A Royal death. A mystery to be solved. A tragic adventure. When the King of Golester, City of Sun, is killed by an unknown intruder, an immediate investigation is opened. The job is handed to the two best and most dangerous detective agents in the city, Lea Haramat and Axel Mondirio, Elf and Fae, both wielders of fire magic. They are on a mission to solve the mystery of the King’s murder before a looming deadline. But the deeper they look, the further they dig, the darker the case becomes. All the help two agents can find is a cocky air force leader with a hot temper, and a desperate blue-haired water-dweller with a kind heart. Slowly, the extent of the menacing puzzle casts a shadow over the detectives, and they face far more than they had bargained for. Nothing is as it seems, and a tangled, ancient web begins to unravel all around them. Is it truly possible to survive a mystery? This is the case to uncover old legends. This is the case to shatter the world.
While it has been argued that anonymity in gamete donation has been brought to an end by legal changes and technological developments, Amelie Baumann suggests that this is in fact still in transformation. By focusing on the narratives of those who were conceived with anonymously donated gametes in the UK and Germany, she examines this transformative process and the role which donor-conceived persons play in it. This book shows that it is not someone's decision to procreate that turns »being donor-conceived« into a meaningful categorisation. Rather, kinship knowledge gets activated by the donor-conceived in specific ways for »being donor-conceived« to become a powerful identification.
In the third book of the Sister Verse, Diana and her party must journey to the forgotten wasteland of the fallen lobe, and recover the mythical Crown of Eyes, and with it, her memories. Meanwhile, the allied nations march upon Lao-Va, and Singer must lead a daring expedition into the writhing Elder World before all of creation falls to the darkling scourge. This book contains scenes of violence that may be unsuitable for some readers.
The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children, whether Japanese or not, are gods, each one an okosama, or "lord child." On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of the human race. In Amelie Nothomb's new novel, The Character of Rain, we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover, particularly if, like the child in this story, you have spent the first tow and a half years of life in a nearly vegetative state. "I remember everything that happened to me after the age of two and one-half," the narrator tells us. She means this literally. Once jolted out of her plant-like , tube-like trance (to the ecstatic relief of her concerned parents), the child bursts into existence, absorbing everything that Japan, where her father works as a diplomat, has to offer. Life is an unfolding pageant of delight and danger, a ceaseless exploration of pleasure and the limits of power. Most wondrous of all is the discovery of water: oceans, seas, pools, puddles, streams, ponds, and, perhaps most of all, rain-one meaning of the Japanese character for her name. Hers is an amphibious life. The Character of Rain evokes the hilarity, terror, and sanctity of childhood. As she did in the award-winning, international bestesller Fear and Trembling, Nothomb grounds the novel in the outlines of her experiences in Japan, but the self-portrait that emerges from these pages is hauntingly universal. Amelie Nothomb's novels are unforgettable immersion experiences, leaving you both holding your breath with admiration, your lungs aching, and longing for more.
In the final book of the Sister Verse, the rogue ascendant and her grieving party must wander the wastes of a dying world, guided only by the promise of a bitter vengeance. The Dreadlands sink into the Glade once more, the allied nations have been rendered defenseless, and hope is revealed as a fleeting illusion. In a land ruled by hatred and despair, the story at last comes to its end. This book contains scenes of violence that may be unsuitable for some readers.
According to ancient Japanese protocol, foreigners deigning to approach the emperor did so only with fear and trembling. Terror and self-abasement conveyed respect. Amélie, our well-intentioned and eager young Western heroine, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfillment of a dream for Amélie; working there turns into comic nightmare. Alternately disturbing and hilarious, unbelievable and shatteringly convincing, Fear and Trembling will keep readers clutching tight to the pages of this taut little novel, caught up in the throes of fear, trembling, and, ultimately, delight.
Introduction Building upon the foundational principles of walking meditation, this advanced module serves as a deep dive into sophisticated techniques designed to enhance mindfulness, relaxation, and a profound connection with nature. As you embark on this journey, you will explore the enriching practice of mindful walking, learn to incorporate powerful mantras, and gradually extend the duration of your meditation walks, all aimed at cultivating a deeper state of awareness and tranquility.
