Download or read book A Hero s Curse written by Kajsa Norman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For nearly two hundred years Venezuela's political leaders have evoked the legacy of their liberator, Simón Bolívar, to stir popular support for their positions. While Bolívar's heroic struggle helped free a continent, his eventual affinity for dictatorial rule spawned a vicious cycle of liberation and tyranny that has haunted Venezuela ever since. A Hero's Curse is the story of modern Venezuelans whose lives have taken shape in the shadow of Bolívar and his most passionate disciple, Comandante Hugo Chávez. It chronicles the rise and fall of Chávez, but also tells the story of a new generation of leaders, and the tragic impact of Venezuela's "heroic" politics on ordinary citizens. Since the death of Chávez, the battle for Venezuela's future has intensified. Amidst a collapsing economy, escalating violence, and shortages of basic goods, there are increasing calls for a change of leadership. Rivals for power compete in their efforts to demonstrate to the masses that they are the new, true, Venezuelan hero come to set them free. Thus the stage is set for yet another turn in Venezuela's cycle of perpetual liberation."
Download or read book The Assassin s Curse written by Cassandra Rose Clarke and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ananna of the Tanarau abandons ship when her parents try to marry her off to an allying pirate clan: she wants to captain her own boat, not serve as second-in-command to her handsome yet clueless fiance. But her escape has dire consequences when she learns the scorned clan has sent an assassin after her. And when the assassin, Naji, finally catches up with her, things get even worse. Ananna inadvertently triggers a nasty curse — with a life-altering result. Now Ananna and Naji are forced to become uneasy allies as they work together to break the curse and return their lives back to normal. Or at least as normal as the lives of a pirate and an assassin can be. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Download or read book A Hero s Curse written by Parker Broaddus and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fun and fantastical adventure of Essie Brightsday, a young blind girl who is propelled on a perilous journey to find her realm's missing king.The story is a fast-paced adventure of pain and hope and heroism in the face of family cover ups, an unstable kingdom, a lost king and a vindictive daemon. And she happens to have a talking cat."For nearly ten years a strange drought has consumed the Kingdom of Mar. Essie, her sarcastic cat Tigrabum, (just call him "Tig"), and her secretive family are struggling to survive on their small farm nestled against the forbidding cliffs of the Valley of Fire. And then a rebellion against the cruel interim ruler is sparked.Forced to flee for their lives Essie and Tig lose themselves in the twisting labyrinth of the ancient lava flow. When Essie finds proof that the missing King Mactogonii may be alive, she is given the opportunity to help restore stability to the kingdom.But the course of her journey will force her to face her deepest fears and unravel the mystery behind her own blindness."
Download or read book The Percy Jackson and the Olympians Book Three Titan s Curse written by Rick Riordan and published by Disney-Hyperion. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third book of the acclaimed series, Percy and his friends are escorting two new half-bloods safely to camp when they are intercepted by a manticore and learn that the goddess Artemis has been kidnapped.
Download or read book Blood Curse written by Maurizio De Giovanni and published by Commissario Ricciardi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ricciardi has visions. He sees and hears the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths. It is both a gift and a curse. It has helped him become one of the most acute and successful homicide detectives in the Naples police force. But all that horror and suffering has hollowed him out emotionally. He drinks and doesn't sleep. Other than his loyal partner Brigadier Maione he has no friends. Naples, 1931. In a working class apartment in the Sanita' neighborhood an elderly woman by the name of Carmela Calise has been beaten to death. When Ricciardi and Maione arrive at the scene they start asking the neighbors questions. No one wants to talk but slowly a few interesting facts slip out. Carmela Calise was moonlighting as a fortuneteller and moneylender. In her decrepit apartment she would receive clients, among them some of the city's rich and powerful, predicting their futures in such a way as to manipulate and deceive. If economic ruin lurked in their futures, Calise was happy to help. For a price, of course. She had many enemies, those indebted to her, manipulated by her lies, disappointed by her prophesies or destroyed by her machinations. Murder suspects in this atmospheric thriller abound and Commissario Ricciardi, one of the most original and intriguing investigators in contemporary crime fiction, will have his work cut out for him.
Download or read book Hero s Curse written by Jack J. Lee and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've got no choice but to warn you. Read further, the truth will be revealed and it will enslave you. You don't want to know how the Universe works. I know I didn't. I don't care who you are or what you believe-Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Wiccan, Atheist, anything and everything. You're all wrong. The following is a story of my life after I got drafted by God to fight the minions of darkness. Jehovah of the Holy Bible exists and holy warriors are needed to defend us. If you're wise, you'll set this book down now and walk away. Keep your illusions; they won't hurt you. Learn too much, open the door that is better left closed, and you'll be fighting by my side.
