Download or read book The Skystone written by Jack Whyte and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first novel in Jack Whyte's riveting Arthurian series tells how the story of Camelot may have actually come to be. We all know the story—how Arthur pulled the sword from the stone and how Camelot came to be. But how did it really happen? The Roman citizens of Britain faced a deadly choice: leave to live in a corrupt Roman world, or stay amidst the violence of the warring factions of Picts, Celts, and invading Saxons. For Publius Varrus and Caius Britannicus, there is only one answer. They will stay, try to preserve the best of Roman life, and create a new culture from the wreckage. In doing so, they will plant the seeds of a legend. For these two men are Arthur's great-grandfathers and their actions will shape a nation...and forge the sword known as Excalibur. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Skystone written by Jack Whyte and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born of the chaos of the Dark Ages, the Dream of Eagles produced a king, a country and an everlasting legend—Camelot Publius Varrus is a veteran Roman officer and a maker of swords. In the early fifth century, amid the violent struggles between the people of Britain and the invading Saxons, Picts and Scots, he and his former general, Caius Britannicus, forge the government and military system that will become known as the Round Table, and initiate a chain of events that will lead to the coronation of the High King we know today as Arthur. Rich in historical detail, brimming with drama, intrigue and passion, The Skystone gives new resonance to an enduring and powerful legend.
Download or read book Skystone and Silver written by Carl Rosnek and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Singing Sword written by Jack Whyte and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2002-05-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know the legends: Arthur brought justice to a land that had known only cruelty and force; his father, Uther, carved a kingdom out of the chaos of the fallen Roman Empire; the sword Excalibur, drawn from stone by England's greatest king. But legends do not tell the whole tale. Legends do not tell of the despairing Roman soldiers, abandoned by their empire, faced with the choice of fleeing back to Rome, or struggling to create a last stronghold against the barbarian onslaughts from the north and east. Legends do not tell of Arthur's great-grandfather, Publius Varrus, the warrior who marked the boundaries of a reborn empire with his own shed blood; they do not tell of Publius's wife, Luceiia, British-born and Roman-raised, whose fierce beauty burned pale next to her passion for law and honor. With The Camulod Chronicles, Jack Whyte tells us what legend has forgotten: the history of blood and violence, passion and steel, out of which was forged a great sword, and a great nation. The Singing Sword continues the gripping epic begun in The Skystone: As the great night of the Dark Ages falls over Roman Britain, a lone man and woman fight to build a last stronghold of law and learning--a crude hill-fort, which one day, long after their deaths, will become a great city . . . known as Camelot. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Uther written by Jack Whyte and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2001-12-09 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Uther, Jack Whyte, author of the richly praised Camulod Chronicles, has given us a portrait of Uther Pendragon, Merlyn's shadow--his boyhood companion and closest friend. And the man who would sire the King of the Britons. From the trials of boyhood to the new cloak of adult responsibility, we see Uther with fresh eyes. He will travel the length of the land, have adventures, and, through fate or tragedy, fall in love with the one woman he must not have. Uther is a compelling love story and, like the other books in the Camulod Chronicles, a version of the legend that is more realistic than anything that has been available to readers before. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Saxon Shore written by Jack Whyte and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 4.
Download or read book The Eagles Brood written by Jack Whyte and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-08-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Romans withdraw from Britain, chaos breaks out. The military commander, Caius Merylin Britannicus of Arthurian legend describes the fighting, as well as the political and religious intrigues.
