Download or read book Academy of Sorcery Term 1 Unleashing Trials written by Athena Phoenix and published by Academy of Sorcery. This book was released on 2019-09-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic is dangerous. I should know. It got me a thirty-year sentence scrubbing toilets for a scumbag wizard. My only hope is the Unleashing, a ceremony that unlocks the dormant powers of magical descendants when we turn eighteen. Since my mom was a lowly psychic, I don't expect to be blessed with much more than the ability to forecast the weather. But when the sorcerers unlock my magic, all hell breaks loose. Turns out, I'm not a wizard, witch, or even a sorcerer. I'm...something else. Because of my unique abilities, I'm required to attend the Academy of Sorcery until I learn to harness and control my magic. Not only that, but the three sexiest and most powerful sorcerers on campus are assigned to guard me night and day. Jackpot, right?Not quite. Turns out these guys aren't too happy with the arrangement, and they show it by making my life hell. That's just the beginning of my troubles. The mean-girl squad declares open season on me, a mysterious woman attacks me every time I step off campus, and my professor is too hot for his own good. And when it's time to find a weapon to help me master my abilities, my magic chooses... a spork. It's going to be a long year.*This is a Reverse Harem series perfect for readers who enjoy: +light bully romance & enemies-to-lovers+college academies+student-teacher forbidden romance+badass heroine who holds her own against alpha males+fun, fast-paced reads intended for ages 18+

Download or read book Academy of Sorcery Term 1 Unleashing Trials written by Athena Phoenix and published by Academy of Sorcery. This book was released on 2019-09-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic is dangerous. I should know. It got me a thirty-year sentence scrubbing toilets for a scumbag wizard. My only hope is the Unleashing, a ceremony that unlocks the dormant powers of magical descendants when we turn eighteen. Since my mom was a lowly psychic, I don't expect to be blessed with much more than the ability to forecast the weather. But when the sorcerers unlock my magic, all hell breaks loose. Turns out, I'm not a wizard, witch, or even a sorcerer. I'm...something else. Because of my unique abilities, I'm required to attend the Academy of Sorcery until I learn to harness and control my magic. Not only that, but the three sexiest and most powerful sorcerers on campus are assigned to guard me night and day. Jackpot, right?Not quite. Turns out these guys aren't too happy with the arrangement, and they show it by making my life hell. That's just the beginning of my troubles. The mean-girl squad declares open season on me, a mysterious woman attacks me every time I step off campus, and my professor is too hot for his own good. And when it's time to find a weapon to help me master my abilities, my magic chooses... a spork. It's going to be a long year.*This is a Reverse Harem series perfect for readers who enjoy: +light bully romance & enemies-to-lovers+college academies+student-teacher forbidden romance+badass heroine who holds her own against alpha males+fun, fast-paced reads intended for ages 18+

Download or read book From Poverty to Power written by Duncan Green and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2008 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a look at the causes and effects of poverty and inequality, as well as the possible solutions. This title features research, human stories, statistics, and compelling arguments. It discusses about the world we live in and how we can make it a better place.

Download or read book Wicked written by Gregory Maguire and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller and basis for the Tony-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked is established not only as a commentary on our time but as a novel to revisit for years to come. Wicked relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film starring Margaret Hamilton (and Judy Garland). In this fast-paced, fantastically real, and supremely entertaining novel, Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination. Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens. But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas. Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name—one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel’s distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire’s Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch.

Download or read book The Emperor of All Maladies written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.

Download or read book The Magic of Money written by Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Utopia of Rules written by David Graeber and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence? To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeber—one of our most important and provocative thinkers—traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today, and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice…though he also suggests that there may be something perversely appealing—even romantic—about bureaucracy. Leaping from the ascendance of right-wing economics to the hidden meanings behind Sherlock Holmes and Batman, The Utopia of Rules is at once a powerful work of social theory in the tradition of Foucault and Marx, and an entertaining reckoning with popular culture that calls to mind Slavoj Zizek at his most accessible. An essential book for our times, The Utopia of Rules is sure to start a million conversations about the institutions that rule over us—and the better, freer world we should, perhaps, begin to imagine for ourselves.

