Download or read book Soothsayer Oracle Trilogy Book 1 written by Mike Resnick and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of Santiago and Mike Resnick's other exciting and evocative novels know that the galaxy's Inner Frontier is filled with some mighty dangerous characters, such as the Iceman, the Mouse, Merlin, the Yankee Clipper, the Mock Turtle, and more. But we'll bet you didn't know that the most dangerous person on the Frontier, perhaps the most dangerous human or alien who ever lived, is a frightened little six-year-old girl who wishes she was anyone else. Come meet her, and her one friend, and her multitude of enemies, in the pages of Soothsayer, the first book of the Oracle Trilogy - and experience an adventure similar in tone both to Santiago and to Josh Whedon's TV series Firefly (and its follow-up movie Serenity). Mike Resnick is the winner of 5 Hugos (from a record 37 nominations), as well as dozens of other major awards all across the world, and was the Worldcon Guest of Honor in 2012.
Download or read book Soothsayer written by Michael D. Resnick and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Larger than life, they stride the untamed galaxy. Heroes and villains, spacers and bounty hunters, with legendary names like Cemetery Smith, the Forever Kid, the Iceman, the Mock Turtle. But the most dangerous, and wanted, being in the universe is a frightended little girl with the unearthly power to foresee, control, or destroy. Her name is Penelope Bailey. The furure will call her ... Soothsayer."--Page 4 of cover
Download or read book Prophet Oracle Trilogy Book 3 written by Mike Resnick and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her name is Penelope Bailey, a young woman of normal appearance. Yet during her brief, turbulent life she has been known first as the Soothsayer, then the Oracle, and still later the Prophet. She looks like none of the three, nor indeed like anything out of the ordinary, yet she is the most dangerous and deadly being in the history of the Galaxy. It's the Gravedancer's job to terminate her. If he should fail - and he never has - then the Silicon Kid will try his best to end her extraordinary life. Also on her trail is the one who knows her best, the Iceman. And there is the Annointed One, a conqueror of unlimited power. Will she side with him or will she oppose him, and how do they choose which of them to support or attempt to kill? Welcome to the conclusion of Mike Resnick's classic Oracle Trilogy - and experience an adventure similar in tone both to Santiago and to Josh Whedon's TV series Firefly (and its follow-up movie Serenity). Mike Resnick is the winner of 5 Hugos (from a record 37 nominations), as well as dozens of other major awards all across the world, and was the Worldcon Guest of Honor in 2012.
Download or read book Soothsayer written by Canada Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-28 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salome was raised in a fundamentalist community. She is being courted by the head of the church and has done little more than hold his hand as prescribed by their rules. She wears their uniform on her body and obeys their rules with all her heart, terrified that any deviation will cause the loss of her salvation.She had been taught from the moment her breasts began to grow that she needed to hide the things away that may make men desire her. Men were hapless; they reacted to a woman's wiles despite their desire for goodness and the quest for modesty and sobriety rested solely in her hands. She denies everything carnal that simmers within her and succumbs to manipulation and control that borders on abuse.A chance meeting throws her into the world of the Nephilim where she meets a half demon named Braith who is the opposite of everything she has been taught. He is beautiful, powerful and empowering. He sweeps Salome off her feet and shows her that the line between good and evil is sometimes blurred.She yearns to be free from her community and the indoctrination of her strict upbringing and considers joining his coven of half demon warriors who are about to embark on a war against their evil brethren.But that would mean becoming an immortal and equally powerful "Daughter of the Night" and this would bring a whole new set of challenges.Soothsayer is Book 1 of a 5 part series but can be read as a stand alone.FROM THE AUTHOR: Soothsayer tackles fundamentalist thinking and every woman who has ever felt sympathy for a female raised in a patriarchal system will love the liberation of the main character.
Download or read book The Janusite Trilogy written by Anna Durand and published by Jacobsville Books. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 1263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her destiny could transform two worlds—or destroy everything. Well, nobody's perfect. Dive into the first three steamy books in the Undercover Elementals series! Cross the veil into the Unseen realm and meet sylph warriors, a sex-starved incubus, an angry sorcerer, a vengeful harpy, a grumpy god, and a host of other unearthly characters. Lindsey Porter never believed in the supernatural—until she bumped into a hot guy in a loincloth who could vanish at will. No, that's not weird at all. The sylph Nevan tempts her like no one else ever has, drawing out desires she'd kept buried deep inside herself. But Nevan is hiding a dark secret. As Lindsey is drawn deeper into a parallel world where magic reigns and bargains have deadly consequences, she realizes she might be the key to saving two worlds. But Lindsey must rely on Nevan and his elemental powers to stay alive. Or does she? A ragtag band of elementals might become her strongest allies. Because yeah, the apocalypse is coming. The Janusite Trilogy includes three full-length novels from the Undercover Elementals series of steamy paranormal romances, plus bonus chapters found only in this collection.
Download or read book Folk Traditions of the Arab World written by Hasan M. El-Shamy and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Whole Story written by John E. Simkin and published by K. G. Saur. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the only comprehensive guide to sequels in English, with over 84,000 works by 12,500 authors in 17,000 sequences.
Download or read book The Vesta Shadows Trilogy written by Debra May Macleod and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a world of power and privilege, secrets and sacred duty. It is the world of ancient Rome. And it is the esteemed Vestal Virgins—priestesses of Vesta, goddess of the home and hearth—who protect the Eternal Flame that protects the Eternal City. Brides of Rome Dedicated to a thirty-year vow of chaste service, Priestess Pomponia finds herself swept up in the intrigue, violence, wars, and bedroom politics of Rome’s elite—Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Octavian and his maneuvering wife, Livia—all the while guarding the secret affection in her heart. To Be Wolves As chief Vestal Virgin, Pomponia devotes her life to protecting her order and the eternal flame of Vesta. In a position of esteem in Rome, she is a valued member of Caesar’s circle. But as a contagion ravages the city, she struggles to manage the Vestal order, while facing a malevolent nobleman whose machinations threaten everything she loves. Empire of Iron Pomponia has elevated the Vestals to a position of unprecedented prestige—and her friendship with Caesar Augustus has afforded her a life of political influence and privilege. But a ruthless enemy threatens Pomponia and all those she cares for—including the emperor himself. Faced with threats from all directions, Pomponia must be willing to sacrifice everything to protect her status, the Vestal order, and the lives of those around her.
Download or read book THE MEMOIRS OF A PHYSICIAN Complete Marie Antoinette Series Volumes 1 5 written by Alexandre Dumas and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 1209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "THE MEMOIRS OF A PHYSICIAN - Complete Marie Antoinette Series (Volumes 1-5)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Memoirs of a Physician Series is placed in the time of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The series presents an idealized portrait of France during the reign of Queen Marie Antoinette, but it also shows the decadence of the nobility of the time, with its ending seeming to suggest the "beginning of the end" of the nobility. Novels are inspired by the actual historical characters, such as Count Cagliostro and Ange Pitou, and the major events in the history of France, storming the Bastille, French Revolution and The Reign of Terror. Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870) was a French writer whose works have been translated into nearly 100 languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. His most famous works are The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Table of Contents: Joseph Balsamo: The Magician The Mesmerist's Victim: Andrea de Taverney The Queen's Necklace Taking the Bastile: Ange Pitou The Countess de Charny: The Execution of King Louis XVI
Download or read book Untold Futures written by J. K. Barret and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Untold Futures, J. K. Barret locates models for recovering the variety of futures imagined within some of our most foundational literature. These poems, plays, and prose fictions reveal how Renaissance writers embraced uncertain potential to think about their own present moment and their own place in time. The history of the future that Barret reconstructs looks beyond futures implicitly dismissed as impossible or aftertimes defined by inevitability and fixed perspective. Chapters on Philip Sidney’s Old Arcadia, Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Antony and Cleopatra, and Cymbeline, and John Milton’s Paradise Lost trace instead a persistent interest in an indeterminate, earthly future evident in literary constructions that foreground anticipation and expectation. Barret argues that the temporal perspectives embedded in these literary texts unsettle some of our most familiar points of reference for the period by highlighting an emerging cultural self-consciousness capable of registering earthly futures predicated on the continued sameness of time rather than radical ruptures in it. Rather than mapping a particular future, these writers generate imaginative access to a range of futures. Barret makes a strong case for the role of language itself in emerging conceptualizations of temporality.
Download or read book Sequels written by Janet G. Husband and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.
Download or read book The Bone Season written by Samantha Shannon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling first novel in the sensational Bone Season series, a heart-pounding epic fantasy by the author of The Priory of the Orange Tree. “Intelligent, inventive, dark, and engrossing.” NPR Welcome to Scion. No safer place. The year is 2059. For two centuries, the Republic of Scion has led an oppressive campaign against unnaturalness in Europe. In London, Paige Mahoney holds a high rank in the criminal underworld. The right hand of the ruthless White Binder, Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare and formidable kind of clairvoyant. Under Scion law, she commits treason simply by breathing. When Paige is arrested for murder, she meets the mysterious founders of Scion, who have designs on her uncommon abilities. If she is to survive and escape, Paige must use every skill at her disposal – and put her trust in someone who ought to be her enemy. With its intricate worldbuilding, slow burn romance, and “complex, ever evolving, scrappy yet touching” (NPR) heroine, the Bone Season series shows Samantha Shannon at the height of her considerable powers.
Download or read book The Fork the Witch and the Worm written by Christopher Paolini and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wanderer and a cursed child. Spells and magic. And dragons, of course. Welcome back to the world of Alagaesia. It's been a year since Eragon departed Alagaesia in search of the perfect home to train a new generation of Dragon Riders. Now he is struggling with an endless sea of tasks- constructing a vast dragonhold, guarding dragon eggs and dealing with Urgals and elves. Then a vision from the Eldunari and an exciting legend offer a much-needed distraction and a new perspective. Three fantastic original stories, interspersed with scenes from Eragon's own unfolding adventure and an excerpt from the memoir of Angela the herbalist, penned by Angela Paolini.
Download or read book The Sibylline Oracles written by Milton S. Terry and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of almost 10.000 words about the oracles in religion * an interactive table-of-contents * perfect formatting for electronic reading devices THE Sibyls occupy a conspicuous place in the traditions and history of ancient Greece and Rome. Their fame was spread abroad long before the beginning of the Christian era. Heraclitus of Ephesus, five centuries before Christ, compared himself to the Sibyl "who, speaking with inspired mouth, without a smile, without ornament, and without perfume, penetrates through centuries by the power of the gods." The ancient traditions vary in reporting the number and the names of these weird prophetesses, and much of what has been handed down to us is legendary. But whatever opinion one may hold respecting the various legends, there can be little doubt that a collection of Sibylline Oracles was at one time preserved at Rome. There are, moreover, various oracles, purporting to have been written by ancient Sibyls, found in the writings of Pausanias, Plutarch, Livy, and in other Greek and Latin authors. Whether any of these citations formed a portion of the Sibylline books once kept in Rome we cannot now determine; but the Roman capitol was destroyed by fire in the time of Sulla (B. C. 84), and again in the time of Vespasian (A. D. 69), and whatever books were at those dates kept therein doubtless perished in the flames. It is said by some of the ancients that a subsequent collection of oracles was made, but, if so, there is now no certainty that any fragments of them remain.
Download or read book The Balance written by Claire and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth Chosen One of ancient prophesy is now walking earth as an unknown woman living a normal life. When her channel opens, however, Varahn suddenly faces the reality that heaven exists, and her ordinary life is upended. Varahn is told she’s been “chosen" by the Holy Spirit to protect earth from a total extinction of life. Varahn knows human activities are already rushing earth to ecological and climate catastrophe. The process of extinction is actively underway. Although she cherishes her home, she's completely overwhelmed to think such an urgent and momentous responsibility would depend upon her. Is this real? How can she possibly reverse this trajectory? Varahn’s every day felt experience is of earth. But once she's chosen, a heavenly split of her consciousness appears at the center of the homeomorphic hologram, asleep in the very place last occupied by the Absolute God of the Hebrew Torah and the Christian Old Testament. Others in heaven mistakenly conclude Varahn must be Absolute Goddess, seeking to control All That Is. They attack her pre-emptively in ways that threaten to make her crucial task impossible. Jesus of Nazareth is profoundly concerned for both Varahn and the healing of earth. When a disbelieving Varahn decides to start a diary soon after her channel opens, Jesus recognizes that despite it being perceived as a fantasy, should He and the Holy Spirit channel back to Varahn the heavenly view of her story, Varahn might be convinced that she has in fact been chosen, and be fully empowered for her task. In Varahn’s remarkable transcription of channeled truths and personal experience, Jesus also sees an extraordinary opportunity to share his own heartfelt sense of his historical role on earth, as well as future hopes for his teachings.
Download or read book A Series of First Lessons in Greek written by John Williams White and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1890.
Download or read book Lady Oracle written by Margaret Atwood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Tale—now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series—and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series. Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in Terremoto, Italy. In this remarkable, poetic, and magical novel, Margaret Atwood proves yet again why she is considered to be one of the most important and accomplished writers of our time.
