Author: Rachel D. Adams Publisher: WTC Creatives, LLC ISBN: 1958442003 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 229
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Being a dragon is a death sentence. Being a Tasker might be worse. Jean-Michel is BOTH. Jean-Michel Raudine has been his name for centuries, thanks to an oath that bound his dragon soul to a human body. A specialized operative called a Tasker, Jean works for Crimson, the very organization that hunts dragons and kills them on sight. What better place to hide than among your enemy? Gabriel Kennedy is a well-known businessman with secrets - one of which is that he’s a Councilor in the supernatural justice system. He decides the fate of paranormal beings that break the laws of Crimson. What will he do when he realizes his Tasker is breaking the law by simply existing? Life for the dragon Tasker has become one hideous mission after another. Life for the human Councilor is one lonely meeting after another. That is until doppelgängers are discovered in this world, and powerful people begin acting strangely, even dangerously. Are doppelgängers responsible for something sinister? With lives on the line, Jean-Michel finds himself walking a tightrope to help Gabriel solve the mystery before the Council & Crimson fall into chaos - while also keeping his scaled ass from being found out or worse - killed. Doppelgängers & Deceit is Book One of The Dragon Tasker Series. It's a wild urban fantasy and paranormal romance that introduces you to a chorus of paranormal characters connected to a dejected dragon and introverted human trying to solve not only the mystery surrounding the doppelgängers but are also piecing their own puzzle together.
Author: Rachel Adams Publisher: ISBN: 9781958442050 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Doppelgangers & Deceit is a wild urban fantasy that introduces you to a chorus of paranormal characters that are connected to a dejected dragon shifter who happens to be a special operative called a Tasker and his assigned Councilor, a human who has inherited his title along with secrets that will bind the two. Follow them through adventures and political intrigues to uncover why doppelgangers, who are not allowed in this world, are not only here but becoming deadly. Will the case be solved and order between the supernatural world and the mundane world maintained? Or will death and destruction continue to follow the dragon? (second edition)
Author: Marjorie Rubright Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812246233 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 352
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The Dutch were culturally ubiquitous in England during the early modern period and constituted London's largest alien population in the second half of the sixteenth century. While many sought temporary refuge from Spanish oppression in the Low Countries, others became part of a Dutch diaspora, developing their commercial, spiritual, and domestic lives in England. The category "Dutch" catalyzed questions about English self-definition that were engendered less by large-scale cultural distinctions than by uncanny similarities. Doppelgänger Dilemmas uncovers the ways England's real and imagined proximities with the Dutch played a crucial role in the making of English ethnicity. Marjorie Rubright explores the tensions of Anglo-Dutch relations that emerged in the form of puns, double entendres, cognates, homophones, copies, palimpsests, doppelgängers, and other doublings of character and kind. Through readings of London's stage plays and civic pageantry, English and Continental polyglot and bilingual dictionaries and grammars, and travel accounts of Anglo-Dutch rivalries and friendships in the Spice Islands, Rubright reveals how representations of Dutchness played a vital role in shaping Englishness in virtually every aspect of early modern social life. Her innovative book sheds new light on the literary and historical forces of similitude in an era that was so often preoccupied with ethnic and cultural difference.
Author: Charles E. Lake Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc. ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 295
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The Chief Executive Officer of a large private corporation has the Board of Director votes to thwart a buyout/takeover bid from a corporate raider. However, several members of the BOD will stop at nothing to ensure the bid is successful, including hiring assassins to kill the CEO to eliminate his deciding, negative votes. If the CEO is absent from the board meeting, the corporate raider will be successful. Complications arise when the young CEO is temporarily incapacitated by an automobile accident caused by his own immaturity and recklessness. To provide the necessary negative votes and protect the corporation from the raider, its astute Chief Operating Officer, governed by his 25+ years of loyal and significant service, covertly hires a look-alike actor to pose as the CEO. The impostor has to successfully deceive the CEO’s BOD members, staff, friends, acquaintances, and a TV-viewing audience for at least two months. To further the deception, a young attractive actress is hired to pose as the impostor’s platonic girlfriend. Therein lies the plot. The impostor plays his role so well that there are a number of attempts to kill him, thinking that he is the real CEO. What follows are multiple, ruthless attempts to kill the CEO impostor to ensure the corporate raider’s success. The impostor’s life is further jeopardized by an avenging ex-convict who blames the CEO for the death of his sister. Throughout all the dangers the impostor must not break character. His mission remains the same: Deception without Detection. “No matter what happens, no one must know!” This fast-paced story takes place across many venues: the Big Sur coastal area; the snow-covered mountains of Utah; a cabin in the Adirondacks; mega-yacht moorings at St. Tropez, Nice, and Monaco along the French Riviera; a New York City horse-drawn carriage ride; a rustic cabin in Sleepy Hollow, New York; a retirement village in Arkansas; a movie premiere; a late-night TV show; and corporate guest lodges in California, 1000 Islands, and Florida. The theme of the Imperiled Impostor is the conflict between good and evil, with this additional consideration and question from a Machiavellian treatise: “does the end justify the means”. In the story, does deceit and deception justify the final “good” result? The story also depicts the redemption of a gifted and capable person who had been wasting his life in self-indulgence and self-pity.
