Vampires Don't Exist

Vampires Don't Exist
Author: Reyanna Vance
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2005-11-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1411658264

Suicidal Aralyn Montgomery finds herself thrust into a world of domination and torture when a Master vampire claims her as his. If she does not obey his every command, he punishes her in ways that have been considered sick, twisted, and evil. The Master wishes to make Aralyn his eternal lover. To do this, he must turn her into a vampire. But first he wants her to give him what he has always desired...Will Aralyn escape his monstrous clutches? Or will she be forced to live with him for eternity and made his pet?

Blindsight

Blindsight
Author: Peter Watts
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2006-10-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429955198

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Real Vampires Don't Diet

Real Vampires Don't Diet
Author: Gerry Bartlett
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2009-01-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780425225646

Real readers love this series and its "vampire to die for"(Kimberly Raye, USA Today bestselling author of Dead End Dating)-from the author of Real Vampires Get Lucky. Gloriana St. Claire-curvy, stylish, and undead-is spending New Year's Eve alone. And it's all because her boyfriend, Jeremy Blade, is traipsing off to parts unknown to rescue his supposed daughter from the clutches of "dangerous radicals." But just as Glory settles in for the evening, a phone call from the bodyguard of a drunk, newly-undead rock star could end her year on a crazy note.

Touched by a Vampire

Touched by a Vampire
Author: Beth Felker Jones
Publisher: Multnomah
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1601422784

Investigates the themes of the Twilight Saga from a Biblical perspective, examining whether the story's redemptive qualities outshine its darkness.

VampWitch

VampWitch
Author: T. White
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2013-03-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466981695

Misha Hart is a beautiful private investigator who just happens to be a psychic among other things. She’s very involved in her work. When she and her friends take a trip to Jamaica, people come up missing around her, and she helps with the investigation. On her way back home, she begins having premonitions. Little does she know where those premonitions are going to lead. Detective Danté Blackburn was sent on a mission specifically for Misha. He has no idea what to expect when he sees her, but he finds himself falling in love with her. When Misha gets far enough in a case he puts her on, he realizes the danger he has put her in. Someone from his past comes back to haunt him. How will he explain this to Misha, and will this person destroy him?

Not Being God

Not Being God
Author: Gianni Vattimo
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 023114721X

With Piergiorgio Paterlini, a noted Italian writer and journalist, Gianni Vattimo, a leading philosopher of the continental school, reflects on a lifetime of politics, sexual radicalism, and philosophical exuberance in postwar Italy. Turin, the city in which he was born and one of the intellectual capitals of Europe (also the city in which Nietzsche went mad), forms the core of his reminiscences, enriched by fascinating vignettes of studying under Hans Georg Gadamer, teaching in the United States, serving as a public intellectual and interlocutor of Habermas and Derrida, and working within the European Parliament to unite Europe. Vattimo's status as a left-wing faculty president paradoxically made him a target of the Red Brigades in the 1970s, causing him to flee Turin for his life. Left-wing terrorism did not deter the philosopher from his quest for social progress, however, and in the 1980s, he introduced a daring formulation called "weak thought," which stripped metaphysics, science, religion, and all other absolute systems of their authority. Vattimo then became notorious for his renewed commitment to the core values of Christianity (he was trained as a Catholic intellectual) and for the Vatican's denunciation of his views. Through these interviews, Paterlini composes an utterly candid first-person portrait of a major thinker and a riveting account of homosexuality, history, politics, and philosophical invention in the twentieth century.

Vampire's Secret

Vampire's Secret
Author: Anna Santos
Publisher: Crystal Palace Publishing
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2023-04-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Victoria wanted a new life, clean of nightmares and bad life decisions. Seemed easy, right? She didn't know old, buried memories would surface and haunt me. It's painful to live with the demons lurking out to get me, but I have to endure for the sake of my knights. They count on me. I can't disappoint them. Too many lives depend on my sanity and will to survive—including the life of my unborn child. One last trial to face and win so we can be free from the Sovereign Queen's jealousy and grudge. But we discover this is the most brutal and twisted challenge we've ever faced. She wants us dead! The Vampire Courts can be ruthless, but my unique condition raises interest among the powerful clans and royals from other countries. With new allies and a secret weapon, I'll face my former sister's challenge with a smile. But if anything happens to us, the ones who survive will bring hell upon her and her tyrannical rule. Margaret has no idea whom she's messing with. Let the game begin.

