Download or read book Reflections from My Pool of Dark Water written by Katherine K. Walker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections from My Pool of Dark Water shares snippets of my life through poetry and story verse. It is meant to help the reader cope in similar life situations and to encourage them with my faith. Perhaps you can relate to the pain, and also the joy of living a Christian life through reading.
Download or read book Dark Water written by Mike Pieloor and published by Mike Pieloor. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver has a special gift: he can tell when something isn’t true! Like the child’s voice that calls to him in the dark. When Oliver visits his friends at Raelem Estate, he finds darkness everywhere - and mystery. What links unexplained deaths and a stone pool? And what ancient terror lies hidden beneath the pool’s dark water? Join Oliver as he unravels the mystery and travels to a place that touches the very edge of our world. Dark Water is Mike Pieloor’s debut novelette Length: ~9,500 words
Download or read book The Last Dogs Dark Waters written by Christopher Holt and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When canine heroes Max, Rocky, and Gizmo encounter a lavish riverboat moored close to shore, they're wary of what they might find on board. But as they're welcomed by a friendly community of dogs, the trio discover that there's more to their new world than they expected. These dogs have seen humans -- who Max, Rocky, and Gizmo thought had disappeared without a trace. The brave companions meet new friends and encounter old enemies in their search for their people, traveling to places they never imagined -- from a high-speed monorail to a zoo filled with exotic animals. Max, Rocky, and Gizmo uncover secrets that promise to change their lives forever as they draw closer to figuring out why the humans left and being reunited with their families. The Last Dogs: Dark Waters is the second book in a thrilling series about three friends on a journey to find their people -- and bring them home.
Download or read book Notorious written by Roberta Lowing and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2011-07-16 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She came walking out of the desert, just as the famous poet Rimbaud had centuries before. Now the nameless woman lies horribly scarred and close to death in an asylum deep in the North African desert. An Australian official, a man code-named John Devlin, has come to question her. It is clear that the woman and Devlin share some kind of past, and all kinds of secrets. As the wind calls up a deadly sandstorm, the inhabitants of the asylum discover they are linked by a diary written by Rimbaud. Over the next 120 years, everyone who sees the diary will want it. Most will do anything to possess it. For the ruthless Polish aristocrat Aleksander Walenska, the diary holds secrets that will bring him wealth and power; for his troubled and religious son Czeslaw, it is a book of death, a penance to be fulfilled by sacrifice; for Czeslaw’s sister, it is a book of the desert that will redeem her family’s name; for Devlin, the diary is worthless and the desert is not a place of revelation but of modern terrorism. Only the nameless woman, whose dark past is entwined with those who would possess Rimbaud’s diary at any cost, knows the true worth of the book . . .
Download or read book The Black Beast written by Nancy Springer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nancy Springer’s enthralling fourth volume of the Book of Isle, two young princes set out to destroy their own father and the pervasive evil that poisons the kingdom An epic saga set in an ageless island stronghold of magic and mystery, Nancy Springer’s Book of Isle series is considered by many to be among the most accomplished offerings in all of fantasy literature, as lyrical and inventive as the classic works of J. R. R. Tolkien. In this unforgettable novel, a violent rift in a royal house threatens to tear an entire kingdom asunder. The next in line to rule the troubled realm of Melior, Prince Tirell gave his heart to the gentle and beautiful peasant girl Mylitta. But she died at the cruel whim of Tirell’s father, the king, who insists on a more politically expedient match for his rebellious son. Since the murder of his love, Tirell’s heart has hardened, and now, with the aid of his younger brother, Frain, the healer, he seeks an army that will help him defeat the evil, unrepentant monarch. All hope for victory in the war to come awaits the brothers somewhere deep in the mysteries of the Vale, where a beautiful goddess also dwells. But a sinister presence is spreading its malevolence throughout the land—and Melior can never again be truly whole until the kingdom is rid of the terrible scourge of the Black Beast.
Download or read book The Master of Edaun written by D. E. Hendley Jr and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Master of Edaun; Blood of Brothers The righteous warriors shall prevail!' Three men meet in the military. The men discover from each other their lives mirrored each other. Each man, Native Americans and taught the artistry of weapons and the visions of medieval warfare. Odd each discovered the others grew up the same way. Yeah all had twisted crazy fathers right? To top it all off they each enjoy the life as knights and swordsmanship. Any way after their stints in the military they decide to join together as archaeologist. During one of their digs, they discover another world. A world where evil rules. Our long time friends journey deep into a world where evil has taken over. Was their fathers seers of the future? Or do things really connect? Human kind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.... -Chief Seattle- *** Hunter, the lead character in the book, is helped by his long time friends Jinx and Tunk. Three Scottish brothers OCey, Mac and Dilman join in battle for the freedom of Rhea. Young Dil introduces a new gift he has developed. This gift helps in the crusade but could be dangerous. An evil wizard, Alexar, controls from the captured fortress Edaun. His rule is ruthless as he heads murderers, thieves and the nasty creatures that roam this island called Rhea. Step into the Master's world... The righteous will come, and the giants will be avengers of the slain. The people will arise and the eagles will again take flight. Thorn The Master of Edaun
Download or read book Wracked written by Louis Puster III and published by Radioactive Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrack awakes in a shallow, mossy grave with no memory of how he got there or who he is. Shards of his former life return in brief flashes of color, as Wrack traverses a bleak world, where seemingly immortal creatures with godlike power—the Doomed—wage war on each other and the living alike. A power awakens within him, and with it, a dark hunger. Wrack and his unexpected companions—the beautiful warrior Brin and clever Avar—each seek something different: answers, vengeance, stories. Their disparate goals are more entwined than they ever imagined, and the three soon find their fates may be inextricably bound through prophecy.
Download or read book The Favored Child written by Philippa Gregory and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory comes the thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller Wideacre as the once-great Lacey estate is restored to its former grandeur—though not without cost. The Wideacre estate is bankrupt. The villagers are living in poverty and formerly stunning hall is a smoke-blackened ruin. But, in the Dower House nearby, two children are being raised in protected innocence. Equal claimants to the estate, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry. Only one can be the favored child—only one can inherit the magical understanding between the land and the Lacey family that can make the Sussex village grow green again. Only one can be Beatrice Lacey’s true heir. Sensual, gripping, and mystical, The Favored Child irresistibly sweeps the reader into a world of secrets, betrayals, and power in this revolutionary period of English history.
Download or read book Swampwalker s Journal written by David M. Carroll and published by HMH. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the John Burroughs Medal: An “admission ticket to a secret corner of the world” (Bill McKibben). Naturalist David Carroll has dedicated his life to art and to wetlands. He is as passionate about swamps, bogs, vernal ponds, and the creatures who live in them as most of us are about our families and closest friends. He knows frogs and snakes, muskrats and minks, dragonflies, water lilies, cattails, sedges—everything that swims, flies, trudges, slithers, or sinks its roots in wet places. In this “intimate and wise book,” Carroll takes us on a lively, unforgettable yearlong journey, illustrated with his own elegant drawings, through the wetlands and reveals why they are so important to his life and ours—and to all life on Earth (Sue Hubbell). “Carroll covers four seasons of wading through marshes, swamps, bogs, and fens. [His] eye for detail serves him well, whether he’s spying on a tiny garter snake struggling to suck down a much larger wood frog or watching a raccoon savagely digging a turtle out of its shell.” —Entertainment Weekly “In my pantheon of nature writers, David Carroll walks on water.” —Robert Michael Pyle
Download or read book Micronesian Legends written by Bo Flood and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legends from the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, Palau, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands are interwoven with historical interludes and beautiful woodcut illustrations.
Download or read book The Dragon Choker written by Stephanie Alexander and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleanor Brice Desmarais, she of the cracked glass slipper and unladylike intellectual propensities, has learned that happily-ever-after is as rare as a frozen dragon, even for a happenstance princess. She survived a plot against her life, but her marriage to the alcoholic, womanizing Prince Gregory of Cartheigh remains at best a sham, and at worse, a potential noose around her neck. Gregory is increasingly suspicious of Eleanor’s unusually close relationship with his best friend, Dorian Finley, and with good reason. Ironically, Gregory seems to be engaged in his own scandalous love affair— with Eleanor’s scheming stepsister, no less. Eleanor understands the harsh realities of women’s lives in her kingdom, so she turns her energies to a school for impoverished girls, until an evil magician’s deception destroys the school and unleashes a festering plague. From the Fire-iron walls of Eclatant Palace to the slums of Meggett Fringe, no one, magical or mundane, is safe from the fever-induced delirium of the Great Burning. Not even Eleanor’s children. As Eleanor’s happily-ever-after morphs from circumspect to heartbreaking to mortally dangerous, for both herself and Dorian, she faces her greatest losses and her harshest reckoning. No matter what life hands her, however, she finds the strength to do what she must. She stares down her challenges, protects her loved ones, and fights to change the world. Just like women everywhere, in her world, and ours.
