Download or read book Shard Abyss written by Loki and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to ""Shard of the Ancient"", one year has passed since the events of Operation Ragnarok. The Earth is slowly recovering from its crippling liberation, and Loki finds himself a man of controversy. Deciding he has no place among those in the aftermath, he follows the Cylvus to their new home. He finds himself a stranger in a strange land, where humans are the minority and science is shunned. A place where the fantastic is commonplace, and the stuff of legends happens every day. Once there, he discovers more than anyone expected, being drawn into a game of gods that holds a world at risk, and will leave him a different man than he's ever been.
Download or read book Shard Abyss written by Loki and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to ""Shard of the Ancient"", one year has passed since the events of Operation Ragnarok. The Earth is slowly recovering from its crippling liberation, and Loki finds himself a man of controversy. Deciding he has no place among those in the aftermath, he follows the Cylvus to their new home. He finds himself a stranger in a strange land, where humans are the minority and science is shunned. A place where the fantastic is commonplace, and the stuff of legends happens every day. Once there, he discovers more than anyone expected, being drawn into a game of gods that holds a world at risk, and will leave him a different man than he's ever been.
Download or read book Shards written by Bruce Baugh and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alone in the Night For a thousand years, the vampire Lucita has lived under the shadow of her tyrannical sire Monçada. Now, the monster who defined her existence is gone, destroyed in no small part thanks to her efforts. All she wishes, is to at last find a place for herself in these Final Nights. But to the rest of the Clan Lasombra, she is a rogue and a killer, a rebel who has assassinated one of their greatest elders. The hunt is on.
Download or read book Shards from the Polar Ice written by Lydia Grigorieva and published by Glagoslav Publications. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It would be hard to imagine Russian poetry in the last half century without Lydia Grigorieva,” writes eminent Russian poet and critic Konstantin Kedrov. Grigorieva is a uniquely individual voice, bucking the trends of modernist poetry to create her own distinctive and beguiling body of poetry. Her work draws on her own remarkable life to create startlingly arresting images and metaphors, full of beauty and power, from her series that emerged from her Arctic childhood, to the troubles that beset Ukraine. Her range of influences is wide, and Beethoven, Freud, Sylvia Plath and Byron all appear in her poems as well as more familiar Russian images. At the heart of Grigorieva’s poetry is what she calls its ‘musicality’ – her firm belief in the power of rhyme and rhythm in creating a poetic experience. In this first major collection of her work in English, English poet John Farndon, working with Grigorieva and co-translator Olga Nakston, has recreated this musicality in English so that English readers might experience for the first time what makes her work so revered in her Russian homeland. Translated by John Farndon with Olga Nakston. Maxim Hodak - Максим Ходак (Publisher), Max Mendor - Макс Мендор (Director), Ksenia Papazova (Managing Editor).
Download or read book Odysseys the Rejoining of the Shards written by Melvin Karew and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of fantasy, two enemies square off against one another: Grimlindus, the general, necromancer and suave lord of evil; and Ariadne, young princess and refugee from the invasion of her homeland and the murder of her family. Ariadne has completed her worldly quests, has read the Book of Kazlos, drunk from the well of the dead god and been bitten by the serpent from the Amazon Continent. She is returning home but is still overwhelmed by the poison of the serpent. Grimlindus and his minions rush to intercept her, to destroy her before she is grown to full power. Meanwhile, her companions are spread all over the world, from the deserts to the jungles the ocean-floor. They all have their own journeys, their own odysseys, to take in order to return. On these journeys, they will collect various shards of knowledge, magic and authority that will assist in the overthrow of Grimlindus’s empire. It is only by avoiding the machinations of Grimlindus and by joining all the shards together, that Ariadne and her friends will finally triumph.