Imagination

Imagination
Author: Jim Davies
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1643132881

The first-ever book on the science of imagination, which sheds light on both the complex inner-workings of our mind and the ways in which we can channel imagination for a better life. We don’t think of imagination the way that we should. The word is often only associated with children, artists and daydreamers, but in reality, imagination is an integral part of almost every action and decision that we make. Simply put, imagination is a person’s ability to create scenarios in his or her head: this can include everything from planning a grocery list, to honing a golf swing, to having religious hallucinations. And while imagination has positive connotations, it can also lead to decreased productivity and cooperation, or worse, the continuous reliving of past trauma.The human brain is remarkable in its ability to imagine—it can imagine complex possible futures, fantasy worlds, or tasty meals. We can use our imaginations to make us relaxed or anxious. We can imagine what the world might be, and construct elaborate plans. People have been fascinated with the machination of the human brain and its ability to imagine for centuries. There are books on creativity, dreams, memory, and the mind in general, but how exactly do we create those scenes in our head? With chapters ranging from hallucination and imaginary friends to how imagination can make you happier and more productive, Jim Davies' Imagination will help us explore the full potential of our own mind.

A Vampire Legends Bundle: Sworn (#1) and Taken (#2)

A Vampire Legends Bundle: Sworn (#1) and Taken (#2)
Author: Emma Knight
Publisher: Emma Knight
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1094313149

"An amazing new vampire series! Don't miss it!" --Morgan Rice, #1 Bestselling author of THE VAMPIRE JOURNALS In SWORN, Rachel Wood is uprooted from her home in Pennsylvania and forced to enter a new high school, in 10th grade, in New York. She struggles to come to grips with meeting new friends, finding a boyfriend, avoiding the cliques of mean girls, and figuring out how to survive in such a hostile new world. Everything seems to go wrong for Rachel, until salvation comes in the form of Rob, a football player who takes a liking to her. But just as there romance is about to blossom, she finds herself confused by his actions. As things reach a low point, Rachel meets a mysterious boy from her school, Benji, a loner who keeps apart from the other kids. They have an unforgettable night together in an amusement park—until something goes horribly wrong, and Benji shocks her by saving her life. Rachel knows that Benji is different from everyone else, and she knows that he is the love of her life. And as their romance deepens, she has to decide if she is willing to give up everything to find out his secret… In TAKEN, Rachel Wood finally learns the secret that her new boyfriend, Benji, has been hiding: he is a vampire. She discovers his world in the mysterious Lyndvia Castle on the Hudson River. But just as their romance is blossoming, Benji’s twin brother shows up with a message that might mean the end for them all. Rachel will have to decide how much she wants to sacrifice to be with the love of her life.

Number 17, Garamond Road

Number 17, Garamond Road
Author: Daisy Davis
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2015-02-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496965426

On the south coast of England sits the little town of Horse-sur-mer. Settled by Huguenots fleeing France before expulsionor worseit seems to attract the strangest people. People like Roddy Lewis, who talks to dead Huguenots; Laura Tregarthan, a vicar who cant quite stick to Anglicanism; and Police Sergeant Eileen Sturgeon, whos not quite sure whats going onbut shes going to fight to protect everyones right to be as weird as they want. But not everyone loves Horse-sur-mer and its unusual ways, and the mysterious stranger with the Jesuit Hat who comes to stay causes problems for the town. Two unexpected deaths bring Gwyneth Gladwell and Gladys Grinski from Llanprytherch to help the Horsefolk and their Celtic cats sort out exactly whats going on and how to fight it. And then there is the dog who can predict the weather, but youll have to read to find out about himor is it her?