Download or read book Conjuring Darkness written by Melanie James and published by Melanie James. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Ryan Kidd, a sexy former Navy SEAL who is now a soldier of fortune with a new life and a new purpose. His newest mission is to save the world from long-forgotten demons. Follow him on his latest mission through the jungles of Colombia to the ancient ruins of Gobekli Tepe. Meet Lexi Salenko, this independent and strong-willed bookstore owner who sets out to face her darkest fears in a race against time to save her sister. When the two meet, sparks fly as they work together to save the fate of all mankind. This is a story you don’t want to miss!
Download or read book Conjuring Darkness written by Melanie James and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25 year old Lexi Salenko is an independent and focused young woman who has realized her dream of moving to the open country of Montana and starting up a quaint bookstore. Romance and adventure have always remained within the covers of her cherished novels until one day she receives a mysterious letter from her archaeologist sister. The letter was sent from Israel and was badly damaged, but Lexi understands enough of it that her sister may be in trouble. Lexi follows the cryptic instructions sent to her and finds herself propelled on an odyssey across three continents with a very sexy former Navy SEAL turned mercenary and a mysterious ancient relic with ties to an ancient cult. She learns about a supernatural force that stretches from the ancient ruins at Gobekli Tepe Turkey through the death camps of the Holocaust and into her present life. Along the way she learns that sometimes you have to let yourself fall in love and believe in the power of hope.
Download or read book Darkness written by Nina Edwards and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darkness divides and enlivens opinion. Some are afraid of the dark, or at least prefer to avoid it, and there are many who dislike what it appears to stand for. Others are drawn to this strange domain, delighting in its uncertainties, lured by all the associations of folklore and legend, by the call of the mysterious and of the unknown. The history of our attitudes toward darkness—toward what we cannot quite make out, in all its physical and metaphorical manifestations—challenges the very notion of a world that we can fully comprehend. In this book, Nina Edwards explores darkness as both a physical feature and cultural image, through themes of sight, blindness, consciousness, dreams, fear of the dark, night blindness, and the in-between states of dusk or fog, twilight and dawn, those points or periods of obscuration and clarification. Taking us across the ages, from the dungeons of Gothic novels to the concrete bunkers of Nordic Noir TV shows, Edwards interrogates the full sweep of humanity’s attempts to harness and suppress the dark first through our ability to control fire and, later, illuminate the world with electricity. She explores how the idea of darkness pervades art, literature, religion, and our everyday language. Ultimately, Edwards reveals how darkness, whether a shifting concept or palpable physical presence, has fed our imaginations.
Download or read book Unleashing Darkness written by Melanie James and published by Melanie James. This book was released on 2024-05-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the evil forces of Gobekli Tepe defeated, Kate Salenko finds her career in a sudden downward spiral. All alone and with her reputation in tatters, she surrenders to a life of seclusion. An old friend reaches out to present her with an intriguing offer; to sign on with a cable TV show and hunt down the origin of a mysterious artifact. Sweetening the deal, she learns she will be accompanied by the sexy and mysterious Nick Wilder. Her exciting new job propels her on a wild journey that puts her on a collision course with the man who broke her heart, and potentially back into the grasp of an ancient supernatural evil. With two men vying for her love, Kate can’t help but wonder if battling an ancient demon would be an easier task to face.
Download or read book Burned written by P. C. Cast and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When friends stop trusting each other, Darkness is there to fan the flames.... Things have turned black at the House of Night. Zoey Redbird's soul has shattered. With everything she's ever stood for falling apart, and a broken heart making her want to stay in the Otherworld forever, Zoey's fading fast. It's seeming more and more doubtful that she will be able pull herself back together in time to rejoin her friends and set the world to rights. As the only living person who can reach her, Stark must find a way to get to her. But how? He will have to die to do so, the Vampyre High Council stipulates. And then Zoey will give up for sure. There are only 7 days left... Enter BFF Stevie Rae. She wants to help Z but she has massive problems of her own. The rogue Red Fledglings are acting up, and this time not even Stevie Rae can protect them from the consequences. Her kinda boyfriend, Dallas, is sweet but too nosy for his own good. The truth is, Stevie Rae's hiding a secret that might be the key to getting Zoey home but also threatens to explode her whole world. In the middle of the whole mess is Aphrodite: ex-Fledgling, trust-fund baby, total hag from Hell (and proud of it). She's always been blessed (if you could call it that) with visions that can reveal the future, but now it seems Nyx has decided to speak through her with the goddess's own voice, whether she wants it or not. Aphrodite's loyalty can swing a lot of different ways, but right now Zoey's fate hangs in the balance. Three girls... playing with fire... if they don't watch out, everyone will get Burned.
Download or read book Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth written by Donald W. Olson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "Celestial Sleuth" (2014), yet more mysteries in art, history, and literature are solved by calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying celestial objects in paintings. In addition to helping to crack difficult cases, these studies spark our imagination and provide a better understanding of the skies. Weather archives, vintage maps, tides, historical letters and diaries, military records and the assistance of experts in related fields help with this work. For each historical event influenced by astronomy, there is a different kind of mystery to be solved. How did the changing tides affect an army's battle plans? How did the phases of the moon affect how an artist painted a landscape? Follow these exciting investigations with a master “celestial sleuth” as he tracks down the truth and helps unravel mysteries as far back as the Middle Ages and as recent as the iconic 1945 photograph of a kiss in Times Square on VJ Day. Topics or "cases" pursued were chosen for their wide public recognition and intrigue and involve artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet; historical events such as the campaigns of Braveheart in Scotland and battles in World War II and the Korean War; and literary authors such as Chaucer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Byron, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Download or read book The Trapped Mind Project written by Michael Chatfield and published by MICHAEL CHATFIELD PUBLICATIONS INC.. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austin Zane leaves behind his CEO position with RB Corp to play Dave, a half-dwarf in the Virtual reality game Emerilia, trying to escape his life. What Dave doesn't know is that Earth as he knows it, is really a virtual reality simulation and Emerilia is a world imbued with futuristic technologies to mimic early MMORPG's. He just wanted peace and quiet, to build a house, do some fishing, to take some time to find himself once again. What he found out instead was a cause, he found out the biggest lie of his life. He found out the truth about Emerilia and the lies of Earth. What's the best way to control slaves? Make them think that they're free.
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Environment A Dictionary written by Sophie Chiari and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While our physical surroundings fashion our identities, we, in turn, fashion the natural elements in which or with which we live. This complex interaction between the human and the non-human already resonated in Shakespeare's plays and poems. As details of the early modern supra- and infra-celestial landscape feature in his works, this dictionary brings to the fore Shakespeare's responsiveness to and acute perception of his 'environment' and it covers the most significant uses of words related to this concept. In doing so, it also examines the epistemological changes that were taking place at the turn of the 17th century in a society which increasingly tried to master nature and its elements. For this reason, the intersections between the natural and the supernatural receive special emphasis. All in all, this dictionary offers a wide variety of resources that takes stock of the 'green criticism' that recently emerged in Shakespeare studies and provides a clear and complete overview of the idea, imagery and language of environment in the canon.
Download or read book Your Sass is Mine written by Melanie James and published by Melanie James. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jay Dalton swore he’d never return to Crescent Bay after his parents were murdered, but when his new Alpha sends him on a mission to assist with protecting the pack from rogue wolves, he’s left with no choice but to return to the place he once called home. Minx Monroe knew who the Fates intended for her mate. Sexy and handsome beyond belief, she was thrilled by the pairing. Until tragedy struck, yanking him from her life. Fearing she had been left to walk the earth alone, she questioned if the Fates had been mistaken when they revealed their secrets.
Download or read book Watch Your Sass written by Melanie James and published by Melanie James. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polly Reynolds had sworn off the thought of ever finding a mate. She was perfectly content living out her life as a single lady with all the freedom to do what she wanted, when she wanted. Everything was going according to plan until a group of vicious rogues set their sights on her. Can she survive what they have planned for her? Down in the dumps and with no real plan to move forward, Emmett Klein finds himself in an unfamiliar position when his Alpha sends him to Crescent Bay to help defend the local pack from rogue attacks. Will Emmett snap out of his slump to help those in need, or will it be too late?
Download or read book Virtually Vampires written by Melanie James and published by Melanie James. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change is in the air around Angel Bay. For our trio of hapless Angels, it seems the weather isn’t the only thing with ups and downs. Sadly, they find out that romance can be just as unpredictable. Nothing distracts from a broken heart like a little adventure. When Ash offers his driving expertise along with some shiny new licenses forged in Hell, the girls can hardly resist. When a new and mysterious family moves into town, their curiosity becomes the distraction they were looking for. To make matters worse, an unexplained death and a missing corpse just might toss the entire town into the middle of an ancient magical feud. Can Emmy and the gang save Angel Bay from the latest paranormal crisis, or will it be curtains for all of them?
Download or read book A Hot Piece of Sass written by Melanie James and published by Melanie James. This book was released on 2024-05-12 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s something very special about Tanner Larsen. He isn’t your ordinary wolf-shifter. He’s more. Believing he’s been cursed by the gods, he’s all but given up on finding his one true mate. When he catches the sweet strawberry scent of his Fated Female worlds collide and ancient legends are revealed. Tanner discovers that his curse may be the only way to save his mate when a rogue wolf tries to destroy the lovers’ destiny.
Download or read book Tis the Season for Sass written by Melanie James and published by Melanie James. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ginger Martinez considered Christmas to be a holiday for other people, the lucky ones with happy childhood memories. And that definitely wasn’t her. After her best friend, Sofia, moved away, it promised to be the loneliest season of them all. Chance Brooks knew everyone at Black Paw Pack. He was the hardworking, hard-partying kind of wolf everyone could count on. But deep inside, a loneliness simmered. It seemed the Fates had overlooked him when it came to finding his one true mate. When a shadowy premonition forebodes the harshest winter in decades, Black Paw’s Alpha counts on the pack’s strongest wolves to help everyone pull through. But the Seer’s visions are swirling with majik and suggest an ancient legend will deliver more than just a blizzard to the wolves of Black Paw.
Download or read book What About Werewolves written by Melanie James and published by Melanie James. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems everyone has been waiting for spring to arrive and awaken Angel Bay from its wintery cocoon. Even for Emmy, the eternal optimist, the long winter has taken its toll. To make matters worse, her love life has been on ice with her boyfriend working out of town. But there are some surprises before winter releases its icy grip. A series of gruesome killings threatens the town, and the arrival of a mysterious stranger could end everything between Emmy and Zane. When Emmy’s mom pops in from Heaven and finds out her daughter is dating a demon, all hell breaks loose, and Emmy dreads the repercussions—Heavenly or otherwise. In this hotbed of paranormal activity not everyone, or everything, is as it seems.
Download or read book The Brave Herd of Elephants written by Mohammed Ayya and published by Mohammed Ayya. This book was released on 2024-06-10 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bedtime Stories For Kids-Short Bedtime Stories Series Do you want to make your child fall asleep faster at night? Do you want your child to learn mindfulness while reading beautiful short stories? In this book, you will find a collection of stories written to help children enter a place of dreams and eventually drift off to sleep. These stories are intended to stir their imaginations in such a way that the transition from fantasy and adventure into dreamland will be a seamless one. Best of all, your children will be able to get a good night’s sleep and wake up feeling refreshed and happy. The chapters are designed to take you and your family on an exciting adventure through different situations, laden with imagination and surprises, while also attempting to disseminate valuable lessons about important principles, such as family, home, wrongdoing, and numerous other themes. While each story is unique, the underlying purpose of each remains the same: to confer on readers some degree of insight into moral behaviour and proper conduct. Through the careful application of allegory, the stories contained herein are intended not only to engage and captivate but also to serve as thought-provoking tools by which your children might avail themselves of one of mankind’s most powerful attributes: thoughtfulness and self-reflection. In addition, each story uses colourful and imaginative characters, settings, and situations to create an environment that will not only help children become interested in the story itself but also serve as a vehicle to convey a moral lesson. Plus, the stories in this book seek to create traditions and memories that will create everlasting moments that your children will treasure for the rest of their lives. These are the kind of moments that your children will surely love to share with their children someday, too. So, let’s jump right in and take a trip into a magical world from which your children will drift off in their sleep. Don’t be surprised if they don’t want to wake up after having such beautiful dreams. Dreamland is a cherished place for children of all ages. After all, it is a place where kids can truly let their imaginations flourish. This book includes: Bedtime stories that will truly captivate the young mind of your child Fun stories about animals, adventures, and legends A valuable lesson for each story In addition: They will put down their phones. This is a good way to encourage your child to go to sleep by listening to the scripts. Each story will enhance your child’s imagination and thinking. And Much More... Are you excited? Do you want to read more? Would you like your child to learn and relax, falling asleep in peace? Get our book now!
Download or read book Haunting Leigh written by Melanie James and published by Melanie James. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s Halloween, Leigh’s favorite time of the year. As a rookie witch with high hopes, she has a lot to look forward to. When a mysterious supernatural force meddles in her life things take a turn for the worse and Hunter gets caught in the paranormal crossfire. Leigh’s job seems to have suddenly gone sour. The public school she works at doesn’t share this young teacher’s enthusiasm for what they deem to be a religious holiday. To keep her entire life from falling apart, Leigh needs serious help. Once again, she calls on her trustworthy but inept best friends to pull her through. Magical mayhem abounds. Leigh has a run-in with a bizarre cult bent on human sacrifice, some galloping golems, and a few pesky ghosts—not to mention stray bolts of witchcraft! Can Marie Laveau help the gang pull together an emergency séance in the historic but haunted Schlitt House? They find out some ghosts can be a real drag, possession has side effects, and exorcisms are unpredictable at best.
Download or read book Rethinking Darkness written by Nick Dunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the concept of darkness through a range of cultures, histories, practices and experiences. It engages with darkness beyond its binary positioning against light to advance a critical understanding of the ways in which darkness can be experienced, practised and conceptualised. Humans have fundamental relationships with light and dark that shape their regular social patterns and rhythms, enabling them to make sense of the world. This book ‘throws light’ on the neglect of these social patterns to emphasize how the diverse values, meanings and influences of darkness have been rarely considered. It also examines the history of our relationship with the dark and highlights how normative attitudes towards it have emerged, while also emphasising its cultural complexity by considering a contemporary range of alternative experiences and practices. Challenging notions of darkness as negative, as the antithesis of illumination and enlightenment, this book explores the rich potential of darkness to stimulate our senses and deepen our understandings of different spaces, cultural experiences and creative engagements. Offering a rich exploration of an emergent field of study across the social sciences and humanities, this book will be useful for academics and students of cultural and media studies, design, geography, history, sociology and theatre who seek to investigate the creative, cultural and social dimensions of darkness.
