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Book Pilatus the Damned

    Book Details:
  • Author : R.D. Amundson
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2015-05-08
  • ISBN : 1491762888
  • Pages : 439 pages

Download or read book Pilatus the Damned written by R.D. Amundson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He wakes in a cemetery in front of a white marble gravestone that marks his resting place for the past three centuries. Although the letters are faded, he adopts the name Pilatus from the weathered stone faade. He realizes he is dead-alive and embraces the newfound power his undead existence allows. The consumption of blood increases his strength, and so, he is the first of his kind: vampire. He soon begins to question: Who was I before I awakened to become this creature? Who made me and why? So begins a two thousand year journey in Pilatuss search for truth, fueled by horrific recurring nightmares. He travels far and wide in search of answers, making the acquaintance of both Bram Stoker and Charles Dickens. He even makes an enemy of the Roman Catholic Church, who pursues him relentlessly. Pilatus eventually meets Phaedra, who becomes the partner he seeks. Although he feels love is out of the question, he allows her to guide him through his search for identity from Constantinople to Europe and all the way to New York City. The question remains: why did Pilatus awaken from his centuries-long sleep? And who is the deviant mind that would create an immortal monster who feeds on blood to survive?

Book Sentinel of the Damned

Download or read book Sentinel of the Damned written by Klothild de Baar and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Damned and the Elect

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  • Author : Friedrich Ohly
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2010-08-26
  • ISBN : 9780521154666
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book The Damned and the Elect written by Friedrich Ohly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative cultural history of figures such as oedipus, Judas and Faust, from antiquity to modern times.

Book The Blades of Auturius

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  • Author : David Schleifer
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2014-01-23
  • ISBN : 1491841087
  • Pages : 505 pages

Download or read book The Blades of Auturius written by David Schleifer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legacy Begins... Know now that history will be written in Steel and Blood and the marching feet of Roman Sandals. On the borders of Germania the Victory Legion under the command of Primus Pilus Lucius Arturius Castus is reassigned to hadrian's Wall in the year 280 A.D. Auturius (Uthur) will meet the blue demons of the Picts and Woads. He will meet the advisor Merlin. He will ride with Sarmatian Knights and unite a kingdom; and will carry a sword of power like none seen before, called Excalibur. And his legacy will be the first step of a vision seen by one, and will change the lives of many. In the tradition of King Arthur tales, a new vision starts with the Father, and a long trail of "Blood and Honor" in this spectacular first book of strife on the edge of the wilds.

Book Reluctant Messiah

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  • Author : Trevor Steele
  • Publisher : Mondial
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1595691731
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Reluctant Messiah written by Trevor Steele and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2010 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel, based on a large amount of research, seeks to explore Jesus' actual life before he became an object of deification and falsification. It follows him from his humble birth, his gradual development of healing powers, his years as an Essene monk, his short campaign as a charismatic healer-preacher, to his ghastly death - and what happened after the death.

Book Throne Challenge

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  • Author : Eihab Eltayeb Mustafa Ahmad
  • Publisher : Eihab Eltayeb Mustafa Ahmad
  • Release : 2023-09-30
  • ISBN : 1387508776
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book Throne Challenge written by Eihab Eltayeb Mustafa Ahmad and published by Eihab Eltayeb Mustafa Ahmad. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a realm of unparalleled fantasy, where the ancient meets the modern, follow the extraordinary journey of Yazan, a young boy chosen by fate to bear the burden of a profound truth embodied in mystical gems known as the "Stones of Truth." These precious jewels hold the key to dominion over the civilizations of the long-forgotten kings, the legends that once ruled the world. Yazan, the missing link to their control, becomes a coveted target for the dark forces, led by Vanmend, the ruthless monarch of the kingdom of Dejan and the self-proclaimed bearer of the Crown of Humanity. This enigmatic artifact bestows unimaginable magical and physical powers, the stuff of legends and bedtime stories. What lies hidden within the Stones of Truth? What limitless power do they possess? Why does the world's destiny revolve around the crowns of the throne? Will Yazan yield to his preordained fate and surrender to Vanmend, the possessor of the Crown of Humanity? Or will the world rise to defy its own destiny?

