Download or read book Garthion s Child written by Tamera Austin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Taressa Wardell, life was nothing more than one huge ball of struggle, chaos, and confusion. Born to an uncaring mother and raised on the streets, her world revolved around drugs, alcohol, promiscuous sex, and more drugs. She completely lacked self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-worth. Life had reached a point of having no meaning for her. For too many years now, she had felt dead inside; a hollowed husk doing nothing but going through the motions of what others expected from her. However, when an extraterrestrial being shows up at her front door announcing that her presence is required on another planet, Taressa's mind is thrown into panic mode, forcing her to look outside the scope of her blurred and hazy existence. Had she hallucinated the little blue creature and its words of prophecy? She wanted desperately to believe she had. But her soul told her differently. Her soul told her she was about to fall into the biggest vat of manure she had ever experienced. Her mind told her she would never survive

Download or read book Aranya written by Marc Secchia and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chained to a rock and tossed off a cliff by her boyfriend, Aranya is executed for high treason against the Sylakian Empire. Falling a league into the deadly Cloudlands is not a fate she ever envisaged. But what if she did not die? What if she could spread her wings and fly? Long ago, Dragons ruled the Island-World above the Cloudlands. But their Human slaves cast off the chains of Dragonish tyranny. Humans spread across the Islands in their flying Dragonships, colonising, building and warring. Now, the all-conquering Sylakians have defeated the last bastion of freedom-the Island-Kingdom of Immadia. Evil has a new enemy. Aranya, Princess of Immadia. Dragon Shapeshifter.

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Download or read book The New Companion to the Literature of Wales written by Meic Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is also a chronology of the history of Wales, and an appendix listing the winners of the main literary prizes at the National Eisteddfod since 1861, together with the festival's annual location."--BOOK JACKET.

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature written by Geraint Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.

Download or read book The Pygmy Dragon written by Marc Secchia and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Yesterday, a Dragon kidnapped me from my cage in a zoo." Stolen from her jungle home and sold to a zookeeper, Pip knows only a world behind bars, a world in which a Pygmy warrior and her giant ape friends are a zoo attraction. She dreams of being Human. She dreams of escaping to the world outside her cage. Then, the Dragon Zardon kidnaps her into a new life. Pip rides Dragonback across the Island-World to her new school - a school inside a volcano. A school where Humans learn to be Dragon Riders. But this is only a foretaste of her magical destiny, for the Dragon Assassins are coming. They have floated an Island across the Rift and their aim is nothing less than the massacre of all Dragons. Now, the courage of the smallest will be tested to the utmost. For Pip is the Pygmy Dragon, and this is her tale.

Download or read book The Onyx Dragon written by Marc Secchia and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle is won, but the war has just begun. Evil stalks the Island-World as the Marshal of Herimor and his Dragon-slaying hordes put nation after nation to the sword. The haunting cry of the Nurguz summons all Dragonkind to their doom. None can resist. But Marshal Re'akka and his all-conquering Dragon Assassins are not the only trouble on the horizon. For there is a new Dragoness finding her wings, and she will stop at nothing to protect her loved ones. She is Pip the Pygmy Dragon, jungle-born, survivor of seven years in a zoo. She dreamed of being Human. She is more. Much more. Now, Dragon wings darken the dawn. Diminutive. Sassy. Full of fire and great heart. As Pip and her friends chart a perilous path in search of the secrets of her heritage, they will find a power of old reborn in the smallest of Dragons. One will stand against evil. She is Onyx, mighty of paw and deed. She is the laughter of starlight, and she will never allow evil to prevail. Let Dragons thunder! Let the battle commence!

Download or read book Song of the Storm Dragon written by Marc Secchia and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Storm is coming! The hegemony of Sylakia has been broken and freedom won, but at a shattering cost. Laid low by the vile Shapeshifter pox and Thoralian's wiles, can Aranya rise again? For war sweeps Herimor at the touch of the Marshal's evil claws, and he will stop at nothing to possess the ultimate power. Now, the race is on to find the First Egg of the Ancient Dragons. Accompanied by her friends Zuziana and Ardan, and the magnificent Land Dragon Leandrial, the Star Dragoness must dive deep in her new quest. Cross the uncrossable Rift-Storm to Herimor. Stop Thoralian. Crush his ambitions. Only then will she be able to save her beloved Dragons. Yet profound Dragon lore enshrouds her purposes. History beckons. What are the secrets of the powerful Dragonfriend and the tiny, lost Pygmy Dragoness? Why did the Dragons disappear? What became of the powerful Dragons of yore? Arise, o Storm Dragoness! She is legend. She is the whisper of starlight upon Dragon scales. She is Aranya, and this is her song. The Song of the Storm Dragon. Author's Note If you haven't read The Pygmy Dragon and The Onyx Dragon yet, please stop right here! Spoiler alert! You will enjoy Song of the Storm Dragon far more if you read those two books first, as the series are closely linked. Otherwise, let the Dragonride commence!

Download or read book Call Me Dragon written by Marc Secchia and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Call me Dragon. It's the last thing you'll ever do. Blitz the Devastator has never done a decent day's devastating in his life. Fireless, artistic and shunned by his Dragon Clan, he struggles to pillage even the meanest village. A future full of misery and failure beckons. This much is true until the day the burly brown Dragon successfully - imagine that - kidnaps the Princess Azania. As a black Princess of T'nagru, this spirited beauty is by definition the most unforgettable woman in the seventeen realms. Knights errant, men-at-arms and sundry Princes expire at her feet in drivelling worship. Unfortunately, they all want his scaly head on a platter shortly thereafter. Goes with the territory. To Blitz's consternation, the royal nuisance refuses to behave herself and be a typical pampered Princess. With humour, unconventional flair and the odd stomp of her diminutive slipper, she sets out to reform her Dragon. One question remains. Who will save the Dragon from the Princess?

Download or read book Thunder O Dragon written by Marc Secchia and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thunder o Dragon. My rage shakes the portals of fate! From flying to war to becoming a living playground for thirty children, a Dragon called Dragon is growing in all sorts of unexpected ways these days. Never mind. With his signature wit and inimitable style, and the expedient of occasionally throwing his beautiful black Princess, Dragon Rider and best friend straight at his troubles, this Dragon is prepared to seize his war-torn world by the scruff of the neck and shake it into shape. It's not as if the world has a choice in the matter. The third hilarious, climactic volume in Dragon Fires Rising sees an unlikely Dragon-Rider team take on the full might of the invading Skartunese army.

Download or read book The Dragon Librarian written by Marc Secchia and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blind. Outcast. Accursed. From the meanest of beginnings, greatness will rise. Abandoned at birth by her parents, Auli-Ambar is seen as a child blighted by a callous talon-stroke of fate. A worthless burden. She is blind, severely disfigured, and fit only for the most menial tasks. Then, a simple act of kindness changes her life. Flown to the Halls of the Dragons, the painfully shy girl becomes a cleaner of Dragon roosts, and a helpless wanderer of the Dragon Library. Here, Auli is able to walk amidst the lore she is drawn to so profoundly. Touch it. Imagine worlds within scrolls. She thrills to the hallowed scents of knowledge, but aches for what blindness has forever denied her. In the cruellest of ironies, Auli discovers she possesses a magic that makes people and Dragons forget her very existence. This is disremembrance, the accursed power of loneliness. She can only despair. One will not forget. Deep amidst the forbidden racks of draconic scroll lore, where Auli-Ambar has unwittingly breached the protective wards, the young Dragon scholar, Arkurion the Mercury Blue, will discover her true gift and ignite its flame. Now, in the environs of a magical library overseen by the mighty Dragon Librarian Sazutharr, the extraordinary courage and integrity of a blind girl will finally be given the chance to blossom. Little did they suspect that the fate of all Dragonkind would rest in her hands.

