Download or read book Blood of Dreamers written by Hayley Myer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A war between the vampires and faeries has been taking place for decades. Slaitor Velynis, the Duke of Rolume, led his armies into battle for the sake of his people. Known as a military genius, Duke Velynis and his wife, the Grand Duchess Clara Velynis, rule over Rolume with an iron fist, keeping the peasants within their tight grasp while managing their desired war. All seemed to be flowing smoothly, and it was into this world that the young Duchess Litiva Velynis was born. Twenty-two years later, the war is still being waged with no sign of ending. The Duchess, while abhorring her mother’s behavior and attitudes towards the administration, admires her father’s dedication to the conflict and his superior knowledge of government. Given the best education available by the curious Doktor Rosen and developing a large understanding of her father’s political system, Litiva is seen in the eyes of her fellow noblemen and –women as a child prodigy. The Duke, her father, recognizes his daughter’s intellect and goes against his wife’s wishes, believing Litiva to be ready for the renowned Generals’ meetings, a gathering of the local politicians to discuss and debate current events. Litiva eagerly agrees and prepares herself for the future of her political career. What was supposed to be a political meeting turns out to be a political battle, and Litiva observes how corrupted her father’s administration truly is. Realizing that she, too, has a role to play in government as the Duchess of Rolume, Litiva wishes to work with her father to help solve the issues hindering the town. Yet after an attack from her father and the release of a diabolical scheme on the peasants living in the district, Litiva breaks away from her family in order to fix her father’s errors. With opposing politicians within the administration, Litiva must fight for her political future on her own, recruiting the help of the most unexpected supporters and working in secrecy for fear of being captured by her own parents.

Download or read book PRACTICALLY MARRIED written by Christine Rimmer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RIGHT BRIDE Lovely widowed mother Tess DeMarley had "perfect wife" written all over her—but rancher Zach Bravo had lost at love once before. So he proposed an arranged marriage. And he knew that it would stay just that—because Tess was a one-man woman, all right. Too bad Zach was the wrong man! WRONG GROOM?If you'd asked Tess DeMarley what man she'd always dreamed of having down on one knee proposing marriage to her, Zach Bravo might not have been her first choice. But now that he was her husband, she began looking at him in a new light—and wondering if her "in name only" spouse could possibly be turning into her dream man…. CONVENIENTLY YOURS: The Bravo men's marriages may have begun in name only—but were they destined to be true love matches after all?

Download or read book Miss Morissa written by Mari Sandoz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Morissa is a dramatic, moving novel of a young pioneering woman doctor on the brawling Nebraska frontier of the 1870s. Fleeing the East and a heartbreaking past, Morissa Kirk finds the North Platte River Valley rife with rumors of gold strikes. Fortune hunters, desperadoes, horse thieves, murderers make up the frontier society, while Indians roam the plains refusing to surrender their land to the gold-hungry white men. Near lawless Clarke Bridge she sets up her practice, treating white and Indian alike, receiving horses (if anything) in return for her services. Then, even as fame spreads of her skill, and acceptance slowly grows, Morissa becomes embroiled in the life-and-death struggle between the cattlemen and the homesteaders, a struggle as destructive as it was inevitable. In the telling of Morissa's story, Mari Sandoz has caught the whole turmoil of the changing frontier in the days of Custer, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill Cody.

Download or read book Meatball Birds and Seven Other Stories written by Kenneth C. Gardner Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-06-21 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in Meatball Birds and Seven Other Stories--The Canadian, Royce Hare, Home, Meatball Birds, The Falls Brawl, Conrad Forester, Miss Hutchinson, and The Horse--add more details to the lives of the Cockburn family and other residents of Menninger, North Dakota, the fictional town first introduced in the novel The Song Is Ended and continued in the novel The Dark Between The Stars. They are visits to small town life from the early years of the twentieth century to the 1960s.

Download or read book Glimmer on the Glass written by Jesslyn Rene'e Street and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glimmer on the Glass is a reflection of art unto itself. Read any page and the words will reach into your soul and turn you inside out while making you whole. The author steers you into a new journey of enriching poetry based on her truth and her minds creativity. In Jesslyn Renee Streets first collection of poetry, she walked you down into The Hidden Stairwell. Now let her open your eyes to the Glimmer on the Glass!

Download or read book Just the Fracks Ma am written by Greg Kozera and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does fracking affect our children, grandchildren and future generations? In Just the Fracks Ma'am Greg Kozera takes the mystery out of the fracking process. He explains a very technical process and issues associated with it in a way that they are easily understood by non-technical people. Greg is a master story teller and uses stories to make fracking understandable and his book memorable.

Download or read book The Chronicles of the Pale complete series written by Clare Rhoden and published by Odyssey Books. This book was released on with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Outside can be a dangerous place. But so can the inside. It’s been years since the original cataclysm, but life has been structured, peaceful, and most of all uneventful in the Pale. The humachine citizens welcome the order provided by their ruler, the baleful Regent. However, when one of their own rescues a human boy, Hector, from ravenous ferals on the Outside, their careful systems are turned upside down. As Hector grows more and more human-strange, the citizens of the Pale grow uneasy. What will happen when the Outside tries to get in?

Download or read book Eye of the Moonrat written by Trevor H. Cooley and published by Trevor H. Cooley. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justan was raised on the outskirts of the Dremaldrian Battle Academy. He watched his father ascend the ranks within the academy to become one of the most respected warriors in the kingdom. The only thing he has ever wanted is to become an academy student and follow the path of his father. Unfortunately, only the best can enter the academy and Justan is a horrible fighter. Everyone tells him that he is more suited to scholarly work than swordplay. In desperation he hurls himself into training, eager to overcome the doubters and walk into the academy triumphant, unaware that secretive powers plot to disrupt his plans. Meanwhile, an evil wizard of immense power is using magic to twist the bodies of the creatures of the land and transform them into monsters. With these creatures and the peoples of the wilds, he is building an army . . . Ogres and dragons, warriors and wizards are destined to clash, their fates guided by The Bowl of Souls. Eye of the Moonrat is book one of The Bowl of Souls series. Book One: Eye of the Moonrat Book 1.5: Hilt's Pride: A Bowl of Souls Novella Book Two: Messenger of the Dark Prophet Book Three: Hunt of the Bandham Book Four: The War of Stardeon Book Five: Mother of the Moonrat

Download or read book Born For The Hustle 2 written by Vallean Jackson and published by VX Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2024-05-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AC has lived up to her father’s legacy and protected the Colosimo name, but her reign has targets on her back from familiar faces. The seek for revenge from Reagan, former members of her crew, family acquaintances, and new faces becomes high… leaving AC to question who she can truly trust. The thirst for greed, retaliation, and envy has become such a driving force that AC has to make some dramatic changes to protect her freedom and all she has worked to build. Aside from the battle of enemies she didn’t realize she would have to encounter….she is now taking on the search for answers to figure out her own identity, if she can stay free and alive.

Download or read book Blood Oath written by William W. Johnstone and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the secret they swore not to tell—from the “bestselling old-school horror author” of the “twisted, bizarre, and sometimes terrifying” (The Lineup). In 1973, thirteen kids with an appetite for something different went out to play. First came the ritual and the dare . . . then the screaming and the blood. Before the night was over, only eleven children survived to share a terrible secret. Twenty-six years later, the small town of Denton, Missouri, has been rocked by three brutal murders—each victim bound by a childhood friendship stained with blood. Far from the shadow of suspicion, far from the memories of an unforgivable crime, the past has returned with a vengeance. And this time, the fun and games are just beginning.

Download or read book Standoff at Midnight Mountain written by Mary Alford and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Wyoming mountains, an ex-CIA agent is searching for her brother—and on the run from assassins—in this inspiring novel of romantic suspense. After CIA operative Liam Simmons disappears, armed men show up at his sister Rachel’s home looking for information. A former agent herself, Rachel is able to elude the would-be attackers with the help of her ex, Agent Alex Booth. Now Rachel and Alex are running for their lives as they try to decode the cryptic message Liam left behind. Pursued through the wilderness by highly trained—and very familiar—men, Rachel and Alex must rely on their faith, their courage, and each other to expose a conspiracy that goes deeper than they ever imagined.

Download or read book The Water Knife written by Paolo Bacigalupi and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A "fresh, genre-bending thriller” (Los Angeles Times) set in the near future when water is scarce and a spy, a hardened journalist and a young Texas migrant find themselves pawns in a corrupt game. "Think Chinatown meets Mad Max." NPR, All Things Considered In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel Velasquez “cuts” water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that its lush arcology developments can bloom in Las Vegas. When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in Phoenix, Angel is sent south, hunting for answers that seem to evaporate as the heat index soars and the landscape becomes more and more oppressive. There, he encounters Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist with her own agenda, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texas migrant, who dreams of escaping north. As bodies begin to pile up, the three find themselves pawns in a game far bigger and more corrupt than they could have imagined, and when water is more valuable than gold, alliances shift like sand, and the only truth in the desert is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink.

Download or read book Strands of Sorrow written by John Ringo and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK 4 AND CONCLUSION OF THE BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. Sequel to Islands of Rage and Hope, To Sail a Darkling Sea, and Under a Graveyard Sky. A hardened group of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization. With the world consumed by a devastating plague that drives humans violently insane, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on a dark Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together with what remains of the U.S. Navy, Wolf Squadron, and its leader Steve Smith, not only plans to survive¾he plans to retake the mainland from the infected, starting with North America. Smith's teenage daughters have become zombie hunters of unparalleled skill, both at land and on the sea, and they may hold the key to the rebirth of civilization on a devastated planet. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About the Black Tide Rising Series: "Not only has Ringo found a mostly unexplored corner of the zombie landscape, hes using the zombie frame to tackle a broader theme: the collapse and rebirth of civilization. The zombie scenes are exciting, sure, but its the human story that keeps us involved. A fine series."¾Booklist About Under a Graveyard Sky: _Ringo combines humor and horror in this strong series debut, the thinking readers zombie novel.Ó¾Publishers Weekly About John Ringo: _[Ringos work is] peopled with three-dimensional characters and spiced with personal drama as well as tactical finesse.Ó ¾Library Journal _. . . Explosive. . . . fans. . .will appreciate Ringos lively narrative and flavorful characters.Ó ¾Publishers Weekly _. . .practically impossible not to read in one sitting . . . exceedingly impressive . . . executed with skill, verve, and wit.Ó ¾Booklist _Crackerjack storytelling.Ó ¾Starlog BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES: Under a Graveyard Sky To Sail a Darkling Sea Islands of Hope and Rage Strands of Sorrow

Download or read book Miss Morissa Doctor of the Gold Trail written by Mari Sandoz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frick and Frack A Comedy of Friends written by Ryan Richardson Barrett and published by Ryan Richardson Barrett. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frick and Frack: A Comedy of Friends is a short story that follows along in the daily lives of two men, one of whom is named Frick, while the other is named Frack. Frick faces troubles that include being arrested by the Franktown Metropolitan Police Department and the more sensitive task of maintaining a healthy relationship with a woman named Cindy. On the other hand, Frack battles against the entropy of society as his coffee maker slowly stops working. Join this duo's journey as they humorously face their absurdist lives. Frick and Frack is approximately 7,000 words.

Download or read book After Hours written by Karen Kendall and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spa manager and massage therapist Peggy Underwood's new catchphrase is impulse control. No men — particularly jocks! She's going to focus completely on herself for a change. But as soon as former football player Troy Barrington walks through the door, Peggy's control takes a time-out. Especially when Mr. Sex-in-the-Flesh ends up lying naked on her massage table! As the new landlord, Troy is on a reconnaissance mission. He's looking for a way to close the spa...permanently. But as soon as he relinquishes himself to Peggy's hands, Troy knows he's headed for trouble — the kind with red hair and a smart mouth. And he can hardly wait to get there....

Download or read book Severance written by Julie Boglisch and published by Rogue Phoenix Press. This book was released on 2021-08-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having now escaped with their mother through the Resistances help, Maxwell and Karina find themselves dealing with the repercussions of picking sides. Their friend, Lex, caught in the middle. Misspoken words and misunderstandings create a fracture amongst the group and a heart-broken decision leads the twins down two very different paths.