Download or read book The Thief Who Pulled On Trouble s Braids written by Michael McClung and published by Michael McClung. This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Winner of Mark Lawrence's SPFBO (2016)* Amra Thetys lives by two simple rules—take care of business, and never let it get personal. Thieves don't last long in Lucernis otherwise. But when a fellow rogue and good friend is butchered on the street in a deal gone wrong, she turns her back on burglary and goes after something more precious than treasure: Revenge. Revenge, however, might be hard to come by. A nightmare assortment of enemies, including an immortal assassin and a mad sorcerer, believe Amra is in possession of The Blade That Whispers Hate—the legendary, powerful artifact her friend was murdered for—and they'll do anything to take it from her. Trouble is, Amra hasn't got the least clue where the Blade might be. She needs to find the Blade, and soon, or she'll be joining her colleague in a cold grave instead of avenging his death. Time is running out for the small, scarred thief. "McClung has an impressive ability to write compelling characters and a fast paced and action packed plot that never seems to let up." -Speculative Book Review

Download or read book The Thief Who Knocked on Sorrow s Gate written by Michael McClung and published by Michael McClung. This book was released on 2015 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After surviving Thagoth and returning rich to Lucernis, Amra and Holgren have settled down to a very comfortable, if decidedly unexciting life--until the night Amra receives an old enemy's head in a box. A longstanding debt calls her back home to Bellarius, the scene of many childhood horrors she would much rather forget about. Yet, as bad as memories of the past might be, present-day Bellarius is rapidly becoming worse, for the Eightfold Goddess has not forgotten about Amra, and another of Her Blades, the Knife that Parts the Night, has been discovered and threatens to tear the very fabric of reality apart. All that stands in the way of utter destruction is one small, scarred thief and her mage companion. The Thief Who Knocked on Sorrow's Gate is the third volume in Michael McClung's Amra Thetys series.

Download or read book The Thief Who Spat in Luck s Good Eye written by Michael McClung and published by Michael McClung. This book was released on 2011-08-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 in the 'Amra' sword & sorcery fantasy series: Amra is a thief with morals—she won’t steal from anyone poorer than she is. Fortunately, anybody that poor generally doesn’t have much worth stealing! Holgren is a mage with a distaste for magic and a soul bartered away to dark powers. Together they embark on a quest for the fabled city of Thagoth, where the secret of immortality is rumored to be hidden. But Amra and Holgren aren’t the only ones after the secret. Many others seek to utilize the hidden magic for their own twisted ends. And waiting in the ruined city with dark plans for the world are the twin gods Tha-Agoth and Athagos, a brother and sister whose illicit passion is as destructive and vengeful as they are. Now, as potent sorceries clash in a violent struggle for dominion over all that lives, Amra and Holgren face a choice between the unthinkable and the unbearable—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. . . . (Originally published by Random House under the title 'Thagoth', 'The Thief Who Spat In Luck's Good Eye' was the 2002 Del Rey Digital first novel competition winner.) "McClung has an impressive ability to write compelling characters and a fast paced and action packed plot that never seems to let up." -Speculative Book Review

Download or read book Prayers in Steel written by Michael McClung and published by Michael McClung. This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am a wheel whose edge is death. This is the mantra that Andines are taught from their first day as novices. Their swords are their souls, and their patron saint, Andos, was the living embodiment of their tenets - Protect the helpless. Obey the emperor in Axumwiste. Pray for guidance in times of peace, and pray with steel in times of strife. A time of strife has come once more. Brother Caida is sent on a quest to rescue a princess kidnapped by bandits en route to her wedding. Armed with a great sword and armored in his faith, Caida soon finds both tested beyond endurance - for nothing is as it seems, and it is the world that needs to be rescued from the princess, not the princess from anything or any one. And waiting in the darkness, behind stolen faces, are the skin walkers - an ancient evil long thought banished from the world of men...

Download or read book The Soul Thief written by Madeline Te Whiu and published by New Dawn Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A VENGEFUL QUEEN. A SOUL-TETHERED BOND. A NEW EVIL RISING. Telium's greatest mistake has cost her more than she can bear. With the revered King of Thresiel dead, the fragile balance between kingdoms is crumbling, and she may be too broken to stop it. Now, the mission she lost everything to prevent is resurging. Her traitorous lover is gone, and someone far more menacing has stepped in to take his place. Forced before an unforgiving Queen to pay for her crimes, Telium is ordered to stop the rising rebellion. With her soul bonded to another, Telium faces a world of corruption, fickle gods and well-buried secrets. She must bargain with her life to protect her people, whatever the cost. In the thrilling second instalment, Madeline Te Whiu returns us to a world of heartbreak, deadly power and treacherous betrayal.

Download or read book The Good Thief written by Hannah Tinti and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist, The Good Thief introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction and ratifies Hannah Tinti as one of our most exciting new talents. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle • Kirkus Reviews Winner of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and an American Library Association Alex Award Twelve year-old Ren is missing his left hand. How it was lost is a mystery that Ren has been trying to solve for his entire life, as well as who his parents are, and why he was abandoned as an infant at Saint Anthony’s Orphanage for boys. He longs for a family to call his own and is terrified of the day he will be sent alone into the world. But then a young man named Benjamin Nab appears, claiming to be Ren’s long-lost brother, and his convincing tale of how Ren lost his hand and his parents persuades the monks at the orphanage to release the boy and to give Ren some hope. But is Benjamin really who he says he is? Journeying through a New England of whaling towns and meadowed farmlands, Ren is introduced to a vibrant world of hardscrabble adventure filled with outrageous scam artists, grave robbers, and petty thieves. If he stays, Ren becomes one of them. If he goes, he’s lost once again. As Ren begins to find clues to his hidden parentage he comes to suspect that Benjamin not only holds the key to his future, but to his past as well. Praise for The Good Thief "Every once in a while—if you are very lucky—you come upon a novel so marvelous and enchanting and rare that you wish everyone in the world would read it, as well. The Good Thief is just such a book—a beautifully composed work of literary magic."—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love "Darkly transporting . . . [In] The Good Thief, the reader can find plain-spoken fiction full of traditional virtues: strong plotting, pure lucidity, visceral momentum and a total absence of writerly mannerisms. In Ms. Tinti’s case that means an American Dickensian tale with touches of Harry Potterish whimsy, along with a macabre streak of spooky New England history."—New York Times

Download or read book Family Secrets written by Shawn McGuire and published by Brown Bag Books. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Whispering Pines, Wisconsin. A place for those who don’t belong. Sixteen years after a family feud drove her from the cozy Northwoods village of Whispering Pines, Wisconsin, former detective Jayne O'Shea returns to prepare her grandparents' lake house for sale. Once there, not only does she find that the house has been trashed, her dog discovers a dead body in the backyard. Jayne intends to stay out of it, but when it becomes obvious the sheriff isn't interested in investigating the death, Jayne can't stop herself. Her list of suspects grows faster than the plants in the commons' pentacle garden. Could it be the local Wiccan green witch with her stash of deadly plants? The shopkeeper who slips into trances and foretells death? The visitor determined to practice black magic? What Jayne knows for sure is that the closer she gets to solving this crime, the more the sheriff wants her to back off. And when a local fortune teller provides a crucial clue, Jayne knows it's up to her to solve this murder.

Download or read book Not at All Russian Collection for Kids written by Various authors and published by TSK Group LLC. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth and final installment of Russian Collection for Kids goes well and truly outside of the boundaries of Russia and all over the world. Folk tales and stories by foreign authors, narratives from various continents, fanciful and fascinating storylines, people, places, and animals - everything has been thrown in and mixed thoroughly in this comprehensive collection, bound to astonish and delight both children and grownups. This collection includes the following works: Golden Hair by Pavel Bazhov, Russia A Living Man in the Kingdom of the Dead - Nepal Folk Tale A Thief and a Sorcerer - Angola Folk Tale The Blue Beard by Charles Perrault, France A Man from a Jug - Japanese Folk Tale A Magical Peacock - Indian Folk Tale Beloved Sister by Astrid Lindgren, Sweden A Hawk and a Cat - Egyptian Folk Tale Where Tides Come From - Indonesian Folk Tale A Christmas Guest by Selma Lagerlief, Sweden The Spirit of Poverty by Myoko Matsutani, Japan Two Neighbors - Khmer Folk Tale Three Brothers - Tanzanian Folk Tale Sirenide by Gianni Rodari, Italy How a Badger Turned into a Teapot by Myoko Matsutani, Japan Aoolva Ulvhildur - Icelandic Folk Tale Faralahi, the Wealthy Heir - Madagascar Folk Tale A Gardener and His Masters by Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark Miss Universe with Dark-Green Eyes by Gianni Rodari, Italy A Clever Girl - Albanian Folk Tale Strawberries under the Snow - Japanese Folk Tale Ricke the Crest by Charles Perrault, France A Golden Turtle - Laotian Folk Tale Vermland Legend by Selma Lagerlief, Sweden Cotton - Iranian Folk Tale A Smart Woman - Tajik Folk Tale A Thistle's Fate by Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark

Download or read book Frank Leslie s Pleasant Hours written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Tale of Tales written by Giambattista Basile and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking, bawdy collection of 50 fairy tales told by 10 storytellers over five days follows the compilation efforts of 17th-century Italian poet Giambattista Basile and traces the experiences of a cursed princess who would win back her betrothed.

Download or read book The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan written by Thomas Dixon and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas DixonA Pair of Blue Eyes was the third of Hardy’s novels to be published and the first to be serialised, running in Tinsleys’ Magazine from the September of 1872 until the July of the following year. It appeared in three-volume form in May 1873, a year after the publication of Under the Greenwood Tree. It is essentially a love-story. Elfride Swancourt, the blue-eyed heroine, lives with her widowed father, a clergyman, in a remote Cornish village. She is wooed successively by Stephen Smith, a young architect of humble birth, and Henry Knight, a successful man of letters, once a mentor to Stephen. In appearance, character and situation Elfride obviously has much in common with the young Emma Gifford, who was to become Hardy’s wife. The circumstances in which she and Smith meet recapitulate pretty exactly Emma’s first encounter with her future husband, when he came to Cornwall in March, 1870, on a church restoration project. In his Life, however, Hardy plays down the correspondences between himself and Smith, claiming that at the relevant time he had been closer in age and character to Knight.

Download or read book Riverdale 4 Death of a Cheerleader written by Micol Ostow and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betty and Veronica's cheerleading retreat with the River Vixens was supposed to be fun – not deadly. Betty, Veronica, Cheryl and the rest of the River Vixens are heading out of town for the weekend on a cheerleading retreat. So Archie, Jughead and the rest of the guys decide to have a poker night at La Bonne Nuit. But a storm causes the power to go out, and the speakeasy goes into lockdown. When the lights come back on, all of the cash is gone. The thief has to be someone the guys know – but who? A few hours away, the River Vixens are ready to enjoy a few days of nature and team bonding. But when they arrive at the cheerleading camp, there are two other feuding squads already there. The team from Stonewall Prep claims that the Greendale girls are the reason one of their teammates went missing two years ago. Betty and Veronica volunteer to investigate, but then creepy things start happening all over camp. And when one of the cheerleaders nearly drowns in the lake, B&V know they have to find out the truth before anyone else gets hurt – or worse. This original Riverdale novel features a story not seen on the show!

Download or read book Echoes of Bellek written by Morrigan Gaines and published by Morrigan Gaines. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory is a gift. It's also a curse. When Cyrus Arbritrem refuses to marry the crown princess of Osmaria, his father disowns him. He is cast out into the world, plagued by loneliness and memories of his troubled childhood. He’s becoming the man he never intended to be, finding solace in drugs and alcohol. His life is spiraling out of control. It's only a matter of time before he gets caught up in another dangerous situation - one that may cost him everything. Tessa, a fiery woman with a passion for flowers, lights the spark of hope for a better future in his heart. She holds tight to her own secrets as she cares for her ailing father. Secrets that may threaten their budding relationship. Cyrus grasps his second chance, determined to move beyond the memories that haunt his nightmares. His chance at happiness is within reach, but a darkness is rising that desires the power Cyrus doesn’t know he possesses. Will he survive to shine brightly, or will the darkness destroy him?

Download or read book Giambattista Basile s The Tale of Tales Or Entertainment for Little Ones written by Giambattista Basile and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first unabridged English translation taken directly from Basile's monumental Lo cunto de li cunti (1634-1636), this edition is fully annotated and illustrated, with an extensive bibliography.

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Download or read book Luminous written by Greg Egan and published by Greg Egan. This book was released on 1998-08-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luminous is a collection of ten stories: “Chaff” “Mitochondrial Eve” “Luminous” “Mister Volition” “Cocoon” “Transition Dreams” “Silver Fire” “Reasons to Be Cheerful” “Our Lady of Chernobyl” “The Planck Dive”

Download or read book Youth s Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: