Download or read book Pagan The Trials of the Haliorunnae written by Vanda Denton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pagan novel is a sequel to The Rise of the Haliorunnae. It has themes of witchcraft, Christian knights, rioting and mob justice with violent consequences. Jean-Louis Rusch has financial control of the world. Humans, ignorant of the existence of the haliorunnae, are trying to understand how their standard of living has nose-dived. On being challenged for his power the King of the Haliorunnae approaches a secret order of knights whose ultimate purpose is to aid in a future, much bigger fight. However, Louis rightly judges that their courageous Marshal must aid in his cause in order for the knights to continue in any meaningful quest of their own. In the midst of attempting to court the woman he was betrothed to as a child, and who he has managed to avoid for some years, the Marshal finds himself up against an enemy unlike any he could have imagined.

Download or read book Pagan The Rise of the Haliorunnae written by Vanda Denton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first Pagan book is a story of ancient genetics, parallel evolution, hive minds and a clandestine bid to take over the human world. Set in the present day, humanity is unwittingly approaching an apocalypse. The vast majority of people are unaware of the existence of a mysterious century's old war broiling and bubbling beneath the surface. Within the world's societies are ancient families pursuing a quest the exact nature of which has been lost even to them. Jean-Louis Rusch and Ruby Dean know only that an evil lurks at the heart of some of the most ordinary businesses around the world. There is talk of witches, ghosts and demons but with no real concept of their enemy they are referred to only as 'them'. Rusch is forced to accept what Ruby has tried to tell him: he was created for the purpose of defeating their enemy. And those who made him, expecting to control him, find that they made him too well.

Download or read book Witches and Pagans written by Max Dashu and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swa wiccan taeca?: ?as the witches teach.' So, explained the Old English translator, it was witches who counseled people to ?bring their offerings to earth-fast stone and also to trees and to wellsprings.' His contextualizing commentary on a Frankish penitential reveals the witches? intimate association with animist, earth-based ceremonies, contradicting the now-engrained idea that they were ?wicked.' In a compelling exploration of language, archaeology, early medieval literature and art, Max Dashu pulls the covers off ethnic lore known to few except scholarly specialists. She shows that the old ethnic names for ?witch? signify wisewoman, prophetess, diviner, healer, shapeshifter, and dreamer. She fleshes out the spiritual culture of the Norse völur (?staff-women?), with their oracular ceremonies, incantations, and ?sitting-out? on the land for wisdom. She examines archaeological finds of women's ritual staffs, many of which symbolize the distaff, a spinning tool that connects with broader European themes of goddesses, fates, witches, and female power. Ecclesiastical records show that these aspects of European women's spiritual culture survived state conversions to Christianity. Witches and Pagans plunges into the megalithic taproot of the elder kindreds, and the ancestral Old Woman known as the Cailleach. It draws on priestly Frankish and German sources to trace the foundational witch-legend of the Women Who Go by Night with the Goddess'and her links to women's spinning sacraments in the orature of Holle, Fraw Percht, and Swanfooted Berthe. The book also looks at the sexual politics of early witch burnings and the female ordeal of treading red-hot iron. Anglo-Saxon ?mystery-singers? shed light on ancestor veneration in early medieval Europe.The webs of Wyrd, weavers? ceremonies, herb-chanters, crystal balls and the Völuspá: this book uncovers the authentic ethnic roots of witchcraft. Putting the common woman at the center results in a very different view of European history than the one we have been taught. Sagas, ecclesiastical canons, laws, chronicles, charms, manuscripts and sculpture show the spiritual leadership of women and the goddesses, fates, and ancestors they revered. These strands can help to reweave the ripped webs of women's culture.

Download or read book The Vinctalin Legacy Retaliation Book 4 Infiltration written by Vanda Denton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen months ago Earth was thriving. Now it is reduced to a deserted wilderness containing one oasis of frenetic activity: the town in England newly named Foundation. Earth's valiant hero, Benjamin Stanzini, has sacrificed his all and lived long enough to see the survivors safe. At last he can let go, but while he's in free-fall Earth's leaders come to realise that their saviours are not all they claim to be. The magnificent Emperor, one-time slave to the Vinctalin, joins forces with the Earth humans in the fight against the beasts. With growing trust the leaders of Earth's tiny community are forced to re-evaluate old enemies as well as new-found allies.

Download or read book The Vinctalin Legacy The Ovinka Book 9 Veekeren written by Vanda Denton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So-called allies seem to be almost as much a threat to Earth's alliance as the Vinctalin themselves. Secrets, lies and false histories have been the order of the day - for millennia. Who really runs the AHS Home World? What are they hiding? What is the truth regarding the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Pakow's Guards? And what did Zan discover on that strange device, the Ovinka? Determined to get the answers to these questions Jonathan hatches his most audacious plot yet. In the process he takes Veekenites and Vinctalites one step closer to understanding their origins, while Alex uncovers the truth about Veekerens.

Download or read book The Vinctalin Legacy Retaliation Book 6 The Veekeren Element written by Vanda Denton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glorious Emperor, ex-slave to the Vinctalin, could prove to be their one enemy capable of destroying them. And he does not think small. Believing he has the means to save humanity, to say nothing of wreaking vengeance on his evil tormentors, Pakow Lam Fellen leads an attack on the Vinctalin Home World. Only the raving, traumatised psychiatrist can see the flaw in his plan, because only he has come to understand the nature of the beasts. The retaliatory strike on the Vinctalin increases hugely in complexity and scale, and horror, as a simple surgical strike turns into a mass attack on a number of solar systems.

