Download or read book Drakaina s Fire written by Raven Lovelace and published by Raven Lovelace. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daphne My existence is one of constant danger. I am the oldest, the leader of a race of immortal warrior women. We are the stuff of myth and legend, with the ability to shift into powerful beings, The Drakaina. But now we are being hunted by Apollo's Champions, our greatest enemy from times long past, who we had thought stamped out of existence over a hundred years ago. When General Everett DuBois enters my life, he turns everything upside down. His very presence ignites a primal fire within me, but I don't have the time to give into it. My sister Michelle has just been captured, our enemy is back from the dead, and for the first time in twenty-five hundred years, the continuation of my people's immortal lives is on the line. And yet, the mating call beckons me... and my Drakaina is determined to answer it. Everett Daphne Drak is the defense contractor I'm assigned to investigate, and I never fail at my assignments. All part of making sure the taxpayers are getting what they paid for. At thirty-five, I’m the youngest General in the history of the armed forces. I'm used to getting my way. But this woman won't even return my calls, even as she sets my blood on fire with her emerald eyes and luscious curves. Daphne completely derails not only my assignment, but my life of military discipline, schedules, and routines. You can run all you want, Daphne. I WILL catch you.
Download or read book Justful Deception written by Benjamin Towe and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dragons! Justful Deception chronicles the affairs of black dragons in ancient Donothor. Intelligent and dexterous black dragons live in clashing gaggles and display mortal frailties of pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth. Young Xollos loves a drakaina from another gaggle and pays the price of banishment by his gagglemaster father. The young dragon finds a mentor in an earlier victim of his father's deceit. Tribulation and tragedy beset Xollos. Unexpected Magick touches him. The mysterious Dreamraider disturbs his slumber and bestows gifts and power. Is she 'mellon' (friend) or 'morikotto' (dark enemy)? Xollos employs all means to right old wrongs and in so doing struggles with his conscience. He makes unusual alliances, faces old nemeses, metes out payback, gives in to lust, and strives to unite black Dragondom. Dragons will be dragons!
Download or read book Drakaina s Fury written by Raven Lovelace and published by Raven Lovelace. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer My fated mate is our mortal enemy bent on our destruction and it’s all my fault. I made him into the monster he is and now I have to be the one to deal with him. So be it. It’s not like I could let them kill him! Maybe one day they’ll understand why I did what I did. Every time we meet we are either trying to tear each other’s heads or clothes off, either way, not a lot of communication happening in this relationship. Tyler I’ve been exiled from my homeland, lost my Knighthood, and left for dead in the harsh desert. It’s all thanks to one woman who haunts my dreams like a waking nightmare. Although perhaps it’s more like a wet dream. Still, I didn’t ask for this, I didn’t want to be made into one of them but now I am and I’ve had my very soul stolen from me. One woman bears responsibility for everything that goes wrong in my life and I’ll make her and her family pay not only for what they’ve done to me but also for the power they have over mankind itself. A power I intend to harness. If only I could stop falling in love every time I see her.
Download or read book Drakon written by Daniel Ogden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the dragon or the supernatural serpent in Graeco-Roman myth and religion. It incorporates analyses, with comprehensive accounts of the rich literary and iconographic sources, for the principal dragons of myth, and discusses matters of cult and the paradoxical association of dragons and serpents with the most benign of deities.
Download or read book The Dragon in the West written by Daniel Ogden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how the image and idea of the dragon has evolved through history How did the dragon get its wings? Everyone in the modern West has a clear idea of what a dragon looks like and of the sorts of stories it inhabits, not least devotees of the fantasies of J. R. R. Tolkien, J. K. Rowling, and George R. R. Martin. A cross between a snake and some fearsome mammal, often sporting colossal wings, they live in caves, lie on treasure, maraud, and breathe fire. They are extraordinarily powerful, but even so, ultimately defeated in their battles with humans. What is the origin of this creature? The Dragon in the West is the first serious and substantial account in any language of the evolution of the modern dragon from its ancient forebears. Daniel Ogden's detailed exploration begins with the drakōn of Greek myth and the draco of the dragon-loving Romans, and a look at the ancient world's female dragons. It brings the story forwards though Christian writings, medieval illustrated manuscripts, and the lives of dragon-duelling saints, before concluding with a study of dragons found in the medieval Germanic world, including those of the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf and the Norse sagas.
Download or read book Archaeology of the Ionian Sea written by Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a thematic collection of papers dealing with the Stone Age and Bronze Age archaeology of the Ionian Sea, situated off the south western Balkan peninsula. It is based on an international conference held in Athens, Greece in January 2020. The eastern Ionian occupies a geographically complex area, which since the Pleistocene has undergone significant alterations due to tectonic activity and sea-level fluctuations. This dynamic environment, where islands, mainland, and sea intertwined to present different landscapes and seascapes to the human communities exploring the region at different times in the past, provides an ideal setting for their study from a diachronic perspective. This book deals thematically with the processes of circulation of people, materials, artefacts and ideas by examining patterns of settlement, burial and multi-layered interconnections between the different communities via land and sea. It investigates aspects of regional and interregional communication, isolation, collective memory and the creation of distinct identities within and between different cultural and social groups. It focuses on the islands of the Central Ionian Sea, offering new data from excavations and surveys on Zakynthos, Kefalonia, Ithaki and the smaller islands of the Inner Ionian Archipelago between Lefkada and Akarnania. The cultural interchange between the islands and the continental coasts is reflected in the volume with the addition of chapters dealing with contemporary sites in west Greece and southeast Italy. The Ionian, often regarded as 'at the fringes' of the Aegean, the Balkan and the central Mediterranean archaeological discourse, has lately offered new and exciting data that not only enrich but also alter our perceptions of mobility, settlement and interaction. The collection of papers in this book enhances theoretical discussions by offering a geographically and culturally comparative approach, ranging from the earliest Palaeolithic evidence of human presence in the region to the end of the Bronze Age.
Download or read book Book of the Sphinx written by Willis Goth Regier and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sought, the Sphinx seems everywhere, whether the guardian of the pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau or the beautiful man-eater with a deadly riddle, to be approached with awful caution. The Sphinx, that icon painted, sculpted, engraved, and exalted in poetry, fiction, and music, so impressed the philosopher Hegel that he pronounced the creature “the symbol of the symbolic itself.” With a wealth of illustrations, Book of the Sphinx confirms Hegel's lofty judgment, finding the Sphinx everywhere: in tragedies, paintings, opera, murder mysteries, brothels, bars, and advertisements. Pursuing the Sphinx through kaleidoscopic sightings and encyclopedic observations, Willis Goth Regier plumbs the symbol's mysteries, conducting the reader down ever more perplexing and intriguing paths. Wonderfully readable, his highly idiosyncratic tour of the ages and the arts leads at last to a conception of the Sphinx that embraces nothing less than all that is unknowable—proving once again that confronting a Sphinx is one of the most dangerous and exhilarating adventures of the imagination.
Download or read book Beautiful Leaved Plants written by Edward Lowe and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
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Download or read book Cry of the Icemark The Icemark Chronicles Book 1 written by Stuart Hill and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic, highly acclaimed fantasy that has just been optioned as a feature film by Fox 2000!The Icemark is a kingdom in grave danger. Its king has been killed in battle, its enemy lies in wait, and its fate rests on the shoulders of one girl. Thirrin Freer Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield, a beautiful princess and an intrepid warrior, must find a way to protect her land from a terrible invasion. She will forge an extraordinary alliance of noble Snow Leopards, ancient Vampires, and ferocious Wolf-folk. She will find unexpected strength in her friendship with a young warlock. And she will lead her allies to victory with her fierce battle cry: "Blood! Blast! And Fire!"
Download or read book Soldier of Arete written by Gene Wolfe and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1989-08-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of Gene Wolfe's powerful story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who, while fighting in Greece, received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory. In return it gave him the ability to converse with supernatural creatures, gods and goddesses who invisibly inhabit the ancient landscape. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Dragon Tarot written by Terry Donaldson and published by U.S. Games Systems. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey into the far reaches of Dragonland with the Dragon Tarot book. Discover how mythical dragons can lead you to a better understanding of yourself and your life.
Download or read book The Big Book of Magical Incense written by Sara L. Mastros and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2021 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is for practicing magicians and Pagans who want to learn to formulate their own magical incenses. While the book requires no prerequisite knowledge, it is also appropriate for experienced magicians and learned Pagans. Presented in a paradigm-agnostic way, the book should appeal to people on numerous paths"--
Download or read book Dragonbane written by Sherrilyn Kenyon and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of all the mysterious boarders who call Sanctuary home, no one is more antisocial or withdrawn than Maxis Drago. But then, it's hard to blend in with the modern world when you have a fifty foot wingspan. Centuries ago, he was cursed by an enemy who swore to see him fall. An enemy who took everything from him and left him forever secluded. But Fate is a bitch, with a wicked sense of humor. And when she throws old enemies together and threatens the wife he thought had died centuries ago, he comes back with a vengeance. Modern day New Orleans has become a battleground for the oldest of evils. And two dragons will hold the line, or go down in flames, in Dragonbane, the next explosive Dark-Hunter novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon.
Download or read book Team Awkward written by Katy Birchall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Egmont, 2015.
Download or read book Reconstructing Archaeological Sites written by Panagiotis Karkanas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the systematic understanding of the geoarchaeological matrix Reconstructing Archaeological Sites offers an important text that puts the focus on basic theoretical and practical aspects of depositional processes in an archaeological site. It contains an in-depth discussion on the role of stratigraphy that helps determine how deposits are organised in time and space. The authors — two experts in the field — include the information needed to help recognise depositional systems, processes and stratigraphic units that aid in the interpreting the stratigraphy and deposits of a site in the field. The book is filled with practical tools, numerous illustrative examples, drawings and photos as well as compelling descriptions that help visualise depositional processes and clarify how these build the stratigraphy of a site. Based on the authors’ years of experience, the book offers a holistic approach to the study of archaeological deposits that spans the broad fundamental aspects to the smallest details. This important guide: Offers information and principles for interpreting natural and anthropogenic sediments and physical processes in sites Provides a framework for reconstructing the history of a deposit and the site Outlines the fundamental principles of site formation processes Explores common misconceptions about what constitutes a deposit Presents a different approach for investigating archaeological stratigraphy based on sedimentary principles Written for archaeologists and geoarchaeologists at all levels of expertise as well as senior level researchers, Reconstructing Archaeological Sites offers a guide to the theory and practice of how stratigraphy is produced and how deposits can be organised in time and space.
Download or read book Dragons written by Doug Niles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-18 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantastic collection of draconic tradition! Since the Bronze Age, people have been fascinated, enchanted, and even frightened by tales of mystical dragons. With this book, you will unravel the history and mystery behind these serpentine beasts with folklore, mythology, and poetry from every tradition in the world. From the Slavic Zmey Gorynych, bearing its three fire-breathing heads, to J.R.R. Tolkien's Smaug, who laid entire towns to waste, the thrilling stories surrounding these fierce monsters are sure to captivate anyone who has ever dreamed of running into one during his or her travels. Whether you're interested in exploring the history and culture or just want to learn more about your favorite types of dragons, the legendary tales in this book will transport you to a time when these mythical creatures ruled the land, sea, and sky. Complete with hundreds of imaginative illustrations, Dragons reveals the magnificent beauty of these mesmerizing creatures as well as their terrifying power over civilizations.