Download or read book Academy of Sorcery Term 2 Fallen Master written by Alexa B. James and published by Academy of Sorcery. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic is unpredictable.I should know. It got me in hot water with four sexy sorcerers last semester.This semester, I've got my hands full, but things are looking up. My weapon is now my biggest supporter, even if she likes to go rogue and has her own ideas about what I need in every situation. My friends are by my side, and the Bellas are under my thumb now that they owe me. Even Rocco's tolerable.But when I find out my dad has taken over my contract with my evil boss, I'm not about to let him go without a fight.Because of my unique abilities, I'm required to stay at the Academy of Sorcery until I learn to harness and control my magic. But with Cleo by my side and the three most powerful sorcerers on campus backing me up, I know I can save my dad even from afar.At least, I think the guys have my back.When disaster strikes, I don't know who I can trust. Ryker's still set on making my life hell, the Bellas probably want me dead, and even my friends have betrayed me before. Then there's the mysterious new dark arts teacher on campus. There's only one way to find out the truth.It's time to turn up the magic.Good thing my professor knows exactly how to handle it.

Download or read book Spells of Mist and Spirit written by Sarah Piper and published by Two Gnomes Media. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How dark are you willing to go for the ones you love? Our enemy claims that the darkness lives in all Arcana. That in a world of light and shadow, one cannot exist without the other. That we're all but one tragedy away from giving in. Even the mages who’ve sworn to love and protect me. Even me—the Star herself. We call ourselves the Light Arcana, but the enemy's right. I’ve seen that darkness. Tasted it. Felt it flickering inside me like a black flame. The Dark Acrana have taken nearly everything from me. My parents. My friends. My magick. My men. No more. It's time to ignite that flame. It's time to show them what happens when the Star blazes hot enough to burn.

Download or read book Not Yet Married written by Marshall Segal and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Is Never Mainly About Love and Marriage. So Learn to Live and Date for More. Many of you grew up assuming that marriage would meet all of your needs and unlock God's purposes for you. But God has far more planned for you than your future marriage. Not Yet Married is not about waiting quietly in the corner of the world for God to bring you "the one," but about inspiring you to live and date for more now. If you follow Jesus, the search for a spouse is no longer a pursuit of the perfect person, but a pursuit of more of God. He will likely write a love story for you different than the one you would write for yourself, but that's because he loves you and knows how to write a better story. This book was written to help you find real hope, happiness, and purpose in your not-yet-married life.

Download or read book The Heroes of Olympus Book Three The Mark of Athena written by Rick Riordan and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Son of Neptune, Percy, Hazel, and Frank met in Camp Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Camp Halfblood, and traveled to the land beyond the gods to complete a dangerous quest. The third book in the Heroes of Olympus series will unite them with Jason, Piper, and Leo. But they number only six--who will complete the Prophecy of Seven? The Greek and Roman demigods will have to cooperate in order to defeat the giants released by the Earth Mother, Gaea. Then they will have to sail together to the ancient land to find the Doors of Death. What exactly are the Doors of Death? Much of the prophecy remains a mystery. . . . With old friends and new friends joining forces, a marvelous ship, fearsome foes, and an exotic setting, The Mark of Athena promises to be another unforgettable adventure by master storyteller Rick Riordan.

Download or read book The Dictator s Seduction written by Lauren H. Derby and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-17 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. The Dictator’s Seduction is a cultural history of the Trujillo regime as it was experienced in the capital city of Santo Domingo. Focusing on everyday forms of state domination, Lauren Derby describes how the regime infiltrated civil society by fashioning a “vernacular politics” based on popular idioms of masculinity and fantasies of race and class mobility. Derby argues that the most pernicious aspect of the dictatorship was how it appropriated quotidian practices such as gossip and gift exchange, leaving almost no place for Dominicans to hide or resist. Drawing on previously untapped documents in the Trujillo National Archives and interviews with Dominicans who recall life under the dictator, Derby emphasizes the role that public ritual played in Trujillo’s exercise of power. His regime included the people in affairs of state on a massive scale as never before. Derby pays particular attention to how events and projects were received by the public as she analyzes parades and rallies, the rebuilding of Santo Domingo following a major hurricane, and the staging of a year-long celebration marking the twenty-fifth year of Trujillo’s regime. She looks at representations of Trujillo, exploring how claims that he embodied the popular barrio antihero the tíguere (tiger) stoked a fantasy of upward mobility and how a rumor that he had a personal guardian angel suggested he was uniquely protected from his enemies. The Dictator’s Seduction sheds new light on the cultural contrivances of autocratic power.