Book Description Embark on a transformative journey through the world of art with **"The Art of Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Painting Techniques and Artistic Excellence."** This meticulously crafted guide is designed for artists at all stages, from enthusiastic beginners to seasoned professionals seeking to elevate their craft. Whether you aspire to perfect your techniques or broaden your artistic horizons, this book offers an invaluable resource for refining your skills and embracing your creative potential. **Uncover the Secrets of Painting Mastery:** - **Detailed Exploration of Techniques:** Delve into the essential techniques for acrylic, watercolor, and oil painting. Learn to master the art of layering and glazing, dry brushing, impasto, wet-on-wet, and more. Each technique is broken down into accessible, step-by-step instructions, accompanied by practical tips to help you achieve the desired effects with confidence. - **Building Your Artistic Brand:** Navigate the intricacies of personal branding and online presence. Discover how to showcase your work effectively, build a compelling artist's profile, and leverage social media to connect with a broader audience. This book provides practical strategies for establishing a recognizable and influential artistic identity. - **Mentoring and Collaborative Growth:** Understand the profound impact of mentorship and collaboration. Gain insights into finding and working with mentors, collaborating with fellow artists, and participating in artistic communities. These elements are crucial for personal growth and expanding your creative network. - **Best Practices and Application:** Apply your knowledge with a focus on best practices in painting. Learn about surface preparation, brush care, and color theory. Implement practical advice to ensure that your artistic practice is both efficient and effective. - **Inspiration and Future Growth:** Reflect on your artistic journey and set future goals with optimism. The book provides encouragement and guidance for embracing new opportunities, staying inspired, and continuously evolving your artistic practice. Celebrate your progress and look forward to new creative adventures.
Come for the magic. Stay for the mystery. Ten exclusive, never-before-published stories of murder, mystery, and mayhem, wrapped in fantastical realms where private detectives, police consultants, and bounty hunters wrangle with elves, nephilim, and shifters...or use magic to solve a mystery!
Life After Retirement shares the story of Amelie Mothies experiences after retirement, when, at the age of sixty-seven, she joined the Peace Corps. She had entertained the idea for a long time; she longed to learn more about the people of whom her grandmother had spoken so freely throughout her childhood. It was a big decision to go to Africa and to leave everything behind to pursue her dream, but she finally did it two years after retirement. She had heard many stories of disease and poverty in Africa, but she was encouraged by her belief that African countries had done much more in a few decades of independence than their colonial governments had done in centuries. She was fascinated by the African personalities that had begun to emerge through literature, arts, music, sports, and fashion. Her two-year term in West Africa was full of exhilarating moments as well as many painful, frustrating, and discouraging instances of dealing with the ravages of disease and poverty. In the end, for her, all the bad days were worth it in light of the good memories she shared with her new African friends and other volunteers.
Hello, I'm Amelie Andry, and this is my story. I have survived a mother who says she cares but is so cold it's almost impossible to believe she actually does and a father who is vulgar and extremely inappropriate. I have also endured bullying, false accusations, manipulation, suicide attempts, and immoral acts.I am a sarcastic and blunt person, so be prepared to roll your eyes, laugh, and possibly cry. Be prepared to be surprised and appalled. Most of all, be prepared to hear a blunt presentation of someone who has persevered through determination, acceptance, and hard-learned lessons.My story is about overcoming anything and everything life can throw at you, and it is not pretty; however, it is enlightening. It is my perspective of the mistakes that school systems, psychiatrists, and parents can make. If you are a person who relates to my story, maybe it will show you the mistakes not to make. Hopefully, this book will open eyes and possibly initiate changes in your life or in the way you address people with psychiatric issues. You never know what someone has gone or is going through. My hope is, after reading this, you will be more open-minded, accepting, and forgiving of people who are different and don't fit into society's box. My biggest goal in writing this is to help people. If this book helps one person, then it was worth reliving all I have gone through while writing this over the last two years.
I lived everything daring those three years: heroism, glory, treachery, love, indifference, suffering, humiliation. It was China; I was seven years old." So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie Nothomb's critically acclaimed novel about a young girl who seems already stripped of illusions. The daughter of diplomats posted to Peking in the mid-seventies, she charges about the grim confines of the gated government enclave battling tirelessly against boredom, concocting a fantasy life as rich as her surroundings are bleak. During one of her tours of duty in a war that has broken out in the ghetto between the children of various nations, she encounters a young Italian girl, Elena: beautiful, aloof, disdainful of silly games. The narrator is instantly infatuated and comes to realize the only fight worthy of her attention is shattering Elena's indifference. Provocative, outrageous, and caustically funny, Loving Sabotage recounts a precocious girl's understanding of the struggles and pains of adult life.
The Book of Proper Names is set in contemporary Paris, its main character an orphan named Plectrude. Before the child's birth her nineteen-year-old mother shoots and kills her nineteen-year-old (and somewhat feckless) father because she hates the names he's devised for their child--she fears they will doom their unborn child to mediocrity. The mother confesses openly to what she has done, and why. She is arrested and thrown into prison, where she gives birth to the child, names her, to everyone's bafflement, Plectrude--an obscure saint, and an albatross of a name--and then hangs herself. The novel therefore begins on the borderline between tragedy and absurdity, but as Plectrude grows--raised by a loving, indulgent, and eccentric aunt--it becomes a deeply moving and simultaneously chilling portrait of girlhood. Plectrude's great gift turns out to be for ballet, and she throws herself into dance as if her life depended upon it. Few novels have shown us the implacable and unforgiving world of ballet with more intuitive sympathy, yet also with a keen-eyed assessment of the true price of artistic perfection.. Inevitably, the doom hovering over Plectrude's life from birth returns to haunt her, and in the end she learns to survive in the only way she knows how--by committing an act of deadly self-preservation her mother would have perhaps understood best. The Book of Proper Names is vintage Amelie Nothomb--alternatively mordant and poignant, a portrait of adolescence that is fierce and funny at the same time. There is nothing mediocre either about Nothomb nor her creations.
