Download or read book Wed to the Troll King written by Lidiya Foxglove and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-05 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He comes to me at night, in the darkness. The monster I was sworn to, against my will. By day, he is trapped in the form of a bear and cannot speak, cannot properly rule, but I know what he is: the King of the Northlands. The King of Trolls. He is under a curse, and he needs my help, but why should I help the brutish, dominating, barbarian king? I was meant for more than this; my father was a great mage but try as I might, I never had his talent for magic. Although he gave me everything I wanted, I know I'm a disappointment, and that's why I was thrown into this horrible position to save my kingdom from the Troll King's wrath. Although my dominating new husband has no patience for me when I try to act like a princess, and there is also a tender side to him. He's protective, massively strong, and has a strategic mind that I didn't expect. But he also has an enemy of his own that I didn't expect. The barbarian troll princess he once snubbed, who hates the "soft, pretty races" with a vengeance and cursed him with the form of a bear so he could never form a diplomatic alliance. If I want a happy marriage with my troll king, I'll have to break the curse--and much to my surprise, I think I do. Wed to the Troll King is a standalone fairy tale retelling of the East of the Sun, West of the Moon for those who like an unabashedly adorable happily ever after with a side of serious steaminess!

Download or read book Epic written by John Joseph Adams and published by Tachyon Publications. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a sickness in the land. Prophets tell of the fall of empires, the rise of champions. Great beasts stir in vaults beneath the hills, beneath the waves. Armies mass. Gods walk. The world will be torn asunder. Epic fantasy is storytelling at its biggest and best. From the creation myths and quest sagas of ancient times to the mega-popular fantasy novels of today, these are the stories that express our greatest hopes and fears, that create worlds so rich we long to return to them again and again, and that inspire us with their timeless values of courage and friendship in the face of ultimate evil—tales that transport us to the most ancient realms and show us the most noble sacrifices, the most astonishing wonders. Now acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams (Wastelands, The Living Dead) brings you seventeen tales by today’s leading authors of epic fantasy, including George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire), Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea), Robin Hobb (Realms of Elderlings), Kate Elliott (Crown of Stars), Tad Williams (Of Memory, Sorrow & Thorn), Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle), and more. Return again to lands you’ve loved or visit magical new worlds. Victory against the coming darkness is never certain, but one thing’s for sure—your adventure will be epic.

Download or read book In the Hall of the Mountain King written by Megan Endicott and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peer Gynt, a naughty little boy who disobeys his mother to stay out searching for treasure, discovers a magnificent cave that leads him deep into the heart of another world. Peer Gynt is a naughty little boy who often steals, plays mean tricks, and never helps his mother. More than anything else, Peer enjoys searching for treasures near his cottage in the mountains of Norway. Every day he leaves his cottage to go treasure hunting, and every day his mother asks him to be home before dark. However, one nighta particularly magical nightPeer decides to ignore his mothers request and continues searching for treasure long after the sun has set. He discovers a marvelous cave, the likes of which hes never seen before. Certain that there must be magnificent treasures within, Peer ventures deep inside the cave. His expedition leads him straight to the center of the mountain, into the hall of the Mountain King. As mischievous Peer Gynt soon learns, the Mountain Kingdom is a land of the extraordinary. He finds himself face-to-face with beings of myth and magic and a greater danger than hes ever encountered in his life. Will he survive to tell his mother where hes been?

Download or read book Twenty Epics written by David Moles and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epics have lost their charm. There was a time when you finished an epic. When an epic left you feeling not discontent and exhausted, but joyous, melancholy, rejuvenated, satisfied -- left you feeling that you were a better person for the experience. TWENTY EPICS will bring that feeling back. In ten thousand words or less. All-new stories from Christopher Rowe, Tim Pratt, Alan DeNiro, Rachel McGonagill, K.D. Wentworth, Marcus Ewert, Christopher Barzak, Meghan McCarron, Stephen Eley, Jon Hansen, Paul Berger, David Schwartz, Sandra McDonald, Jack Mierzwa, Mary Robinette Kowal, Zoe Selengut, Ian McHugh, Yoon Ha Lee, Benjamin Rosenbaum, and Scott William Carter. Edited by David Moles and Susan Marie Groppi.

