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Double Shadow

Author : Carl Phillips

Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Page : 72 pages

File Size : 24,2 MB

Release : 2014-08-26

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1466878843

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A stunning new collection of poems from the author of Speak Low Comparing any human life to "a restless choir" of impulses variously in conflict and at peace with one another, Carl Phillips, in his eleventh book, examines the double shadow that a life casts forth: "now risk, and now / faintheartedness." In poems that both embody and inhabit this double shadow, risk and faintheartedness prove to have the power equally to rescue us from ourselves and to destroy us. Spare, haunted, and haunting, yet not without hope, Double Shadow argues for life as a wilderness through which there's only the questing forward—with no regrets and no looking back. Double Shadow is a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award for Poetry Winner of the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011



The Double Shadow

Author : Sally Gardner

Publisher : Hachette UK

Page : 275 pages

File Size : 27,33 MB

Release : 2011-11-03

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1780620373

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Arnold Ruben has created a memory machine, a utopia housed in a picture palace, where the happiest memories replay forever, a haven in which he and his precious daughter can shelter from the war-clouds gathering over 1937 Britain. But on the day of her 17th birthday Amaryllis leaves Warlock Hall and the world she has known and wakes to find herself in a desolate and disturbing place. Something has gone terribly wrong with her father's plan. Against the tense backdrop of the Second World War, Sally Gardner explores families and what binds them, fathers and daughters, past histories, passions and cruelty, love and devastation in a novel rich in character and beautifully crafted.



The Double Shadow

Author : Clark Ashton Smith

Publisher : Wildside Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 33,73 MB

Release : 2012-01-10

Category : Fantasy fiction, American

ISBN : 9780809571628

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A collection of six stories ranging from contemporary horror to weird alternate-world fantasy, this work remains a fascinating introduction to and showcase of Smith's prose.



The Double Shadow

Author : Clark Ashton Smith

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 26,56 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780809533664

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Clark Ashton Smith -- one of the "big three" classic authors from the legendary pulp magazine Weird Tales (the others being H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard) -- began writing early in the twentieth century. By the 1920s, he became a regular poet and author in Weird Tales magazine, helping to usher in its golden age. "The Double Shadow" was originally published by the Auburn Journal in 1933 in an oversized edition limited to only 1,000 copies. Smith carefully signed and hand-corrected many typographical errors for years to come. A collection of six stories ranging from contemporary horror to weird alternate-world fantasy, it remains a fascinating introduction and showcase to his decadently jeweled prose.



The Book of Blood and Shadow

Author : Robin Wasserman

Publisher : Ember

Page : 466 pages

File Size : 17,92 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0375872779

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While working on a project translating letters from sixteenth-century Prague, high school senior Nora Kane discovers her best friend murdered with her boyfriend the apparent killer and is caught up in a dangerous web of secret societies and shadowy conspirators, all searching for a mysterious ancient device purported to allow direct communication with God.



Riding Westward

Author : Carl Phillips

Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Page : 64 pages

File Size : 32,11 MB

Release : 2014-08-26

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1466878940

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In Riding Westward, Carl Phillips wields his celebrated gifts for syntax and imagery that are unmistakably his own--speculative, athletic, immediate--as he confronts moral crisis. The singer turning this and that way, as if watching the song itself --the words to the song--leave him, as he lets each go, the wind carrying most of it, some of the words, falling, settling into instead that larger darkness, where the smaller darknesses that our lives were lie softly down." --from "Riding Westward" What happens when the world as we've known it becomes divided, when the mind becomes less able--or less willing--to distinguish reality from what is desired? What is the difference, Phillips asks, between good and evil, cruelty and instruction, risk and trust? Against the backdrop of the natural world, Phillips pitches the restlessness of what it means to be human, as he at once deepens and extends a meditation on that space where the forces of will and imagination collide with sexual and moral conduct.



Shadow Dawn

Author : Chris Claremont

Publisher : Spectra

Page : 599 pages

File Size : 43,82 MB

Release : 2018-04-17

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1984800027

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From George Lucas, creator of Star Wars(r) and Indiana Jones, and Chris Claremont, author of the bestselling X-Men adventures, comes the thrilling sequel to Shadow Moon, taking readers deeper into a stunningly original world of magic, myth, and legend. The momentous Ascension of Princess Elora Danan should have brought peace to the Thirteen Realms. Instead, an intense Shadow War rages, spearheaded by the evil Mohdri. He has dispatched his dread Black Rose commando assassins to capture Elora and her sworn protector, Thorn Drumheller. But Mohdri himself is just a facade for a more dangerous entity: the Deceiver. But who--or what--is the Deceiver? And how can Elora, Thorn, and their ragtag band defeat this unspeakable force? The answer lies in a perilous journey to a land undisturbed since the dawn of time. A journey that will end at the unbreachable citadel of the dragon, where a chilling betrayal will change the fate of Elora, Thorn, and the Thirteen Realms forever.



Mussolini's Shadow

Author : Ray Moseley

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 342 pages

File Size : 35,78 MB

Release : 1999-01-01

Category : History

ISBN : 9780300079173

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Dotyczy m. in. Polski.



Shadow’s Lure

Author : Jon Sprunk

Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

Page : 460 pages

File Size : 32,69 MB

Release : 2018-10-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1625673841

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The Shadow Saga continues with in this “fun, fast, action-packed novel” of magic, mystery, and monstrous evil (Elitist Book Reviews). After helping his lover Josephine lay claim to the throne of Nimea, the assassin Caim has ventured north to the land that has haunted his dreams—cold, unforgiving Eregoth. He departs seeking answers to his parents’ murder and hoping that this knowledge will explain his ability to bend the shadows to his will. In searching for his past, Caim wanders into war. But Eregoth is threatened by a power more terrifying than any army—the witch Sybelle, Queen of the Dark. If given the chance, her aims at destruction would not cease at Eregoth but storm through Nimea where Josey struggles to secure her reign. With nothing more than a force of ragtag warriors at his side, Caim knows that standing against Sybelle’s onslaught may be suicide. But as a son of the Shadow, he has no choice but to fight. Even if every life he takes brings him closer to the blackness that would claim him body and soul...



Silverchest

Author : Carl Phillips

Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Page : 73 pages

File Size : 36,38 MB

Release : 2014-07-15

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1466875844

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"After / the afterlife, there's an afterlife." In Silverchest, his twelfth book, Carl Phillips considers how our fears and excesses, the damage we cause both to others and to ourselves, intentional and not, can lead not only to a kind of wisdom but also to renewal, maybe even joy, if we're willing to commit fully to a life in which "I love you / means what, exactly?" In poems shot through with his signature mix of eros, restless energy, and moral scrutiny, Phillips argues for the particular courage it takes to look at the self squarely—not with judgment but with understanding—and extend that self more honestly toward others. It's a risk, there's a lot to lose, but if it's true that "we'll drown anyway—why not / in color?"