Download or read book A Path Reforged written by Taylor Crook and published by Waterstone Media. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new Path must be forged in the blood of heroes. General Sato is not the sentinel he once was. Confronted with the brutal realities of his order, he wrestles with his faith in the Path. Now, with the Maraman threat tainting the soil of Samas, Sato must decide if he should break from the Path for good or cling tightly to the tenets he's followed since he was a child. Abandoning Samas, Beast sailed in search of a simpler life where fighting for his own freedom was all that mattered. Now, commanding a juggernaut, one question bothers him most of all: What good is a warrior without a fight? The sentinels Shin hated now serve alongside the sin under her command. Her extraordinary aptitude for sacrifice has become her greatest source of shame. The one constant in her life is Corin, but even he knows she can’t hide from sacrifice forever. The Maraman emperor has arrived, and Shin might be the only one who can stop him. As Samas enters its darkest hour, the heroes it needs are farther away than ever. To survive, they must find a new way forward, a new Path, forged from the blood of the warriors of sun and moon.

Download or read book The Reforged Trilogy written by Erica Lindquist and published by Loose Leaf Stories. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 1539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This boxed set includes all three books of the Reforged Trilogy, plus four short stories. - Crucible of Stars - A chance for escape becomes a chance for redemption. Maeve Cavainna is running and her wings won’t save her. The infamous bounty hunter, Logan Coldhand, chases close behind her and intends to drag Maeve back to the planet of Axis to collect the high price on her head. When he finally corners her, the long chase seems to be over… until a frightened alien girl stumbles into their fight and begs for their protection. Maeve and Logan call a reluctant end to their battle and promise to help the girl, but they have agreed to far more than they know. Can the fragile peace between hunter and mark hold long enough to save the lives that depend on them? - Sword of Dreams - Death isn’t done with them. For a church dedicated to the worship of death, the Cult of Nihil stubbornly refuses to die. When word reaches the bounty hunter who calls himself Logan Coldhand that the Central World Alliance is willing to pay for members of the congregation, he takes the job. Perhaps chasing death will help him recapture the thrill of the hunt, lost ever since the mark that got away. Halfway across the galaxy, Maeve and the rest of the Blue Phoenix crew are still struggling to rebuild their lives after a devastating encounter with the Nihilists. But when Captain Myles agrees to take on what should be a simple job – flying a team of archaeologists to the remote planet of Prianus – they find themselves pitted against old enemies and ancient terrors. - Forged - Before Maeve and the crew of the Blue Phoenix make their desperate bid to reforge the galaxy, each of them were first forged themselves in the crucible of galactic events. Forged includes four short stories that take place before Crucible of Stars and the rest of the Reforged Trilogy. - Purity: Maeve Cavainna was once a knight of Arcadia. How did she fall so far? - Little Hawk: A story of honor and childhood on Prianus. - Beauty By Night: An art thief seeks to recapture his humanity. - Songs and Sigils in Space: Tiberius hires a destitute fairy and the crew of the Blue Phoenix has a deadly – but profitable – encounter with the Nnyth. - Hammer of Time - Time heals all wounds. Duaal Sinnay may have banished Xartasia and the Devourers from Prianus, but they’re not gone. Maeve has gone to warn the Central World Alliance, but they have no interest in fairy tales and stories of monsters. So when rumors start of a mysterious White Queen promising the return of Arcadia, the Alliance takes no notice. Now it falls to the crew of the Blue Phoenix to discover what is happening. Maeve has little doubt that Xartasia is this White Queen, but if that’s true, then how can Devourers help her to bring back the kingdom that they themselves destroyed a century ago? Whatever the answer, it promises nothing good for the rest of the galaxy…

Download or read book Blade Reforged written by Kelly McCullough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the "fascinating world"(Fresh Fiction) of the Fallen Blade in this thrilling fantasy novel from Kelly McCullpough. After the fall of the goddess of justice, temple assassin Aral Kingslayer lost his purpose in life and turned to the bottle. That might have been the end of him if luck hadn’t given him a few people to help him get back on his feet—notably the irresistible Baroness Maylien Dan Marchon, who once sought his aid in claiming the throne that’s rightfully hers. Reluctant to resume the role of an assassin, he turned her down. But now Aral has learned that one of the few people willing to help him in his darkest days has been imprisoned by Maylien’s uncle, King Thauvik. Aral knows he can’t let an old friend die, but the alternative is to return to the life he left years ago. It was the death of Thauvik’s half brother that earned Aral the name Kingslayer, and now he is thrust into a war that will see no end until he lives up to his name…

Download or read book An Empire without Order written by Jonathan Edward Feinstein and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Secret History written by Steven Loveridge and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1900, a handful of New Zealand police detectives watched out for spies, seditionists and others who might pose a threat to state and society. The Police Force remained the primary instrument of such human intelligence in New Zealand until 1956 when, a decade into the Cold War, a dedicated Security Service was created. Over the same period, New Zealand' s role within signals intelligence networks evolved from the Imperial Wireless Chain to the UKUSA intelligence alliance (now known as Five Eyes).The first of two volumes chronicling the history of state surveillance in New Zealand, Secret History opens up the &‘ secret world' of security intelligence through to 1956. It is the story of the surveillers who &– in times of war and peace, turmoil and tranquillity &– monitored and analysed perceived threats to national interests. It is also the story of the surveilled: those whose association with organisations and movements led to their public and private lives being documented in secret files.Secret History explores a hidden and intriguing dimension of New Zealand history, one which sits uneasily with cherished national notions of an exceptionally fair and open society.

