Download or read book The Tree Seekers written by Mike Krath and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-10-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becky Harrington is having a bad day. After discovering a map of their backyard in a mysterious magic book, Becky and her two younger brothers and twin sisters find themselves trapped in a strange land. But before they can go home, they must perform a confusing task: find a tree that doesn't look like a tree, and return it to a place they know nothing about! After Becky becomes separated from her brothers and sisters, she encounters a group of wacky pigs who want her for their queen. And if that's not enough, money-hungry goblins, an egotistical fairy monster, a young man who shivers when it's not cold, and an assortment of animals and oddball characters wait to thwart the children's every move. Will they be able to overcome these obstacles and make it home safely?

Download or read book The Story of the Treasure Seekers written by Edith Nesbit and published by Mint Editions. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899) is a children's novel by English writer Edith Nesbit. The first book in Nesbit's beloved Bastable trilogy--which also includes The Wouldbegoods (1901) and The New Treasure Seekers (1904)--The Story of the Treasure Seekers is a story of family, adventure, and mystery for children and adults alike. The Bastable siblings--Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius--are clever and curious children who live with their widowed father. When their mother died, their father became ill and lost his successful business, forcing the family to live modestly. Inspired by stories of buried gold and jewels--and hoping to help their struggling father--the Bastable children decide to go searching for treasure. Their adventure soon takes them to London, where they abandon digging for the allure of paying work. The Bastables come up with several schemes to make money, including writing poetry, banditry, and starting a newspaper, in the process discovering the power of imagination and the true value of home. The Story of the Treasure Seekers is a masterpiece of children's fiction from Edith Nesbit, one of the twentieth century's children's authors. Originally published as a series of stories in several different periodicals, The Story of the Treasure Seekers was Nesbit's first novel for children. It would go on to influence both Arthur Ransome and C.S. Lewis, and is a favorite of J.K. Rowling's. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Edith Nesbit's The Story of the Treasure Seekers is a classic of English children's literature reimagined for modern readers.

Download or read book Seeker written by Arwen Elys Dayton and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Katniss and Tris would approve.”—TeenVogue.com The night Quin Kincaid takes her Oath, she will become what she has trained to be her entire life. She will become a Seeker. This is her legacy, and it is an honor. As a Seeker, Quin will fight beside her two closest companions, Shinobu and John, to protect the weak and the wronged. Together they will stand for light in a shadowy world. And she'll be with the boy she loves--who's also her best friend. But the night Quin takes her Oath, everything changes. Being a Seeker is not what she thought. Her family is not what she thought. Even the boy she loves is not who she thought. And now it's too late to walk away. "This book will not disappoint."-USAToday.com "Fans of Veronica Roth’s Divergent, Marie Lu’s Legend, and Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games series: your next obsession has arrived."-School Library Journal "In this powerful beginning to a complex family saga...Dayton excels at creating memorable characters."-Publishers Weekly “[A] genre-blending sci-fi, fantasy…[with] action-packed scenes.”—Booklist "Secrets, danger, and romance meet in this unforgettable epic fantasy." —Kami Garcia, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beautiful Creatures & author of Unbreakable "A tightly-woven, action-packed story of survivial and adventure, Seeker is perfect for fans of Game of Thrones." —Tahereh Mafi, author of the New York Times bestselling Shatter Me series

Download or read book Seekers of the Wild Realm written by Alexandra Ott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Bryn's only hope of becoming a Seeker like her father is to help rival Ari train a baby dragon in exchange for sharing his training, but holds many secrets.

Download or read book The Seekers written by BilliJo Doll and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war is over. But the terror isn't. Perils of starvation, marauders, and predators continue. The threat of capture by THE SEEKERS frightens the survivors. Seekers scan the countryside in planes equipped with infra-red scanners. When survivors are located, ground troops seize them. Prisoners of war are put into concentration camps. Peter and the other survivors create a sanctuary in the hills. They learn how to take care of themselves and have fun doing it. But can they figure out how to thwart the Seekers? How will they escape the infra-red scanners? Will they be able to foil the menace of THE SEEKERS?

Download or read book The Perfect Being written by Aziz O-Din Nasafi and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated for the first time from the original Persian into English, these selected treatises from the thirteenth-century work The Perfect Being provide a fascinating glimpse into Sufism. With a helpful introduction and explanatory notes, The Perfect Being is a valuable introduction to classic Islamic texts for spiritual seekers and students.

Download or read book Seeker written by William Nicholson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the Noble Warriors sequence, now in paperback, includes an exclusive interview with the author and a teaser chapter to "Jango," the next book in the sequence.

