Download or read book The Last Culling written by Rachael Vaughn and published by Glasswing Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic belongs to the women. To the men—only death. In the city of Merilaad, any boy displaying magical ability is swiftly executed. Elena, an apprentice mage with powers she resents and a past she’d rather forget, knows it has to be this way—to protect them all. To keep them safe. But when the boy she loves suddenly and unexpectedly develops magical powers, Elena finds herself faced with a dangerous choice—should she report Jascha and sentence him to certain death, or risk everything to keep his abilities hidden? As the two of them struggle with their deadly secret, they uncover more deception, lurking just beneath the surface of their peaceful, idyllic city. Can they reveal the truth before it’s too late…or will they plunge Merilaad back into its bloody past? Keywords: fantasy, YA fantasy, young adult fantasy, magic, romantic fantasy, fantasy series, apprentice mage, strong female protagonist, action and adventure, world building

Download or read book The Culling written by Steven dos Santos and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucian “Lucky” Spark has been recruited for training by the Establishment, a totalitarian government. If a recruit fails any level of the violent training competitions, a family member is brutally killed ... and the recruit must choose which one. An undeniable attraction develops between Lucky and another recruit, but only one of them can survive.

Download or read book The Culling written by Tricia Wentworth and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 150 years after a virus wipes out most of the world's population, Reagan Scott finds herself chosen for the State of the Union's fifth Culling. She will compete against 49 of the country's brightest girls. And then, of course, there are the 50 boys. Though the government truly means well, not everything is as it seems. She will be tested to the fullest extent while an evil storm brews.With eliminations happening frequently, how far can she make it? And if she makes it far enough to meet the boys, how can she be expected to, at just 18 years of age, find a partner...for life? Does she have what it takes to be the next Madam President?

Download or read book Shadowspell Academy The Culling Trials written by Shannon Mayer and published by Sky Pony. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Teenage Girl Torn from her Family Must Survive a Series of Deadly Trials to Earn her Place in a Dangerous School of Magic, from Bestselling Authors K.F. Breene and Shannon Mayer You don't choose The Academy. The Academy chooses you. I had no idea how those words would change my life, until the day the most dangerous man I’ve ever met waltzed onto my farm and left us a death sentence. My younger brother has been chosen for The Academy: the prestigious, secret school of magic hidden within the folds of our mundane world. A place where there’s no guarantee you’ll make it out alive. If he doesn't go, our entire family will be killed. It’s the same invitation my older brother received three years ago—and he never came home. The Academy has already killed one sibling, and I’ll be damned if they take another. So I do the only thing an older sister can: chop off my hair, strap on two bras to flatten the girls, and take my brother’s place. Magic and monsters are real. Assassins are coming for me, and the dead are prone to rise. What’s a girl faking it as a boy supposed to do? Being accepted into an elite school of magic, monsters, and assassins was not my idea of higher education. But here I am, fighting my way through the deadly physical and mental tests of the Culling Trials to claim my right to be taught. In a cutthroat world where no one is as they seem, the golden rule is simple: Trust no one. The Academy tells us we should just look out for ourselves. That we should leave the fallen behind and ask no questions. Not on my watch.

Download or read book The Last Culling written by Rachael Vaughn and published by . This book was released on 2019-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Reckoning written by Tricia Wentworth and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** NOT A STANDALONE NOVEL! **In the final moments of "The Fracturing," Reagan Scott was taken. While the rest of the country casts their votes for the next Presidential Couple, Reagan must now fight to survive. It's no longer just about winning the Culling, it's about ending the war with the drifters once and for all. As the darkness spirals out of control and threatens to destroy everyone and everything she loves, Reagan will be forced to make some difficult choices. Who will make it out alive? How will the drifter attack alter the course of the Culling? And who will be the next Presidential Couple?

Download or read book Culling the Herd written by Edward R. Etzkorn and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'The few for the many.' This seemingly innocuous phrase proves to be a chilling mantra in Culling the Herd, a riveting medical thriller. Chloe Freestaff, a twenty-something magazine writer, comes upon a bizarre and shocking crime on a remote Kenyan grassland that leads her to the discovery of the Population Office for the World, a group of scientists devoted to preserving the earth for future humanity by saving the human race from itself. Before she knows what is happening, she has involved herself in a situation that requires her to save herself in the process of saving the world from its would-be saviors"--Back cover

Download or read book The Sowing written by Steven dos Santos and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-03-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lucian “Lucky” Spark is caught attempting to assassinate members of the Establishment—including his former lover, Cassius—Lucky finds himself facing the worst kind of punishment. It’s Recruitment season. Instead of choosing who will die, Lucky will be an Incentive, a sacrificial lamb on the wrong side of the Establishment’s brutal competition.

Download or read book The Last Book You ll Ever Read written by Cullen Bunn and published by Vault Comics. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supernatural horror thriller for readers of Chuck Palahniuk (Lullaby and Haunted: A Novel), Marisha Pessl,(Night Film), and Scarlett Thomas (The End of Mr. Y), The Last Book You’ll Ever Read tells the terrifying story of a woman who knows the horrific truth about the past – and future - of humankind, and, when captured in her book SATYR, it becomes the catalyst for worldwide, mind-numbing violence Read this book at your own peril. Olivia Kade wrote the book that ended the world. Now she needs someone who won't read it. Civilization is a lie. Hidden deep in our genes is the truth. And it is slowly clawing its way to the surface. Olivia Kade knows the truth, and she has become the prophet of the coming collapse. Her book, SATYR, is an international bestseller, and it is being blamed for acts of senseless violence and bloodshed all over the world. Olivia's own life is in danger from those who have read her work. Determined to conduct a book tour, she hires security professional Connor Wilson to act as her bodyguard. She only has one requirement: he cannot read her work. John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness meets Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby in this terrifyingly dangerous tale of the descent of humankind where reality and fantasy collide. Collects the entire smash 8-issue series. For fans of Stephen Graham Jones, Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, Alma Katsu, The Ring, and The Ninth Gate. "I truly hope this terrific horror comic is in no way prescient or timely." - Patton Oswalt “…perfectly disturbing and mysterious.” – The Beat

Download or read book The Replacement written by K M Rives and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was never meant to be a member of the Culling. He was never supposed to find his mate. Fate stepped in to ensure both. There was only one reason the bond would choose Emery Montgomery. Her twin was dead. As soon as the silver band of the Culling appeared on her wrist, binding her to the vampire prince himself, her world turned upside down. Forced to compete for the heart of her enemy in an archaic version of The Bachelor, Emery had only three things on her mind: Keep her witch heritage a secret, find her sister's murderer, and above all, don't fall for the sinfully handsome prince. August Nicholson wanted nothing to do with the pompously groomed women in his Culling, that was, until Emery showed up. She was unlike any other, calmed the dark twisted side of him few knew existed. Instantly drawn to her, August must struggle against her intoxicating presence, because while he may want her for himself, he needs her to play her part to protect his family more. Together, Emery and August must fight their feelings and find the culprit behind her twin's murder, because if the Montgomery women were being hunted, Emery was next.

Download or read book The Gifts of Reading written by Robert Macfarlane and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Landmarks -- an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a book Every book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional resonance. It is a meeting of three minds (the giver, the author, the recipient), an exchange of intellectual and psychological currency, that leaves each participant enriched. Here Robert Macfarlane recounts the story of a book he was given as a young man, and how he managed eventually to return the favour, though never repay the debt. From one of the most lyrical writers of our time comes a perfectly formed gem, a lyrical celebration of the transcendent power and humanity of the given book.

Download or read book Always Jane written by Jenn Bennett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When eighteen-year-old chauffer's daughter Jane Marlow falls for Fen while still dating his brother Eddie, she lands in the middle of a longstanding competition between the two brothers that eventually threatens the future of their father's music empire.

Download or read book This Golden State written by Marit Weisenberg and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marit Weisenberg’s This Golden State follows a family on the run, a restless teenage daughter hungry for the truth, and the simple DNA test that threatens their carefully crafted world The Winslow family lives by five principles: 1. No one can know your real name. 2. Don’t stay in one place too long. 3. If you sense anything is wrong, go immediately to the meeting spot. 4. Keeping our family together is everything. 5. We wish we could tell you who we are, but we can’t. Please—do not ask. Poppy doesn’t know why her family has been running her whole life, but she does know that there are dire consequences if they’re ever caught. Still, her curiosity grows each year, as does her desire for real friends and the chance to build on something, instead of leaving behind school projects, teams, and crushes at a moment’s notice. When a move to California exposes a crack in her parents’ airtight planning, Poppy realizes how fragile her world is. Determined to find out the truth, she mails in a home DNA test. Just as she starts to settle into her new life and even begins opening up to a boy in her math class, the forgotten test results bring her crashing back to reality. Unraveling the shocking truth of her parents’ real identities, Poppy realizes that the DNA test has undone decades of careful work to keep her family anonymous—and the past is dangerously close to catching up to them. Determined to protect her family but desperate for more, Poppy must ask: How much of herself does she owe her family? And is it a betrayal to find her own place in the world?

Download or read book Browsings written by Michael Dirda and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (The New York Observer). His latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on a life in literature. Reaching from the classics to the post-moderns, his allusions dance from Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and M. F. K. Fisher to Marilynne Robinson, Hunter S. Thompson, and David Foster Wallace. Dirda's topics are equally diverse: literary pets, the lost art of cursive writing, book inscriptions, the pleasures of science fiction conventions, author photographs, novelists in old age, Oberlin College, a year in Marseille, writer's block, and much more. As admirers of his earlier books will expect, there are annotated lists galore—of perfect book titles, great adventure novels, favorite words, books about books, and beloved children's classics, as well as a revealing peek at the titles Michael keeps on his own nightstand.Funny and erudite, Browsings is a celebration of the reading life, a fan's notes, and the perfect gift for any booklover.

Download or read book Teen Titans Vol 2 The Culling The New 52 written by Scott Lobdell and published by DC. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics--The New 52 event, this second volume of Teen Titans launches the mini-event "The Culling" featuring Superboy and Legion Lost! When the organization known as N.O.W.H.E.R.E. captures Superboy, the Teen Titans, and Legion Lost and pits the young heroes against each other to weed out the weak, it will take everything the most famous teen heroes of the DC Universe have to save themselves from eachother. But the ruthless Harvest won't give up easily leading to one of the young heroes making the ultimate sacrifice for the others. Collects Teen Titans #8-12, 0 and DC Comics Presents #12.

Download or read book The Intended written by K M Rives and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-17 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emery may have survived the Culling, but now she's on the run. Forced to find her way in a world of magic behind the wards of New Orleans, Emery struggles to accept her newfound identity as a witch and a mother. Her coven is demanding that she choose between the magic she's always wanted and the child she already loves. Will Emery find the strength to fight for what matters most? Devastated by the loss of trust in his mate and seeking revenge, Augustine throws himself into the hunt for a murderer within his kingdom. Emery remains his primary suspect, even though there is a side of him that longs for the woman who has captured his heart. War is brewing in the supernatural world, and a long forgotten prophecy is at play. Can Augustine and Emery overcome the secrets that have torn them apart, and reconcile their past before the future catches up with them?

Download or read book Core of Magic written by Rachael Vaughn and published by Glasswing Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sen will never forget the day magic changed his life - and not for the better. After narrowly avoiding death at the hands of the Mage Council, he's ready to put the past behind him and live a quiet life learning to deal with his new powers. But the peaceful city of Merilaad is changing, and the future is coming for Sen whether he's ready or not. When a battered ship limps into Merilaad harbor, bringing with it the first foreigners seen in generations, Sen finds himself at the center of another tangled web of lies and mysteries the likes of which he hoped he'd never see again. Unsure who to trust, Sen joins forces with Talvina, the mysterious foreign captain's daughter. Together, can they unravel the mystery in time to save the only home Sen has ever known? Keywords: fantasy, YA fantasy, young adult fantasy, magic, romantic fantasy, fantasy series, apprentice mage, action and adventure, world building