Book The Lion  the Lamb  and the Dawn of Christianity

Download or read book The Lion the Lamb and the Dawn of Christianity written by Frank Dilorenzo and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lion, the Lamb, and the Dawn of Christianity is a work of historical fiction based on the four New Testament Gospels of the Christian Bible. By imbuing some major events in the Gospels with dramatic connective tissue, the story will engage the reader with some fresh new concepts, as well as traditional ones. Many Christian stories have you standing with Jesus and speaking out to the crowd. This book will put you into the crowd. By interacting with the characters, readers have the opportunity to compare them to their own mantra. They will experience Roman life, war, conversion, martyrdom, and the feelings of the first "Christians" as they await the Pentecost. Readers will step into the skin of some powerful men who encounter the living Christ and are converted by him. Why were they converted? What did they feel? Why were the words of Jesus relevant to them? How did the centurion come by the faith that Jesus called "the greatest he had seen in all Israel" (Matthew 8:10)? Why was the centurion's faith tolerated by the Empire-or was it? How did the Pentecost transform a small number of fearful followers into blazing evangelists? The story was written to be concise and a fast read. You will keep turning the pages and will not want to put it down. There are no "slow parts." A reread for a second and third time? Certainly. It is a multifaceted story for a book group. You can discuss not only the story but the wealth of sources cited in the "End Notes," which will enrich the experience-and the fun-with websites for further research and what many will find to be surprising facts. Isolate yourself while reading this book. It is a true escape from today's noise.

Book The Annals of Poggio Bracciolini and Other Forgeries

Download or read book The Annals of Poggio Bracciolini and Other Forgeries written by Louis Paret and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women s Space

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  • Author : Virginia Chieffo Raguin
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 0791483711
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Women s Space written by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection addresses the location of women and their bequests within the single most important public and social space in pre-Reformation Europe: the Roman Catholic Church. This innovative focus brings attention to gender and space as experienced in the medieval parish as well as in monastic and cathedral space. Through provocative handling of historical content and theory, the contributors explore strategies of exclusion and of inclusion and note patterns of later writers who neglect or rewrite records of female presence. Essays on the York religious cycle, the chronicle of the monastery at Ely, and The Book of Margery Kempe explore how medieval writers used texts as fictive spaces on which to graft responses to the gendered uses of real church buildings. These text-based essays are juxtaposed with tightly focused archival research in art history and history on Florentine patronage and English parish seating, as well as with more broadly synthetic studies on access of women to shrines and on gendered left-right placement in ritual art.

Book The Hiram Key

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Knight
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2011-10-31
  • ISBN : 1446428656
  • Pages : 530 pages

Download or read book The Hiram Key written by Christopher Knight and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Jesus a Freemason? The discovery of evidence of the most secret rites of Freemasonry in an ancient Egyptian tomb led authors Chris Knight and Bob Lomas into and extraordinary investigation of 4, 000 years of history. This astonishing bestseller raises questions that have challenged some of Western civilisation's most cherished beliefs: Were scrolls bearing the secret teachings of Jesus buried beneath Herod's Temple shortly before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman's? Did the Knights Templar, the forerunners of modern Freemasonry, excavate these scrolls in the twelfth century? And were these scrolls subsequently buried underneath a reconstruction of Herod's Temple, Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland - where they are now awaiting excavation? The authors' discoveries shed a new light on Masonic ceremony and overturn out understanding of history.

Book 7 Steps to Midnight

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  • Author : Richard Matheson
  • Publisher : RosettaBooks
  • Release : 2014-03-20
  • ISBN : 0795335970
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book 7 Steps to Midnight written by Richard Matheson and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this suspense thriller by the author of I Am Legend and Now You See It, a man is on the run for his life after he’s replaced by an impostor. Government mathematician Chris Barton lives a routine life—until, at the end of an ordinary workday, he finds his car missing from the employee parking lot. When he finally arrives home, there is a stranger living in his house—a man who claims to be him. Thrust suddenly into a surreal world where the evidence of his senses cannot be trusted and strangers are trying to kill him, Chris must avoid violent assassins while following a trail of cryptic clues to regain his life . . . “Matheson is the master of paranoia—pitting a single man against unknown horrors and examining his every slow twist in the wind. 7 Steps is a book to be devoured in one long swallow.” —San Jose Mercury News “Richard Matheson is one of the great names in American terror fiction. 7 Steps to Midnight commands attention. . . . The writing is fortunately up to Matheson's high standards. This is a novel that flies across the page.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer Praise for Richard Matheson “The author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson.” —Stephen King “One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.” —Ray Bradbury

Book The Mountain Vision

Download or read book The Mountain Vision written by Francis Sydney Smythe and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pietro Bembo on Etna  The Ascent of a Venetian Humanist

Download or read book Pietro Bembo on Etna The Ascent of a Venetian Humanist written by Gareth D. Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is centered on the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), on his two-year stay in Sicily in 1492-4 to study the ancient Greek language under one of its most distinguished contemporary teachers, the Byzantine émigré Constantine Lascaris, and above all on his ascent of Mount Etna in 1493. The more particular focus of this study is on the imaginative capacities that crucially shape Bembo's elegantly crafted account, in Latin, of his Etna adventure in his so-called De Aetna, published at the Aldine press in Venice in 1496. This work is cast in the form of a dialogue that takes place between the young Bembo and his father Bernardo (himself a prominent Venetian statesman with strong humanist involvements) after Pietro's return to Venice from Sicily in 1494. But De Aetna offers much more than a one-dimensional account of the facts, sights and findings of Pietro's climb. Far more important in the present study is his eye for creative elaboration, or for transforming his literal experience on the mountain into a meditation on his coming-of-age at a remove from the conventional career-path expected of one of his station within the Venetian patriciate. Three mutually informing features that are critical to the artistic originality of De Aetna receive detailed treatment in this study: (i) the stimulus that Pietro drew from the complex history of Mount Etna as treated in the Greco-Roman literary tradition from Pindar onwards; (ii) the striking novelty of De Aetna's status as the first Latin text produced at the nascent Aldine press in the prototype of what modern typography knows as Bembo typeface; and (iii) Pietro's ingenious deployment of Etna as a powerful, multivalent symbol that simultaneously reflects the diverse characterizations of, and the generational differences between, father and son in the course of their dialogical exchanges within De Aetna.

Book Sorcery Against Caesar

Download or read book Sorcery Against Caesar written by Richard L. Tierney and published by Pickman's Press. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A REBEL AGAINST ROME Simon of Gitta, an escaped slave turned magician, roves the Roman Empire battling dark magic and demons, all the while pursued by Caesar’s soldiers. Join Simon as he flees across the ancient world evading cultists and Legionaries, outwitting sorcerers and Centurions, and fighting gladiators and gods, even the deities of the Cthulhu Mythos. Yet all these foes cannot prepare him for his greatest challenge: the pursuit of his lost soul-mate Helen, a love so deep even death can’t stand in its way for long. These stories were one of the inspirations for the Cthulhu Invictus campaign for the Call of Cthulhu role playing game by Chaosium. Enjoy sixteen stories combining superbly researched historical fiction with sword & sorcery and Lovecraftian horror, including: The Sword of Spartacus The Fire of Mazda The Seed of the Star-God The Blade of the Slayer The Throne of Achamoth The Emerald Tablet The Soul of Kephri The Ring of Set The Worm of Urakhu The Curse of the Crocodile The Treasure of Horemkhu The Secret of Nephren-Ka The Scroll of Thoth The Dragons of Mons Fractus The Wedding of Sheila-Na-Gog The Pillars of Melkarth Vengence Quest (poetry)

Book The Development of Travelling in Switzerland

Download or read book The Development of Travelling in Switzerland written by Franz Heinemann and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Rouge s Gallery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Lockwood
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2014-09-18
  • ISBN : 1499068972
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book A Rouge s Gallery written by Robert Lockwood and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikos Rallis is the definitive high-risk investor, whose avarice entraps even the most savvy members of the international business community. He fluidly skirts legal barriers in Monaco, Switzerland, and the United States. His roguish pixie dust suffocates astute targets with outrageous promises of reward. Savvy women front his schemes, captivated only slightly by his charms but much more by the opportunity to share his gains. Perched in his Alpine headquarters, the obsessive secrecy of Switzerland and strategic purpose of Chinese foreign investment become veiled money-laundering tools for his exploitation of a defense contract in Washington's easy-money climate. Ultimately, his chilling gallery of plundered emotions produces a fatal result that even his legendary diligence never anticipated.

Book The Canoe and the Saddle

Download or read book The Canoe and the Saddle written by Theodore Winthrop and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: