The Possessions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Possessions write by Sara Flannery Murphy. This book was released on 2017-02-07. The Possessions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A gripping, chilling read that’s part love story, part mystery, and completely original, it’s sensuous, scary, and utterly thrilling." —Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls In this electrifying literary debut, a young woman who channels the dead for a living crosses a dangerous line when she falls in love with one of her clients, whose wife died under mysterious circumstances. In an unnamed city, Eurydice works for the Elysian Society, a private service that allows grieving clients to reconnect with lost loved ones. She and her fellow workers, known as "bodies", wear the discarded belongings of the dead and swallow pills called lotuses to summon their spirits—numbing their own minds and losing themselves in the process. Edie has been a body at the Elysian Society for five years, an unusual record. Her success is the result of careful detachment: she seeks refuge in the lotuses’ anesthetic effects and distances herself from making personal connections with her clients. But when Edie channels Sylvia, the dead wife of recent widower Patrick Braddock, she becomes obsessed with the glamorous couple. Despite the murky circumstances surrounding Sylvia’s drowning, Edie breaks her own rules and pursues Patrick, moving deeper into his life and summoning Sylvia outside the Elysian Society’s walls. After years of hiding beneath the lotuses’ dulling effect, Edie discovers that the lines between her own desires and those of Sylvia have begun to blur, and takes increasing risks to keep Patrick within her grasp. Suddenly, she finds her quiet life unraveling as she grapples not only with Sylvia’s growing influence and the questions surrounding her death, but with her own long-buried secrets. A tale of desire and obsession, deceit and dark secrets that defies easy categorization, The Possessions is a seductive, absorbing page-turner that builds to a shattering, unforgettable conclusion.
The Possessions
The Possessions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Possessions write by Sara Flannery Murphy. This book was released on 2017-02-08. The Possessions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER Who will prevail – the woman or the ghost? For five years Edie has worked for the Elysian Society, a secretive organisation that provides a very specialised service: its clients come to reconnect with their dead loved ones by channelling them through living 'Bodies'. Edie is one such Body, perhaps the best in the team, renowned for her professionalism and discretion. But everything changes when Patrick, a distraught husband, comes to look for traces of his drowned wife in Edie. The more time that Edie spends as the glamorous, enigmatic Sylvia, the closer she comes to falling in love with Patrick … and the more mysterious the circumstances around Sylvia's death appear. As Edie falls under Sylvia's spell, she must discover not only the couple's darkest secrets, but also her own long-buried memories and desires — before it's too late. PRAISE FOR SARA FLANNERY MURPHY ‘[S]upernatural romance that thrives on imaginative world-building.’ The Saturday Age ‘A more-than-slightly-spooky tale of spiritualists and sexual obsession.’ The Irish Times
Possessions
Possessions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Possessions write by Judith RICHARDSON. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Possessions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with ghosts--the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests, and laborers. Possessions asks why this region just outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized returned to claim possession of imaginations and territories. Reading Washington Irving's stories along with a diverse array of narratives from local folklore and regional writings, Judith Richardson explores the causes and consequences of Hudson Valley hauntings to reveal how ghosts both evolve from specific historical contexts and are conjured to serve the present needs of those they haunt. These tales of haunting, Richardson argues, are no mere echoes of the past but function in an ongoing, contentious politics of place. Through its tight geographical focus, Possessions illuminates problems of belonging and possessing that haunt the nation as a whole. Table of Contents: Introduction 1. "How Comes theHudson to this Unique Heritage?" 2. Irving's Web 3. The Colorful Career of a Ghost from Leeds 4. Local Characters 5. Possessing High Tor Mountain Epilogue: Hauntings without End Notes Index Reviews of this book: The author traces changing versions of several ghostly tales that mutated over time to reflect local conditions and controversies as well as national political issues like abolitionism. Richardson shows that, thanks to the Hudson Valley's long history of settlement, the 'legendizing impetus' created by Washington Irving, and the area's established position as a tourist destination, it inspired at least three sometimes overlapping traditions of hauntings: the 'aboriginal' Dutch and Indian hauntings, the Revolutionary War hauntings, and industrial hauntings, which are traced in Maxwell Anderson's High Tor (1937) and T. Coraghessan Boyle's World's End (1987). --J. J. Benardete, Choice Possessions is a rare and brilliant book that seamlessly combines history and literature--revealing how richly they can support one another. It is a great pleasure to read: both fluent and profound. --Alan Taylor, author of American Colonies and William Cooper's Town This is a lively, well-written, and engaging interdisciplinary study. Richardson pursues two main goals: probing in considerable detail a body of early national folklore and its modern revivals and testing some more general notions about the uses to which such lore is put in the periods when it is recovered, reshaped, and reinvigorated. It is smart without being condescending, locally inflected without exhibiting the least bit of piety - and, I think, quite suggestive for scholars looking at other domains far beyond the Hudson Valley. She gives us a way of understanding how the "local" has figured in the cultural construction of Americanness. --Wayne Franklin, author of Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers and The New World of James Fenimore Cooper
The Operation and Effect of the Possessions Corporation System of Taxation
The Operation and Effect of the Possessions Corporation System of Taxation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Operation and Effect of the Possessions Corporation System of Taxation write by United States. Department of the Treasury. This book was released on 1979. The Operation and Effect of the Possessions Corporation System of Taxation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Attorney-General v. the Governors of the Possessions ... of the Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth in Wimborne Minster, in the County of Dorset. Scheme for the administration of the Charity, etc
Attorney-General v. the Governors of the Possessions ... of the Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth in Wimborne Minster, in the County of Dorset. Scheme for the administration of the Charity, etc - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Attorney-General v. the Governors of the Possessions ... of the Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth in Wimborne Minster, in the County of Dorset. Scheme for the administration of the Charity, etc write by Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (WIMBORNE). This book was released on 1848. Attorney-General v. the Governors of the Possessions ... of the Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth in Wimborne Minster, in the County of Dorset. Scheme for the administration of the Charity, etc available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
