Download or read book Mulengro written by Charles de Lint and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of magic and murder The increasingly bizarre murders have baffled the police—but each death is somehow connected with the city's elusive Gypsy community. The police are searching for a human killer, but the Romany know better. They know the name of the darkness that hunts them down, one by one: Mulengro. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Download or read book The Time Agents Search for the Leon Key written by Sam Libraty and published by Sam Libraty. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From author Sam Libraty comes a new science fiction contemporary series, The Time Agents. Book one of this series follows time agent Jon Howe as he travels from the 25th century to 1939 Morocco to stop an invasion from a parallel universe. Jon faces many challenges when he teams up with a beautiful and powerful woman from the parallel world, Shoshanna. Together, they must get the Leon Key away from the Nazis and use it to cross a rift between worlds. But not all is as it seems. Will Jon be able to cross to the other world, defeat a maniacal dictator and get the girl?
Download or read book Trapping Fog written by William Stafford and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A killer is slaughtering the prostitutes of Victorian London and Inspector John Kipper is baffled. Meanwhile, Damien Deacus, sidekick to a mysterious doctor, strives to keep himself out of trouble - and fails! Author William Stafford combines humour, horror and steampunk in this historical fantasy of gruesome crime and comic invention.
Download or read book Esperanza written by T. J. MacGregor and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tess Livingston met Ian Ritter at a roadside stop high in the Andes, waiting for a bus to the mysterious town of Esperanza. Tess is an FBI agent who remembers being on the track of a group of international counterfeiters. But she doesn’t remember booking a trip to Esperanza. Ian is a journalist who was planning to vacation to the Galapagos Islands. He, too, isn’t quite sure why he has a ticket to Esperanza. Their meeting will change their lives forever. For they have been brought together because they hold the key in a mystical war between the kind spirits of the dead who guard humanity, and the hungry ghosts who exist only to possess living human bodies, and return however briefly to life. In the midst of this war, Tess and Ian will find a love that can transcend time, and a cause that not even death will overcome.
Download or read book The Assault Harbingers written by Frank Peretti and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Next Wave of Stories in the Harbingers Series Arrives Cycle 2 of the Harbingers series continues the story of four gifted strangers brought together to fight a growing darkness. In Bill Myers's "The Revealing," the team finds themselves in Rome trying to retrieve the mystical spear Hitler once owned--the very spear that pierced Christ's side. This task will take them from hidden chambers inside the Vatican to a mysterious seaside cave with powers they could never expect. Frank Peretti's "Infestation" unleashes a microscopic evil on the world that deceives, blinds, kills, then spreads. The Harbingers team must confront a monster bent on seducing and destroying mankind. In "Infiltration" by Angela Hunt, the team is wounded and barely holding together. Forced to split up, they realize their investigations have led them into dangerous waters. Alton Gansky's "The Fog" unleashes a supernatural mist unlike any other. There are vicious things in the fog that kill whatever they find. One team member realizes that the ultimate sacrifice may have to be made.
Download or read book As the Crow Flies written by Karen F. Williams and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samantha Weller, a forensic scientist turned paranormal novelist, owes her life and writing career to a crow that saved her from certain death. When she buys an old bookend that looks like her avian muse, her world begins to resemble the plots of her novels. Determined to find the mate to her bookend, Samantha and her antiquarian sidekick, Liz, go on a search leading them to the beautiful and wealthy Gwen Laraway. Samantha is instantly smitten, but the age difference has Gwen second-guessing Samantha’s interest. Meanwhile, Liz is crushing on Gwen’s niece, Isabel. As clueless as she is sensuous, Isabel hasn’t had a date since her high school prom ten years ago, and she’s petrified to act on her sudden attraction to Liz. Romance seems to be blooming all around, but problems arise when a restless ghost emerges from the ether to roam the dark corners of this haunting tale that explores the quantum mechanics of immortality.
Download or read book Classic Fantasy Stories written by Farah Mendlesohn and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the eerie to the magical by way of the deeply strange, this collection of short stories is a must for all fantasy fans. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince draws on the great fairy tale tradition. Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Old Nurse gives us a taste of the Gothic whilst H.P. Blavatsky journeys into the weird. The effects of war and loss are keenly felt by Arthur Machen in his moving story The Bowmen. And in Victorian times, children’s writers such as Edith Nesbit spin the most charming fantastical tales in stories like The Dragon Tamers. These amazing feats of imagination brilliantly showcase the many facets of fantasy writing.
