Download or read book Dark Oracle written by Alayna Williams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TARA SHERIDAN HAS A GIFT . . . AND IT ALMOST KILLED HER. As a criminal profiler, Tara used science and her intuitive skill at Tarot card divination to track down the dangerous and depraved, including the serial killer who left her scarred from head to toe. Since that savage attack, Tara has been a recluse. But now an ancient secret society known as Delphi’s Daughters has asked for her help in locating missing scientist Lowell Magnusson. And Tara, armed with her Tarot deck, her .38, and a stack of misgivings, agrees to try. Tara immediately senses there is far more at stake than one man’s life. At his government lab in the New Mexico desert, Magnusson had developed groundbreaking technology with terrifying potential. Working alongside the brusque but charismatic agent Harry Li, Tara discovers that Magnusson’s daughter, Cassie, has knowledge that makes her a target too. The more Tara sees into the future, the more there is to fear. She knows she has to protect Cassie. But there may be no way to protect herself—from the enemies circling around her, or from the long-buried powers stirring to life within. . . .

Download or read book The Obsidian Oracle written by Troy Denning and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two former friends seek a powerful ancient oracle—one for good; one for evil—in this fourth Prism Pentad novel that explores the harsh world of Dark Sun The Dark Lens is an ancient oracle that can harvest the magic of the sun, hidden by the last dwarven knights for the sake of a new world. With it, Tithian of Tyr can evolve into a true sorcerer-king. Only Agis of Asticles, who covets the lens to destroy the Dragon Borys, stands between Tithian and his desire. For either man to survive the quest, the hatred between them must be vanquished. If not, they risk falling prey to the beast-headed giants who guard the Obsidian Oracle.

Download or read book Rogue Oracle written by Alayna Williams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MORE YOU KNOW ABOUT THE FUTURE, THE MORE THERE MAY BE TO FEAR. Tara Sheridan is the best criminal profiler around—and the most unconventional. Trained as a forensic psychologist, Tara also specializes in Tarot card reading. But she doesn’t need her divination skills to realize that the new assignment from her friend and sometime lover, Agent Harry Li, is a dangerous proposition in every way. Former Cold War operatives, all linked to a top-secret operation tracking the disposal of nuclear weapons in Russia, are disappearing. There are no bodies, and no clues to their whereabouts. Harry suspects a conspiracy to sell arms to the highest bidder. The cards—and Tara’s increasingly ominous dreams—suggest something darker. Even as Tara sorts through her feelings for Harry and her fractured relationship with the mysterious order known as Delphi’s Daughters, a killer is growing more ruthless by the day. And a nightmare that began decades ago in Chernobyl will reach a terrifying endgame that not even Tara could have foreseen. . . .

Download or read book Dark Testament and Other Poems written by Pauli Murray and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the cadences of Martin Luther King Jr. and the lyricism of Langston Hughes, the great civil rights activist Pauli Murray’s sole book of poems finally returns to print. There has been explosive interest in the life of Pauli Murray, as reflected in a recent profile in The New Yorker, the publication of a definitive biography, and a new Yale University college in her name. Murray has been suddenly cited by leading historians as a woman who contributed far more to the civil rights movement than anyone knew, being arrested in 1940—fifteen years before Rosa Parks—for refusing to give up her seat on a Virginia bus. Celebrated by twenty-first-century readers as a civil rights activist on the level of King, Parks, and John Lewis, she is also being rediscovered as a gifted writer of memoir, sermons, and poems. Originally published in 1970 and long unavailable, Dark Testament and Other Poems attests to her fierce lyrical powers. At turns song, prayer, and lamentation, Murray’s poems speak to the brutal history of slavery and Jim Crow and the dream of racial justice and equality.

Download or read book The Oracle Queen written by Kendare Blake and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns series introduces readers to the Oracle Queen in this riveting prequel novella. Fans of the series will be enthralled with Queen Elsabet’s genesis, riveted by her madness, and compelled by her tragic—and bloody—reign. Triplet queens born on the island of Fennbirn can be many things: Elementals. Poisoners. Naturalists. If an oracle queen is born, however, one with the gift of sight, she’s immediately drowned, extinguishing her chance at ever taking the throne. But that’s not how it always was. This cautionary practice started long ago, with Queen Elsabet—the legendary, and last, oracle queen—whose reign was tinged with blood and horror. Paranoid, ruthless, and utterly mad, Elsabet’s mistrust led to the senseless slaying of three entire houses of innocent people. At least, that’s the unchallenged tale carried down from generation to generation. But what really happened? Discover the true story behind the queen who, though born with the gift of sight, could not foresee her swift and sudden fall from power . . . until it was too late. Don't miss Five Dark Fates, the thrilling conclusion to the series!

