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Against the Tide: Against the Tide (Spirit Animals #5)
by Tui T. SutherlandThe adventure continues in this fifth book in the New York Times bestselling series.The sun is shining in the Hundred Isles, and yet the path forward seems crowded with shadows. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have traveled across the world, seeking a set of powerful talismans in order to keep them from enemy hands. Throughout their journey the young heroes have been hounded by pursuers, who always seem to know just where to find them. Now they know why. One of them is a traitor. As they steer the crystal blue waters of this tropical paradise, the team can't help but suspect each other. There's a spy in their midst, and before this mission is over, a deadly trap will close around them.
Against the Tide: The Story of Watchman Nee
by Angus KinnearThe engrossing, moving biography of one of China's better-known Christians, the dedicated evangelist and gifted Bible teacher Watchman Nee.
Against the Uprooted Word: Giving Language Time in Transatlantic Romanticism
by Tristram WolffIn this revisionist account of romantic-era poetry and language philosophy, Tristram Wolff recovers vibrant ways of thinking language and nature together. Wolff argues that well-known writers including Phillis Wheatley Peters, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Henry David Thoreau offer a radical chronopolitics in reaction to the "uprooted word," or the formal analytic used to classify languages in progressive time according to a primitivist timeline of history and a hierarchy of civilization. Before the bad naturalisms of nineteenth-century race science could harden language into place as a metric of social difference, poets and thinkers try to soften, thicken, deepen, and dissolve it. This naturalizing tendency makes language more difficult to uproot from its active formation in the lives of its speakers. And its "gray romanticism" simultaneously gives language different kinds of time—most strikingly, the deep time of geologic form—to forestall the hardening of time into progress. Reorienting romantic studies to consider colonialism's pervasive effects on theories of language origin, Wolff shows us the ambivalent position of romantics in this history. His reparative reading makes visible language's ability to reimagine social forms.
Against the Wall: A Novel
by Jill SorensonThe RITA-nominated author of The Edge of Night returns with another seductive novel, hailed by M. O'Keefe as "a dirty, gritty gem of a book." As teens, Eric and Meghan fell for each other despite the odds--but now that they're all grown up, they're reunited by dangerous secrets. Eric Hernandez is the bad boy of every schoolgirl's fantasies--and every mother's nightmares. But after serving time for manslaughter, he's ready to turn his life around. He just needs a chance to prove himself as a professional tattoo artist. The one thing that keeps him going is the memory of the innocent beauty he loved and left behind. Meghan Young's world isn't as perfect as it looks. The preacher's daughter is living a lie, especially now that Eric is back. Tougher, harder, and sexier than ever, he might be the only person she can trust. But there's no telling what he'll do to protect her if he learns the truth, and that's a risk Meghan won't let him take. And yet, back in the arms of the troubled boy with the artist's soul, Meghan can't help surrendering to the man he's become.
Against the Wind
by Bodie Thoene Brock ThoeneAs Nazi forces tighten their net of evil over Europe in 1940, famed Jewish concert violist Elisa Lindheim Murphy escapes from Vienna to England. But both Elisa and her American newsman husband, John Murphy, are convinced that nowhere in Europe is safe from HitlerÂ's seemingly unstoppable forces. As Nazi U-boats patrol and sink Allied vessels in the North Atlantic, Elisa makes a desperate but brave decision ;to accompany Jewish refugee children on a civilian transport through treacherous seas to seek asylum in America. At least there, in the land of freedom, the ragged remnant of the Jewish people can live on in peace and safety ;or so she hopes. But as German torpedoes streak toward the refugee ship, Elisa will face the greatest trial of her life.
