Download or read book Cin d Rella and the Lonely Tower written by S. J. West and published by S.J. West. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Cin tries to cope with the reality of her new circumstances, long buried secrets are revealed while her survival is threatened at every turn. After she makes the acquaintance of an unlikely ally, Cin is forced to make choices that will irrevocably change her life forever. As new alliances are formed and old friendships are tested, Cin knows the only thing she can do is stay true to who she is and her duty as a Thorn. While Cin’s feeling for Coltan continue to grow deeper, a mysterious stranger appears who seems determined to thwart their burgeoning romance. Through this stranger, Cin is able to discover the truth about the outside world and what it means for the future of both Briardale and the City of White.

Download or read book Cin d Rella and the Golden Apple written by S. J. West and published by S.J. West. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Cin tries to help Coltan with the new reality of his life, a host of surprising complications crop up which take them both on a journey of self-discovery. With the help of a mysterious ally, Cin and her friends embark upon a quest to find a magical object known as the golden apple. It’s said that whoever possesses the apple is granted one wish. Figuring out where this legendary item is located won’t be the hard part. Discovering how to get there and surviving the journey to its resting place may end up costing Cin more than she bargained for. After tragedy strikes the city of Briardale, a new adversary rises from the ashes and threatens to destroy everything Cin loves. Not only will Cin have to rely on the other Thorns to help her protect the city from this new foe, but she’ll also have to trust her new angelic friends to guide her to her destiny. As if all of this wasn’t enough, Cin must also learn how to balance both duty to the Thorns and love for a man she can no longer view as her enemy.

Download or read book Cin D Rella and the Lonely Tower Circle of the Rose Chronicles written by S. J. West and published by Circle of the Rose Chronicles. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Cin tries to cope with the reality of her new circumstances, long buried secrets are revealed while her survival is threatened at every turn. After she makes the acquaintance of an unlikely ally, Cin is forced to make choices that will irrevocably change her life forever. As new alliances are formed and old friendships are tested, Cin knows the only thing she can do is stay true to who she is and her duty as a Thorn. While Cin's feeling for Coltan continue to grow deeper, a mysterious stranger appears who seems determined to thwart their burgeoning romance. Through this stranger, Cin is able to discover the truth about the outside world and what it means for the future of both Briardale and the City of White.

Download or read book Cin d Rella and the Messengers of Death written by S. J. West and published by S.J. West. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the final piece of the weapon lost to her, Cin’s only hope of reclaiming it is by keeping her promise to the sea witch. But, will the cost be too high of a price for her to pay? As Cin attempts to forge a friendship with Ondine’s son, the stakes for not only Briardale but also herself have never been higher. The whole city is depending on her to make the right decision, but can she do what’s needed without breaking Coltan’s heart in the process? The new world awaits the citizens of Briardale, but there’s still one obstacle Cin must overcome before it can be released from the curse: the angel of death. By defeating Suri, Cin can finally free the people of Briardale and end Suri’s threat to humanity once and for all. Can one Thorn save the world? Or is humanity doomed to suffer the consequences of its past mistakes?

Download or read book Undeniable Book 3 The Wolf Kings of Twilight written by S, J. West and published by Sandra J West. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivy We all knew the Barrens would be difficult to travel through, but I didn’t expect our worst adversaries to be the fae. Their trials to judge the worthiness of humanity have begun, but what exactly are they testing? Will we even know when one has started? Dangers lurk around every corner. Will everyone survive this misadventure? Nothing is guaranteed to work in our favor, especially when your fate is in the hands of the fae. All I want is to live a peaceful life with Damon, whether it’s in Midnight or the real world. Is that too much to ask? Emily My family’s future hinges on the talents of a disgraced geomancer and humanity’s good judgment. What could possibly go wrong? With both Jack and Ivy trapped inside Earth 104, I pray the humans successfully complete their trials. I will do whatever it takes to bring my loved ones into the real world, even if that means marrying the dark fae king. Oberon is my best chance to take leadership of all fae away from my father. His sadistic reign has to be brought to an end for the sake of everyone, fae and human. He won’t give up his power easily. We’ll have to play on his weakness – his own arrogance. Oberon protests that fate has brought us together, and that he’s the love I’ve been waiting a lifetime for. Can he help me push past my undying love for Mark once and for all? It seems impossible. In fact, I fear it will take a miracle. If Oberon and I can seize control of the crown away from my father, I’ll know that miracles can and do exist.

Download or read book Untouchable Book 1 The Wolf Kings of Twilight written by S. J. West and published by Sandra J West. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outcast. Undesirable. Human. I've been called all these things by the members of the two wolf packs who rule my world because I'm an oddity- a pure blood human. As a child, only the leader of the Thieves Guild was willing to take me in after my grandmother died, and I've spent my entire life using the skills he taught to become his most reliable thief. When the wolf packs discover that their bloodlines are losing the ability to shift from wolf to human, I suddenly become a prize worth fighting over. The only problem is I'm cursed. No one can touch me unless I want them to. If they try, the strange spell surrounding me begins to leech their life-force, killing them if they don't release their hold. What I once viewed as an affliction is now my greatest weapon. Now, the two warring kingdoms need me to preserve their humanity, and I have two alphas vying for the right to call me his queen. Damon, the king of the midnight pack who rule the day as humans and shift into their wolf forms at nightfall, is known to be ruthless, cruel, and selfish, but if he truly wants me to rule by his side, he'll have to show me that he's more than just a tyrant. Simon, the king of the dawn pack who rule the night as humans and shift into wolves at the breaking of dawn, is charming to the point of distraction, but behind those bright blue eyes and easy grin lurks a secret that might just undo us all. Each man may want to claim me as his, but they’ll have to try and win my heart first. Good luck with that…

Download or read book Unwavering Book 2 The Wolf Kings of Twilight written by S. J. West and published by Sandra J West. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivy The life of a pirate is not the life for me. With Alek holding me hostage this time, I fear there will be no escaping my fate. Just like Damon and Simon, he wants me to help his people reverse the curse they’re facing, but I’m not the only cure. I have to convince Alek that the real cure lies within the Barrens where Margaret discovered the elixir. Who knew my humanity would become my greatest gift and my worst nightmare? Can Damon rescue me before Alek forces me to become his mate for life? Or will I be doomed to live on the high seas forever and never again see the one man who has captured my heart? Damon There is nowhere Alek can take Ivy that I won’t venture to. It’s not a matter of if I will get her back. It’s a matter of when. She’s the one person I can’t live without, and I’ll be damned if I let some two bit pirate keep her away from me. Once she’s back home, we’ll venture into the Barrens together and find the fae. With Vamir’s help, I’m sure we can convince his people to provide us with more of the elixir. After we have the cure, Ivy will be free to live her life in whatever way she chooses. I hope she chooses me because a life without her would be no life at all.

Download or read book Conclave Vampire Conclave Book 3 written by S. J. West and published by Sandra J West. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Sarah and Julian begin to forge ahead with plans for their life together, reality becomes an unwanted visitor, intruding at inopportune times. While they continue to search for the answer to Julian’s curse, they realize that the solution may require the combined knowledge of all the vampires. In order to warn the others about the mysterious woman in Destin, an early conclave is organized, giving Julian the opportunity to tell them the information he’s been able to gather so far and to ask them for their help. However, gaining the willing cooperation of the most bloodthirsty among them won’t be an easy feat. Sarah’s loyalty to the alfar deepens as she become more entangled in their political and personal affairs. Unexpected connections arise between Julian’s earthly past and Sarah’s future with the alfar, bringing them one step closer to understanding the origins of his curse, but generating more problems for them to solve. As the past meets the present, Sarah begins to realize that family secrets can run deep, forging feelings of betrayal that can lead straight to catastrophe.

Download or read book Moonshade Vampire Conclave Book 1 written by S. J. West and published by Sandra J West. This book was released on 2023-10-22 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would your life change if you inherited a vampire? “Find me, Sarah…” When a handsome stranger whispers these three little words to Sarah Marcel, she knows her life is forever changed. For two weeks straight, Sarah’s been unable to eat, sleep, or even form a coherent thought properly. She fears she’s losing her mind until a chance encounter brings a man into her life who seems to hold the key to solving her problems. With a single touch, he’s able to ease her troubled soul and bring her some much-needed peace. Yet, just as Sarah believes she’s found the solution to her dilemma, he disappears. As Sarah begins to unravel a mystery surrounding her family’s past, she quickly discovers her role in a world that’s hidden from most humans. Being a Marcel comes with certain responsibilities, and there are some things that you can’t hide from forever.

Download or read book Requiem Vampire Conclave Book 4 written by S. J. West and published by Sandra J West. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final installment of the Vampire Conclave series, Sarah delves further into her family’s dark and stormy past, unlocking a disturbing truth surrounding her ancestor, Thallan Moonshade. With the help of an unexpected ally, Sarah comes across a secret so shocking from Thallan’s life that it makes her even more determined to thwart his malevolent plans. As the volatile situation within New Orleans’ supernatural community worsens, Sarah must devise a plan to seize control of the city and restore order before chaos runs rampant. Although she never considered herself a leader of people, Sarah quickly discovers she’s more than capable of handling the responsibility associated with such a task and becomes even more determined to keep her place in the line of succession for the alfar throne. In order to save the man she loves from the diabolical clutches of a mad woman, Sarah decides to further explore her newfound powers in order to better protect herself and those she cares about most. She soon realizes that magic isn’t always the answer to every problem. Sometimes, you need to rely on the people who love you most in order to make it through the darkest times of your life, and that you need to take charge of your own destiny, even when the odds seem insurmountable.

