Download or read book The Merchants of Souls written by John Barnes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-11-17 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new movement on Earth seeks to use the recorded personalities of the dead as their helpless virtual reality playthings in this continuation of the interstellar epic begun in the award-winning "A Million Open Doors" and "Earth Made of Glass."
Download or read book The Merchants of Souls written by John Barnes and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2002-11-18 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to A Million Open Doors and Earth Made of Glass Special agent Giraut Leones, betrayed by his superior and closest friend, swore he would never work for the Office of Special Projects again--but now he must. A new movement on Earth seeks to use the recorded personalities of the dead as helpless virtual reality playthings, and to the worlds of the Thousand Cultures--where the reborn are accepted as normal citizens--it's a monstrous crime. If Giraut cannot stop Earth from ratifying its plans, the tenuous structure of interstellar human civilization will collapse. Complicating matters, Giraut's brain now hosts a second consciousness-the revived mind of his long-dead friend Raimbaut. Together, Giraut and Raimbaut must confront their shared past while struggling with a deadly present. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Merchants of Souls The Search written by Earl Lynn and published by Palmetto Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a small town in rural Mississippi in the 1960s, Willie flirts with the beautiful Althea at a bar and gives her his cigarette lighter as a memento of their meeting. Little does he know a piece of his soul is attached to it. The evil woman casts a spell on him, which sinks Willie into a mysterious coma. While visiting him in the hospital, his wife Lynn learns that a boy, David, got sick around the same time and has the same baffling symptoms. David worked at a gas station that was on the same road Willie traveled down the night he got sick, so Lynn and David's mother, Madeline, go there to investigate. While following an odd creature, they are led to a small house deep in the woods. There, they encounter a strange old woman and discover a cavern packed with jars and bottles of potions and powders. Could they be clues? Lynn recalls an old story about a couple who were very much in love, but the woman was killed. The man went to see a spiritualist, Ms. Irma, who brought his beloved wife back to life in exchange for his gold wedding ring. Lynn learns Ms. Irma is still alive and convinces Madeline they should go see her. Ms. Irma tells them they are dealing with a curse, and if they bring her all the jars and bottles from the cavern, she will free their loved ones from the spell. But can she really do it? Or is she just a crazy old lady...?
Download or read book Secondhand Souls written by Christopher Moore and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing—and you know that can’t be good—in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job. Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone—or something—is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death Merchant Charlie Asher is just as flummoxed as everyone else. He’s trapped in the body of a fourteen-inch-tall “meat puppet” waiting for his Buddhist nun girlfriend, Audrey, to find him a suitable new body to play host. To get to the bottom of this abomination, a motley crew of heroes will band together: the seven-foot-tall death merchant Minty Fresh; retired policeman turned bookseller Alphonse Rivera; the Emperor of San Francisco and his dogs, Bummer and Lazarus; and Lily, the former Goth girl. Now if only they can get little Sophie to stop babbling about the coming battle for the very soul of humankind . . .
Download or read book The Merchant of Souls written by Douglas Goldring and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Desert of Souls written by Howard Andrew Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed fantasy debut introducing a ripsnorting swords and sorcery adventure, inspired by the tales of One Thousand and One Nights. THE CHRONICLE OF SWORD & SAND: Baghdad, AD 790. Caliph Harun al-Rashid presides over the greatest metropolis on Earth, ruler of an empire stretches from China to Byzantium. His exploits will be recorded in Alf Layla or, as we know it, The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. But The Thousand and One Nights are silent on the deeds and adventures that befell two of the Caliph's subjects: the renowned scholar Dabir ibn Kahlil, and his shield and right hand, Asim el Abbas. For their story, we must turn to the Chronicle of Sand and Sword... THE DESERT OF SOULS: Amid the trackless sands of ancient Arabia, two companions – a swordsman and a scholar – search for the ruins of the lost city of Ubar. Before their quest is over, they will battle necromancers and animated corpses, they will confront a creature that has traded wisdom for the souls of men since the dawn of time and they will fight to save a city's soul.
Download or read book The soul merchants written by Joan Bagnel and published by . This book was released on 1977-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soul Merchants written by Roger W. Hite and published by . This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Merchant s Prologue and Tale written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Merchant's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.
Download or read book The Attention Merchants written by Tim Wu and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the award-winning The Master Switch, who coined the term "net neutrality”—a revelatory, ambitious and urgent account of how the capture and re-sale of human attention became the defining industry of our time. "Dazzling." —Financial Times Ours is often called an information economy, but at a moment when access to information is virtually unlimited, our attention has become the ultimate commodity. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of efforts to harvest our attention. This condition is not simply the byproduct of recent technological innovations but the result of more than a century's growth and expansion in the industries that feed on human attention. Wu’s narrative begins in the nineteenth century, when Benjamin Day discovered he could get rich selling newspapers for a penny. Since then, every new medium—from radio to television to Internet companies such as Google and Facebook—has attained commercial viability and immense riches by turning itself into an advertising platform. Since the early days, the basic business model of “attention merchants” has never changed: free diversion in exchange for a moment of your time, sold in turn to the highest-bidding advertiser. Full of lively, unexpected storytelling and piercing insight, The Attention Merchants lays bare the true nature of a ubiquitous reality we can no longer afford to accept at face value.
Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dirty Job written by Christopher Moore and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death. It's a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody's gotta do it.
Download or read book Nobility and Annihilation in Marguerite Porete s Mirror of Simple Souls written by Joanne Maguire Robinson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book-length study of Marguerite Porete's important mystical text, The Mirror of Simple Souls, examines Porete's esoteric and optimistic doctrine of annihilation—the complete transformative union of the soul into God—in its philosophical and historical contexts. Porete was burned at the stake as a relapsed heretic in 1310. Her theological treatise survived the flames, but it circulated anonymously or under male pseudonyms until 1946, and her message endures as testament to a distinctive form of medieval spirituality. Robinson begins by focusing on traditional speculations regarding the origin, nature, limitations, and destiny of humankind. She then examines Porete's work in its more immediate historical and literary contexts, focusing on the ways in which Porete conceptualizes and expresses her radical doctrine of annihilation through contemporary metaphors of lineage and nobility.
Download or read book A Collection of Souls written by J. C. Miller and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a world in which witches and curses exist and in which each one of us has an evil double somewhere in the world. In A collection of Souls, J. C. Miller shares terrifying tales that encourage us to believe in magic-even just for a moment-while imagining the consequences if creatures of myth suddenly appeared or whether it is possible to fall in love with a ghost. Miller offers a diverse collection of short stories filled with eclectic characters that transport you back in time as a helpless observer, sending you to a medieval Polish manor; to a Civil War battlefield to befriend a monster raised from the dead; to a Beverly Hills home where deceased relatives have set up permanent residence; and to a village where a dead spirit scares away coyotes and skin-walkers. More frightening tales await you as ants play host to tiny alien travelers who have lost their way; a dog travels down back alleys guided by a master from another planet; and a human finds love in the arms of a beautiful alien. A Collection of Souls shares an intriguing, wild ride through fear, delight and magic that will challenge beliefs and explore all the potential horror that lurks in the shadows-just waiting.
Download or read book Kaleidoscope Century written by John Barnes and published by Tor Science Fiction. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joshua Ali Quare wakes in 2019 at the age of 140 in a strong youthful body with no memory of his past, to find he is at the center of a vast and deadly conspiracy. The only clues to his identity are the records he has left--messages from the man he once was... As Quare journeys through his past, he discovers he has been a key figure in the history of a turbulent, violent century--soldier, criminal, assassin, spy. A century filled with killing plagues and warring cults, ruthless corporations and dying nations. A century where treachery is often the only way to survive. Now someone is looking for him. Someone from his past. And Quare must learn the terrifying secret of his history before it unleashed devastating consequences for the future of the human race. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Protestant written by William M'Gavin and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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