Download or read book The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious Vol 4 light novel written by Light Tuchihi and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robots versus Golems! Rampaging past his limits in his new Berserk Mode, Seiya emerges victorious from the battle with the Beast Emperor, Grandleon! But his struggles in the revamped world of Ixphoria have only just begun...Next on the chopping block is the Machine Emperor, Oxerio. His high-tech arsenal, replete with tens of thousands of killing machines, threatens to wipe Termine Kingdom off the map! Fortunately, Seiya's got a secret weapon! ...Sort of.
Download or read book Loaded written by William D. Ollivierre and published by William D. Ollivierre. This book was released on with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alien world, check, alien princess, hmm let's see, There she is and check, dangerous weapons double-check. What else do you need for an epic sci-fi story? Oh yeah, the hero that gets all his powers from the power of science, well we got that too. So, what are you waiting for? Come take a break, and Jump into my world, and let's go do what heroes do best. BLOW STUFF UP.
Download or read book Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons written by Jane Yolen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVBefore she became Queen of the Amazons, young Hippolyta fought to break a goddess’s curse . . . /divDIV An ancient prophecy states that any Amazon who bears two sons must kill the second, lest he grow up to destroy all the Amazons. But Queen Otrere can’t bear to sacrifice her baby, so she gives him to her daughter, thirteen-year-old Hippolyta, begging her to take the child to his father, Laomedon, King of Troy. In order to save her baby brother’s life, Hippolyta must find a lost city and lift a goddess’s curse. Along the way, she will need help from an unexpected source: a newly discovered brother. But can Hippolyta bring herself to trust a boy in order to save the Amazons?/divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features personal histories by Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris including rare images from the authors’ personal collections, as well as a timeline of the Heroic Age and a conversation between the two authors about the making of the series./div/div
Download or read book The Mummy s Curse written by Jasmine Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most penetrating study of the curse ever conducted, The Mummy's Curse uncovers forgotten writings, examines original surveys and field observations of museum visitors, revolutionizes the study of mummy horror films and shows that the curse's structure, meaning and interpretation was changed by events such as the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb.
Download or read book Percy Jackson and the Olympians Book Three The Titan s Curse written by Rick Riordan and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2009-05-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped. And now it's up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess?
Download or read book Essays in Honour of Boris Beri s Sixty Fifth Birthday written by Gabrijela Buljan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as a Festschrift honouring a beloved professor, colleague, and friend, this volume comprises a collection of essays offering a wide array of contemporary approaches to literature, linguistics, and applied linguistics. It covers a variety of topics, ranging from medieval to contemporary literature and language, and explores genres as diverse as fantasy, dystopia, drama, poetry, and film, addressing issues such as post- and transhumanism, age, gender, identity, family, metonymy, and narrative discourse. The diversity of themes and methodologies here makes the collection a widely applicable resource in the academic discussion of literature, language, and culture, both as a significant contribution to different philological fields and a useful educational tool for anyone teaching or studying English, Anglophone literature, British, American, and German studies, English as a Second Language, linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and applied linguistics, or conducting research in these fields.
Download or read book Shadow s Curse written by Alexa Egan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes an excerpt from Warrior's curse.
Download or read book There s such Divinity doth Hedge a King written by Nicolas Wyatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideology of power is as much a part of modern life as in the ancient world, in which it has its long-lasting roots. Communities have always provided a supernatural sanction for the maintenance of power by the few, often dressing it up in elaborate mythic fictions, rich iconography and complex rituals. This volume presents Nicolas Wyatt's discussions of royal ideology, its mythic and ritual expressions and various literary treatments in ancient Israel, viewed from a comparative perspective. Exploring the possibility that in many of the manifestations of Israelite kingship we can detect the influence of broader cultural patterns, notably as found in Egyptian and West Semitic contexts, he considers the main early cultural influences on Israel and emphasizes the mythic dimension in which the 'divinity' of the king is a real factor.
Download or read book The Winner s Curse written by Marie Rutkoski and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a general's daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. Kestrel has other ideas. One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in Arin, a young slave up for auction. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him - and for a sensational price that sets the society gossips talking. It's not long before she has to hide her growing love for Arin. But he, too, has a secret and Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for him is much higher than she ever could have imagined. The first novel in a stunning new trilogy, The Winner's Curse is a story of romance, rumours and rebellion, where dirty secrets and careless alliances can be deadly – and everything is at stake.
Download or read book Publications of the Texas Folklore Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publications of the Texas Folk lore Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
