Sinister Splendor Broken Glass

Author : Johnny Terris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781320812146
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sinister Splendor and Broken Glass written by Johnny Terris and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark but touching coming-of-age story of Aaron, a middle-class teenage misfit from a small town, growing up in the 1970's and 1980's as he finds his personality and the importance of friendship while going through the pain of adolescence and the heart tugging reality of becoming an adult. (mature audiences only)

Author : Layton Vanderhoef
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781320132411
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sinister Splendor and Broken Glass written by Layton Vanderhoef and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987, a small town boy began to create a series of films that viciously portrayed a blood-soaked, shock-slicked combo of overly transgressive, punk-styled violence and complete annihilation of family values and structures. From early childhood to leaving home at 16 years of age armed with a foot high mohawk and a stolen video camera, Sinister Splendor & Broken Glass is an autobiographical account on the life of artist Layton Vanderhoef. From the early beginning shooting vulgar comedy films to the later, more disturbing horror shorts, Sinister Splendor & Broken Glass is a rewarding but often times disturbing look into the mind of an unapologetic artist who continually challenged the mainstream system for over two decades, shattered stereotypes and heavily influenced a new generation of guerrilla filmmakers not afraid to push the boundaries of the archetypical Hollywood formula. MATURE AUDIENCES ON

Author : Layton Vanderhoef
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781320125383
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sinister Splendor & Broken Glass written by Layton Vanderhoef and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987, a small town boy began to create a series of films that viciously portrayed a blood-soaked, shock-slicked combo of overly transgressive, punk-styled violence and complete annihilation of family values and structures. From early childhood to leaving home at 16 years of age armed with a foot high mohawk and a stolen video camera, Sinister Splendor & Broken Glass is an autobiographical account on the life of artist Layton Vanderhoef. From the early beginning shooting vulgar comedy films to the later, more disturbing horror shorts, Sinister Splendor & Broken Glass is a rewarding but often times disturbing look into the mind of an unapologetic artist who continually challenged the mainstream system for over two decades, shattered stereotypes and heavily influenced a new generation of guerrilla filmmakers not afraid to push the boundaries of the archetypical Hollywood formula. MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY

Author : Mike Blakely
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 0765328380
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sinister Splendor written by Mike Blakely and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pairing extensive research with a brilliance for reviving the past in gripping narrative, Spur Award-winning author Mike Blakely has penned an epic, historical novelization of the Mexican-American War in A Sinister Splendor 1845. Texas joins the union. Mexico threatens war over the disputed Texas border. But much more than the Rio Grande Valley lies at stake—expansionists dream of an America that sprawls all the way to the Pacific Coast. Can a conflict with an already war-torn Mexico satisfy this lust for territory? President James K. Polk sends troops the Texas border to test Mexico’s appetite for war. General Zachary Taylor, known as “Old Rough and Ready,” leads the invasion south. A 24-year-old lieutenant named Ulysses S. Grant gets his first taste of battle. Texas Rangers John Coffee Hays and Sam Walker expand their reputations as fearless fighting men. An Irishman, John Riley, quits the U.S. Army—along with hundreds of other mistreated immigrant soldiers—and forms a Mexican battalion of U.S. deserters. Army laundress Sarah Bowman is celebrated as a heroine on her way to becoming a frontier legend. The infamous Mexican warlord, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, returns to power through intrigue and political persuasion. The Mexican-American war becomes the heroic proving ground for future Civil War generals and presidents of the United States, Mexico and the Confederacy. But the glories of victory are tempered by the horrors of war—lives lost, bodies battered, souls shattered, dreams crushed, whole cities razed and innocence forever dashed. With a sinister splendor two very different cultures clash in an epic adventure of duty, patriotism and courage to the death.

Author : Frank Rogers Jr.
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621892298
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The God of Shattered Glass written by Frank Rogers Jr. and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does one find hope in the midst of profound suffering? Tony Backman aches to know. A blues-harmonica-playing child psychologist at a residential treatment center in Santa Rosa, California, Tony specializes in narrative therapy. His story-based technique empowers abused teenagers to reimagine their lives through myths and folktales and so restore their vitality. Such vitality, however, eludes Tony in his own life. Mired in depression, he longs for his fractured family and fends off childhood flashbacks too painful to face. Tony's mentor recommends classical underworld myths as a roadmap for the spiritual journey toward healing and hope, but Tony is too drained for the undertaking. Until Carey Foster enters his life. Carey is a golden-voiced eleven-year-old choral soloist at a local Catholic boys' home. Brought to Tony's treatment center with his wrists sliced, Carey cowers mutely with his secrets in the center's locked ward, a flicking middle finger his only beacon. Carey's healing depends on Tony's ability to navigate the labyrinth of deception and cryptic self-disclosure that conceals the soul's darkest secrets. It also depends upon Tony's willingness to navigate the labyrinth of love and disappointment lodged in his own soul. At once a psychological study of how trauma is healed; a hero's journey through the underworld of abuse, betrayal, and shattered faith; and a theological thriller in search of a credible and sustaining Sacred in the midst of unspeakable suffering, The God of Shattered Glass reveals that stories do indeed heal, and that the way to God is not up, but down.

