Download or read book The Black Halo written by Iain Crichton Smith and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although best-known as one of Scotland's greatest modern poets, Iain Crichton Smith was also prolific as a writer of short stories. These pieces form a central part of his oeuvre, demonstrating the full range and versatility of his literary talent. From humour to tragedy, from inner monologues to extrovert surrealism, the diversity of his writing indicates the extraordinary range of his own reading and mental world. Crichton Smith wrote short stories throughout his life. Some are fragments, others almost novellas, and the best of them all show him to be an author of unique sensitivity and intelligence. These two collections, comprising the complete English stories, include over 45 stories never before published in book form, as well as others that have been out of print for many years, thus making it possible to judge Crichton Smith's achievement as a writer in full. Incorporates stories from The Hermit, Murdo, Mr Trill in Hades and Selected Stories.

Download or read book Black Halo written by John Patrick Kennedy and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God had two sons...When Nyx, Queen of Hell is sent to tempt Jesus, she expected to be frustrated. She did not expect that buried in Jesus's very human subconscious, another soul existed, and it did not want to die. Instead, it wanted revenge. With two fallen angels by her side, and the promise of Paradise at the right hand of God's son if she succeeds, Nyx launches a thousand-year campaign of violence, betrayal and intrigue to bring down Christianity. But not all is as it seems. And the Son of God has bigger plans than any of them imagine...

Download or read book The Black Halo written by Iain Crichton Smith and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iain Crichton Smith wrote short stories throughout his life. Some are fragments, others almost novellas, and the best of them all show him to be an author of unique sensitivity and intelligence. The pieces in this collection form a central part of his oeuvre, demonstrating the full range and versatility of his literary talent. From humour to tragedy, from inner monologues to extrovert surrealism, the diversity of his writing indicates the extraordinary range of his own reading and mental world. Paired with the first volume in this two-volume collection, "The Red Door: The Complete English Stories 1949-76," these collections include a large number of stories never before published in book form, as well as others that have been out of print for many years, thus making it possible to judge Crichton Smith's achievement as a writer in full.

Download or read book Dark Halo written by Shannon Dittemore and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One halo brought sight to Brielle. Another offers sweet relief from what she sees. Brielle can’t help but see the Celestial. Even without the halo, the invisible realm is everywhere she looks. It’s impossibly beautiful—and terrifying, especially now. Because a battle rages above Stratus, Oregon. The Terrestrial Veil is ripping, and demons walk the streets past unseeing mortals. Dark, sticky fear drips from every face, and nightmares haunt Brielle’s sleep. Worst of all, Jake is gone. The only boy she’s ever loved has been taken by the demon, Damien. When she receives instructions from the Throne Room leading her to Jake, she unknowingly walks into a diabolical and heartbreaking trap. Now she’s stranded in a sulfurous desert with the Prince of Darkness himself, and he’s offering her another halo—a mirrored ring that will destroy her Celestial vision. All she has to do is wear it and she’ll see no more of the invisible world. No more fear. No more nightmares. No more demons. It’s a gift. And best of all: it comes with the promise of a future with Jake, something the Throne Room seems to be taking from her. Will Brielle trade the beauty of the Celestial and the truth of the world around her just to feel ordinary again?

Download or read book The Black Art of Halo Mods written by Stephen Cawood and published by Sams Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Programming and design of computer games and videogames.

Download or read book Judas 2 written by Jeff Loveness and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judas comes face-to-face with Satan, and the Great Adversary begins to win him over.

Download or read book Halo Legacy Collection written by Brian Michael Bendis and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This massive collection features three classic Halo tales by some of the best writers and artists in comics. Halo: Uprising follows the Master Chief as he single-handedly takes on the Covenant's miles-long Forerunner Dreadnought as it makes its way to Earth! Then, join the ranks of the UNSC's meanest, most battle-hardened Marines in Helljumper, as a group of ODST respond to a remote science colony's SOS call and discover an enormous Covenant military presence! Finally, a UNSC ship encounters a strange phenomenon that sends it plummeting toward an unknown planet. The Spartan Black fireteam needs to unlock the secrets of an ancient Forerunner installation if they're going to survive the experience but, to complicate matters, they're not the only ones shipwrecked. Check out their story in Halo: Blood Line!

Download or read book Halo Colouring Book written by Microsoft and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The art of war. Your artistic skills will be tested, Spartan. Arm yourself and prepare for intense coloring action as you drop into forty-four black-and-white original illustrations filled with your favorite characters and vehicles from the Halo® franchise. Create patterns and add some color to Master Chief, the UNSC Infinity, and more!"--Page 4 of cover

Download or read book Halo Hunters in the Dark written by Peter David and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling series based on the blockbuster video game for Xbox! It is 2555, more than two years after the Master Chief went missing-in-action following a decisive conflict on Installation 00—the massive, extragalactic Forerunner construct known as the Ark—as part of the final chapter in humanity’s bloody thirty-year struggle against the overwhelming forces of the Covenant. Now, as a tenuous peace exists between the humans and the Elites, a startling scientific discovery is made…and the riddle behind its Forerunner origins could very well seal the fate of the entire galaxy within a matter of weeks. In order to unravel these dangerous secrets, a heroic, hastily formed coalition of humans and Elites must attempt to overcome their differences as they embark on a covert mission back to the Ark—an astonishing, enigmatic place beyond comprehension from which few have returned and where mortal danger awaits them all…

Download or read book The Haunting of Gabriel Ashe written by Dan Poblocki and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has Gabriel created a monster? Something sinister lurks in the woods outside of Slade.Gabe has seen it, or he thinks he has - a shadow standing at the tree line, watching Gabe's house with faintly glowing eyes.Despite Gabe's misgivings, his new friend, Seth, relishes the creepy atmosphere of the forest. It's the perfect setting for his imaginary struggle against the Hunter, a deformed child-eating creature said to leave the bones of his victims in his wake. It's just a game, but it's all a bit much for Gabe, who quickly loses interest as summer ends and the days grow shorter.But then strange things start to happen. Frightening things. And Gabe knows it has to do with the dark figure watching him from the edge of the woods.Is Seth out to teach Gabe a lesson? Or is the Hunter more than just a myth? Gabe isn't sure which option is more horrifying, but he's determined to learn the truth before someone gets hurt . . . or worse.

Download or read book The Haunting of Sunshine Girl written by Paige McKenzie and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller The Haunting of Sunshine Girl,in active development for television by The Weinstein Company, a hit paranomal YA series based on the wildly popular YouTube channel about an "adorkable" teenager living in a haunted house. Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from sunny Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched town of Ridgemont, Washington. Though Sunshine is adopted, she and her mother have always been close, sharing a special bond filled with laughter and inside jokes. But from the moment they arrive, Sunshine feels her world darken with an eeriness she cannot place. And even if Kat doesn't recognize it, Sunshine knows that something about their new house is just ... creepy. In the days that follow, things only get stranger. Sunshine is followed around the house by an icy breeze, phantom wind slams her bedroom door shut, and eventually, the laughter Sunshine hears on her first night evolves into sobs. She can hardly believe it, but as the spirits haunting her house become more frightening-and it becomes clear that Kat is in danger-Sunshine must accept what she is, pass the test before her, and save her mother from a fate worse than death.

Download or read book Tome of the Undergates written by Samuel Sykes and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Sykes' epic quest is full of razor-sharp wit and characters who leap off the page and into trouble. It will plunge you into a vivid new world of adventure. ADVENTURERS. Long loathed for their knowledge of nothing but murder and thievery, they are savages, zealots, heathens, monsters, thugs. And Lenk, a young man with a sword in his hand and a voice in his head, counts five of them as his sole and most hated companions. Lenk's otherwise trivial employment under an esteemed clergyman is interrupted when bloodthirsty pirates, led by an ageless demon risen from the depths of the ocean, pilfer the object they have been charged with protecting: the Tome of the Undergates, the key to a door that guards the mouths of hell. A hell full of demons who want out. Against titanic horrors from the deep, psychotic warrior women, and creatues forgotten by mankind, Lenk has only two weapons: a piece of steel an five companions who are as eager to kill each other as they are to retrieve the book that will save them.

Download or read book Black Halo written by Samuel Sykes and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tome of the Undergates has been recovered . . . and the gates of hell remain closed. Lenk and his five companions set sail to bring the accursed relic away from the demonic reach of Ulbecetonth, the Kraken Queen. But after weeks at sea, tensions amid the adventurers are rising. Their troubles are only beginning when their ship crashes upon an island made of the bones left behind from a war long dead. And it appears that bloodthirsty alien warrior women, fanatical beasts from the deep, and heretic-hunting wizards are the least of their concerns. Haunted by their pasts, plagued by their gods, tormented by their own people, and gripped by madnesses personal and peculiar, their greatest foes may yet be themselves. The reach of Ulbecetonth is longer than hell can hold.

Download or read book Haunting the Korean Diaspora written by Grace M. Cho and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Korean Wara the forgotten wara more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women married GIs and moved to the United States. Through intellectual vigor and personal recollection, Haunting the Korean Diaspora explores the repressed history of emotional and physical violence between the United States and Korea and the unexamined reverberations of sexual relationships between Korean women and American soldiers.

