Download or read book Part Two Elspeth written by Kate O'Hearn and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day, a young girl astride a twin-tailed dragon will destroy the monarchy and change the world for ever ... Kira and Elspeth have already broken FIRST LAW many times over. Now outlawed and running for their lives they are determined to stand amongst the men and fight the unjust FIRST LAW that binds the kingdom. But cruel Lord Dorcon still stands in their way and the heat of his chase is stronger than ever. Strong and determined, Kira has done all that she can to protect and shield her younger sister. But now it's time for Elspeth to grow up. When Paradon's muddled magic sends them travelling through time to different eras, new challenges and terrifying threats await the separated sisters. Especially to Elspeth, left all alone to navigate a past world long before the rule of King Ardon and FIRST LAW. And all the while in a strange, alien world of the future, Kira must find a way to get back to Elspeth and reunite her family once again. A prophecy to fulfil. A cruel monarchy to upend. The battle continues ...

Download or read book Elspeth written by Kate O'Hearn and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more to fight for than ever, Kira and Elspeth must face the next phase of their adventure ...

Download or read book Songs of the Earth written by Elspeth Cooper and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Eador, Abjurations 12:14, is very clear: Suffer ye not the life of a witch. For a thousand years, the Church Knights have obeyed that commandment, sending to the stake anyone who can hear the songs of the earth. There are no exceptions, not even for one of their own. Novice Knight Gair can hear music no one else can, beautiful, terrible music: music with power. In the Holy City, that can mean only one thing: death by fire—until an unlikely intervention gives him a chance to flee the city and escape the flames. With the Church Knights and their witchfinder hot on his heels, Gair hasn't time to learn how to use the power growing inside him, but if he doesn't master it, that power will tear him apart. His only hope is the secretive Guardians of the Veil, though centuries of persecution have almost destroyed their Order, and the few Guardians left have troubles of their own. For the Veil between worlds is weakening, and behind it, the Hidden Kingdom, ever-hungry for dominion over the daylight realm, is stirring. Though he is far from ready, Gair will find himself fighting for his own life, for everyone within the Order of the Veil, and for the woman he has come to love. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book The Dragon House written by Elspeth Cooper and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lone Rider written by Elspeth Beard and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1982, at the age of just twenty-three, Elspeth Beard left behind her family and friends in London and set off on a 35,000-mile solo adventure around the world on her motorbike. This is the story of a unique and life-changing adventure.

Download or read book Bitter Seeds written by Ian Tregillis and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The launch of a dark epic of magic and world war in a very different twentieth century

Download or read book Trinity Rising written by Elspeth Cooper and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gair, struggling with grief over the loss of his beloved and his home, walks into a conflict that is greater and even more deadly than he or his mentor ever anticipated.

Download or read book The Dorothy Dunnett Companion written by Elspeth Morrison and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothy Dunnett has earned worldwide acclaim for the masterful blending of historical fact and imagination in her two series of novels set in brilliantly reconstructed fifteenth- and sixteenth-century landscapes. The Dorothy Dunnett Companion II is an encyclopedic resource that completes and expands the reach of the first Companion in documenting the historical and literary riches of Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles and House of Niccolo novels. In this second guide, Elspeth Morrison not only covers the final three Niccolo novels for the first time, but also provides a wealth of additional information about all of the earlier novels and highlights the links between the two now-completed series. Once again, she illuminates the real figures and events and the cultural and literary allusions Dunnett weaves into her works, translating foreign phrases and offering up fascinating background details, from the history of golf and the argot of galley slaves to the uses of puffins and polar bears. Together with the first Companion, The Dorothy Dunnett Companion II provides a complete and essential guide to the world of Lymond and Niccolo.

Download or read book Journey Into Nyx written by Jenna Helland and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elspeth’s trials in Theros continue in this second Godsend adventure inspired by the myths of ancient Greece In a realm where fickle gods fight for the devotion of mortals, the planeswalker Elspeth has risen to become the champion of the sun god Heliod, who transformed her legendary sword into a spear named “Godsend.” As Elspeth defends the city Akros from minotaur hordes, she uncovers a horrible truth: If the machinations of the satyr planeswalker Xenagos come to fruition, he’ll ascend to godhood and threaten the entire realm of Theros. Made a pariah by Xenagos, an exiled and hated Elspeth fights for her life. As she hunts Xenagos, Elspeth must attempt to breach Nyx, the realm of night—and the home of the gods.

Download or read book No Previous Experience written by Elspeth Cameron and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Behavioral Insights written by Michael Hallsworth and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive introduction to the behavioral insights approach, which applies evidence about human behavior to practical problems. Our behavior is strongly influenced by factors that lie outside our conscious awareness, although we tend to underestimate the power of this “automatic” side of our behavior. As a result, governments make ineffective policies, businesses create bad products, and individuals make unrealistic plans. In contrast, the behavioral insights approach applies evidence about actual human behavior—rather than assumptions about it—to practical problems. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, written by two leading experts in the field, offers an accessible introduction to behavioral insights, describing core features, origins, and practical examples. These insights have opened up new ways of addressing some of the biggest challenges faced by societies, changing the way that governments, businesses, and nonprofits work in the process. This book shows how the approach is grounded in a concern with practical problems, the use of evidence about human behavior to address those problems, and experimentation to evaluate the impact of the solutions. It gives an overview of the approach's origins in psychology and behavioral economics, its early adoption by the UK's pioneering “nudge unit,” and its recent expansion into new areas. The book also provides examples from across different policy areas and guidance on how to run a behavioral insights project. Finally, the book outlines the limitations and ethical implications of the approach, and what the future holds for this fast-moving area.

Download or read book The Raven s Shadow written by Elspeth Cooper and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2013 in Great Britain by Gollancz.

Download or read book The Book of the Sword written by A.J. Lake and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snatched by a dragon at the end of book one, Edmund and Elspeth awake to find themselves soaring over the frozen wastes of the Snowlands, hundreds of miles from home. Escaping the dragon's clutches, they are discovered in the soft snow by Fritha. a charcoal burner's daughter. Edmund wants her help to arrange a passage home, but Elspeth has other ideas. The sword is speaking to her, filling her thoughts more and more. It's destiny is nearby, the purpose for which is was hewn, and where the sword goes, Elspeth must follow, increasingly under it's spell. Edmund and Fritha refuse to let Elspeth travel alone, and so they set out together on a perlilous route to Eigg Loki, the mountain which is drawing Elspeth and the sword, and to the dark secrets which lie at its heart.

Download or read book Meg and Greg A Duck in a Sock written by Elspeth Rae and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decodable book featuring four phonics stories specially designed to help children of all abilities overcome language-based learning difficulties. Meg and Greg are hanging out for the summer doing what ten-year-olds do—helping an injured duckling, finding a lost pet fish, saving ranch animals from a wildfire and catching a wandering sloth! A Duck in a Sock is the first book in the Meg and Greg series designed for shared reading between a child learning to read and an experienced reader. Inside you'll find four stories that introduce one new phonogram (a letter or combination of letters that represent a sound) in each story: the ck, sh, ch and th phonograms. Each story builds on the previous ones by including words with the phonograms already introduced. In addition, the series has special features to help a child with dyslexia or another language-based learning difficulty achieve reading success.

Download or read book Elspeth Huxley written by C.S. Nicholls and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-07-28 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the conservationalist and chronicler of colonial Kenya describes her childhood in east Africa and wartime Britain; marriage to Thomas Huxley; roles as a farmer, writer, and government advisor.

Download or read book Raven s Shadow written by Patricia Briggs and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2004-07-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs comes a fantastical series set in a world where magic is the only thing that stands between humanity and total destruction... Seraph is a Raven mage, and among the last of the Travelers who ensure that the city of Colossae is safe from evil. Unwelcome by those who fear magic, the wizard clans have been decimated by the very people they’ve sworn to protect. But Seraph is spared a similar fate by the ex-soldier Tier—and together they build a life where she is no longer burdened by her people’s responsibility. But now Tier is missing—or dead—and Seraph’s reprieve from her duty is over. Using her magic to discover her husband’s fate, Seraph realizes the prison that holds the evil entity known as Stalker is weakening—and only Seraph can fulfill her ancestors’ oath...

Download or read book Bestseller Works of J M Barrie Part 2 Sentimental Tommy Auld Licht Idylls The Little Minister written by J. M. Barrie and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestseller Works of J. M. Barrie Part 2: This collection of books by J. M. Barrie showcases some of his best-selling works that have charmed readers over the years. The anthology includes "Sentimental Tommy", "Auld Licht Idylls", and "The Little Minister". Through these captivating works, readers can experience Barrie's skillful storytelling, memorable characters, and exploration of themes such as childhood, love, and the complexities of human emotions. Key Aspects of the Book "Sentimental Tommy": Coming-of-Age Story: "Sentimental Tommy" is a coming-of-age novel that follows the journey of its protagonist, Tommy Sandys, as he navigates the challenges of growing up. Character Development: Barrie's narrative delves into the development of Tommy's character and his evolution from a mischievous boy to a young man seeking meaning in life. Exploration of Childhood: The book provides a poignant exploration of the complexities and innocence of childhood. Key Aspects of the Book "Auld Licht Idylls": Scottish Village Life: "Auld Licht Idylls" presents a charming portrayal of life in a Scottish village, depicting its traditions and characters with warmth and humor. Short Stories: The book is a collection of short stories, each offering a unique glimpse into the lives and experiences of the villagers. Themes of Community and Tradition: Barrie's narratives celebrate the sense of community and the endurance of tradition in the village setting. Key Aspects of the Book "The Little Minister": Romantic Drama: "The Little Minister" is a romantic drama that unfolds in the Scottish countryside, revolving around the love story between Gavin Dishart, a young minister, and Babbie, a mysterious and spirited young woman. Conflict and Tensions: Barrie's narrative weaves themes of love, social expectations, and societal tensions into an emotionally charged plot. Character of Babbie: The character of Babbie, with her independent spirit, adds intrigue and complexity to the story. J. M. Barrie was a Scottish author and playwright, known for creating the beloved character of Peter Pan. His literary works, including these bestsellers, continue to be celebrated for their charm, wit, and insights into the human experience.