Download or read book Deceit on Panchala written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl Roske. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “MSgt Hamdi, you’re too clever to let the galaxy have.” Msgt Hamdi was at the end of her second enlistment. Signing the next should have been easy. What was stopping her? Hamdi needed time to think, and overseeing a ceasefire with Acre company should have given her the time she needed. Nothing is ever easy in a war zone. The locals are unusually suspicious. It’s not until Hamdi and a squad of Hospitallers finds a friendly face in a cafe that things begin to look up. There is no certainty in war. When a mortar attack destroys the cafe, killing adults and children, things look even grimmer. Now, with both sides of the conflict blaming the other, Hamdi and Acre company have their work cut out for them. They have 24 hours to discover the perpetrators or the war resumes and more people will die. External and internal struggles tug at Hamdi from all sides. Can she find the killers? Can she find an answer to her own dilemma? Deceit on Panchala is the second book in the Stories of the Orphan Corps series. It is also a stand-alone story in the burgeoning universe of the Hospitallers’ Orphan Corps. If you enjoy an exciting military tale layered with political intrigue, and seasoned with engaging characters, Deceit on Panchala is your kind of story.
Download or read book Summer at Xawela written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl Roske. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospitallers, be careful what you wish for. In the wake of the Nongoma action, Sergeant Fermo’s team has been confined to base duty. But then there’s an ambush, and the peace talks mission goes pear-shaped. There’s only one team available to respond. Eager for action, Fermo’s team jumps at the chance to rescue their fellow Hospitalers. But the ambush is just the beginning of Fermo’s latest trial. She and her team must venture into unknown territory with few clues and no outside support. But they are not alone. They have brought help with them. Will it be enough to see them through the mission? And what costs will the team pay to survive? There’s only one way to know.
Download or read book Rescue on Gimhae written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl Roske. This book was released on 2018-08-18 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could Sgt Seavers's mission kill him? Yes. Yes, it could. Sgt Seavers of the Orphan Corps is having a run of bad luck. First, he gets in a fight with three marines while on a space station. Second, he wins that fight. And now, after learning he was being considered for officer candidate training, he is informed of his penance. Can Seavers handle a resentful platoon of Marines? Can he do it while delivering medical aid to a suspicious colony of terraformers? To get back his chance at officer candidate training, he’ll do his best. Or die trying. If you love a good military adventure, crossed with sci-fi worthy of Andre Norton and Asimov, then Rescue on Gimhae is the story you’re looking for. Strap in, hang on. The journey begins now.
Download or read book Last Wave written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl T. Roske. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is being alone worse than death? Acharon has no interest in finding out. He and Sovelet are two of the last humans on Earth. They’ve lived an idyllic existence on their man-made island over the decades. For Acharon, these have been good times, quiet times. Life, though, has other plans. Murphy’s suicide and Sovelet’s medical diagnosis have shattered the illusion Acharon has so carefully crafted. There is no more sitting and watching sunsets while humanity winds down to extinction. Not if he wants to save Sovelet’s life. To do so, Acharon and Sovelet must face a city gone wild. A city that hasn’t seen a human in decades and has no fear of them. It is a city filled with dangers and bad memories. But Acharon will face everything to keep Sovelet alive and safe. Death will come in time, but not without a fight. Not if Acharon has any say in the matter. In the tradition of Earth Abides, Dog Stars, and On The Beach, Last Wave explores what it is to be human and what it means to be alive. Start reading now!
Download or read book Reluctant Symbiosis written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl Roske. This book was released on 2020-05-17 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Couldn’t any mission be simple? Lt Derinzinski could count the number of people he trusted on one hand. None of them included the butterflies of Novjaro. When one of the two-meter-tall butterflies interferes with Derinzinski’s mission, he trusts them even less. Then the mission goes sideways. The team is in trouble. They’re tens of kilometers from help. Unless you count the butterfly, which Derinzinski definitely did not. Yet, the butterfly persists. Shadowed by the butterfly, Derinzinski fights to correct a wrong, while battling inner demons that have been released from the darkest recesses of his mind. What exactly does the butterfly want? Derinzinski doesn’t want to find out. But he may not have any choice. Follow Lt Derinzinski as he battles an alien world and his own haunted memories. Read Reluctant Symbiosis now.
