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Book Synopsis Shards of Love by : María Rosa Menocal
Download or read book Shards of Love written by María Rosa Menocal and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic marker for the expulsion of a diversity in language and grammar that was disturbing to the Renaissance sensibility of purity and stability. In rewriting Columbus's narrative of his voyage of that year, Renaissance historians rewrote history, as was often their practice, to purge it of an offending vulgarity. The cultural fragments left behind following this exile form the core of Shards of Love, as María Rosa Menocal confronts the difficulty of writing their history. It is in exile that Menocal locates the founding conditions for philology--as a discipline that loves origins--and for the genre of love songs that philology reveres. She crosses the boundaries, both temporal and geographical, of 1492 to recover the "original" medieval culture, with its Mediterranean mix of European, Arabic, and Hebrew poetics. The result is a form of literary history more lyrical than narrative and, Menocal persuasively demonstrates, more appropriate to the Middle Ages than to the revisionary legacy of the Renaissance. In discussions ranging from Eric Clapton's adaption of Nizami's Layla and Majnun, to the uncanny ties between Jim Morrison and Petrarch, Shards of Love deepens our sense of how the Middle Ages is tied to our own age as it expands the history and meaning of what we call Romance philology.
Book Synopsis Four Shards of Love Vol.1 by : Hazrie Halim
Download or read book Four Shards of Love Vol.1 written by Hazrie Halim and published by Hazrie Halim. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story 1: Melisa is an ordinary girl who moves into Dawn Mirage, a beautiful city located far away from her hometown. Traveling to Mirage High School from her home takes a lot of time, therefore she decides to wander around Dawn Mirage and find a place to stay. She lives in Rose Garden, a luxurious mansion. Melisa starts her new life living with four romantic young men under the same roof. As Melisa and the residents are doing pretty well after some time, they find something magical in the mansion's storage room. Their fate change as some of them are teleported into a vast world known as the 'Astral World'. Melisa becomes an alchemist, someone who makes potions with variety of effects and uses slight healing magic. The male members become offensive fighters, with each of them being unique and different. Being destined to rescue the sealed queen, the Rose Garden members begin their adventure to fight the seven invaders from seven different continents, as well as forging bonds with other heroic fighters that fights for the honor of their kingdom and for personal reason. Story 2: This story begins in Chapter 10. Astral World's renowned noble named Von Sozou spends his night with Lady Restia once every three months. Since Lady Restia's kingdom is now a sworn enemy to the Von Clan, they have to meet secretly at their usual rendezvous. Lady Restia prays that there will be peace between the two sides. Von Sozou embraces her, showing that he loves her very much. The next day, both Von Sozou and Lady Restia's kingdom are attacked by the fifth invader, Solaris. Her fire magic explosions and meteor crashes destroy everything in the two kingdom. Von Sozou is the only Von Clan member who survives after the deadly catastrophe. He rushes to Lady Restia's Kingdom with extreme speed, only to find out that she is already dead. Saddened and angered by the death of his loved one, Von Sozou join forces with other fighters to have his revenge against Solaris.