Download or read book SHARDS written by Lawrence Terlizzese and published by Christian Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shards: Fragments of Mind presents a collection of aphorisms, epigrams, terse journal entries, notes, short vignettes, and pity statements, as well as longer segments, such as unpublished papers, blog posts, and essays meant to enlighten the reader and inspire the ability to think; none of these minutes are meant to be exhaustive, although no linear organization enforces itself on the text comprehensive themes will be discovered through comparable reading. Each entry stands alone and is presented in no particular order. I cover topics as varied as Extra Terrestrials and Christianity, cell phones, and Just War Criteria. The reader may start at any point from beginning to end or randomly, and various and sundry topics will begin to take shape in a comprehensive whole. The numbering system in this book is an attempt to impose some logical order and easy reference on an otherwise fragmented text. However, this is not unlike the way students learn through the online medium when looking up relevant subjects in short informational bursts proceeding in rapid-fire succession. I take as my literary examples the writing of Pascal in Pensées and Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols. Although I don’t pretend to be as sublime as they were, I do use their format as a template for this book.
Download or read book Shards written by Francesca Albini and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shards is a meditative sequence of prose-poems. The idea is that life is like a broken vase, with every piece of glass reflecting light in its own way. The writing has a loose, sometimes Zen-like, rhythm and flavour, and the book taps into a varied background, bringing together images from different worlds and experiences. Shards deals with identity, memory and consciousness, with the blurred line between reality and reverie, in an immediate style that appeals also to the reader who finds traditional poetry too distant.
Download or read book Shards written by Keith B. Darrell and published by Amber Book Company. This book was released on 2023-06-02 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keith B. Darrell traverses multiple genres and dimensions, guiding the reader to a wondrous universe of speculative fiction in which he has loosed the gremlins of his imagination. Leading the reader through realms of fantasy, horror, science fiction, satire, nostalgia, urban fiction, and other genres, he has tapped into the zeitgeist, chronicling the exploits of ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary situations. His tales hold a funhouse mirror up to society and force us to recognize ourselves in the reflection. Filled with pathos, they cross all genres and are alternately poignant, nostalgic, humorous, cautionary, and even terrifying. Keith B. Darrell’s stories flow effortlessly. Do not be deceived. They are raw. They are politically incorrect. And they will take you from your comfort zone into a modern day Twilight Zone.
Download or read book Shards written by Stephen Keen and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2020 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's left when the soul is shattered?- Shards' is a stark tale of four disparate people coming together partly through circumstance and partly because each one is in one sense or another damaged, broken... Set in both Poland in 1943 and the London suburbs of the nineteen seventies, this novel has at its dark core the disturbing themes of mental illness and the Holocaust. Yet as the story progresses pin pricks of light permeate the darkness; and glimmers of love, hope, self-sacrifice and ultimately redemption are achieved by the novel's main protagonists.About the Author:Stephen Keen lives and works in Kent. Born and raised in south London he has for many years been fascinated by both mental health issues and the Holocaust. And this profound interest in these themes compelled him to undertake Shards his first novel.
Download or read book Nimbus Shards written by YAMINI MALHOTRA and published by kitab writing publication. This book was released on 2024-02-14 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to a world where reality transcends the bounds of the ordinary. In the vast expanse of our universe, there exists a phenomenon both awe-inspiring and mysterious—floating rocks. These enigmatic formations, found not only in the reaches of space but also within the depths of our oceans and on the surface of our own planet, captivate the imagination and challenge our understanding of the natural world. In this exploration, we embark on a journey to unravel the secrets of these floating rocks, delving into their origins, their significance, and the profound implications they hold for science, culture, and human civilization. From the towering icebergs of Antarctica to the ethereal landscapes of distant celestial bodies, we encounter a diverse array of floating rocks, each with its own unique story to tell. Through scientific inquiry, cultural mythology, and firsthand accounts, we seek to illuminate the mysteries that shroud these captivating phenomena. As we venture deeper into the realms of Earth, space, and the oceans, we discover the interconnectedness of these seemingly disparate domains. We learn of the delicate balance that sustains life on our planet, the cosmic forces that shape our universe, and the enduring quest of humanity to explore the unknown. But beyond the realm of science lies a realm of wonder and imagination—a realm where floating rocks become symbols of resilience, beauty, and the boundless possibilities of the human spirit. Through literature, art, and folklore, we glimpse into the collective imagination of humanity, where the extraordinary becomes the ordinary and the mundane is transformed into the miraculous. In the pages that follow, we invite you to join us on this extraordinary odyssey—a journey through the realms of Earth, space, and the oceans in search of the floating rocks that defy gravity and challenge our understanding of the universe. It is a journey that promises to inspire, to enlighten, and to expand the horizons of our imagination. So, dear reader, prepare to embark on an adventure unlike any other. Prepare to explore the floating rocks of Earth, space, and oceans—a world where reality is stranger than fiction, and the wonders of the cosmos await at every turn.
