Download or read book The Lost City of the Monkey God written by Douglas Preston and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning medical mystery. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease. Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.

Download or read book The Green Mage written by Michael Simms and published by Madville Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume One of The Talon Trilogy Norbert Oldfoot is a simple mage who makes his living traveling the Bekla River Road, selling trade goods, performing healing magic, and singing traditional songs of heroes. He becomes friends with Kerttu, a coppersmith who has developed a new alloy which is perfect for manufacturing swords. When Kerttu is kidnapped by the evil Wizard Ludek, Kerttu’s teenage daughter Tessia, a skilled hunter, recruits three friends, including Norbert, and sets out on a quest to find a legendary dragon who lives in the mountains. With the help of the dragon, Tessia plans to save her father. Little do they know that in order to save Kerttu, they will first have to save the kingdom.

Download or read book Tracker written by Alexis Wright and published by Giramondo Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Stella Prize A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia’s most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country, reminiscent in its scale and intimacy of the work of Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Svetlana Alexievich. Miles Franklin Award-winning novelist Alexis Wright returns to non-fiction in her new book, Tracker, a collective memoir of the charismatic Aboriginal leader, political thinker, and entrepreneur who died in Darwin in 2015. Taken from his family as a child and brought up in a mission on Croker Island, Tracker Tilmouth returned home to transform the world of Aboriginal politics. He worked tirelessly for Aboriginal self-determination, creating opportunities for land use and economic development in his many roles, including Director of the Central Land Council. He was a visionary and a projector of ideas, renowned for his irreverent humour and his anecdotes. His memoir has been composed by Wright from interviews with Tilmouth himself, as well as with his family, friends, and colleagues, weaving his and their stories together into a book that is as much a tribute to the role played by storytelling in contemporary Aboriginal life as it is to the legacy of a remarkable man. ‘A magnificent work of collaborative storytelling…It paints a vision of action and possibility for this continent that makes it required reading for all Australians and all those interested in this land.’ — Sydney Morning Herald ‘Wright builds, as much as anyone is able to in writing, a detailed portrait of a complex man, whose vision “to sculpt land, country and people into a brilliant future on a grand scale” is inevitably accompanied by an irrepressible humour and suspicion of authority.’ — The Guardian ‘Tilmouth was a man who worked through conversation and yarn more than with paper and pen, and this is a book about the place of the story in Indigenous culture and politics as much as it is about Tracker himself.’ — The Monthly ‘[Wright] enacts the complex relationship between self and community that a Western biography could not…There is a cumulative power in the repetitions, backtrackings and digressions the formula necessitates: a sinuous, elegant accommodation of selves. It is a book as epical in form and ambition as the life it describes.’ — The Australian ‘Wright’s brace of ineffable, awkward, uncanny novels will be unravelled and enjoyed by readers when other contemporary fiction is forgotten. Tracker, a book performed by a folk ensemble rather than a solo virtuoso, adds to her enduring non-fiction oeuvre that captures the unique ground-level realpolitik of Aboriginal Australia.’ — Australian Book Review ‘Alexis Wright is one of the most important voices in our literary landscape…This is a landmark work – epic in its scope and empathy.’ — Readings

Download or read book Realm of Fantasy written by Ame Raine and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years after the disappearance of her father, Tori struggled to find herself. One day things turned to the worse when she meets a metamorph and begins a journey to save her family and friends from fantastical creatures.

Download or read book Super Demonic Book written by Lao ShiRen and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obtaining a book that could change him, a fatty began a new chapter in his life. All sorts of vampires, werewolves, Abyss Lords, ancient Evil Gods, and even the living female corpses of the Three Kingdoms' era would appear. What awaited the end was a showdown at the end of the century.

Download or read book Reader Three written by Sommer Matriangello and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-11-10 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader Three is an advanced reader for adult literacy learners. It contains five or more sentences on each page. The passages can be used to teach beginning letter sounds because each page focuses on a phonic letter sound. Each page also has an image that gives a clue as to what the sentences are about. When a person's vocabulary is limited, images can help them understand what the text may be about. The images can also be used for discussion if the learner cannot read the words. This reader helps to build basic reading skills in adult literacy learners who are learning to improve their reading skills and also for ESL learners who are learning English.

Download or read book Super Useless System written by Luo TuoSheng and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Peng Xiaoshuai teleported to the Divine Dragon Continent, he discovered that he was a trash that was one in ten thousand. I'm tired of watching trash being bullied and being bullied. I'm here to see trash that's not bullied, how can I rely on the super system to turn the world upside down!

Download or read book Travel Guide of Henan written by Ni Hao and published by DeepLogic. This book was released on with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the volume of ''Travel Guide of Henan'' among a series of travel books (''Travelling in China''). Its content is detailed and vivid.

Download or read book Voices in the Night written by Flora Annie Webster Steel and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The new year was already some hours old, but the world to which it had come was still dark. Dark with a curious obscurity, that was absolutely opaque yet faintly luminous, because of the white fog which lay on all things and hid them from the stars; for the sky above was clear, cold, almost frosty. That was why the fog, born, not of cool vapour seeking for cloud life among the winds of heaven, but of hot smoke loving the warmth of dust and ashes, clung so closely to the earth; to its birthplace. It was an acrid, bitter smoke, not even due to the dead hearthfires of a dead day, since they--like all else pertaining to the domestic life of India--give small outward sign of existence, but to the smouldering piles of litter and refuse which are lit every evening upon the outskirts of human habitation. Dull heaps with a minimum of fire, a maximum of smoke, where the humanity which has produced the litter, the refuse, gathers for gossip or for warmth. Even in the fields beyond the multitude of men, where some long-limbed peasant, watching his hope of harvest, dozes by a solitary fire, this same smoke rises in a solid column, until--beaten down by the colder moister air above--it drifts sideways to spread like a vast cobweb over the dew-set carpet of green corn. ... --Taken from prologue