Download or read book Humanities as a Resource and Inspiration for Humanizing Business written by Michael Thate and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the relevance of the grand traditions of the humanities as an untapped resource for business-world problems. In a time where the humanities are viewed as in decline or in threat of collapse altogether, this book enacts and extends the best of the humanities toward prevailing challenges within the complex realities of our current cultural moment. The book presents how the humanities can contribute to humanizing business and management. It explores and discusses various ways to integrate the views and approaches of the humanities in business and management research, practice, and education responding to the unprecedented challenges of the Anthropocene. The relations between humanities and social sciences is also discussed, as models and theories of business and management are based on insights of social sciences. The book is an outcome of the “Humanities for Business” project of Princeton University Faith and Work Initiative, the European SPES Institute, Leuven, and the Business Ethics Center of Corvinus University of Budapest. It is of great value to researchers, students, policy makers and research institutions interested in using humanities for renewing and humanizing business and management.

Download or read book Troll Mountain The Complete Novel written by Matthew Reilly and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Australia's favourite novelist, author of the Scarecrow series and the Jack West Jr series with new novel Mr Einstein's Secretary out now. A dauntless young hero. An army of brutal monsters. An impossible quest. Journey to the mountain ... In an isolated valley, a small tribe of humans is dying from a terrible illness. There are rumors, however, that the trolls of Troll Mountain, the valley's fearsome overlords, have found a cure for the illness: a fabulous elixir. When his sister is struck down by the disease and his tribal leaders refuse to help him, an intrepid youth named Raf decides to defy his tribe and do the unthinkable: he will journey alone to Troll Mountain and steal the elixir from the dreaded trolls. But to get to Troll Mountain, Raf will have to pass through dangerous swamps and haunting forests filled with wolves, hobgoblins and, worst of all, the ever-present danger of rogue trolls ... The journey to the mountain has begun. IN THIS NOVEL MATTHEW REILLY TAKES YOU ON HIS WILDEST RIDE YET: A HEADLONG QUEST TO THE DARK HEART OF THE KINGDOM OF THE TROLLS.

Download or read book Songbird written by Steven E. Wedel and published by MoonHowler Press. This book was released on 2017-06-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becca is the pride of her little village until the day the wicked Trolls come down from their mountain and steal her away. The Troll king loves Becca’s singing, so he takes her home and locks her into Fang Tower, where she has to sing for him whenever he wants. Zander wanders the seas fighting pirates and looking for adventure. When he hears the sweet, sad voice of Becca floating down from Fang Tower, he knows he must rescue her. The Troll king’s price for releasing Becca may be more than Zander is able to pay, but he sets off on the adventure of a lifetime to win the treasure the Troll king demands.

Download or read book Wild written by Solveig Bøe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary work, philosophers from different specialisms connect with the notion of the wild today and interrogate how it is mediated through the culture of the Anthropocene. They make use of empirical material like specific artworks, films and other cultural works related to the term 'wild' to consider the aesthetic experience of nature, focusing on the untamed, the boundless, the unwieldy, or the unpredictable; in other words, aspects of nature that are mediated by culture. This book maps out the wide range of ways in which we experience the wildness of nature aesthetically, relating both to immediate experience as well as to experience mediated through cultural expression. A variety of subjects are relevant in this context, including aesthetics, art history, theology, human geography, film studies, and architecture. A theme that is pursued throughout the book is the wild in connection with ecology and its experience of nature as both a constructive and destructive force.

Download or read book Song Translation Lyrics in Contexts written by Johan Franzon and published by Frank & Timme GmbH. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Song Translation: Lyrics in Contexts grew out of a project dedicated to the translation of song lyrics. The book aligns itself with the tradition of descriptive translation studies. Its authors, scholars from Finland, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Norway and Sweden, all deal with the translation of song lyrics in a great variety of different contexts, including music and performance settings, (inter)cultural perspectives, and historical backgrounds. On the one hand, the analyses demonstrate the breadth and diversity of the concept of translation itself, on the other they show how different contexts set up conditions that shape translational practices and products in different ways. The book is intended for translation studies scholars as well as for musicologists, students of language and/or music and practicing translators; in short, anybody interested in this creative and fascinating field of translational practice.

