Download or read book In Great Waters written by Kit Whitfield and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a time of great upheaval, the citizens of Venice make a pact that will change the world. The landsmen of the city broker a treaty with a water-dwelling tribe of deepsmen, cementing the alliance through marriage. The mingling of the two races produces a fresh, peerless strain of royal blood. To protect their shores, other nations make their own partnerships with this new breed–and then, jealous of their power, ban any further unions between the two peoples. Dalliance with a deepswoman becomes punishable by death. Any “bastard” child must be destroyed. This is an Earth where the legends of the deep are true–where the people of the ocean are as real and as dangerous as the people of the land. This is the world of intrigue and betrayal that Kit Whitfield brings to life in an unforgettable alternate history: the tale of Anne, the youngest princess of a faltering England, struggling to survive in a troubled court, and Henry, a bastard abandoned on the shore to face his bewildering destiny, finding himself a pawn in a game he does not understand. Yet even a pawn may checkmate a king.
Download or read book The Blood Confession written by Alisa M. Libby and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cursed at birth, the beautiful and ruthless young Erzebet becomes obsessed with achieving eternal youth and begins to bathe in the blood of virgin girls in order to preserve her beauty. Based on the life of the "Blood Countess," who lived in Hungary in the 1500s.
Download or read book The Blood Confession written by Alisa Libby and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-08-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erzebet is young, beautiful, rich, and imprisoned in her castle, waiting to be sentenced for murder. In a brilliant fiction debut, Alisa M. Libby resurrects the real-life Erzebet Bathory, a seventeenth-century countess who believed that bathing in human blood would preserve her looks forever. The jailed countess tells her story from her birth, which was overshadowed by a bad omen, to her mother's mental deterioration, Erzebet's own love for a mysterious figure, and the crimes she committed in pursuit of eternal life. This gripping novel combines gothic horror and romance as it explores the connection between beauty and power.
Download or read book Shadows Over Domanesth The Enigma of the Diabolic Witch written by Arthur Anderson and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the shadowy pages of "Shadows over Domanesth: The Enigma of the Diabolical Witch," you will be immersed in a dark corner of the Middle Ages. In the peaceful village of Domanesth, where shadows whisper secrets and mysteries lurk around every corner, an intriguing and perilous story unfolds. You will meet a cast of captivating characters, from Anna, the restaurant manager, to her sister Bárbara and her friend Dorina. As their everyday lives intertwine, strange events begin to disturb the tranquility of Domanesth. The enigma takes shape with the arrival of Ilona, a wise elder who possesses hidden knowledge about the town's past. In the shadows, Benedek and Dominik, the overseers and the town's watchman, keep a close watch. Even the church is not exempt from suspicion, as the priest Sándor senses the threat of an evil presence among his parishioners. Anna's husband, Olivér, is drawn into the battle against the witch and her sinister ally, the black wolf, as they seek to unravel the truth behind the dark events that threaten Domanesth. Each chapter of this immersive narrative will take you deeper into the plot, unveiling mysteries, secrets, and confrontations between light and darkness. Tension will mount as Domanesth prepares for an inevitable confrontation. The enduring question is whether the town will survive the shadows that threaten to engulf it, or if redemption and light will finally shine in this place besieged by the unknown.
Download or read book An Embarrassment of Riches written by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two decades strong, the Saint-Germain cycle is one of the most compelling works of dark fantasy and horror of our age. Historically accurate, often involving key events or figures from throughout world history, these deeply emotional novels have a devoted readership. Each novel is written as a stand-alone and they are not chronologically consecutive, so readers may enter the saga with any book and move backward or forward in time as they choose, from Pharaonic Egypt to Paris in the 1700s, from the fall of the Roman Empire to World War II Europe. In An Embarrassment of Riches, the vampire Count finds himself a virtual prisoner in the Court of Kunigunde in Bohemia in the 1200s. Rakoczy Ferncsi, as Saint-Germain is known, passes his days making jewels to delight Queen Kunigunde and trying not to become involved in the Court's intrigues. In this, the vampire fails. Handsome, apparently wealthy, and obviously unmarried, he soon finds himself being sexually blackmailed by Rozsa, an ambitious lady-in-waiting. If he does not satisfy her, she will denounce him to the priests and he'll be burned at the stake, resulting in his True Death. Despite his care, the vampire makes more than one enemy at the Bohemian Court, and by the end of An Embarrassment of Riches, the Count can see only one road to freedom...through death. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Evil Serial Killers written by Charlotte Greig and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our fascination with serial killers is at once disturbing and understandable: disturbing because, according to society's mores, we should condemn the killers' crimes and avoid all thought of their horrific actions, but understandable because we are so fascinated by their motives. What leads them to behave in such perverted ways? And what makes them become killers who strike again and again? Charlotte Greig has selected fifty of the world's most infamous serial killers, ranging from Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy. When compared, it is easy to see similar themes emerging: the loners, David Berkowitz and Anatoly Onoprienko, who both wrought revenge on a society which they felt had rejected them; those who kill purely for sexual thrills, like Albert Fish or John Christie; and occult practitioners like the Chicago Rippers and Richard Ramirez who were inspired by macabre rituals to take their dark fantasies into even darker realities. Whatever the personal stories that emerge from this lineup of twisted individuals, Evil Serial Killers is a compelling testament, and warning, of the potential of human behaviour for true horror and pure evil. Featuring: • Ted Bundy • Harold Shipman • Ed Gein • Jack the Ripper • Aileen Wuornos • John Muhammad • Charles Cullen • Belle Gunness • Joseph Paul Franklin
Download or read book Masks and Shadows written by Stephanie Burgis and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1779, and Carlo Morelli, the most renowned castrato singer in Europe, has been invited as an honored guest to Eszterháza Palace. With Carlo in Prince Nikolaus Esterházy's carriage, ride a Prussian spy and one of the most notorious alchemists in the Habsburg Empire. Already at Eszterháza is Charlotte von Steinbeck, the very proper sister of Prince Nikolaus's mistress. Charlotte has retreated to the countryside to mourn her husband's death. Now, she must overcome the ingrained rules of her society in order to uncover the dangerous secrets lurking within the palace's golden walls. Music, magic, and blackmail mingle in a plot to assassinate the Habsburg Emperor and Empress--a plot that can only be stopped if Carlo and Charlotte can see through the masks worn by everyone they meet. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Download or read book PINK LOTUS written by MANFRED MITZE and published by Createspace.com. This book was released on 2013-04-14 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disaffected German comes of age and sets out on a lifelong journey to discover himself through sex, drugs and, ultimately, spirituality in Mitze’s novel. Walter Herzog was born in a small town outside of Frankfurt to an emotionally detached mother and a Nazi-sympathizing stepfather at the tail end of World War II. Teenage Walter and his pals come to school drunk and oversexed; eventually, they skip classes altogether to make out with girls and earn drinking money. Over the years, restless Walter finds himself loving numerous women. He gets drafted into the German military and relinquishes his service by claiming pacifism. Later, he discovers marijuana and finally settles with a beautiful girl, Hilde. But a stable relationship isn’t enough to stave off Walter’s mounting depression and intense desire to find meaning. When he and a friend visit the United States in the late 1960s, he falls in love with an unlikely place—Oklahoma City—where he encounters psychedelic drugs. He moves there with Hilde to open a restaurant, before returning to Frankfurt, addicted to psychedelics. One summer, while living with Hilde at his parents’ home in Germany, Walter has an epiphany: “People he knew or heard of had gone to the East…and seemed different when they returned.” So he and Hilde bus through Budapest, Athens, Turkey and the Middle East to India, where Walter marvels over “how people survived their daily struggle in apparent chaos under harsh conditions.” Later, on a depressive whim, he also visits the Far East, briefly living in a commune and practicing meditation to help him come to terms with his new life as a father and published author. The bulk of Walter’s life, roughly 50 years, is relayed largely through exposition, resulting in dry prose that rarely slows to capture the intense emotions of, for example, Walter’s first sexual encounter or his decision to visit India. Regardless, the book’s dozens of concise chapters, characters and exotic locales—not to mention Walter’s spontaneity—make for a profoundly engaging and unpredictable plot. In Walter, Mitze has created a counterculture-era Siddhartha, a nomadic soul who discovers unexpected meaning in home, friendship and rock ’n’ roll. A picaresque tale of personal conviction and compassion.
Download or read book Soros written by Michael T. Kaufman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penniless émigré who made a fortune and became one of the great philanthropists of the twentieth century, George Soros has led a remarkable life. This biography brings forth his story in unprecedented depth, from his childhood as a Jew in occupied Budapest during World War II to his conquests on Wall Street and the establishment of his philanthropic Open Society foundations. Soros offers exclusive glimpses at an often misunderstood man, revealing a shy character whose own struggle to escape the Nazis left him with the adamant belief that people of the world are entitled to live without the fear of oppression. Enigmatic, contradictory, and inspiring, George Soros is one of the most intriguing and globally influential men of our time. In this accomplished biography, written with Soros’s cooperation, Michael T. Kaufman fully illuminates the man, his motivations, and his legacy.
Download or read book A COMMEMORATIVE ALBUM OF REMEMBRANCE TO HUNGARY AND ITS PEOPLE written by Lindsay Tonkin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book 97 196 Words written by Emmanuel Carrère and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carrère. Although he takes cues from such literary heroes as Truman Capote and Janet Malcolm, Carrère has, over the course of his career, reinvented the form in a search for truth in all its guises. Dispensing with the rules of genre, he takes what he needs from every available form or discipline—be it theology, historiography, fiction, reportage, or memoir—and fuses it under the pressure of an inimitable combination of passion, curiosity, intellect, and wit. With an oeuvre unique in world literature for its blend of empathy and playfulness, Carrère stands as one of our most distinctive and important literary voices. 97,196 Words introduces Carrère’s shorter works to an English-language audience. Featuring more than thirty extraordinary essays written over an illustrious twenty-five-year period of Carrère’s creative life, this collection shows an exceptional mind at work. Spanning continents, histories, and personal relationships, and treating everything from American heroin addicts to the writing of In Cold Blood, from the philosophy of Philip K. Dick to a single haunting sentence in a minor story by H. P. Lovecraft, from Carrère’s own botched interview with Catherine Deneuve to the week he spent following the future French president Emmanuel Macron, 97,196 Words considers the divides between truth, reality, and our shared humanity as it explores remarkable events and eccentric lives, including Carrère’s own.
Download or read book Eastwind written by Jim Puskas and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-12-19 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her marriage falls apart, the headstrong Louise moves back to the family farm in southwest Ontario. She quickly builds a chicken business and blackberry business that bring in more cash than the rest of the farm put together. Within three years, customers from Toronto to Windsor are lining up to buy her product at premium prices. Being home brings back a flood of memoriesincluding her lifelong sibling rivalry with her sister, Nora, who their mother considers a grand success. It makes no sense to Louise, who is viewed as a failure even though she has money that shes invested wisely. Nora, meanwhile, has a grouchy husband, three brats, and a crummy house. Louises life choices have placed her in conflict on many fronts; and yet she enjoys some great memories from childhood, including the days she went fishing with her father, collected sap from maple trees, and how the family stayed afloat during the Great Depression. Sensing that she is approaching her final days, Louise decides on one last venture to right some wrongs, overcome a bitter enemy and possibly leave a legacy.
Download or read book Darker Jewels written by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-01-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le Comte de Saint-Germain is many things: alchemist, ambassador, lover - and the most seductive vampire since Dracula himself. Throughout countless centuries, he has brought passion and adventure to many exotic historical eras, as well as to an ever-growing following of devoted fans and readers. Darker Jewels reveals for the first time a dramatic and powerful chapter in the immortal existence of Saint-Germain. In the sixteenth century, the mysterious and isolated empire of the Russias is ruled by Ivan IV, better known as Ivan the Terrible. In a violent fit of rage, he has just murdered his oldest son. Now driven nearly insane by guilt, Ivan is obsessed with the mystical properties of the jewels he prays can relieve his conscience. But while Ivan goes mad, the Russian court is in an uproar, and neighboring lands fear for their own security. Into this maelstrom of intrigue, treachery, fear, and superstition, King Stephan Bathory of Poland has sent as his personal envoy none other than the Count Saint-Germain. Only Saint-Germain's alchemical skills can provide Ivan with the unearthly jewels he craves, and only a being with Saint-Germain's infinite experience and wisdom can hope to negotiate the dangerous undercurrents running within Ivan's court. But the one thing this ageless vampire never expected to find in old Moscovy is love and passion with the beautiful Xenya Evgeneiva - the woman who would become his wife.
Download or read book Fifteen Years in Exile written by Barry Callaghan and published by Exile Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiend written by C. Dean Andersson and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2019-09-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BELIEVE IN EVIL The Dysan children needed to be punished. Daddy took care of them… permanently. Now he's come to Dallas's biggest comic book convention to continue his bloody work. So many bad children. So little time. BELIEVE IN FEAR She is Toxique, the ultimate comic book avenger. She was born in the vivid imagination of one lonely boy. Tonight he is going to drive her out of his mind… and into a real world of unspeakable violence. BELIEVE IN HELL Two forces are about to collide. One is good. One is evil. Both are driven by blood and vengeance. Both are unstoppable. BELIEVE.
Download or read book George Soros written by Peter L. W. Osnos and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling new picture of one of the most important, complex, and misunderstood figures of our time. The name George Soros is recognized around the world. Universally known for his decades of philanthropy, progressive politics, and investment success, he is equally well known as the nemesis of the far right—the target of sustained attacks from nationalists, populists, authoritarian regimes, and anti-Semites—because of his commitment to open society, freedom of the press, and liberal democracy. At age 91, Soros still looms large on the global stage, and yet the man himself is surprisingly little understood. Asking people to describe Soros is likely to elicit different and seemingly contradictory answers. Who is George Soros, really? And why does this question matter? Biographers have attempted to tell the story of George Soros, but no single account of his life can capture his extraordinary, multifaceted character. Now, in this ambitious and revealing new book, Soros's longtime publisher, Peter L. W. Osnos, has assembled an intriguing set of contributors from a variety of different perspectives—public intellectuals (Eva Hoffman, Michael Ignatieff), journalists (Sebastian Mallaby, Orville Schell), scholars (Leon Botstein, Ivan Krastev), and nonprofit leaders (Gara LaMarche, Darren Walker)—to paint a full picture of the man beyond the media portrayals. Some have worked closely with Soros, while others have wrestled with issues and quandaries similar to his in their own endeavors. Their collective expertise shines a new light on Soros's activities and passions and, to the extent possible, the motivation for them and the outcomes that resulted. Through this kaleidoscope of viewpoints emerges a vivid and compelling portrait of this remarkable man's unique and consequential impact. It has truly been a life in full.