Download or read book Summary of Peter Zeihan s The End of the World is Just the Beginning written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-07-22T22:59:00Z with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 We were wanderers because we were hungry. We wandered with the seasons to places with more abundant roots, nuts, and berries. We followed the animal migrations because that’s where the steaks were. #2 The first rule of geopolitics is location matters, and which locations matter more changes with the technology of the day. The first Geography of Success was all about range and variety. Good nutrition meant being able to tap multiple types of plants and animals. #3 Rivers that flow through low-latitude and low-altitude deserts are the only places on Earth that have all three of the following: long, sun-filled days, multi-cropping, and fast-flowing, straight rivers. #4 The first stages of agriculture were difficult, and required a lot of labor. Rivers helped us flush this problem, as they enabled us to transfer a bit of a river’s kinetic energy to a milling apparatus. With the farm-to-table process becoming less labor intensive, we began generating food surpluses.

Download or read book The Chimera Snare written by S. Black and published by Clay Urn Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2024-08-17 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Rayshell and her best friend Trish, senior year of high school is going to hell in a handbasket. The feud between Celestine and Daeva is bleeding into their world. When a mysterious visitor infiltrates her dreams, Rayshell is thrust into a realm of profound, otherworldly secrets. Together, Rayshell and Trish uncover the unbelievable—they are the living vessels for two banished Celestine guardians. Amidst mystical recollections and a wondrous magic system that shatters the veneer of their everyday lives, the two friends embark on a journey against time to connect with the Celestine guardians' allies in hopes of freeing them from their imprisonment. Simultaneously, the shadows cast by Daeva darken. The notorious outlaw, Merisek, has positioned himself to claim dominion over the Order of Existence—a trio of powerful artifacts capable of reshaping reality. Armed with two of these relics, Merisek races against the emergence of the Celestine guardians to claim the third. The stage is set for a showdown that will determine the fate of existence itself. Rayshell and Trish are all that stand between Merisek and his unhinged desire to twist the fabric of reality into his making. As the threads of destiny unravel, the question looms: who will be the author of existence, and what profound truths will be unveiled in the final, decisive act?

Download or read book Century Path written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book RAFES Her Fated Wolf written by Theodora Taylor and published by Theodora Taylor. This book was released on 2018-11-18 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm the most powerful wolf in North America, but SHE will be my undoing." Protect my country. Marry the most elegant and sophisticated she-wolf my team could find. Control my beast, so that no one ever finds out what's underneath my cold exterior. Remain the most powerful wolf in North America. I had it all planned out. Then SHE happened

Download or read book Dragonskull Fury of the Barbarians written by Jonathan Moeller and published by Azure Flame Media. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even barbarian warriors cannot face the wrath of a dragon. The quest of the Dragonskull has taken Gareth Arban and his friends to the land of the Norvangir, a people unknown to the men of Andomhaim. Proud and fierce, the Norvangir are both loyal friends and ferocious enemies. Yet an ancient curse haunts the Norvangir. For the shadow of the Dragonskull lies upon their land, a shadow that might kill Gareth and his companions...

Download or read book The Way of Peaceful Sword written by Dimetrios C. Manolatos and published by The Warrior Class. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Writing Rogues written by Cassio de Oliveira and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-01-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plot elements such as adventure, travel to far-flung regions, the criminal underworld, and embezzlement schemes are not usually associated with Soviet literature, yet an entire body of work produced between the October Revolution and the Stalinist Great Terror was constructed around them. In Writing RoguesCassio de Oliveira sheds light on the picaresque and its marginal characters – rogues and storytellers – who populated the Soviet Union on paper and in real life. The picaresque afforded authors the means to articulate and reflect on the Soviet collective identity, a class-based utopia that rejected imperial power and attempted to deemphasize national allegiances. Combining new readings of canonical works with in-depth analysis of neglected texts, Writing Rogues explores the proliferation of characters left on the sidelines of the communist transition, including gangsters, con men, and petty thieves, many of them portrayed as ethnic minorities. The book engages with scholarship on Soviet subjectivity as well as classical picaresque literature in order to explain how the subversive rogue – such as Ilf and Petrov’s wildly popular cynic and schemer Ostap Bender – in the process of becoming a fully fledged Soviet citizen, came to expose and embody the contradictions of Soviet life itself. Writing Rogues enriches our understanding of how literature was called upon to participate in the construction of Soviet identity. It demonstrates that the Soviet picaresque resonated with individual citizens’ fears and aspirations as it recorded the country’s transformation into the first communist state.

