The other side. Life is a Story - story.one

The other side. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Hooman Salyani
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2024-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3711545882

In a room suspended between worlds, a man drifts through the fragmented remnants of his mind. Isolated from the pulse of society, he becomes ensnared in a labyrinth of shifting realities. Through his window, he glimpses the world beyond, but each glance reveals a different truth, drawing him deeper into a vortex where time stands still, and meaning dissolves. Obsessed with figments of his disordered mind, unaware of the hours slipping by, he loses himself in the corridors of his thoughts, never noticing as the years silently accumulate. His life becomes a series of illusions, each more vivid and deceptive than the last, until the final moment of clarity reveals the truth: he has aged a lifetime in a single day. In this surrealistic tale, the boundaries of reality dissolve, and the very fabric of existence is questioned. Is the world outside the window more real than the one inside your mind?

Yearning for the Red. Life is a Story - story.one

Yearning for the Red. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Jennifer Gasser
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2023-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3710826551

"It is the most beautiful sight. The red on white." Yearning for the Red is a collection of dark and sorrowful short stories and poems. In this book, Venus grants life yet not freedom. A Paperboy goes missing in the other world and returns silent and changed. Two soldiers hope to make it through the cold darkness, having given up on killing half-gods. Paper will be burned, forgetting how easily the world can go up in flames. And young artists sacrifice everything for art, passion, and the love of their revenant muse. Though different, every character is yearning for the red: the red sun, the red moon, the red beauty, the red blood and the red flames. All are anticipating the end of their world and ache for immortality.

Between the Lines

Between the Lines
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2013-06-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1451635818

Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy-tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.

Things Not Seen

Things Not Seen
Author: Andrew Clements
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2006-04-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101200456

Winner of American Library Association Schneider Family Book Award! Bobby Phillips is an average fifteen-year-old-boy. Until the morning he wakes up and can't see himself in the mirror. Not blind, not dreaming-Bobby is just plain invisible. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to Bobby's new condition; even his dad the physicist can't figure it out. For Bobby that means no school, no friends, no life. He's a missing person. Then he meets Alicia. She's blind, and Bobby can't resist talking to her, trusting her. But people are starting to wonder where Bobby is. Bobby knows that his invisibility could have dangerous consequences for his family and that time is running out. He has to find out how to be seen again-before it's too late.

A Likely Story

A Likely Story
Author: Rosemary Mahoney
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Mahoney recalls her summer as a domestic servant for the famous playwright.

Myths of the Mirror

Myths of the Mirror
Author: D Wallace Peach
Publisher:
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2013-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9780988954229

Twenty years past, the governors plotted murder. Ruled by avarice, they imprisoned the winged dragons of Taran Leigh in the black cells of a stone lair. Tormented by spine and spur the once peaceful creatures howl, immense webbed wings beating beneath iron bars. Those who raised their voices in protest were banished--skyriders, the men who rode the dragons--vanished to the distant mountains of the Mirror.Now, Treasa, the daughter of exiles, seeker of secrets, dreams with the lair's dragons, her heart torn by her love for the winged creatures and a man who masters them. She must choose her path with care. The lair's black -garbed riders sense the dragon's growing savagery. Yet one, Conall, longs to grasp their power, subdue them and soar, unaware that winged flight, merged in harmony, is his for the asking. Then, a curved talon rends Conall's flesh and dragon scale, rattling against white ribs and the world shifts. As hearts once parted bind, Terasa and Conall join forces to fight for the dragon's freedom. Alliances form, old myths are revealed and new myths are born.

The Youth's Companion

The Youth's Companion
Author: Nathaniel Willis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 470
Release: 1880
Genre: Children's periodicals
ISBN:

Includes music.

Waiting for Westmoreland

Waiting for Westmoreland
Author: John Maberry
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2007-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 061516045X

Those seeking happiness amidst the suffering or disillusionment of day to day life will find hope in reading Waiting for Westmoreland. Those seeking redemption for past mistakes, will also find a means to achieve it. The book is the true story of a 20th century Candide-an innocent growing up in America in the fifties. As a boy, the author suffers the death of loved ones. Spending a year in Vietnam corrupts him. Then the political realities of the war and Watergate shatter his idealistic illusions about America. He searches for tools to reform the country that failed him. His quest becomes a frustrating pursuit. Finally, he meets a person who tells him about the life philosophy of Buddhism. He learns that the credit or blame for all of life's events lies within-not from others. Looking for happiness outside oneself is fruitless. Only by taking personal responsibility for one's own life can one be truly happy. Reforming oneself, rather than changing others, leads to a better world.