Author: Claire Contreras
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998345543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A young woman investigates the dark, hidden secrets of her past while exploring her deep feelings for the young man who's always been her protector in this friends-to-lovers New Adult romantic suspense series.
There Is No Light In Darkness
Author: Claire Contreras
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998345543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A young woman investigates the dark, hidden secrets of her past while exploring her deep feelings for the young man who's always been her protector in this friends-to-lovers New Adult romantic suspense series.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998345543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A young woman investigates the dark, hidden secrets of her past while exploring her deep feelings for the young man who's always been her protector in this friends-to-lovers New Adult romantic suspense series.
woke up no light
Author: Leila Mottley
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0593319710
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
A poignant and rousing debut book of poetry from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, CA—the acclaimed, best-selling author of the novel Nightcrawling Leila Mottley follows her trailblazing first novel with a perfectly pitched first collection of poems that demonstrate her spark and scope. woke up no light reckons with themes of reparations, restitution, and desire. Moving in sections from “girlhood” to “neighborhood” to “falsehood” to, finally, “womanhood,” these poems are the breathing life of a Black girl as she grows into adulthood, simultaneously youthful and profound. Each poem is a searing vignette, capturing the dissonance of Black girlhood through visceral language. The collection is sharp and raw, wise and rhythmic, a combination that lights up each page. From unearthing histories to searching for ways to dream of a future in a world constantly on the brink of disaster, Mottley sets forth personal and political revelation with piercing detail. woke up no light confirms Leila Mottley’s arrival and demonstrates the enduring power of her voice—brave and distinctive and thoroughly her own.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0593319710
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
A poignant and rousing debut book of poetry from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, CA—the acclaimed, best-selling author of the novel Nightcrawling Leila Mottley follows her trailblazing first novel with a perfectly pitched first collection of poems that demonstrate her spark and scope. woke up no light reckons with themes of reparations, restitution, and desire. Moving in sections from “girlhood” to “neighborhood” to “falsehood” to, finally, “womanhood,” these poems are the breathing life of a Black girl as she grows into adulthood, simultaneously youthful and profound. Each poem is a searing vignette, capturing the dissonance of Black girlhood through visceral language. The collection is sharp and raw, wise and rhythmic, a combination that lights up each page. From unearthing histories to searching for ways to dream of a future in a world constantly on the brink of disaster, Mottley sets forth personal and political revelation with piercing detail. woke up no light confirms Leila Mottley’s arrival and demonstrates the enduring power of her voice—brave and distinctive and thoroughly her own.
No Light at the End of the Jungle
Author: Jerry Wood
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1410713296
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The story begins with a large group of Vietnam POWs being marched to Hanoi from a Cambodian POW camp. Eleven of the malnourished and weak POWs break for the jungle, trying to gain their freedom. John Walker, the main character, reaches the jungle safely and hides in the under brush. As John hides, he hears the slaughter of his fellow escapees and then the main body moves on. John, scared and disheartened, discovers that at least one other had survived, Alan the secondary character. At this point the story will take the reader back in time to John's youth. It depicts John's life from the point of his high school days up through his marriage and his joining the Army then being sent to Vietnam. Although this book is not about the Vietnam War itself, it briefly recounts a few incidents leading up to John's capture by the Viet Cong. The theme will take the reader through John's life in the POW camp, meeting Alan and the bond they form. Then the plot will bring the reader up to the beginning of the book. The story at this point takes on its main plot of the struggles the two main characters have dealing with life after Vietnam. It depicts the internal conflicts of these two and their agony as the other two escapees commit suicide. The plot continues on by taking the reader through John's and Alan's endeavors with the "Company" and details the various missions they were involved with. The book ends with Alan's internal turmoil becoming too much for him to handle and he commits suicide also. It details John's great sorrow of being the only living survivor of the eleven that attempted to escape from the POW camp. After Alan's suicide, John decides to live the rest of his life for all eleven and making his life mean something. He also at this point quits the "Company".
