Download or read book Desolation s Wake written by Henry J. Olsen and published by Henry J. Olsen. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dead metropolis. A strength-sapping bionic arm. A long-forgotten friend. John Osborne has a four-week lease on life. His survival depends on finding the Northland Core, an enigmatic power source hidden within the forsaken ruins of Minneapolis. With a whole city to scour and time growing short, John needs all the help he can get. When his former commanding officer arrives in Minneapolis and offers to assist, John can hardly refuse. But he's soon to discover that in this Desolation-ravaged world help comes at a high price. Every twitch of John's arm draws death closer. Can John unravel the mysteries of the Minneapple in time? Or will he become another corpse rotting in the murky swells of Desolation's wake? The body count continues to climb in this bullet-riddled third installment of The Northland Chronicles.
Download or read book Spear Hunter written by Henry J. Olsen and published by Unbound Adventure Press. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunter. Hunted. Huntress? Gunslinger by trade, cyborg by circumstance, John Osborne fearlessly roams the Desolation-ravaged ruins of North America. But with his health rapidly failing, John grows desperate to learn the true nature of the artificial appendage grafted to his shoulder. Running out of time and options, his last hope lies on a remote isle hidden in the far reaches of the Northwoods. Though he suspects a trap, John has no choice but to venture to the mysterious Mallard Island. Can John unearth the knowledge he seeks? Or will he fall victim to a fate far more sinister? The hunt is afoot in this electrifying second episode of The Northland Chronicles.
Download or read book Desolation written by William F. Covey and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visited by the spirit world, a Hopi woman, an Aborigine man, and a Rabbi are told the earth will soon undergo worldwide desolation. They are divinely united to reveal the message to all humans that live upon Mother Earth. It all begins with a thermonuclear war between India and China over greed, which starts the cataclysmic events that alter the entire planet. They were told that man's carelessness with his scientific technology will cause a cascade of events that will literally change the face of Mother Earth. Will Sarah, Yirawala, and Rabbi Raboy be able to warn all the humans in time to prepare themselves for these cataclysmic events? This book is part one of the Desolation trilogy. Mother Earth purifies herself and completes her rebirth in books two and three.
Download or read book Desolation written by Jesper Schmidt and published by Fantasy Publishing. This book was released on with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eons has shrouded the giant dragon in legend. Ancient myths soon become terrifyingly real… Aea is an outsider. At age six the clan executed her father and when her mother and sister disappeared, Aea’s life spiraled into chaos. Suddenly staggering out of the woods, broken by the deadly disease the Field Blight, her mother lays a desperate choice on Aea. To leave the protective forest realm and save her sister from mortal danger. In a race against time, Aea puts the noose of the Field Blight around not only her own neck, but also that of her unborn child. Before long, Aea discovers that the world of Erisdün is nothing like she imagined. Surviving the Field Blight might be the least of her concerns, as the great dragon dispatches his army to retrieve the Keystone Bone. The bone of a God is the only component that will prevent the Arch Demon from breaking free. Powers as old as time itself are about to set the world on fire. Desolation is an epic fantasy. If you like a fast-paced read with dragons and demons, then you will love Desolation. Delve into the exciting adventure today. This is the first book in the Keystone Bone trilogy. (Must be read in order)
Download or read book Desolation written by AR DeClerck and published by Nevermore Press. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goddess of Love is dying. Plagued by the only illness that can kill a mythical creature, Lavinia's heart and soul are on the line. Desolation is the erasure of everything she is, and all that she might do. Trapped by an apathy that eats away at her powers there seems to be no cure. Gage Rebeau is the Asesino. A half-breed of god and were he was raised by the Fates to carry out their dirtiest deeds. Now, Gage is the only hope Lavinia has left. He might know the way to cure Desolation and restore her, but the road will be a long and dangerous one for them both. A mystical journey lies ahead, taking Gage and Vinnie on a quest to discover the cure for a disease that no god has ever survived. The truths they come to discover shake the foundation of who they are and what they believe. Only one thing is clear. Sometimes love hurts.
Download or read book Desolation Road written by Christine Feehan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take the ride of your life with the Torpedo Ink motorcycle club in this thrilling romance novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. Torpedo Ink is Aleksei “Absinthe” Solokov’s whole life. They’re his brothers, his family—his everything. But that doesn't stop him from wanting something that only belongs to him. That’s why the tough biker has spent the last six weeks at the library, reading every book he can get his hands on and watching the prim and proper librarian who makes his blood rush. For the past six weeks, Scarlet Foley has been fantasizing about the handsome, tattooed man whose eyes follow her every move. She senses he's dangerous. She wants him to get close enough to touch. She wishes she could let him know the real woman, not the one she pretends to be. But Scarlet has a plan to carry out, and she can’t afford any distractions. Absinthe is well aware that Scarlet is hiding something. She’s a puzzle he intends to solve, piece by intoxicating piece….
Download or read book Desolation and Enlightenment written by Ira Katznelson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During and especially after World War II, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war’s devastation joined others fortunate enough to have been protected by distance in an effort to redefine and reinvigorate liberal ideals for a radically new age. Treating evil as an analytical category, they sought to discover the sources of twentieth-century horror and the potentialities of the modern state in the wake of desolation. In the process, they devised strikingly new ways to understand politics, sociology, and history that reverberate still. In this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, Karl Polanyi, and David Truman, detailing their engagement with the larger project of reclaiming the West’s moral bearing. In light of their epoch’s calamities, these intellectuals insisted that the tradition of Enlightenment thought required a new realism, a good deal of renovation, and much recommitment. This array of historians, political philosophers, and social scientists understood that a simple reassertion of liberal modernism had been made radically insufficient by the enormities and moral catastrophes of war, totalitarianism, and the Holocaust. Confronting dashed hopes for reason and knowledge, they asked not just whether the Enlightenment should define modernity but also which Enlightenment we should wish to have.
Download or read book Desolation Road written by Ian McDonald and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all began thirty years ago on Mars, with a greenperson. But by the time it all finished, the town of Desolation Road had experienced every conceivable abnormality from Adam Black's Wonderful Travelling Chautauqua and Educational ‘Stravaganza (complete with its very own captive angel) to the Astounding Tatterdemalion Air Bazaar. Its inhabitants ranged from Dr. Alimantando, the town’s founder and resident genius, to the Babooshka, a barren grandmother who just wants her own child—grown in a fruit jar; from Rajendra Das, mechanical hobo who has a mystical way with machines to the Gallacelli brothers, identical triplets who fell in love with—and married—the same woman.
Download or read book The Gorgon Desolation written by Kelson Hayes and published by Kelson Hayes. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Southeast of Aerbon, the elvish country of Gilan prepares for war against the drug-addled orcs of the Gorgon Desolation after the disappearance of the king's daughter, Princess Eaïnne. Together, with the help of the Nardic Tribes of the South, the elves hope to rescue their lost princess and eradicate the orcish race as a whole in an effort to free the continent of Aerbon from its impending doom at the hands of the orcs. The orcs of the Gorgon lands grew and produced a demonic drug called Guaka-Guaka; causing them to become blood-thirsty and schizophrenic where it tainted them more and more with each use. They were addicted to the foul substance and they claimed that it was a gift from their gods, the Masters, who had initially bestowed it upon them in the long-forgotten Age of Myth. It was refined in factories that blackened the skies and the production of the drug was steadily causing their world to die off as a result. So it was that the elves sought to end their foul existence whilst the orcs fought to maintain their lifestyle, seeing nothing wrong with their actions as they claimed that it was the will of their gods.
Download or read book Two Moons of Earth Beyond Desolation written by Norman Couse and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It’s the early hours of the morning when Lane is awoken by a bright light and searing pain. He opens his eyes but nothing more; unable to either scream with pain, or move from it. Fear grips his heart and his mind, as he sees the earth around him and the tree above him slowly start to dissolve …” Here we are once again with John and his friends travelling on into more new and marvellous lands. Making new friendships along the way but with heartache and loss intertwined. They travel far until they finally come to a place – a border. A border so terrifying, so feared by all: humans, animals and greenem alike, that even the bravest perish within moments, if fool enough to cross. But it is also where all the answers lie … and a life-changing decision must be made
Download or read book Desolation Island Vol Book 5 Aubrey Maturin Novels written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The relationship [between Aubrey and Maturin]...is about the best thing afloat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the outgunned Leopard staggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seventy-four." —Stephen Vaughan, Observer Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy—and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. With a Dutch man-of-war to windward, the undermanned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountain seas, the Dutchman closes.