Download or read book Ruin written by Bella J and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juliette had it all. The perfect job, perfect home, perfect fiancé...or so it seemed.Daniel was once the love of her life, but as time went by his hunger for power and success caused them to slowly drift apart.When Juliette's relationship with Daniel hits an all-time low, her life is turned upside down when she meets the enigmatic man with sapphire blue eyes and a bad boy smirk.Knox is everything she thought she never wanted. Impulsive, reckless, cocky, and completely unpredictable. He opens her eyes to a whole new world of excitement and passion, causing her to question every decision she's ever made.Now, Juliette needs to choose between a life she's always known, and a man who can't promise her tomorrow...but give her his all today.

Download or read book Banished From the Pack written by Calinda B and published by Speak Now. This book was released on 2021-06-12 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wasn't supposed to be found. After my father's murder, my mother broke with the Jacksonville Pack and became a lone wolf, retreating to the swamp to hide a secret she was determined to keep from the world--me. I grew up there, in the lush but dangerous no man's land populated by ogres, panthers, and bog hags. I've never spoken to a living soul but my mother when the Alpha of the Jacksonville Pack shows up claiming we share the rarest of bonds, that of True Mates. Apparently, my inexperience and lack of social skills do not make for a good match, and he promptly severs our bond and throws me back to the swamps. Broken and alone, I've all but given up hope when a strange man drags me from the weeds and brings me home to meet his two rough, biker brothers. Cast from the pack for challenging its Alpha, the triplets are lone wolves like me. They don't laugh at my lack of manners or knowledge of the world. They care for me. They heal me. And they teach me all I've been missing while hidden away in the swamp. But sinister forces are watching, waiting to stake their claim on my life the way they did my father's. Are these three lone wolves strong enough to save me from the same fate he met? ***Banished from the Pack is book 1 in a trilogy of steamy, near-future paranormal romances with an innocent, sheltered heroine and multiple tough, protective mates who share her love. She does not choose between them. It has steamy scenes intended for audiences over 18.

Download or read book The Pandemic Century written by Mark Honigsbaum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like sharks, epidemic diseases always lurk just beneath the surface. This fast-paced history of their effect on mankind prompts questions about the limits of scientific knowledge, the dangers of medical hubris, and how we should prepare as epidemics become ever more frequent. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu and the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 'parrot fever' pandemic and the more recent SARS, Ebola, and Zika epidemics, the last 100 years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms. Like man-eating sharks, predatory pathogens are always present in nature, waiting to strike; when one is seemingly vanquished, others appear in its place. These pandemics remind us of the limits of scientific knowledge, as well as the role that human behaviour and technologies play in the emergence and spread of microbial diseases.

Download or read book Chasing Her Cats written by Alexa B James and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camila is the Ocelot Nation's princess, a golden girl groomed from birth to become queen. She is poised, schooled, and everything a princess should be. This is not her story. This is the story of her sister Itzel. As the second child of a shifter, Itzel is nothing more than a common human, something the king never lets her forget. She runs wild with stable boys by night and advises her sister by day. But when she volunteers to help her sister seduce a shaman from the Jaguar Nation, she is drawn into the mysterious world of shifter mating rituals that will push every boundary and test her limits in ways she never imagined. ***Contains triggers******This book contains situations that many find triggering. Dark romance is intended for audiences 18+. This is a reverse harem romance in which the main character builds her harem throughout the series.

Download or read book Her Dragon written by Alexa B. James and published by Speak Now. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody wants a piece of Ariana. After surviving the latest vampire attack, Ari's mates are certain that the bloodsuckers are out to get her. Is someone else after her, too? Vampires, humans, and warlocks all have reasons to want her. Worse, she's not sure she can trust her own mates. Maximus struggles with jealousy, and Jett still hasn't accepted the mate bond. As tensions rise between her mates and the clans, Ariana struggles with her role as peacemaker. She's barely gotten a taste of freedom and begun to adjust to her role as the Silver Shifter when another attack rocks the New York clans. She and her alphas may never recover from this one.This is a reverse harem paranormal romance that features one kick-butt woman and her four shifter mates. It contains violence, medium burn romance, sexually explicit content, magic, vampires, and a lot of action. For ages 18+. Scroll up to claim your copy today! The Series: Her Wolf Her Dragon Her Bear Her Panther