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1410713296
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The story begins with a large group of Vietnam POWs being marched to Hanoi from a Cambodian POW camp. Eleven of the malnourished and weak POWs break for the jungle, trying to gain their freedom. John Walker, the main character, reaches the jungle safely and hides in the under brush. As John hides, he hears the slaughter of his fellow escapees and then the main body moves on. John, scared and disheartened, discovers that at least one other had survived, Alan the secondary character. At this point the story will take the reader back in time to John's youth. It depicts John's life from the point of his high school days up through his marriage and his joining the Army then being sent to Vietnam. Although this book is not about the Vietnam War itself, it briefly recounts a few incidents leading up to John's capture by the Viet Cong. The theme will take the reader through John's life in the POW camp, meeting Alan and the bond they form. Then the plot will bring the reader up to the beginning of the book. The story at this point takes on its main plot of the struggles the two main characters have dealing with life after Vietnam. It depicts the internal conflicts of these two and their agony as the other two escapees commit suicide. The plot continues on by taking the reader through John's and Alan's endeavors with the "Company" and details the various missions they were involved with. The book ends with Alan's internal turmoil becoming too much for him to handle and he commits suicide also. It details John's great sorrow of being the only living survivor of the eleven that attempted to escape from the POW camp. After Alan's suicide, John decides to live the rest of his life for all eleven and making his life mean something. He also at this point quits the "Company".
The sun of truth fears no light and needs no lies
Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Quan Judge
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
The truth from the lips did not atone for the lie in the heart. Every man’s reasoned opinion has a right to pass into the common auditory, for arguments are the currency of the intellect. In the great theatre of literature there are no authorized door-keepers: for our anonymous critics are self-elected. But they have lost all credit with wise men by unfair dealing: such as their refusal to receive an honest man’s money, because they anticipate and dislike his opinion, and his intellectual coin is refused under pretence that it is light or counterfeit — without any proof given either by the money scales, or by sounding the coin in dispute together with one of known goodness. Either the intolerant person is not master of the grounds on which his own faith is built — which therefore neither is or can it be his own faith — and he is angry, not at the opposition to Truth, but at the interruption of his own indolence and intellectual slumber. Or he has no love of Truth for its own sake; no reverence for the divine command to seek earnestly after it, which command, if it had not been so often and solemnly given by revelation, is yet involved and expressed in the gift of reason, and in the dependence of all our virtues on its development. There can be no end without means; and God furnishes no means that exempt us from the task and duty of joining our own best endeavours. Yet these are not only not forbidden by the self-obscurant Papists without a Pope, and the Protestants who protest only against all protesting, to examine and propose our doubts, so to proceed from a real desire to know the Truth; but we are repeatedly commanded so as not to find reasons for faith, but pretexts for infidelity. The light of truth shines beyond our mortal ken with unfading glory. Men have done their best to veil every beam and to replace the solar rays with the false glare of error and fiction; none more so than the bigoted, narrow-minded theologians and priests of every faith, casuists and perverters through selfishness. This world of ours in the natural enemy of every truth. Thou art this, but thou knowest it not. Truth is the supreme religion and Theosophy, the religion of the future. There is but one Absolute Truth in the Kosmos. Truth will unveil her beauty only to the heavenly man. A Master of Wisdom on the Spirit of Truth. This Spirit is a force that can neither be hindered nor stopped. Those who recognize it, and feel that this is the supreme moment of their salvation, will be uplifted by it beyond the illusions of the great astral serpent. The majority of the public Areopagus is generally composed of self-appointed judges, who have never made a permanent deity of any idol save their own personalities, their lower selves.
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
The truth from the lips did not atone for the lie in the heart. Every man’s reasoned opinion has a right to pass into the common auditory, for arguments are the currency of the intellect. In the great theatre of literature there are no authorized door-keepers: for our anonymous critics are self-elected. But they have lost all credit with wise men by unfair dealing: such as their refusal to receive an honest man’s money, because they anticipate and dislike his opinion, and his intellectual coin is refused under pretence that it is light or counterfeit — without any proof given either by the money scales, or by sounding the coin in dispute together with one of known goodness. Either the intolerant person is not master of the grounds on which his own faith is built — which therefore neither is or can it be his own faith — and he is angry, not at the opposition to Truth, but at the interruption of his own indolence and intellectual slumber. Or he has no love of Truth for its own sake; no reverence for the divine command to seek earnestly after it, which command, if it had not been so often and solemnly given by revelation, is yet involved and expressed in the gift of reason, and in the dependence of all our virtues on its development. There can be no end without means; and God furnishes no means that exempt us from the task and duty of joining our own best endeavours. Yet these are not only not forbidden by the self-obscurant Papists without a Pope, and the Protestants who protest only against all protesting, to examine and propose our doubts, so to proceed from a real desire to know the Truth; but we are repeatedly commanded so as not to find reasons for faith, but pretexts for infidelity. The light of truth shines beyond our mortal ken with unfading glory. Men have done their best to veil every beam and to replace the solar rays with the false glare of error and fiction; none more so than the bigoted, narrow-minded theologians and priests of every faith, casuists and perverters through selfishness. This world of ours in the natural enemy of every truth. Thou art this, but thou knowest it not. Truth is the supreme religion and Theosophy, the religion of the future. There is but one Absolute Truth in the Kosmos. Truth will unveil her beauty only to the heavenly man. A Master of Wisdom on the Spirit of Truth. This Spirit is a force that can neither be hindered nor stopped. Those who recognize it, and feel that this is the supreme moment of their salvation, will be uplifted by it beyond the illusions of the great astral serpent. The majority of the public Areopagus is generally composed of self-appointed judges, who have never made a permanent deity of any idol save their own personalities, their lower selves.
NO LIGHT IN THE DARK and UNDER AN ASSUMED NAME
Author: John B. Fuller
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493199692
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
NO LIGHT IN THE DARK When Stanley Knowles was seventeen years old, he fought with his father who was abusing his mother. Stanley was badly beaten and left home to work in the northern territories. He only returned home once when his mother died. He worked as a laborer in the north for seventeen years and was presently in his fourth year at Fort McMurray in the oil patch. One day, without warning, the power goes off; there was no lighting, electronic equipment did not work, and even motor vehicles would not start. As day after day passed and there was still no power, Stan, who was highly intelligent, began to worry. What if? he thought, and supposing it never came back, he decided to prepare as best he could for a long siege. He used cash he had removed from his bank and bought all the supplies he could find. People started arriving at the farm singly and in groups, and all those who sought help were welcomed to stay. Stanley had men, including most of his neighbors who were staying at the farm, build living quarters using material salvaged from demolished buildings. A small group of men attacked the farm looking for food but as the residents were armed, they were beaten off. Stan organized guard posts on the roads near the farm and had a group mounted on horseback and armed with shotguns, ready to respond to any emergency. Armed gangs roamed the countryside seeking food, but over the years, the numbers grew less and less. UNDER AN ASSUMED NAME Sgt. Herman Hines is drunk in a Saigon bar when an American reporter called him the number one American killer. Herman downs the reporter with one blow and leaves the bar, but is immediately arrested by MPs. He is quickly charged with divulging state secrets and when advised by his council pleads guilty. He is sent to a military prison in North Carolina for three years. Herman serves the full sentence and, when he is released, finds work at a crab dock in Pamlico County. All goes well for some time, then federal agents tell him he must do one more killing for his country. He is ready to make the shot when he sees the agent who accompanied him as spotter pointing a gun at him. Sergeant Hines kills the agent and manages to escape a trap that had been planned for him.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493199692
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
NO LIGHT IN THE DARK When Stanley Knowles was seventeen years old, he fought with his father who was abusing his mother. Stanley was badly beaten and left home to work in the northern territories. He only returned home once when his mother died. He worked as a laborer in the north for seventeen years and was presently in his fourth year at Fort McMurray in the oil patch. One day, without warning, the power goes off; there was no lighting, electronic equipment did not work, and even motor vehicles would not start. As day after day passed and there was still no power, Stan, who was highly intelligent, began to worry. What if? he thought, and supposing it never came back, he decided to prepare as best he could for a long siege. He used cash he had removed from his bank and bought all the supplies he could find. People started arriving at the farm singly and in groups, and all those who sought help were welcomed to stay. Stanley had men, including most of his neighbors who were staying at the farm, build living quarters using material salvaged from demolished buildings. A small group of men attacked the farm looking for food but as the residents were armed, they were beaten off. Stan organized guard posts on the roads near the farm and had a group mounted on horseback and armed with shotguns, ready to respond to any emergency. Armed gangs roamed the countryside seeking food, but over the years, the numbers grew less and less. UNDER AN ASSUMED NAME Sgt. Herman Hines is drunk in a Saigon bar when an American reporter called him the number one American killer. Herman downs the reporter with one blow and leaves the bar, but is immediately arrested by MPs. He is quickly charged with divulging state secrets and when advised by his council pleads guilty. He is sent to a military prison in North Carolina for three years. Herman serves the full sentence and, when he is released, finds work at a crab dock in Pamlico County. All goes well for some time, then federal agents tell him he must do one more killing for his country. He is ready to make the shot when he sees the agent who accompanied him as spotter pointing a gun at him. Sergeant Hines kills the agent and manages to escape a trap that had been planned for him.
