The Songbirds Of Pain

Author : Garry Kilworth
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575114436
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Songbirds of Pain written by Garry Kilworth and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garry Kilworth's first collection shows him to be one of the most original and enjoyable writers in the field. The thirteen stories in The Songbirds of Pain mix science fiction and fantasy, with a dash of unclassifiable strangeness. Kilworth is particularly adept at evoking colourful and exotic locales in distant parts of the world, as in 'The Dissemblers', a story set in the Arabian deserts, about a man resorting to bizarre self-torture in his attempts to see beyond the veil of death. 'Blind Windows' is an adventure set in the Far East, reminiscent of an updated Rider Haggard: a group of Westerners searching for some fabled crystals find their way into a hidden underground world. 'Scarlet Fever' is about an artist in a sterile future society who gives himself the disease in an attempt to stimulate creativity. And the titled story tells of a woman who undergoes a strange and painful series of treatments in order to achieve perfect beauty.

Author : Garry Kilworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780044402176
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Songbirds of Pain written by Garry Kilworth and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521558488
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry as Performance written by Gregory Nagy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the emergence of Homeric poetry as an actual written text, it is essential to trace the history of Homeric performance, from the very beginnings of literacy to the critical era of textual canonisations in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Professor Nagy applies the comparative evidence of oral poetic traditions, including those that survived in literate societies, such as the Provençal troubadour tradition. It appears that a song cannot be fixed as a final written text so long as the oral poetic tradition in which it was created stays alive. So also with Homeric poetry, it is argued that no single definitive text could evolve until the oral traditions in which the epic was grounded became obsolete. In the time of Aristarchus, the gradual movement from relatively fluid to more rigid stages of Homeric transmission reached a near-final point of textualisation.

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Total Pages : 1222 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Danielle L. Jensen
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1908844973
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stolen Songbird written by Danielle L. Jensen and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today bestseller For five centuries, a witch’s curse has bound the trolls to their city beneath the ruins of Forsaken Mountain—time enough for their nefarious magic to fade from human memory and into myth. But a prophecy has spoken of a union that will set the trolls free, and when Cécile de Troyes is taken beneath the mountain, she learns there is far more to the myth than she could have imagined. Cécile has only one thing on her mind after she is brought to Trollus: escape. But if she is to succeed, she must bide her time and find a way to outsmart the clever, fast, and inhumanly strong trolls that hold her captive. But while awaiting the perfect opportunity, Cécile unexpectedly falls for the enigmatic troll prince to whom she has been bonded and married. Their love gradually changes her perspective, opening her heart to new friends and opening her eyes to the hardships of the enslaved half-troll, half-human creatures of Trollus. As rebellion brews and the political games of Trollus escalate, Cécile becomes more than a trapped father’s daughter. She becomes a princess, a witch, and the hope of a people—someone who has the power to change Trollus forever.

Author : Colleen Peters
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498237908
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Endearing Pain written by Colleen Peters and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pain is universal. It comes in all shapes and sizes, but sooner or later it comes to us all. Colleen Peters hopes that what she has learned and written about while living with Multiple Sclerosis for more than a decade will reassure, challenge, and encourage those in pain to see that life can be rich in spite of, and at times because of, pain.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive bibliography of books and short fiction published in the English language.

Author : Christy Lefteri
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0593238060
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songbirds written by Christy Lefteri and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class, that flags the frank truth of the life of migrant workers for whom a flight to freedom can become the most finely woven trap.”—JODI PICOULT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo comes Songbirds, a stunning novel about the disappearance of a Sri Lankan domestic worker and how the most vulnerable people find their voices. Living on the island of Cyprus, Nisha is far from her native Sri Lanka. Though she longs to return home, she knows that working as a “maid” for a wealthy widow is the only way to earn enough to support her daughter, left behind to be raised by relatives. Yiannis is a poacher, trapping the tiny protected songbirds that stop in Cyprus as they migrate each year from Africa to Europe and selling them on the illegal market. He dreams of finding a new way of life, and of marrying Nisha. But one night, Nisha makes dinner, an aromatic dahl curry, for the family who pays her: Petra and her daughter Aliki. Then, after she cleans the kitchen and tucks Aliki into bed, Nisha goes out on a mysterious errand, and vanishes. When the police refuse to pursue the case, Petra takes on the investigation herself, a path that leads her to Nisha’s friends—other workers in the neighborhood—and to the darker side of a migrant’s life, where impossible choices leave them vulnerable, captive, and worse. Inspired by the real-life disappearance of domestic workers in Cyprus, Christy Lefteri has crafted a poignant, deeply empathetic narrative of the human stories behind the headlines. With infinite tenderness and skill, Songbirds offers a triumphant story of the fight for truth and justice, and of women reclaiming their lost voices.

Author : Melquiades Ortiz
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452017603
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words of Gold... Deep from My Soul Words of Pain... Thoughts of Rain written by Melquiades Ortiz and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written in the hopes of reaching other victims of traumatic events, whether they might be combat Veterans, first responders, or just average citizens, that are living and re-living acts of violence or painful, stressful moments in their lives.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forest and Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: