Download or read book The Sword and the Sunrise written by Val Saintcrowe and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's not a virgin sacrifice. Every fall a girl is given to Sir Eithan Draig, who leads the Knights of Midian. He and his men keep the nightmares back. The knights prowl the dark forest, more monsters than men, swathed in darkness, their eyes like pale lanterns. The girl is called a bride, but whatever Eithan does with her, she doesn't survive to see the next dawn. So, truly, she's a sacrifice. This year, the bride is Nicce, but she's no helpless victim. She has been prepared for this moment, consecrated to the sun, trained to fight with magic and with weapons. The guild of assassins who taught her don't believe in the nightmares. The real menace is Eithan himself, they say, and Nicce must kill him. Two seconds inside the dark forest, it becomes viciously and horrifyingly clear the guild are wrong about the nightmares. They are real. And so now, Nicce waits for Eithan to claim her. If she kills him, who holds back the nightmares? That terror cannot be let free. Everything she was sure of is in shambles. She only knows one thing. No matter what, tomorrow, she will see the sunrise. Read this book if you like complicated characters who do the wrong things for the right reasons, high stakes, near impossible odds, and smoldering fuses of slow burn hate-to-love arcs.
Download or read book The Sword and the Sunrise written by Val Saintcrowe and published by Punk Rawk Books. This book was released on with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of The Wrath and the Dawn and From Blood and Ash Every year, a virgin weds a monster. By the next sunrise, he bleeds her dry. This year, the virgin bride is Nicce Ward, but she’s no helpless victim. She has been prepared for this moment, consecrated to the sun, trained to fight with magic and with weapons. She must kill the monster, Sir Eithan Draig, and free the land of the scourge of his twisted desire. Eithan Draig knows the sacrifices are necessary. He knows that if the girls don’t bleed, there will be carnage: throats ripped out and children slaughtered, and every single death will be on his conscience. So, every year, he does his duty. But this year… this girl… A hundred years, a hundred sacrifices, and not one has ever fought back. He’s never wanted a girl like he wants this one. He’s never wanted two things so fiercely at once. Both to let her go free. And to taste her blood. Read this complete enemies-to-lovers epic fantasy trilogy—a slow burn romance with eventual steam.
Download or read book Deadweather and Sunrise written by Geoff Rodkey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning middle-grade debut--full of heart, humor, and nonstop action It's tough to be thirteen, especially when somebody's trying to kill you. Not that Egg's life was ever easy, growing up on sweaty, pirate-infested Deadweather Island with no company except an incompetent tutor and a pair of unusually violent siblings who hate his guts. But when Egg's father hustles their family off on a mysterious errand to fabulously wealthy Sunrise Island, then disappears with the siblings in a freak accident, Egg finds himself a long-term guest at the mansion of the glamorous Pembroke family and their beautiful, sharp-tongued daughter Millicent. Finally, life seems perfect. Until someone tries to throw him off a cliff. Suddenly, Egg's running for his life in a bewildering world of cutthroat pirates, villainous businessmen, and strange Native legends. The only people who can help him sort out the mystery of why he's been marked for death are Millicent and a one-handed, possibly deranged cabin boy. Come along for the ride. You'll be glad you did.
Download or read book Sword at Sunrise written by Alan Evans and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Waiting for Sunrise written by William Boyd and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERVienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately drawn to her, unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent affair will be. One year later, home in London, Lysander finds himself entangled in the dangerous web of wartime intelligence - a world of sex, scandal and spies that is slowly, steadily, permeating every corner of his life...
Download or read book The Sunrise Lands written by S. M. Stirling and published by ROC Hardcover. This book was released on 2007 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in a new trilogy, this book continues the successful alternate history saga of "A Meeting at Corvallis, The Protectors War," and "Dies the Fire," all of which have been selections of the Science Fiction Book Club.