Download or read book The Seekers written by John Jakes and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Kent leaves Boston to find his destiny on America’s frontier in this saga by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of North and South. Continuing the saga of the Kent family, John Jakes turns his masterful eye to the settlement of the untamed American West. Abraham Kent, the son of Philip Kent and Anne Ware, fought valiantly on the frontier, only to return home to Boston and a life he doesn’t want. Determined not to live in his father’s shadow, Abraham and his young bride join the wave of pioneers carving out farms in the turbulent, dangerous West. But life on the nation’s frontier soon becomes more than their fledgling family can endure. Furthering his reign as the living master of American historical fiction, Jakes unfurls the epic of The Seekers. This ebook features an illustrated biography of John Jakes including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

Download or read book The Seeker written by Sunita PantBansal and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seeker by Sunita Pant Bansal This is the story of a business tycoon, who seems to have it all. Yet something is missing. Throughout his life, he leaves everything that is important to him to seek this something. This happens, not only once but several times in his life. He leaves his family, his business, his Guru. He goes through lifes pleasures, pain, and even penance, but is unable to find what he is seeking. On a parallel track runs the story of his estranged wife, living in another country. They do not communicate with each other, but share a deep bond, an intense chemistry, that somehow strengthens them in their personal quests and binds them together though far apart. There is a parallel drawn between our protagonists life and the Buddhas, through dreams and visions.The story spans a month, starting when Vik, in his perennial restless search, begins to have strange dreamsthey seem to be telling him something, somehow connecting his life to that of Siddharth, the Buddha.

Download or read book The Seeker s Guide written by Elizabeth Lesser and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1977, Elizabeth Lesser cofounded the Omega Institute, now America's largest adult-education center focusing on wellness and spirituality. Working with many of the eminent thinkers of our times, including Zen masters, rabbis, Christian monks, psychologists, scientists, and an array of noted American figures--from L.A. Lakers coach Phil Jackson to author Maya Angelou--Lesser found that by combining a variety of religious, psychological, and healing traditions, each of us has the unique ability to satisfy our spiritual hunger. In The Seeker's Guid, she synthesizes the lessons learned from an immersion into the world's wisdom traditions and intertwines them with illuminating stories from her daily life. Recounting her own trials and errors and offering meditative exercises, she shows the reader how to create a personal practice, gauge one's progress, and choose effective spiritual teachers and habits. Warm, accessible, and wise, this book provides directions through the four landscapes of the spiritual journey: THE MIND: learning meditation to ease stress and anxiety THE HEART: dealing with grief, loss, and pain; opening the heart and becoming fully alive THE BODY: returning the body to the spiritual fold to heal and overcome the fear of aging and death THE SOUL: experiencing daily life as an adventure of meaning and mystery

Download or read book The Truth Seeker written by Dee Henderson and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women are turning up dead, and Lisa O'Malley has a habit of walking into crime scenes, curious. She's a forensic pathologist, and mysteries are her domain. U.S. marshall Quinn Diamond has found loving her is easier than keeping her safe. Lisa's found the killer, and now she's missing too. Introducing the O'Malleys, an inspirational group of seven, all abandoned or orphaned as teens, who have made the choice to become a loyal and committed family. They have chosen their own surname, O'Malley, and have stood by each other through moments of joy and heartache. Their stories are told in CBA best-selling, inspirational romantic suspense novels that rock your heart and restore strength and hope to your spirit.

Download or read book The Seekers written by Daniel J. Boorstin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-10-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From the author of The Discoverers and The Creators, an incomparable history of man's essential questions: "Who are we?" and "Why are we here?" Daniel J. Boorstin, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Americans, introduces us to some of the great pioneering seekers whose faith and thought have for centuries led man's search for meaning. Moses sought truth in God above while Sophocles looked to reason. Thomas More and Machiavelli pursued truth through social change. And in the modern age, Marx and Einstein found meaning in the sciences. In this epic intellectual adventure story, Boorstin follows the great seekers from the heroic age of prophets and philosophers to the present age of skepticism as they grapple with the great questions that have always challenged man.

