Download or read book Saira the King of Dreams written by Natalie Grey and published by Phix Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Imperator is defeated, but not gone. Saira knows one thing above all: while the Imperator still lives, the world is at risk. But when she seeks to follow him and finish the fight... ...in a moment, everything changes. Those who should be dead, yet live. Those who were thought to be myth, are reality. And Saira is about to find the one thing she never anticipated: her family.

Download or read book Saira the Dragon s Egg written by Natalie Grey and published by Phix Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author who brought you Bound Sorcery and The Dragon Corps, a new series where Epic Fantasy meets Steampunk Saira doesn't know how she ended up in a mountain cave. She's not quite sure where she got this magic sword, either - or the tattoo on her arm. In fact, Saira can't say for certain who she is. What she does know: she wears the face of a woman long dead, and the most powerful wizard in the world is hunting her ...From mountaintops to a forgotten kingdom of the sea, from palaces to army camps, Saira & the Dragon's Egg tells the story of a young woman reaching out to claim and incredible destiny.

Download or read book The Dragon Corps Books 1 4 written by Natalie Grey and published by Phix Publishing LLC. This book was released on with total page 1021 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As commander of one of the most decorated Dragon teams in history, Talon Rift has taken down the worst humanity has to offer—slave traders, terrorists, arms traffickers, and more. But one of his quarries has always eluded him: the Warlord of Ymir, the man who marched an army of mercenaries onto a planet decades ago and has held it ever since. Taking the Warlord down with a team of 16 is a suicidal idea... But Dragons aren't known for their good sense of self-preservation. They're known for doing whatever it takes. ** KEYWORDS: space opera; scifi romance; science fiction; Kurtherian Gambit; Honor Harrington; David Beers; military scifi; military science fiction; space marines; epic; strong female protagonist; colonization; genetic engineering; humorous science fiction; funny science fiction; LGBTQ science fiction; galactic empire

Download or read book Shadowforged written by Moira Katson and published by Phix Publishing. This book was released on with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Catwin’s help, Miriel has captured the heart of the King, but their victory has come at a cost: the suspicion and enmity of the Duke, and the unrelenting hatred of the Court. As they recover from the attempt on their lives, the two form a fragile alliance, promising that their first loyalty is to each other, and that their one goal is to survive. But to survive, Catwin and Miriel need power, and the search for power of their own draws them ever further into the Court and inexorably closer to the throne. Enemies surround them, ruthless and vengeful, and the only way forward is a dark path that threatens to sever them from themselves. For it is not only enemies that are a danger to Light and Shadow now, but the weakness of their own hearts. As she protects them both, Catwin struggles against her love for Temar, the Duke’s assassin; to capture the King’s heart, Miriel must forget both her love for Wilhelm, and her passionate belief in the populist uprising. A reckoning is coming, a betrayal that has been in the making for decades, and if they are to survive, both Catwin and Miriel must be prepared to give up everything they hold dear.

Download or read book Shadowborn written by Moira Katson and published by Phix Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this chart-topping epic fantasy series by Sci-Fi & Fantasy author Moira Katson... It has been only two generations since Arthur Warden seized the throne of Heddred from the Conradines, and now the crown rests on the head of Garad, sickly and weak. Shadows gather: legacies of the centuries-long rivalries for power, old betrayals, the endless plots of the courtiers, and the murmur of rebellion in the southern provinces… Catwin, plucked from her life at the edge of the Kingdom, is thrust abruptly into the world of the Court when she is chosen by the Duke of Voltur to be a Shadow—spy, shield, and blade—to his niece, the Lady Miriel DeVere. The Duke’s ruthlessness is legendary, and he will stop at nothing to become the power behind the throne, using Miriel as a pawn to catch Garad’s heart. But the Duke's carefully-laid plans are only a piece of the intrigue of the court, and greater forces than Catwin can imagine are massed against her, determined to eliminate Miriel and impose a new order of their own. If Catwin and Miriel are to survive, they must learn quickly who to trust, and when to turn their skills against the very people who have trained them... *** KEYWORDS: female protagonist, epic fantasy, epic fantasy series, ya fantasy; sword and sorcery; coming of age; historical fantasy; SFF; YA series; enemies to friends

Download or read book Shadow s End written by Moira Katson and published by Phix Publishing. This book was released on with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, Catwin and Miriel have chosen their own path, escaping the Court and its machinations, and fleeing to the Norstrung Provinces, to aid the rebellion. As they shed the masks and deceptions of their former life, however, both must face the fact that the same dark forces they fled are at work even in the furthest reaches of Heddred. But it is not only avarice and hatred that endanger them—the prophecy made at Catwin’s birth is slowly but surely coming true, and betrayal has followed her in her escape from the court. As the shadows of war and rebellion mass, Catwin must face the fact that if she wishes to be true to herself and her alliance with Miriel, it may be she who bears the cost of saving her kingdom…

Download or read book Light Shadow Books 1 4 written by Moira Katson and published by Phix Publishing. This book was released on with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friendship and loyalty, secrets and intrigue, prophecy and illusion… I was four hours old when I was cast out by my mother. I was cursed, she said. Kinder to let me die in the snow and the wind than let me live, only to be betrayed. I was twelve when the Duke found me and turned me into a Shadow: bodyguard, spy, and assassin. I was fourteen when he brought me to court. He wanted his niece on the throne, by any means possible. I was to be her weapon, wielded as she and the Duke saw fit. But she wants more. She’s playing her own game. And the court holds its own secrets. A war centuries in the making is ready to erupt, and we are in a race against time to keep it from consuming whole empires. … If we survive. Based on the intrigue and shifting loyalties of the War of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty that followed, Light & Shadow exists in a world that never was - a world of magic and prophecy….

Download or read book Shadow s Oath written by Moira Katson and published by Phix Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Moira Katson, the latest installment in the story of Miriel and Catwin - Light and Shadow... New to the world of Light & Shadow? Start with Shadowborn! ******* It has been two years since Miriel and Catwin sought shelter in Priteni, a land they thought to be no more than legend. With Heddred far behind them, they believe they have found a safe haven at last. But Priteni is a land of old alliances and older grudges. When an army appears on the horizon, Miriel and Catwin are thrown once more into a world of secrets and lies...

Download or read book Dreams of Empire written by André Vachon and published by Public Archives of Canada. This book was released on 1982 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andre Vachon is clearly traditional in his choice of theme, selection of material, and the historical methods that he adopts. He expounds an older interpretation that accounted for the expansion of New France in terms of missionary zeal, the geographic imperative, economic necessity, and military security. Nothing is said that reflects the historical revisionism of the last two decades with its emphasis on self-interest and the personal pecuniary motive. The heroes are familiar: Cartier, Champlain, Talon, and Laval, but not Frontenac. The author raises no serious doubts about the desire on the part of these individuals for the expansion of New France, but he is forced to admit that by 1700 the colony had become too big and too fragile. Hardly a soul is criticized in the entire text. The general reader might be amused by knowing how cunning Amerindians duped Jacques Cartier or that Champlain never learned an Indian language and judged their conduct by the standards of French law rather than according to native customs he could never appreciate. ..."-- from review by T.A. Crowley ://journals.sfu.ca/archivar/index.php/archivaria/article/view/12657/13822.

Download or read book The King of Dreams written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dreams of Another Tomorrow written by J.S Rajput and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-10-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Raza visits the ‘land of living saints’, romance is the last thing on his mind until he chances upon his long-lost love, now married to a ruthless business tycoon. In a society where anachronistic honour codes are still the norm, they are tempted to embark upon a seditious affair, despite the daunting perils.

Download or read book Heir to Govandhara written by Saira Ramasastry and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing and seductive fantasy novel that sweeps the reader into a world of warmth and beauty.

Download or read book Secrets of the Sexually Satisfied Woman written by Jennifer Berman and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2005-04-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nation's leading experts on women's sexual health offer up the secrets to female sexual satisfaction using data culled from their groundbreaking new survey Not since The Hite Report twenty-five years ago has female sexuality been so comprehensively addressed and analyzed. In Secrets of the Sexually Satisfied Woman, Drs. Laura and Jennifer Berman topple common misconceptions and reshape conventional wisdom based on their revolutionary and highly anticipated National Women's Sexual Satisfaction Survey. Extrapolating from the study results, the Bermans address the psychological and medical factors that affect sexuality while providing expert, accessible advice on how women can improve their sex lives and enhance sexual pleasure. The Bermans are not afraid to take on topics that make most people blush, and this book is sure to be an essential resource for women throughout the country.

Download or read book The Storyteller s Daughter written by Saira Shah and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine that a jewel-like garden overlooking Kabul is your ancestral home. Imagine a kitchen made fragrant with saffron strands and cardamom pods simmering in an authentic pilau. Now remember that you were born in London, your family in exile, and that you have never seen Afghanistan in peacetime. These are but the starting points of Saira Shah’s memoir, by turns inevitably exotic and unavoidably heartbreaking, in which she explores her family’s history in and out of Afghanistan. As an accomplished journalist and documentarian–her film Beneath the Veil unflinchingly depicted for CNN viewers the humiliations forced on women under Taliban rule–Shah returned to her family’s homeland cloaked in the burqa to witness the pungent and shocking realities of Afghan life. As the daughter of the Sufi fabulist Idries Shah, primed by a lifetime of listening to her father’s stories, she eagerly sought out, from the mouths of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, the rich and living myths that still sustain this battered culture of warriors. And she discovered that in Afghanistan all the storytellers have been men–until now.

Download or read book Muslim Girls Rise written by Saira Mir and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Leaders meets Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls in this gorgeous nonfiction picture book that introduces readers to nineteen powerhouse Muslim women who rose up and made their voices heard. Long ago, Muslim women rode into battle to defend their dreams. They opened doors to the world’s oldest library. They ruled, started movements, and spread knowledge. Today, Muslim women continue to make history. Once upon a time, they were children with dreams, just like you. Discover the true stories of nineteen unstoppable Muslim women of the twenty-first century who have risen above challenges, doubts, and sometimes outright hostility to blaze trails in a wide range of fields. Whether it was the culinary arts, fashion, sports, government, science, entertainment, education, or activism, these women never took “no” for an answer or allowed themselves to be silenced. Instead, they worked to rise above and not only achieve their dreams, but become influential leaders. Through short, information-rich biographies and vibrant illustrations, Muslim Girls Rise introduces young readers to the diverse and important contributions Muslim women have made, and role models they may never have heard of before, but whose stories they will never forget.

Download or read book The Crossfire of Love written by Dhiren Tiwari and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After ten long years, a twenty-something Amaan reluctantly comes back to his once-thriving-now-desolate kingdom, Attanooga, to fulfill his mother’s last wish of a hometown funeral. Saira is a journalist, but her job for the past five years has been the same – a beautiful bait to expose famous people with demented habits. Strangely, her memories of the past come to her like an out of order puzzle – whether it’s of her estranged mother, her one true hate, or the broken heart because of her break-up with Amaan years ago. Trapped in failing ambition and marshy relationships, Saira gets a rare chance to resurrect both, when she’s chosen to lead a special feature on the life and times of the late queen, Amaan’s mother. Determined to get her career and life in order at all costs, would her scheming deception end her misery or swallow her into a sinkhole where lines between blood and dreams aren’t to be trusted. Read on to find what happens when they are caught in The Crossfire of Love.

Download or read book Doomsday Dreams written by Eleanor Heartney and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Doomsday Dreams" uses international contemporary art as a lens to explore the allure, dangers and positive potential of present day apocalyptic thinking. Apocalypse is a double-edged concept, balanced between hope and despair, simultaneously encouraging the pursuit of justice and a starkly dualistic sense of good and evil. It underlies populist liberation movements and explains the attraction of authoritarian leaders. The artists discussed in "Doomsday Dreams" reflect on the ways that the modern world has been profoundly shaped by millennia-old conceptions of history as a struggle to the death between the forces of good and evil. These artists' draw on apocalyptic symbols grounded in religious conceptions of judgment, retribution, redemption and sin. They employ these ideas to ask: Why has Apocalypse become the fallback position when we are faced with calamity? How does it shape the way we deal with the world? When is Doomsday a useful metaphor and when does it foreclose more hopeful possibilities? These questions have profound implications for contemporary society. Ideas that originated in ancient Zoroastrianism and spread to the three monotheistic religions continue to define our reality today. The apocalyptic cults emerging within radical Islam are one manifestation, as are western obsessions with the "clash of civilizations." So is rhetoric of the Alt-Right that has gained currency since Donald Trump's election. Apocalyptic thinking impacts our debates over climate change, pandemics, immigration, and technology. It also underlies the popular fascination with Zombies, Armageddon and renewed fears of nuclear holocaust. The artists discussed in "Doomsday Dreams" come from diverse religious backgrounds. They employ many different media and exhibit varying degrees of religious belief. Together, they reveal how art can help us understand the complicated ideas and irresolvable contradictions that surround "Doomsday Dreams." This book brings together for the first time cultural studies, theology, world history, politics and philosophy. Heartney explores End Times symbolism, metaphor, irony and allegory in contemporary art and shows how artists are addressing the fearsome challenges that face us in a time of social, political and sectarian upheaval.