Wondering Ardor


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Some poetry is deep and empathic. Some poetry is short and humorous. Some poetry is medium and life eventful. But all poetry is food for thought and for the soul. Wondering Ardor is a humorous walk through life. From simple contemplations to deep repressed desires. From a mother’s warnings to “Take Your Dishes With You” to a daughter’s first crush. From “Why Did I Get Married” to “I Miss My Life, My Love”. Wondering Ardor is a delightful look at the magical occurrences that happen every day.




Ardor


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In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people who lived more than three thousand years ago in northern India: they left behind almost no objects, images, ruins. They created no empires. Even the hallucinogenic plant, the soma, which appears at the centre of some of their rituals, has not been identified with any certainty. Only a 'Parthenon of words' remains: verses and formulations suggesting a daring understanding of life. 'If the Vedic people had been asked why they did not build cities,' writes Calasso, 'they could have replied: we did not seek power, but rapture.' This is the ardor of the Vedic world, a burning intensity that is always present, both in the mind and in the cosmos. With his signature erudition and profound sense of the past, Calasso explores the enigmatic web of ritual and myth that define the Vedas. Often at odds with modern thought, he shows how these texts illuminate the nature of consciousness more than neuroscientists have been able to offer us up to now. Following the 'hundred paths' of the Satapatha Brahmana, an impressive exegesis of Vedic ritual, Ardor indicates that it may be possible to reach what is closest by passing through that which is most remote, as 'the whole of Vedic India was an attempt to think further'.




Ardor


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Marvin Bell's ninth major collection of poems is groundbreaking, his most provocative and imaginative work to date. The phrase "the dead man" resounds throughout like a drumbeat registering the wisdom and genius of ignorance, fallibility, and mutability with a Zen-like detachment. Defying paraphrase, Bell's new poems demand to be understood in the context of the incantatory line as he illuminates the transcendent inscape in its moment of self-revelation. "The Book of the Dead Man" demolishes boundaries between lyric poetry and serio-comic intensity, and announces a poetics of striking spiritual candor.




The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn


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"Mission Impossible, but with magic, dragons, and a series of heists that go from stealing a crown to saving the world" (David Dalglish). Master con artist Ardor Benn and his crew of intrepid thieves are hired to pull off a series of wildly complex heists, from stealing a crown to saving the world, in this daring fantasy adventure. Liar. Thief. Legend. Ardor Benn is no ordinary thief. Rakish, ambitious, and master of wildly complex heists, he styles himself a Ruse Artist Extraordinaire. When a priest hires him for the most daring ruse yet, Ardor knows he'll need more than quick wit and sleight of hand. Assembling a dream team of forgers, disguisers, schemers, and thieves, he sets out to steal from the most powerful king the realm has ever known. But it soon becomes clear there's more at stake than fame and glory -- Ard and his team might just be the last hope for human civilization. Discover the start of an epic fantasy trilogy that begins with a heist and quickly explodes into a full-tilt, last ditch plan to save humanity.




Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle


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Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the superb work of an imagination at white heat. This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.




The Ardor of Hope


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Summer Blast 2019: Collection Of Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Books


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Looking to start a series? Read the start of five different series ranging from science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Grab something cold to drink, dive in, and find a series to pass the hot days of summer. 1. AabiLynn's Dragon Rite #0: A fantasy sword and sorcery heroic book. Cara, a young slave girl, has one chance at freedom and to find a family that loves her. She must be chosen by a baby dragon and form a bond like no other. Can Cara select a dragon egg and link with the baby dragon within or is she doomed to return to her loveless existence? Crippled from birth, Cara was sold by her father to cover his debt. A slave with no rights, she exists in bleakness and despair. A chance encounter could change all of that for her. 2. Shades of Gray #1 & #2: Dive deep into this dystopian science fiction book series with the first two novels and unravel a mystery plaguing this parallel world. Explore a doomed planet in this dystopian fiction where a female legal assassin ( Life Closer ) known as the Phoenix must partner with a rogue experiment known as the Pandora Project. The Phoenix has discovered that someone murdered her mother and she will stop at nothing to discover their identity and take her revenge. In this post apocalyptic fantasy, Pandora has no memory beyond a year ago and she is hunted by Life Closers, bounty hunters, and killer robots know as Un-Men. Can the Phoenix help her discover her past or will the Phoenix kill Pandora when she no longer needs her help? Pandora is no pushover and a mystery surrounds her very existence. Pandora will either bring about a Twilight that is the first rays of dawn or Pandora will bring about a Twilight that will usher in darkness forever. Apocalyptic science fiction books about the bounds of friendship in the face of adversity and mistrust. In the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Noir, a mega-city half the size of the United States, corporations govern the people and profit is above all. A cyberpunk style world where technology is more advanced in a desperate attempt to save the planet from destruction. 3. Beauty of the Beast #1 The Mystic Rose: Part A: The Flower, The Sword, And The Kiss: A fantasy magical realms action adventure book. Beauty and the Beast with a twist. What if the woman was the one cursed? Pluck, a young girl, saves her prince from a horrible hex but is cursed in his place. She takes on the appearance of a dreaded beast called a Necrom, a cat-like humanoid. Pluck needs the Kiss, the prince's first kiss to end her curse. Can she receive the Kiss or will her dispised appearance only bring her more heartache? Pluck has other things to worry about. She and her prince have shipwrecked in a place where the dreaded Necroms live. Pluck might just need to sacrifice herself to save her prince. 4. Monster of Monsters #1 Part 1 & Part 2: Science fiction horror action adventure book. A neglected young girl, Kein, stumbles across a hidden cave where something monstrous lurks. Desperate for affection and attention, the young girl embraces the monster, believing to have found love and acceptance. The young girl now a woman is lured into a dangerous world where monsters are contestants in a deadly game where desires and wishes can be won in a game that no one has won. Can Kein find the family she so desperately wants or will she be food for the very monsters that she wants to embrace? 5. AaBack's Grimm- Dark Fantasy Fairy Tale #1 Tale Of Two Worlds: The Wizard, The Battle Mage, And The Werewolf & #2 Friends Reunited: The Janus Beast, The Rose Beauty, And The Cursed Duckling: In this epic fantasy fairy tale book, Jane is cursed in the normal world. No one can remember her past five minutes. Jane is pulled into a fairy tale world where the Beast from Beauty and the Beast exists and where everyone remembers her. Has Jane found the perfect home or is the World of Grimm holding something deadly for her?




David Copperfield


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