The Familiar, Volume 3
The Familiar, Volume 3

Author: Mark Z. Danielewski

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2016-06-14

Total Pages: 889

ISBN-13: 0375714995

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The Familiar Volume 1 Wherein the cat is found . . . The Familiar Volume 2 Wherein the cat is hungry . . . The Familiar Volume 3 Wherein the cat is blind . . . Released for the summer from the perils of school, Xanther and her nameless cat are settling into a comfortable routine at home. However, the rest of the Ibrahim family is growing more and more unsettled. Astair fears their stretched finances are already at a breaking point. Not even a visit from an old friend can mitigate Anwar’s feeling that he’s failing to support those he loves and that even worse things are to come. The twins, Freya and Shasti, sense something too and blame their older sister. Honeysuckles haunt the air and smell of offerings . . . Meanwhile, Cas and Bobby’s survival may depend on facing the one person they fear most. And on the other side of the world, Jingjing and Tian Li set out to find what was lost: their missing cat. With spectacular visuals and the vibrant wordplay that are his trademark, The Familiar (Volume 3) is a beautiful and singular reading experience that could come only from the imagination of Mark Z. Danielewski. THE FAMILIAR continues The Familiar Volume 4 Wherein the cat is toothless . . . The Familiar Volume 5 Wherein the cat is named . . .

Riddled Deceit
Riddled Deceit

Author: Kris Butler

Publisher:

Published: 2021-08-30

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9781737765769

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Do you dare? You might never see my name in lights or flashed across the stage, but my roots were southern, my eyes bright, and my sass a mix of feisty-sweet. I was ready to take on anything life had to throw at me... until it did. I used to be a romantic, hopeful someday I'd fall in love with Mr. Right. After a slew of dating disasters, though, I'd convinced myself I was cursed. Now, almost twenty-six, I found myself working at a tattoo shop, wondering if it was time to try again. If only the men in my life would get a clue. Slade-the bossnemy-who liked to push my buttons. Simon-the one who got away-who wasn't even an option. Thane-the perfect guy-who swooped in to rescue me. It began so innocently, our inked confessions, a modern-day love story unfolding between us, but when the line between truth and lies blurred, how was I to know what was real? It was hidden somewhere between all the riddled deceit. The question was, was I even brave enough to unravel it? I'm Lennox James, and this is my story. *This is a why choose novel, meaning the main female character doesn't have to choose between love interests. This is a contemporary romantic suspense novel with some dark elements. This is an adult romance and intended for readers 18+ due to language and content. This series will contain MM.

Rekindling Our Passion for Jesus!
Rekindling Our Passion for Jesus!

Author: Regina Elliott

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2012-03

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1619966611

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What are you genuinely passionate about? Have you placed causes or issues, money and possessions, career advancements or promotions, family and fortune, fame or applause, community or cultural needs, sports, politics, or even "religion" before God? If you have, then where does God fit into your plans for life? Could it be that life is preoccupied with everything but Him? What really motivates you? What gets you up and going in the morning besides Starbucks or Folgers? Are you living the abundant life, or are you just existing? This book invokes a fresh look at the true meaning of what having a genuine "relationship" with Jesus is all about-and addresses pertinent issues to "real life" struggles we face in "finding" Him and serving Him- Who or What Do We Really Love? Realizing & Embracing Our Need for a Savior Pardoning the Unpardonable Seeking God's Agenda, Not Our Own Taming the Tongue Most importantly this book is about finding out how to have, and rekindling an intimacy with Christ we may have never experienced before!

The Many Faces of Deceit
The Many Faces of Deceit

Author: Helen K. Gediman

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated

Published: 1996-04-01

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1461734568

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This work examines the concept of deceit and its ubiquity both in everyday life and in various forms of psychopathology. It offers examples of clinical work with true impostors, those with imposturous tendencies, and those who fear they are impostors when in fact they are not.

The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1
The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1

Author: Richard M. Lerner

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-12-14

Total Pages: 1624

ISBN-13: 0470634359

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In the past fifty years, scholars of human development have been moving from studying change in humans within sharply defined periods, to seeing many more of these phenomenon as more profitably studied over time and in relation to other processes. The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 1: Cognition, Biology, and Methods presents the study of human development conducted by the best scholars in the 21st century. Social workers, counselors and public health workers will receive coverage of of the biological and cognitive aspects of human change across the lifespan.

Love and Lies
Love and Lies

Author: Clancy Martin

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2015-02-03

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 142994594X

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A provocative and unsettling look at the nature of love and deception Is it possible to love well without lying? At least since Socrates's discourse on love in Plato's Symposium, philosophers have argued that love can lead us to the truth—about ourselves and the ones we love. But in the practical experience of erotic love—and perhaps especially in marriage—we find that love and lies often work hand in hand, and that it may be difficult to sustain long-term romantic love without deception, both of oneself and of others. Drawing on contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis and cognitive neuroscience, his own personal experience, and such famed and diverse writers on love as Shakespeare, Stendhal, Proust, Adrienne Rich, and Raymond Carver, Clancy Martin—himself divorced twice and married three times—explores how love, truthfulness, and deception work together in contemporary life and society. He concludes that learning how to love and loving well inevitably requires lying, but also argues that the best love relationships draw us slowly and with difficulty toward honesty and trust. Love and Lies is a relentlessly honest book about the difficulty of love, which is certain to both provoke and entertain.