Download or read book Assault on Sunrise written by Michael Shea and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Less than a hundred years in the future, pollution, economic disaster, and the rapacious greed of the corporate oligarchy has brought America to its knees and created dystopian urban nightmares, of which L.A. may be the worst. Curtis, Japh, and Jool are film extras, who—with the help of a couple of very gutsy women—survived being anonymous players in a "live-action" film in which getting killed on-screen meant getting killed for real. Surviving the shoot made them rich enough to escape the post-apocalyptic Hell that L.A. has become. But their survival was not what Panoply Studios' CEO Val Margolian had in mind, especially since it cost his company millions. Now he's taking his revenge. After several plainclothes police are found dead in the former extras' new home, the bucolic, peaceful town of Sunrise, California, the entire town is subjected to Margolian's invidious plan to punish the entire town...and make a fortune doing it. Margolian has created toxic, murderous wasp-like mechanical creatures to set upon the people of Sunrise, while his film crew captures the carnage in what promises to be the bloodiest "live-action" film yet. With their haven from L.A. besieged by the deadly assault, the former extras—and their fellow townspeople—are faced with a grim task: to defeat the creatures and take back their town and their freedom. Michael Shea's Assault on Sunrise is a saga of courage and sacrifice in a world gone mad. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Iron Sunrise written by Charles Stross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Stross] has the ability to superimpose an intriguing take on contemporary events over an imaginative story peopled by bizarre characters.” – The Kansas City Star A G2 star doesn’t just explode—not without outside interference. So the survivors of the planet Moscow, which was annihilated in just such an event, have launched a counterattack against the most likely culprit: the neighboring system of New Dresden. But New Dresden wasn’t responsible, and as the deadly missiles approach their target, Rachel Mansour, agent for the interests of Old Earth, is assigned to find out who was. Opposing her is an unknown—and unimaginable—enemy. At stake is not only the fate of New Dresden but also the very order of the universe. And the one person who knows the identity of that enemy is a disaffected teenager who calls herself Wednesday Shadowmist. But Wednesday has no idea what she knows…
Download or read book The Sword the Garden and the King written by Michael Phillips and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Christian fantasy novel for children of all ages, a young boy embarks on a perilous adventure to save the creatures of a magical forest. When fourteen-year-old Matthew Robinson enters the Forest of Pellanor, he and his brother and sister have no idea what’s in store for them. All of Pellanor has been waiting for them to rescue its creatures from a danger that threatens the forest families and the life they have known. But to defeat the evil deceiver Argon, Matthew must first master his courage—and his faith. Noted devotional author Michael Phillips delivers a delightfully engaging Christian allegory in the tradition of George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis.
Download or read book The Book of Swords written by George R. R. Martin and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New epic fantasy in the grand tradition—including a never-before-published Song of Ice and Fire story by George R. R. Martin! Fantasy fiction has produced some of the most unforgettable heroes ever conjured onto the page: Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian, Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melniboné, Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Classic characters like these made sword and sorcery a storytelling sensation, a cornerstone of fantasy fiction—and an inspiration for a new generation of writers, spinning their own outsize tales of magic and swashbuckling adventure. Now, in The Book of Swords, acclaimed editor and bestselling author Gardner Dozois presents an all-new anthology of original epic tales by a stellar cast of award-winning modern masters—many of them set in their authors’ best-loved worlds. Join today’s finest tellers of fantastic tales, including George R. R. Martin, K. J. Parker, Robin Hobb, Scott Lynch, Ken Liu, C. J. Cherryh, Daniel Abraham, Lavie Tidhar, Ellen Kushner, and more on action-packed journeys into the outer realms of dark enchantment and intrepid derring-do, featuring a stunning assortment of fearless swordsmen and warrior women who face down danger and death at every turn with courage, cunning, and cold steel. FEATURING SIXTEEN ALL-NEW STORIES: “The Best Man Wins” by K. J. Parker “Her Father’s Sword” by Robin Hobb “The Hidden Girl” by Ken Liu “The Sword of Destiny” by Matthew Hughes “‘I Am a Handsome Man,’ Said Apollo Crow” by Kate Elliott “The Triumph of Virtue” by Walter Jon Williams “The Mocking Tower” by Daniel Abraham “Hrunting” by C. J. Cherryh “A Long, Cold Trail” by Garth Nix “When I Was a Highwayman” by Ellen Kushner “The Smoke of Gold Is Glory” by Scott Lynch “The Colgrid Conundrum” by Rich Larson “The King’s Evil” by Elizabeth Bear “Waterfalling” by Lavie Tidhar “The Sword Tyraste” by Cecelia Holland “The Sons of the Dragon” by George R. R. Martin And an introduction by Gardner Dozois “When fine writer and expert editor [Gardner] Dozois beckons, authors deliver—and this surely will be one of the year’s essential anthologies.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Download or read book By the Sword written by Richard Cohen and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2003-08-05 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Like swordplay itself, By the Sword is elegant, accurate, romantic, and full of brio—the definitive study, hugely readable, of man’s most deadly art.”—Simon Winchester With a new Preface by the author Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President Truman, who as a schoolboy would practice fencing with Bess—his future wife— when the two of them returned home from school. Lincoln was a canny dueler. Ignatius Loyola challenged a man to a duel for denying Christ’s divinity (and won). Less successful, but no less enthusiastic, was Mussolini, who would tell his wife he was “off to get spaghetti,” their code to avoid alarming the children. By the Sword is an epic history of sword fighting—a science, an art, and, for many, a religion that began at the dawn of civilization in ancient Egypt and has been an obsession for mankind ever since. With wit and insight, Richard Cohen gives us an engrossing history of the world via the sword. Praise for By the Sword “Touché! While scrupulous and informed about its subject, Richard Cohen’s book is about more than swordplay. It reads at times like an alternative social history of the West.”—Sebastian Faulks “In writing By the Sword, [Cohen] has shown that he is as skilled with the pen as he is with the sword.”—The New York Times “Irresistible . . . extraordinary . . . vivid and hugely enjoyable.”—The Economist “A virtual encyclopedia on the subject of sword fighting.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Literate, learned, and, beg pardon, razor-sharp . . . a pleasure for practitioners, and a rewarding entertainment for the armchair swashbuckler.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Download or read book The Staff and The Sword written by T. K. Kohl and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of the jungles of Peru, an earthquake exposes a building deep within a crack in the earth. World-renowned archeologist Dr. Henry Jedidiah is asked to take his team into Peru. They discover ancient scrolls and tablets, which propel the Jedidiah family onto a path toward an artifact stolen thousands of years ago, to protect the world. Throwing caution to the wind, they ignore all the warnings written in the scrolls and tablets. Believing the warnings are nothing but superstitions, the Jedidiah family are compelled to find this artifact. Upon finding it, one man is propelled to great power, while all life on earth—plant, animal, and mankind—is being destroyed. The Jedidiah family must race against time, searching the scrolls and tablets to find the answer, to find the one who can save the world before it’s too late…but they make unexpected discoveries instead. With nothing left, the Jedidiah family must trust the staff and the sword. This vivid, richly character-driven epic adventure will keep you on the edge of your seat!