Download or read book The Swedish Fairytale Book written by Various Authors and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you the collection of the greatest Swedish fairy tales: Knös Lasse, My Thrall! Finn, the Giant, and the Minster of Lund The Skalunda Giant Yuletide Specters Silverwhite and Lillwacker StompePilt The Girl and the Snake Faithful and Unfaithful Starkad and Bale The Werewolf First Born, First Wed The Lame Dog The Mount of the Golden Queen Old Hopgiant The Princess and the Glass Mountain Queen Crane Tales of the Trolls Charcoal Nils and the Troll-Woman The Three Dogs The Poor Devil How Smaland and Schonen Came To Be The Evil One and KittaGrau The Lady of Pintorp The Specter in Fjelkinge The Rooster, the Hand-Mill and the Swarm of Hornets Torre Jeppe The Man Who Died on Holy Innocents'

Download or read book Collected Swedish Folk Tales written by ed. Lars Ulwencreutz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following volume of Swedish folk-tales represents a careful choice, after the best original sources, of those examples of their kind which not only appeared most colorful and entertaining, but also most racially Swedish in their flavor. For the fairy-tales of each of the three Scandinavian countries, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, have a distinct local color of their own. The wealth of material available has made it possible to give due representation to most types of fairy-tales, from the stories of older origin, the tales of giant, troll, and werewolf, to such delightful tales as "Lasse, My Thrall", "The Princess and the Glass Mountain" and "Prince Hat under the Ground" colored with the rich and ornate stylistic garb of medieval chivalric poesy. There has been no attempt to "rewrite" these charming folk-and fairy-tales in the translation.

Download or read book The Pianolist written by Gustav Kobbé and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Pianolist, A Guide for Pianola Players" by Gustav Kobbé is a comprehensive manual for those seeking to master the art of playing the pianola, a mechanical instrument reproducing piano music. With detailed instructions on technique and interpretation and an extensive repertoire of music, this book is an essential resource for pianola enthusiasts and aspiring musicians alike.

Download or read book The Pianolist written by Gustav Kobbé and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Religious Horror and the Ecogothic written by Mary Going and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-06-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Horror and the Ecogothic explores the intersections of Anglophone Christianity and the Ecogothic, a subgenre that explores the ecocritical in Gothic literature, film, and media. Acknowledging the impact of Christian ideologies upon interpretations of human relationships with the environment, the Ecogothic in turn interrogates spiritual identity and humanity’s darker impulses in relation to ecological systems. Through a survey of Ecogothic texts from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book illuminates the ways in which a Christianized understanding of hierarchy, dominion, fear, and sublimity shapes reactions to the environment and conceptions of humanity’s place therein. It interrogates the discourses which inform environmental policy, as well as definitions of the “human” in a rapidly changing world.

Download or read book Troll Mountain Episode III written by Matthew Reilly and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Australia's favourite novelist, author of the Scarecrow series and the Jack West Jr series with new novel Mr Einstein's Secretary out now. A dauntless young hero. An army of brutal monsters. An impossible quest. Journey to the mountain ... Raf's mission to Troll Mountain is in ruins. Having penetrated the mountain, only to be caught in the act of stealing the fabled elixir, Raf must now face the trolls' champion in a fight to the death. As the trolls gather to watch the fight, Raf watches them closely. If he can somehow survive this fight, his mission may not be over. The final battle for Troll Mountain is about to begin. IN THIS, THE LAST OF THREE SERIALIZED EPISODES, MATTHEW REILLY TAKES YOU ON HIS WILDEST RIDE YET: A HEADLONG QUEST TO THE DARK HEART OF THE KINGDOM OF THE TROLLS.

Download or read book Turn It Up written by National Geographic Kids and published by National Geographic Kids. This book was released on 2019 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of music, covering the most famous musicians, major music genres, instruments and sounds, and the artistry of distinctive musical styles.

Download or read book Troll Mountain Episode II written by Matthew Reilly and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Australia's favourite novelist, author of the Scarecrow series and the Jack West Jr series with new novel Mr Einstein's Secretary out now. A dauntless young hero. An army of brutal monsters. An impossible quest. Journey to the mountain ... The only unguarded entrance to Troll Mountain is the abandoned kingdom of the hobgoblins. With no other route available to them, Raf and his newfound friends, Ko and Düm, enter the dark, dank world of the hobgoblins. But is it truly abandoned? IN THIS, THE SECOND OF THREE SERIALIZED EPISODES, MATTHEW REILLY TAKES YOU ON HIS WILDEST RIDE YET: A HEADLONG QUEST TO THE DARK HEART OF THE KINGDOM OF THE TROLLS.