Darkly
Darkly

Author: Leila Taylor

Publisher: Watkins Media Limited

Published: 2019-11-12

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1912248557

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes its connections to race and racism in 21st-century America Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards—the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story. Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly explores American culture’s inevitable gothicity in the traces left from chattel slavery. The persistence of white supremacy and the ubiquity of Black death feeds a national culture of terror and a perpetual undercurrent of mourning. If the gothic narrative is metabolized fear, if the goth aesthetic is

A Scanner Darkly
A Scanner Darkly

Author: Philip K. Dick

Publisher: Del Rey

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 9780345260642

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize he is narcing on himself. Caustically funny, eerily accurate in its depiction of junkies, scam artists, and the walking brain-dead, Philip K. Dick's industrial-grade stress test of identity is as unnerving as it is enthralling.

Darkly
Darkly

Author: Helen Hardt

Publisher: Entangled: Amara

Published: 2021-05-25

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1649371853

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Braden Black invites you into his world—and into his bed—in this seductive companion novel to Follow Me Darkly from #1 New York Times bestselling author Helen Hardt. After posing in his underwear for one of the hottest magazines in the world, Braden Black is suddenly everyone's business. Now the world wants a glimpse into the life of Boston's Blue-Collar Billionaire. But only what he lets them see. The only exception is emerging photographer Skye Manning. Because something about this Kansas farm girl is tantalizingly irresistible... Only, the growing need to have Skye in his bed—or just to have her, period—is unravelling something deep in Braden. Stirring up certain desires. To not just have what he wants, but to satisfy everything she wants...and what she doesn't know she wants. Bringing her into his world could be dangerous. But Skye Manning is a challenge, and billionaire Braden Black never backs down from a challenge. Discover Helen Hardt's bestselling Follow Me series, starting with Follow Me Darkly from Skye's perspective, and Darkly from Braden's. Each book in the series is followed by a delightfully spicy companion book in Braden's voice for the ultimate sinful experience.

Ace Darkly
Ace Darkly

Author: Nathan Nixon

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-01-31

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1479767743

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

What would one man do to avenge the only thing good in his life? What would any of us do? Ace Darkly is pushed into vengeance against the crime ridden city, Vandallice. When this happens Ace transcends from being a local rock star to becoming a vigilante. He soon then discovers a world of people with super human powers, like the beautiful Lumanessa who controls light. Vandallice City is full of dangerous people, some more so than others. Amongst the sea of killers, thieves, and rapist, are the men that wronged Ace. Justice will be found, but not before vengeance.

Death Comes Darkly
Death Comes Darkly

Author: David S. Pederson

Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc

Published: 2016-04-12

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1626396264

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

JCan a detective and a policeman find love amidst murder? Heath Barrington is an attractive, clever, big city detective, confident, strong, and crazy about police officer Alan Keyes. Down-to-earth, noble, and naïve, Alan struggles with his desires for Heath versus 1940s America and his guilty conscience. JHeath’s skills of deduction and reasoning are put to the test as he and Alan work together to solve the murder of an eccentric millionaire in his mysterious, isolated estate. They search for clues and uncover long buried secrets of the weekend guests while keeping secrets of their own. JIt’s up to Heath to solve the mystery and convince Alan that some secrets aren’t worth keeping, and lust can lead to love.

Through a Glass Darkly
Through a Glass Darkly

Author: Thomas R. Melville

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2005-01-14

Total Pages: 653

ISBN-13: 1465325409

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Through a Glass Darkly tells the story of Ron Hennessey, an Iowa farmer who returned from the Korean War to discover that farming no longer held much allure. Hennessey joined a Catholic missionary society and after nine years of study was ordained a priest and sent to Guatemala. The book describes Hennessey's conversion from being an unapologetic patriot from America's heartland to a staunch opponent of Ronald Reagan's policies in Central America - policies that occasionally threatened Hennessey's life. Hennessey's story has a subtext: America's ideals of freedom, democracy, and progress-with-justice have been violated abroad by one U.S. president after another.

