Download or read book Travels in Elysium written by William Azuski and published by Iridescent Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A metaphysical mystery set on the Aegean island of Santorini. Trading rural England for the dream job of archaeologist's apprentice on the scarred volcanic island of Santorini, 22 year old Nicholas Pedrosa is about to blunder into an ancient mystery that will threaten his liberty, his life, even his most fundamental concepts of reality. A death that may have been murder... An island that blew apart with the force of 100,000 atomic bombs... A civilisation prised out of the ash, its exquisite frescoes bearing a haunting resemblance to Plato's lost island paradise, Atlantis... And inexplicable events entwining past and present with bewildering intensity... Can this ancient conundrum be understood before it engulfs them all? 'This extraordinary novel, part murder mystery, part metaphysical thriller, kept me guessing until the very last page. The intellectual duel between the troubled hero and his ruthless mentor is mesmerising. William Azuski's treatment of the Atlantis legend is completely original and I have rarely read a novel with such a strong sense of place. The bizarre landscapes of Santorini and the daily lives of its people, both ancient and modern, are vividly evoked. Anyone who enjoys the work of Umberto Eco, Orhan Pamuk or Carlos Ruiz Zafon should try this book.' - Geraldine Harris, author, Egyptologist, and a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.

Download or read book Elysium Girls written by Kate Pentecost and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lush, dazzlingly original young adult fantasy about an epic clash of witches, gods, and demons. Elysium, Oklahoma, is a town like any other. Respectable. God-fearing. Praying for an end to the Dust Bowl. Until the day the people of Elysium are chosen by two sisters: Life and Death. And the Sisters like to gamble against each other with things like time, and space, and human lives. Elysium is to become the gameboard in a ruthless competition between the goddesses. The Dust Soldiers will return in ten years' time, and if the people of Elysium have not proved themselves worthy, all will be slain. Nearly ten years later, seventeen-year-old Sal Wilkinson is called upon to lead Elysium as it prepares for the end of the game. But then an outsider named Asa arrives at Elysium's gates with nothing more than a sharp smile and a bag of magic tricks, and they trigger a terrible accident that gets both Sal and Asa exiled into the brutal Desert of Dust and Steel. There Sal and Asa stumble upon a gang of girls headed by another exile: a young witch everyone in Elysium believes to be dead. As the apocalypse looms, they must do more than simply tip the scales in Elysium's favor—only by reinventing the rules can they beat Life and Death at their own game in this exciting fantasy debut.

Download or read book Elysium Coast written by D?v Kaufman and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From critically acclaimed author and multiple award-winning filmmaker, D?v Kaufman comes an inspirational saga of one man's defiance against a mob of corrupt and lethal poachers that threatened the complete annihilation of the crittically endangered Olive Ridley sea turtle.Based on a series of actual events that occurred on a protected Olive Ridley nesting beach in northwestern Costa Rica, Elysium Coast tells the heroic tale of South African born Dana Dupont, who, born with a sliver spoon in his mouth, was later raised in a Zulu village in abject poverty where he learned about the ways of the natural world from his adoptive mother, Mabee. After earning his doctorate at the University of Miami, Dana met his wife, Juliana, and moved with her to Costa Rica to implement laws that would protect one of the most important sea turtle nesting beaches in the world; a place that had long been plagued by poachers and their unrelenting murder of the turtles all for the price of their eggs. Harmony existed for years on the beach after their laws allowed for a legal and controlled harvest of eggs, but the sickness of human greed would soon turn paradise into a nightmare. Elysium Coast offers an inspirational saga of one man's struggle to save an entire species which now depends on the sacrifices he must make, but is he willing to offer his own extinction to save the turtles from theirs?

Download or read book Elysium written by Nora Sakavic and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn Notte's had sixteen years to make Elysium her home, but not by choice: she only survived her husband's betrayal by fusing with the ley line beneath the asylum's foundation. Now rumor has it Adam is back to his old tricks, and if Adam's alive maybe there's still a chance for the newborn daughter he stole from Evelyn so many years ago.The only way out of Elysium is the Nightmare buried at its core. Waking him means reigniting a long-stalled war and giving up what little is left of her humanity, but Evelyn's not going to lose her daughter again - and she's sure as hell not going to let Adam walk away a second time.

Download or read book Death in Elysium written by Judith Cutler and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing unconventional rector’s wife and amateur sleuth Jodie Welsh in the first of a brand-new mystery series Highflying city career woman Jodie Welsh was prepared for a dramatic change in lifestyle when she met and married the Reverend Theo Welsh, settling down to an entirely new kind of life as the wife of a country vicar in the picturesque village of Lesser Hogben. But if she thought life as a city deal-maker was tough, nothing could have prepared her for the emotional rollercoaster of local church and village politics. As a newcomer, Jodie encounters hostility and disapproval from several of the villagers, particularly in her efforts to engage and assist Lesser Hogben’s disaffected youth. When a local lad Jodie employed to help in her garden disappears, along with Jodie’s expensive camera, everyone around her is inclined to assume the worst. Only Jodie and the missing boy’s friend Mazza are convinced of his innocence. But Burble’s disappearance marks the start of a series of disturbing incidents which escalate in intensity – until the body shows up, and Jodie must use her well-honed negotiating and networking skills to unmask a ruthless killer.

Download or read book Elysium Fire written by Alastair Reynolds and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elysium Fire is a smoldering tale of murderers, secret cultists, tampered memories, and unthinkable power, of bottomless corruption and overpowering idealism from the king of modern space opera. Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are its operatives. Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats and their hundred million citizens, people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction of their neural implants. And these "melters" leave no clues behind as to the cause of their deaths. . . As panic rises in the populace, a charismatic figure is sowing insurrection, convincing a small but growing number of habitats to break away from the Glitter Band and form their own independent colonies.

Download or read book The Tale of the Yankee Traveler written by George Wier and published by Flagstone Books. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jimmy Underwood meets Ray Bradbury, an author he has idolized for most of his adult life, he is traumatized by the encounter. The problem is that Ray Bradbury has been dead and gone for seven years, but this guy looks just like Ray, talks like Ray, writes like Ray, and even signs his name like Ray. Thus begins the stalking of a man who both is and isn't Ray Bradbury. But if he isn't, who—or what—could he be? The truth is sometimes a stone best left unturned. It's the worst problem a human being can have—how can Jimmy not get home to the truth? Because one way or the other, the truth always changes you forever.

Download or read book The Last Call written by George Wier and published by Flagstone Books. This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LAST CALL starts with a protagonist on the edge of an impending midlife crisis. Add a blond and an old friend with a fetish for high explosives, and you have the kickoff of a first rate crime novel. George Wier writes with wit, verve, and a gut-bucket knowledge of Texas and those who people its quirky underside. This book does not disappoint. —Milton T. Burton, author of Nights of the Red Moon and The Rogue’s Game. George Wier's THE LAST CALL has it all: a great setting, characters you care about, a little Texas history, and a twisty plot that's built Texas tough. Get it before last call! —Bill Crider, author of Murder In the Air. Bill Travis, an unmarried, unattached investment counselor rapidly approaching his fortieth birthday, conceives that he may not live the most exciting of lives, yet Julie Simmons, his first appointment that Monday, is deeply in trouble. She has taken a North Texas quarter horse racer and liquor baron named Archie Carpin--the last of a dynasty of criminals from the 1920's--for a ride and cleaned him out of a neat two million bucks. And thus begins the adventure of Bill’s life. Ensues a chase north across Texas to recover the money and shake the pursuit of a couple of rednecks with a penchant for rifles and rigged explosives. Yet, through all this action the compelling tale of yet another mystery—an 80-year old missing person’s case—begins to unravel.

Download or read book Capitol Offense written by George Wier and published by Flagstone Books. This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Death Row inmate Norman Howell drops a tidbit about how he and his father once helped the current Texas Governor get rid of competing Vietnamese fisherman with the use of high-powered explosives, Bill Travis has to decide whether to kick (and awaken) this particular sleeping dog, or whether to let it go. But then the Governor's men come calling for him, and Bill must first make certain that Julie is safe before grabbing this particular longhorn bull by the horns. His path then takes him into the heart of Texas prison system, across the parched West Texas landscape, and into the jaws of a conspiracy that reach all the way back to the Texas State Capitol in Austin. Capitol Offense is the second novel in the action-adventure and suspense-thriller Bill Travis Mystery series.

Download or read book End Game written by Lorenzo DiTommaso and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video games are a global phenomenon, international in their scope and democratic in their appeal. This is the first volume dedicated to the subject of apocalyptic video games. Its two dozen papers engage the subject comprehensively, from game design to player experience, and from the perspectives of content, theme, sound, ludic textures, and social function. The volume offers scholars, students, and general readers a thorough overview of this unique expression of the apocalyptic imagination in popular culture, and novel insights into an important facet of contemporary digital society.

