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Book Synopsis Octavia The Dream Chronicles by : Mike Hoffman
Download or read book Octavia The Dream Chronicles written by Mike Hoffman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A double collection of Mike Hoffman's popular Octavia novelettes! The white-haired mistress of a remote Spanish castle conducts unholy experiments. Is she a sorceress or a mad scientist? And woe to any mere mortal who might interfere with her nefarious plans!
Download or read book The Dream Book written by Helen Barolini and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on rare sources and archival material, Helen Barolini has here collected 56 works by Italian American women writers. The volume features: prose, poetry, one play and a large section of fiction.
Book Synopsis Utopian and Science Fiction by Women by : Jane L. Donawerth
Download or read book Utopian and Science Fiction by Women written by Jane L. Donawerth and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection speaks to common themes and strategies in women's writing about their different worlds, from Margaret Cavendish's seventeenth-century Blazing World of the North Pole to the "men-less" islands of the French writer Scudery to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century utopias of Shelley and Gaskell, and science fiction pulps, finishing with the more contemporary feminist fictions of Le Guin, Wittig, Piercy, and Michison. It shows that these fictions historically speak to each other and together amount to a literary tradition of women's writing about a better place.
Book Synopsis The Complete Short Story Collections: Chronicles of Avonlea + Further Chronicles of Avonlea + The Road to Yesterday + Uncollected Short Stories by : Lucy Maud Montgomery
Download or read book The Complete Short Story Collections: Chronicles of Avonlea + Further Chronicles of Avonlea + The Road to Yesterday + Uncollected Short Stories written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 1891 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Maud Montgomery's 'The Complete Short Story Collections' is a literary treasure trove that combines her beloved works 'Chronicles of Avonlea', 'Further Chronicles of Avonlea', 'The Road to Yesterday', and a selection of her unclolected short stories. Montgomery's writing style is characterized by vivid descriptions, charming characters, and heartfelt storytelling, transporting readers to the idyllic settings of Prince Edward Island. These short stories provide a glimpse into the daily lives, joys, and struggles of the residents of Avonlea, captivating readers with their timeless themes of love, friendship, and redemption. Montgomery's keen eye for detail and poignant narratives make these collections a must-read for fans of classic literature. Lucy Maud Montgomery, known for creating the iconic character of Anne Shirley in 'Anne of Green Gables', draws from her own experiences and observations of rural life to craft these enchanting tales. Her deep connection to nature and her profound understanding of human emotions shine through in every story, leaving a lasting impact on readers of all ages. 'The Complete Short Story Collections' is a poignant and nostalgic journey through Montgomery's literary world, offering readers a glimpse into the beauty and complexity of life in Avonlea.
Book Synopsis The Final Girl Support Group by : Grady Hendrix
Download or read book The Final Girl Support Group written by Grady Hendrix and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick “The horror master…puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes.”-USA Today A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Time, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, CNN, LitHub, BookRiot, Bustle, Popsugar and the New York Public Library In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives…but what happens after? Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films—movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream. Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece. But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.
Book Synopsis The Jewel of Gresham Green (The Gresham Chronicles Book #4) by : Lawana Blackwell
Download or read book The Jewel of Gresham Green (The Gresham Chronicles Book #4) written by Lawana Blackwell and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming, Victorian-era romance set in a small town in England from the bestselling author of the Gresham Chronicles.
Book Synopsis Dare to Dream by : Angela Shelf Medearis
Download or read book Dare to Dream written by Angela Shelf Medearis and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published: [New York]: Lodestar Books, 1994.
Book Synopsis "A Dream of Stone" by : Michael D. Garval
Download or read book "A Dream of Stone" written by Michael D. Garval and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With democratization of fame in the wake of the French Revolution, writers enjoyed ever greater celebrity status. But in nineteenth-century France, the availability and perceived impermanence of such renown cheapened it, and prompted longing for enduring fame, exemplified by monuments - commemorative sculptural or architectural works, helping a nation in flux define itself, its past, and anticipated future. Within this cultural climate, there evolved an ideal of great writers and their work as immortal, that envisioned literary greatness through the metaphor of monuments and monumentality. study draws upon wide-ranging evidence, from journalism to poetry, caricature to statuary. Focusing on the lives, work, and fame of Honore de Balzac, George Sand, and Victor Hugo, it uncovers the salient features, and traces the rise and fall of this monumentalizing vision of literary greatness, largely forgotten today yet so central to nineteenth-century French culture. North Carolina State University.
Book Synopsis Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? by : Seo-Young Chu
Download or read book Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? written by Seo-Young Chu and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In culture and scholarship, science-fictional worlds are perceived as unrealistic and altogether imaginary. Seo-Young Chu offers a bold challenge to this perception of the genre, arguing instead that science fiction is a form of “high-intensity realism” capable of representing non-imaginary objects that elude more traditional, “realist” modes of representation. Powered by lyric forces that allow it to transcend the dichotomy between the literal and the figurative, science fiction has the capacity to accommodate objects of representation that are themselves neither entirely figurative nor entirely literal in nature. Chu explores the globalized world, cyberspace, war trauma, the Korean concept of han, and the rights of robots, all as referents for which she locates science-fictional representations in poems, novels, music, films, visual pieces, and other works ranging within and without previous demarcations of the science fiction genre. In showing the divide between realism and science fiction to be illusory, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? sheds new light on the value of science fiction as an aesthetic and philosophical resource—one that matters more and more as our everyday realities grow increasingly resistant to straightforward representation.
