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The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction
From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie Deep Impact, images of the city’s end have been prolific and diverse Why have Americans repeatedly imagined New York’s destruction? What do the fantasies of annihilation played out in virtually every form of literature and art mean? This book is the first to investigate two centuries of imagined cataclysms visited upon New York, and to provide a critical historical perspective to our understanding of the events of September 11, 2001. Max Page examines the destruction fantasies created by American writers and imagemakers at various stages of New York’s development. Seen in every medium from newspapers and films to novels, paintings, and computer software, such images, though disturbing, have been continuously popular. Page demonstrates with vivid examples and illustrations how each era’s destruction genre has reflected the city’s economic, political, racial, or physical tensions, and he also shows how the images have become forces in their own right, shaping Americans’ perceptions of New York and of cities in general. .
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Premonitions #2: Disappearance (Premonitions)
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Premonitions
Grace has premonitions They've haunted her since her parents' death. She doesn't know how to deal with them, and doesn't want to. She never knows whether she's seeing the past, the present, or the future. It just comes to her. Then Grace's best friend disappears And suddenly the premonitions that have been the bane of her existence become the only way to solve the mystery of where the friend has gone -- and how she can be saved in time. .
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Premonition (City of God Series #2)
After a physics experiment goes awry, Messianic Jewish archaeologist Rivka Meyers finds herself stranded in first-century Jerusalem, married to the infuriating and lovable Israeli physicist Ari Kazan. Rivka knows that an illegal trial and execution awaits the leader of the Jewish Christian community— James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus. Can Rivka prevent this impending disaster, or is Ari right that Rivka’s meddling will only make matters worse?.
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In Her Dreams
In Her DreamsWhen Kayla McCallister leaves her ritzy job, nice home and failing marriage behind in California, she doesn't expect to end up in Parker, a Colorado River town that people pass through, not travel to. Her arrival in Arizona awakens Kayla's latent ability to have premonitions she doesn't want and can't handle until she discovers she must face them, or go crazy avoiding them. While dealing with her abilities, Kayla learns the value of friendship, renews her faith in love and reveals the identity of an attempted murderer who could change the lives of everyone around her if she doesn't learn to trust her instincts and deal with her dreams..
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Nightmare In Bangkok
Nightmare In Bangkok is a nonfiction account of an intuitive criminal who dreamt his fate. Born and raised in Hawaii, Andy began his criminal lifestyle as a professional thief. This led to a headline heist in 1977, and his introduction to heroin smuggling and addiction. After over a decade of close calls, escapes, crime sprees and Hawaiian prisons, Andy was arrested for drug-trafficking in Bangkok, Thailand. The penalty was execution by gunshot to the head. The names, nicknames and characters are real, and everything is factual - verifiable by court documents, government files, newspaper articles, witnesses and photos. This isn’t a how-to book, nor is it intended to glamorize crime and drug abuse. The author’s objective is to share what he’s learned about life through his unusual experiences, and give insight into the cycle of crime and drug addiction. .
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Real Ghost Stories (Ghosts)
I remember when I was a child my Father read some of these stories aloud to us as he was making his collection; and I remember, too, how thrilled and awed we were, and how at times they brought a creepy feeling when at night I had to mount many flights of stairs to my bedroom at the top of the house. There is a growing interest in all the occult phenomena to which this work is devoted. It is in evidence on every hand. The topic is in the air, and will be discussed and is being discussed, whether we take notice of it or not. That it has its dangers those who have studied it most closely are most aware, but these dangers will exist in any case, and if those who ought to guide are silent, these perils will be encountered without the safeguards which experience would dictate and prudence suggest. It seems to me that it would be difficult to do better service in this direction than to strengthen the hands of those who have for many years past been trying to rationalise the consideration of the Science of Ghosts. PART I.—THE GHOST THAT DWELLS IN EACH OF US. PART II.—THE THOUGHT BODY, OR THE DOUBLE PART III.—CLAIRVOYANCE.—THE VISION OF THE OUT OF SIGHT. PART IV.—PREMONITIONS AND SECOND SIGHT PART V.—GHOSTS OF THE LIVING ON BUSINESS. And much more! .
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The Mystery of a Turkish Bath
Under the pseudonym “Rita” E M Gollan wrote some seventy novels of which this is one. It is a rather penetrating book about the supernatural. It starts off with a somewhat unusual situation, at least in literature, with a group of ladies in the turkish bath of a large and luxurious hotel by the sea, in England, the sort of hotel to which people go to be cured of illnesses, on the recommendation of their doctors. It is some time in the late nineteenth century. An extraordinarily beautiful woman appears one day in the turkish bath, and the women already in there are quite fascinated by her. But there is another guest in the hotel, a Colonel Estcourt, who, it turns out had known this woman since childhood. Indeed it had been expected that they would one day wed, but instead she had gone off and married an elderly, but fabulously wealthy, Russian prince. Various demonstrations of her occult powers make the guests, both men and women, realise that the beautiful Princess is someone with very special gifts, which one or two of them would like to learn more about. But in the very process of the ensuing teach-in, more things happen than had been bargained for, and both the Colonel and the Princess end up lifeless. The Mystery deepens. If you like this sort of thing it is a very good novel, but if you are not happy to read about the occult, you should leave it severely alone. .
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