Download or read book Wintertide at Knynsa written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl T. Roske. This book was released on 2021-09-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sgt Imara Fermo keeps her promise at Bhisho. Though everyone, including herself, was wounded, no one died. And they saved a lot of other lives in the process. But can she do it again? The Rhone have not honored their ceasefire. The war rolls on across the planet. Now, the Hospitallers must employ the third tenet of their mission. They must defend a Serdoban city from a Rhone assault. That’s when things go wrong. Dropships are attacked on their way to the surface. Imara’s squad survives, but they’re tens of kilometers from where they should be. In fact, they’re somewhere in the middle of Rhone held territory. And they’re on their own. Can Imara see her squad safely through their mission? Only time will tell. And time is running out.
Download or read book Secrets on Wenshen written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl Roske. This book was released on with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distress call changes everything. The ship Dewey’s platoon is on responds to the signal. They jump to another solar system A supposedly unoccupied system. There they find a smuggler’s ship. All its systems are failing. Fortunately, the Hospitallers have arrived in time. But they are not alone. Now, under attack, their jump drive broken, the Hospitallers are in trouble and running out of options. There’s a planet, Wenshen, in the system. But, as Dewey knows, Wenshen isn’t just unoccupied, it’s acidic atmosphere makes it inhospitable to humans. Their choices are few. They can stay in space, and die. Or, they can land on Wenshen and die there. But if anyone can find a solution to impending death, it’s the Hospitaller Orphan Corps. Suit up. Strap in. It’s going to be a wild ride. Get your copy now to join the adventure, and learn what secrets Wenshen holds.
Download or read book Abandoned on Juracan written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl T. Roske. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juracan was supposed to be abandoned. A global nuclear war forced those not killed to flee their damaged world. Then came the Radial War, and Juracan was lost to history. So why now is there a signal for help? The revelation of a lost planet’s existence raises many questions. Who sent the message? Why do they need help now after all these centuries? And how is the cry for help coming from a modern emergency beacon? The only way to find answers is to go and look for them. There’s a feeling of déjà vu as once again, Dewey finds himself en route to investigate a planet. An abandoned planet long forgotten. A planet assumed to be uninhabitable. At least this time, they can breathe the air. Without a hint as to what to expect, Dewey plans for the worst. Seldom has he been wrong. Though, just once, he’d like to be. Join Lt Dewey Tyler and his platoon of Hospitallers as they drop planetside, make new discoveries, and try once more to save the day.
Download or read book Standoff on Oulu written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl Roske. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VetTech Pagnotto is about to find out if he has what it takes to be a Hospitaller. Oulu is Pagnotto’s first mission off Hephaestia as a Wutenigel handler. He and the Wutenigel he’s named Thumb have come with Ascalon company to Oulu as a supernumerary. Thumb can identify and name every scent it encounters. With Pagnotto and Thumb as part of Ascalon company, the Hospitallers hope to find the source of recent terrorist-style bombings. An attack on a Texarkanian community pulls the Hospitallers deeper into the global conflict. Uncovering secrets puts the entire company at risk of total annihilation. Can Pagnotto and Thumb survive long enough to do their part in the mission? Can they survive a world seemingly hell-bent on their destruction? Standoff on Oulu is the third book in the Stories of the Orphan Corps series. Just like Rescue on Gimhae and Deceit on Panchala, Standoff on Oulu is a self-contained story full of martial adventure, political intrigue, moral dilemma, and an abundance of destruction. Get Standoff on Oulu now and be part of the Stories of the Orphan Corps universe. It’s the next best thing to being there. (And less dangerous.)
