Download or read book The Templar Magician Templars Book 2 written by Paul Doherty and published by Headline. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man's dangerous ambition undermines the Templar Order from within... The Templar Magician is the second novel in Paul Doherty's brilliant series featuring the mysterious Templar Order. Perfect for fans of Michael Jecks and Robin Hobb. The year is 1152, and Jerusalem is still in the hands of the Crusaders, although the lofty ideals of before have now been replaced by subtle power-play. Meanwhile, in England, King Stephen is waging bloody war against Henry Fitzempress. The Templar Order, now fifty years old, is a wealthy power, glittering with tempting riches. Against this background of bloodshed, Robert de Payens, grandson of Eleanor, one of the co-founders of the Temple, and Englishman Edward Sendal find themselves caught up in a murder mystery when Raymond, Count of Tripoli, is brutally assassinated. Who would have wanted to murder Raymond, and is it possible that the answer may lie within the hallowed ranks of the Templar order itself? What readers are saying about the Templar series: 'A masterful work of history-based fiction' 'A fun book and a good bit of light escapism' 'A page turner'

Download or read book Superhuman 1 written by Thierry Kouam and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the planet of Manitoba, the Queen Mother can cure people, perform miracles, and prevent curses. At her side is Hector, a messenger with the power to protect and save the planet from danger. The inhabitants of Manitoba adore, respect, and believe everything Lord Hector says, just as they do the Queen Mother. But one day when he unexpectedly announces a blessing meeting to proclaim an important change, everything transforms. Superhuman is a thirteen-year-old magician who receives messages through the palm of his hand. Through the messages, he has learned that Manitoba and its inhabitants are in grave danger, and that there is a wizard boy who wants to find Luna, a witch girl who holds the energy that fuels Superhumans magic. Even worse, the wizard boy wants to destroy Manitoba, with help from Hector. After Superhuman discovers his magic is linked to Luna, he sets out to find her. When he finally locates Luna and rescues her from a horrible fate, she helps him battle Hector and the wizard boy. But will it be enough to stop them from carrying out their diabolical plan or will Manitoba be destroyed forever? In this exciting tale, a young magician embarks on a courageous quest to save his planet from a wizard boy determined to destroy it.

Download or read book A Magician s Tour Up and Down and Round about the Earth written by Harry Kellar and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Squirrel in a Cage Magicians Part One written by Kateryna Dyachenko and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sphere of troubleshooting is hidden from a society. I havent seen them revealing their secrets. But with the permission of magicians, I am lifting the veil over their world. Its good when a person lives his or her own life, they explained to me. The present book unveils just the first upper layer of the basis. In the books to come, I will describe the next stages. I was trained in the art of problem solving my own issues. It was one of the conditions that troubleshooters set before me: not to think for me. And now I am already one of thema magician.

Download or read book Jessie Grean A psychological young adult thriller written by JG Foster and published by Escape and Discover. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the gritty streets of Boston, sixteen-year-old Jessie Grean knows little beyond a life of relentless bullying and searing pain. But a glimmer of hope emerges when she escapes to the vibrant city of Cambridge, leaving behind a turbulent home. In her despair, an unexpected mentor steps into Jessie's life. Sam, the school counselor, holds a mysterious past of magic, illusions, and the art of mentalism. Could the stage be Jessie's portal to a better life? Eager to break free from her torment, she dives headfirst into this new world. Sam isn't just a mentor; he's the first kind soul Jessie's ever encountered. His teachings unveil a wellspring of hope within her, igniting a journey of self-discovery, growth, and healing. But as Jessie grapples with her newfound abilities, she's confronted with daunting choices. Balancing morality against convenience proves to be her most formidable challenge. Then, a turn of events sends Jessie's world spiraling into chaos. This gripping young adult thriller follows Jessie Grean, a resilient black protagonist, as she navigates a treacherous path toward empowerment and redemption. The story is a raw and unflinching portrayal of a runaway's struggle for identity and purpose. Don't miss out on Jessie Grean's compelling coming-of-age tale, a psychological young adult book that speaks to the hearts of us all and a twist you didn't expect. Dive into the contemporary young adult novel and be prepared to be captivated from the very first page.

Download or read book Wild Magic written by Tamora Pierce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a land of enchantment, legend, and adventure in this first book of the Immortals series, featuring an updated cover for longtime fans and fresh converts alike, and including an all-new afterword from Tamora Pierce. Thirteen-year-old Daine has always had a special connection with animals, but only when she’s forced to leave home does she realize it’s more than a knack—it’s magic. With this wild magic, not only can Daine speak to animals, but she can also make them obey her. Daine takes a job handling horses for the Queen’s Riders, where she meets the master mage Numair and becomes his student. Under Numair’s guidance, Daine explores the scope of her magic. But she encounters other beings, too, who are not so gentle. These terrifying creatures, called Immortals, have been imprisoned in the Divine Realms for the past four hundred years—but now someone has broken the barrier. And it’s up to Daine and her friends to defend their world from an Immortal attack.

Download or read book The Redemption of Mrydin written by Helen June Marley and published by Helen June Marley. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story tells of the ancient figure of Mrydin who has been waiting for an opportunity to finally redeem himself. Set in Wales and England with a group of 6th Century warriors, a vengeful enchantress and race to find the bones of Gweynfar, this story will take you on journey from the past to the present.

Download or read book Fear and Primordial Trust written by Monika Renz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fear and Primordial Trust explores fear as an existential phenomenon and how it can be overcome. Illustrated by clinical examples from the author’s practice as a psychotherapist and spiritual caregiver working with the severely ill and dying, the book outline theoretical insights into how primordial trust and archaic fear unconsciously shape our personality and behaviour. This book discusses in detail how in our everyday world, we lack primordial trust. Nevertheless, all of us have internalized it: as experiences of another non-dual world, of being unconditionally accepted, then sheltered and nurtured. The book outlines how from a spiritual viewpoint, we come from the non-dual world and experience a transition by becoming an ego, thereby experiencing archaic fear. This book explains fear in terms of two challenges encountered in this transition: firstly, leaving the non-world world when everything changes and we feel forlorn. Secondly, on awakening in the ego when we feel dependent and overwhelmed by otherness. The book also helps readers to understand trust as the emotional and spiritual foundation of the human soul, as well as how fear shapes us and how it can be outgrown. The book makes the case that understanding fear and primordial trust improves care and helps us to better understand dying. It will be of interest to academics, scholars and students in the fields of psychiatry, counselling, psychotherapy and palliative care and to all those interested in understanding fear, trust and the healing potential of spiritual experiences. Chapters 1 and 3 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003176572

Download or read book The Magic of Alan Wakeling written by Jim Steinmeyer and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jim Steinmeyer highlights some of the groundbreaking professional material developed by Alan Wakeling, including mind-reading, billiard ball tricks, and many large-scale illusions that the magicians, designers, and producers of today continue to integrate into their acts"-- Back cover.

Download or read book Jesus the Magician written by Smith, Morton and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A twentieth-century classic, uncannily smart, incredibly learned."--from the foreword by Bart Ehrman This book challenges traditional Christian teaching about Jesus. While his followers may have seen him as a man from heaven, preaching the good news and working miracles, Smith asserts that the truth about Jesus is more interesting and rather unsettling. The real Jesus, only barely glimpsed because of a campaign of disinformation, obfuscation, and censorship by religious authorities, was not Jesus the Son of God. In actuality he was Jesus the Magician. Smith marshals all the available evidence including, but not limited to, the Gospels. He succeeds in describing just what was said of Jesus by "outsiders," those who did not believe him. He deals in fascinating detail with the inevitable questions. What was the nature of magic? What did people at that time mean by the term "magician"? Who were the other magicians, and how did their magic compare with Jesus' works? What facts led to the general assumption that Jesus practiced magic? And, most important, was that assumption correct? The ramifications of Jesus the Magician give new meaning to the word controversial. This book recovers a vision of Jesus that two thousand years of suppression and polemic could not erase. And--what may be the central point of the debate--Jesus the Magician strips away the myths and legends that have obscured Jesus, the man who lived.

Download or read book Codex written by Lev Grossman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long lost library. A priceless manuscript. A deadly secret... About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a young hot-shot banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. When asked to unpack and organise a personal library of rare books, Edward's indignation turns to intrigue as he realises that among the volumes there may be hidden a unique medieval codex, a treasure kept sealed away for many years and for many reasons. Edward's intrigue becomes an obsession that only deepens as friends draw him into a peculiar and addictive computer game, as mystifying parallels between the game's virtual reality and the legend of the codex emerge and the lines between reality, fantasy and mysterious legend start to blur ...

Download or read book Magicians Impossible written by Brad Abraham and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Potter meets James Bond in this story of a twenty-something slacker who discovers that he is descended from a line of magical spies and is thrust into the middle of a secret and epic battle. “Magicians Impossible is a mind-bending page-turner! A brilliant and unique mash-up of spells, myth and mayhem, once it got its claws in me I couldn't put it down. Like a veteran stage magician, Brad Abraham has created a hip thriller that turns convention on its ear with misdirection and mayhem. A must read for enthusiasts of edgy and extreme fiction.” —Don Coscarelli, director of John Dies At The End Twenty-something bartender Jason Bishop’s world is shattered when his estranged father commits suicide, but the greater shock comes when he learns his father was a secret agent in the employ of the Invisible Hand; an ancient society of spies wielding magic in a centuries-spanning war. Now the Golden Dawn—the shadowy cabal of witches and warlocks responsible for Daniel Bishop’s murder, and the death of Jason’s mother years before—have Jason in their sights. His survival will depend on mastering his own dormant magic abilities; provided he makes it through the training. From New York, to Paris, to worlds between worlds, Jason's journey through the realm of magic will be fraught with peril. But with enemies and allies on both sides of this war, whom can he trust? The Invisible Hand, who’ve been more of a family than his own family ever was? The Golden Dawn, who may know the secrets behind his mysterious lineage? For Jason Bishop, only one thing is for certain; the magic he has slowly been mastering is telling him not to trust anybody.

Download or read book The Thinking Woman s Guide to Real Magic written by Emily Croy Barker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imaginative story of a woman caught in an alternate world—where she will need to learn the skills of magic to survive Nora Fischer’s dissertation is stalled and her boyfriend is about to marry another woman. During a miserable weekend at a friend’s wedding, Nora wanders off and walks through a portal into a different world where she’s transformed from a drab grad student into a stunning beauty. Before long, she has a set of glamorous new friends and her romance with gorgeous, masterful Raclin is heating up. It’s almost too good to be true. Then the elegant veneer shatters. Nora’s new fantasy world turns darker, a fairy tale gone incredibly wrong. Making it here will take skills Nora never learned in graduate school. Her only real ally—and a reluctant one at that—is the magician Aruendiel, a grim, reclusive figure with a biting tongue and a shrouded past. And it will take her becoming Aruendiel’s student—and learning magic herself—to survive. When a passage home finally opens, Nora must weigh her “real life” against the dangerous power of love and magic. For lovers of Lev Grossman's The Magicians series (The Magicians and The Magician King) and Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy (A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night).

Download or read book I Called It Magic written by Gareth Knight and published by Skylight Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited magical autobiography of Gareth Knight covers a long career in pursuit of the Mysteries, from the adventures of New Dimensions magazine to the calling of King Arthur, from the rituals of Sherwood Forest to the Somme, from the wrath of fellow ritual magicians to the shining allure of Faery.

Download or read book Logic From Images to Digits written by Randall Auxier and published by Linus Learning. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shakespearian and Other Essays written by James Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974-04-25 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1974, this volume presents essays on Shakespeare's comedies by the late James Smith.

Download or read book Meetings with Remarkable Magicians written by Carl Abrahamsson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Explores the author’s extensive connections with infamous occultists and organizations, including Genesis P-Orridge and Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth, Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan, and the Ordo Templi Orientis • Details the underlying occult impulses and magical experiences guiding the author’s artistic journey, his experiences in psychedelic culture and the punk subculture, and his experimentation with sex magic, occulture, and sigil magic What does it mean to live a life as an occultist? There may be no single answer, but for Carl Abrahamsson, it has entailed work in music, art, and film as well as deep engagement with renowned occult figures and organizations for more than 40 years. Illustrating the possibilities of a life infused with magic, Abrahamsson reflects on his decades spent in the company of some of the most unconventional thinkers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He reveals his involvement with psychedelic culture, the punk subculture, and numerous occult figures and organizations, including Genesis P-Orridge and Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth, Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan, the Ordo Templi Orientis, and a branch of the American Golden Dawn. Interwoven with his occult experiences and meetings with infamous practitioners of magic, Abrahamsson describes his evolution as a multidisciplinary artist, always imbuing his diverse artistic practice with a developing occult philosophy. He also details his ongoing efforts to disseminate the occult arts via publishing companies like Psychick Release, Looking Glass Press, Edda Publishing, Trapart Books, and the occultural journal The Fenris Wolf—as well as fieldwork in Tibet, Nepal, and India through the Institute of Comparative Magico-anthropology. Through each encounter and reflection on the magical, shamanic, and mystical practices that structured his own life, Abrahamsson illuminates how it’s possible to experience a life of wisdom and miracles.