Download or read book The Vinctalin Legacy 0 0015 Book 11 Integration written by Vanda Denton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two new and mysterious races of Vinctalin on Earth. While Pakow Lam Fellen launches a spectacular retaliatory attack on one group, the other covertly observes the scene of awesome vengeance. When those conflicts finally are resolved, the United Citizens of Earth re-establish the scheme for integrating Vinctalites and Veekenites in one harmonious society. Fate conspires against them in many forms ranging from a very real and horrific reason for that old Vinctalite taboo, through outrageous theories of treason, to an abominable, unthinkable religion.

Download or read book The Vinctalin Legacy Survival Book 1 Harvest written by Vanda Denton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will you be doing tomorrow? Catching the 6.45 to Paddington? Taking the kids to school? Or will you wake up to a new world. One in which you find yourself threatening to slit the throat of a fellow inmate? Discover the galaxy that is ruled by the Vinctalin. Lies, propaganda, forced addiction, slavery, culling and torture have been the rule for countless millennia. Earth has ripened and will no longer remain untouched. Except this time the Vinctalin have made an error. In this complex and thrilling fifteen-part post-apocalyptic sf series enjoy an intriguing introduction to the unexpected heroes who will alter the course of galactic history.

Download or read book The Vinctalin Legacy Awakening Book 15 Humanity written by Vanda Denton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a story of chance but one of the legacy of a bio-engineer who made one colossal error. When Halbolival created its own slave armies it failed to realise the nature of the source of the majority DNA utilised in that diabolical project. And it was ignorant of the existence of that same DNA in one planet harvested by its clan. By bringing together the slaves created in its laboratories with the progeny of ancient settlers on Earth, Halbolival set the scene for the only creditable resistance to Vinctalin rule in the galaxy.

Download or read book The Vinctalin Legacy The Ovinka Book 8 The Message written by Vanda Denton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an attempt to be accepted as Vinctalin, Zondex has sent a message deep into space, offering for trade the very items that could maintain world security. While Pakow leads his fleet in defence of Earth, Stanzi must take charge of the battle against Zondex's remaining super-Guards who are trying to take over the world independently of their creator. Meanwhile the inhabitants of Earth's one functioning town have scattered in evacuation unaware of the danger of one small ship that slips though Pakow's defences in search of a piece of technology with a value the custodians can hardly guess at.

Download or read book The Smile written by Vanda M Denton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She is a worthless worm whose fear-filled, painful, degrading and dehumanising life is, to her, only right and seemly, until the day she is stolen away from her home. Only then does Abrin's Wife slowly come to realise the injustice of the misogynistic life she was born into. Ultimately, as a young mother she has one desire. One fight. And for that she discovers an inner strength she'd been unaware of owning.

Download or read book The Vinctalin Legacy Awakening Book 14 Miss Kitty written by Vanda Denton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They have heard so many stories now that the humans of Earth are understandably sceptical when told their ancestors did not in fact originate on this planet. However, there is an unsettling ring of truth tying that claim to the notion that Jacob Stanzini is attracting a spectral being who may be merely an initial scout for a potentially annihilative incursion into this world.

Download or read book Following Meltdown written by Vanda Denton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Meltdown is presented in a multiple narrative style. It features a dystopian atmosphere in the wake of global pandemics including one started by the fad of keeping Congo rats for pets. Psychological aspects include violent reactions to abuse. The vet, Gabriel Harrison, who has been conscripted into teaching in his local High School, finally decides to opt out of a society growing in violence in defiance of stringent laws and constant surveillance. In spite of his reluctance to help others a small group, on realising his ability to survive by bushcraft, join him. Unanticipated consequences push him into a position of becoming aware of an insane individual behind the current global suffering and leads to the formation of the World Liberation Army: something of a coup in psychological manipulation.

Download or read book So This Is Christmas written by Vanda Denton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, this is Christmas... ...and what have you done! This is the story of one man's fight against the evils of product placements. Hugh Brent is a man at the end of his tether. When the boss fires him just before Christmas his life changes. His son needs him but Hugh gets drawn into the dark underworld of sneaky advertising and so an intriguing story begins. ...you will love it or hate it!

Download or read book Habitat written by Vanda Denton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-19 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outer Shell Engineer Buchanan has good reason for his belligerence. The task of maintaining the integrity of the habitat's hull involves walling off areas which have become contaminated by acids and toxins from the outside. His job is certain to herald an early, agonising death. The rules maintain a happy, productive and satisfying life, for the majority. The Keepers enforce the rules. The rules range from maintaining a peaceful environment to protection from illegal organisations that aim to destroy their secure environment and those who worship a deity. Keeper Dominic falls in love with a woman his parents discover to be religious. Her entire village is secretly taken to the cells. Knowing Buchanan will provide his best method of vengeance Dominic agrees to trust him in the inclusion of whatever plan the OSE has devised for his revenge. Expecting to die, Buchanan and Dominic have only one ambition: to get as far away from the habitat as possible.

Download or read book The Vinctalin Legacy Survival Book 2 Sacrifice written by Vanda Denton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dark hour the Earth needs a saviour. Only a few humans have survived the initial invasion and for the first time in the long history of the Vinctalin Tajats have fought back, even taking prisoner the fabulous humanoid agent of their cruellest tyranny: the Emperor, Pakow Lam Chenden. The clandestine masters of the invaders unleash their fury on the slave armies who have failed them. While those vast battalions of Guards are being annihilated in vicious punitive attacks the valiant little amateur corps of English men and women embark on a final battle that should see the truth carried forward by an intrepid few.

Download or read book The Vinctalin Legacy 0 0015 Book 12 0 00075 written by Vanda Denton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time ever Pakow sacrifices prudence in favour of the fervour of a quest. And two entire worlds pay the price. One is utterly destroyed while the other is saved by a spectacular long-shot scheme put into action by one man who no longer follows the old rules.