Download or read book The Silver Eyed Specter written by Izu and published by Humanoids Inc. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic tale where history blends with fantasy to explosive and cinematic results.

Download or read book Representing the Crusades written by Sandra Gorgievski and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are the Crusades portrayed in popular culture today? Have the medieval images of chivalric and military heroes survived the eras of Orientalism and decolonization? The first of its kind, this comparative study examines representations of the Crusades in both European and Arab medieval texts and in 20th and 21st century transmedia recreations. It follows the cartography and illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages through modern, hybridized narratives in novels, film, comics and gaming. The shifting literary tastes, political agendas and cultural exchanges of audiences on both sides of the Mediterranean reflect their anxieties and ideals.

Download or read book DARK OBSESSION written by Amanda Stevens and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was he her protector? Or a predator… It was the final glimpse Erin Ramsey would have of her sister: Megan’s body, drained of blood, lying lifeless in a New York alley. Tormented by the fact that she hadn’t been there when her sister needed her, Erin promises herself that she’ll find Megan’s killer. Detective Nicholas Slade tells Erin to go home, back to California. He says he doesn’t want her to be the murderer’s next victim. But his warning comes too late. Erin is already in danger, in thrall to a man who cloaks himself in shadows and haunts her nightmares. Erin is desperate to find her sister’s murderer—and desperate to avoid becoming his prey—but she feels her own life spinning out of control as the silver-eyed specter from her dreams lures her deeper into his world. Nick may be the only one who can help her, but she’s afraid to trust him. Her deep attraction to the secretive detective is tinged with fear. He only works the night shift. He wears sunglasses in the dark. And he may have been the last person to see Megan alive… Previously published.

Download or read book The Higher Frontier written by Christopher L. Bennett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-new Star Trek movie-era adventure featuring James T. Kirk! Investigating the massacre of a telepathic minority, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise confront a terrifying new threat: faceless, armored hunters whose extradimensional technology makes them seemingly unstoppable. Kirk must team with the powerful telepath Miranda Jones and the enigmatic Medusans to take on these merciless killers in an epic battle that will reveal the true faces of both enemy and ally!

Download or read book The Revelation Search for the Apocrypha written by Albert Armbrister and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revelation I: Book Blurb Mutiny... Dark forces everywhere he goes...Watching his close friend betray him during the first war in Heaven... How much can one angel take? Uriel a casualty of the first angelic war now wakes up to meet His Majesty for a mission he does not understand. The search for the Apocrypha. With no knowledge of the world he is about to enter, Uriel takes on the mission. As he begins to understand the true nature of his mission, another ‘revelation' is revealed...The N.E.P.H.I. Project... What secrets does this project hold? And how is it connected to his search?

Download or read book Peggy of the Bartons written by Bithia Mary Croker and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cursed Rose written by Leslie Vedder and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fate of a cursed kingdom rests on ancient secrets, broken promises, and fierce friendships in this gasp-worthy final book of the bestselling twisted fairytale Bone Spindle series. **Perfect for fans of Margaret Rogerson, Holly Black, and Marissa Meyer** Not all curses should be broken. Not all fairytales end happily ever after. Fi is a prisoner. Briar, a monster. Shane's a warrior. And Red is a traitor. What was once a formidable group of four fighting to reawaken the kingdom is now ruptured, torn apart by the wicked Spindle Witch. Confined to a tower with the monstrous Briar Rose, Fi is caught in the Spindle Witch’s ever-tightening web. With the Spindle Witch on the verge of finding the Siphoning Spells and crushing Andar—with Fi’s help, no less—Fi’s only hope lies in decoding the ancient riddle of the Rose Witches before she loses Briar forever. Shane is desperate to save Andar—and her partner. She’s on the hunt for a weapon left by the mysterious Lord of the Butterflies, which holds the key to the Spindle Witch’s demise. Her love for Red has only fortified. But Red’s betrayal puts her in danger from a new enemy—the Spindle Witch’s executioner, the Wraith, a witch as powerful as he is cruel. The future of Andar lies in the secrets of its past. Fi and Shane must take on the greatest lost ruin of them all—the Tomb of Queen Aurora. Filled with vicious bone monsters, new alliances, and surprises at every turn, prepare to be swept away by this taut, clever, and heart-filled series conclusion.

Download or read book Resonance Surge written by Nalini Singh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where are the broken? That is the propulsive question that unleashes a world of secrets in New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s Resonance Surge . . . StoneWater bears Pavel and Yakov Stepyrev have been a unit since birth, but now Pavel’s life is veering in a new direction, his heart held in the hands of Arwen Mercant, a Psy empath—and the only man who has ever brought Pavel to his knees. This is it. A point of irrevocable change. For Pavel . . . for Arwen . . . for Yakov . . . and for another pair of twins whose bond has a far darker history. A low-Gradient Psy, Theodora Marshall is considered worthless by everyone but her violently powerful twin, Pax. She is the sole person he trusts in their venomous family to investigate a hidden and terrible part of their family history—an unregistered rehabilitation Center established by their grandfather. Places of unimaginable pain designed to psychically wipe minds, leaving the victims shells of their former selves, the Centers are an ugly vestige of the Psy race’s Silent past. But this Center was worse. Far, far worse. And now Theo must uncover the awful truth—in the company of a scowling bear named Yakov, who isn’t about to take a Marshall at face value . . . especially a Marshall who has turned his dreams into chilling nightmares. Because Yakov is the great-grandson of a foreseer . . . and he has seen Theo die in an unstoppable surge of blood. Night after night after night . . .

Download or read book The Devil You Know written by Erin M. Evans and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stakes are higher than ever in this long-awaited finale of the Brimstone Angels series, starring tiefling heroine Farideh An epic battle of good versus evil has erupted—one that is rife with deception and intrigue, and where the question is as much who is evil, as how they can be defeated. The stakes have never been higher. The fallout will shake the Hells, and through them, the Forgotten Realms. Before Farideh took a devil's pact, before she was Chosen by the god-king of the Hells—before any of this started—there was Bryseis Kakistos, the original Brimstone Angel and the first of Farideh's line. Now in these final moments, Bryseis Kakistos is back. But this time around, she will not help the king of Hells achieve godhood—instead, she’s going to kill him. All she needs is a little help from Farideh. By all accounts, Farideh should be happy to come to Bryseis’ aid. After all, who could object to killing the king of Hells? But things are far more complicated than they seem, and Farideh may not be as willing as Bryseis thinks . . . The Devil You Know is the sixth book in the Brimstone Angels series.

Download or read book Soara the Stinging Spectre written by Adam Blade and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battle fearsome beasts and fight evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up. Tom and Elenna have tackled many Beast Quests before, but now there is a challenger for his title of Master of the Beasts! Join them as they fight a new set of Beasts and battle to save the kingdom... There are FOUR thrilling adventures to collect in the Beast Quest: The Trial of Heroes series: Krytor the Blood Bat; Soara the Stinging Spectre; Drogan the Jungle Menace; Karixa the Diamond Warrior. If you like Beast Quest, check out Adam Blade's other series: Team Hero, Sea Quest and Beast Quest: New Blood!

Download or read book Flames from the Earth written by Isaiah Spiegel and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emotionally powerful, poetic Yiddish novel, available in English for the first time, that expands our understanding of Holocaust literature and testimony Flames from the Earth: A Novel from the Łódź Ghetto is an autobiographical novel written by Isaiah Spiegel, one of the most revered Yiddish authors to survive the Holocaust. Originally published in Israel in 1966, the novel brings together material that Spiegel wrote while imprisoned in the Łódź Ghetto, which he recovered from a cellar when he returned from Auschwitz after the war. The only works by Spiegel previously available to English readers have been short stories. In this, his first novel, Spiegel explores a complex web of characters in and around the Łódź Ghetto: Vigdor and Gitele, lovers who are involved in the ghetto resistance movement; Nicodem, a Polish priest, who hides a member of the Jewish underground; Stefan Kaczmarek, a Polish tavern keeper who betrays Nicodem to preserve his own smuggling business; Franz Jessike, a Nazi guard who blackmails local Poles for personal gain; and Chaim Vidaver, the heroic leader of the ghetto resistance. Based largely on historical events, the novel’s lyrical style echoes its emotional intensity. Gripping and atmospheric, Flames from the Earth honors daring acts of heroism and human connections forged amid unthinkable conditions. Spiegel’s novel represents an important contribution to the archive of literary depictions of historical trauma.

Download or read book The Beadle Collection of Dime Novels written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wait Time written by Kenneth Sherman and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations that blossomed into this powerful memoir. With incisive and evocative language, Sherman presents a clear-eyed view of what the cancer patient feels and thinks. His narrative voice is personal but not confessional, practical but not cold, thoughtful and searching but not self-pitying or self-absorbed. The author’s wait time for surgery on a malignant tumour was exceptionally long and riddled with bureaucratic bumbling; thus he asks our health-care providers and administrators if our system cannot be made efficient and more humane. While he is honest about what is good and bad in our system, he is not stridently political or given to directing blame. His narrative is interwoven with engaging ruminations on the meaning of illness in society, and is peppered with references to other writers’ thoughts on the subject. A widely published poet, Sherman helps the reader understand the deep connection between disease and creativity—the ways in which we write out of our suffering. Wait Time will be of special interest to anyone facing a serious illness as well as to health-care providers, social workers, and psychologists working in the field. Its thoughtful observations on health, life priorities, time, and mortality will make it of interest to all readers.

Download or read book Brushes with Death written by Nowick Gray and published by Cougar WebWorks. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both reckless and lucky, this serial survivor seeks meaning in a life full of brushes with death and passing glimpses of fame. The life-threatening accidents and mishaps come in many shades: from full-fledged out-of-body experiences, to near misses and close calls, to highway mishaps, dodging bullets, edgy adventures, stupid risks, fights and wars; sometimes just witnessing disaster, or knowing others not so fortunate to escape it. The narrator emerges with a guarded view of the shadowland of death, and brief tastes of the wonderland of stardom. Always coming back home again, chastised and forgiven, charged with fresh gratitude and humility.

Download or read book Lying Eyes written by Amy Atwell and published by Amy Atwell. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Daughters of Cosmo Fortune, three respectable women find themselves lying, cheating and stealing their way to love. Enter the glittering casinos on the famed Las Vegas Strip and meet Cosmo Fortune. Magician…charmer…trickster…. His eldest daughter built a sensible, practical life for herself. Costume jewelry designer Iris Fortune knows how to copy the world’s finest gems for a fraction of their value. Little wonder that she believes a future with her predictable fiancé will fulfill her wish for a stable family. Only to have it shattered… But when her screwball father embroils himself in a murder then disappears, Iris discovers the depth of his duplicity. With the lies mounting and the clock ticking, she must work with her two newly discovered half-sisters—and an overgrown rabbit—to save their father. …and replaced with an attraction that’s as hot… Add to the madness a handsome thief shadowing her. And making her question a lot of things, including her future. Is he after a cool ten million in gems? After Cosmo? Could she be lucky enough that he’s after her? …as it is deadly. Undercover cop Mickey Kincaid has put his life on the line before, but never his heart. Now Cosmo is testing his patience, and Iris is testing his resolve—not to mention his restraint. Is she a clever criminal or his personal femme fatale? Join Iris and Mickey for a madcap weekend discovering that family and true love are worth risking everything.

Download or read book The Battle of Mansoura written by Izu and published by Humanoids Inc. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic tale where history blends with fantasy to explosive and cinematic results.

Download or read book Ratf ked Why Your Vote Doesn t Count written by David Daley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Daley’s “extraordinarily timely” (New York Times Book Review) account uncovers the fundamental rigging of our House of Representatives and state legislatures nationwide. Lauded as a “compelling” (The New Yorker) and “eye-opening tour of a process that many Americans never see” (Washington Post), David Daley’s Ratf**ked documents the effort of Republican legislators and political operatives to hack American democracy through an audacious redistricting plan called REDMAP. Since the revolutionary election of Barack Obama, a group of GOP strategists has devised a way to flood state races with a gold rush of dark money, made possible by Citizens United, in order to completely reshape Congress—and our democracy itself. “Sobering and convincing” (New York Review of Books), Ratf**ked shows how this program has radically altered America’s electoral map and created a firewall in the House, insulating the Republican party and its wealthy donors from popular democracy. While exhausted voters recover from a grueling presidential election, a new Afterword from the author explores the latest intense efforts by both parties, who are already preparing for the next redistricting cycle in 2020.