Through a Screen Darkly
Through a Screen Darkly

Author: Ahron Friedberg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-05

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1000383644

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Winner of the 2022 Gradiva® Award for Best Book – Historic Moment for Reflection! This book offers real-time, intimate reflections on Dr. Friedberg’s patients as they struggle with COVID-19 and its disruptive, dispiriting fallout. Through a Screen Darkly identifies the psychological distress caused by the pandemic, examining how the particular elements of COVID-19 – its ability to be spread by those who seem not to have it, its intractability, the long-term uncertainty that it engenders – leave even relatively stable people shaken and unsure of the future. The book examines how, amidst radical uncertainty and the prospect of massive social change, such people learn to become resilient. The main theme of the book is that, of necessity, we learn to adapt. Though we still can only see "darkly," we can call on the resources that we have, as well as those we can reasonably acquire, so as to retain a sense of our dignity and purpose. Through a Screen Darkly examines what is possible now as the pandemic runs its course. It makes no predictions of how all this will ultimately play out, but offers a time capsule of how people have coped with a disease that landed suddenly and that we still do not fully understand. Offering a series of intense encounters with worried, traumatized people, this book will be invaluable to in-training and practicing psychiatrists, as it points to the several possible directions for our national, psychological recovery from the pandemic.

A Glass Darkly
A Glass Darkly

Author: Ray Coleman

Publisher: ShieldCrest

Published: 2016-07

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1910176230

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The influence of money loans on global affairs appears to be driven by corrupt banking and large scale investors who manipulate the markets. Leonora is drawn into this ruthless world when she meets Dr Sean Doherty. Leonora is a privileged woman schooled in the arts, raised among gentry who are seriously wealthy. Richard is a poor farmers son. They meet in the woods surrounding her familys stately home and become young sweethearts. Richard is called up to serve in Britains dirty war in Kenya and when he returns they marry, resulting in Leonoras disinheritance. Their financial ruin finally wrecks the marriage. They take lovers who change their perceptions of life but their abiding love for each other rides out the storm.

Through Glass Darkly
Through Glass Darkly

Author: Peter Knyte

Publisher: Clandestine Books Limited

Published: 2021-09-26

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1912367173

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A powerful thunderstorm rages over New York City sending its citizens dashing through the torrential rain.. Between the lightning flashes a strange craft of huge proportions suddenly appears, a metallic airship bristling with weapons. But the ship is clearly damaged, with large holes in its sides through which twisted metalwork protrudes, and countless shattered windows that reveal a dark and lifeless interior. However, despite the appearance of this great vessel, the captain and some of the crew cling to life, but this is not the city or the world they left, dispatched on a desperate mission to stop an enemy of unimaginable ferocity. Where has this ship sailed from, and how can her captain and crew find their way home, when the craft which has been their home now lies in ruins, and when the enemy that has nearly destroyed them appears to have followed them to this new world, which looks and feels so like their own. Through Glass Darkly is the first book in the Glass Darkly Diesel-punk series: - Through Glass Darkly - By a Blue and Crimson Light - A Shadow on the Sky Set in the mid 1930s the Glass Darkly series follows the adventures of Captain Howard Hughes and the crew of military airship Kubla Khan, as they travel into a strange other dimension known as the Miasmic Expanse, trying to find their way home. The Glass Darkly series is an alternative history science fiction story, suitable for most ages. It features fictionalized versions of real historic individuals and places, but is purely a work of fiction.

Through a Glass Darkly
Through a Glass Darkly

Author: Holly Faith Nelson

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2010-06-09

Total Pages: 698

ISBN-13: 1554582911

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Suffering, the sacred, and the sublime are concepts that often surface in humanities research in an attempt to come to terms with what is challenging, troubling or impossible to represent. These intersecting concepts are used to mediate the gap between the spoken and the unspeakable, between experience and language, between body and spirit, between the immanent and the transcendent, and between the human and the divine. The twenty-five essays in Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory, written by international scholars working in the fields of literary criticism, philosophy, and history, address the ways in which literature and theory have engaged with these three concepts and related concerns. The contributors analyze literary and theoretical texts from the medieval period to the postmodern age, from the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert to those of Endô Shûsaku, Alice Munro, Annie Dillard, Emmanuel Levinas, and Slavoj Žižek. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of religion and literature, philosophy and literature, aesthetic theory, and trauma studies.