"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide." So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost intolerable horror of her suicide, he sets out to piece together the facts of her life, as he perceives them. What emerges is a loving portrait of inconsolable grief, a woman whose lively spirit has been crushed not once but over and over again by the miseries of her place and time. Yet well into middle age, living in the Austrian village of her birth, she still remains haunted by her dreams.
Kayla Ryan has her life all planned out with pure precision. She lives an average life, works several jobs, and has a long term plan to make her dreams come true. Wanting to speed things up, she gets a roommate. Unfortunately, the roommates arrives with a suitcase full of trouble. After accidentally filming a crime, Kayla is trouble’s new target. Using her skills as a theatre dresser, she assumes a disguise and starts running. The problem is, no matter where she goes, they always find her. A car accident leads to her rescue by gorgeous military men who both want to help and protect her. One in particular catches her eye, but she has a few problems to work out before she can consider relationships and romance. Namely, staying alive. Tristan Walsh wasn’t looking for romance, he stays too busy running Phantom Inc., a secret military organization called in for difficult jobs. He was truly beginning to feel settled in his new town, when on his way home from work a short, loud mouth blonde came crashing into his world. Everything about her draws him in but she is stubborn, headstrong, and independent. On top of that she takes issue with alpha men, which is the kind he is from head to toe. Tristan knows she is in some kind of trouble, and he has the means and will to help her. It doesn't matter if she wants help or not. So he digs into her business while she digs in her heels…
Beyond the borders of Foo lies the land of ZendorNa place where dreams are held captive with little thought for hope, but now Clover and Geth are determined to change that.
From my earliest days in school, I harboured a deep passion for literature. However, I never imagined that I might one day become an author. As a primary school teacher in the DAV organisation, I found myself in the company of intellectuals. This, coupled with the nurturing environment of my home, paved the way for my debut book in the field of literature. I've strived to craft both poetic and straightforward lines, hoping to make this thought-provoking book accessible and enjoyable for the readers. In this book, I've addressed a range of vibrant issues, putting forth my best effort to give each topic a meaningful dimension. It's my hope that these thoughtfully crafted pieces will not only please the readers but also provide them with delightful insight. This book is the manifestation of a dream made possible by divine blessings. The emotions and feelings that ebbed and flowed during the writing process have culminated in this humble treatise, which I offer to my readers as a gift of delightful reading.
This is a collection of seven epics, lyrics of seven respective musical albums, which I also composed. During that period of my life I passed through various experiences, which profoundly influenced my life and eventually my compositions, whether musical or lyrical. Maybe they could be a true reflection! A teenager of the seventies, I was a fan of classical and rock music with a special interest in progressive and heavy rock, which quite influenced my musical style and stirring ideas driving my potential writing gear. The various readings of science fiction, eastern ethnical beliefs and philosophies, some significant motion pictures, and the surrounding world of changes; incarnating tyranny, deceit, war, inhumanity, injustice...all contributed and had tangible impact on forming my ideology. The Martyr, the old-young man, who loved his human brotherhood and nature, whose enigma was to salvage them, who desparately searched for love but was absurdly treated, and winded up a martyr of his own principles! Could a simple person make a drastic decision to stop the wrong? Free the abused, whatever it took him? The Raver was sort of decisive evolution to countervail the dark world presented in the Demons' Kingdom. Land of a Thousand Dreams, blindness! What a mysterious world? Is it better or worse? A bless or a curse? An evolution, a paradigm shift from delirium to step on the threshold towards the route to promise land. Travelling in space and time, traversing life and death to reach reality, a contemplation of the mind was The Journey! When you have acquired knowledge, then you should share it and help others, lead them to enlightenment! Fly Free Gentle Dove is the aim. Have I really grasped the knowledge and gone beyond it to reach unity with the universe? The recapitulation is in the Voyages on the Oceans of Mystery.