Download or read book Sentinel Vampire Conclave Book 2 written by S. J. West and published by Sandra J West. This book was released on with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Sarah and Julian begin their quest to uncover the truth surrounding his curse, a new threat arises, endangering not only their lives but the future they hope to build with one another. In order to protect themselves and those they care about the most, Julian and Sarah must use all of the resources at their disposal to neutralize their adversaries. For Julian, this means relying on his sister, Mira, and the Council of Elders in New Orleans to uphold the laws within the supernatural community there and mete out justice to those who disobey them. Sarah must seek the assistance of the alfar who are more than happy to oblige the wishes of their future queen and ruler of House Moonshade. As she begins to accept the responsibilities of her birthright, Sarah’s knowledge of the rivalries between the alfar houses grows, revealing to her how tenuous peace is among them. While Sarah delves deeper into their world, she discovers just how far they’re willing to go to serve and protect her. Such loyalty brings into focus her duty to the alfar and the dreams she might have to abandon in order to live up to her heritage. Torn between two worlds, Sarah must decide whether or not she can have the best each has to offer, or if she will have to choose between the man she loves and protecting the legacy of House Moonshade.

Download or read book Cin D Rella and the Water of Life Circle of the Rose Chronicles written by S. J. West and published by Circle of the Rose Chronicles. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She is our Rose. We are her Thorns. Cin d

Download or read book Technics and Civilization written by Lewis Mumford and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934—before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal parts powerful history and polemic criticism, Technics and Civilization was the first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand years—and to predict the pull the technological still holds over us today. “The questions posed in the first paragraph of Technics and Civilization still deserve our attention, nearly three quarters of a century after they were written.”—Journal of Technology and Culture

Download or read book Pioneering Women in American Mathematics written by Judy Green and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the result of a study in which the authors identified all of the American women who earned PhD's in mathematics before 1940, and collected extensive biographical and bibliographical information about each of them. By reconstructing as complete a picture as possible of this group of women, Green and LaDuke reveal insights into the larger scientific and cultural communities in which they lived and worked." "The book contains an extended introductory essay, as well as biographical entries for each of the 228 women in the study. The authors examine family backgrounds, education, careers, and other professional activities. They show that there were many more women earning PhD's in mathematics before 1940 than is commonly thought." "The material will be of interest to researchers, teachers, and students in mathematics, history of mathematics, history of science, women's studies, and sociology."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book The Aranda s Pepa written by Anna Kenny and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German missionary Carl Strehlow (1871-1922) had a deep ethnographic interest in Aboriginal Australian cosmology and social life which he documented in his 7 volume work Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien that remains unpublished in English. In 1913, Marcel Mauss called his collection of sacred songs and myths, an Australian Rig Veda. This immensely rich corpus, based on a lifetime on the central Australian frontier, is barely known in the English-speaking world and is the last great body of early Australian ethnography that has not yet been built into the world of Australian anthropology and its intellectual history. The German psychological and hermeneutic traditions of anthropology that developed outside of a British-Australian intellectual world were alternatives to 19th century British scientism. The intellectual roots of early German anthropology reached back to Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), the founder of German historical particularism, who rejected the concept of race as well as the French dogma of the uniform development of civilisation. Instead he recognised unique sets of values transmitted through history and maintained that cultures had to be viewed in terms of their own development and purpose. Thus, humanity was made up of a great diversity of ways of life, language being one of its main manifestations. It is this tradition that led to a concept of cultures in the plural.

Download or read book The Pirates and the Mouse written by Bob Levin and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2003-07-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a time of unprecedented political, social, and cultural upheaval in U.S. history, one of the fiercest battles was ignited by a comic book. In 1963, the San Francisco Chronicle made 21-year-old Dan O'Neill the youngest syndicated cartoonist in American newspaper history. As O'Neill delved deeper into the emerging counterculture, his strip, Odd Bodkins, became stranger and stranger and more and more provocative, until the papers in the syndicate dropped it and the Chronicle let him go. The lesson that O'Neill drew from this was that what America most needed was the destruction of Walt Disney. O'Neill assembled a band of rogue cartoonists called the Air Pirates (after a group of villains who had bedeviled Mickey Mouse in comic books and cartoons). They lived communally in a San Francisco warehouse owned by Francis Ford Coppola and put out a comic book, Air Pirates Funnies, that featured Disney characters participating in very un-Disneylike behavior, provoking a mammoth lawsuit for copyright and trademark infringements and hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages. Disney was represented by one of San Francisco's top corporate law firms and the Pirates by the cream of the counterculture bar. The lawsuit raged for 10 years, from the trial court to the US Supreme Court and back again.

Download or read book The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy written by David Werner Amram and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: