Download or read book Ethereal s Quest written by Leslie Cook and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-01-20 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is book 3 of the Ethereal series. Kyra is at the mercy of the gods. Separated from the divine power, which she took for granted, she must prove herself worthy to the gods. Death lingers as the fates' judgment decides her outcome. Is she worthy of the destiny thrust upon her? The truth of her past and her identity is revealed. Is she able to accept who and what she is? Danger lingers in the shadows as history grips the future.
Download or read book Ethereal s Call written by Leslie Cook and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kyra Vale Aiwler is an unpopular witch on an assignment for her coven. Her task is clear, and her goal is set. Then she gets derailed when she crosses paths with a Fae bartender, Micah Rao. She has no interest in anything he has to offer, but he will not take no for an answer. Ensnared by his proposal, she finds herself at the mercy of a secret destiny and a past she knew nothing about. She crosses over to a world that is foreign to her and one she may not be ready to embrace. She goes on an epic journey and learns about her true self and the heritage that she was being denied. She has untapped potential and power that she will need to overcome the obstacles of her past. She is the hope that is threatened by a lingering darkness that will not be easily overcome. With the aid of her new relationships, will she be able to conquer the threats of this foreign land?
Download or read book The Golden Quest for Eternal Life written by John V. Kardel and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Quest for Eternal Life: Without God There Is No Eternal Life By: John V. Kardel Have you ever wondered about life, religion, God, humanity, and science, and how they might be connected? Have you ever questioned human origins or the existence of a higher being? The Golden Quest for Eternal Life: Without God There Is No Eternal Life just might challenge the way you think about these profound topics. Originally conceived as a way to elucidate the author’s beliefs for his son, The Golden Quest for Eternal Life is so much more. In this slender and highly readable volume, John V. Kardel endeavors to debunk religious cults, question popular scientific theories, and provide a foundation for meaningful contemplation of who we are, where we come from, and most importantly, why we’re here. “A cursory review of my book may lead one to think of it as anti-religious, but it is not,” says Kardel. Essentially, it is a thoughtful and mature meditation on life, God, and religion that he hopes “will help others avoid religious bickering, bitterness, and zealots; and instill a desire to accomplish something for their God(s).” So, take the plunge, and ponder.
Download or read book Ethereal written by Raymond S Flex and published by Dib Books. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redundancy: a horrid word. But it comes as a blessing to fifty-something Trevor Harrison. As he sits in his local graveyard, munching on his lunchtime sandwich, he considers the modelling shop he'll put into place with his payoff. His life's dream. And fate takes just that moment to laugh in his face, sending him off to Ethereal, a land far, far away. Ethereal: A Novel . . . Set in Ethereal
Download or read book Short Stories A I Vol2 written by Johnny Autobot and published by Bill Valiontis. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 13 Short stories created by artificial intelligence.
Download or read book Ethereal written by Matthew Prior and published by Matthew Prior. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karu Rogers is just an ordinary teenage boy - that is, until a close encounter with an invisible entity referred to as an Echo leaves him infected with a malevolent supernatural virus. The virus quickly manifests within Karu's body accelerating his ability to heal, increasing his physical strength, heightening his senses and ultimately gives him the ability to see the spiritual realm; the plane of existence that overlaps with the normal world. When Karu meets others affected by the Ether he soon realises that the world around him is not as it appears. The Echo threat is imminent and only he can save his home from destruction!
Download or read book Short Stories Vol 1 4 written by Bill Valiontis and published by Bill Valiontis. This book was released on 2023-12-10 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 52 Short Stories.
Download or read book The Crystal Tower written by Liam Donnelly and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zatera Stri was his name. In an ancient quest for power spanning millennia, he travelled the Universe, assuming identities on different worlds, all the while seeking knowledge about one thing. But he never found what he was looking for, despite leaving a trail of terrible wreckage in his wake. Eventually, Max and his kin took it upon themselves to imprison him, until he was awoken by a young Ethereal named Trey Rousseau. Now on Earth, and using Trey's body like a puppet, Zatera begins to build an enormous structure off the coast of New York City, with plans to use it to finally reach The Nexus-the epicenter of creation itself-from where and to where all psychic energy flows. In their quest to stop him, Jane and her friends travel back to the city, attempting to quell the growing panic there as Zatera enchants hundreds of other Ethereals, drawing them toward him and using their power to help him build the edifice that will become The Crystal Tower. At the same time, Max turns west toward California, where he senses another powerful Ethereal, Daniel, may be in danger of similar possession by Zatera. However, Max knows nothing of the tectonic conflict he will soon face there. But Jane was given something by the Rose, a mere fragment of the soul of the Universe itself, and now, it has drawn Zatera's focus. Separated from Max, she and her friends must work to help keep the city safe and remain hidden from the vast reach of Zatera's mind. Once Zatera's odious plan is set in motion, the tower grows quickly. Can they-indeed, can anyone-halt its rapid reach toward the sky? They no longer fight for their own fate, but that of the world now too-and the Universe beyond."