Download or read book THE SKYSTONE FROM MULTIVERSE OF FUTURE written by TANISSH KARTHIKEYAN and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONCE,THERE WAS A MAN CALLED SUNDARAM WHO WAS LIKE EVERYONE.HE TOOK A STONE FROM THE GROUND WHICH BROKE AND GAVE HIM SOME SPECIAL POWER NOT LIKE OTHERS. HE DIDN NOT USE HIS POWER AT FIRST BUT HIS BEST FRIEND KARTHIK FOUND HE HAD SOMETHING.KARTHIK THOUGHT HE HAD SOME DISEASE AND HE IS HIDING IT FROM HIM, KARTHIK DECIDED TO ASK HIM. SINCE KARTHIK WAS SUNDARAM BEST FRIEND HE TOLD IT. THEY ASK ABOUT IT TO DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS ABOUT IT.NOBODY KNEW THEN HIS ENEMY TOOK SOME PIECE OF WOOD AND BROKE IT IN 2 TRIES SUNDARAM SAI IT WAS HIS PINKY FINGER WORK.AS HE WAS SUNDARAM ENEMY HE ASKED HIM TO DO IT SUNDARAM DID AND IT HAPPEND. AFTER THE FIGHT KARTHIK TOLD HIM YOU HAVE SUPER STRONG POWERS. SUNDARM TOLD HIM I HAVE ALL THE POWERS LIKE TELEPORTING FROM MY MOM CHAPPAL,MAKING MY DAD BELT DISAPPEAR,AND MAKING MATHS SOLVE ITS PROBLEM BY ITSELF,LOOKING INTO FUTURE, AND SEE HOW PEOPLE DIE. KARTHIK ASKED HIM TO LOOK HOW WILL HE DIE.HE SAID BY BLASTING OF EARTH. THEY GOT PANICKED. SUNDARAM DEECIDED TO LOOK INTO THE FUTURE.HE SAW BECAUSE OF GARBAGE DUMPING,ILLEGAL FACTORIES,DEMAND OF WOOD,WATER,NON VEG & VEG,BLASTING OF TRANSFORMERS MOBILE AND LAPTOP, CAUSES OF SMOKING AND DRINKING,AND CARBONATED SOFT DRINKS MAKES THE ATMOSPHERE CLOUDS MOON STARS AND THE SUN IN YEAR 2025.IN YEAR 2026 ALL GALAXIES SOLAR SYSTEM AND PLANETS BURTS OFF.SO,SUNDARAM AND KARTHIK TOLD THIS TO EVERYONE AND ALL THE COUNTRIES GOT UNITED EVEN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA THEY FOUND OUT IT WAS OVER USE OF TECHNOLOGY
Download or read book The Burning Stone written by Jack Whyte and published by Viking. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of the Dream of Eagles series and The Guardians trilogy comes a tale of revenge, dark secrets, and a mysterious cataclysm that decimated a Roman legion: the story behind the story that began it all. Fleeing the massacre of his entire family save a single uncle, young Roman aristocrat Quintus Varrus arrives in fourth-century London not knowing who is to blame for the murders nor whom he can trust now. He fears for his life, but when he meets a young Irish woman named Lydia Mcuil, their lives quickly become intertwined and her father offers to set the young Roman up as a smith (under an Irish alias) in the town of Colchester while the young lovers get to know each other from a distance. But the assassins haven't forgotten Quintus and a deadly ambush is barely thwarted, bringing the young Roman into friendship with his rescuer, a hardened former military policeman known as Rufus Cato, who has his own score to settle with the powerful man behind the attack. Quintus is introduced to the secrets of an ancient brotherhood that is trying to halt the rot that is destroying their beloved Empire--secrets that may finally reveal the identity of those who murdered his family, and expose the shocking reason why. Set against the backdrop of a world in turmoil, this prequel to The Skystone, first in the Dream of Eagles series, is richly textured, intricately plotted, and filled with action and adventure: a perfect addition to the works of this master storyteller.
Download or read book The Skystone written by John George Hilzinger and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Forest Laird written by Jack Whyte and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forest Laird is the tale of William Wallace, the great hero of the Scottish Wars of Independence. Jack Whyte has pulled back the curtain of history and has given us a riveting story of Wallace's struggles against the tyranny of the English. In the predawn hours of August 24th, 1305, in London's Smithfield Prison, the outlaw William Wallace—hero of all the Scots and deadly enemy of King Edward of England—sits awaiting the dawn, when he is to be hanged and then drawn and quartered. This brutal sundering of his body is the revenge of the English. Wallace is visited by a Scottish priest who has come to hear his last confession, a priest who knows Wallace like a brother. Wallace's confession—the tale that follows—is all the more remarkable because it comes from real life. We follow Wallace through his many lives—as outlaw and fugitive, hero and patriot, rebel and kingmaker. His exploits and escapades, desperate struggles and victorious campaigns are all here, as are the high ideals and fierce patriotism that drove him to abandon the people he loved to save his country. William Wallace, the first heroic figure from the Scottish Wars of Independence and a man whose fame has reached far beyond his homeland, served as a subject for the Academy Award–winning film Braveheart. In The Forest Laird, Jack Whyte's masterful storytelling breathes life into Wallace's tale, giving readers an amazing character study of the man who helped shape Scotland's future. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Global Compassion written by Rachel M. McCleary and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Global Compassion' is an account of the relationship between private voluntary organizations (PVOs) and the US federal government from 1939-2005. The book focuses on the work of PVOs from a foreign policy perspective, revealing how federal political pressures shape the field of international relief.
Download or read book The Eagle written by Jack Whyte and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with The Skystone, the first in his riveting Camulod Chronicles, Jack Whyte has embarked on an ambitious and remarkable re-telling of the Arthurian cycle, giving us a fresh and compelling take on a story that has been beloved for centuries. The Eagle brings us at last to the heart of the tale, the creation of fabled Camelot and the love story that enshrined its glory. Whyte takes us into the minds and lives of Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, three astonishing but fallible people who were bound together by honor, loyalty, and love. Three who created the glory that was Britain's shining dream...and, some say, caused its downfall. The Gaulish nobleman Clothar—known in our time as Lancelot—is drawn to the young High King's court by tales of honor and nobility, where he meets a man whose love of law matches his own. More, he finds in Arthur a life-long friend whose dream of uniting the people of Britain in peace Clothar embraces. And Clothar meets Arthur's queen, a wondrous beauty whose passion and ideals match her husband's. Together they work to bring Arthur's dream to life. But dark forces rise in opposition to Arthur's plans for creating this noble island nation and it is hard to tell friend from foe in the swirling chaos that ensues. Many tales have been told of the dream that shined and died. This one will astonish even the most jaded. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Sky of Stone written by Homer Hickam and published by Dell. This book was released on 2002-10-29 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer Hickam won the praise of critics and the devotion of readers with his first two memoirs set in the hardscrabble mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. The New York Times crowned his first book, the #1 national bestseller October Sky, “an eloquent evocation ... a thoroughly charming memoir.” And People called The Coalwood Way, Hickam’s follow-up to October Sky, “a heartwarmer ... truly beautiful and haunting.” Now Homer Hickam continues his extraordinary story with Sky of Stone, dazzling us with exquisite storytelling as he takes us back to that remarkable small town we first came to know and love in October Sky. In the summer of ‘61, Homer “Sonny” Hickam, a year of college behind him, was dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny could reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother was spending the summer, a telephone call sends him back to the place he thought he had escaped, the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. There, Sonny’s father, the mine’s superintendent, has been accused of negligence in a man’s death—and the townspeople are in conflict over the future of the town. Sonny’s mother, Elsie, has commanded her son to spend the summer in Coalwood to support his father. But within hours, Sonny realizes two things: His father, always cool and distant with his second son, doesn’t want him there ... and his parents’ marriage has begun to unravel. For Sonny, so begins a summer of discovery—of love, betrayal, and most of all, of a brooding mystery that threatens to destroy his father and his town. Cut off from his college funds by his father, Sonny finds himself doing the unimaginable: taking a job as a “track-laying man,” the toughest in the mine. Moving out to live among the miners, Sonny is soon dazzled by a beautiful older woman who wants to be the mine’s first female engineer. And as the days of summer grow shorter, Sonny finds himself changing in surprising ways, taking the first real steps toward adulthood. But it’s a journey he can make only by peering into the mysterious heart of Coalwood itself, and most of all, by unraveling the story of a man’s death and a father’s secret. In Sky of Stone, Homer Hickam looks down the corridors of his past with love, humor, and forgiveness, brilliantly evoking a close-knit community where everyone knows everything about each other’s lives—except the things that matter most. Sky of Stone is a memoir that reads like a novel, mesmerizing us with rich language, narrative drive, and sheer storytelling genius.
Download or read book The Lance Thrower written by Jack Whyte and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this final novel to Whyte's retelling of the Arthurian mythos, readers discover how the most shining court in history was made.
Download or read book The Fort at River s Bend written by Jack Whyte and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fort at River's Bend is the fifth book in Jack Whyte's saga of the creation of King Arthur's Britain Merlyn Britannicus, leader of the colony known as Camulod, is faced with the task of educating his young charge, Arthur, future King of the Britons. Fearing for the life of his nephew when an assassination attempt is thwarted, Merlyn takes Arthur and his boyhood companions Gwin, Ghilleadh, and Bedwyr, to the ruins of a long-abandoned Roman fort far from Camulod. Once there, Merlyn realizes it's time for Arthur to become worthy of the sword he is destined to wield later in his life-the mighty Excalibur. But beyond their idyllic hiding place, forces threaten the tenuous peace of Camulod. In Cambria, the death of Arthur's father Uther has left his people leaderless, and in Cornwall, Merlyn's enemy Peter Ironhair is gathering forces to destroy all Merlyn holds dear. And Merlyn himself is struggling, because in order to make his dream of a united Britain real, he must put the person he loves most in the world in mortal danger-he and Arthur must return to Camulod. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox written by Robert M. Penna and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable guide to the outcome-based tools needed to help nonprofit organizations increase their effectiveness The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox identifies stages in the use of outcomes and shows you how to use specific facets of existing outcome models to improve performance and achieve meaningful results. Going beyond the familiar limits of the sector, this volume also illustrates how tools and approaches long in use in the corporate sector can be of great analytical and practical use to nonprofit, philanthropic, and governmental organizations . An outstanding resource for organizational and program leaders interested in improving performance, there is nothing else like this work currently available. Shows how to identify and set meaningful, sustainable outcomes Illustrates how to track and manage with outcomes Offers guidance in assessing capacity, and using outcome-based communications Features a companion Web site with the tools found in this book Providing the tools and explanations needed to achieve program success, this book is a complete resource for the nonprofit, governmental, or philanthropic professional striving for greater effectiveness in programs or organizations.