Download or read book Hide and Seeker written by Daka Hermon and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most iconic childhood games receives a creepy twist as it becomes the gateway to a nightmare world. Don't let the Seeker find you!Twelve-year-old Zee is back now. He disappeared for a year and nobody knows where he went or what happened to him. Not even his best friends Justin, Nia, and Lyric. But ever since Zee has been back, he's been... different. After Zee freaks out at his friends playing hide-and-seek at an odd party in his backyard -- the first time his friends are back together since his reappearance -- strange things begin to occur. Everyone who played in the game has a mark on their wrist. And then they disappear.The kids are pulled into a shadow world -- the Nowhere -- ruled by the monstrous, shape-shifting Seeker. Justin and his friends will have to band together and face their worst nightmares to defeat the Seeker or lose themselves to the Nowhere forever.

Download or read book Seeker written by Jim Crawford and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small boy is abandoned into great peril under a great city. The 7aEUR"yearaEUR"old feral boy is captured by a criminal childaEUR"seller. He is involved in a traffic accident where he is misidentified as a privileged person and is given expensive medical care. When it is discovered that he does not deserve the treatment, he is "Debt Bonded" into an international military antiaEUR"terrorist force. He matures and becomes a famous warrior. The warrior goes into a violent combat assignment and is injured by a land mine which amputates both of his legs. The protagonist is used in the lunar orbit construction of the first spaceship ever launched from Earth. His great skill and luck causes him to be kidnapped and to be included in the chemicalaEUR"preserved crew of the spaceship. Many years later the spaceship Seeker is attracted to an unaEUR"named planet. The protagonist is awakened and manages to safely land the spaceship which was never meant to land by highlyaEUR"improbable means. The protagonist wakes the crew and defends the ship's invasion by huge insects. The protagonist is altered by the bugs, his missing legs are replaced and his immortal body is greatly modified. The protagonist is confronted by a planetary computer which had remained hidden in fear. The MegaComputer relates a history of the races killed on the planet. The computer controls the entire planet and gives a ring of preserved orbiting spaceships to the Seeker crew. The preserved spaceships in orbit are used in two separate fleets of 1440 connected ships, one to resettle the vacant planets of the dead sentients and the second to rescue the population of Earth for resettlement on new planets. The protagonist and all Seekers are cloned to 3500 clones by the computer to man the 2880 spaceships. The protagonist and the computer discovers the computer data representing 32 species of sentient beings and the method of their revival of each of them. The oldest race recorded the physical and mental computer data before a fatal ray killed all sentient life on the planet. The protagonist and the computer awake a percentage of the "dead" sentients for spaceship crews. After a long return flight, the protagonist finds that the glacial Earth is poisoned by radiation and all the few remaining people must be cloned to safely leave Earth. The protagonist has succeeded in the revival of the murdered species and the resettlement of the known Universe and great explorations. The protagonist has rescued the glacial and radioactive Earth. The protagonist has conquered death, distance, time and the future. The book pauses before the following books concerning the details and adventures of particular selected subjects. If you believe that one picture is worth a thousand words, you must also believe that it takes a thousand words to make a picture!

Download or read book The Seeker s Guide to The Secret Teachings of All Ages written by Mitch Horowitz and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A KEY TO THE MYSTERIES No other book in history has done more to clarify the Esoteric, mystical, and occult traditions of the world than Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Now, historian Mitch Horowitz provides the first companion work to Hall’s opus. The Secret Teachings of All Ages helps twenty=first-century readers enter and experience (or re-experience) Hall’s hallowed pages and also clarifies and expands on some of the book’s key themes and topics. Mitch explores developments and historical discoveries since hall published his “Great Book” nearly a century ago and adds fresh dimensions to subjects including: The antiquity and legacy of Ancient Egypt. The mystical origins of the world’s major faiths. Strange beasts and anomalies in history and today. The origins and esotericism of Tarot. Secret Societies in Myth and Fact. The enduring relevance of astrology. Authorized by Manly P. Hall’s Philosophical Research Society, The Secret Teachings of All Ages is a feast of esoteric exploration on its own and a worthy companion to history’s unparalleled encyclopedia arcana. “Mitch is a fantastic tour guide to the fringes of reason, high weirdness, deep esoterica, secret societies, and mystery religions.” –BoingBoing “Has the rare gift of making the esoteric accessible to discerning masses.” –HuffPost

Download or read book The Seeker written by Harry Leon Wilson and published by Musson Book Company. This book was released on 1904 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Truth Seeker written by Scarlet B. Rose and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-12-22 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siblings Gabrielle and Michael are taken on an adventure of a lifetime as they go in search of artefacts and truth. On their adventure, they meet some very unlikely companions and lifelong friends, as well as foes. Gabrielles journey will take her on a dangerous path, one of self-discovery and pain, love and loss. With a path already chosen for her, can she fight fate and destiny, or will she be doomed by her prophecy?