Cracked Coffins

Author : Beronika Keres
Publisher : Immortal Woods Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781777151416

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Cracked Coffins by Beronika Keres Pdf

Run. Fight. Survive. A life of violence and drugs leaves Marianna Cortez desperate for normality. For a brief instant, she thinks she has found that with Denendrius. But he can’t maintain his sweet facade for long. Soon, he reveals himself for what he is... a deranged vampire longing to ensnare her in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Plan. Plot. Pray. Forced to play a part in Denendrius’s twisted fantasies, Marianna hunts for a way to escape. But he’s stronger than her, and capable of unimaginable cruelty. With her only hope of survival being to study her captor and learn his weaknesses, can Marianna uncover secrets from Denendrius’s dark past she can use to destroy him? Or will this monster, who clawed his way through her history, slaughter her chance at a future? Cracked Coffins is a new adult dark paranormal thriller that explores the horrors of abusive relationships with a vampiric twist. Expect profanity, mature themes, sexual violence, and general violence.

Author : Heather Graham
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780778316565

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The Betrayed by Heather Graham Pdf

When a friend is killed in Sleepy Hollow, New York FBI agent Aiden Mahoney, a new member of the Krewe of Hunters, joins Mo Deauville in the historic town to explore both past and present events to find the killer who now wants Aiden dead as well.

Author : Julie-Marie Strange
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139445870

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Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870–1914 by Julie-Marie Strange Pdf

With high mortality rates, it has been assumed that the poor in Victorian and Edwardian Britain did not mourn their dead. Contesting this approach, Julie-Marie Strange studies the expression of grief among the working class, demonstrating that poverty increased - rather than deadened - it. She illustrates the mourning practices of the working classes through chapters addressing care of the corpse, the funeral, the cemetery, commemoration, and high infant mortality rates. The book draws on a broad range of sources to analyse the feelings and behaviours of the labouring poor, using not only personal testimony but also fiction, journalism, and official reports. It concludes that poor people did not only use spoken or written words to express their grief, but also complex symbols, actions and, significantly, silence. This book will be an invaluable contribution to an important and neglected area of social and cultural history.

Author : D.H. Melhem
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813148588

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Gwendolyn Brooks by D.H. Melhem Pdf

Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the major American poets of this century and the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1950). Yet far less critical attention has focused on her work than on that of her peers. In this comprehensive biocritical study, Melhem -- herself a poet and critic -- traces the development of Brooks's poetry over four decades, from such early works as A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, and The Bean Eaters, to the more recent In the Mecca, Riot, and To Disembark. In addition to analyzing the poetic devices used, Melhem examines the biographical, historical, and literary contexts of Brooks's poetry: her upbringing and education, her political involvement in the struggle for civil rights, her efforts on behalf of young black poets, her role as a teacher, and her influence on black letters. Among the many sources examined are such revealing documents as Brooks's correspondence with her editor of twenty years and with other writers and critics. From Melhem's illuminating study emerges a picture of the poet as prophet. Brooks's work, she shows, is consciously charged with the quest for emancipation and leadership, for black unity and pride. At the same time, Brooks is seen as one of the preeminent American poets of this century, influencing both African American letters and American literature generally. This important book is an indispensable guide to the work of a consummate poet.

Author : Arthur Leo Zagat
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066355951

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Drink We Deep by Arthur Leo Zagat Pdf

"Drink We Deep" by Arthur Leo Zagat is a science fiction tale that takes place in tihe Heidelberg Hills of New York. It's here that Lake Wankoona lies. On the surface, this lake looks like a tranquil place, but beneath the water is a race of creatures no one in hiistory has ever been able to discover. When an archeologist is drawn into its depths, he learns that an entire new reality was hidden in plain sight.

Author : California State Board of Health
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : California
ISBN : UCLA:31158012736913

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Report by California State Board of Health Pdf

Author : Agnes Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNPEJU

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Relics - Fragments of a Life by Agnes Fraser Pdf

Author : Agnes Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074854633

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Relics by Agnes Fraser Pdf

Author : Chris Wooding
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781407136806

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The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding Pdf

Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Sherlock Holmes, this award-winning gothic thriller returns. London has survived war and plague only to face a new horror - the Wych Kin. All kinds of demons lurk in the labyrinth of the Old Quarter, and it is the task of wych-hunters such as Thaniel Fox to keep them at bay. Then one night he rescues a young woman who has lost her memory: the beautiful and vulnerable Alaizabel Cray. But Alaizabel is nursing a dark secret, one that even she does not understand, a secret that could unleash the most terrible evil of all - and bring destruction to the world.