Book Synopsis The Role of Nature in the Works of Octavia Butler by : Robin Rockensüß
Download or read book The Role of Nature in the Works of Octavia Butler written by Robin Rockensüß and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Dortmund, language: English, abstract: The science fiction (SF) writer Octavia Estelle Butler (1947-2006) was a pioneer in many ways. She won several Hugo and Nebula awards and was critically acclaimed as the most successful and most gifted female African-American author in a genre that is still mostly dominated by white males. Butler had been publishing stories since the early 1970s, imaginatively addressing issues such as slavery, race and gender in a science fiction environment – including elements of time traveling as in Kindred (1979) and telepathy and extraterrestrials in the Patternist series (1976-1984), which is made up of five novels and was republished in 2007 as the compilation Seed to Harvest. The Patternist stories already contain references to biological alterations of bodies and somatic mutations. 1987 marks the publication of Dawn, the first volume of the Xenogenesis triology which was also republished after Butler’s death in the compilation Lilith’s Brood. The series advances the idea of biological engineering to modern genetics in the same year when a committee of the National Academy of Sciences stated that organisms altered or created by the combination of genes between species pose no hazards to the natural environment and are “virtually risk free or have risk-to-benefit ratios well within acceptable bounds” (Schmeck 1987). Within the next two years, Dawn was followed by the sequels Adulthood Rites (1988) and Imago (1989). The two novels continued the scenario of a post-apocalyptic civilization and a world controlled by peaceful, yet intrusive extraterrestrial hybrids. In the trilogy Butler considered the overall consequences for nature, humanity and civilization by extrapolating from actual scientific and social developments. This approach can also be detected in the near-future dystopia of the Parable series.
Author :Nat'l Museum African American Hist/Cult Publisher :Smithsonian Institution ISBN 13 :1588345688 Total Pages :289 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (883 download)
Book Synopsis Dream a World Anew by : Nat'l Museum African American Hist/Cult
Download or read book Dream a World Anew written by Nat'l Museum African American Hist/Cult and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dream A World Anew is the stunning gift book accompanying the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It combines informative narratives from leading scholars, curators, and authors with objects from the museum's collection to present a thorough exploration of African American history and culture. The first half of the book bridges a major gap in our national memory by examining a wide arc of African American history, from Slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Great Migrations through Segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, and beyond. The second half of the book celebrates African American creativity and cultural expressions through art, dance, theater, and literature. Sidebars and profiles of influential figures--including Harriet Tubman, Robert Smalls, Ida B. Wells, Mordecai Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, and many others--provide additional context and interest throughout the book. Dream a World Anew is a powerful book that provides an opportunity to explore and revel in African American history and culture, as well as the chance to see how central African American history is for all Americans.
Download or read book Uther written by Jack Whyte and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-12-09 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book in the Camulod Chronicles.
Book Synopsis American Dream, American Nightmare by : Kathryn Hume
Download or read book American Dream, American Nightmare written by Kathryn Hume and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this celebration of contemporary American fiction, Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation, which she calls the Generation of the Lost Dream. In breaking down the divisions among standard categories of race, religion, ethnicity, and gender, Hume identifies shared core concerns, values, and techniques among seemingly disparate and unconnected writers including T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ralph Ellison, Russell Banks, Gloria Naylor, Tim O'Brien, Maxine Hong Kingston, Walker Percy, N. Scott Momaday, John Updike, Toni Morrison, William Kennedy, Julia Alvarez, Thomas Pynchon, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Don DeLillo. Hume explores fictional treatments of the slippage in the immigrant experience between America's promise and its reality. She exposes the political link between contemporary stories of lost innocence and liberalism's inadequacies. She also invites us to look at the literary challenge to scientific materialism in various searches for a spiritual dimension in life. The expansive future promised by the American Dream has been replaced, Hume finds, by a sense of tarnished morality and a melancholy loss of faith in America's exceptionalism. American Dream, American Nightmare examines the differing critiques of America embedded in nearly a hundred novels and points to the source for recovery that appeals to many of the authors.
Book Synopsis The Martian Chronicles by : Ray Bradbury
Download or read book The Martian Chronicles written by Ray Bradbury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by humans who want to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth.
Book Synopsis Unyielding Circumstances of Chronicles Undefined by : Dr. Octavia Kincy-Moten
Download or read book Unyielding Circumstances of Chronicles Undefined written by Dr. Octavia Kincy-Moten and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ______________________________________________________________________ Once you delve into Unyielding Circumstances of Chronicles Undefined, it will become apparent that Author Dr. Octavia Kincy-Moten is being led by the Holy Spirit! Upon reading through every spirit-filled page of this book, you will come to the realization that each poem personally resonates in some way. After reading each page, the words will leave you desiring and yearning to hear more! In other instances, you will suddenly feel a need or urge to live and speak more boldly for Christ, yet at the same time, be still! However the message is received, just be aware that He knows! All that truthfully matters is genuinely believing and loving our awesome Savior! “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” King James Version (Matthew 11:15) Listen with your heart and prepare to be BLESSED! ______________________________________________________________________
Book Synopsis The Complete Chronicles Of Conan by : Robert E Howard
Download or read book The Complete Chronicles Of Conan written by Robert E Howard and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conan the Cimmerian: the boy-thief who became a mercenary, who fought and loved his way across fabled lands to become King of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nore demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian age. Collected together in one volume for the very first time, in chronological order, are Robert E. Howard's tales of the legendary hero, as fresh and atmospheric today as when they were first published in the pulp magazines of more than seventy years ago. Compiled by and with a foreward and afterword by award-winning writer and editor Stephen Jones.
Download or read book Fledgling written by Octavia E. Butler and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted—and still wants—to destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human.
