Download or read book Spellbent written by Lucy A. Snyder and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of Ohio, Jessie Shimmer is caught up in hot, magic-drenched passion with her roguish lover, Cooper Marron, who is teaching her how to tap her supernatural powers. When they try to break a drought by calling down a rainstorm, a hellish portal opens and Cooper is ripped from this world, leaving Jessie fighting for her life against a vicious demon that's been unleashed. In the aftermath, Jessie, who knows so little about her own true nature, is branded an outlaw. She must survive by her wits and with the help of her familiar, a ferret named Palimpsest. Stalked by malevolent enemies, Jessie is determined to find out what happened to Cooper. But when she moves heaven and earth to find her man, she'll be shocked by what she discovers—and by what she must ultimately do to save them all.

Download or read book Beginning to Spell written by Rebecca Treiman and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1993 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study on the psycholinguistics of spelling supplies the theoretical framework necessary to understand how children's ability to write is related to their ability to speak a language. The importance of learning to spell is highlighted, and the findings presented outline the implications for how spelling should best be taught.

Download or read book Shotgun Sorceress written by Lucy A. Snyder and published by Random House LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After killing an untouchable spirit lord to save her lover, Jessie Shimmer, gifted with dark powers, becomes an accidental revolutionary in the magic realm as she searches for the truth surrounding her past with the help of a cuddly ferret turned fearsome monster. Original.

Download or read book Shadow of a Dead God written by Patrick Samphire and published by Five Fathoms Press. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Jim Butcher and Scott Lynch will love this snarky fantasy mystery. It was only supposed to be one little job - a simple curse-breaking for Mennik Thorn to pay back a favour to his oldest friend. But then it all blew up in his face. Now he's been framed for a murder he didn't commit. So how is a second-rate mage, broke, traumatized, and with a habit of annoying the wrong people, supposed to prove his innocence when everyone believes he's guilty? Mennik has no choice if he wants to get out of this: he is going to have to throw himself into the corrupt world of the city's high mages, a world he fled years ago. Faced by supernatural beasts, the mage-killing Ash Guard, and a ruthless, unknown adversary, it's going to take every trick Mennik can summon just to keep him and his friend alive. But a new, dark power is rising in Agatos, and all that stands in its way is one damaged mage... Third place in the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off 2020 (SPFBO6) Finalist in the Book Bloggers' Book of the Year Award (BBNYA) 2021 Shortlisted for the Booknest Fantasy Award Best Self-published Novel 2020 Reviews "The start of something great." - Novel Notions “I loved every moment of this book. In terms of sheer entertainment value, its certainly one of the best I’ve read this year and it’s been a while since I’ve had such fun with a book.” - Rowena Andrews, Beneath a Thousand Skies “Fast-paced, quick-witted, deftly plotted and as well-thought-out as it is well-written. Highly recommended, and I’m already looking forward to the next one.” – Juliet E. McKenna, Author of The Tales of Einarinn, The Aldabreshin Compass, and The Green Man’s Heir “Shadow of a Dead God contains the snarky, disillusioned, diamond-in-the-rough, down-at-heels, determined and fiercely loyal mage-detective your TBR desperately needs! “Recommended for readers of The Lies of Locke Lamora and anyone who loves fantasy mystery starring a delightfully reluctant, unlikely, foul-mouthed and golden-hearted hero.” – Katrina Middelburg, Read. Ruminate. Write. “If you need a fun, entertaining read in these trying time, Shadow of a Dead God is highly recommended.” - Jamie Lee Moyer, Author of Brightfall “Mennik Thorn is a wry, dry, washed-up mage whose talents, other than friendship, are modest to say the least. A dogged determination to live life on his own terms puts him at odds with almost everyone and everything. But he’s funny, and he’s good-hearted, and Samphire can plot a mystery that turns every page. Reading his story of detective derring-don’t is as satisfying as it is entertaining. A great start! I look forward to more.” - Justina Robson, Author of Natural History and the Quantum Gravity series.