Author : Mary Doria Russell
Publisher : Atria Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982109592

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The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell Pdf

From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Sparrow comes “historical fiction that feels uncomfortably relevant today” (Kirkus Reviews) about “America’s Joan of Arc”—the courageous woman who started a rebellion by leading a strike against the largest copper mining company in the world. In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements has seen enough of the world to know that it’s unfair. She’s spent her whole life in the mining town of Calumet, Michigan, where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and have barely enough to put food on the table for their families. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones aren’t coming home. So, when Annie decides to stand up for the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle. Yet as Annie struggles to improve the future of her town, her husband becomes increasingly frustrated with her growing independence. She faces the threat of prison while also discovering a forbidden love. On her fierce quest for justice, Annie will see just how much she is willing to sacrifice for the families of Calumet. From one of the most versatile writers in contemporary fiction, this novel is an authentic and moving historical portrait of the lives of the crucial men and women of the early labor movement “with an important message that will resonate with contemporary readers” (Booklist).

Author : Warren Rochelle
Publisher : JMS Books LLC
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781646568956

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To Bring Him Home and Other Tales by Warren Rochelle Pdf

Home, a place where we belong and are safe and loved. Home, the house in which we grew up, a neighborhood, a culture, even a country. Home is a state of mind, it is a place of the heart, and in the heart. Finding home, coming home, and bringing home the one we love is a journey, a journey that can be a dangerous adventure. For the lovers in these stories, adventures can include quests and fighting dragons and demons, past and present, physical as well as mental and emotional. Rocket launchers need to be dodged, the Wild Hunt needs to be outrun. For some of the lovers here, home has been lost, or they have been forced to leave, as is too common for LGBT+ youth. In this collection queer positive speculative fiction stories, explore the idea of what and where home is in the lives of these lovers. Will they survive their quests, defeat their monsters? Will they find a place to call home?

Author : Eleanor Herman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250140876

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The Royal Art of Poison by Eleanor Herman Pdf

One of Washington Independent Review of Books' 50 Favorite Books of 2018 • A Buzzfeed Best Book of 2018 "Morbidly witty." —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times "You’ll be as appalled at times as you are entertained." —Bustle, one of The 17 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out In June 2018 "A heady mix of erudite history and delicious gossip." —Aja Raden, author of Stoned In the Washington Post roundup, "What your favorite authors are reading this summer," A.J. Finn says, “I want to read The Royal Art of Poison, Eleanor Herman’s history of poisons." Hugely entertaining, a work of pop history that traces the use of poison as a political—and cosmetic—tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Kremlin today The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns, and antidotes tested on condemned prisoners. Servants licked the royal family’s spoons, tried on their underpants and tested their chamber pots. Ironically, royals terrified of poison were unknowingly poisoning themselves daily with their cosmetics, medications, and filthy living conditions. Women wore makeup made with mercury and lead. Men rubbed turds on their bald spots. Physicians prescribed mercury enemas, arsenic skin cream, drinks of lead filings, and potions of human fat and skull, fresh from the executioner. The most gorgeous palaces were little better than filthy latrines. Gazing at gorgeous portraits of centuries past, we don’t see what lies beneath the royal robes and the stench of unwashed bodies; the lice feasting on private parts; and worms nesting in the intestines. In The Royal Art of Poison, Eleanor Herman combines her unique access to royal archives with cutting-edge forensic discoveries to tell the true story of Europe’s glittering palaces: one of medical bafflement, poisonous cosmetics, ever-present excrement, festering natural illness, and, sometimes, murder.

Author : Carrie Ryan
Publisher : Ember
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780385741309

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Foretold by Carrie Ryan Pdf

Richelle Mead, Lisa McMann, Michael Grant, Meg Cabot, Laini Taylor, and nine more of the hottest YA authors to hit the shelves explore the concepts of prophecy and prediction in this story collection edited by NYT bestselling author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Carrie Ryan. Have you ever been tempted to look into the future? To challenge predictions? To question fate? It's human nature to wonder about life's twists and turns. But is the future already written—or do you have the power to alter it? From fantastical prophecies to predictions of how the future will transpire, Foretold is a collection of stories about our universal fascination with life's unknowns and of what is yet to come as interpreted by 14 of young adult fiction's brightest stars. This collection includes works from: Malinda Lo (Ash) Lisa McMann (Wake) Kami Garcia (Beautiful Creatures) Margaret Stohl (Beautiful Creatures) Laini Taylor (The Daughter of Smoke and Bone) Michael Grant (Gone) Saundra Mitchell (The Vespertine) Richelle Mead (the Vampire Academy) Matt de la Pena (I Will Save You) Meg Cabot (The Princess Diaries) Heather Brewer (The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod) Diana Peterfreund (Rampant) Simone Elkeles (Perfect Chemistry) Carrie Ryan (The Forest of Hands and Teeth)

Author : Ban Yincanjiu
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648576263

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Bury You In Coffin by Ban Yincanjiu Pdf

Since I was born, I have been the "Coffin Man" predestined to be alone for the rest of my life. The coffin shop was overcast, so I was single for 20 years. However, it was a coincidence. Marrying a thousand gold pieces was like marrying a ghost. My view of life instantly collapsed ...

Author : Lester del Rey
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547403203

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The Collected Works by Lester del Rey Pdf

This edition includes: Badge of Infamy The Sky Is Falling Police Your Planet Pursuit Victory ...And It Comes Out Here Let'em Breathe Space Operation Distress Dead Ringer No Strings Attached The Dwindling Years Earthbound