Dark Vitality


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Secretary of Homeland Security, Joseph Hanson, is more than just a patriot, farmer and father. His high ranking position in the government consumes his every being; leaving him absent to his duties that he has always enjoyed on the family farm. Current technology leads Hanson to confirm the information that was handed down by his grandfather’s allies, before modern communication. After the unexplained disappearance of Joseph and his wife, their own children pieced together the handwritten notes that had been kept hidden. The boys apply their homesteading skills in their attempt to survive, as they watch modern society fall apart.




Vitality


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Vitality is a dance and war of the souls, a mind bender, and a heart wrencher. You’ll need to take a firm grasp to hold onto this spiraling journey. A dark likeness of Twilight, twisted with The Vampire Chronicles going down the rabbit-hole. Where it can be dark, it can be colorful and light; where it can be cold, it can be warm and bright, but in the end it will be up to you to decide, what does it take and what was worth it. “My heart was thumping, goosebumps were forming…” - Meghan ★★★★★ “Crysta Levere’s writing style is so vivid that you will be lost in the story for a few hours.” - Rabia Tanveer ★★★★★ "In this atmospheric tale, you are truly pulled down the rabbit hole and into madness as you follow Ava's journey into the depths of insanity and beyond…Confusion, mystery, longing, desperation, and deception weave throughout this three-part story and you'll be dying to know how everything ends.” - K.J. Simmill ★★★★★ ~~ She's fighting for life. He's fighting for death. What does it take to live? What does it take to love? To Ava, love is about as real as fairy tales. But it might be that fairy tales, myths, and magic have some truth to them after all — as well as the monsters that lie in the shadows. Or she could just be completely out of her mind. After a mental breakdown and a move to a new town, everything changes when Ava clashes with a stranger with eyes as black as midnight and a terrifying sinister air. Her wishes to feel something again become granted. But Ava soon learns that not only is he as cold as he is beautiful, but he brings something out of her, stronger than ever, like fuel to fire — something she's desperate to bury. He haunts her dreams and waking life, and staying away becomes harder than she could have ever imagined, risking her life, her humanity, and the people that she cares about. Not to mention the fate of the world. A violent passion. A dangerous bond. A nightmare that will change everything.




Heart of Darkness and Other Stories


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Heart of Darkness is a short and vividly brutal account of colonial enterprise that has as much in common with the jaded Evelyn Waugh of Black Mischief as it does with any of Conrad's direct contemporaries in the late nineteenth century. It is accompanied in this volume by the tales with which it has been published since 1902, the autobiographical short story "Youth," and the less personal but more substantial tale of an old man's fall from fortune, "The End of the Tether." Though these stories differ considerably in style and content from his later novels, much of his reputation rests upon the words contained in this volume.




Heart of Darkness


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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Where does darkness lie strongest in the world? In Joseph Conrad's classic novel, the river captain Charles Marlow tells his tale of work as a steamboat captain for an ivory trading company. As Marlow witnesses delays, tragedies and injustice, he grows more disillusioned with his exploration of the African river. When he meets Mr. Kurtz, the company's agent in charge of an up-river trading post, Marlow is forced to confront the darkness residing in human nature. Heart of Darkness has often been listed as one of the 100 Greatest works of English Literature and is one of the most often studied novels in high school and college English courses.




The Stone of Vitality


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When the abduction of an imperial princess sparks a tense standoff between Rogand and the distant Empire of Ahr, the dispute threatens to engulf Arvenon and its allies. Hurrying to the Rogandan capital with an Arvenian delegation, Will joins the kings of Rogand, Castel, and Varas to plan a response. The upheavals that overtake them quickly thrust all else aside. While the Grand Vizier of Ahr ruthlessly pursues his secretive agenda, mystery and suspicion swirl around the long-lived High Priest of the Rogandan Dark Gods. No one is prepared for the emergence of the Stone of Vitality. Note: The Stone of Vitality is Book 5 of The Stone Cycle, a multi-part saga. The story will continue and conclude in Book 6, The Hope of Vitality. The Stone Cycle reading order: - The Stone of Knowing (Book One) - The Cost of Knowing (Book Two) - The Stone of Authority (Book Three) - The Struggle for Authority (Book Four) - The Stone of Vitality (Book Five) - The Hope of Vitality (Book Six) Additional reading for The Stone Cycle: - The Seer: A Prequel to The Stone of Knowing is a complete story of novelette length that can be read independently of other books in the series. The recommended reading order is after The Cost of Knowing( Book 2) and before The Struggle for Authority (Book Four). - The Rending: A Prequel to The Cost of Knowing is a complete story of novelette length that can be read independently of other books in the series. The recommended reading order is after The Cost of Knowing (Book 2). Subscribe to my mailing list at allanpacker.com for a free copy of the ebook. Print and audiobook editions are available from a wide range of online stores.




Vitality Politics


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Vitality Politics focuses on a slow racial violence against African Americans through everyday, accumulative, contagious, and toxic attritions on health. The book engages with recent critical disability studies scholarship to recognize that debility, or the targeted maiming and distressing of Black populations, is a largely unacknowledged strategy of the U.S. liberal multicultural capitalist state. This politicization of biological health serves as an instrument for insisting on a racial state of exception in which African Americans’ own unhealthy habits and disease susceptibility justifies their legitimate suspension from full rights to social justice, economic opportunity, and political freedom and equality. The book brings together disability studies, Black Studies, and African American literary history as it highlights the urgent need and gives weight to a biopolitics of debilitation and medicalization to better understand how Black lives are made not to matter in our supposedly race-neutral multicultural democracy.







Heart of Darkness (Fourth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)


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The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough’s meticulously re-edited text. Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been repunctuated in accordance with Conrad’s style. The result is the first published version of Heart of Darkness that allows readers to hear Marlow’s voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with a generous collection of maps and photographs that bring the Belgian Congo to life. Textual materials, topically arranged, address nineteenth-century views of imperialism and racism and include autobiographical writings by Conrad on his life in the Congo. New to the Fourth Edition is an excerpt from Adam Hochschild’s recent book, King Leopold’s Ghost, as well as writings on race by Hegel, Darwin, and Galton. "Criticism" includes a wealth of new materials, including nine contemporary reviews and assessments of Conrad and Heart of Darkness and twelve recent essays by Chinua Achebe, Peter Brooks, Daphne Erdinast-Vulcan, Edward Said, and Paul B. Armstrong, among others. Also new to this edition is a section of writings on the connections between Heart of Darkness and the film Apocalypse Now by Louis K. Greiff, Margot Norris, and Lynda J. Dryden. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.




Until the Evening


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