Download or read book Cracked Coffins written by Beronika Keres and published by Immortal Woods Books. This book was released on 2020-10-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Run. Fight. Survive. A life of violence and drugs leaves Marianna Cortez desperate for normality. For a brief instant, she thinks she has found that with Denendrius. But he can’t maintain his sweet facade for long. Soon, he reveals himself for what he is... a deranged vampire longing to ensnare her in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Plan. Plot. Pray. Forced to play a part in Denendrius’s twisted fantasies, Marianna hunts for a way to escape. But he’s stronger than her, and capable of unimaginable cruelty. With her only hope of survival being to study her captor and learn his weaknesses, can Marianna uncover secrets from Denendrius’s dark past she can use to destroy him? Or will this monster, who clawed his way through her history, slaughter her chance at a future? Cracked Coffins is a new adult dark paranormal thriller that explores the horrors of abusive relationships with a vampiric twist. Expect profanity, mature themes, sexual violence, and general violence.

Download or read book Coffins written by Rodman Philbrick and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In rural Maine, a stop on the Underground Railroad is menaced by a supernatural force in this terrifying novel of pre–Civil War horror. Davis Bentwood has nearly finished medical school when he meets an abolitionist dwarf walking across Harvard Yard. Jeb Coffin is a nonpracticing doctor, a devoted student of transcendentalism whose home life has been shaken by tragedy. The two men become friends, and Coffin invites Bentwood to rural Maine to save his family from itself. The Coffins are noted abolitionists, their home a stop on the Underground Railroad, and lately they have been menaced by a supernatural terror. The tragedies are countless: two brothers killed, a father driven mad, and a baby frozen solid in its crib. At first Bentwood cannot bring himself to acknowledge the impossible horrors that have cursed this family. But he will not survive his sojourn in Maine unless he can open his mind to the possibility that something evil is waiting in the dark.

Download or read book The Betrayed written by Heather Graham and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleepy Hollow isn't so sleepy anymore… One night, New York FBI agent Aiden Mahoney receives a visitor in a dream—an old friend named Richard Highsmith. The very next day he's sent to Sleepy Hollow because Richard's gone missing there. Maureen—Mo—Deauville now lives in the historic town and works with her dog, Rollo, to search for missing people. She's actually the one to find Richard…or more precisely his head, stuck on a statue of the legendary Headless Horseman. Mo and Aiden, a new member of the Krewe of Hunters, the FBI's unit of paranormal investigators, explore both past and present events to figure out who betrayed Richard, who killed him and now wants to kill them, too. As they work together, they discover that they share an unusual trait—the ability to communicate with the dead. They also share an attraction that's as intense as it is unexpected…if they live long enough to enjoy it!

Download or read book The Coffin of Heqata written by Harco Willems and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coffin published in this book represents a type that had some popularity in southern Upper Egypt in the early Middle Kingdom, but which, despite its extraordinary decoration had not attracted attention so far. The most striking feature of the decoration is that the object friezes - the pictorial rendering of ritual implements usually found on coffin interiors of the period - also include complete ritual scenes, some of which are attested only here. Apart from this, the decoration includes an extensive selection of the religious texts know as the Coffin Texts. The author first studies the archaeological context and dating of the coffin and attempts a reconstruction of the construction procedures from his technical description of the monument. The detailed account of the decoration in the rest of the book interprets the ritual iconography and offers fresh translations and interpretations of the Coffin Texts. A methodological innovation is that he regards the scenes and texts not as individual decoration elements, but as components of an integral composition. The background of this composition is argued to be a view of life in the hereafter in which the deceased is involved in an unending cycle of ritual action which reflects the funerary rituals that were actually performed on earth. On the one hand, these netherworldly rituals aim at bringing the deceased to new life by mummification, on the other the newly regenerated deceased partakes in embalming rituals for gods representing his dead father (Osiris or Atum). These gods, in their turn, effectuate the deceased's regeneration. The entire process results in a cycle of resuscitation in which the afterlife of the deceased and of the 'father gods' are interdependent. The sociological bias of this interpretation, with its emphasis on kinship relations, differs significantly from earlier attempts to explain Egyptian funerary religion.

