Download or read book Pulling the Wings Off Angels written by K. J. Parker and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulling the Wings Off Angels is a madcap adventure brimming with the ethical quandaries and sardonic wit of The Good Place by World Fantasy Award-winning author K. J. Parker Long ago, a wealthy man stole an angel and hid her in a chapel, where she remains imprisoned to this day. That’s the legend, anyway. A clerical student who’s racked up gambling debts to a local gangster is given an ultimatum—deliver the angel his grandfather kidnapped, or forfeit various body parts in payment. And so begins a whirlwind theological paradox—with the student at its center—in which the stakes are the necessity of God, the existence of destiny—and the nature of angels. Also by K. J. Parker Inside Man Prosper's Demon The Devil You Know The Last Witness At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book On the Wings of Angels written by Dan Verner and published by eLectio Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Wings of Angels (Book 3 of the Beyond the Blue Horizon Series), continues the saga of Otto Kerchner, the airplane-obsessed Wisconsin farm boy who becomes a hero of World War II in On Wings of the Morning (Book 1). He continued to lead his family, friends, and community into new ventures—and sometimes danger—in On the Wings of Eagles (Book 2). The latest in the series picks up in 1954 with an unlikely mix of elements: a minor league baseball team, mobsters from Minneapolis, a Soviet jet, family discord, sudden death, an aviation camp, a kidnapping, and a marauding bear. Meanwhile, the Kerchners, their friends, and their community cope with a changing world. Readers of the earlier novels have praised the easy style and realistic touches in the books which help recreate the ambiance and feel of those remembered years, including the simple pleasures of picnics, birthday parties, and pick-up baseball games. The characters are at once unique and identifiable, and their hopes, fears, and struggles still resonate today. This book is a must read among must reads for just about everyone.
Download or read book Julio Medem written by Robert Stone and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thorough account of the life and films of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem is the first book in English on the internationally renowned writer-director of Vacas, La ardilla roja (Red Squirrel), Tierra, Los amantes del Círculo Polar (Lovers of the Arctic Circle), Lucía y el sexo (Sex and Lucía), La pelota vasca: la piel contra la piedra (Basque Ball) and Caótica Ana (Chaotic Ana), Initial chapters explore Medem’s childhood, adolescence and education and examine his earliest short films and critical writings against a background of a dramatically changing Spain. Later chapters provide accounts of the genesis, production and release of Medem’s challenging and sensual films, which feed into complex but lucid analyses of their meanings, both political and personal, in which Stone draws on traditions and innovations in Basque art, Spanish cinema and European philosophy to create a complete and provocative portrait of Medem and his work.
Download or read book On Angel Wings written by Michael Morpurgo and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the shepherds are invited to follow the star to visit the Christ child, a young boy is left behind to watch the flock until the Angel Gabriel returns for him so that he can be the first to witness a true Christmas miracle.
Download or read book Vainglory written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Mereo Books. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vainglory begins in France in 1429, the year of the Siege of Orléans, as Victoire de Gloriole regains possession of the family castle from the English following the Battle of Agincourt. Having consolidated his position by marrying a beautiful Englishwoman, Victoire sets out to rebuild a dynasty and a castle. However some years on, he finds himself without a legitimate heir, and at war with a family of scheming cousins. From Joan of Arc and the 15th century wars with the English through to Catherine de Medici and the slaughter of the Huguenots, Vainglory tells the story of a power-hungry family who will let nothing and no one get in their way. Cleverly plotted and beautifully written, it is a historical novel of rare class.