Shadows to Light Your Way: Without darkness, there would be no light. Both have great significance.
Author: Tracy Lynn Solomon
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1684707846
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
For many years, Tracy Solomon was told to write a book, share her story and as much as it seemed to lay on her heart, life kept getting in the way. However, when laying in the ICU facing the end of her life, nothing seemed more important than trying to help others not end up where she had now found herself, headed to rehab for a suicide attempt. As long as there is life, there is hope. Sometimes the darkest place is needed to help us see the tiniest light and truly get our attention. We need shadows to light our way. Life is not about just getting through. Life is about living.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1684707846
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
For many years, Tracy Solomon was told to write a book, share her story and as much as it seemed to lay on her heart, life kept getting in the way. However, when laying in the ICU facing the end of her life, nothing seemed more important than trying to help others not end up where she had now found herself, headed to rehab for a suicide attempt. As long as there is life, there is hope. Sometimes the darkest place is needed to help us see the tiniest light and truly get our attention. We need shadows to light our way. Life is not about just getting through. Life is about living.
Walking in Darkness and Hath No Light
Author: Dr Reverend Richards a I P C [M a C a ]
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291693890
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
This book starts with a chance for you to be part of a "Christian Entrepreneurship Group" is far from being normal for some! it is extremely unconventional for some readers, while for some more mature persons this will be refreshingly honest and to the point.A great Pastors, teachers, book, and will leave you with meditations lasting for years to come and guessing if and when the world is coming to an end? There are no predictions of doom and gloom, but plenty of reasons to rejoice if we are not walking in darkness! Is this a normal process for every Christian to go though a period of darkness? well read and find out and be delightfully refreshed in the power of the inspired word of God. This is part of a series of 20 books that is yet to be printed, and still in the making.This book purchase is raising funds for evangelism in Philippines, and help to meet the needs of victims of loss of house & lively-hood through earthquakes and bad storms they have endured.(we can all help this way)
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291693890
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
This book starts with a chance for you to be part of a "Christian Entrepreneurship Group" is far from being normal for some! it is extremely unconventional for some readers, while for some more mature persons this will be refreshingly honest and to the point.A great Pastors, teachers, book, and will leave you with meditations lasting for years to come and guessing if and when the world is coming to an end? There are no predictions of doom and gloom, but plenty of reasons to rejoice if we are not walking in darkness! Is this a normal process for every Christian to go though a period of darkness? well read and find out and be delightfully refreshed in the power of the inspired word of God. This is part of a series of 20 books that is yet to be printed, and still in the making.This book purchase is raising funds for evangelism in Philippines, and help to meet the needs of victims of loss of house & lively-hood through earthquakes and bad storms they have endured.(we can all help this way)
No Land to Light On
Author: Yara Zgheib
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982187433
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, building a life in the country that brought them together. They'd met in Cambridge, Massachusetts: he, a shell-shocked refugee of a bloody civil war; she, a passionate dreamer who'd come to America years earlier in search of new horizons. Now, they giddily await the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be freedom and belonging. When Sama is five months pregnant, Hadi's father dies, in Amman, the night before the embassy interview that would finally reunite Hadi with his parents and deliver them from a country in crisis. Hadi flies back to the Middle East for the funeral, promising he'll be gone only a few days. On the day his flight is due to arrive in Boston, Sama decides to surprise him at the airport, eager to scoop him up and bring him back home. She waits, and waits. There are protests at Logan airport, and Hadi never shows up. What Sama doesn't yet know is that Hadi has been stopped at the border. That he's been taken away for questioning, detained in a windowless, timeless, nightmarish limbo. She does not know about the travel ban, that his legal status in the U.S., which yesterday seemed rock solid, is now in jeopardy - and with it, the chance that he'll ever step foot on U.S. soil again. Amid the protests, Sama goes into premature labor; their son, Naseem, is born, too soon, his father nowhere to be found, the future they could almost taste wrenched from their grasp in a matter of hours. Worlds apart, suspended between hope and disillusion as hours become days become weeks, Sama and Hadi yearn for a way back to each other, and to the life they'd dreamed up together. But does that life exist anymore? Was it only ever an illusion? Achingly intimate yet poignantly universal, No Land to Light On is the story of a family caught on either side of a border, fighting for freedom and home, finding both in each other, and in the tenacious faith of creatures who take flight"--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982187433
