Download or read book The Dragil Broken Magic written by Holly Barbo and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Willum, an apprentice book maker, has a nasty fall, he loses all of his memories…including the strictures concerning protective magic for the exquisite miniature dragons called Dragilios. Not knowing he is breaking the magic law, and sending the little Dragil, Malle, into deadly peril, he draws the friendly, little dragil. The moment the picture is finished the protective spell shatters. Her anguished cry as she disappears restores his memory. Devastated at what he has done and wanting to right the wrong or die trying, Willum undertakes a dangerous quest into the malignant world of the giant leather-winged dragons. Can he find her in time before she is ripped apart and eaten? If he stays too long in that lethal land, he becomes stone. The hourglass sands are slipping away toward the doom of the boy and the fragile little dragil. Can he save them both?
Download or read book Treasured Legacy written by Holly Barbo and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With dwindling time, Leone uses the last of her strength to share important family history with her only living relative: her grandson David. Despite her final request to not sell the family heirlooms, David and Anne investigate the possibility because of their desperate need for money. But the pieces have secrets and the young couple finds themselves in unexpected danger.
Download or read book A Battered Ball written by Holly Barbo and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many things little Azizi has to learn about, like how the destruction of war can force people out of their homes, or take away a father in a blink. But the most important lesson of all bounces around on the frayed edges of a ball...
Download or read book Deadly Crystal A Crystal Snowflake written by Holly Barbo and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-20 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Chayse’s friend is murdered before he can get protective custody, she and her department in Homeland Security are thrust into a race to stop a destructive cyber worm from wiping out all bank and stock market records during the Christmas break. The good news is there is an inoculating code which will stop the worm. The bad news is it is hidden in a special crystal concealed in the sculpted walls of a beautiful ice hotel in the Lapland region of Sweden, and the terrorists are searching for it too. As the snow flurries of November become frozen December, each side rush to find the crystal… with entirely different goals. Will the Christmas holiday bring destruction for western financial systems?
Download or read book The Tin of Honey written by Holly Barbo and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dystopian Quick Read “Captivating look at the future” “Another must read from Holly Barbo.” ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Stories 2016 Semi-Finalist Life is tough for Zoe in her changing world. As a small child, her voice can never be heard and she may as well be invisible. Except as a slave. The Tin of Honey is a dystopian tale which was originally published in The Writers’ Stuff: A Multi-Genre Anthology, and later in Holly’s own short story collection, Tendrils. The story has been expanded to a length suitable for a Quick Read book.
Download or read book The Founders Sage Seed Chronicles Book 1 written by Holly Barbo and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are no monsters on Ose. People can be monstrous enough. Disaster strikes the beautiful world of Ose. Marisily is one of the Sages who can help heal the planet when nuclear winter pushes the civilization back to the brink of destruction. Only she doesn’t know her own powers yet. It is survival of the fittest as vicious outlaws destroy all that remains, kidnapping, enslaving and killing those weaker than themselves. With a bounty on her head, alone and betrayed by her own father, can a young woman find the strength and wisdom necessary to rally the good people of Ose and rebuild their culture?
Download or read book Vortexes written by Holly Barbo and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[feels] like an action adventure movie!" A Dystopian Urban Fantasy The resistance needed an opportunity. The hurricane provided the distraction they hoped for. With very little time and a need for total secrecy, he can’t help the woman in the cage… until he learns who she is. Can they escape in the allotted time? Desperate times have come to Emma Maya Ando’s country. A totalitarian regime with no tolerance for deviation has marginalized thousands. Neither physical exceptionality nor freedom of thought has a place. All is conformity. But Maya doesn’t conform, and time is running out on her ability to conceal her condition. Can Maya find a cure before she is swept up in a purge… or will she take her secret to the grave?
Download or read book Tendrils written by Holly Barbo and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories come from any number of places. One could start from a memory, a photo in a magazine or from pondering a news item and wondering, "What if?"
Download or read book Beyond Time written by Holly Barbo and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrilling serial adventures of Mari, a brilliant young archeologist and, Quinna, her cat. Quinna shares her gift of historical memories with her human friend in dreams. Armed with knowledge of historical events, Mari uncovers secrets long hidden. These three tales set in Scotland and Iceland pull you through key-holes into distant times only to re-emerge to face a menace today.
Download or read book Letters to Chris written by Holly Barbo and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday laughter and communications with loved ones can change between heartbeats. Joy becomes hollow. Loss takes its toll. The last two years have increased the number of people coping with loss. For an author used to taking words and making them her own, Holly found one way; she wrote her beloved husband letters. A burden bared is a burden shared.
Download or read book Magic in Western Culture written by Brian P. Copenhaver and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian phase in the Middle Ages. Centering on the Renaissance and Marsilio Ficino - whose work on magic was the most influential account written in premodern times - this groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were distinctly philosophical. Besides Ficino, the premodern story of magic also features Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus, Aquinas, Agrippa, Pomponazzi, Porta, Bruno, Campanella, Descartes, Boyle, Leibniz, and Newton, to name only a few of the prominent thinkers discussed in this book. Because pictures play a key role in the story of magic, this book is richly illustrated.
Download or read book Holiday Magic written by Mary Ruth Kuczkir Michaels and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of four Christmas romance stories includes Fern Michaels' "Holiday Magic," in which ski shop manager Stephanie Marshall gets an unexpected Christmas bonus in the form of her handsome boss, Eddie O'Brien.
Download or read book Inhale Exhale written by C.L. Matthews and published by C.L. Matthews. This book was released on with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's raw, it's real, it's heartbreaking, and it is so, so page-meltingly hot. - Author Mary Catherine Gebhard What happens when your love isn't enough to save your marriage? "I do." Two words woven in love. In sickness and in health. For better or for worse. Til death do us part. And death dragged us apart. We both said those vows. But neither of us kept them. This is not one of those happy stories. Life isn't made of simple choices and happily ever afters. It's a dark place. It's not easy. It's full of mistakes and lessons. It hurts. And in the end, those two words said in love, are the same ones said in hate. "You want a divorce?" "I do." Each book in the Hollow Ridge series is a complete standalone.
Download or read book Edge City written by Robert Agnoli and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edges, both jagged and sharp, spring from the tension of living and maturing between two conflicting factors: cultural assimilation on the one hand suppressing ethnic identity in the public square and on the other, developing a personal identity which internalized that heritage. Edge upon edge, these elements represent the conflicts for Italian immigrants within the melting pot of Lamerica. This collection of memoirs and reflections, poetry and prose, takes the reader through one mans experiences as a first born Italian in America and an American in Italy. Italian-Americans will recognize the challenges of assimilation in Edge City. Readers of all ethnicities will gain a new understanding of the Italian culture in America.
Download or read book The Book of Tomorrow written by Cecelia Ahern and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A sweet, life-affirming tale . . . with a liberal sprinkling of magic.” —Marie Claire (UK) “Filled with family secrets, intrigue, and magic aplenty.” —Booklist Bestselling author Cecelia Ahern follows The Gift and P.S. I Love You with the mesmerizing story of a teenaged girl coming face-to-face with grief, growth, and magic in the Irish countryside, after a mysterious book begins to reveal her own memories from one day in the future. Perfect for long-time fans of Ahern, as well as for younger readers coming to her for the first time, The Book of Tomorrow’s strong voice and sophisticated storytelling mark an instant new classic from this already beloved author.
Download or read book Man Play and Games written by Roger Caillois and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Roger Caillois, play is an occasion of pure waste. In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this study, the author defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from the rest of life.
Download or read book The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart written by Holly Ringland and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us — and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her grandmother, June, a flower farmer who raises Alice on the language of Australian native flowers, a way to say the things that are too hard to speak. Under the watchful eye of June and the women who run the farm, Alice settles, but grows up increasingly frustrated by how little she knows of her family’s story. In her early twenties, Alice’s life is thrown into upheaval again when she suffers devastating betrayal and loss. Desperate to outrun grief, Alice flees to the dramatically beautiful central Australian desert. In this otherworldly landscape Alice thinks she has found solace, until she meets a charismatic and ultimately dangerous man. Spanning two decades, set between sugar cane fields by the sea, a native Australian flower farm, and a celestial crater in the central desert, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart follows Alice’s unforgettable journey, as she learns that the most powerful story she will ever possess is her own.