Against the Wind
by Gwynne ForsterFor months, Leslie Collins has been trying to outrun the man who is trying to kill her. Determined to establish some semblance of a normal life while she finishes her masters degree, Leslie arrives at the home of Jordan Saber, looking for a job.Jordan takes pity on her and hires her to help out in the kitchen. He also falls in love with her.Jordan tries to protect Leslie from the pain of her past and the disapproving stares of those in her present. It seems lots of people don't like the fact that Jordan, a white man, has fallen in love with an African-American woman, even though they make a great team and really love each other. Although Jordan is dealing well with the race issue, Leslie must come to understand that regardless of the color of the wrapping, love is a precious gift.
Against the Wind
by Howard Scott Madeleine Gagnon Phyllis AronoffIs an artist born, or rather, created by experience? From the moment in childhood when he is forced to take drastic action to defend his adoptive mother from a violent assault - the only maternal figure that he has ever known - it is evident that the life of Joseph Sully-Jacques is to be no ordinary life, and one marked by sorrow and adversity.Unable to cope with or even recognize the residual effects of his trauma in adolescence, Joseph retreats into an increasingly abstract world, one in which he must confront what he calls his "visions." And when he hears of the death of his natural mother, this brings to the surface memories he had hoped were buried deep within him, and precipitates the form of various crises to come, particularly as he discovers and makes use of the artistic abilities revealed to his family during his psychiatric evaluation.After many more hardships, the young man does find meaning to the absurdities of life, ironically in the asylum, where he meets a virtuoso pianist whose condition prevents her from continuing to exercise her talents. They heal together through their mutual love, which will soon subsist upon nothing but memory and absence. During mournful years of raising his son alone, in his extensive adversaria, Joseph sets out to reconcile the contradictory themes in his life, including abandonment, madness, love, and death.In spare, lucid prose, and in a style reminiscent of André Gide, Madeleine Gagnon invites the reader to experience the creation and development of an artist "in his own words" - Joseph's gelid journal entries that are to become emphatic poetic laments - in a novel that chronicles the extreme destitution of Quebec in the years before World War Two and in abstract developing forms of artistic expression after years of uncertainty and loss.
Against the Wind
by J. F. Freedman&“A rip-snorting, full-throttle novel . . . It kept me up late into the night.&” —Stephen King Forced out of his firm, a hard-living attorney takes on one final, highly charged case—defending a notorious gang of bikers against murder charges A few years ago, Will Alexander was the top criminal lawyer in Santa Fe, with a thriving practice, a famously flamboyant courtroom style, and a marriage that landed him on the front page of the society section. Now, though, his wife has left him, and his constant boozing and womanizing have put his career in jeopardy. When Will&’s partners ask him—forcefully—to take a leave of absence from the firm, his life in law seems finished. He has only one client: a gang of men who call themselves the Scorpions. Four rogue bikers are accused of committing a gruesome murder, and Will is the only one they want for their defense. Although all the evidence points toward their guilt, Will believes them, and it&’s time for these outlaws to stick together.
Against the Wind (Raines of Wind Canyon #1)
by Kat MartinThey were known as the "no-account Raines boys" but they've grown into successful, honorable men and everything they have, they've fought for tooth and nail. Now each of the three brothers has one last obstacle to overcome to claim what's eluding them: love. Secrets don't stay buried long in cattle country. Sarah Allen, the beautiful girl who humiliated Jackson Raines in high school, is back in town. Not so long ago, she couldn't wait to leave Wind Canyon, Wyoming, in her dust. But, recently widowed, she has nowhere else to go and finds herself on Jackson's ranch. And Jackson's finding himself reluctant to get rid of her. Sarah brings her own kind of trouble, and he can't resist trouble. Enemies of her dead husband show up making threats, thinking she has something they're owed. They're not taking no for an answer, but what they will take is the one thing she has left-her daughter. Jackson's the only one who might be able to save little Holly and bring her home.