"...[a] captivating, emotionally charged journey through America's past."--Publishers Weekly starred review on With Every Breath Anna O'Brien leads a predictable and quiet life as a map librarian at the illustrious Library of Congress until she stumbles across the baffling mystery of a ship disappeared at sea. Thwarted in her attempts to uncover information, her determination outweighs her shyness and she turns to a dashing congressman for help. Luke Callahan was one of the nation's most powerful congressmen before his promising career was shadowed in scandal. Eager to share in a new cause and intrigued by the winsome librarian, he joins forces with Anna to solve the mystery of the lost ship. Opposites in every way, Anna and Luke are unexpectedly drawn to each other despite the strict rules forbidding Anna from any romantic entanglements with members of Congress. From the gilded halls of the Capitol where powerful men shape the future of the nation, to the scholarly archives of the nation's finest library, Anna and Luke are soon embroiled in secrets much bigger and more perilous than they ever imagined. Is bringing the truth to light worth risking all they've ever dreamed for their futures?
Ever since Ariana Shannon was eight years old, she had a dream about a mysterious person, covered by shadows, always protecting her in the middle of a blaze. A few days since her last dream about, a boy transferred into her class. Mysterious and dangerous, everyone around was afraid of him. Scared to talk or even look at him, they kept their distance labeling him as a troublemaker since the very first day... with one exception... and three squirrels. He traveled the world, mostly in inhabited places. Because of the harsh conditions and the dangers he had to face daily, he developed a survival instinct that made him lose control over his actions whenever he was in a life-threatening situation. How can he live among humans again, if his life pushed him in the wildness? Can he learn to trust those around him, or will he prove to be a menace?With a turbulent past and an unfortunate secret, what kind of future awaits when two different destinies collide?
Bestselling science fiction master Peter F. Hamilton delivers the first of a two-book saga set in his popular Commonwealth universe. Distinguished by deft plotting, a teeming cast of characters, dazzling scientific speculation, and imagination that brings the truly alien to life, The Abyss Beyond Dreams reveals Hamilton as a storyteller of astonishing ingenuity and power. The year is 3326. Nigel Sheldon, one of the founders of the Commonwealth, receives a visit from the Raiel—self-appointed guardians of the Void, the enigmatic construct at the core of the galaxy that threatens the existence of all that lives. The Raiel convince Nigel to participate in a desperate scheme to infiltrate the Void. Once inside, Nigel discovers that humans are not the only life-forms to have been sucked into the Void, where the laws of physics are subtly different and mental powers indistinguishable from magic are commonplace. The humans trapped there are afflicted by an alien species of biological mimics—the Fallers—that are intelligent but merciless killers. Yet these same aliens may hold the key to destroying the threat of the Void forever—if Nigel can uncover their secrets. As the Fallers’ relentless attacks continue, and the fragile human society splinters into civil war, Nigel must uncover the secrets of the Fallers—before he is killed by the very people he has come to save. Praise for The Abyss Beyond Dreams “The work of an author at the top of his game.”—Science Fiction and Fantasy World “Incredibly robust and exciting and rousing, sharing flavors of Jack Vance, John Wright, China Miéville, Orson Scott Card, and A. E. van Vogt . . . Hamilton’s deployment of lots of grand super-science is utterly deft and convincing.”—Locus “Solidy engrossing fare . . . The characters, always Hamilton’s strength, remain as distinctive as ever.”—Kirkus Reviews “Everything one wants in sf—great characters, mind bending stuff, adventure, politics, romance, revolution . . . just superb.”—Fantasy Book Critic “Hamilton does a particular kind of planetary politics and space opera very well, and this is a perfect example of it. . . . [The Abyss Beyond Dreams is] a satisfying and well-oiled story, with potential for more epic adventure to come.”—Booklist
Provides a social history of how the CIA used the psychedelic drug LSD as a tool of espionage during the early 1950s and tested it on U.S. citizens before it spread into popular culture, in particular the counterculture as represented by Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, and others who helped spawn political and social upheaval.
While I was growing up in Jamaica, I kept hearing quotes, where people were saying, "You're born with a silver spoon in your mouth."I didn't understand what that means at all until I was fifteen years. My life story was so amazing to me—growing up in Jamaica and American naturalized citizen. I just found out at twelve years that my grandfather was Irish American, and my father was French.These were my gold spoon I didn't know for so many years. With all that gold spoon, I was living with my evil Aunt Vie.What I've learned through those evil days and nights was finding God at an early Age with faith and patience in my heart through all the years.