Book Synopsis The Shards of Heaven by : Michael Livingston
Download or read book The Shards of Heaven written by Michael Livingston and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julius Caesar is dead, assassinated on the senate floor, and the glory that is Rome has been torn in two. Octavian, Caesar's ambitious great-nephew and adopted son, vies with Marc Antony and Cleopatra for control of Caesar's legacy. As civil war rages from Rome to Alexandria, and vast armies and navies battle for supremacy, a secret conflict may shape the course of history. Juba, Numidian prince and adopted brother of Octavian, has embarked on a ruthless quest for the Shards of Heaven, lost treasures said to possess the very power of the gods-or the one God. Driven by vengeance, Juba has already attained the fabled Trident of Poseidon, which may also be the staff once wielded by Moses. Now he will stop at nothing to obtain the other Shards, even if it means burning the entire world to the ground. Caught up in these cataclysmic events, and the hunt for the Shards, are a pair of exiled Roman legionnaires, a Greek librarian of uncertain loyalties, assassins, spies, slaves . . . and the ten-year-old daughter of Cleopatra herself. Michael Livingston's The Shards of Heaven reveals the hidden magic behind the history we know, and commences a war greater than any mere mortal battle. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis Shards of Memory by : Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Download or read book Shards of Memory written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man named Henry sits down with his grandmother, a genial lady still called Baby by everyone, in her Manhattan townhouse where he has lived all his life, to record the history of a spiritual movement that has woven itself into the fabric of their family's lives for four generations. What unfolds is a mesmerizing family saga: the imperious great-grandmother Elsa and her husband, an Indian poet, whose marriage is as unconventional as the movement they help to found; Baby, their cheerfully pragmatic daughter, married to the aloof English diplomat Graeme; bemused and brooding Renata, Baby and Graeme's daughter, married to an idle dreamer; and finally Henry, Renata's son, who in many ways bears the legacy of all that has gone before. Their lives--and that of the movement's elusive yet ineluctable founder, known only as the Master--intertwine, diverge, and collide with each other in a masterfully orchestrated story spanning the twentieth century and several continents. By turns brilliantly satiric, insightful, and profoundly moving, Shards Of Memory is a beautifully wrought tale of love and devotion, of family and faith, and of the complex nature of memory itself--a literary tour de force from one of the most distinguished novelists of our time.
Book Synopsis Cordelia's Honor by : Lois McMaster Bujold
Download or read book Cordelia's Honor written by Lois McMaster Bujold and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 1999-09-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Enemies Become More than Friends -- THEY WIN In her first trial by fire, Cordelia Naismith captained a throwaway ship of the Betan Expeditionary Force on a mission to destroy an enemy armada. Discovering deception within deception, treachery within treachery, she was forced into a separate peace with her chief opponent, Lord Aral Vorkosigan -- he who was called "The Butcher of Komarr" -- and would consequently become an outcast on her own planet and the Lady Vorkosigan on his. Sick of combat and betrayal, she was ready to settle down to a quiet life, interrupted only by the occasional ceremonial appearances required of the Lady Vorkosigan. But when the Emperor died, Aral became guardian of the infant heir to the imperial throne of Barrayar -- and the target of high-tech assassins in a dynastic civil war that was reminiscent of Earth's Middle Ages, but fought with up-to-the minute biowar technology. Neither Aral nor Cordelia guessed the part that their cell-damaged unborn would play in Barrayari's bloody legacy.
Download or read book Stag's Leap written by Sharon Olds and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant sequence of poems traces the evolution of a divorce while exploring themes of love, sex, sorrow, memory and freedom as reflected by everyday familiarities and the poignancy of former lovers parting, in a collection by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Dead and the Living.
Download or read book Shards of Hope written by Nalini Singh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “smoldering heat, epic romance, and awesome action”* of Nalini Singh’s New York Times bestselling series continues as two Arrows find themselves caught in a chilling conspiracy that spans all three races… Awakening wounded in a darkened cell, their psychic abilities blocked, Aden and Zaira know they must escape. But when the lethal soldiers break free from their mysterious prison, they find themselves in a harsh, inhospitable landscape far from civilization. Their only hope for survival is to make it to the hidden home of a predatory changeling pack that doesn’t welcome outsiders. And they must survive. A shadowy enemy has put a target on the back of the Arrow squad, an enemy that cannot be permitted to succeed in its deadly campaign. Aden will cross any line to keep his people safe for this new future, where even an assassin might have hope of a life beyond blood and death and pain. Zaira has no such hope. She knows she’s too damaged to return from the abyss. Her driving goal is to protect Aden, protect the only person who has ever come back for her no matter what. This time, even Aden’s passionate determination may not be enough—because the emotionless chill of Silence existed for a reason. For the violent, and the insane, and the irreparably broken…like Zaira. *Jaci Burton, New York Times bestselling author
Book Synopsis Scorpion Shards by : Neal Shusterman
Download or read book Scorpion Shards written by Neal Shusterman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six teens struggle to discover the source of their strange and horrific abilities in this first book of The Star Shards Chronicles. Dillon has the terrifying power to create massive amounts of destruction with the slightest tweak of his will. Deanna is so consumed by fear, it has become like a black hole, drawing to her the very things that terrify her. Then, when the glare of a supernova sixteen light-years away illuminates the night sky, they have a vision: There are six of them out there, all teenagers, and all suffering from supernatural afflictions that disfigure their bodies and souls. Only by finding one another will the six ever be strong enough to defeat these mysterious forces that, bit by bit, are devouring their souls from the inside out. Acclaimed author Neal Shusterman “combines personal quest, horror, and science fiction into an absorbing exploration of good and evil, guilt, forgiveness and personal responsibility” (VOYA) in this thrilling start to a riveting trilogy. Originally published by Tor Fantasy in 1995.