Tells the stories of forty-six girls who were younger than twenty years of age when they changed the history of the world through amazing accomplishments.
A tale of blood and elder magic, where the air flays the mind of its memories, and the trees bleed psychotropic venom. A wanderer scours a sentient forest of flesh and delirium for the only thing that he can still remember: his daughter, exiled from time when a devastating cataclysm doomed the world to an eternity of suffering. The Astral Wanderer and the Forest of Tears is the first book in a series of three, fusing the genres of cosmic horror, dark fantasy, and apocalyptic science fiction with the surreal dread of a twisted fever dream. This book contains scenes of violence that may be unsuitable for some readers.
In the second book of the Astral Wanderer series, the dread Wanderer screams across a sea of cancerous flesh in a craft of unbridled speed and destruction, bound for the heart of the undying forest, and the daughter he forsook in ages past. On his journey, he must contend with incarnations of his terrifying past; pirates who have abandoned their souls to the ceaseless hunger; the whispers of insanity that claw at his mind; and a star-maddened captain hunting him to the eye of creation itself.
For decades, generations of television fans have been enraptured by Lt. Columbo, played by Peter Falk, as he unravels clues to catch killers who believe they are above the law. In her investigation of the 1970s series cocreated by Richard Levinson and William Link, Amelie Hastie explores television history through an emphasis on issues of stardom, authorship, and its interconnections with classical and New Hollywood cinema. Through close textual analysis, attentive to issues of class relations and connections to other work by Falk as well as Levinson and Link, Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder sees American television as an intertextual system, from its origins as a commercial broadcast medium to its iterations within contemporary streaming platforms. Ultimately, Hastie argues, in the titular detective’s constant state of learning about cultural trends and media forms, Columbo offers viewers the opportunity to learn with him and, through his tutelage, to become detectives of television itself.
In the second book of the Sister Verse, Diana and her party must brave the surreal and violent wastes of the Dreadlands once again in their quest to recover the Devouring Glass. With the aid of a mysterious wanderer who can bridge the void between worlds, they must infiltrate the darkling capital of Lao-Va, and come to terms with the truth of their world, or be damned to a fate worse than death. This book contains scenes of violence that may be unsuitable for some readers.
Mastering Emotional Intelligence: 9 Essential Lessons for Personal and Professional Success Unlock the key to thriving both personally and professionally with "Mastering Emotional Intelligence: 9 Essential Lessons for Personal and Professional Success." This comprehensive guide offers practical insights and proven techniques to elevate your emotional intelligence and transform your life. In just 135 minutes, immerse yourself in 9 transformative lessons designed to enhance your emotional skills and boost your effectiveness in various aspects of life. From developing self-awareness to mastering self-regulation, each chapter provides actionable strategies backed by the latest research in emotional intelligence. What You’ll Learn: Introduction to Emotional Intelligence – Start your journey by understanding the core principles and importance of emotional intelligence. The Five Components of Emotional Intelligence – Dive deep into the essential elements that make up emotional intelligence and how they impact your interactions. Developing Self-Awareness – Learn techniques to better understand your emotions, strengths, and areas for growth. Mastering Self-Regulation – Discover strategies to manage your emotions effectively and respond to challenges with resilience. Understanding Motivation and Goal Setting – Explore how emotional intelligence can enhance your motivation and help you set and achieve meaningful goals. The Role of Empathy in Emotional Intelligence – Gain insights into how empathy can strengthen your relationships and improve communication. Enhancing Social Skills for Effective Relationships – Improve your social skills to build stronger connections and navigate social interactions more successfully. Emotional Intelligence in Leadership – Apply emotional intelligence principles to lead more effectively and inspire those around you. Cultivating Emotional Intelligence in Teams – Learn how to foster emotional intelligence within teams to enhance collaboration and performance. Why Choose This Book? "Mastering Emotional Intelligence" is not just a book; it’s a toolkit for personal and professional growth. With its practical lessons and actionable advice, this book empowers you to harness the power of emotional intelligence to achieve greater success, build better relationships, and lead with confidence. Take Action Now Don’t miss out on the opportunity to transform your emotional skills and unlock your full potential.
A team of marines is sent to retrieve a mysterious package from the Algerian coast, which is revealed to be the corpse of an extradimensional warrior outfitted with advanced cybernetics. This would soon prove to be the least of their problems as they find themselves drafted into an elite paramilitary unit, established to counter anomalous threats to our universe. BREACH is a blood-soaked anthology of thirteen interconnected stories that were originally published through an online forum, drawing from the genres of cosmic horror, dark fantasy, and military science fiction. This book contains scenes of violence that may be unsuitable for some readers.
Amelie Hastie rethinks female authorship within film history by expanding the historical archive to include dollhouses, scrapbooks, memoirs, cookbooks, and ephemera.
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