Download or read book A Traveler s Guide for Lost Souls written by Jim T. Lindsey and published by SeaStorm Press. This book was released on 2011-03-13 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World is a Heartbreaker written by Sherwin Tjia and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Is a Heartbreaker inaugurates a new subgenre: imposter poetry. This collection is a set of 1600 pseudohaikus, bite-sized chunks of poetic goodness shotgunned at the distracted masses. What's a pseudohaiku? It's the poetry of pure indulgence, a three-liner without the constraint, the pretension or the 5-7-5 syllable form. The subject matter? Relationships, cats, insecurities - themes recur and build into a kind of non-linear narrative. These micropoems are easily digestible yet remarkably acute, a catalogue of scattered thoughts and pointed observations that go down like potato chips - betcha can't read just one. Sometimes sexy, sometimes scandalous, sometimes sentimental, but always three lines long, these pseudohaikus are the future of poetry in a world awash with sound bites, news clips, catchphrases. There are no pleasures like the guilty ones. About Tjia's earlier books: 'Gentle Fictions is a tender, playful and inspiring poetry collection ... Tjia's poems are often silly, cute and irreverent, but artfully so.' - Matrix '[Pedigree Girls] is hilarious. It's also filled with raw, biting social criticism. [It's] the weirdest comix you'll read all year ... discover the seductiveness of nihilism by way of an author with a sharp sense of humour.' - NOW
Download or read book The Hidden War written by Michael Armstrong and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2001-05-15 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to the wonder of the hide, no one starves or freezes or gets sick on the perfect worlds of the Solarian Alliance. Like a synthetic skin, the hide protects and heals, and can transform people into anything they want to be. Nothing threatens this utopian existence until an extraterrestrial message of unspeakable horror is received. An evil race terrorizes the galaxy, and it's coming toward Earth. . . .Into this world, the Solarian Alliance frees Krim, the last survivor of the Beat asteroid known as the Jack and a prisoner since he saw his world vanish into that strange other space known as Ur. Disgusted with this utopia, Krim enlists in a distant fight at the edge of the solar system, the battle no one on Earth may know about, lest it disrupt their perfect peace . . . the Hidden War.
Download or read book The Paranormal 13 13 free books featuring witches vampires werewolves mermaids psychics Loki time travel and more 1 Bonus written by Christine Pope and published by Frostbite Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 2481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PARANORMAL THIRTEEN 14 full length paranormal and urban fantasy novels featuring witches, vampires, werewolves, mermaids, psychics, Loki, time travel and more! Darkangel by Christine Pope Twin Souls by K.A. Poe The Girl by Lola St Vil Rest for the Wicked by Cate Dean Drowning Mermaids by Nadia Scrieva I Bring The Fire by C. Gockel The Witch Hunter by Nicole R Taylor Beyond the Fortuneteller’s Tent by Kristy Tate Nolander by Becca Mills The Medium by C.J. Archer Dream Student by J.J. DiBendetto Deception by Stacy Claflin The Black Parade by Kyoko M The Thought Readers by Dima Zales Download your FREE LIMITED TIME release now! Free, Boxed Set, vampires, mermaids, psychics, gods, werewolves, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, teen, collection, anthology
Download or read book Guardians The Girl Guardians series Book 1 written by Lola StVil and published by Lola St.Vil. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gossip Girl” meets “The Mortal Instruments” "I crave her. I need her. I love her. And that is the reason, we will all die..." I’m a proud bookworm who is jealous of the heroines she reads about. They’re always brimming with courage and going on adventures. The most courageous thing I’ve done is drink milk two days past it’s expiration date. Nothing new or exciting ever happens to me. I play it safe at every turn and live a spectacularly unremarkable life. Until… I was attacked by a hoard of Demons and rescued by the Japanese twins from my history class. They confess to being part of a six-member team of Angels; sent to earth to find me. Wait, what? It turns out, they are here to get me to reveal a secret; one I don’t even realize I’m keeping. If the Demons learn the secret before the Angels, they’ll use that knowledge to bring hell on earth. The twins present me to the team leader-- Marcus Cane. Marcus is stubborn and bossy. He’s also ridiculously hot. I forget how to breathe when he’s near and feel panic when he’s away. But we could never be together. He’s the most powerful Angel on earth and I’m, well…me. Also, he has a girlfriend. She’s stunning, intelligent and quick to kill. That should have been enough to make us stay away from each other, it wasn’t… ****This dark YA paranormal romance has over 1,000 five star reviews and is perfect for lovers of Twilight, Fallen, and Immortal Instruments!***** (Please note this series was previously titled "Guardians") Books in the series: book 1: Addiction Book 2: aftermath Book 3: Errant Book 4: Inferno Book 5: Affliction book 6: Entropy Book 7: Ensnared Book 8: Ascension
Download or read book Whisper of Angels written by L.C. Baker and published by L.C. Baker. This book was released on with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evangeline Winters is a woman caught up in a war she never knew existed, and the prize is something she will sacrifice everything to protect. After meeting her husband, Scott, the two face a series of devastating tragedies, and unable to bear the pain of a shattered heart, she attempts the unthinkable. She does not realize there is no such thing as coincidence and that greater forces are at play. Forces that know Evangeline is destined for something more. Scott loves his wife. More than life itself, which is why he makes a deal with an angel to save Evangeline from herself. As part of the bargain, he accepts a job halfway across the country, hoping to start somewhere fresh with Evangeline, a new home in a new state, far away from the grief that haunts them both, and begs her to go with him. To his surprise, she reluctantly agrees. It is the least she can do for the man who never gave up on her, who loves her far more than she loves herself. What she does not realize is that Scott is not whom he seems. He is a man with many secrets. Secrets that very well may destroy them both because the wheels of fate have begun to turn, leading her straight to her destiny. She is soon cast into a world that she never believed existed. A world of demons and Angels, where the power of freedom or destruction lies in her hands, where fate and desire vie for control of her life. A world where all she has to do to get the one thing she wants most in life is to say yes. For Evangeline, it may be a temptation too great to bear. Whisper of Angels is the first novel in the Legacy Trilogy. Trigger warnings. Whisper of Angels touches on subjects that might be distressing to some readers.
Download or read book The Monk s Hood Pull d Off Or The Capucin Fryar Described written by Pierre Du Moulin and published by . This book was released on 1671 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Starfire Diaries written by Sooz Parnam-Harris and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And so it begins, a traveller in time and space. There is a place inside all of us, full of ghosts and shadows, and who knows if we can tell what is real and what is part of the whispers belonging to the past. What do you do when you're spiralling down into the darkness of an uncontrolled mind and the loneliness that comes with lost things? For Bea, the choice is between chronic illness, terminal telepathy and the power of the winter stars.
Download or read book Angels Blood written by Nalini Singh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIRST IN THE GUILD HUNTER SERIES! Nalini Singh introduces readers to a world of beauty and bloodlust, where angels hold sway over vampires. Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux is hired by the dangerously beautiful Archangel Raphael. But this time, it’s not a wayward vamp she has to track. It’s an archangel gone bad. The job will put Elena in the midst of a killing spree like no other—and pull her to the razor’s edge of passion. Even if the hunt doesn’t destroy her, succumbing to Raphael’s seductive touch just may. For when archangels play, mortals break.
Download or read book Die If You Want Praise written by Gordon Brewer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's a hard-boiled private detective with no clients and a crazy landlady looking for his overdue rent. After a young gunman walks into his office, telling him to lay off of a case he's not involved with, Ray soon finds himself in the middle of murder, deceit, and deception. Brought in to investigate a fiendish killing, which leads to another, the shamus tries to sort out the sinister motive. Paintings with eerie depictions of the murders hang near the bodies, and the police believe it's the work of a madman.
Download or read book Aussie Angels 2 Whale of a Time written by Margaret Clark and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aussie Angels - Meg and Mike - are busy again. This time, as well as rescuing an echidna that's been hit by a bike rider and a kangaroo that's been knocked down by a car, they have to save a koala that insists on clinging to a TV antenna. Boris Boola is in big trouble, Elsie the emu has a fight with the clothesline and of course, that little Aussie devil Mark is running around with a video camera and being no help at all! Then the whales are in danger of stranding themselves on the beach and saving them is the hardest job the Angels have ever tackled - until unexpected help comes their way. WHALE OF A TIME is the second instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Download or read book A Shimmer of Angels written by Lisa Basso and published by Month9Books, LLC. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling and spirited debut novel, 16-year-old Rayna Evans has spent the last three years in a mental institution for seeing angels—intent on remaining free, she ignores signs that she may be slipping into a world she has tried to climb out of. When her hallucinations begin showing up at school, can she keep her sanity and prevent students from dying at the hands of angels she cannot admit to seeing? Psychiatry, fantasy, and realism come together here in a story of a young girl struggling with identity, secrets, and confronting her greatest fears.
