Foolish Aspirations

Author : M. Scott Swanson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1954383037

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Foolish Aspirations by M. Scott Swanson Pdf

Being psychic, I should have known I'd end up living in Guntersville, Alabama--the most dangerous place for me given the exponential growth of my paranormal "gifts." An ironic twist of fate. Right?I'm only back in my hometown temporarily. I hope. What other choice do I have when my long-held dream of being a high-dollar defense attorney was stolen from me in Atlanta? Moving home was a frugal decision on my part, but it's not free. There are a mind-blowing number of strings attached-all unspoken, of course. We are southern, after all. It's rude to ask directly.I'm grateful for the room and board while I prepare for my rise from the ashes with a spectacular plan "B" to start my life. Still, it leaves me cobbling together odd jobs to pay for my monstrous student loan debts.My brother Dusty is researching the next installment of his best-selling "Thirteen Haunts" novel series. My "gifts" are in high demand. He offers me an obscene amount of money to assist his paranormal investigation team. The team's next excursion is to the Osborne hotel in Paducah, Kentucky. A poltergeist recently caused the death of one of the hotel staff.I must decrease my involvement with paranormal events. I've noticed with each exposure to the supernatural, my strange powers level up. Still, I'm going on their ghost hunting excursion. Did I mention the job pays exceptionally well?Uncle Howard left the law office in my hands while he takes a vacation to the beach. I think he has a love interest in Mobile. Not that it's any of my beeswax, except I'm left responsible for planning a credible defense to keep a mom of four out of jail, and I could use his advice. She's charged with murdering her husband-the prosecution is out for blood-no pressure there, of course.As if my dance card isn't full enough, Shane White, my "I wish he were my boyfriend" guy friend, comes for a visit.

Author : Claire North
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316316859

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The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North Pdf

A hauntingly powerful novel about how the choices we make can stay with us forever, by the award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. South Africa in the 1880s. A young and naive English doctor by the name of William Abbey witnesses the lynching of a local boy by the white colonists. As the child dies, his mother curses William. William begins to understand what the curse means when the shadow of the dead boy starts following him across the world. It never stops, never rests. It can cross oceans and mountains. And if it catches him, the person he loves most in the world will die. Gripping, moving, and thought-provoking, The Pursuit of William Abbey proves once again that Claire North is one of the most innovative voices in modern fiction. Previous books by Claire North:The First Fifteen Lives of Harry AugustTouchThe Sudden Appearance of HopeThe End of the Day84KThe Gameshouse Previous books written as Kate Griffin:Matthew Swift novels:A Madness of AngelsThe Midnight MayorThe Neon CourtThe Minority Council Magicals Anonymous novels:Stray SoulsThe Glass God

Author : Alexia Purdy,J.T. Lewis
Publisher : Lyrical Lit. Publishing
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Dark Faerie Tale Series Omnibus Edition (Books 4, 5, & 6) by Alexia Purdy,J.T. Lewis Pdf

Get lost in an addictive fantasy adventure! A fan favorite, this boxed set lets you continue the adventures of The Land of Faerie with beloved characters, new addictions and never ending magic! This three-novel boxed set contains: Ever Wrath (A Dark Faerie Tale #4) History of Fire (A Dark Faerie Tale #5) Ever Dead (A Dark Faerie Tale #6) Ever Wrath: Shade rules as Queen of the Seelie Summer Court with her love, a Teleen Faerie named Dylan at her side. But, the dark court of Unseelie faeries will do everything in their power to rule the earth, including enslaving the human world. Arthas, the Unseelie Ancient King, has shattered the boundaries of Faerie and the human cities are filling with his evil, unearthly armies. History of Fire: Benton is human, but he walks the line between two worlds: the mundane and the supernatural; the commonplace and the extraordinary. As a rare Fire Elemental Warlock, he finds himself in trouble more often than he cares to admit. It doesn’t help that his sister is a Faery Queen of the Summer Seelie Court. This is Benton’s story as he makes his way between the mortal world and a world where magic reigns. Do you dare follow? Do you dare see what lurks just beyond the edge of perception? Ever Dead: Confronted by a warrior named Benton, who has the ability to disintegrate other beings with his flaming sword, Hank’s world continues to spiral away from reality. Especially when he inadvertently discovers a whole new world, unknown to most of humankind…along with the surprising realization that he is inescapably tied to this new and magical land. All three novels in one thrilling boxed set!

Author : Bog O'Mullet
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631357121

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The Night Palace by Bog O'Mullet Pdf

Bog O’Mullet’s story is loosely based on a journey he made in 1975-6 when he travelled through Europe on a Triumph motorcycle, all his possessions in a yellow plastic bag strapped across the bike. An interest in computers later led to his career designing and building large IT systems for industry. Today he remembers the seventies as a golden age, the last decade before computerisation enslaved us. Now retired, he tends his collection of ‘70s superbikes and writes. This is his first novel. “The Night Palace is startlingly original. A spiritual noir— part globetrotting thriller, part, psychological drama— the novel follows Henry, its captivating protagonist, on his adventures (and internal, soul-seeking journey) across Europe as he finds himself entangled in bizarre and chilling plots, enmeshed in a strange world of mysterious characters, and forced to face his past and future, as each choice he makes unlocks new doors of understanding. Author Bog O’Mullet expertly blends romance, danger, and philosophy, portraying the inner-life of a man embarked on an odyssey of hard-won change; the novel has such a wide breadth of characters and narrative intrigues which elevate the story into a gripping parable that resonates into universality. The prose is sharp and fast, Mr. O’Mullet painting wild, vivid locales and portraying the poetic depths of the soul with an artful ease that draws the reader into the novel and holds them there with twists, turns, and profound truths. A stunning work. I highly recommend The Night Palace.” —Charles Asher MFA, Phi Beta Kappa Reviews If you liked Kurt Vonnegut (Breakfast of Champions) and Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) back in the seventies, then you’ll enjoy The Night Palace today.

Author : Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 1475 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806192543

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Recuerdos by Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo Pdf

A generation after the U.S. conquest of California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo set out to write the story of the land he knew so well—a history to dispel the romantic vision quickly overtaking the state’s recent past. The five-volume history he produced, published here for the first time in English translation, is the most complete account of California before the gold rush by someone who resided in California at the time. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807–90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of U.S. California, such as the Monterey Constitutional Convention and the first legislature. With his project, undertaken for historian and publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft, Vallejo sought to correct misrepresentations of California’s past, which dismissed as insignificant the pre–gold rush Spanish and Mexican periods—conflated into one “Mission era.” Instead, Vallejo’s history emphasized the role of the military in the Spanish colonization of California and argued that the missionaries after Junípero Serra, with their medieval ideas, had actually retarded the development of California until secularization in the early 1830s. Culture, he contended, was of intense interest to the Californio people, as was the education of children. His accounts of Indigenous peoples, while often sympathetic, were also characteristic of his time: he and other California military leaders, Vallejo maintained, had successfully subdued “hostile” Indians and established mutually beneficial relationships with others. Out of keeping with Bancroft’s American triumphalism, Vallejo’s monumental project was consigned to the archives. With their deft translation and commentary, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz—authors of a companion volume on Vallejo’s work—have brought to light a remarkable perspective, often firsthand, on important events in early California history. Their efforts restore a critical chapter to the story of California and the American West.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : IND:30000097228765

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Final Conference Report for the National Conference on Managing the Environment by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Cowart
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0809314797

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History and the Contemporary Novel by David Cowart Pdf

Cowart presents a study of international historical fiction since World War II, with reflections on the affinities between historical and fictional narrative, analysis of the basic modes of historical fiction, and readings of a number of historical novels, including John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor, Marguerite Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian, Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa’s The Leopard, D. M. Thomas’s The White Hotel, William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses, and Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. He proposes recognizing four modes of the historical novel: the past as a "distant mirror" of the present, fictions whose authors seek to pinpoint the precise historical moment when the modern age or some prominent feature of it came into existence, fictions whose authors aspire purely or largely to historical verisimilitude, and fictions whose authors reverse history to contemplate utopia and dystopia in the future. Thus, historical fiction can be organized under the rubrics: The Distant Mirror; The Turning Point; The Way It Was; and The Way It Will Be. This fourfold schema and his focus on postwar novels set Cowart’s work apart from previous studies, which have not devoted adequate space to the contemporary historical novel. Cowart argues that postwar historical fiction merits more extensive treatment because it is the product of an age unique in the annals of history—an age in which history itself may end.

Author : Barbara Kachur
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137047793

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Etherege and Wycherley by Barbara Kachur Pdf

Etherege & Wycherley is the first book-length study devoted solely to these two leading comic dramatists of the early Restoration period. B.A. Kachur explores the major plays by George Etherege and William Wycherley within the context of the cultural, social and political changes that marked the reign of Charles II, and addresses issues such as marriage, manners, heroism, sovereignty and anxieties over class hierarchies which preoccupied late seventeenth-century England. The book provides studies of the following plays: - She Would If She Could - The Man of Mode - The Country Wife - The Plain Dealer In addition to examining the plays as cultural and historical texts, Kachur offers: - Biographical sketches detailing the dramaturgical styles of the two playwrights - An overview of Charles II's reign, including its effects on the dramatic literature of the era - A survey of Carolean theatre and drama outlining innovations in staging, and major dramatic genres - Performance histories which illuminate the ways in which twentieth-century directors have interpreted the comedies to make them accessible to modern audiences

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : African Americans
ISBN : HARVARD:HWRCHT

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The African Repository and Colonial Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elemér Hankiss
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9639241075

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Fears and Symbols by Elemér Hankiss Pdf

An encyclopedic study on the role that fear and anxiety have played as the organizing motives of human existence and social life. Hankiss explains how human beings have surrounded themselves with protective symbols: myths and religions, values and belief systems, ideas and scientific theories, moral and practical rules of behaviour, and a wide range of everyday rituals and trivialities.

Author : Kate Chisholm
Publisher : Random House
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446476314

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Fanny Burney by Kate Chisholm Pdf

Fanny Burney (1752-1840) is best known as the author of EVELINA, one of the most engaging novels of the eighteenth century. But for much of her long life, she was also an incomparable diarist, witnessing both the madness of George III and the young Queen Victoria's coronation. To read the journals she kept from the age of sixteen is to step back into Georgian England, meeting Dr Johnson, Garrick and Reynolds, being chased round the gardens of Kew Palace by the King. . . She was lady-in-writing to Queen Charlotte; she married an aristocratic emigre from the French Revolution and had her first and only child when she was forty-two; she was in Paris as Napoleon's armies marshalled against England, and in Brussels she heard the muffled guns, and watched the wounded being carried back from Waterloo. Kate Chisholm's delightful biography, incorporating the latest research and illustrate with unusual portraits and drawings, is lively, funny, shocking, informative and deeply moving; it paints a vivid portrait of a woman of great talent, against the changing background of England and France, a culture and an age.

Author : Edward N. Hoare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Inheritance and succession
ISBN : NLS:V000560888

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Harvey Compton's Holiday by Edward N. Hoare Pdf

Author : Lloyd Whitesell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199885770

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The Music of Joni Mitchell by Lloyd Whitesell Pdf

Joni Mitchell is one of the foremost singer-songwriters of the late twentieth century. Yet despite her reputation, influence, and cultural importance, a detailed appraisal of her musical achievement is still lacking. Whitesell presents a through exploration of Mitchell's musical style, sound, and structure in order to evaluate her songs from a musicological perspective. His analyses are conceived within a holistic framework that takes account of poetic nuance, cultural reference, and stylistic evolution over a long, adventurous career. Mitchell's songs represent a complex, meticulously crafted body of work. The Music of Joni Mitchell offers a comprehensive survey of her output, with many discussions of individual songs, organized by topic rather than chronology. Individual chapters each explore a different aspect of her craft, such as poetic voice, harmony, melody, and large-scale form. A separate chapter is devoted to the central theme of personal freedom, as expressed through diverse symbolic registers of the journey quest, bohemianism, creative license, and spiritual liberation. Previous accounts of Mitchell's songwriting have tended to favor her poetic vision, expansive verse structures, and riveting vocal delivery. Whitesell fills out this account with special attention to musical technique, showing how such traits as complex or conflicting sonorities, dualities of harmonic mode, dialectical tensions of texture and register, intricately layered instrumental figuration, and a variable vocal persona are all essential to her distinctive identity as a songwriter. The Music of Joni Mitchell develops a set of conceptual tools geared specifically to Mitchell's songs, in order to demonstrate the extent of her technical innovation in the pop song genre, to give an account of the formal sophistication and rhetorical power characterizing her work as a whole, and to provide grounds for the recognition of her intellectual stature as a composer within her chosen field.

Author : R. Bell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230337725

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Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools by R. Bell Pdf

This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare's theatrical career, Bell highlights the fun, wit, insights, and mysteries of some of Shakespeare's most vibrant and often vexing figures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101079674444

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The Speaker by Anonim Pdf