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, building a life in the country that brought them together. They'd met in Cambridge, Massachusetts: he, a shell-shocked refugee of a bloody civil war; she, a passionate dreamer who'd come to America years earlier in search of new horizons. Now, they giddily await the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be freedom and belonging. When Sama is five months pregnant, Hadi's father dies, in Amman, the night before the embassy interview that would finally reunite Hadi with his parents and deliver them from a country in crisis. Hadi flies back to the Middle East for the funeral, promising he'll be gone only a few days. On the day his flight is due to arrive in Boston, Sama decides to surprise him at the airport, eager to scoop him up and bring him back home. She waits, and waits. There are protests at Logan airport, and Hadi never shows up. What Sama doesn't yet know is that Hadi has been stopped at the border. That he's been taken away for questioning, detained in a windowless, timeless, nightmarish limbo. She does not know about the travel ban, that his legal status in the U.S., which yesterday seemed rock solid, is now in jeopardy - and with it, the chance that he'll ever step foot on U.S. soil again. Amid the protests, Sama goes into premature labor; their son, Naseem, is born, too soon, his father nowhere to be found, the future they could almost taste wrenched from their grasp in a matter of hours. Worlds apart, suspended between hope and disillusion as hours become days become weeks, Sama and Hadi yearn for a way back to each other, and to the life they'd dreamed up together. But does that life exist anymore? Was it only ever an illusion? Achingly intimate yet poignantly universal, No Land to Light On is the story of a family caught on either side of a border, fighting for freedom and home, finding both in each other, and in the tenacious faith of creatures who take flight"--
No Real Light
Author: Joe Wenderoth
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1933517220
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Wave's most popular author presents his first poetry collection since Letters to Wendy's.
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1933517220
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Wave's most popular author presents his first poetry collection since Letters to Wendy's.
No Light from the Fires
Author: A.E. Bross
Publisher: A.E. Bross
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
What was once thought impossible has come to pass. A God-King is dead. In the wake of Tieran’s failed ascension, Tirzah, Green, and the rest of their companions are ready to put the nightmare of Kahral behind them. As the new co-leader of the Aru Si, Tirzah sets a path for the caravan to cross the deserts of Theia once again. This time, the thaumaturge has something she’s never had before: credible information that could lead to a long-awaited reunion with her eldest sister, Naomi. But the dangers of the waste are plentiful. Even if the Aru Si can survive the tribulations of the desert, Urizen–where Naomi was last seen–is a challenge unto itself. Word has escaped the city of God-King Bala-Rahzel’s erratic behavior, pitting the nobles against one another for her amusement. The Shadow Collective also lurks in the dark recesses of Urizen, carrying out their own agenda. Despite all of this, the secrets of Theia’s forgotten past, locked within the God-King’s volatile city, may prove the greatest trial of them all. Content Note: This work contains brief reference to torture, depictions of violence, blood, death and dying, drug use (both consensual and non), kidnapping, PTSD, and panic attacks. Please take care of yourself when reading.
Publisher: A.E. Bross
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
What was once thought impossible has come to pass. A God-King is dead. In the wake of Tieran’s failed ascension, Tirzah, Green, and the rest of their companions are ready to put the nightmare of Kahral behind them. As the new co-leader of the Aru Si, Tirzah sets a path for the caravan to cross the deserts of Theia once again. This time, the thaumaturge has something she’s never had before: credible information that could lead to a long-awaited reunion with her eldest sister, Naomi. But the dangers of the waste are plentiful. Even if the Aru Si can survive the tribulations of the desert, Urizen–where Naomi was last seen–is a challenge unto itself. Word has escaped the city of God-King Bala-Rahzel’s erratic behavior, pitting the nobles against one another for her amusement. The Shadow Collective also lurks in the dark recesses of Urizen, carrying out their own agenda. Despite all of this, the secrets of Theia’s forgotten past, locked within the God-King’s volatile city, may prove the greatest trial of them all. Content Note: This work contains brief reference to torture, depictions of violence, blood, death and dying, drug use (both consensual and non), kidnapping, PTSD, and panic attacks. Please take care of yourself when reading.