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Author: Paul Winter Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595349811 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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The story takes place in South Africa and India. In South Africa, the narrator, Paul, drifts between an ideal world, where he is happily married to his partner Nirraz, and a dark and horrible nightmare where an unidentified madman is torturing him in the gay couple's own wine cellar. Nirraz is a sociologist and his lover Paul teaches biology at the local school. The couple have the special ability to experience the same grotesque dreams-they recite their ten dreams to a psychologist. The couple is friends with their neighbour Sheila, a divorcée, her boyfriend Peter and her son Liam, who gets close to the gay couple. There is lots of goings on in the Jacuzzi of the gay couple's home and an atmosphere of sexual jealously arises. The madman's life and the ten dreams are connected to a remote village in India where an eighty-year-old hermaphrodite virgin, Shamele, is responsible for creating dream pills. The pills allow one to dream of one's death and one's reincarnation. A yellow butterfly carved out of a stone taken from the mountain near the village is believed to be cursed and was sold to a South African tourist-the yellow butterfly became an integral part of the madman's childhood. Paul's happy world starts crumbling as terrible events take place in his hometown. His ideal world merges with his nightmare in the cellar and a macabre twist at the end plunges him into a dark world where the fates of the torturer and his helpless victim are finally decided. This book is not for the feint hearted.
Author: Paul Winter Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595349811 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
Book Description
The story takes place in South Africa and India. In South Africa, the narrator, Paul, drifts between an ideal world, where he is happily married to his partner Nirraz, and a dark and horrible nightmare where an unidentified madman is torturing him in the gay couple's own wine cellar. Nirraz is a sociologist and his lover Paul teaches biology at the local school. The couple have the special ability to experience the same grotesque dreams-they recite their ten dreams to a psychologist. The couple is friends with their neighbour Sheila, a divorcée, her boyfriend Peter and her son Liam, who gets close to the gay couple. There is lots of goings on in the Jacuzzi of the gay couple's home and an atmosphere of sexual jealously arises. The madman's life and the ten dreams are connected to a remote village in India where an eighty-year-old hermaphrodite virgin, Shamele, is responsible for creating dream pills. The pills allow one to dream of one's death and one's reincarnation. A yellow butterfly carved out of a stone taken from the mountain near the village is believed to be cursed and was sold to a South African tourist-the yellow butterfly became an integral part of the madman's childhood. Paul's happy world starts crumbling as terrible events take place in his hometown. His ideal world merges with his nightmare in the cellar and a macabre twist at the end plunges him into a dark world where the fates of the torturer and his helpless victim are finally decided. This book is not for the feint hearted.
Author: W. E. A. van Beek Publisher: OUP USA ISBN: 0199858160 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 360
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Walter E. A. van Beek draws on over four decades of extensive fieldwork to offer an in-depth study of the religion of the Kapsiki/Higi, who live in the Mandara Mountains on the border between North Cameroon and Northeast Nigeria. Concentrating on ritual as the core of traditional religion, van Beek shows how Kapsiki/Higi practices have endured through the long and turbulent history of the region. Kapsiki rituals reveal a focus on two fundamental concepts: dwelling and belonging. Van Beek examines their sacrificial practices, through which the Kapsiki show a complex and pervasive connection with the Mandara Mountains, as well as the character of their relationships among themselves and with outsiders. Van Beek also explores their rituals of belonging, rites of passage which take place from birth through initiation and marriage - and even death, with the tradition of the ''dancing dead,'' when a fully decorated corpse on the shoulders of a smith ''dances'' with his mourning kinsmen. The Dancing Dead is the result of the author's lifelong study of the Kapsiki/Higi. It gives a unique description of the rituals in an African traditional religion based not upon ancestors, but on a completely relational thought system, where in the end all rituals are integrated into one major cycle.
Author: Evelyn Puerto Publisher: Evelyn Puerto ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 474
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An ancient prophecy, now an outlawed myth. A young girl who was never meant to be born. An empress determined to bring peace at any cost. Tereka successfully led her friends to escape a prison camp, outwit pirates, and make a home as fugitives in the wilds. But the knowledge that someday her relentless foes will track them down drive her to make good on her promise to topple the rulers of her land—starting with her evil aunt Juquila. Then an invading army conquers the southern part of Tlefas, and Tereka’s hopes raise. Could the invader be the Desired One of prophecy? Or does he bring greater evil to the land? Now she is forced to determine her role in the turmoil that sweeps the country. The wrong choice could prove to be deadly for her---and the peoples of two warring nations.
Author: Evelyn Puerto Publisher: Evelyn Puerto ISBN: Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1718
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Sometimes your best friends are your deadliest enemies Iskra is committed to following the rules—the rules that keep everyone safe. But when a savage outlaw rescues her from a gang of vicious bandits, she discovers that most of what she believes is a lie. As her feelings for the outlaw turn from fear to love, Iskra begins to take risks she'd never imagined. Then those who had promised her safety became her deadliest enemies, determined to separate her from her forbidden love—or destroy her in the process. Iskra's rebellion sets into motion events prophesied centuries ago. Years later, Tereka's family thinks she might be the Desired One of prophecy, destined to bring a new order to the land. But she's reeling from revelations about her past and can't face the truth. Learning to use magic dragonfly amulets is one thing. Staring a revolution is another. And from over the mountains, an ancient evil arises, determined to conquer all in its path. Its servants wield magical scorpion amulets and are the sworn enemies of those who hold the dragonfly amulets. Will the foretold Desired One succeed in bringing a new order, or fall to the forces of evil? Click 'buy now' to read the complete Outlawed Myth series today! This is the complete four-novel Outlawed Myth series, full of adventure, strong female protagonists, themes of freedom, rebellion and coming of age, magic and a splash of romance. It includes: Flight of the Spark Flicker of the Flame Sting of the Scorpion Flood of the Fire
Author: Gavin G. Smith Publisher: Gollancz ISBN: 0575094788 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 602
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Praised by Stephen Baxter and Adam Roberts, reviewed ecstatically by SFX magazine, Gavin Smith's first novel VETERAN announced an exciting new voice on the SF scene. WAR IN HEAVEN, set in the same universe, followed. Now comes a new standalone SF thriller. Of all the captains based out of Arclight only Eldon Sloper was desperate enough to agree to a salvage job in Red Space. And now he and his crew are living to regret his desperation. In Red Space the rules are different. Some things work, others don't. Best to stick close to the Church beacons. Don't get lost. Because there's something wrong about Red Space. Something beyond rational. Something vampyric... Long after The Loss, mankind is different. We touch the world via neunonics. We are machines, we are animals, we are hybrids. But some things never change. A Killer is paid to kill, a Thief will steal countless lives. A Clone will find insanity, an Innocent a new horror. The Church knows we have kept our sins. Gavin Smith's new SF novel is an epic slam-bang ride through a terrifyingly different future.
Author: George Devney Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1532097298 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 52
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The revelation written is hard to understand. It is 4 symbols. I explain what all of these symbols stand for and mean and the events that took place happened 2-3 thousand years ago. All past history... my book tells the truth about the book of revelation. What the ministers and priests preach about on a Sunday morning try to tell people that these things have not happened yet and that they are going to take place in the future and it is all hog wash and not true. The priests are trying to tell people that these things are going to happen in the future and it is a lie. The book of revelation they don’t understand or they do know and are trying to hide it an tell people it is a future event coming, trying to scare people and make them dig in their pockets and put money in the “collection” box. The people are fooled or told by these individuals that these things are going to happen. The reality is these things actually happened in the past and it is past history.
Author: Maria Paoletta Gil Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc ISBN: 1509246584 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 296
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Sneak aboard a nameless vessel with half-breed Honifa McLeod for one, desperate night of love with Captain Tor Kendrick, a pirate wed only to the freedom of open seas and salt spray. Escape your enemies in the Rif Mountains with Dark of the Moon, a compelling outlaw who hides his secrets behind a mask. And sail the dangerous Barbary Coast, past Morocco's burning deserts to London's teeming slums. This voyage of passion, romance and adventure with a pair of starcrossed lovers is yours in the exciting novel, Witch's Moon.
Author: Eddie S. Howell Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1463484704 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 152
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This is a insect story told by Miss Lady Bug (a reporter). She introduces the Soda Pop Gang, which is led by a potato bug named Soda Pop, a worm named Tool-Box, a centipede named Lightning, and a snail named PC. Two humans accidentally enter this insect world when they build a mansion deep in the woods. They are unaware that this mansion is within a black widow’s territory. The story unfolds as the black widow spider overtakes the mansion by subduing the humans. Fearing the evil spider, one of the Soda Pop Gang prays for help and an angel appears. A fierce battle of good versus evil takes place.
Author: Donald Revell Publisher: Alice James Books ISBN: 1938584295 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 92
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"Donald Revell writes with a drunken equipoise among the weedy flowers and bees of roadside museums and vacant churches. . . .[Here] are poems that border the hereafter and revive the child's play of prophecy. What miraculous assistance they provide!"—Dean Young Donald Revell pushes boundaries between words and music, transcending our current notion of beauty and innocence. Personal memory, the visionary, the eccentric, and the divine intertwine between networks of stories that connect past and present through paint strokes, composition, and pastoral lyric. Pure of heart poems lie down in a vibrant field of paradox, basking gratefully in the sun of unknowing. From "Beyond Disappointment": Hence and farewell valediction: "life's journey." It makes no sense. The children mock us with it. A typewriter beneath the Christmas tree Calls to the icecaps. Illustrated monthlies Burn in the wasps' burnt nest. It is Such perfections make the sun to rise. Donald Revell has authored eleven collections of poetry, most recently Tantivy (2012) and The Bitter Withy (2009). Winner of the PEN USA Translation Award and two-time winner of the PEN USA Award for Poetry, he has also won the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Prize and is a former Fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations. Additionally, he has twice been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Former editor-in-chief of Denver Quarterly, he now serves as poetry editor of Colorado Review. Revell is the director of graduate studies and professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Author: Paul Winter
Author: Paul Winter
Author: W. E. A. van Beek
Author: Evelyn Puerto
Author: Evelyn Puerto
Author: Gavin G. Smith
Author: George Devney
Author: Maria Paoletta Gil
Author: Eddie S. Howell
Author: Donald Revell
Author: Rosa Nouchette Carey