Download or read book What We Are The Evolutionary Roots of Our Future written by Lonnie Aarssen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other animals are driven to spend essentially their whole lives just trying to get fed, stay alive, and get laid. That’s about it. The same was true for our proto-human ancestors. And modern humans of course also require a Survival Drive and a Sex Drive in order to leave descendants. But today we spend most of our lives mainly just trying to convince ourselves that our existence is not absurd. In What We Are, Queen’s University biologist, Lonnie Aarssen, traces how our biocultural evolution has shaped Homo sapiens into the only creature that refuses to be what it is — the only creature preoccupied with a deeply ingrained, and absurd sentiment: I have a distinct ‘mental life’—an ‘inner self’—that exists separately and apart from ‘material life’, and so, unlike the latter, need not come to an end. This delusion conceivably gave our distant ancestors some wishful thinking for finding some measure of relief from the terrifying, uniquely human knowledge of the eventual loss of corporeal survival. But this came with an impulsive, nagging doubt — an obsessive underlying uncertainty: ‘self-impermanence anxiety’. Biocultural evolution, however, was not finished. It also gave us two additional, uniquely human, primal drives, both serving to help quell the burden of this anxiety. Legacy Drive generates delusional cultural domains for ‘extension’ of self; and Leisure Drive generates pleasurable cultural domains for distraction – ‘escape’ – from self. Legacy Drive and Leisure Drive, Aarssen argues, represent two of the most profound consequences of human cognitive and cultural evolution. What We Are advances propositions regarding how a visceral susceptibility to self-impermanence anxiety has — paradoxically — played a pivotal role in rewarding the reproductive success of our ancestors, and has thus been a driving force in shaping fundamental motivations and cultural norms of modern humans. More than any other milestone in the evolution of human minds, self-impermanence anxiety, and its mitigating Drives for Legacy and Leisure, account for not just the advance of civilization over the past many thousands of years, but also now, its impending collapse. Effective management of this crisis, Aarssen insists, will require a deeper and more broadly public understanding of its Darwinian evolutionary roots — as laid out in What We Are.
Download or read book Saint X written by Alexis Schaitkin and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 "'Saint X' is hypnotic. Schaitkin's characters...are so intelligent and distinctive it feels not just easy, but necessary, to follow them. I devoured [it] in a day." –Oyinkan Braithwaite, New York Times Book Review When you lose the person who is most essential to you, who do you become? Recommended by Entertainment Weekly, included in Good Morning America's 20 Books We're Excited for in 2020 & named as one of Vogue's Best Books to Read This Winter, Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of February 2020, and O Magazine's 14 of the Best Books to Read This February! Hailed as a “marvel of a book” and “brilliant and unflinching,” Alexis Schaitkin’s stunning debut, Saint X, is a haunting portrait of grief, obsession, and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know one another. Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X. Several days later, Alison’s body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men–employees at the resort–are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. The story turns into national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved. For Claire and her parents, there is only the return home to broken lives. Years later, Claire is living and working in New York City when a brief but fateful encounter brings her together with Clive Richardson, one of the men originally suspected of murdering her sister. It is a moment that sets Claire on an obsessive pursuit of the truth–not only to find out what happened the night of Alison’s death but also to answer the elusive question: Who exactly was her sister? At seven, Claire had been barely old enough to know her: a beautiful, changeable, provocative girl of eighteen at a turbulent moment of identity formation. As Claire doggedly shadows Clive, hoping to gain his trust, waiting for the slip that will reveal the truth, an unlikely attachment develops between them, two people whose lives were forever marked by the same tragedy. For readers of Emma Cline’s The Girls and Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies, Saint X is a flawlessly drawn and deeply moving story that culminates in an emotionally powerful ending.