Download or read book Neptune s Forge written by George Wier and published by Flagstone Books. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-three men and thirty-six sled dogs travel to Antarctica aboard a sailing ship converted to steamer in the year 1888, ostensibly to find the South Pole. During the trek across the frozen wastes they begin dying grisly deaths one by one at the hands on an apparent madman and when the goal of the quest appears to be other than the South Pole, conspiracy and mutiny are the dinner guests. In a hot-blooded and at times searing cold 19th Century voice, George Wier populates a historically accurate setting with flesh-and-blood desperate men in a deft and breathless yarn. In Neptune's Forge you can taste the whale blubber, smell the burning coal-oil and feel the biting cold. And like Antarctica itself, this one's not for the faint-of-heart.

Download or read book Return to the River Lis written by George Wier and published by Flagstone Books. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some believe that love is timeless, but the breadth of life is equally immeasurable, and love is merely one of its many facets, if its most important one. When John Adams and his native guide, Calo, stumble upon the greatest archaeological and anthropological find the world has ever known in the Great Gobi Desert, the anthropologist—along with Katrina Maybridge, the most beautiful archaeologist in all of Asia—is transported back in time some 45,000 years to the long dead ancient Kingdom of Umphar along the Great River Lis. There they not only have the adventure of a lifetime in their quest to finalize a peace treaty with the disingenuous ruler of the Kingdom of Mar-yar, but they also discover what they truly mean to one another.

Download or read book The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage written by Phoebe S. Spinrad and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Elysium s Awakening written by Matthew Munson and published by Inspired Quill. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Republic history shows that the science vessel Ulysses was claimed by a black hole whilst on a routine research mission. The truth is harder to swallow. Already reeling from the loss of a security team under her command, first officer Sara May wants nothing more than an uneventful conclusion to their simple fact-finding duties. But when the Emperor sends his chief science advisor to rendezvous with the vessel, their expedition comes to a stand-still. Literally. While their ship quietly orbits the planet Elysium, May has no cause to suspect that her Captain has become an unwilling participant in a crime that would shake the Republic to its core if it were ever revealed. But then she discovers the truth, and has to choose between doing the right thing or following the Emperor's direct orders. Her decision will have far-reaching consequences, and she doesn't have time to consider her options. Set before the events in the highly-acclaimed novel 'Elysium's Shadow', this novella reveals the secret of what actually happened on the far-flung world of Elysium when it was first discovered. The Republic is determined to stand - but when Elysium awakens, justice will be sought.

Download or read book jack and the weed stalk The Xmas World written by jean guy bousquet and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-10-14 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack takes the reader to a more elaborate world under the Weed Stalk. The are more parties with new characters to populate his dreams. Altogether these parties bring Jack's people to the Xmas World, a world of serenity set in the Elysium. As usual, Jack rambles on and on describing the feelings that different actors hold for one another. Between Ava, Stefania, Mishael and a wide assortment of deviants, eunuchs, LGBTs and Qs, there's a lot of love that dares not speak its name.

Download or read book Murder Stalks a Beloved Child written by AnnieMae Robertson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-03-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fourth Georgie/Michelangelo mystery, AnnieMae Robertson takes them back to Georgie's hometown. In an attempt to dispel some of the grief following the lengthy illness and subsequent death of her younger daughter, Michelangelo-ever the compassionate man-surprises Georgie with the purchase of a house in the small beach town where she had grown up. During her first walk down along the waters edge she encounters a frightened young woman, Jessie, who involves them in researching her memory loss. While Georgie befriends the girl, Michelangelo follows bits of information to the town of Rayette in upstate New York, where the mystery deepens and quickly propels them into grave danger.

Download or read book Longnecks Twisted Hearts written by George Wier and published by Flagstone Books. This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the "blue bone" and what does a seventeenth-century French ship have to do with East Texas? When Bill Travis gets the word that his best friend has been murdered, he not only has to take a trip back to the town where he grew up, he has to go up against some old ghosts who were better left alone. What modern secrets lie hidden in the dark beneath the countryside where Bill grew up? And what darker, more ancient secret lies hidden beneath them? Longnecks & Twisted Hearts is the third installment of action-adventure and suspense-thriller The Bill Travis Mystery series.