Download or read book In That Sweet Country written by Harry Middleton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his career, Harry Middleton contributed hundreds of stories, essays, and book reviews to some of the most respected periodicals, including the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Gray’s Sporting Journal, Field & Stream, Country Journal, Smithsonian, and Sierra, among others. When he died in 1993, Middleton left behind a legacy rich with mountain streams, wild trout, and fishermen’s dreams. In That Sweet Country is a fresh, exhilarating collection of a renowned fishing writer’s previously published works. A recognized name in outdoor writing, Middleton brings us inspiring selections such as “An Angler’s Lament” from Southern Living (1987),“Spring on the Miramichi” from The Flyfisher (1991), “A Haunting Obsession with Brown Trout” from the New York Times (1992), and many more. Readers who have loved Middleton’s work will cherish this compilation, while novice fishermen will gain a view of the world as Middleton saw it: “There are so few left, so few who believe the earth is enough.”
Download or read book Knowing Vera written by Rachelle Ayala and published by Rachelle Ayala. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vera's dating Zach, casually, not committed, when she discovers her long-departed father is the killer of Zach's mother many years ago. Meanwhile, Zach reevaluates his life after losing his leg in a tragic accident and realizes he's falling in love with Vera. Can their timing be so wrong? Vera knows the relationship is doomed, but she cannot resist the tugging of her heart and Zach's panty-melting grin. Caught in a web of family secrets and hidden agendas, Vera and Zach must depend on each other for survival. A dangerous killer is on the loose, and Vera must find the truth, wherever it leads, even if it destroys her chance for love forever. Knowing Vera is an award-winning, suspenseful, cross-cultural romance mixing an unsolved murder, adventure, and hot, steamy love scenes.
Download or read book Garden and Landscape written by Anthony Du Gard Pasley and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garden and landscape is written for students and serious gardeners in a personal, characteristically forthright style. It contains the distilled experience of a lifetime working in landscape, and particularly in gardens. The book emphasizes the need of clients and the solution for many problems faced by garden-owners and by the designers contracted to find the remedies. Principles and comments are amplified with the author's own line drawings and layouts, further enhanced with many photographs. Foreword by John Brookes.
Download or read book The Vale of Unika written by C. R. Bryan and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vale of Unika continues the quest of Loki for the goddess Zair and power to control the strange and mysterious creatures who once performed in Bump's Circus. After only thirty years of rejuvenation for the spirits of Nature who were displaced for more than a thousand years, Mrs. Bump knows she must allow the process to go forward. The Trickster Loki seizes upon William Wimmur as his human escort. Other powers contend through William. Mrs. Bump pleads, "Save the Vale and protect Zair!" William shows odd resilience and purposes of his own, including a deep love for the fantastic beings and especially for Zair. Thus begins the longer struggle of The Six Inversions of Purpose. How does one defeat the Lord of Fate?
Download or read book Under the Witch s Mark written by Rickey E. Pittman and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheridan didn’t believe in witches, not in 1972, not until he met and fell in love with Bronwynn, a dark-haired beauty in North Dallas. Then, he learned more than he wanted about the sinister side of magic, witchcraft, and satanism hidden in the underbelly of the city. Follow Sheridan and other members of that Led Zeppelin generation as they self-destruct, create beautiful art, and crash against dark forces they don’t understand and are not ready to face.
Download or read book Filling the Void written by P.D. Kew and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitch is a Time Walker about to make his jump from one assignment to the next. The only problem is that the entire infiniteverse is falling apart due to the unscrupulous machinations of the yellow ochre trenchies and their nefarious leader, Dr. Hodge. Mitch must overcome not only the trenchies but also the dysfunctional bureaucracy of his own organization as he in on the run from Idaho to Oregon to San Francisco to the Brooks Range in Alaska. His memory of past assignments in various points of history comfort him and challenge him to complete his mission. His success depends on his commitment to the Time Walker's most sacred credo: Be yourself.