Author : António Lobo Antunes
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 1564784231
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Splendor of Portugal written by António Lobo Antunes and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brutal dissection of guilt, victimhood, self-hatred, betrayal, and atrocities both political and domestic, Antunes proves once more that he is the foremost stylist of his generation, a fearless investigator of the worst excesses of the human animal.

Author : Frances Sherwood
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393340910
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Splendor: A Novel written by Frances Sherwood and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical novel about the most unlikely of lovers, interwoven with the mysticism of the Jewish occult. Frances Sherwood brings to life the experience of the Jewish community during a period of oppression and rebirth. Set in seventeenth-century Prague, The Book of Splendor is an adventure-filled romance stocked with court intrigue and political tension, including the machinations of the rival Ottoman Empire, the religious controversies of Protestantism, and the constant threat of violence to the Jewish community. At the heart of the novel is Rochel, a bastard seamstress who escapes poverty through an arranged marriage to the tailor Zev, but falls in love with Yossel, the Golem created by Rabbi Loew to protect the Jewish community. Meanwhile, Emperor Rudolph II puts the safety of all Prague at risk in his mad bid for an elixir of immortality. The Book of Splendor is an epic tale reminiscent of Anita Diamant's The Red Tent, and a love story as unlikely as Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring. Reading group guide included.

Author : Wilhelm Hauff
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13811 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SINISTER OMENS: 560+ Supernatural Thrillers, Macabre Tales & Eerie Mysteries written by Wilhelm Hauff and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 13811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no better reading sensation than feeling the end of your hair raised in a nail-biting suspense. Here's presenting you our biggest ever supernatural collection to give you many hours of pleasurable and just enough eerie reading experience: Contents: Edgar Allan Poe: The Masque of the Red Death The Murders in the Rue Morgue... H. P. Lovecraft: The Call of Cthulhu The Dunwich Horror... Henry James: The Turn of the Screw... Mary Shelley: Frankenstein... Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles... Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars... Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow... Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde... James Malcolm Rymer: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street H. G. Wells: The Island of Doctor Moreau Richard Marsh: The Beetle Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas... Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls... Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw... Hugh Walpole: Portrait of a Man with Red Hair All Souls' Night Robert E. Howard: The 'John Kirowan' Saga The 'De Montour' Saga Cthulhu Mythos M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel The Dead Secret... The Woman in White Guy de Maupassant: The Horla... E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Man Who Went Too Far... Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables Rappaccini's Daughter The Birth Mark... Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? The Ways of Ghosts Some Haunted Houses Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan... William Hope Hodgson: The Ghost Pirates Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder... M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire... Ralph Adams Cram: Black Spirits and White Grant Allen: The Reverend John Creedy... Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto William Thomas Beckford: Vathek Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Marie Belloc Lowndes: From Out the Vast Deep

Author : Rosemary Clement-Moore
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0375893695
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Splendor Falls written by Rosemary Clement-Moore and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can love last beyond the grave? Sylvie Davis is a ballerina who can’t dance. A broken leg ended her career, but Sylvie’s pain runs deeper. What broke her heart was her father’s death, and what’s breaking her spirit is her mother’s remarriage—a union that’s only driven an even deeper wedge into their already tenuous relationship. Uprooting her from her Manhattan apartment and shipping her to Alabama is her mother’ s solution for Sylvie’s unhappiness. Her father’s cousin is restoring a family home in a town rich with her family’s history. And that’s where things start to get shady. As it turns out, her family has a lot more history than Sylvie ever knew. More unnerving, though, are the two guys that she can’t stop thinking about. Shawn Maddox, the resident golden boy, seems to be perfect in every way. But Rhys—a handsome, mysterious foreign guest of her cousin’s—has a hold on her that she doesn’t quite understand. Then she starts seeing things. Sylvie’s lost nearly everything—is she starting to lose her mind as well? "Lush with Southern atmosphere, The Splendor Falls expertly weaves together romance, tension, and mystery. Haunting and unforgettable!" --Carrie Ryan, bestselling author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth "Sylvie's voice is sharp and articulate, and Clement-Moore . . . anchors the story in actual locations and history. . . . Her ear for both adolescent bitchery and sweetness remains sure, and her ability to write realistic, edgy dialogue without relying on obscenity or stereotype is a pleasure."-Publishers Weekly "Long, satisfying and just chilling enough, this will please a wide audience and leave readers hoping for more."-Kirkus Reviews

Author : Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Family of Noblemen written by Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Family of Noblemen" (The Gentlemen Golovliov) by Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.