Download or read book The Simurgh Pitch Sickle Book Seven written by D K Girl and published by Lucas Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diabolus Chronicles' penultimate book. Find the daemon. Bring down the angels. Never give up hope. Silas and Pitch have been torn apart by the nefarious Morrigan and their maleficium. Traiterous angels have revealed themselves, and monsters from the past have reemerged. Time is running out for a daemon held prisoner by those plotting to overthrow the Lord of Arcadia. A desperate hunt is underway to find Pitch before the angel behind the deadly attack in Sherwood Forest does more than loosen a daemonic tongue. The existence of the halo is a secret no more. Nor are those who will go to any length to wield its power. But the Order are keeping Silas on an infuriatingly tight leash. They want him to remain safe in their secure York compound, while the search for Pitch spreads across the British Isles. Safe is the very last thing Silas wishes to be, while his prince is in the hands of their enemy. Silas promised Pitch he would never abandon him, never turn his back on all that it meant to love Tobias Astaroth. Every moment that passes feels like a betrayal of that promise. When the Order make a shocking decision that renders him more prisoner than Pale Horseman, Silas is tested like never before. Finding Pitch will push the deadman to his very limits, forcing him to face a truth he's long fought to conceal. And who will Silas find when he at last reunites with his stolen love? The daemon he lost in Sherwood Forest, or a tormented soul beyond saving? Content Advice - Violence, blood and gore, torture. Reference to prevous incident of sexual assault.
Download or read book The Death Wish Pitch Sickle Book Eight written by D K Girl and published by Lucas Publishing . This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Final Instalment in The Diabolus Chronicles. Silas Mercer and Tobias Astaroth have faced untold difficulties, survived horrific attacks and known heart-breaking loss on their way to where the Watcher King awaits. Yet through it all their bond has only deepened, and their surprising connection is now all but unbreakable. They have learned to trust each other, rely on each other, and, against all odds, love. Now, Blood Lake is closer than it's ever been before. This is what they have fought for. This is what has driven them through trials and tribulations beyond their wildest imaginings. To rid the human world of the curse of the Blight. To destroy Samyaza's lost halo. The simurgh is one last journey away from Seraphiel's Sanctuary. Pitch & Sickle's quest is almost at its end. But will a High Angel's Cultivation be enough to right an ancient wrong? Or will Blood Lake demand more sacrifice? The Death Wish concludes the historical fantasy adventure series, The Diabolus Chronicles.
Download or read book Mission 51 written by Fernando Crôtte and published by Inkshares. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty previous Torkiyan missions were obliterated in space, but new technology gives Mission 51 a better chance to reach the legendary planet Cerulea—also known as planet Earth. Zeemat, a peaceful Torkiyan who’d rather hold a paintbrush than a weapon, has been assigned to his planet’s fifty-first mission against his own will. After suffering a catastrophic journey, Zeemat’s spacecraft crashes in what becomes known as Area 51. Taken captive by a rather brutal cohort of FBI agents, he finds a friend only in his gentle and kind translator, Dr. Linda Deltare. As the FBI torture grows increasingly merciless, Zeemat must find a way to escape his holding cell or perish, never to see the outside world he traveled so far to see. In his quest for freedom and happiness, Zeemat must learn to survive in a strange new land and fight against militant forces from both his native and adopted planets.
Download or read book Lava Red Feather Blue written by Molly Ringle and published by Central Avenue Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With this engrossing urban fantasy, Ringle delivers a queer fairy tale as electrifying as it is tender"—Publishers Weekly “Lush and imaginative—an epic fantasy for a new generation, full of love, vengeance, redemption, and forgiveness.”—Pam Stucky, author of The Universes Inside the Lighthouse Awakening the handsome prince is supposed to end the fairy tale, not begin it. But the Highvalley witches have rarely done things the way they’re supposed to. On the north Pacific island of Eidolonia, hidden from the world by enchantments, Prince Larkin has lain in a magical sleep since 1799 as one side of a truce between humans and fae. That is, until Merrick Highvalley, a modern-day witch, discovers an old box of magic charms and cryptic notes hidden inside a garden statue. Experimenting with the charms, Merrick finds himself inside the bower where Larkin lies, and accidentally awakens him. Worse still, releasing Larkin from the spell also releases Ula Kana, a faery bent on eradicating humans from the island. With the truce collapsing and hostilities escalating throughout the country, Merrick and Larkin form an unlikely alliance and become even unlikelier heroes as they flee into the perilous fae realm on a quest to stop Ula Kana and restore harmony to their island. "Lovely and evocative, Lava Red Feather Blue is sure to delight lovers of fae, fairytales, and fantasy.”—Allie Therin, author of Spellbound Molly Ringle's growing list of other successful titles include: The Chrysomelia Stories 1. Persephone's Orchard 2. Underworld's Daughter 3. Immortal's Spring The Goblins of Bellwater All the Better Part of Me Sage and King
Download or read book The Devil s Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-03-16T22:46:04Z with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.” Bierce’s groundbreaking Devil’s Dictionary had a complex publication history. Started in the mid-1800s as an irregular column in Californian newspapers under various titles, he gradually refined the new-at-the-time idea of an irreverent set of glossary-like definitions. The final name, as we see it titled in this work, did not appear until an 1881 column published in the periodical The San Francisco Illustrated Wasp. There were no publications of the complete glossary in the 1800s. Not until 1906 did a portion of Bierce’s collection get published by Doubleday, under the name The Cynic’s Word Book—the publisher not wanting to use the word “Devil” in the title, to the great disappointment of the author. The 1906 word book only went from A to L, however, and the remainder was never released under the compromised title. In 1911 the Devil’s Dictionary as we know it was published in complete form as part of Bierce’s collected works (volume 7 of 12), including the remainder of the definitions from M to Z. It has been republished a number of times, including more recent efforts where older definitions from his columns that never made it into the original book were included. Due to the complex nature of copyright, some of those found definitions have unclear public domain status and were not included. This edition of the book includes, however, a set of definitions attributed to his one-and-only “Demon’s Dictionary” column, including Bierce’s classic definition of A: “the first letter in every properly constructed alphabet.” Bierce enjoyed “quoting” his pseudonyms in his work. Most of the poetry, dramatic scenes and stories in this book attributed to others were self-authored and do not exist outside of this work. This includes the prolific Father Gassalasca Jape, whom he thanks in the preface—“jape” of course having the definition: “a practical joke.” This book is a product of its time and must be approached as such. Many of the definitions hold up well today, but some might be considered less palatable by modern readers. Regardless, the book’s humorous style is a valuable snapshot of American culture from past centuries. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book A Bargain of Blood and Gold written by Kristin Jacques and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novice hunter with a mission. A five-hundred-year-old vampire with a strong sense of irony. A town plagued by creatures in need of saving. When Johnathan Newman arrives in Cress Haven, the last thing he expects is for his life to be irrevocably changed. Sent by a clandestine league of vampire hunters to investigate a string of murders, signs point to a vampire lurking amid the townsfolk. Johnathan's attempt to enlist the locals leads him to an unlikely partnership with Vic, the town's most eligible, enigmatic bachelor. As the pair work to solve the mystery, Vic's secrets come back to bite him. Revealed, the vampire fights his attraction to a man trained to destroy him, while Johnathan's emotions land him in the middle of forbidden desires. Even if Vic isn't the murderer, how can Johnathan yearn for his natural enemy? As Vic leads Johnathan into encounters with terrifying beings straight from children's nightmares, Johnathan learns that not only is the world stranger than he knew, but that those he once trusted have far darker intentions that will place hunter and vampire at the center of a conflict between realms. Cress Haven holds more sinister secrets than its resident vampire, a secret so great, it could unleash Hell itself.
Download or read book Symphony of Fates written by Jc Kang and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaiya escapes her ordeal at the hands of the Teleri Emperor, only to return to a homeland beset by enemies on all sides, and crumbling from within. As a teenager, she quelled a rebellion with the Dragon Scale Lute. As a young adult, she vanquished a dragon with the power of her voice. Now, robbed of her magic by grief, Kaiya must navigate a web of court intrigue to save the realm before it falls. Only she can lay claim to the Dragon Throne on behalf of her unborn sons-whether the father is the lover who perished rescuing her, or the hated enemy who killed him. In the final story in Kaiya's saga, she must rally a nation, repel invaders, and prove to the world why her family alone holds the Mandate of Heaven.
Download or read book The Garden of Fragrance written by Sa 'dī and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All the Wrong Reasons written by Sebastian Hansen and published by NineStar Press. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day after telekinetic supervillain (and billionaire philanthropist), Stetson Nadenheimer dies, he wakes up on the autopsy table and falls in lust with the man hired to cut his cold, dead corpse open. The problem is that the forensic pathologist is Doctor Julian Dandridge, the part-time superhero, Scatter. It’s probably a bad idea for a supervillain to get into bed with a superhero. Probably. Not that it stops him, but trying to start a relationship with a reluctant hero without getting caught turns out to be easier said than done. Between midnight meetings over games of checkers and kinky secrets, Stetson and Julian begin a tremulous romance. Unfortunately for them, there’s an actual villain watching from the shadows, waiting for Stetson to stumble.
Download or read book Bloodlaced written by Courtney Maguire and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kanjin hardly view their servants as human. Even less so when they are different. Asagi is different. Not really a man, not quite a woman, either. In the wake of his failure to protect a boy he saw as a son from their abusive master, Asagi is sold into the house of a young nobleman, Mahiro, who is the opposite of everything Asagi has ever known--gentle, kind, and generous. Mahiro bonds with Asagi and their friendship blooms into a deep and profound love. When Asagi is poisoned out of jealousy, Mahiro reveals himself to be youkai, a demon who feeds on blood, and he has no choice but to turn Asagi to save his life.Asagi awakes reborn, strong and eternally youthful. But, the price for Asagi's new life is high. The blood of the innocent. Just as Asagi's trust in Mahiro falters, the boy he failed to protect, now a man, reappears. New master, same threat. With both a literal and proverbial monster at the door, Asagi must decide what it means to be human in order to protect what he loves most.
Download or read book The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East written by Charles Francis Horne and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Two Colored Brocade written by Annemarie Schimmel and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annemarie Schimmel, one of the world's foremost authorities on Persian literature, provides a comprehensive introduction to the complicated and highly sophisticated system of rhetoric and imagery used by the poets of Iran, Ottoman Turkey, and Muslim India. She shows that these images have been used and refined over the centuries and reflect the changing conditions in the Muslim world. According to Schimmel, Persian poetry does not aim to be spontaneous in spirit or highly personal in form. Instead it is rooted in conventions and rules of prosody, rhymes, and verbal instrumentation. Ideally, every verse should be like a precious stone--perfectly formed and multifaceted--and convey the dynamic relationship between everyday reality and the transcendental. Persian poetry, Schimmel explains, is more similar to medieval European verse than Western poetry as it has been written since the Romantic period. The characteristic verse form is the ghazal--a set of rhyming couplets--which serves as a vehicle for shrouding in conventional tropes the poet's real intentions. Because Persian poetry is neither narrative nor dramatic in its overall form, its strength lies in an "architectonic" design; each precisely expressed image is carefully fitted into a pattern of linked figures of speech. Schimmel shows that at its heart Persian poetry transforms the world into a web of symbols embedded in Islamic culture.
Download or read book A Concise Dictionary of the Persian Language written by Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ocean of the Soul written by Ritter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ocean of the Soul is one of the great works of the German Orientalist Hellmut Ritter (1892-1971). It presents a comprehensive analysis of the writings of the mystical Persian poet Farīd al-Dīn ‘Aṭṭār who is thought to have died at an advanced age in April 1221 when the Mongols destroyed his home city of Nīshāpūr in the north-east of Iran. The book, which resulted from decades of investigation of literary and historical sources, was first published in 1955 and has since remained unsurpassed not only as the definitive study of ‘Aṭṭār's world of ideas but as an indispensable guide to understanding pre-modern Islamic literature in general. Quoting at length from ‘Aṭṭār and other Islamic sources, Ritter sketches an extraordinarily vivid portrait of the Islamic attitude toward life, characteristic developments in pious and ascetic circles, and, in conclusion, various dominant mystical currents of thought and feeling. Special attention is given to a wide range of views on love, love in all its manifestations, including homosexuality and the commonplace sūfī adoration of good-looking youths. Ritter's approach is throughout based onprecise philological interpretation of primary sources, several of which he has himself made available in critical editions.
Download or read book How to Read Chinese Poetry written by Zong-qi Cai and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci, and qu poems. A comprehensive introduction and extensive thematic table of contents highlight the thematic, formal, and prosodic features of Chinese poetry, and each chapter is written by a scholar who specializes in a particular period or genre. Poems are presented in Chinese and English and are accompanied by a tone-marked romanized version, an explanation of Chinese linguistic and poetic conventions, and recommended reading strategies. Sound recordings of the poems are available online free of charge. These unique features facilitate an intense engagement with Chinese poetical texts and help the reader derive aesthetic pleasure and insight from these works as one could from the original. The companion volume How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook presents 100 famous poems (56 are new selections) in Chinese, English, and romanization, accompanied by prose translation, textual notes, commentaries, and recordings. Contributors: Robert Ashmore (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Zong-qi Cai; Charles Egan (San Francisco State); Ronald Egan (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara); Grace Fong (McGill); David R. Knechtges (Univ. of Washington); Xinda Lian (Denison); Shuen-fu Lin (Univ. of Michigan); William H. Nienhauser Jr. (Univ. of Wisconsin); Maija Bell Samei; Jui-lung Su (National Univ. of Singapore); Wendy Swartz (Columbia); Xiaofei Tian (Harvard); Paula Varsano (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Fusheng Wu (Univ. of Utah)
Download or read book Myths Legends of Babylonia Assyria written by Lewis Spence and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Babylonian and Assyrian myths and legends, including various analogues of the biblical flood story and discussions of the history of Babylon and Assyria, and descriptions of various forms of Babylonian worship, Assyrian cults, and archaeological excavation of Babylonian and Assyrian sites.
Download or read book History and Chronology of the Myth making Age written by James Francis Hewitt and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