Download or read book Not Even My Name written by Thea Halo and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The harrowing story of the slaughter of two million Pontic Greeks and Armenians in Turkey after WWI comes to vivid life. . . . eloquent and powerful.” —Publishers Weekly Not Even My Name exposes the genocide carried out during and after WWI in Turkey, which brought to a tragic end the 3000-year history of the Pontic Greeks (named for the Pontic Mountain range below the Black Sea). During this time, almost 2 million Pontic Greeks and Armenians were slaughtered and millions of others were exiled. Not Even My Name is the unforgettable story of Sano Halo’s survival, as told to her daughter, Thea, and of their trip to Turkey in search of Sano’s home seventy years after her exile. Sano Halo was a 10-year-old girl when she was torn from her ancient, pastoral way of life in the mountains and sent on a death march that annihilated her family. Stripped of everything she had ever held dear, even her name, Sano was sold by her surrogate family into marriage when she was fifteen to a man three times her age. Not Even My Name follows Sano’s marriage, the raising of her ten children in New York City and her transformation from an innocent girl to a nurturing mother and determined woman in twentieth-century New York City. “An important and revealing book.” —Library Journal “What illuminates the writing is Halo’s heartfelt love for her brave mother. An unforgettable book.” —Booklist

Download or read book Halo The Thursday War written by Karen Traviss and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WELCOME TO HUMANITY’S NEW WAR: SILENT, HIGH STAKES, AND UNSEEN. This is a life-or-death mission for ONI's black-ops team, Kilo-Five, which is tasked with preventing the rutheless Elites, once the military leaders of the Covenant, from regrouping and threatening humankind again. What began as a routine dirty-tricks operation - keeping the Elites busy with their own insurrection - turns into a desperate bid to extract one member of Kilo-Five from the seething heart of an alien civil war. But troubles never come singly for Kilo-Five. Colonial terrorism is once again surfacing on one of the worlds that survived the war against the Covenant, and the man behind it is much more than just a name to Spartan-010. Meanwhile, the treasure trove of Forerunner technology recovered from the shield world of Onyx is being put to work. And a kidnapped Elite plots vengeance on the humans he fears will bring his people to the brink of destruction.

Download or read book Off the Record A Prequel written by Madelynne Ellis and published by Incantatrix Press. This book was released on with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’s everything she desires. She’s everything he isn’t looking for. When their worlds collide nothing will be the same again. REMASTERED Rock guitarist Spook Mortensen locked down his heart along with his libido years ago. No woman has come close to awakening those repressed urges, until Allegra Hutton, the sound engineer hired to remaster one of his band’s old tracks, turns out to be a curvy bombshell who puts his emotions on red-alert. Tensions rise while the pair make music, but it’s Alle’s stubborn refusal to take no for an answer that forces Spook to break his self-imposed vow and take her in hand… RESISTOR Rock guitarist Spook Mortensen has one rule when it comes to relationships: just say no. He has his reasons. Good reasons. Total abstinence has kept his heart safe and him out of trouble for years. When his path crosses with fiery temptress Alle Hutton at an industry event, the scorching chemistry between them ignites again, and try as he might, Spook cannot quench the blaze. Alle realises she’s upsetting Spook’s rhythm, but she’s under no illusion that he’s the right top to warm her bottom. But can she convince this emotionally repressed dichotomy of a man to get his kink on without bruising his fragile heart? This collection contains two angsty, spicy prelude novellas about enigmatic rhythm guitarist Spook Mortensen and the fiery red-head who pushes his limits anywhere and in any way she can. Sequentially, they occur before the Off the Record quadrilogy, and also form part of the wider Black Halo world. Turn up the volume, grab a cold drink, and climb aboard the Black Halo hard rocking, dirty, sexy, crazy train. “Madelynne has a unique ability to write tortured and broken men who need someone who won't give up on them.” ~ Goodreads Reviewer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I love this series HARD! - OMG Reads ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Wow I think Spook is amazing!! That little taste was definitely enough to leave me wanting so much more." - Goodreads reviewer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Spook is one of my all-time favourite characters, he's as hot as hell but he's a real enigma with dark secrets and a painful past.” – Goodreads Reviewer. The Black Halo books can be read as three trilogies or as one interwoven story line featuring the whole band. These two novellas are a prelude to Spook’s main story which begins in Reflex. EXPLORE THE REST OF THE BLACK HALO BOOKS: XANE: (Come Undone, Come Together, Come Alive.) ASH: (All Night Long, All Fired Up, All Right Now.) SPOOK: (Off the Record, Reflex, Replay, Refrain, Revive) ROCK GIANT: (Reckless Beat) Keywords: adult romance, rockstar romance, rock star romance, contemporary romance, beach reads, steamy romance, new adult, erotic romance, european, international romance, british romance, UK romance, rock band on tour, off the record, rock hard series, madelynne ellis, black halo series, black halo books, spook mortensen, forced proximity, new york times bestseller, USA today bestseller, hot romance, found family, boys on tour, kissing books, emotional romance, angsty romance, forbidden love, celebrity romance, bad boy romance, swoonworthy romance, book boyfriends, smutty delights, sassy heroine, emotional trauma, alpha hero, lead singer, thrilling romance, bad boy rockstar, menage romance, bisexual romance, series starter, Perfect for fans of Olivia Cunning, Sinners on Tour, Demelza Carlton, Piper Lawson, Jaine Diamond, Kylie Scott, Carian Cole.