Download or read book Mahabharata Book Seven Volume 1 written by and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Bhishma is cut down at the end of the previous book of the Maha·bhárata, the book which bears his name, Duryódhana selects Drona as leader of his forces. Drona accepts the honor with Bhishma's blessing, despite his ongoing personal conflicts as mentor to both the Pándava and Káurava heroes in their youth. The fighting rages on, with heavy losses on both sides. Furious and frustrated, Duryódhana accuses Drona of collaborating with the enemy, but he replies that as long as Árjuna is on the field, the Pándavas will remain invincible. When Árjuna is finally diverted from the main action of the battle, Yudhi·shthira entrusts Árjuna's son Abhimányu with the task of making a breach in the Káurava formation. Abhimányu rampages through Drona's army, but at last is cornered by several Káurava warriors and finally killed by Jayad·ratha. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org
Download or read book The Difficulty of Being Good written by Gurcharan Das and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should we be good? How should we be good? And how might we more deeply understand the moral and ethical failings--splashed across today's headlines--that have not only destroyed individual lives but caused widespread calamity as well, bringing communities, nations, and indeed the global economy to the brink of collapse? In The Difficulty of Being Good, Gurcharan Das seeks answers to these questions in an unlikely source: the 2,000 year-old Sanskrit epic, Mahabharata. A sprawling, witty, ironic, and delightful poem, the Mahabharata is obsessed with the elusive notion of dharma--in essence, doing the right thing. When a hero does something wrong in a Greek epic, he wastes little time on self-reflection; when a hero falters in the Mahabharata, the action stops and everyone weighs in with a different and often contradictory take on dharma. Each major character in the epic embodies a significant moral failing or virtue, and their struggles mirror with uncanny precision our own familiar emotions of anxiety, courage, despair, remorse, envy, compassion, vengefulness, and duty. Das explores the Mahabharata from many perspectives and compares the successes and failures of the poem's characters to those of contemporary individuals, many of them highly visible players in the world of economics, business, and politics. In every case, he finds striking parallels that carry lessons for everyone faced with ethical and moral dilemmas in today's complex world. Written with the flair and seemingly effortless erudition that have made Gurcharan Das a bestselling author around the world--and enlivened by Das's forthright discussion of his own personal search for a more meaningful life--The Difficulty of Being Good shines the light of an ancient poem on the most challenging moral ambiguities of modern life.
Download or read book Karna The Unsung Hero of the Mahabharata written by Umesh Kotru and published by One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Then, the exquisitely handsome body of Karna of generous acts, who should have been worthy of perpetual happiness, let go of that refulgent head with the kind of extreme reluctance evinced by a wealthy person in leaving his own prosperous home, or by a saintly one in forsaking virtuous company. [The Mahabharata, Karna-Parva; 91.53-54] In these lines of evocative pathos, the Mahabharata pays its ultimate tribute to Karna, who has hardly a rival in world literature to match his credentials as a uniquely nuanced heroes' hero – towering above Hector in righteous valour, above Arjuna in generosity, and above all else in conscientious attachment to the principles of noblesse oblige. This is the intriguing story of a hero who, despite being born to royalty was, like the Biblical Moses, cast away by his mother. Brought up lovingly by a lowly charioteer and his wife, his whole life was one great struggle against cruel destiny, and against all the odds placed in his way by the inequities of his time. In the process, he blazed a new trail of glory, emerging as the adorable exemplar of purushakaara (manly effort), with tremendous achievements both as a man and also as a warrior. Yet society never gave him his due, despite being as upright as Yudhishthira, as strong as Bhima, as skilful as Arjuna, as handsome as Nakula and as intelligent as Sahadeva. Rebuffed and insulted by society at every step, he developed some flaws engendered by a defiant spirit and nurtured by association with the evil designs of Duryodhana, his benefactor prince. But those very contrarieties seem to enhance and enliven the dramatic appeal of his character as one of the brightest stars of the Mahabharata's star cast. Written in an engagingly flowing style and with an imaginative transcreation of the epic storyline, Karna: the Unsung Hero of the Mahabharata should strike a responsive chord in the minds, specifically of today's Mahabharata aficionados and generally of all lovers of exalted human drama.