Download or read book The Monsters Know What They re Doing written by Keith Ammann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular blog The Monsters Know What They’re Doing comes a compilation of villainous battle plans for Dungeon Masters. In the course of a Dungeons & Dragons game, a Dungeon Master has to make one decision after another in response to player behavior—and the better the players, the more unpredictable their behavior! It’s easy for even an experienced DM to get bogged down in on-the-spot decision-making or to let combat devolve into a boring slugfest, with enemies running directly at the player characters and biting, bashing, and slashing away. In The Monsters Know What They’re Doing, Keith Ammann lightens the DM’s burden by helping you understand your monsters’ abilities and develop battle plans before your fifth edition D&D game session begins. Just as soldiers don’t whip out their field manuals for the first time when they’re already under fire, a DM shouldn’t wait until the PCs have just encountered a dozen bullywugs to figure out how they advance, fight, and retreat. Easy to read and apply, The Monsters Know What They're Doing is essential reading for every DM.
Download or read book Guilds of Galyndor written by K.S. Crooks and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Guilds of Galyndor, Guild members have the exceptional ability to harness many powerful forces that exist in the world. There are four Guild disciplines, each different in their abilities; nevertheless the same in their intentions: Guild Masters serve as peacekeepers, protectors of the land, even as warriors when the need arises. The four Guilds are Shoguns, who have the ability to enhance their physical attributes and senses. Elementals, who are capable of manipulating the basic elements of nature- water, fire, lightning, earth and air. Ethereals, who have the ability to manipulate light, control their shadows and access an alternate realm using mirrors. Shamans, who are capable of manipulating life auras, allowing them to affect plants, animals and positively influence human health. Kendra, Wyatt, Garrick and Naomi- four new Guild students will become a team and great friends. In the face of tragedy, they take on the challenge of saving the life of a fellow student. Their quest takes them throughout Galyndor to new destinations, and shows them sights and creatures they did not know existed. To overcome the tremendous perils of their undertaking, each of them will need to discover new strengths and abilities, or their friend will perish.
Download or read book George Russell A E written by Richard Morgan Kain and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1976 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Ethereal Squadron written by Shami Stovall and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorcerers. Grave-Maker Gas. A secret battle fought during World War I. The Ethereal Squadron, a Special Forces team of soldiers who wield magic, wages a secret war against the enemy sorcerers of the central powers. Florence Cavell, codename Geist, has a unique magical ability-she can become ghost-like and incorporeal-allowing her to infiltrate enemy forts with ease. But when the central powers unleash their magic corrupting Grave-Maker Gas, a deadly weapon that warps everything it touches, the war shifts in their favor. To have any hope of combating the new threat, Geist must retrieve the schematics for Grave-Maker Gas, but the production labs are in the heart of enemy-controlled territory. Together with a team of allied sorcerers, each with their own unique magical abilities, Geist must race against time, navigate deadly trench warfare, and fight against warped monsters in order to turn the tides of the Great War.
Download or read book Dinner in French written by Melissa Clark and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of Dinner in an Instant breaks down the new French classics with 150 recipes that reflect a modern yet distinctly French sensibility. “Melissa Clark’s contemporary eye is just what the chef ordered. Her recipes are traditional yet fresh, her writing is informative yet playful, and the whole package is achingly chic.”—Yotam Ottolenghi NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Delish • Library Journal Just as Julia Child brought French cooking to twentieth-century America, so now Melissa Clark brings French cooking into the twenty-first century. She first fell in love with France and French food as a child; her parents spent their August vacations traversing the country in search of the best meals with Melissa and her sister in tow. Near to her heart, France is where Melissa's family learned to cook and eat. And as her own culinary identity blossomed, so too did her understanding of why French food is beloved by Americans. Now, as one of the nation's favorite cookbook authors and food writers, Melissa updates classic French techniques and dishes to reflect how we cook, shop, and eat today. With recipes such as Salade Nicoise with Haricot Vert, Cornmeal and Harissa Soufflé, Scalloped Potato Gratin, Lamb Shank Cassoulet, Ratatouille Sheet-Pan Chicken, Campari Olive Oil Cake, and Apricot Tarte Tatin (to name a few), Dinner in French will quickly become a go-to resource and endure as an indispensable classic.
Download or read book From Eternity to Here written by Sean Carroll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time." -Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang. Now, Sean Carroll says we need to be more ambitious. One of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation, Carroll delivers a dazzling and paradigm-shifting theory of time's arrow that embraces subjects from entropy to quantum mechanics to time travel to information theory and the meaning of life. From Eternity to Here is no less than the next step toward understanding how we came to exist, and a fantastically approachable read that will appeal to a broad audience of armchair physicists, and anyone who ponders the nature of our world.