The Lies of Sarah Palin
The Lies of Sarah Palin

Author: Geoffrey Dunn

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2011-05-10

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1429929324

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In The Lies of Sarah Palin, Geoffrey Dunn provides the first full-scale and in-depth political biography of the controversial Republican vice-presidential candidate and former governor of Alaska. Based on more than two-hundred interviews---many of them with Republican colleagues and one-time political allies of Palin's---and more than forty-thousand pages of uncovered documents, Dunn chronicles Palin's troubling penchant for duplicity in grim detail, from her dysfunctional childhood in Wasilla through her contentious run for mayor and her failed governorship of Alaska. He also provides the shocking inside story of her betrayal of running mate John McCain during the 2008 presidential campaign and her self-serving resignation as governor in July of the following year. Dunn deftly places Palin in the American tradition of right-wing demagogues---from Huey Long to Joe McCarthy---and details her troubling obsession with Barack Obama as it fuels her own political ambitions and a potential run for the presidency in 2012. The Lies of Sarah Palin is a journalistic tour de force that vividly reveals the Queen of the Tea Party movement as a vengeful and manipulative empress without clothes. This is the definitive book on Sarah Palin.

This Violent Empire
This Violent Empire

Author: Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2012-12-01

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 0807895911

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This Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self. Fusing cultural and political analyses to create a new form of political history, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg explores the ways the founding generation, lacking a common history, governmental infrastructures, and shared culture, solidified their national sense of self by imagining a series of "Others" (African Americans, Native Americans, women, the propertyless) whose differences from European American male founders overshadowed the differences that divided those founders. These "Others," dangerous and polluting, had to be excluded from the European American body politic. Feared, but also desired, they refused to be marginalized, incurring increasingly enraged enactments of their political and social exclusion that shaped our long history of racism, xenophobia, and sexism. Close readings of political rhetoric during the Constitutional debates reveal the genesis of this long history.

Beyond Superstructuralism
Beyond Superstructuralism

Author: Richard Harland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1134923120

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Moving on from his previous book, Superstructuralism , Richard Harland argues that the focus on single words in the structuralist theory of language is its key weakness and that the next advance beyond post-structuralism depends upon replacing word-based with syntagm-based theories. In a lucid way he develops a new syntagmatic theory which shows that the effect of combining words grammatically can transform the very nature of meaning. The wide breadth of coverage in the book covers both post-Chomskyan' linguistics and Derrida, and sets up an opposition to analytic and speech-act views of language. By presenting a systematic critique and counter-proposal, Harland challenges the very foundation of recent literary and language based theory.

Deception Redefined | A Forbidden Love, a Ruthless Power Struggle, and a Legacy of Secrets
Deception Redefined | A Forbidden Love, a Ruthless Power Struggle, and a Legacy of Secrets

Author: Aurobindo Ghosh

Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9367958358

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The story revolves around two prominent political families, each governed by a powerful matriarch who rose to power after the mysterious deaths of their husbands. These rival political groups, led by Lady Supremo Sarita Devi (Mataji) and Lady Supremo Anamika Singh (Madam), dominate the political landscape. Amid this political tension, Mataji’s son, Abhimanyu, and Anamika Singh's daughter, Sharmila, grow up under the shadows of their influential mothers. Their love story, however, is anything but simple. Both Abhimanyu and Sharmila are aware of the intense rivalry between their families and parties. They know that neither Mataji nor Anamika Singh will ever approve of their relationship. The conflict between love and loyalty creates a dilemma: for them to be together, one of them would have to leave their party and defect to the rival group, an act that would be perceived as a betrayal of their respective families and legacies. Faced with this impossible choice, they make a bold decision: they marry, and Sharmila leaves her mother’s party to join Abhimanyu’s. But their marriage, as it unfolds, appears far from the fairy tale everyone assumed. There are whispers among political circles suggesting that their love story may be a front for a larger plan, perhaps even one concocted by the two young leaders themselves. Soon after their marriage, Abhimanyu and Sharmila make an unexpected move: they resign from their respective parties and form their own independent political entity, vowing to build a new movement that transcends the legacy of their families. Although their new political party seems to be thriving, cracks begin to appear in their relationship. Sharmila, despite being a capable leader, feels overshadowed by Abhimanyu’s growing dominance. Feeling increasingly marginalized, Sharmila begins to question her choices and the power dynamics within her marriage. Abhimanyu dies under mysterious circumstances, echoing the fate of their fathers. Sharmila assumes the position of head of government, capitalizing on the opportunity to step out of her late husband’s shadow. What next?