Download or read book A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace written by Arkady Martine and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebundle includes: A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace. The action-packed space opera series from Arkady Martine, Teixcalaan, blends mystery and adventure on an interstellar scale. In the first book, A Memory Called Empire, the new Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the ever-expanding Teixcalaanli Empire only to realize that her predecessor’s death, occurring at the height of political instability, was no accident. Acclimatizing to an alien culture, tracking down the murderer of the former ambassador to their small but independent mining community, and saving herself from harm’s way, makes for a riveting debut that will leave readers “utterly dazzled.”— New York Times Book Review A Memory Called Empire: Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident—or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court. Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion—all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret—one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life—or rescue it from annihilation. A Desolation Called Peace: An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass—still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire—face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity. Their failure will guarantee millions of deaths in an endless war. Their success might prevent Teixcalaan’s destruction—and allow the empire to continue its rapacious expansion. Or it might create something far stranger . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book This Magnificent Desolation written by Thomas O'Malley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duncan's entire world is the orphanage where he lives, a solitary outpost on the open plains of northern Minnesota. Aged ten in 1980, he has no memories of his life before now, but he has stories that he recites like prayers: the story of how his mother brought him here during the worst blizzard of the century; the story of how God spoke to him at his birth and gave him a special purpose. Duncan is sure that his mother is dead until the day she turns up to claim him. Maggie Bright, a soprano who was once the talent of her generation, now sings in a San Francisco bar through a haze of whisky cut with sharp regret. She often finishes up in the arms of Joshua McGreevey, a Vietnam vet who earns his living as part of a tunneling crew seventy feet beneath the Bay. He smells of sea silt and loam, as if he has been dredged from the deep bottom of the world - and his wounds run deep too. Thrown into this mysterious adult world, Duncan finds comfort in an ancient radio, from which tumble the voices of Apollo mission astronauts who never came home, and dreams of finding his real father. A heart-breaking, staggering, soaring novel, This Magnificent Desolation allows a child's perspective to illuminate a dark world, and explores the creeping devastation of war, the many facets of loneliness, the redemptive power of the imagination, and the possibility of a kind of grace.
Download or read book Desolation and Enlightenment written by Ira Katznelson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, Karl Polanyi, and David Truman, detailing their engagement with the larger project of reclaiming the West's moral bearing.
Download or read book Desolation written by Simon L Butler and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six years ago, the world as we knew it ended. Now, a new generation has come of age in a world that brings out the best and worst in humanity. Civilization collapsed us into a new dark age of desperate and disparate survivors, fighting to make a life for themselves while humanity remains on the brink of extinction. Humans cling on to life in barely-hospitable desert conditions, far too extreme for the hordes of undead that dominate the arable regions of the continent. Follow nomad, Jack, and former slave, Ashe, through a hellish wasteland, pursued by a brutal warlord across the Australian continent, as they discover that life is about so much more than just staying alive in the process.
Download or read book Desolation written by Bernard Stocks and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were trapped in the cave for fourteen hours. When they finally made their way out, they found that the world had changed forever.
Download or read book Desolation Point written by Cari Hunter and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's going to find me, Sarah whispered. He's going to find me before you do. One wrong step in Los Angeles leaves Alex Pascal scarred and traumatized, unable to continue the career she loves. In England, a drunk driver shatters Sarah Kent's family. For Sarah, leaving England to explore the North Cascades is an opportunity to regain her health and her confidence, while Alex has already abandoned LA to make the mountains her home. Drawn to the beauty and history of Desolation Peak, Sarah is hiking alone when a storm leaves her stranded. Determined to track her down, Alex heads into the wilderness, never anticipating the terrible danger she will face. Because Sarah is already running for her life, fleeing from a ruthless criminal with a mission to complete and nothing left to lose. With everything stacked against them, neither woman expects to survive, let alone fall in love. All they have to do now is find a way out.