`Is there one who understands me?' So wrote James Joyce towards the end of his final work, Finnegans Wake. The question continues to be asked about the author who claimed that he had put so many enigmas into Ulysses that it would `keep the professors busy for centuries' arguing over what he meant. For Joyce this was a way of ensuring his immortality, but it could also be claimed that the professors have served to distance Joyce from his audience, turning his writings into museum pieces, pored over and admired, but rarely touched. In this remarkable book, steeped in the learning gained from a lifetime's reading, David Pierce blends word, life and image to bring the works of one of the great modern writers within the reach of every reader. With a sharp eye for detail and an evident delight in the cadences of Joyce's work, Pierce proves a perfect companion, always careful and courteous, pausing to point out what might otherwise be missed. Like the best of critics, his suggestive readings constantly encourage the reader back to Joyce's own words. Beginning with Dubliners and closing with Finnegans Wake, Reading Joyce is full of insights that are original and illuminating, and Pierce succeeds in presenting Joyce as an author both more straightforward and infinitely more complex than we had perhaps imagined. T. S. Eliot wrote of Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, that it is `a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape'. With David Pierce as a guide, the debt we owe to Joyce becomes clearer, and the need to flee is greatly reduced.

Only during dreams, we can be truly free. Short and long. About women, men, death, and friendship. Each one is different. About love, passion, fight and destiny. Stories that are completely different from each other, but at the end they are all connected. What happened in the coffee shop nearby the film school? Why a father, while mentioning school time didn't tell whole truth? How it's possible that heart can beat after death? What happened before the pilot of the aircraft Il-62 Tadeusz Kosciuszko on 9th of May 1987 gave a radio message "Goodbye! Hello! We are dying!". Is it true that the people, who are making suicide remain with living people after their death? And why it happens that sometimes high above the ground, radio is silent? Goodbye Fourth day of December Her last suicide How do you hear me? Yes, Captain Syndrome of broken hearts Security guard Half an hour of Tadeusz Kosciuszko First step in the sky

Eden faces a final reckoning when the cult's past victims hunt them down in this explosive, high-stakes thriller in the Sacramento series from New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose. For decades, Eden has remained hidden in the remote wilds of the Pacific Northwest, “Pastor” keeping his cult's followers in thrall for his personal profit and sexual pleasures. But the Founding Elders are splintering, and Pastor's surrogate son DJ is scheming to make it all his own. When two of Eden's newest members send out a cry for help, it reaches FBI Special Agent Tom Hunter, whose friend and fellow FBI Special Agent Gideon Reynolds and his sister, Mercy, are themselves escapees of the Eden cult, targeted by the Founding Elders who want them silenced forever. The three have vowed to find the cult and bring it down, and now, they finally have a solid lead. Neutralizing Eden’s threat will save captive members and ensure Tom’s new friends can live without fear. But when his best friend, ex-Army combat medic Liza Barkley, joins the case, it puts her life—and their blossoming love—in danger. With everything they hold dear in the balance, Tom and Liza, together with Gideon and Mercy, must end Eden once and for all.

Scratching out a living as a process server in Sarasota, Florida, four years after the hit-and-run death of his wife in Chicago, Lew Fonesca returns to his hometown, determined to uncover the truth about the "accident" that claimed his wife's life.

Who knew getting snowed in at the airport could be so much fun? The nomadic lifestyle of a wildlife photographer is perfect for Ren Stewart—he travels the world with no obligations, no place to call home. With time between assignments, he’s ready to leave the cold New York winter for sunny California. But twenty inches of snow on a layover means his flight’s canceled and he’s stranded. It’s going to be a long, lonely night at the airport waiting for the snow to melt. Lucky for Ren, he meets a gorgeous man and they hit it off. Too bad they’ll have to go their separate ways. Or will they? Something in Schaeffer’s eyes suggests he might be up for sharing the last available hotel room…and the bed. Airline pilot Schaeffer Morgan is used to being alone. It’s hard to have a relationship when you’re only home for a few days at a time. He’s learned to live with stolen moments of pleasure as well as bigoted remarks from coworkers who don’t know he’s gay. When a family vacation brings him face-to-face with the man he spent two lust-filled days with in a hotel room—the man he thought he’d never see again—everything changes. Their days and nights together lead to the possibility of something Ren only dreamed of as a foster child—a family and a place to call home—while Schaeffer begins to open up about his painful past. As their time together comes to a close, they want to keep the magic of what’s building between them. But with Ren away for months on assignment and Schaeffer’s busy schedule, is that wishful thinking? One thing is for certain: neither of them wants to say goodbye.

Claire Malloy runs a bookstore in the normally quiet college town of Farberville, Arkansas - an enterprise which provides the verging-on-meager living for her and her deeply sarcastic teenage daughter Caron. So when emergency work forces Claire and Caron to abandon their apartment for a few weeks, they are in no financial position to put themselves up in style and Claire is thrilled to accept a customer's offer to let them stay at her well-stocked, well-equipped palatial home while she is traveling. Of course, nothing is ever that easy. No sooner do Claire and Caron ensconce themselves than disquieting events start to occur - dubious people show up looking for the 'traveling' owner of the house; the owner herself turns out not to be who she claimed and is now seemingly on the run; and a dead body keeps turning up - and subsequently disappearing - around the grounds of the house. Determined, for once, to stay out of the mysterious doings, Claire's hand is finally forced when the disappearing body turns out to be only the first corpse to turn up...

In order to save his mother's life, he made a contract with her.She sold herself, through a night of trading,But it didn't save her mother's life, so she accepted it.However, he didn't expect that trouble would have been brought about.He was the president of the entertainment company, but she signed up to be an artist in his company.Fortunately, many years later, they met again, and he no longer knew him.But the child looked so much like him, could he avoid it?

Rising from the drug-infested streets of '80s New York City, the incomparable Sonic Youth recorded some of the most important albums in alternative music history and influenced an entire generation of indie rockers. They helped spawn an alternative arts scene of underground films and comics, conceptual art, experimental music, even fashion. More than perhaps any band of their time, they brought art previously considered ''fringe'' into the mainstream - and irrevocably altered the cultural zeitgeist. Based on extensive research, exclusive band interviews, and unprecedented access to unreleased recordings and documents, Goodbye 20th Century is the definitive biography of the Velvet Underground of their generation.

The group of witches was dedicated to ridding the world of demons, searching them out and banishing them back to the hell they had spawned from. In Europe, something goes wrong. By the time the battle is over, seven are gone and the youngest one, eighteen year old Joly James is suddenly alone. A Persian cat by the name of Nefertiti finds her and forces her to choose life over death. She and Nefertiti are joined by two more feline familiars who know she must heal herself, and resume the role that destiny has mapped out for her. For nine years she avoids reality, when suddenly she is forced into facing who she really is, when she must banish another demon. Joly discovers that another one of their group survived that fateful day, and the two of them help to heal each other while resuming their battle against evil. She attempts to move on with her life, but she is haunted by memories of her husband Duncan, for theirs was a love that transcended the ages.