Download or read book Golden Shards The Beginning Life is a Story story one written by Igor Wahl and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Story about the Rise and Fall of a Kingdom, Forged in the fight between the embodiement of light and and ancient darkness. This chronicle marks the genesis of an era shrouded in despair and everlasting hope.
Download or read book Shards of Ephemera written by Edmund Robert Kowkabany and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shards of Ephemera is a wry morality tale concerning the playful parting gambit of Tammy A., a gold-digging, thoroughly American adventuress whose life is about to be surprisingly changed when she bewitches a dissolute scion solely to gain entrée to his mysterious moneybags father, who is now reclusive in his estate on the most fabled and golden of coasts. Tammy is an enchanting backwoods girl with grand ambitions to escape her past, and one abundantly endowed with, among numerous other attributes, the precocious aplomb to accomplish just that, to leave her origins far behind without a trace. So while her presumptive peers were dreaming still about puerile romances and prom nights, she was already frolicking among the wealthy and glamorous at the world’s most glittering playgrounds. Tammy is the consummate femme fatale, and anyone whom she chose to bewitch was doomed to an afterlife of ruin, ignominy, and remorse. Her success was dazzling, legendary, her landscape littered with corpses, stuff immortalized in lyrics, sonnets, and ballads, even a few underground graphic novels. It’s said that the persona of ————, of recent notorious celluloid celebrity, was inspired by her exploits. There is no telling what Tammy might have further achieved in the hardboiled, demimonde world of hers and how many more lurid tabloid scandals provoked, but the truth was that by the ripe old age of twenty-four and after having already amassed riches beyond her wildest fantasies, not only did a vague languor start settling in, which was distressing enough, but to her rising chagrin and just as potentially calamitous to her walk of life, most of the nuggets of gold she unwittingly, paradoxically mined of late were from a hitherto unsuspected or blithely repressed tender quarry within her own heart. Yep, it was too woefully true, especially for the motley horde of paparazzi, troubadours, harlequins, hangers-on, and others scrambling in her wake, whose livelihoods depended on her and the buzz she created: the ruthless edge and cutthroat zeal, the ineffable force of nature that vaulted her foremost in the scintillating pageant were dissipating, imperceptibly but inexorably. Tammy was canny enough to know that once she started feeling anything but pitilessness toward her intended prey and purpose, she herself was doomed. And so she quietly retreats from her perilous world of intrigue and seduction. But while sojourning in a certain place on her increasingly restive quest to escape ennui, serendipitously, in the elegant bar of a palatial hotel Tammy’s curiosity is piqued by a drunken loner babbling aloud, an apparent habitué of the establishment by the manner with which he is obsequiously coddled by the staff. After discreetly inquiring, she learns that this woebegone oaf is the disgraced, outcast scion of one of the country’s grandest fortunes, an empire built, literally, on peddling rags. This debauched pariah, whose name is Eberley, resides in a penthouse suite many stories above the bar—all arranged by his curmudgeonly father to keep him, it is openly whispered, as far away as possible. Voilà, here are both temptation and opportunity impossible to resist, one final dare, a last hurrah! Although in his lethargic, laconic, oafishly oblivious and absurd kind of way the outcast proves to be obdurately resistant to easy seduction, which Tammy discovers much to her vexation, after much ado she succeeds in gaining entrée to the reclusive magnifico his father and emperor of empire who is, as she gradually corroborated from many sources during her arduous interlude spent in prodding the oaf his son, a treasury unto himself, as impervious to the vicissitudes of fortune as an oil-rich, rags-to-riches nation-state. But what ironically ensues is unlike anything Tammy anticipated or ever dreamed experiencing. The ailing empire-builder is a self-made maverick of the old school—boorish and gruff, one who always wickedly delights in fl