Download or read book Quest of the Staff and the Sword written by T. K. Kohl and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of the jungles of Peru, an earthquake exposes a building deep within a crack in the earth. World-renowned archaeologist Dr. Henry Jedidiah is asked to take his team into Peru. They discover ancient scrolls and tablets, which propel the Jedidiah family onto a path towards an artifact stolen thousands of years ago, to protect the world. Throwing caution to the wind, they ignore all the warnings written in the scrolls and tablets. Believing the warnings are nothing but superstitions, the Jedidiah family are compelled to find this artifact. Upon finding it, one man is propelled to great power, while all life on earth-plant, animal, and mankind-is being destroyed. The Jedidiah family must race against time, searching the scrolls and tablets to find the answer, to find the one who can save this world before it's too late.... but they make unexpected discoveries instead. With nothing left, the Jedidiah family must join the quest of the staff and the sword. This vivid, richly character-driven epic adventure will keep you on the edge of your seat!
Download or read book Sword at Sunrise written by Alan Evans and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of D-Day.
Download or read book Silver on the Tree written by Susan Cooper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six champions of the Light join forces at last to fight the Dark in this fifth and final installment of Susan Cooper’s epic and award-winning The Dark Is Rising sequence, now with a brand-new look! The last great battle between the Light and the Dark has arrived, engulfing Will Stanton; his ageless master, Merriman; the three heroic Drew children; and Bran, the Welsh boy whose destiny is tied to the Light. On a quest through time and space that touches the most ancient myths of the islands of Britain, the six heroes fight fear and death in the darkly brooding mountains of Wales. And in the haunting Lost Land, Will and Bran find dream and nightmare, but also achieve the final talisman against the Dark: the crystal sword. In the dreadful last moment when the Dark rises, all the servants of the Light join to combine the powers of the sword and the six ancient signs. But even with the Signs on their side, can Light prevail?
Download or read book Quest of the Staff and the Sword III written by T. K. Kohl and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting third installment of the epic adventure of the Quest of the Staff and the Sword, millions of half-dead soldiers, whom Luke raised from the dead, ensure that Luke's power will grow, with seemingly no one to stop him. But suddenly, a mysterious stranger steps out of the shadows...Has Luke met his true match? T. K. Kohl is as much reader as he is the author of Quest of the Staff and the Sword III: The Dark Kingdom, hoping that his enjoyment writing this saga for young adults comes through to readers. As Luke draws on ancient secrets hidden in a tower to help him establish his places as Dark Lord, readers will feel the darkness of Quest of the Staff and the Sword III around them, but also the light of hope along the way.
Download or read book The Shadow Rising written by Robert Jordan and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 943 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine! In The Shadow Rising, the fourth novel in Robert Jordan’s #1 New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time®, Rand al’Thor now wields the sword Callandor. He is both the Champion of Light and the Dragon Reborn. Now, he seeks answers to another prophecy that lies with the warrior people known as the Aiel to put him on the path of learning how to wield the One Power. Accompanied by Moiraine Damodred, Rand arrives at the Aiel Waste and is granted permission by the Wise Ones to enter the sacred city of Rhuidean. After passing through a doorframe ter'angreal, Moiraine gains foresight while the Aiel await Rand's return, either with both arms marked by dragon symbols, validating his identity as He Who Comes With the Dawn, the Chief of Chiefs of all the Aiel—or to never emerge at all. Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The last six books in series were all instant #1 New York Times bestsellers, and The Eye of the World was named one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. The Wheel of Time® New Spring: The Novel #1 The Eye of the World #2 The Great Hunt #3 The Dragon Reborn #4 The Shadow Rising #5 The Fires of Heaven #6 Lord of Chaos #7 A Crown of Swords #8 The Path of Daggers #9 Winter's Heart #10 Crossroads of Twilight #11 Knife of Dreams By Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson #12 The Gathering Storm #13 Towers of Midnight #14 A Memory of Light By Robert Jordan and Teresa Patterson The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time By Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, and Maria Simons The Wheel of Time Companion By Robert Jordan and Amy Romanczuk Patterns of the Wheel: Coloring Art Based on Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
