Aurora Rising," is the second in a series of three anthologies. Within are twenty-three of the best short stories collected from the second and third quarter after online publication at Aurora Wolf Literary Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy. http: //aurorawolf.com/ Authors from around the world have responded to our call. Fairy Tales, Science Fiction and Fantasy stretch the imagination within these pages. High adventure where you will experience extraordinary worlds, triumph against evil and prevail against the unknown. Aurora Wolf publishes stories where bright dreams and memories are created for the reader's enjoyment. Our anthologies feature speculative fiction with strong characters and morals that uplift the soul, encourage positive thought and bring hope into our world. Please join us for a new adventure. Special thanks to authors Keith Kennedy, Sue Babcock, Charles Richard, Alex P. Perdian, Joe Jablonski, Manda Benson, Steve Servis and John Miller.
Meira Harper loves both her jobs: talking about beautiful shoes and fetching souls for Zeus. But the Thunder God threatens the harpy's loyalty to her job when she receives the call to bring the soul of gorgeous Sam Wright. Meira pleads with her boss to let him live. Zeus agrees, but Sam must fight for his life. If Sam can win three challenges, he can keep his soul.The gods never play fairly, though, so Meira needs to find ways to help Sam with the challenges. She cannot outwardly cross her master, but she refuses to let the man she loves lose his soul. They haven't even had a chance to start a life together.Sam's soul is on the line. Meira's will be too if she's caught, but that's a risk she's willing to take.
Benjie Beaver's family are always busy. They work when the sun shines and they work when it rains. They're far too busy to play with Benjie! When Benjie skips off to play with the squirrels and the ducks, his sister Bess is cross. She thinks that he should be working too, but Benjie has a surprise for his busy family!
On the rooftop of neighboring building, dragonslayer Xanthus Ehrensvard fires at his target, Governor Whittaker. How he missed the shot, he doesn't know, but fleeing the scene, he picks up an unwanted passenger. Gorgeous reporter Lois King saw Xan's face, and she believes it's the story to make her career. Except he can't let her walk away knowing what he looks like. Xan has to show her the Governor is a bigger threat to the world than he is.Xan knows dragons never went extinct. They evolved with human society, taking on mortal forms, and slithered their way into positions of great influence and power, just like the Governor. But it's no easy chore proving to someone that dragons still exist, and even more so, they're disguised as famous people. Xan must convince Lois or find another way to silence her. An option, as he gets to know her, he likes less and less.After all, dragonslayers are no longer celebrated heroes but outlaws. Just as the dragons wish it. But this outlaw must make a plan to slay the dragon or risk its retribution.
Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspective on the Maya codices, documenting the extensive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts. Focusing on both pre-Columbian codices and early colonial creation accounts, Vail and Hernández show that in spite of significant cultural change during the Postclassic and Colonial periods, the mythological traditions reveal significant continuity, beginning as far back as the Classic period. Remarkable similarities exist within the Maya tradition, even as new mythologies were introduced through contact with the Gulf Coast region and highland central Mexico. Vail and Hernández analyze the extant Maya codices within the context of later literary sources such as the Books of Chilam Balam, the Popol Vuh, and the Códice Chimalpopoca to present numerous examples highlighting the relationship among creation mythology, rituals, and lore. Compiling and comparing Maya creation mythology with that of the Borgia codices from highland central Mexico, Re-Creating Primordial Time is a significant contribution to the field of Mesoamerican studies and will be of interest to scholars of archaeology, linguistics, epigraphy, and comparative religions alike.
A musty bar in off-season Cannon Beach, Oregon, provides the setting for an unsuspecting Frenchman’s introduction to the many ways life can go wrong for the unlucky in America. He listens as the barflies nightly recount their tales of woe—betrayal, broken families, financial ruin. Though they seem at first to tolerate the newcomer’s presence and sympathy, a tide of violence is rising, one he perceives only dimly until it is too late to escape. Made doubly powerful by her poetic fascination with the violence and volatility of the American landscape itself, Montalbetti’s novel is a thrilling study of the senseless cruelty disappointed men are capable of.
Follow the pathways of this fantasy tale to meet Veronica Stoltz, a young and beautiful woman who can't help but live an unfulfilling existence, taking life's beauty for granted. That is, until the day she is taken away from her home by the goblins and forced to live in the gray, dark and dreary other world known as Hatred Blooms. Within this land, atrocious flowers, predatorial bushes and stubborn trees have the ability to attack just as well as the goblin creatures she is forced to live with. Veronica's only choice is to accept and even try to learn from and better this land, while she finally begins to learn to appreciate life as it is. There are surprises on every corner in Hatred Blooms and you would be wise not to expect the expected. Anything and everything that is ordinary and/or extraordinary awaits you within. The magic of the gray land of Hatred Blooms has only now begun... Original release, 2008 Enhanced Second Edition, 2015
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: good, University of Würzburg (American Studies), course: American Novels of the 1920s, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, which was published in the late 1920 ́s in Great Britain, represents a perfect example of Hemingway ́s unique style. On the one hand you can read A Farewell to Arms as a tragic lovestory, in which Fredric Henry, a young American, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse, who both volunteer for the Italian Army in World War I, fall in love with each other. The lovestory ends in a tragic scene because Catherine Barkley dies after she has born their dead child. On the other hand you can read this novel as a thrilling war drama that takes place in Italy and Switzerland and lets the reader take part in the life of the young Lieutenant Henry, who tells us about the war and what he experiences there. The plot of the novel shows perfectly the unique style of Hemingway: He succeeds in combining the two contradictory items love and war, which actually do not fit together. The problem with my task, which is to discuss the symbols in A Farewell to Arms is that you can find a wide range of symbols in Hemingway ́s work. But it is almost entirely up to the reader which one of them he considers as important or relevant to discuss. Because of this it has to be decided which symbols are the most important ones without tangling up by irrelevant ones. As a matter of fact completeness is not the sense of my work, I will rather try to point my view on those symbols of whom I think are important such as the rain, the water, the mountains and the plains.
They say we only regret the chances we didn’t take, the dream we didn’t chase, the career, the lover but Is it really better to have loved and lost? Paris is in her darkest hour. It’s 1944 and the war is raging all around her. In an ancient stone house near Notre Dame, home to the distinguished de la Roche family, as Paris burns, Antoinette, a scientist working for the resistance, discovers a secret room that sends her back to 1933. Will her hastily scribbled memories help her change the outcome of the war? Only time will tell. Paris in the 1990s is still a hotbed of creativity and decadence for artists. Australian, Karen, finds herself in the quiet stone room in the house with the blue door, desperate to change her shattered life. She goes back to the last time she can remember being happy…and whole…her arms free of the marks left by the drug she used to escape the pain of being herself. She uses her second chance to make a better life but learns that not everyone wants to be saved. Now it’s 2016, tour guide Rachel, can’t believe she lost the man of her dreams - twice. She comes face-to-face with her past when her latest tour group arrives to stay in the luxurious home-turned private hotel in Paris, the ancient stone house with the blue door. Between touring all over Paris, the shopping, and the champagne, the women learn how to let their hair down and have fun again and remember what it is they really want from life and some find they need to do it all again.
In The Simple Faith of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, religion journalist and author Christine Wicker establishes that faith was at the heart of everything Roosevelt wanted for the American people. This powerful book is the first in-depth look at how one of America's richest, most patrician presidents became a passionate and beloved champion of the downtrodden--and took the country with him. Those who knew Roosevelt best invariably credited his spiritual faith as the source of his passion for democracy, justice, and equality. Like many Americans of that time, his beliefs were simple. He believed the God who heard his prayers and answered them expected him to serve others. He anchored his faith in biblical stories and teachings. During times so hard that the country would have followed him anywhere, he summoned the better angels of the American character in ways that have never been surpassed.
The poverty of people living in urban slums in Kenya and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa is one of the greatest scandals of our time. Much has been written about the causes of poverty, yet there seems to be little improvement. One reason for this failure is that many programmes are focused on "doing something for the poor but not with the poor." Through a two-year process of social analysis and theological reflection, the parishioners of Christ the King Catholic Church in Kibera slum examined the many injustices facing them in their daily lives. The aim of the parish was to better understand the reality of life in Kibera so that it could people improve their lives in a more responsive and holistic way. This book is a summary of the parish's findings. In their own words, parishioners describe their history, living conditions, socio-economic problems, parish life and African culture that are particular to Kibera. It is a unique perspective because parishioners evaluated these problems in the light of their faith. As a Christian community, parishioners made a plan and have begun their own initiatives to resolve the most serious injustices facing them. This is an important resource for people working in slums."--p. 4 of cover.
The struggle with the darkness of domestic violence then escaping to then find love that brought me to the light of freedom and happiness. I'm 40 years old and a single mum healing from violence and on a journey to be whole again. I write poetry and have done so for years and it's with my writing that I slowly found my voice and strength..
A multi-layered tale that explores the myriad facets of love, intimidation and reconciliation The famous cross-dressing Cantonese opera singer, Chan Kam Foong, passes away, leaving her secret journal to her granddaughter, Xiu Yin, an archival officer at the Singapore National Archives. Xiu Yin reads through the journal that chronicles her grandmother’s relationship with Dearest Intimate in their village in China to their respective escapes to the Nanyang before WWII and her desperate search for Dearest Intimate in Singapore. Her grandmother’s reflections and letters to Dearest Intimate forces Xiu Yin to examine her marriage to an abusive husband and she plucks up the courage to leave him. A surprise encounter with her first love, a rising Cantonese opera singer, brings a period of calm and joy. But when Meng proposes marriage, Xiu Yin backs off and he leaves for Hong Kong. It takes three years of loneliness and letter writing before they reunite again.
For the first time an award-winning Harvard professor shares his wildly popular course on classical Chinese philosophy, showing you how these ancient ideas can guide you on the path to a good life today.
How often do we listen to the rain, watching the drops dance on the pavement, hanging like crystals from the leaves? Often through our day, we may see our reflections. How often do we take an internal survey of what we think, how we feel and why? Our outer and inner senses offer so much to consider, if we take the time to be aware of what is beyond the surface. My husband writes with a similar thought pattern, so several of his writings have been included. It is a wonder gift to have someone to share life, heart and mind with. Life is not just a destination. It is a journey from moment to moment. Make each one count.
In the fifties British cinema won large audiences with popular war films and comedies, creating stars such as Dirk Bogarde and Kay Kendall, and introducing the stereotypes of war hero, boffin and comic bureaucrat which still help to define images of British national identity. In British Cinema in the Fifties, Christine Geraghty examines some of the most popular films of this period, exploring the ways in which they approached contemporary social issues such as national identity, the end of empire, new gender roles and the care of children. Through a series of case studies on films as diverse as It Always Rains on Sunday and Genevieve, Simba and The Wrong Arm of the Law, Geraghty explores some of the key debates about British cinema and film theory, contesting current emphases on contradiction, subversion and excess and exploring the curious mix of rebellion and conformity which marked British cinema in the post-war era.
On a more specific level, this book analyses Rothenberg's use of postmodern "appropriative strategies," such as collage, assemblage, palimpsest, parody, pastiche, forgery, found poetry, and theft. These strategies illustrate the concept, practice, and problematics of appropriation." "Embracing postmodern experimentation and drawing on heterodox Jewish sources, Rothenberg constructs a contemporary American Jewish identity that does not rely on institutionalized Judaism."--Jacket.
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