Download or read book Embers written by Laura Bickle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth burns. Unemployment, despair, anger—visible and invisible unrest feed the undercurrent of Detroit’s unease. A city increasingly invaded by phantoms now faces a malevolent force that further stokes fear and chaos throughout the city. Anya Kalinczyk spends her days as an arson investigator with the Detroit Fire Department, and her nights pursuing malicious spirits with a team of eccentric ghost hunters. Anya—who is the rarest type of psychic medium, a Lantern—suspects a supernatural arsonist is setting blazes to summon a fiery ancient entity that will leave the city in cinders. By Devil’s Night, the spell will be complete, unless Anya—with the help of her salamander familiar and the paranormal investigating team—can stop it. Anya’s accustomed to danger and believes herself inured to loneliness and loss. But this time she’s risking everything: her city, her soul, and a man who sees and accepts her for everything she is. Keeping all three safe will be the biggest challenge she’s ever faced. Embers A sizzling debut from a red-hot new author . . .

Download or read book Beyond The Dark Gate written by R.V. Johnson and published by Lost In New World Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of The Wheel Of Time, The Stormlight Archives, and The Blue Adept Series who like reading riveting fantasy adventure will love Beyond The Sapphire Gate, an epic science fiction/fantasy! Ancient evil crawls from the dark. The great river of magic threatened. An epic struggle to prevail. Pitted against the hooded man’s ruthless determination to annihilate a race, Crystalyn's mind threatens to slip deeper into madness when faced with a world-shattering choice: hunt down and destroy a former companion who threatens everything, or save those she loves most. With cunning comes power. With power comes arrogance. With arrogance comes brutality. With freewill at stake, Crystalyn may have to resort to them all… Jade’s ability of reading futuristic images whirling around a person’s aura grows strong, though not how she would ever want. Garn’s enslavement ends with something far worse. Within the heat of the Shimmering Sands, a dark robe hatches a brash plan to gain ultimate power, one that if successful will unleash a great malevolence upon the land. Surviving by skulking in the shadows for millennia, a new influence emerges, gaining strength from others. Clinical and calculating, its alien cunning has subjugated entire worlds from within the shadows with no one the wiser…

Download or read book The Oracle Code written by Marieke Nijkamp and published by DC Ink. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling author Marieke Nijkamp and artist Manuel Preitano unveil a graphic novel that explores the dark corridors of Barbara Gordon's first mystery: herself. After a gunshot leaves her paralyzed below the waist, Barbara Gordon must undergo physical and mental rehabilitation at Arkham Center for Independence. She must adapt to a new normal, but she cannot shake the feeling that something is dangerously amiss. Strange sounds escape at night while patients start to go missing. Is this suspicion simply a result of her trauma? Or does Barbara actually hear voices coming from the center's labyrinthine hallways? It's up to Barbara to put the pieces together to solve the mysteries behind the walls. In The Oracle Code, universal truths cannot be escaped, and Barbara Gordon must battle the phantoms of her past before they consume her future.

Download or read book The Black Oracle written by Michael Cristiano and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a post-apocalyptic Earth, humans are not alone. Joachim is a hunter. Though generations have passed since the Great Death, something has evolved in the trees beyond the giant glowing mushrooms, mutants that want to see human entrails spread along the jungle floor. And now they've taken Joachim's wife. To get her back, Joachim must give the leader of these demons something in return: immortality. A creature knows when he is going to die, after all. In the realm of Zalm, Joachim must navigate a world of magic and darkness to find the ingredients to a potion. Only the Black Oracle knows where these ingredients are, but she's a little busy at the moment. She leads an army of rebels, revolutionaries fighting for liberation against the High Council. In a story of betrayal, prophecy, and bloodshed, Joachim must find a way to save his wife while evading a ruthless Empress, one that wants to see the Black Oracle and her associates killed - Joachim included.

Download or read book The Dark Exact Tarot Guide written by Coleman Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook is for people wanting to learn the Tarot or deepen their Tarot practices. While the images and specific descriptions included are from the Dark Exact Tarot Deck, this guide also presents general traditional card meanings that can be used to interpret any standard deck. Patterns and narratives within the cards are explored in a variety of forms, with special attention paid to the Fool¿s Journey of the Major Arcana. This book also discusses ideas surrounding the practice of Tarot, and provides classic and original spreads for learning and practice.