Download or read book Die and Stay Dead written by Nicholas Kaufmann and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Die and Stay Dead, Nicholas Kaufmann's gripping sequel to Dying is My Business, A brutal murder in Greenwich village puts Trent and the Five-Pointed Star on the trail of Erickson Arkwright, the last surviving member of a doomsday cult. Back in the day, the Aeternis Tenebris cult thought the world would end on New Year's Eve of 2000. When it didn't, they decided to end it themselves by summoning Nahash-Dred, a powerful, terrifying demon known as the Destroyer of Worlds. But something went wrong. The demon massacred the cult, leaving Arkwright the sole survivor. Now, hiding somewhere in New York City with a new identity, Arkwright plans to summon the demon again and finish the job he started over a decade ago. As Trent rushes to locate a long-lost magical artifact that may be the only way to stop him, the clues begin to mount... Trent's past and Arkwright's might be linked somehow. And if they are, it means the truth of who Trent really is may lie buried in the twisted mind of a madman.
Download or read book Blackout written by Connie Willis and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VE-Day. Polly Churchill’s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London’s Blitz. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments and switching around everyone’s schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, and dive-bombing Stukas—to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past.
Download or read book Return to Mariah written by Flarry W. Henry, III and published by Author House. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil returns twofold to Mariah, North Carolina. John Davidson finds himself torn and tormented by his quirky love triangle with Faith Matthews and her twin sister, Hope. What makes his situation so precarious is that their love affair occurs in two different centuries. Even more baffling is that the last time he saw Hope Matthews, she was dead, along with the town's Sheriff Angela Solomon. Mystically returning to Mariah, Hope and Angela convince John to join them on a special quest. They return to the year1867, thrust into post-civil war Mariah, a world of newly emancipated Negroes and angry white southerners. After their miraculous arrival to the past, the three newcomers soon find themselves on the run, falsely accused of murder, kidnapping and witchery. Back in the future, Faith Matthews, with the help of her eccentric family, is chosen to fight the evil gathering in Mariah. All are about to face a battle that spans the centuries, pitting light against dark, and threatening the wholesome way of life in small-town America.
Download or read book Star of Sakova Forgotten Legacy 2 written by Richard S. Tuttle and published by KBS Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star of Sakova, the second volume of the Forgotten Legacy, features Lyra, the only daughter of Master Malafar, owner and master of the Omunga Academy of Magic. A devastating and seemingly senseless attack on the Omunga Academy of Magic leaves Lyra running for her life. Her father, Master Malafar, was kidnapped and her mother was killed during the attack. Her mother's cryptic dying words propel Lyra on a journey across the country in search of her Uncle Temiker. The raiders of the Academy however have other plans for Lyra as they doggedly pursue her. With the raiders in pursuit and Imperial troops blocking the roads, Lyra has no chance of survival unless she enters the dreaded Sakova, a land of nightmares. The Sakova, long known as a place of no return, is home to cannibals, ferocious beasts, and strange magic. Discover a world of swords and magic, political intrigue and deceit, and cunning, ruthless people who seek to finish the annihilation of a society that began ages ago.
Download or read book Night Shift written by Maritta Wolff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally Otis works as a waitress in order to support her three children and a jobless younger sister. They live in a down-trodden apartment house, which they share with other working class tenants. Her husband is in a State mental hospital and most likely there for good. Her deadbeat younger brother and a lodger from across the hall pay board to eat in her crowded little flat. As Christmas approaches, there is no money for gifts and no prospect of her husband returning home. As her burden becomes intolerable, Sally's sturdy courage begins to falter. To make matters worse, the sleazy, suspicious owner of the local night club - Nick Toresca - takes a fancy to Sally and won't leave her alone. As he is the brother of her boss at the greasy spoon, she is in no position to call the shots. Things are shaken up when Sally's sister - the swaggering, glamorous, independent Petey Braun - appears on the scene. All loud laugh, deep voice, self-confident aplomb and worldly generosity, Petey grabs the spotlight and centre of the stage and never lets them go. She is an American career woman - one who makes a career of men: she is a master of her trade. To give Sally a break, Petey sets about to dazzle Nick so that he has no eyes for Sally. Nothing is straightforward when Petey gets involved, however, so what follows is a swift-paced tale of tension, excitement and sibling rivalry as the very different worlds of Sally and Petey collide . . .
Download or read book The Stone Giant written by James P. Blaylock and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Bing wasn’t the first citizen of Twonbly Town to have a run-in with Selznak the Dwarf. Meet the young Theophile Escargot, aggrieved former citizen of Twombly Town. Divorced, exiled, and humiliated (all for the crime of eating his own pie), he sets off down the Oriel in search of a fetching barmaid, only to find himself traveling by submarine into fabled Balumnia, where is he is beset on all sides by an evil dwarf, a piratical elf, a stone giant, and an unlucky bag of marbles. With a little help, Escargot must rescue his true love, save the elves, and--most importantly--redeem his dignity. Revisit the world of The Elfin Ship and The Disappearing Dwarf, and discover where the adventures began. "A magical world, magically presented... having journeyed there, you will not wish to leave, nor ever to forget." -- Philip K. Dick
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