellie Bly, the world's most famous reporter, sets sail around the world on a dazzling adventure and becomes embroiled in international intrigue with the fate of nations at stake.
Download or read book Dangerous Illusions Code of Honor Book 1 written by Irene Hannon and published by Revell. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trish Bailey is on overload trying to deal with a demanding job, an ailing mother, and a healing heart. When a series of unsettling memory lapses leads to a tragic death--and puts Trish under police scrutiny--her world is once again thrown into turmoil. Detective Colin Flynn isn't certain what to think of the facts he uncovers during his investigation. Did Trish simply make a terrible mistake or is there more to the case than meets the eye? As he searches for answers, disturbing information begins to emerge--and if the forces at work are as evil as he suspects, the situation isn't just dangerous . . . it's deadly. Bestselling and award-winning author Irene Hannon captures readers with a mind-bending story that will have them doubling back to retrace their steps--and figure out what they missed!
Download or read book The Lullaby Illusion written by Susan Joyce and published by Peel Productions. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully-crafted memoir caroms through a twelve-year period in the life of a young American woman in the Middle East and Europe. When a coup and war turn the paradise of Cyprus into a living hell, she is in the middle. Later, her marriage in tatters, she awakens to her ability to create her life anew as an artist, writer, and more.
Download or read book Illusions of Camelot written by Peter Boal and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the artistic director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet and former principal dancer for the New York City Ballet comes an unforgettable memoir about one artist's journey from boyhood to ballet. Peter's story starts in the pastoral and privileged town of Bedford, New York: a rare enclave 40 miles north of New York City where private schools, country clubs, and families hold their own rules and secrets. Within the town, views of race, morality, and sexuality are unspoken yet evident. Meanwhile, at home, Peter and his family are left to grapple with his father's alcoholism and untimely death. As a young boy finding his way, Peter soon turns to ballet. Ultimately his passion becomes a beacon, leading him to work at the New York City Ballet as a teenager, living on his own while discovering the pitfalls and pleasures Manhattan has to offer. Throughout Peter's deeply personal work, you'll meet Hattie Lindsay, Peter's caregiver, whose love for Peter matches her disdain for Henry, the family dog. You'll step onto the club house floor during ballroom dancing lessons in Bedford, into the studios of the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center, and onto the stage in George Balanchine's The Nutcracker as Peter performs the title role of the Nutcracker Prince. For all the laughter these stories offer, gravity is everywhere. Moments by Balanchine's hospital bedside, or in the AIDS-ravaged ward at Columbia-Presbyterian hospital as a loved one's life passes away are told with painful honesty and raw hurt. Peter's journey takes us to the start of a storied career as a dancer with the New York City Ballet and leaves us with insights into the unique path of an artist and individual shaped by environment, circumstance, and family.
Download or read book The Tales of the Chosen Phoenix Fire written by Matthew Faulkner and published by Matthew Faulkner. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wait, I am slipping, help, catch me!” “The parachute failed, catch her! The trees, ah! Is she okay?” “Their coming, their coming. Run! I do not see them, where are they?” “Watch out for the hatchet!” “Wait, sir, please help us! Please, my friend is bleeding, oh dear, please help!” “Quick, get her inside!” “Who are you?” “Oh my, is she going to make it?” Come read the chilling adventures of Gingerbread, Cherry, and Commander Trizzy attempt to save the world.
Download or read book Tristan s Shadow written by Adrian Daub and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and Siegfried. Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century’s most influential operas—and created some of the most indelible characters ever to grace the stage. But over the course of his polarizing career, Wagner also composed volumes of essays and pamphlets, some on topics seemingly quite distant from the opera house. His influential concept of Gesamtkunstwerk—the “total work of art”—famously and controversially offered a way to unify the different media of an opera into a coherent whole. Less well known, however, are Wagner’s strange theories on sexuality—like his ideas about erotic acoustics and the metaphysics of sexual difference. Drawing on the discourses of psychoanalysis, evolutionary biology, and other emerging fields of study that informed Wagner’s thinking, Adrian Daub traces the dual influence of Gesamtkunstwerk and eroticism from their classic expressions in Tristan und Isolde into the work of the generation of composers that followed, including Zemlinsky, d’Albert, Schreker, and Strauss. For decades after Wagner’s death, Daub writes, these composers continued to grapple with his ideas and with his overwhelming legacy, trying in vain to write their way out from Tristan’s shadow.
Download or read book The World of Illusions written by TEMPLE HERNLUND and published by Author House. This book was released on 2008-01-23 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not simply a story of grand adventures, wizards and magic, but a record of the author's memories of the future brought into the present through the dimensions of time. It spins a tale of the fulfillment of the ancient prophecy about the return of the Light to the world of man, the coming of the chosen one and the alignment of destiny. This story is one of light and love, written in a way to carry the message of the spirit to many. It's not just a book, it's an experience.
Download or read book Cruel Illusions written by Margie Fuston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The perfect sinisterly magical escape…full of longing, desperation, and betrayal.” —Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval trilogy and Once Upon a Broken Heart Caraval meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this “beguiling” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) young adult fantasy about a girl who makes a deal with a magical secret society to enter a potentially deadly competition for the chance to avenge her mother’s death. Ever since a vampire murdered her mother, Ava has been determined to get revenge. This all-encompassing drive has given her the fuel she needed to survive foster home after foster home. But it’s been ten years since anyone’s seen a vampire, and Ava has lost hope that she’ll ever find one…until she stumbles across a hidden magic show where she witnesses impossible illusions. The magicians may not be the bloodsuckers she’s hunting, but Ava is convinced something supernatural is at play, so she sneaks backstage and catches them in acts they can’t explain. But they’ve been waiting for her. The magicians reveal they’re part of an ancient secret society with true magic, and Ava has the same power in her blood that they do. If she joins them, they promise to teach her the skills she needs to hunt vampires and avenge her mother. But there’s a catch: if she wants to keep the power they offer, she needs to prove she’s worthy of it. And to do so, she must put on the performance of her life in a sinister and dangerous competition where illusion and reality blur, and the stakes are deadly.
Download or read book Illusions in Motion written by Erkki Huhtamo and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a “window” by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.
Download or read book The Summoner War A Gods Chosen Story written by Zachary Jennings and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-02-20 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the mercenary group employed by the city of Jenaut, Demons seem to remain as the only great threat they would ever see. Five years and the burden of life begin to set and stress bonds. Yet, a lone power sits upon the horizon and grows ever increasingly hostile towards them. A tense anger carried on the air in whispers and remains on the tips of tongues. A constricting and fearful power, it seems the mercenaries stand powerless before it. Aid comes from places unexpected and emerges from shadows of nightmares only to disappear when they turn. Shortly, they begin to understand that Sylsteruin, their world, contains more frightening entities than they ever could dream. One such entity, watching with a growing hunger, begins to question the very foundations the Gods set forth as the world tips closer to war between Summoners, heralds of Gods. Will they find themselves lost in the maws of creatures mad? Will they change the words as Fate reads them? She cannot know, no one can know.
Download or read book The Curse on the Chosen written by Ian Irvine and published by Santhenar Trust. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The allies are trapped on Mistmurk Mountain and the God-Emperor guards every way of escape. There’s only one chance left: for demure little Maelys to confess to a crime she has not committed, though if she does it must turn her friends against her. And even if they can escape through the perilous shadow realm, the God-Emperor’s armies will hunt them to the ends of the world. Nish, Flydd and Maelys have no choice but to trek to the Tower of a Thousand Steps, on the frozen Isle of Noom. There they must seek aid from the implacable sorcerer who has controlled the world for an unknown but terrible purpose for more than a century – the Numinator. But on that tragic journey they will uncover a deadly secret, a folly that has been shaping life and death in the Three Worlds for over three thousand years, and now threatens to consume them all. You won’t want to miss this ‘unflaggingly inventive’ fantasy series by million-selling author Ian Irvine. What reviewers say about the Three Worlds books “A compelling adventure in a landscape full of wonders.” – Locus “A page-turner of the highest order … Formidable!” – SFX on Geomancer “It is the most engrossing book I’ve read in years.” – Van Ikin, Sydney Morning Herald “Readers of Eddings, Goodkind and Jordan will lap this one up.” – Starlog “Utterly absorbing.” Stephen Davenport, Independent Weekly “For sheer excitement, there’s just no one like Irvine.” SFX on The Destiny of the Dead “As good as anything I have read in the fantasy genre.” – Adelaide Advertiser Reviews of The Song of the Tears trilogy “Hang on with both hands, because this story waits for no one.” Sandy Auden, SFX on The Fate of the Fallen. “The final payoff is fantastic. The most unflaggingly inventive storyteller we’ve seen in years.” Sydney Morning Herald on The Destiny of the Dead ‘Unbelievably, Irvine has managed to increase the pace of his story in this third and final volume – for sheer excitement, there’s just no one like Irvine around at the moment.’ SFX on The Destiny of the Dead. ‘This precise and beautifully crafted novel blooms from its ascetic opening to a resonant and rewarding climax. Makes what’s currently available on fantasy
Download or read book The Price of Illusion written by Joan Juliet Buck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris and “one of the most compelling personalities in the world of style” (New York Times) comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris—“If you loved The Devil Wears Prada, you’ll adore The Price of Illusion” (Elle). In a book as rich and dramatic as the life she’s led, Joan Juliet Buck takes us into the splendid illusions of film, fashion, and fame to reveal, in stunning, sensual prose, the truth behind the artifice. The only child of a volatile movie producer betrayed by his dreams, she became a magazine journalist at nineteen to reflect and record the high life she’d been brought up in, a choice that led her into a hall of mirrors where she was both magician and dupe. After a career writing for Vogue and Vanity Fair, she was named the first American woman to edit VogueParis. The vivid adventures of this thoughtful, incisive writer at the hub of dreams across two continents over fifty years are hilarious and heartbreaking. Including a spectacular cast of carefully observed legends, monsters, and stars (just look at the index!), this is the moving account of a remarkable woman’s rocky passage through glamour and passion, filial duty and family madness, in search of her true self.
Download or read book The Tales of the Chosen written by Matthew Faulkner and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wait, I am slipping, help, catch me!" "The parachute failed, catch her! The trees, ah! Is she okay?" "Their coming, their coming. Run! I do not see them, where are they?" "Watch out for the hatchet!" "Wait, sir, please help us! Please, my friend is bleeding, oh dear, please help!" "Quick, get her inside!" "Who are you?" "Oh my, is she going to make it?" Come read the chilling adventures of Gingerbread, Cherry, and Commander Trizzy attempt to save the world.
Download or read book Deadly Illusions written by and published by Chester Campbell. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining series just keeps getting better and better. Campbells latest features his crisp writing and clever plotting. Julia Spencer-Fleming, Anthony and Agatha award winning author.