Author: Adrian De Hoog Publisher: Breakwater Books ISBN: 9781550812329 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 364
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A virus destroys the communication network of the Canadian diplomatic service. Carson Pryce, a reclusive, moody intelligence analyst, and Rachel Dunn, a brilliant diplomat with a glowing humanitarian track record, are implicated in the event. For years, Carson has been secretly obsessed with Rachel, and abuses his privileged access to intelligence information to keep track of her and the people around her. He knows things about Rachel which she doesn't even know herself. The investigation into the virus deepens and Carson initiates a cover-up to prevent damage to Rachel's reputation. The plot in Borderless Deceit skips easily from Ottawa to Vienna, from Berlin to Alexandria and from Transylvania to Kenya. The action takes place in a world where privacy has disappeared, where hackers circle each other in cyberspace, and where a mouse click can orchestrate deceit in faraway places. Is there space in this for a rekindling of humanity's enduring values?
Author: Robert Sterling Publisher: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 1592243711 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 230
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Eight outre tales of the doubly weird by J. Sheridan LeFanu, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Algernon Blackwood, Guy de Maupassant, Honore de Balzac, Hans Christian Andersen, Henry James, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. . . . The face in the mirror is yours, but ever so slightly different. A shadow haunts your house, but it walks in places you've never gone. You grew up with a boy who had your face and your name, except he always did everything right, while you never could. Evil twins, double images: these are the tales of the Doppelganger.
Author: Mary D. Edwards Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476669295 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 236
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The notion of a person--or even an object--having a "double" has been explored in the visual arts for ages, and in myriad ways: portraying the body and its soul, a woman gazing at her reflection in a pool, or a man overwhelmed by his own shadow. In this edited collection focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century western art, scholars analyze doppelgangers, alter egos, mirror images, double portraits and other pairings, human and otherwise, appearing in a large variety of artistic media. Artists whose works are discussed at length include Richard Dadd, Salvador Dali, Egon Schiele, Frida Kahlo, the creators of Superman, and Nicola Costantino, among many others.
Author: Richard Dudgeon Publisher: eBookIt.com ISBN: 1456652265 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 223
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Dive Into A Dystopian Odyssey In a not-so-distant future, the world you know teeters on the edge of chaos. What if history's darkest moments and forbidden prophecies all pointed toward one inevitable doom? Welcome to "Dimensions of Deceit: A Dystopian Nightmare", where reality unravels into an interwoven tapestry of secrets, revolutions, and cosmic intrigue. Embark on a gripping journey through a world shaped by clandestine rituals, shadowy alliances, and extraterrestrial machinations. From the ominous summoning by the Daimonic Circle, through the perilous whispers of revolution, to the dire revelations of forbidden knowledge, each chapter peels back layers of deception. This is a realm where psychological warfare blends with trans-dimensional conflicts, and where mighty nations fall under the sinister rise of a new world order. Picture grim landscapes where corrupt power bastions are breached, and humanity's last hope rests in a tenuous resistance. Witness the extraordinary as ancient prophecies materialise, revealing cosmic battles and alien conspiracies that stretch beyond the veil of our reality. Engage with the dark night of the soul, as heroes and villains are forged in the crucible of a world on the brink. As the Resistance finds footing, guerrilla tactics spark a flicker of hope amidst relentless despair. Through intricate deception and intense battles, will truth and redemption prevail? Dive deep into this meticulously crafted dystopian saga where every chapter lurks with suspense and a revelation awaits behind each page. "Dimensions of Deceit: A Dystopian Nightmare" is not just a novel; it is an experience that challenges your perception of reality and questions the very fabric of human existence. Dare to uncover the legacy within, and venture into a narrative where the stakes are immeasurable, and the journey unforgettable.
Author: Dimitris Vardoulakis Publisher: Fordham Univ Press ISBN: 0823233006 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 336
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The Doppelgänger or Double presents literature as the "double" of philosophy. There are historical reasons for this. The genesis of the Doppelgänger is literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity. The Doppelgänger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796 as a critique of Idealism's assertion of subjective autonomy, individuality and human agency. This critique prefigures post-War extrapolations of the subject as decentred. From this perspective, the Doppelgänger has a "family resemblance" to current conceptualizations of subjectivity. It becomes the emblematic subject of modernity. This is the first significant study on the Doppelgänger's influence on philosophical thought. The Doppelgänger emerges as a hidden and unexplored element both in conceptions of subjectivity and in philosophy's relation to literature. Vardoulakis demonstrates this by employing the Doppelgänger to read literature philosophically and to read philosophy as literature. The Doppelgänger then appears instrumental in the self-conception of both literature and philosophy.
Author: Rachel D. Adams
Author: Rachel Adams
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Author: Charles E. Lake
Author: Adrian De Hoog
Author: Robert Sterling
Author: Mary D. Edwards
Author: Richard Dudgeon
Author: Gerald Heard
Author: Dimitris Vardoulakis