Download or read book Damian s Oracle written by Lizzy Ford and published by Lizzy Ford. This book was released on 2011 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Illustrated Mum written by Jacqueline Wilson and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covered from head to toe with one-of-a-kind tattoos, Marigold is the brightest, most beautiful mother in the world. At least, that’s what Dolphin thinks—she just wishes Marigold wouldn’t stay out quite so late or have mood spells every now and again. Dolphin’s older sister, Star, loves Marigold too, but she’s tired of looking after her. So when Star’s dad shows up out of the blue and offers to let the girls stay with him, Star jumps at the opportunity. But Dolphin can’t bear to leave Marigold alone. Now it’s just the two of them, and Dolphin is about to be in over her head. . . .

Download or read book Star Angels The New World written by Viktor Khorunzhy and published by Litres. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are angels? Where do they come from and why? Are human feelings and weaknesses common to them? Perhaps, it is possible to get to their world by opening “the right” door? All those questions are to be answered by two sisters – ordinary students, Alice and Katy. With the help of the ancient Book, they are carried over to another reality. There, they would have to reveal their own new abilities and learn their true destiny. But would they have enough power to fulfill it? Secrets of Egyptian pyramids, interstellar portals and, of course, a love story – all that waits for you on the pages of the novel. “Star Angels” is a nail-biting story, immersing into which could help you get the better understanding of the world around us. For true feelings, just like true values, never lose their importance wherever you are...

Download or read book Secrets of the Oracle written by W. David Shaw and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is wisdom? Where does it come from? Where can we find it? And what does it mean in our lives? In Secrets of the Oracle, David Shaw explores these questions by turning to the works of wisdom writers, whose words retain their meaning and transformative power even centuries after they were written. Wisdom literature exists in two shaping forms - the aphorism, geared towards the past, and the oracle, a revolutionary impulse looking to the future. Secrets of the Oracle discusses both types of wisdom, finding them in the works of poets and philosophers from Tennyson and Zeno to Yeats and George Berkeley, from Browning and Schleiermacher to T.S. Eliot and F.H. Bradley. The book also discusses the contribution to wisdom of Jesus and the author of Ecclesiastes, of Abraham Lincoln and Norman Maclean. Part celebration of wisdom found and part lament for wisdom lost, Secrets of the Oracle is convincing in its assertion that wisdom articulates what is and offers creative visions of the future.

Download or read book The Last Oracle written by James Rollins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this superb thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins, Sigma Force must battle a group of rogue scientists who have unleashed a diabolical project that could bring about the extinction of mankind. Salvation . . . or annihilation? What if scientists could bio-engineer the next great world prophet—the next Buddha, Mohammed, or even Jesus? Would it mark the Second Coming or initiate a chain reaction leading to the end of mankind? Formed during the Cold War, a think tank of world scientists known as the JASONS have discovered a way to manipulate and enhance autistic children who show savant talents—mathematical geniuses, statistical masterminds, brilliant conceptual artists. Yet among their young patients a strange side-effect begins to arise. Before it can be analyzed fully, a rogue group of the JASONS begins their own secret experimentation with a cadre of the best children. Their goal, to create a world prophet for the new millennium, one who can be manipulated to create a new era of global peace . . . a peace on their own terms, that is. But such manipulation has grim consequences as a biological meltdown among the children begins to occur—turning the innocent into something far more frightening. To stop the JASONS before they engineer the extinction of mankind, Commander Gray Pierce of SIGMA Force races against time to solve a mystery that dates back to the first famous oracle of history—the Greek Oracle of Delphi. But can the past save the future?

Download or read book Fates Worse Than Death written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of Vonnegutâe(tm)s autobiographical writings âe" a collage of his own life story, snipped up and stuck down alongside his views on everything from suicidal depression to the future of the planet and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Honest, dark, rambling, funny; this rare glimpse of Vonnegut's soul is a dagger to the heart of Western complacency.

Download or read book Databases in Networked Information Systems written by Subhash Bhalla and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-06-29 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems, DNIS 2000, held in Aizu, Japan in December 2000. The 17 revised full invited and selected papers have been carefully reviewed for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on data management systems, database systems - storage and retrieval, and networked information systems applications.