Download or read book The Scorpion s Daughter written by Juliet Vane and published by Juliet Vane. This book was released on 2019-03-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruthlessness comes with a price. The Scorpion Raiders are a ruthless clan, traveling through the jungle and raiding villages and caravans. As the only child of their leader, Claire has lived a safe, comfortable life tucked away from their violence. Her one desire is to join her father, but he refuses to allow it. Her safe life has one major perk—her best friend, Gavin. But just when their friendship builds into something deeper, Claire finally gets the chance she's been waiting for—a chance to join the Scorpion Raiders and win her father's affection. Will she choose love with Gavin, or will she choose the quality her father treasures above all others—ruthlessness? This is a standalone story in the Luminous Lands series, and it features characters from the novel The Scorpion's Lullaby. additional keywords: high fantasy, jungle, scorpions, dragons, thieves, weapons, French, goddess, warriors, strong girl protagonist

Download or read book The Scorpion s Daughter written by Stephen Francis Montagna and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iraqi military has developed a designer biological weapon. When Americans accidently learn about it in some secret military papers, they discover that if unleashed, the pathogen will mutate and destroy all life on the planet. American intelligence quickly assembles an elite response team led by Captain Robert Walker. The captain leads his soldiers into the heart of the Iraqi desert to track down a young woman rumored to know of the weapon’s location. But the clock is ticking. Time is running out for Walker as his team races to find the biological agent before the Scorpion’s daughter can destroy the world. Will they find the answers with The Scorpion’s Daughter?

Download or read book The Girl from Scorpions Pass written by Miri Furstenberg and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the desert at Scorpions Pass, a girl sits by a bullet-riddled bus too frightened to cry. The violated body of her mother lies a few yards away. Her father, the bus driver, sits slumped over the wheel. His blood has mingled with that of twelve dead passengers. She can't see her older brother. In a few hours an army patrol stumbles onto the scene of what the morning newspapers will call The Massacre at Scorpion's Pass. In Israel in 1954 a five year old girl who had witnessed her family and nine others shot or bludgeoned to death was offered sympathy but little else. Her closest relatives swindled her out of a modest inheritance. And this was just the start of her troubles. Miri's story is one or survival, tenacity, boundless optimism and unfolds alongside the history of the State of Israel. Through an abusive marriage, estrangement from her children and an entanglement with organized crime, she obeys the command of a soldier who shielded her with his dying body; "Keep quiet or they'll kill you too!" After fifty years she found the courage to break her silence in "The Girl from Scorpions Pass"

Download or read book The House of the Scorpion written by Nancy Farmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newberry Honour Award Winner & National Book Award Winner. Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children and other people. To most, Matt isn't considered a boy at all, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. But to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself - for Matt is himself. They share the exact same DNA. As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence truly means, he is threatened by a host of sinister and manipulating characters, from El Patron's power-hungry family to the brain-deadened eejits and mindless slaves that toil Opium's poppy fields. Surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards, escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But even escape is no guarantee of freedom . . . because Matt is marked by his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect. Praise for The House of Scorpions: 'It's a pleasure to read science fiction that's full of warm, strong characters... that doesn't rely on violence as the solution to complex problems of right and wrong. It's a pleasure to read.' Ursula K. LeGuin 'Fabulous' Diana Wynne Jones Also by Nancy Farmer: The Sea of Trolls Land of the Silver Apples The Islands of the Blessed The Lord of Opium

Download or read book Scorpion s Daughter written by Stephen Francis Montagna and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Crocodile and the Scorpion written by Rebecca Emberley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on the classic fable, a crocodile and a scorpion attempt to cross a river without giving in to their natural instincts"--

Download or read book Letters from Mad de S vign to Her Daughter the Countess of Grignan Translated from the French by Mrs Mackie written by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Scorpion s Tail written by Douglas Preston and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 bestselling authors Preston & Child comes a thrilling novel following archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson as they work together to solve a twisted crime that reaches far beyond any of their worst fears. Following the acclaimed debut of Old Bones, this second "happily anticipated" new thriller in Preston & Child's series features Nora Kelly, archaeologist at the Santa Fe Archeological Institute, and rookie FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, as they team up to solve a mystery that quickly escalates into nightmare (Booklist). A mummified corpse, over half a century old, is found in the cellar of an abandoned building in a remote New Mexico ghost town. Corrie is assigned what seems to her a throwaway case: to ID the body and determine cause of death. She brings archaeologist Nora Kelly to excavate the body and lend her expertise to the investigation, and together they uncover something unexpected and shocking: the deceased apparently died in agony, in a fetal position, skin coming off in sheets, with a rictus of horror frozen on his face. Hidden on the corpse lies a 16th century Spanish gold cross of immense value. When they at last identify the body -- and the bizarre cause of death -- Corrie and Nora open a door into a terrifying, secret world of ancient treasure and modern obsession: a world centered on arguably the most defining, frightening, and transformative moment in American history.

Download or read book Scorpions written by Laurence Pringle and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have been taught to fear scorpions in any form. But scorpions usually sting either to subdue their prey or to protect themselves. In fact, Earth has two thousand scorpion species, but only a few dozen are deadly to humans. With vivid descriptions of scorpions' life cycle, body structure, habits, and habitat and beautiful, realistic illustrations, this new entry in the popular Strange and Wonderful series explores one of nature's feared and misunderstood creatures.

Download or read book The Scorpion s Sweet Venom The Diary of a Brazilian Call Girl written by Bruna Surfistinha and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 2007-11-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is October, 2005. In an apartment in the upmarket neighbourhood of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 21-year-old Bruna Surfistinha, or Bruna the Surfer Girl, has sexual encounters with up to five men a day. A teen runaway who has had to turn tricks for a living, Bruna begins to write about her experiences in a blog. What she creates is a scintillating soap opera, loaded with family drama, love stories and, of course, sex! Today, Bruna has become a celebrity in Brazil with the runaway bestseller The Scorpion's Sweet Venom: The Diary of a Brazilian Call Girl. Selling over 30,000 copies in its first month, (and over 100,000 copies to date) the book is a vivid, forthright, explosive account of sex for money, for kicks, for fun, and for love. It even offers how-to tips for readers looking to spice up their sex lives. In the tradition of the bestselling The Bride Stripped Bare, In My Skin, Belle de Jour and Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, this translation of The Scorpion's Sweet Venom is destined to cause a stir with its intimate revelations of Latino lovers and illicit sex and life as a call girl.

Download or read book Scorpions written by Walter Dean Myers and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scorpions are a gun-toting Harlem gang, and Jamal Hicks is about to become tragically involved with them in this authentic tale of the sacrifice of innocence and the struggle to steer clear of violence. This Newbery Honor Book will challenge young men to consider their own decisions as they come of age in a complex and often frustrating society. Pushed by a bully to fight and nagged by his principal, Jamal is having a difficult time staying in school. His home life is not much better, with his mother working her fingers to the bone to try to earn the money for an appeal for Jamal's jailed older brother, Randy. Jamal wants to do the right thing and help earn the money to free his brother by working, but he's afraid to go against the Scorpions. Jamal eventually pulls free of the gang's bad influence, but only through the narrowest of escapes. Walter Dean Myers, five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, sensitively explores the loyalty and love between friends faced with hard choices. Scorpions is 25 years old, but the issues of poverty and violence make it a timeless powerful read—sadly as relevant as ever.

Download or read book An Astronomical Catechism Or Dialogues Between a Mother and Her Daughter written by Catherine Vale Whitwell and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Betrayal of the Scorpion and Poet written by Wayne Madsen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves into the Cold War mysteries surrounding the fates of two ships: the USS Scorpion, a nuclear-powered submarine that sank in 1968, and the SS Poet, a U.S.-flagged Merchant Marine vessel that sank in 1980. You will be shocked at the depths of the cover-ups involving the two maritime incidents.

Download or read book Urana S Seven Daughters written by Michael Brown and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up for an atomic saga? But first, if little atoms could only talk, just think of the stories they could tell us about our planet and universe. This is a voyage of discovery on a celestial and planetary scale. Seven lovely little atoms are born in the Oort Cloud. They are thrown into a beautiful blue-water planet and are split up. They soon find that this water planet is the best atomic amusement park ever. They will meet and be hosted by many simple and complex life forms. They will suffer through earthquakes, asteroid strikes, thunderstorms, hurricanes, and volcanic eruptions. They will see the best and worst of an emerging mankind. None of them will suffer, and all will have the fun of many lifetimes.

Download or read book Dombey and Daughter written by Renton Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Scorpion s Daughter written by Stephen Montagna and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The accidental discovery of secret military papers exposes a deadly threat. The Iraqi military has developed a designer biological weapon. American intelligence quickly learns that the pathogen will mutate and destroy all life on the planet if it is unleashed. Heading an elite rapid response team. Captain Robert Walker leads his soldiers into the heart of the Iraq desert to track down a young woman rumored to know of the weapon's location. Time is running out as Captain Walker and his squad race to find the biological agent before its madman creator can use it to destroy the world.

Download or read book The Firework Maker s Daughter written by Philip Pullman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lila dreams to become a firework-maker, just like her father. In order to become a true firework-maker, she sets off alone on a perilous journey to reach the terrifying Fire-Fiend. She travels through jungles alive with crocodiles, snakes, monkeys and pirates, and climbs up the scolding volcano. On finding the Fire-Fiend, she realises more is at stake than she ever imagined. Will Lila survive? Lila’s is the kind of magical adventure that all children dream of and the gripping story of the fleet-footed heroine will livelong in the memory of anyone who enters her world.