Treacherous Truths

Treacherous Truths
Author: Kay Riley
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-03-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781737567479

The truth shall NOT set me free.Running away seven years ago did nothing but delay the life chosen for me before I even had my first kiss. Leaving isn't an option anymore. Staying might break me.The unraveling secrets are exposing more than just my family's past. They're revealing burdens of the man who is determined to prove our story isn't finished. My trust is the one thing Kyro refuses to stop chasing, even when everything is attempting to tear us apart.And for the truths I so desperately wanted to learn? They're twisting the key, locking me in the cage known as Suncrest Bay.The promise I made to never stop fighting is being threatened by ghosts of my past. Maybe the easiest thing is to give into what my enemies want.But I never was one for easy.I'm a perfect storm and I'll destroy them all.**This is the second book in the Suncrest Bay Series and ends in a cliffhanger. Book one, Fateful Secrets must be read first. It is an enemies-to-lovers, contemporary dark romance. Content Warnings include graphic violence, foul language, sexual scenes, and a possessive anti-hero. Suitable for readers 18+**

Treacherous Alliance

Treacherous Alliance
Author: Trita Parsi
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2007-10-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0300138067

This award-winning study traces the shifting relations between Israel, Iran, and the U.S. since 1948—including secret alliances and treacherous acts. Vitriolic exchanges between the leaders of Iran and Israel are a disturbingly common feature of the news cycle. But the real roots of their enmity mystify Washington policymakers, leaving no promising pathways to stability. In Treacherous Alliance, U.S. foreign policy expert Trita Parsi untangles to complex and often duplicitous relationship among Israel, Iran, and the United States from 1948 to the present. In the process, he reveals shocking details of unsavory political maneuverings that have undermined Middle Eastern peace and disrupted U.S. foreign policy initiatives in the region. Parsi draws on his unique access to senior American, Iranian, and Israeli decision makers to present behind-the-scenes revelations that will surprise even the most knowledgeable readers: Iran’s prime minister asks Israel to assassinate Khomeini; Israel reaches out to Saddam Hussein after the Gulf War; the United States foils Iran’s plan to withdraw support from Hamas and Hezbollah; and more. Treacherous Alliance not only revises our understanding of the recent past, it also spells out a course for the future. An Arthur Ross Book Award Silver Medal Winner A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title

A Treacherous Curse

A Treacherous Curse
Author: Deanna Raybourn
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2018-01-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0698198409

Members of an Egyptian expedition fall victim to an ancient mummy’s curse in this thrilling Veronica Speedwell novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries. London, 1888. As colorful and unfettered as the butterflies she collects, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell can’t resist the allure of an exotic mystery—particularly one involving her enigmatic colleague, Stoker. His former expedition partner has vanished from an archaeological dig with a priceless diadem unearthed from the newly discovered tomb of an Egyptian princess. This disappearance is just the latest in a string of unfortunate events that have plagued the controversial expedition, and rumors abound that the curse of the vengeful princess has been unleashed as the shadowy figure of Anubis himself stalks the streets of London. But the perils of an ancient curse are not the only challenges Veronica must face as sordid details and malevolent enemies emerge from Stoker’s past. Caught in a tangle of conspiracies and threats—and thrust into the public eye by an enterprising new foe—Veronica must separate facts from fantasy to unravel a web of duplicity that threatens to cost Stoker everything...

Sentences

Sentences
Author:
Publisher: Michael Curran
Total Pages: 208
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 1301651427

I the Supreme

I the Supreme
Author: Augusto Roa Bastos
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0525564691

I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia himself and ordering the execution of all of his servants upon his death. This sign is quickly revealed to be a forgery, which takes leader and secretary into a larger discussion about the nature of truth: “In the light of what Your Eminence says, even the truth appears to be a lie.” Their conversation broadens into an epic journey of the mind, stretching across the colonial history of their nation, filled with surrealist imagery, labyrinthine turns, and footnotes supplied by a mysterious “compiler.” A towering achievement from a foundational author of modern Latin American literature, I the Supreme is a darkly comic, deeply moving meditation on power and its abuse—and on the role of language in making and unmaking whole worlds.

The Apocalypse Explained

The Apocalypse Explained
Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2024-10-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3385148898

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.

Strange Truths in Undiscovered Lands

Strange Truths in Undiscovered Lands
Author: Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2009-04-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442690569

The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley had a complicated relationship with the British Empire and the culture of colonialism. Considered politically radical and scandalous in Britain, Shelley lived in self-imposed exile and set much of his writing in foreign places. In Strange Truths in Undiscovered Lands Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey examines the ways in which Shelley developed a 'Romantic geography' to provide visionary alternatives to an earth devastated by a new type of European colonialism and global expansion. Intertextually rich, Alvey's work establishes the context in which poems by Shelley and other Romantics were written by presenting relevant histories, travel texts, scientific writings, and archival material, and are all complemented by postcolonial analysis. Unique in its emphasis on the optimistic and positive aspects of Shelley's poetical works, Strange Truths in Undiscovered Lands offers a different perspective on Romantic Orientalism, and a new look at how the poet imagined the relationship between the Self and the Other. Thorough and original, this book will be of interest to Romanticists, postcolonialists, and anyone interested in alternative responses to acts of colonialism and empire.