Download or read book SHARDS written by Lawrence Terlizzese and published by Christian Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shards: Fragments of Mind presents a collection of aphorisms, epigrams, terse journal entries, notes, short vignettes, and pity statements, as well as longer segments, such as unpublished papers, blog posts, and essays meant to enlighten the reader and inspire the ability to think; none of these minutes are meant to be exhaustive, although no linear organization enforces itself on the text comprehensive themes will be discovered through comparable reading. Each entry stands alone and is presented in no particular order. I cover topics as varied as Extra Terrestrials and Christianity, cell phones, and Just War Criteria. The reader may start at any point from beginning to end or randomly, and various and sundry topics will begin to take shape in a comprehensive whole. The numbering system in this book is an attempt to impose some logical order and easy reference on an otherwise fragmented text. However, this is not unlike the way students learn through the online medium when looking up relevant subjects in short informational bursts proceeding in rapid-fire succession. I take as my literary examples the writing of Pascal in Pensées and Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols. Although I don’t pretend to be as sublime as they were, I do use their format as a template for this book.
Book Synopsis Shards of the Mind by : Theolyn Boese
Download or read book Shards of the Mind written by Theolyn Boese and published by . This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several months have passed since Thea was attacked, but the nightmares continue -- ones filled with blood, knives, and a fear that even the comforting weight of her husbands beside her cannot banish. To distract herself on the voyage to Ta'e, Thea prepares a marriage veil for Sya'tia, and her husbands encourage her to offer it to the Warrior Chosen woman they have all come to care for. Will Sya'tia accept it and join her life to theirs? But, when they arrive at Ta'e, Thea finds it is not the paradise she believed it would be. While the Ta'e'shians do not harbor the same hatred her attacker did, there is a subtle disdain in the air that disturbs her. And, occasionally not so subtle, she discovers, when she meets her new in-laws. Meanwhile, Kyrin and Daeshen are making their own sexy plans to regain Thea's trust in them. They have no intention of letting her pull away from them, even if they have to tie her up to do it... Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Homoerotic sexual encounters, mnage, mild bondage, and spanking.
Book Synopsis Shards of a Shattered Mirror Book I by : Darryl Anka
Download or read book Shards of a Shattered Mirror Book I written by Darryl Anka and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willa Hillicrissing, a thirteen-year-old human-alien Hybrid with golden eyes and a wild mane of fox-fur hair, was raised amid the green forests and peaceful seaside setting of Port Dublin in Ireland where, as an apprentice to her Hybrid mentor, Holly Cotton, she takes her first steps on the path to becoming a Cryptic.
Download or read book A Single Shard written by Linda Sue Park and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2001-04-23 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Newbery Medal-winning tale of an orphan boy whose dream of becoming a master potter leads to unforeseen adventure in ancient Korea. Tree-ear is an orphan boy in a 12th-century Korean village renowned for its ceramics. When he accidentally breaks a delicate piece of pottery, he volunteers to work to pay for the damage. Putting aside his own dreams, Tree-ear resolves to serve the master potter by embarking on a difficult and dangerous journey, little knowing that it will change his life forever. "Despite the odds against him, Tree-ear becomes courageous, brave and selfless, a hero as enduring as the porcelain Park so lovingly describes." (New York Times) “Intrigues, danger, and a strong focus on doing what is right turn a simple story into a compelling read. A timeless jewel.” (Kirkus starred review) *A broken piece of pottery sets events in motion as an orphan struggles to pay off his debt to a master potter. This finely crafted novel brings 12th-century Korea and these indelible characters to life." (School Library Journal starred review) "Tree-ear's determination and bravery in pursuing his dream of becoming a potter takes readers on a literary journey that demonstrates how courage, honor and perseverance can overcome great odds and bring great happiness. Park effectively conveys 12th century Korea in this masterful piece of historical fiction." (Kathleen Odean, chair of the Newbery Award Selection Committee)
Book Synopsis Shards of Earth by : Adrian Tchaikovsky
Download or read book Shards of Earth written by Adrian Tchaikovsky and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the thrilling science-fiction epic Children of Time, winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award. Shards of Earth is the first high-octane, far-future space adventure in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture trilogy. 'One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction' – Christopher Paolini The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . . Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade his mind in the war. And one of humanity’s heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien enemy. Many escaped, but millions more died. So mankind created enhanced humans such as Idris - who could communicate mind-to-mind with our aggressors. Then these ‘Architects’ simply disappeared and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Now, Idris and his crew have something strange, abandoned in space. It’s clearly the work of the Architects – but are they really returning? And if so, why? Hunted by gangsters, cults and governments, Idris and his crew race across the galaxy as they search for answers. For they now possess something of incalculable value, and many would kill to obtain it. Praise for Adrian Tchaikovsky: 'Enthralling, epic, immersive and hugely intelligent' – Stephen Baxter on Shards of Earth 'He writes incredibly enjoyable sci-fi, full of life and ideas' – Patrick Ness ‘Brilliant science fiction’ – James McAvoy on Children of Time
Download or read book Shards written by Rod R. Surratt and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHARDS tells the story of two Royal Guardians who fail in the sole function of their office: to protect the lives of those to whom they are bound. While facing the futility of any retribution upon their enemies, these brothers Draco each strive to fulfill the vow sworn at their Induction - "Forever loyal and vigilant, as Guardian of your life: until your last dying breath...or my final sacrifice."
Download or read book Shards written by Allyson Crawford and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of a young woman's struggles in a land of parallel dimension.
Book Synopsis Shards from the Polar Ice by : Lydia Grigorieva
Download or read book Shards from the Polar Ice written by Lydia Grigorieva and published by Glagoslav Publications. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It would be hard to imagine Russian poetry in the last half century without Lydia Grigorieva,” writes eminent Russian poet and critic Konstantin Kedrov. Grigorieva is a uniquely individual voice, bucking the trends of modernist poetry to create her own distinctive and beguiling body of poetry. Her work draws on her own remarkable life to create startlingly arresting images and metaphors, full of beauty and power, from her series that emerged from her Arctic childhood, to the troubles that beset Ukraine. Her range of influences is wide, and Beethoven, Freud, Sylvia Plath and Byron all appear in her poems as well as more familiar Russian images. At the heart of Grigorieva’s poetry is what she calls its ‘musicality’ – her firm belief in the power of rhyme and rhythm in creating a poetic experience. In this first major collection of her work in English, English poet John Farndon, working with Grigorieva and co-translator Olga Nakston, has recreated this musicality in English so that English readers might experience for the first time what makes her work so revered in her Russian homeland. Translated by John Farndon with Olga Nakston. Maxim Hodak - Максим Ходак (Publisher), Max Mendor - Макс Мендор (Director), Ksenia Papazova (Managing Editor).
Download or read book Shards written by Mary Rodenburg and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story that spans three generations. It begins with Sherry, who has a child out of wedlock. She runs away to have the child alone, but the father of the baby finds her and eventually marries her. Sherry's baby, Leora, grows up in a happy family atmosphere and enjoys attending school. She gets involved in a lovers' triangle in high school, and it carries on for over twenty years, throughout high school and her marriage to Jim, the love of his life, with whom she has two beautiful daughters. As hard as she tries to wrest herself from Brad, her lover, it is impossible. This is also a story of cancer, multiple sclerosis, death, grief, and the strength to carry on, survive, and actually make a new life without the deceased loved ones.