Download or read book Wraithshard Siege Storm written by Jonathan Moeller and published by Azure Flame Media. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hordes of the Trichirabi invade the Grim Marches, and Mazael Cravenlock stands in their way. The Trichirabi have come seeking a shard of the Wraithaldr, the most powerful necromantic artifact ever forged. Lucan Mandragon once used the Wraithaldr to summon hordes of the undead, and he is desperate to redeem himself. But the creatures seeking the shard are more than a match for Lucan's power...

Download or read book The Madonna List written by Max Foran and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2005 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome, 1221. On the death of Dominic Guzman, founder of the Order of Dominican Friars, a list of three names is locked away with the depositions attesting to Dominic's beatification, and a copy is sealed in an icon of the Virgin Mary that is eventually carried to New France. This list is the thread that binds the fates of ordinary people caught up in the grand sweep of historical events. The Madonna List traces the lives of two nineteenth-century men across three continents, where each finds himself intertwined with a woman who has been visited by the Virgin Mary. Bernad Birous is an ambitious and arrogant young Genoan of the merchant class who desires to use the power of the Church to serve his worldly aims, and who comes to believe that he is the chosen of God. Martin Goyette is a young artist from the rural parishes of Lower Canada who becomes enmeshed in the doomed Lower Canada Rebellion of 1838. Their very different lives are drawn together in a penal colony in New South Wales (Australia), where fortune, ambition, and faith determine their fates. A web of mystery, violence, love, betrayal, and tragedy finally leaves one man standing and one broken when the shattering secret of The Madonna List is revealed.

Download or read book Lords of Dyscrasia written by Seth Lindberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lords of Dyscrasia explores the choices humans and their gods make as a disease corrupts their souls, shared blood and creative energies. Historically, dyscrasia referred to any imbalance of the four medicinal humors professed by the ancient Greeks to sustain life (phlegm, blood, black and yellow bile). Artisans, anatomists, and chemists of the Renaissance expressed shared interest in the humors; accordingly, the scope of humorism evolved to include aspects of the four alchemical elements (water, air, earth and fire) and psychological temperaments (phlegmatic, sanguine, melancholic and choleric). In short, the humors are mystical media of color, energy, and emotion; Lords of Dyscrasia presents them as spiritual muses for artisans, sources of magical power, and contagions of a deadly disease. Synopsis: A blood disease plagues the insectan elders of the Underworld. Desperate to save them from extinction, the golem Doctor Grave infuses the soul of his dying Queen into the blood of a human artisan, Lord Ante Lysis. Her soul passes through Ante?s blood into his offspring, thus the Lysis bloodline carries the diseased Queen?s soul until the Doctor can execute a grand necromantic rite to resurrect her. Endenken Lysis of Gravenstyne, last lord of the Lysis Clan, journeys to the Underworld Forge to extinguish the elder plague consuming his soul. Accompanied by the ghosts of the family whom he failed and the brothers whom he murdered, Endenken must battle his past and the Doctor?s minions to end the plague, quench the Queen?s soul.

Download or read book The Shadow of My Vision written by Michael R. Schultheiss and published by Michael R. Schultheiss. This book was released on with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An endless enemy… Danger stalks their dreams… Has their god failed? Rosteval and his forces are at the limit of their endurance, fighting a hopeless war against the ever-reincarnating hordes of an endless enemy. When a foreign god seizes control of a potent weapon, Rosteval faces a choice between domination and destruction… even as a terrifying new danger stalks him and his beloved Ghaitta in their dreams. As enemies and rivals close in from every quarter, Rosteval, Ghaitta, and their friends face the greatest uncertainty of all: has their god failed them? Dark secrets, dangerous foes, and demanding gods stalk Rosteval’s path in The Shadow of My Vision, sequel to The Third Way of My God. Get it now.

Download or read book The Circle of My Sovereignty written by Michael R. Schultheiss and published by Michael R. Schultheiss. This book was released on with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impossible quest… A victorious enemy… Who will be the sacrifice? Caught between warring gods and Shapers, Rosteval has little choice: he must undertake an impossible quest on an alien world occupied by his foes. Together with Cat-Eye Touhai and an erstwhile adversary, Rosteval must brave the dark lair of an enemy who has already defeated their god. As tragedy strikes all around them, Rosteval, Ghaitta, Cat-Eye Touhai, and their people must confront an enemy mastermind and a terrifying question: who will be the sacrifice for their people’s survival? Impossible quests, a multitude of foes, and the machinations of a mastermind force Rosteval to confront terrible dilemmas and take incredible risks in The Circle of My Sovereignty, sequel to The Shadow of My Vision. Get it now.