Download or read book Shards of Hope written by Nalini Singh and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The "smoldering heat, epic romance, and awesome action"* of Nalini Singh's New York Times bestselling series continues as two Arrows find themselves caught in a chilling conspiracy that spans all three races. Awakening wounded in a darkened cell, their psychic abilities blocked, Aden and Zaira know they must escape. But when the lethal soldiers break free from their mysterious prison, they find themselves in a harsh, inhospitable landscape far from civilization. Their only hope for survival is to make it to the hidden home of a predatory changeling pack that doesn't welcome outsiders. And they must survive. A shadowy enemy has put a target on the back of the Arrow squad, an enemy that cannot be permitted to succeed in its deadly campaign. Aden will cross any line to keep his people safe for this new future, where even an assassin might have hope of a life beyond blood and death and pain. Zaira has no such hope. She knows she's too damaged to return from the abyss. Her driving goal is to protect Aden, protect the only person who has ever come back for her no matter what. This time, even Aden's passionate determination may not be enough because the emotionless chill of Silence existed for a reason. For the violent, and the insane, and the irreparably broken like Zaira"--
Download or read book Shards of Fate written by Edward Loom and published by Histria Books. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic fantasy trilogy for hardcore fans of the genre! A paladin of darkness, a knight of Death, and the very embodiment of the burdening title of Dark Prince, without being "allowed" to love, be granted a chance at a normal life, or even the right to find peace in death, Thaidren must understand and overcome the challenges brought by his unwanted legacy, uncovering the full extent of it in the process to assure his survival, along with the best possible outcome for the future of existence and its denizens. His tale begins and ends in darkness, but the pavement of his road will glow with cold light, and the helping hand of a guardian as ancient as the Shards of Fate themselves.
Download or read book Shards of Earth written by Adrian Tchaikovsky and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all. The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . . Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. After earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared—and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Now, fifty years later, Idris and his crew have discovered something strange abandoned in space. It's clearly the work of the Architects—but are they returning? And if so, why? Hunted by gangsters, cults and governments, Idris and his crew race across the galaxy hunting for answers. For they now possess something of incalculable value, that many would kill to obtain.
Download or read book Jeremy Shards written by Rivka Kaplan-Peck and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremy is growing up mid constant fighting and emotional neglect. He frequently runs away to the local beach. Though Jeremy finds a way to cope, he changes. Because of his newly acquired meditation skills and transformed identity as Shards, he begins to view life in a different way.
Download or read book SHARDS OF UNSUNG POESIES written by Swadha Singh , Shruthi Singh and published by SPECTRUM OF THOUGHTS. This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homo Sapiens are intellectual and knowledgeable species who have played different social roles at different point of times. They've been feminists to fight for the rights of women, and we have seen many of them come up to support men and speak on the wrong that's done to men. In this process , they have forgotten the real essence of being a human being. Humanity, which is one of the greatest qualities of every being which is considered a 'human', has been left on the parched land of life to vapourise and vanish. The shards of unsung poesies highlights the wrong that humans have been doing to each other in the most beautiful manner. It urges us to fight for HUMANITY, and not over feminism or virism. Compiled by Swadha and Shruti and co-authored by 40 other writers, this anthology is an effort to make others realise that being a social nazi is dull and over rated, and being a real human is in the trend.