Download or read book The Resolutions written by Brady Hammes and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three accomplished, globe trotting siblings in crisis take refuge in the last place they would ever expect—back home in Chicago, with one another—in this razor-sharp debut for readers of The Nest, Commonwealth, and Imagine Me Gone “A vivid literary thrill ride . . . Take the journey. The pages will fly by.”—Matthew Quick, New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook The three Brennan siblings are well on their way in the world. Samantha, the youngest, is a ballerina who recently joined the ranks of a Russian dance company; her brother Jonah is a grad student studying elephants in the rainforest of Gabon; and the eldest, Gavin, has stayed closer to home, living in Los Angeles and acting in a television series. But as the holidays draw near, all three find themselves in profoundly troubling, though distinctly different, predicaments. Samantha is losing the battle to keep her drug addiction from ruining her career; Jonah, in his attempts to protect his elephants, gets in way too deep with a gang of ivory poachers; and Gavin’s TV show is canceled the same day his girlfriend moves out. With their lives run aground, they reunite in their parents’ home for the holidays, where they discover that the bonds between siblings are unshakable. But with their personal problems threatening to derail their nascent careers and possibly their very survival, the three embark on a trip to West Africa in a perilous attempt to right their crooked paths. The Resolutions is a contemporary look at three young people in the defining moments of their lives, by a talented author just getting started on a promising literary career.

Download or read book Redneck Romeo written by Xavier Neal and published by Xavier Neal. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small town man. A big city woman. A star-crossed love affair that begins in paradise... What starts as five days of fun in the sun leads to two people traveling down an emotional dirt road. Down a highway paved with good intentions but full of unpredicted roadblocks. Will the tumultuous track they take ultimately tear them apart, leaving their lives in a tattered tragedy, or will they manage to survive and tie their souls together for a life time? * Complete Standalone *

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Download or read book M Words written by Sommer Matriangello and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonics is a decoding skill that's used to help adults improve their reading skills. Using phonics makes learners feel more at ease when learning to read. It means they have a way to decode the words on the page. M Words book introduces adult learners to words that have the ""M"" sound in them. There are words like, maid, money, moon, muscles, mechanic and mother. M Words book uses large font and images to make reading easier. M Words book has sight word sentences. It ends with the learner reading long reading passages that focus on words with the ""M"" sound. Each sentence and reading passage is accompanied by an image which will help the learner know what the sentence is about and will help them decode the words better.

Download or read book My Super Pretty Wife written by Wen Ding and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercenary King Chen Yang returned to the city to protect his comrade's sister, the goddess. In the bustling city, Chen Yang was like a fish in water, carefree and at ease. And to see how the previous generation's soldiers would use their iron fists and wits to build a business empire...

Download or read book Saxon s Bane written by Geoffrey Gudgion and published by Solaris. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE PAST Fergus’s world changes forever the day his car crashes near the village of Allingley. Traumatised by his near-death experience, he stays to work at the local stables as he recovers. He will discover a gentler pace of life, fall in love – and be targeted for human sacrifice. Clare Harvey’s life will never be the same either. The archaeologist’s dream find – the peat-preserved body of a Saxon warrior – is giving her nightmares. She can tell that the warrior was ritually murdered, and that the partial skeleton lying nearby is that of a young woman; their tragic story is unfolding in her head every time she goes to sleep. Fergus discovers that his crash is linked to the excavation, and that the countryside harbours some dark secrets. As Clare’s investigation reveals the full horror of a Dark Age war crime, Fergus and Clare seem destined to share the Saxon couple’s bloody fate.

Download or read book Fic written by Anne Jamison and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is fanfiction, and what is it not? Why does fanfiction matter? And what makes it so important to the future of literature? Fic is a groundbreaking exploration of the history and culture of fan writing and what it means for the way we think about reading, writing, and authorship. It's a story about literature, community, and technology—about what stories are being told, who's telling them, how, and why. With provocative discussions from both professional and fan writers, on subjects from Star Trek to The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Harry Potter, Twilight, and beyond, Fic sheds light on the widely misunderstood world(s) of fanfiction—not only how fanfiction is transforming the literary landscape, but how it already has. Fic features a foreword by Lev Grossman (author of The Magicians) and interviews with Jonathan Lethem, Doug Wright, Eurydice (Vivean Dean), and Katie Forsythe/wordstrings. Cyndy Aleo (algonquinrt; d0tpark3r) V. Arrow (aimmyarrowshigh) Tish Beaty (his_tweet) Brad Bell Amber Benson Peter Berg (Homfrog) Kristina Busse Rachel Caine Francesca Coppa Randi Flanagan (BellaFlan) Jolie Fontenot Wendy C. Fries (Atlin Merrick) Ron Hogan Bethan Jones Christina Lauren (Christina Hobbs/tby789 and Lauren Billings/LolaShoes) Jacqueline Lichtenberg Rukmini Pande and Samira Nadkarni Chris Rankin Tiffany Reisz Andrew Shaffer Andy Sawyer Heidi Tandy (Heidi8) Darren Wershler Jules Wilkinson (missyjack) Jen Zern (NautiBitz)

Download or read book Soldier King of Life written by Wo ZiDuiTianXiao and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 975 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercenary King Chen Qingyang returned to the city to protect his comrade's sister. the goddess. In the bustling city, Chen Qingyang was like a fish in water, carefree and at ease. And to see how the previous generation's soldiers would use their iron fists and wits to build a business empire...