Download or read book THE MAHABHARATA of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa written by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa and published by Darryl Morris. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 5718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mahabharata, "What is found here, may be found elsewhere. What is not found here, will not be found elsewhere." The ancient story of the Mahabharata casts the reader's mind across spiritual and terrestrial vistas and battlefields. Through the experiences of divine incarnations and manifest demons, a great royal dynasty is fractured along fraternal lines, resulting in the greatest war of good and evil ever fought in ancient lands. This most venerable of epics remains profoundly timeless in it teachings of truth, righteousness and liberation. This second edition ebook of the Mahabharata is Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1896 translation and is complete with all 18 parvas in a single ebook. It features a comprehensive table of contents, book summaries and double linked footnotes.
Download or read book The Mahabharata TV Film Script written by Rāhī Māsūma Razā and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Krishna Yogeshvara written by Sanjay Dixit and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a flash, Krishna took out the Sudarshana Chakra from its holder near his waist and threw it at Shishupala. The Chakra took his head off and returned back to Krishna. Krishna Yogeshvara, the second volume in the Lord Krishna Trilogy, seamlessly weaves a mystical, awe-inspiring narrative of the leela of Krishna through the least explored aspect of his life-the years in between the killing of Kamsa and the start of the great war of Mahabharata. Krishna's favourite cousin, Uddhava, through his pristine narration, connects the episodes of how Krishna employs him to reconcile with Radha, leading to Krishna's growing-up years as a student and a warrior yogi. The book traces the evolution of Krishna from a precocious adolescent to a person fully in control of his consciousness-someone who is capable of offering the best solution using the stratagem of sama, dama, danda, bheda to every situation in accordance with Dharma. Krishna's understanding of Dharma is of the highest order, and his understanding transcends to that of the highest yogi. That is why he is revered as the Yogeshvara-one who fulfils Patanjali's definition of a yogi. The book explores the deep recesses of the minds of the various characters and how they interact with Krishna. The author intertwines the narrative of traditional Krishna stories with a touch of realism, using the technique of Uddhava's narration with his own. As the two paths converge, the villains and antagonists of the great epic also come to the fore and are vanquished strategically by Krishna's brilliance. Kutil Dharma, so brutal earlier, transmogrifies into a subtle but more devastating form; yet, he cannot escape the sharp eye of Krishna. The book ends with the Kaurava and the Pandava armies arrayed against each other, with Arjuna refusing to fight, setting the stage for the recital of Bhagavad Gita.
Download or read book The Mahabharata of Vyasa written by Dwaipayana Vyasa and published by Enigma Edizioni. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 7695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mahabharata, "What is found here, may be found elsewhere. What is not found here, will not be found elsewhere". The ancient story of the Mahabharata casts the readers mind across spiritual and terrestrial vistas and battlefields. Through the experiences of divine incarnations and manifest demons, a great royal dynasty is fractured along fraternal lines, resulting in the greatest war of good and evil ever fought in ancient lands. This most venerable of epics remains profoundly timeless in it teachings of truth, righteousness and liberation. This electronic edition of the Mahabharata is Kisari Mohan Ganguli's 1896 translation and is complete with all 18 parvas in a single ebook. Like other ebook conversions, the text has been sourced but this edition has had additional proofing and a significant number of corrections and rectification of missing or misorded text. The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is an epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kauravas and the Pandava princes as well as containing philosophical and devotional material, such as a discussion of the four goals of life. Here we have Adi Parva, the first, discusses how the Mahabharata came to be narrated by Sauti to the assembled rishis at Naimisharanya after having been recited at the Sarpasatra of Janamejaya by Vaishampayana at Takṣaśilā. It tells the history of the Bharata race traces history of the Bhrigu race. Vyasa is a revered figure in Hindu traditions. He is a kala-Avatar or part-incarnation of God Vishnu. Vyasa is sometimes conflated by some Vaishnavas with Badarayana, the compiler of the Vedanta Sutras and considered to be one of the seven Chiranjivins. He is also the fourth member of the Rishi Parampara of the Advaita Guru Paramparā of which Adi Shankara is the chief proponent.
Download or read book The Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