Against the Wind: A Novel
by Jim TilleyIn this dramatic debut novel about relationships, six individuals&’ complicated lives are intertwined after a chance reunion.A successful environmental lawyer is forced to take himself to task when he realizes that everything about his work has betrayed his core beliefs. A high school English teacher asks her former high school love to take up her environmental cause. A transgender adolescent male raised by his grandparents struggles to excel in a world hostile to his kind. A French-Canadian political science professor finds himself left with a choice between his cherished separatist cause and his marriage and family. An accomplished engineer is chronically unable to impress his more accomplished father sufficiently to be named head of the international wind technology company his father founded. The Quebec separatist party&’s Minister of Natural Resources, a divorcée, finds herself caught between her French-Canadian lover and an unexpected English-Canadian suitor.Praise for Against the Wind&“An intricate and elegantly compelling novel, notable for both its political and personal acuity. Jim Tilley writes with deep feeling for his characters and great command of his fascinating materials.&”—Peter Ho Davies, author of The Fortunes&“The writing is brilliant and economical, especially about the environment, and there&’s all sorts of information here for the taking, but essentially this is a novel of character. And a very good one.&” —Library Journal&“Tilley handles decades-long character arcs with empathy, resulting in a resonant and humanistic novel.&” —Kirkus Reviews
Against the Wind: Savior In The Saddle (The Raines of Wind Canyon #1)
by Kat MartinA fan-favorite story by New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin, originally published in 2011.Sarah Allen burned a lot of bridges when she left her hometown. But when her husband is murdered and his associates come looking for her and her daughter, Sarah has only one place left to go—Wind Canyon, Wyoming. She runs right into Jackson Raines, the man she spurned in high school, who has now become a successful ranch owner. She expects anger from him, but instead she gets mercy. Jackson knows Sarah and her daughter, Holly, are in trouble, and he can’t turn them away. He’s never forgotten the beautiful girl he could never have, and she’s more alluring now than she ever was in high school. So when Sarah’s enemies show up in Wind Canyon, Jackson is determined to protect Sarah and Holly, and prove to them that they’ve finally found their way home.
Against the Wind: Savior In The Saddle (The\raines Of Wind Canyon Ser. #1)
by Kat MartinShe has nowhere else to turn…Against the Wind by New York Times bestselling author Kat MartinWhen her husband is murdered and his associates come looking for her and her daughter, Holly, Sarah Allen has one place left to go—Wind Canyon, Wyoming, to find rancher Jackson Raines. Jackson’s never forgotten the beautiful girl he knew in high school. So when Sarah’s enemies show up, he’s determined to protect Sarah and Holly, and prove to them that they’ve finally found their way home.FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME!Savior in the Saddle by USA TODAY bestselling author Delores FossenPregnant and alone, Willa Marks can’t remember anything beyond two months ago. What she does know is that she can’t trust the police to keep her safe. So when two cops appear at her door, all she can think about is escape. But instinct tells her to trust one of them… Sheriff Brandon Ruiz claims to be Willa’s ex-boyfriend. He thinks if she regains her memory, she’ll be safe. But he’s wrong…
Against the Wind: Savior in the Saddle (The\raines Of Wind Canyon Ser. #1)
by Delores Fossen Kat MartinRANCHER PROTECTOR Sarah Allen burned a lot of bridges when she left her hometown. But when her husband is murdered and his associates come looking for her and her daughter, Sarah has only one place left to go-Wind Canyon, Wyoming. She runs right into Jackson Raines, the man she spurned in high school, who has now become a successful ranch owner. She expects anger from him, but instead she gets mercy... Jackson can tell Sarah and her daughter, Holly, are in trouble, and he can't turn them away. He's never forgotten the beautiful girl he could never have, and she's more alluring now than she ever was in high school. So when Sarah's enemies show up in Wind Canyon, Jackson is determined to protect Sarah and Holly, and prove to them that they've finally found their way home... FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME! Savior in the Saddle by USA TODAY bestselling author Delores Fossen Willa Marks only knows she's pregnant, she's afraid for her life and cops are not to be trusted. So why does the handsome local sheriff inspire such feelings of safety...and desire?