Download or read book Phonics They Use written by Patricia Marr Cunningham and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2009 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an outstanding scholar,Phonics They Useseamlessly weaves together the complex and varied strategic approaches needed to help students develop reading and spelling skills. Long-positioned and long-respected as a bestseller by both pre-service and practicing teachers of reading, this affordable text offers a coherent collection of practical, hands-on activities that provide a framework for teaching phonics. The Fourth Edition continues to emphasize that what mattersis not how muchphonics students know butwhat they actually usewhen they need phonics for decoding a new word, for reading and spelling a new word, and for writing. Rather than subscribe to a single theory, Pat Cunningham stresses a balanced reading program--incorporating a variety of strategic approaches--tied to the individual needs of children. Packed with new activities and strategies for teaching reading, this book is an invaluable resource for any new or veteran teacher. Now teachers have access to a new grade-level seriesMaking Wordsthat offers fresh multi-level activities and lessons for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Based on the active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love inPhonics They Use, this new series is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words! Take a Peek at What's New to the Edition! New Chapter on Making Words in Kindergarten (Ch. 4)describes and provides sample lesson plans on how teachers can make each kindergarten student a letter of the alphabet, using a big letter card, to teaching them how to begin to form words. New Chapter on Making Words in Upper Grades (Ch. 11)describes and provides sample lessons on how making words has been adapted for use of older students in upper grades, by emphasizing the prefixes, suffixes, roots and spelling changes that are the important decoding and spelling patterns for polysyllabic words. Inclusion of hints and suggestions for English Language Learnersscattered throughout the chapters, which help make phonics and spelling instruction more successful for ELLs as they learn to read and write. These “For English Language Learner” boxes include a variety of ways teachers have adapted the Phonics They Use activities to include their children learning English.

Download or read book Bronze Aegis written by Stephen Pantoja and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The undead legions of Iuzerak have gathered under the banner of the villainous Black Friar, who seeks the Obelisk of Life to resurrect the dead god and unleash hell on the world of Tellus. Only the unlikely alliance of a novice wizard, a volatile mercenary, a renegade elven princess, a dishonored assassin, a doomed minotaur, a thieving gnome, and a defective mech, stand any hope of stopping the army of darkness known as the Hellmongers.

Download or read book New Religion written by Tracy Falbe and published by Falbe Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warlords, refugees, warriors, child soldiers, and priests drive the high stakes action in this great fantasy series. New Religion - Join the faithful or die. Up next in this sweeping saga... Cruce Chenomet returns home ready to enjoy life. The pleasures of love beckon him toward happiness, but a hostile world denies him the peace he craves. The rys monarchs Dacian and Onja continue to plot the destruction of his home Nufal. Onja opens a two front campaign meant to expand her dominion over the western tribal kingdoms and bring misery and ruin to Nufal. She commands Amar to lead marauders into Nufal. Excited to be set loose upon new lands, he attacks without mercy and even dares to fight magical tabre. In the west, Onja’s holy war rages as she continues to crush old idols. Amar’s lovers, Demeda and Loxane expand their influence as the messengers of the conquering faith. In Nufal the rivalry between tabre Sects threatens their delicate alliance. Tempet and Alloi begin to attract the loyalty of the people. This epic fantasy on Google Play continues the series with passion, courage, and rising magical powers. Falbe's style of writing takes inspiration from the tough and gritty story telling of George R. R. Martin in A Game of Thrones. This English language fantasy series has been enjoyed by numerous readers in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa.

Download or read book The Ballad of Black Tom written by Victor LaValle and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of NPR's Best Books of 2016, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, the British Fantasy Award, the This is Horror Award for Novella of the Year, and a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic, and earns the attention of things best left sleeping. A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break? "LaValle's novella of sorcery and skullduggery in Jazz Age New York is a magnificent example of what weird fiction can and should do." — Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All "[LaValle] reinvents outmoded literary conventions, particularly the ghettos of genre and ethnicity that long divided serious literature from popular fiction." — Praise for The Devil in Silver from Elizabeth Hand, author of Radiant Days “LaValle cleverly subverts Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos by imbuing a black man with the power to summon the Old Ones, and creates genuine chills with his evocation of the monstrous Sleeping King, an echo of Lovecraft’s Dagon... [The Ballad of Black Tom] has a satisfying slingshot ending.” – Elizabeth Hand for Fantasy & ScienceFiction At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book A Glimpse of Darkness Short Story written by Lara Adrian and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original collaboration among five of the genre’s brightest authors, A Glimpse of Darkness is urban fantasy as it’s never been done before. Originally featured on Suvudu.com, this is Random House’s first multicontributor chain story in which the readers voted on the outcome—now published here in its entirety as a thrilling eBook. Munira bint Azhar, the half-human daughter of a djinn, is a skilled Retriever in the city of Port Nightfall. Now the powerful sorcerer Temesis has given Munira a dire ultimatum: steal a magical lantern—the Light of Ta’lab—from the horrific undead kingdom below the city, or watch her father die at Temesis’s hand. Will she be able to retrieve the lantern and save her father’s life, or will they both perish in the process? With an Afterword featuring the choices readers were given at the end of each chapter.

Download or read book Switchblade Goddess written by Lucy A. Snyder and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hell hath no fury like a goddess scorned. When Jessie Shimmer traveled to a nightmare underworld to save her lover, Cooper Marron, she gained magical powers . . . which soon seemed more like curses. Her beloved familiar, the ferret Pal, became a monster. Her enemies multiplied like demons. Worst of all, she hasn’t found a moment of peace to be with the man she adores. Now a switchblade-wielding demigoddess commanding a private hell stocked with suffering innocents is after her. The blademistress’ vengeance sends Jessie and Pal on a dark journey through strange, perilous realms. Their quest for salvation will push her newfound abilities—and her relationship with Cooper—to the breaking point . . . and beyond.

Download or read book Unchained written by Sharon Ashwood and published by Rowan & Ash Artistry. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Been there. Slain that. Ashe Carver is one kick-ass monster killer-and she has the scars to prove it. But faced with a custody battle for her ten-year-old daughter, Eden, she's hung up her stakes and taken a job at the public library, determined to prove she's as good a mother as she is a hunter. Easier said than done. Lovelorn vampires haunt the library, a slime demon is hanging out at the mall, and, after centuries guarding a supernatural prison, dashing Captain Reynard strides into her world like a hero from a classic novel. He has only weeks to live unless Ashe finds the thief who took his soul-and he's just too drop-dead gorgeous to die... Second edition. Previously published in 2010 by Signet Eclipse

Download or read book Ghost Dance Ii written by Gale A. Palmanteer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amulet: good-luck charm or curse? Sam is convinced he would already be dead without it. Ross and Ruth have everything; children, and the Running R, a large cattle ranch located on the Flathead Indian Reservation of Montana, but there are problems. Ruth is tormented by secrets that threaten their idyllic life, and Indian Court decisions have angered tribal members and threaten the fragile peace between Indians and whites. Colonel Wolard and a regiment of the 5th Cavalry remain missing as word of the Ghost Dance spreads like a prairie fire from one reservation to another. In the Pasayten, hidden from time in the valley of the Sematuse, Bent Grass has a startling revelation giving her apocalyptic power to bring past, present and future together, but with alarming consequences.

Download or read book Shadow Blade written by Seressia Glass and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Kira Solomon, normal was never an option. Kira's day job is as an antiquities expert, but her true calling is as a Shadowchaser. Trained from youth to be one of the most lethal Chasers in existence, Kira serves the Gilead Commission, dispatching the Fallen who sow discord and chaos. Of course, sometimes Gilead bureaucracy is as much a thorn in her side as anything the Fallen can muster against her. Right now, though, she's got a bigger problem. Someone is turning the city of Atlanta upside down in search of a millennia-old Egyptian dagger that just happens to have fallen into Kira's hands. Then there's Khefar, the dagger's true owner -- a near-immortal 4,000-year-old Nubian warrior who, Kira has to admit, looks pretty fine for his age. Joining forces is the only way to keep the weapon safe from the sinister Shadow forces, but now Kira is in deep with someone who holds more secrets than she does, the one person who knows just how treacherous this fight is. Because every step closer to destroying the enemy is a step closer to losing herself to Shadow forever....

Download or read book Installing Linux on a Dead Badger written by Lucy A. Snyder and published by Creative Guy Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Installing Linux on a Dead Badger (and other Oddities) is a collection of Lucy Snyder's humorous essays, fiction and articles, some culled from places like "Strange Horizons" and "Spacesuits and Six-Guns" and some brand new. This collection of thirteen short stories, articles and essays from Lucy A. Snyder will appeal to any fan of zombies, aliens or installation manuals. Here's what Wikipedia said about Lucy, last time we checked: "Lucy A. Snyder is an American science fiction, fantasy, humor, and nonfiction writer. She grew up in San Angelo, Texas but moved to Bloomington, Indiana for graduate studies at Indiana University and currently lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband Gary A. Braunbeck. Snyder served as an editor for HMS Beagle, an online bioscience publication produced by Elsevier. She has also contributed technical articles to publications such as Electronic Products."

Download or read book Seraph of the End Vol 3 written by Takaya Kagami and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yuichiro survives the trial to acquire Cursed Gear—demon-possessed weaponry that is humanity’s only hope for combating the vampire scourge. But times are dangerous, and instead of getting to celebrate his newfound power, Yuichiro and his friends are given their first mission: head to Shinjuku and investigate vampire activity. Unbeknownst to Yuichiro, Mika, his best friend and now a vampire, is headed for the same place. -- VIZ Media

Download or read book Sex and Athe Single Witch written by Theresa Alan and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backfired love spells, shifty warlocks, and potions abound in this delightfully wicked trio of stories that includes Theresa Alan's The Witch's Guide to Life>RO>, in which an artist--and witch--finds her creativity slowly waning when she catches the eye of a sexy ice hockey coach who loves her work. Original.

Download or read book Steampunk World written by Jay Lake and published by Alliteration Ink. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's something compelling about the shine of clicking brass clockwork and hiss of steam-driven automatons. But there was something missing. It was easy to find excellent stories of American and British citizens... but we rarely got to see steampunk from the point of view of the rest of the world. Until now. Steampunk World is a showcase for nineteen authors to flip the levers and start the pistons and invite you to experience the entirety of steampunk.