Download or read book Foretold written by Carrie Ryan and published by Ember. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richelle Mead, Lisa McMann, Michael Grant, Meg Cabot, Laini Taylor, and nine more of the hottest YA authors to hit the shelves explore the concepts of prophecy and prediction in this story collection edited by NYT bestselling author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Carrie Ryan. Have you ever been tempted to look into the future? To challenge predictions? To question fate? It's human nature to wonder about life's twists and turns. But is the future already written—or do you have the power to alter it? From fantastical prophecies to predictions of how the future will transpire, Foretold is a collection of stories about our universal fascination with life's unknowns and of what is yet to come as interpreted by 14 of young adult fiction's brightest stars. This collection includes works from: Malinda Lo (Ash) Lisa McMann (Wake) Kami Garcia (Beautiful Creatures) Margaret Stohl (Beautiful Creatures) Laini Taylor (The Daughter of Smoke and Bone) Michael Grant (Gone) Saundra Mitchell (The Vespertine) Richelle Mead (the Vampire Academy) Matt de la Pena (I Will Save You) Meg Cabot (The Princess Diaries) Heather Brewer (The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod) Diana Peterfreund (Rampant) Simone Elkeles (Perfect Chemistry) Carrie Ryan (The Forest of Hands and Teeth)

Download or read book Report written by California State Board of Health and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Collected Works written by Lester del Rey and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition includes: Badge of Infamy The Sky Is Falling Police Your Planet Pursuit Victory ...And It Comes Out Here Let'em Breathe Space Operation Distress Dead Ringer No Strings Attached The Dwindling Years Earthbound

Download or read book Drink We Deep written by Arthur Leo Zagat and published by Al-Mashreq eBookstore. This book was released on 2024-08-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Drink We Deep, Arthur Leo Zagat plunges readers into a gripping tale of an ancient evil rising from the depths of the earth. In a small town isolated from the world, mysterious events begin to unfold as the ground beneath it seems to come alive. As strange forces awaken and a terrifying power starts to consume the town, a few brave souls must unravel the mystery and confront the dark entity lurking below. With time running out and danger growing, they must battle an ancient horror that threatens not just their lives but the fate of the world. Filled with suspense, supernatural dread, and unexpected twists, this is a story that keeps readers on the edge of their seats.

Download or read book To Bring Him Home and Other Tales written by Warren Rochelle and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2021-09-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home, a place where we belong and are safe and loved. Home, the house in which we grew up, a neighborhood, a culture, even a country. Home is a state of mind, it is a place of the heart, and in the heart. Finding home, coming home, and bringing home the one we love is a journey, a journey that can be a dangerous adventure. For the lovers in these stories, adventures can include quests and fighting dragons and demons, past and present, physical as well as mental and emotional. Rocket launchers need to be dodged, the Wild Hunt needs to be outrun. For some of the lovers here, home has been lost, or they have been forced to leave, as is too common for LGBT+ youth. In this collection queer positive speculative fiction stories, explore the idea of what and where home is in the lives of these lovers. Will they survive their quests, defeat their monsters? Will they find a place to call home?

Download or read book Lost Empire of Winterhold written by Stephen Almekinder and published by Hard Shell Word Factory. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reluctant heir to the half throne of Winterhold leaves the plots that threaten his life and flees North with the woman he loves. Upon returning to his home in the Waste, he discovers to his horror that the murderous schemes have followed him and wiped out his clan, leaving only his adoptive brother alive. His brother captures the female captain of the troop of warriors sent to destroy the heir and the four of them flee into the mountains of the Northern Range. Wandering through the dark maze of tunnels beneath the mountains, they eventually emerge into a valley whose existence was unknown to the outside world. There they discover an ancient empire divided into three warring factions. A formidable wall manned by one faction separates the other two, keeping the valley in a constant state of warfare. Split up soon after they enter the valley, the sojoumers must make their way through a host of plots for power and once again try to survive, but in a very different climate from the one they had known outside the isolated realm. The valley is hot and lush with growth, a stark contrast to the rest of the frozen planet. Brought together at the end in a battle among the three factions, the four discover that ancient enmities can wreak havoc, both inside and outside of the hidden empire.

Download or read book Scythe and the City written by Christian Henriot and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of death has loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era. Throughout the Republican period, Shanghai swallowed up lives by the thousands. Exposed bodies strewn around in public spaces were a threat to social order as well as to public health. In a place where every group had its own beliefs and set of death and funeral practices, how did they adapt to a modern, urbanized environment? How did the interactions of social organizations and state authorities manage these new ways of thinking and acting? Recent historiography has almost completely ignored the ways in which death created such immense social change in China. Now, Scythe and the City corrects this problem. Christian Henriot's pioneering and original study of Shanghai between 1865 and 1965 offers new insights into this crucial aspect of modern society in a global commercial hub and guides readers through this tumultuous era that radically redefined the Chinese relationship with death.

Download or read book There is no way to fight the emperor written by Li Donghao and published by Sellene Chardou. This book was released on with total page 8531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since he began to practice at the age of seven, Xie Aoyu has been hit again and again. His practice is the hardest, and his family uses the most medicinal materials for him, but others have cultivated quarrelling in one year. What about him

Download or read book The World of the Aramaeans written by P.M. Michèle Daviau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of the Aramaeans is a three-volume collection of definitive essays about the Aramaeans and the biblical world of which they were a part. Areas of interest include the language, epigraphy and history of the Aramaeans of Syria as well of their neighbours, the Israelites, Phoenicians, Ammonites, Moabites and Edomites. The second volume, devoted to history and archaeology, includes contributions by Brian Peckham, Wolfgang Röllig, Carl S. Ehrlich, Guy Couturier, Stafania Mazzoni, Timothy P. Harrison, Michael Heltzer, John S. Holladay Jr., Michéle Daviau, Paolo Xella, Emile Pusch, Piotr Bienkowski, Bezalel Porten and John Gee.

Download or read book King Tut s Tomb written by Michael Burgan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes King Tut's tomb, including the treasures found there, King Tut's mummy, and what scientists have learned from the tomb's discovery.

Download or read book Gwendolyn Brooks written by D.H. Melhem and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the major American poets of this century and the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1950). Yet far less critical attention has focused on her work than on that of her peers. In this comprehensive biocritical study, Melhem -- herself a poet and critic -- traces the development of Brooks's poetry over four decades, from such early works as A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, and The Bean Eaters, to the more recent In the Mecca, Riot, and To Disembark. In addition to analyzing the poetic devices used, Melhem examines the biographical, historical, and literary contexts of Brooks's poetry: her upbringing and education, her political involvement in the struggle for civil rights, her efforts on behalf of young black poets, her role as a teacher, and her influence on black letters. Among the many sources examined are such revealing documents as Brooks's correspondence with her editor of twenty years and with other writers and critics. From Melhem's illuminating study emerges a picture of the poet as prophet. Brooks's work, she shows, is consciously charged with the quest for emancipation and leadership, for black unity and pride. At the same time, Brooks is seen as one of the preeminent American poets of this century, influencing both African American letters and American literature generally. This important book is an indispensable guide to the work of a consummate poet.

Download or read book Fist of Darkness A Max Load Novel written by C.M. Gordon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back for another booze-fueled sex ride in old New Orleans, well-hung PI Max Load is hired by a pack of decadent Euro-hipsters to recover a mysterious wooden box with connections to Nazi Germany. But when he opens the box he discovers a desiccated fist with a swastika ring. When his clients turn up throat-bit and drained of blood, Max realizes he's run afoul of a deadly cult of neo-Nazi Vampires. They'll stop at nothing to get their hands back on their prize, The Fist of Darkness—a Black Forest/Voodoo relic—which may just hold the key to a forgotten Third Reich plot...a plot that could unleash horror on the entire city of New Orleans!