Against the World: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Jin ShiliangThe all-powerful Black Embroidered Uniform Guard had met a gentle yet stubborn zither player who was bent on revenge.One of them was an official, the other a slave.One was scolded by tens of thousands of people, while the other was shunned by tens of thousands.Yet, he had been pulled into the same fishing line by a large net of fate."If you marry me and become the wife of my Lan family, I will let you do whatever you want!"At that time, Yanzhi thought that Lan Shao would be the one to rely on for the rest of his life.But later, that night, when the stars were shining, she took her child away for good.[Previous Chapter] [Table of Contents] [Next Chapter] It is not specifically subrogated to the archetype of historical figures.
Against the Written Word: Toward A Universal Illiteracy
by Ian F. SvenoniusIf the Gutenberg Bible is the alpha, Against the Written Word is the OMEGA. Against the Written Word is the most important, most revolutionary book produced since the advent of the printing press; the book that will liberate readers from reading, writers from writing, and booksellers from peddling their despicable wares. This book ushers in a new era of freedom from reading and all its attendant bedfellows such as Enlightenment thinking and the mass alienation wrought by the phonetic alphabet. Against the Written Word will be a tremendous best seller and simultaneously the last book that anyone will read. With nineteen essays ripping, shredding, tearing apart all the bugaboos that haunt humanity nowadays, Against the Written Word is a must-read for any aspiring radical or would-be gnostic who has a penchant for words, thought, clothes, intoxicants, music, art, expression, etc. The work is presented in a range of writing: essays, screenplays, lectures, sci-fi stories, and manifestos, with topics that include “the rise of incorporated man,” “tourism as the neoliberal mode of military occupation,” a workshop on songwriting for the purpose of suggestion and mind control, and many more. This handsome, illustrated book will correct the paucity of thought that characterizes the modern bookstore, and will practically sell itself. It will call out from the shelf to ingratiate itself to the unsuspecting everyday book browser, who will be hooked and then hungrily consume it. Infected with a wild-eyed evangelism, they will then proliferate it amongst their friends and acquaintances. These new readers will disseminate it, and so on; soon this slim, innocuous volume will define an epoch and steer thought from here on out. The bookseller will be surprised and pleased to find that it will be the only book they need to stock. Against the Written Word will be dominant in a manner the market has not seen since the Bible tore up best-seller lists in the Middle Ages or Mao’s Little Red Book wowed the critics in Red China.
Agamben’s Political Ontology of Nudity in Literature and Art (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
by Frances RestucciaThis volume develops the central (though neglected) Agambenian concept of nudity along with its crucial political implications. The book discovers within The Use of Bodies a philosophical path to Agamben’s "ontology of nudity," as it is subtended by his notion of the messianic—a dual temporality of form in motion reflected in the image of a whirlpool that is autonomous although no drop of water belongs to it separately. Drawn from Paul and Benjamin (rather than Derrida), Agamben’s messianic is elaborated in this study through its embodiment in literature—Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, James’s The Aspern Papers, Brodsky’s Watermark, and Mann’s Death in Venice—in response to Agamben’s insistence on the wedding of poetry and philosophy. In particular, Coetzee’s Disgrace gives poetic form to Agamben’s focus on the dissolution of the human/animal border, the salvation of the unsavable, and "nudity"—all to illustrate Agamben’s Open without a closedness. This text shows how art serves as the house of philosophy also by taking up the nude in visual art, making the case that, in comprising chronos and kairos (the two messianic components of Agamben’s ontology of nudity), art demonstrates the constitution of form-of-life for the viewer. Emphasizing Agamben’s privileged non-unveilability/nudity, this book finally examines two major missed encounters, with Heidegger and Lacan, philosophers of the veil. Veiling to Agamben correlates with the sovereignty/bare life structure of the exception, which his ontology of nudity is meant to deactivate—as there is no such thing as a bare life.
Agamemnon
by AeschylusAeschylus' Agamemnon, first produced in 458 BC, is the opening play in his Oresteian trilogy. Agamemnon returns home after the Trojan Wars with his concubine Cassandra and is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus. The ensuing blood feud continues until the third and final play, Eumenides, when peace is finally restored to the house of the Atreidae. It is a powerful and moving play which is difficult to interpret and which for a long time lacked an English edition.
Agamemnon
by Aeschylus David MulroyAgamemnon, King of Argos, returns to Greece a victor in the Trojan War. He has brought with him the seer Cassandra as his war-prize and concubine. Awaiting him is his vengeful wife Clytemnestra, who is angry at Agamemnon's sacrifice of their daughter Iphigeneia to the gods, jealous of Cassandra, and guilty of taking a lover herself. The events that unfold catch everyone in a bloody net, including their absent son Orestes. Aeschylus (525-456 BC) was the first of the three great tragic dramatists of ancient Greece, a forerunner of Sophocles and Euripides. His early tragedies were largely choral pageants with minimal plots. In Agamemnon, choral songs still predominate, but Aeschylus infuses them with such dramatic feeling that the spectator or reader is constantly spellbound. Translator David Mulroy brings this ancient tragedy to life for modern readers and audiences. Using end rhyme and strict metrics, he combines the buoyant lyricism of the Greek text with a faithful rendering of its meaning in lucid English.
Agamemnon (Classics To Go)
by AischylosAischylos (* 525 v. Chr. in Eleusis, Attika; † 456 v. Chr. in Gela, Sizilien) ist vor Sophokles und Euripides der älteste der drei großen Dichter der griechischen Tragödie. Von seinen sieben erhaltenen Stücken werden vor allem die Perser und die Orestie weltweit gespielt. Als Soldat nahm er 490 v. Chr. für Athen an der Schlacht bei Marathon gegen die Perser teil, in der sein Bruder Kynaigeiros getötet wurde. Nach der Zerstörung Athens im Jahre 480 v. Chr. war er auf einem der griechischen Kriegsschiffe an der Seeschlacht von Salamis beteiligt. Er unternahm mehrere Reisen nach Sizilien, so auch 475 v. Chr. auf Einladung des dortigen Tyrannen Hieron I. von Syrakus, und traf dort auf die Lyriker Simonides, Pindar und Bakchylides. Für Hieron verfasste er das Festspiel Die Ätnäerinnen. Im Jahr 472 v. Chr. gewann er den Siegespreis mit der Uraufführung des Dramas Die Perser, bei dem es sich um eine dramatisierte Fassung seiner Kriegserfahrungen handelt. Im Wettstreit mit Sophokles unterlag er im Jahre 468 v. Chr., doch konnte er bei den Dionysien insgesamt 13 Siege erringen. Von seiner letzten Sizilienreise kehrte er nicht mehr zurück. Er starb 456 v. Chr. in Gela, wo er auch begraben wurde. Der Legende nach hatte er sich dort auf die Felder zurückgezogen, weil ihm ein Orakel geweissagt hätte, dass er beim Einsturz eines Hauses sterben sollte. Da flog ein Adler mit einer Schildkröte im Schnabel vorbei, die er auf einem Felsen zerschellen lassen wollte, um an ihr Inneres zu gelangen. Der Vogel verwechselte Aischylos' Glatze von oben mit einem Stein, ließ los, und die Beute erschlug den Dichter. (Auszug aus Wikipedia)
Agamemnon Frost and the Crown of Towers
by Kim KnoxBook three of Agamemnon FrostEdgar Mason is losing Agamemnon Frost despite everything they've been through-the passion, the torture, the heat. Frost's fiancée, Theodora, is back, and Mason can feel his lover gravitating toward her. Every day he sees them together, it tears at his heart.Frost feels raw himself. His brother and sister-in-law are missing, and his guilt about failing to save Theodora from Pandarus eats at him. His feelings for Mason, whom he has put through hell twice already, just twist the screws tighter.On top of that, Pandarus and the Martians are back to make their final push to Earth, and Frost and Mason are duty bound to fight them. People are vanishing. Bodies are turning up burned beyond recognition in the slums. The bleak, human-less future Frost and Mason saw in the hollow ships has nearly come to pass.And in order to prevent it, each man will have to make a final choice: lose his lover or doom the world.Find out how it began in Agamemnon Frost and the House of Death.32,000 words
Agamemnon Frost and the Hollow Ships
by Kim KnoxBook two of Agamemnon FrostEdgar Mason is ready to embark upon his new life at Agamemnon Frost's side. But all is not perfect. His Martian overlord, Pandarus, has implanted a dark voice in his mind, a voice that urges betrayal. And though Mason can keep close to Frost, there's little room for romance under the watchful gaze of the engineers from Station X.That changes when Mason and Frost reopen their investigation into their old enemy's whereabouts. Posing as double agents and investigating cryptic rumors of "hollow ships," they find him impersonating a London banker and worm their way into his confidence.But their success brings them trouble in spades. Pandarus takes them into the belly of his ships, where he plans to transfigure them into mindless automata. And with Earth on the brink of invasion, Frost's old flame Theodora reappearing and Pandarus's brainwashing growing more effective, Mason and Frost will find their bond tested as never before.See how it all began in Agamemnon Frost and the House of Death. 28,000 words
Agamemnon Frost and the House of Death
by Kim KnoxBook one of Agamemnon FrostLiverpool, 1891Decorated artilleryman Edgar Mason was forced to find new work when the British Empire replaced its foot soldiers with monstrous machines. Now he waits on the Liverpool elite as a personal servant. He has just one rule: he won't work for fashion-addled dandies.Agamemnon Frost, however, is far from the foppish man-about-town he appears to be. He's working to protect the Earth from an alien invasion being planned by a face-changing creature known as Pandarus. And on the night he plans to confront the aliens, he enlists Mason to assist him.For a man to love a man is a serious crime in Victorian England. But when Mason meets Frost, his heart thunders and his blood catches fire. And when Pandarus drags the two men into the torture cellars beneath his house of death to brainwash them, Mason's new passion may be all that stands between him and insanity.The trilogy continues with Agamemnon Frost and the Hollow Ships.26,000 words
Agamemnon's Daughter: A Novella & Stories
by Ismail Kadare David BellosPsychologically incisive and impeccably crafted, Agamemnon's Daughter tells the crushing story of passion shattered by a heartless regime. Once again, Kadare denounces with rare force the machinery of oppression, drawing us back to the ancient roots of Western civilization and tyranny.This collection also showcases two masterful stories: "The Blinding Order," a parable about the uses of terror in the Ottoman Empire, and "The Great Wall," a chilling duet between a Chinese official and a soldier in the invading army of the great conqueror, Tamerlane.
Agapanthus Hum and the Eyeglasses (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3)
by Joy CowleyAgapanthus Hum is a whirlwind. She hums, she cartwheels, and she is always running around. Now that Agapanthus has eyeglasses, her parents want her to be careful. Agapanthus tries to slow down; she even wears a bag on her head so her glasses won't get lost, but more often then not, her glasses go flying. What do grown-up acrobats do with their eyeglasses? Agapanthus's parents bring her to a performance so that she can find out.
Agape Agape
by William GaddisThe late William Gaddis wrote four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas. For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a book about the mechanization of the arts, told via a social history of the player piano in America. In the years before his death in 1998, he distilled the whole mass into a fiction, a dramatic monologue by an elderly man with a terminal illness. This "man in the bed" lies dying, thinking anxiously about the book he still plans to write, grumbling about the deterioration of civilization and trying to explain his obsession to the world before he passes away or goes mad. Agape- Agapecontinues Gaddis's career-long reflection via the form of the novel on those aspects of the corporate technological culture that are uniquely destructive of the arts. It is a stunning achievement from one of the indisputable masters of postwar American fiction.