Download or read book Shadow Dragon written by Marc Secchia and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-20 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chameleon Shapeshifters, uncontrollable storm powers, and the rise of Sylakia's Dragon-elite. The battle against evil scales new heights, but the price of victory grows ever dearer. Once, a Shadow Dragon ravaged the Island-World. Insatiable. Unstoppable. A Dragon-killer. Now the Shadow Dragon has reappeared, on a collision course with Aranya and King Beran's campaign to liberate the Islands from the scourge of Sylakian tyranny. He is dark, beautiful and deadly, a predator of untold power. Meantime, Thoralian weaves his web of guile and betrayal right in the hearts of Aranya's friends and allies. He will bring them to an encounter only he can win. Incredible aerial battles. An Ancient Dragon bent on enslaving Aranya. The treacherous secrets of Dragon magic. This is the fight for which destiny has shaped a heroine of rare courage-Aranya, Princess of Immadia. Criminal. Shapeshifter Dragon. A woman who will confront evil at any cost. Spite her at your peril.

Download or read book Beautiful Fury written by Marc Secchia and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only beautiful fury will quench all grief. Blighted. Scorned. Crushed. With the loss of the First Egg, Aranya's campaign to liberate the Island-World from tyranny has reached its nadir. Long are the memories of the Ancient Dragons, and depthless their enmity. The millennia-spanning rivalry between Fra'anior the Onyx and Dramagon the Red, played out through the lives and deeds of those sworn to their service, threatens global annihilation. The pyres of destruction burn unceasing. As fate thunders toward its finale, can the boldest of paws yet stay the looming calamity? From the ashes, one will soar. Refined by anguish, Aranya's purpose burns adamantine. No evil will she bear. No tyrant's triumph will she suffer. As the Star Dragoness plumbs the deepest secrets of her lineage, she must forge an alliance of legends, of Chaos and Onyx, Amethyst and Shadow, that will cast down the Thoralians and thwart Dramagon's plans forever. For when a star shines in the panoply of her most beautiful fury, all eyes will brighten, and hope will illuminate the world.

Download or read book Chaos Shifter written by Marc Secchia and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two outcasts united by fate. Two terrible secrets. One incredible destiny. As war convulses the ancient realm of Wyldaroon, powerful Dragon Marshals rush to choose sides in the sweeping conflict between Aranya the Star Dragoness and her nemesis, the unstoppable Marshal Thoralian. Islands fall. Nations crumble. Predatory Shapeshifters swoop to snatch the spoils from amidst the devastation. When Asturbar, a hard-bitten Infantry Commander of the Mistral Fires, is forced into a desperate act of thievery to deny Azhukazi the Necromancer Dragon the magical artefacts he covets, he unleashes an unimaginable chain of events. Conquered. Exiled for life. Banished to an isolated oasis in the endless Doldrums, the Island-desert. For all intents and purposes, he is a dead man.Yet what he discovers in the wilderness will change his life forever. Her beauty is fey. Her youthful power, a reviled enigma of yore. Beguiled by the undeniable lure of Chaos itself, Asturbar faces a stark choice. To stand against Azhukazi's rampant evil, he must ally himself with a lethal, beautiful Chaos Shifter - all it might cost, is his soul. A story in Aranya's timeline, this full-length novel can be read standalone. The exact sequence of events overlaps with the events of Song of the Storm Dragon (Shapeshifter Dragons Book 3) and Beautiful Fury (Shapeshifter Dragons Book 4) - but as noted, this tale is complete in its own right and there is no need to read prequel books or series to fully enjoy it.

Download or read book Twenty Thousand Saints written by Fflur Dafydd and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yn ystod un haf twym mae ynys sydd fel arfer yn wag yn cael ei thrawsnewid i fod yn gymuned brysur o dwristiaid, archeolegwyr, lleianod, gwylwyr dolffiniaid, criw teledu a dau awdur yn ysu am gael gafael mewn stori. Mae llyfr hwn yn gomedi du am ysbiwyr, preifatrwydd ac ymyrraeth, a sut mae'r pethau pwysicaf yn digwydd pan fydd y camera wedi ei ddiffodd. Cyhoeddwyd gyntaf yn 2008.One hot summer, an island which is practically empty except for twitchers, becomes a bustling community of tourists, archaeologists, nuns, dolphin-watchers, a reality TV crew and two writers bursting to tell a story. This is a black comedy about spies, privacy and intrusion ... and how the most important things happen off-camera. First published October 2008.