Download or read book Stone Bound written by Eric Knight and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three children with the powers of Stone, Sea and Sky... Are all that stands between the world and the chaotic power of the Abyss. Fen is only a boy when his city is sacked by enemy invaders. His mother is cut down before his eyes. Yet somehow when the blade is turned on him, he survives without a scratch. But the attack seems to have awakened something inside him, something that killed his father years ago. Aislin came from the sea, her origins a mystery. Within her is an innate power over water, as natural as breathing. But she lives in a world of her own, emotionally isolated from everyone else, including the woman who is raising her. Bullied by the other children, one day she turns her power on them. Karliss was touched by the wind at birth, destined to be the greatest wind shaman his people have ever seen. But he is careless with his power and he ignores the warnings about the madness that afflicts those who don't protect themselves against the spirits in the wind. When the powerful, inhuman denizens of the Abyss reach out to take the world, only these three have a chance of stopping them, but only if they can learn to master their powers in time...
Download or read book Bound in Stone Volume Two written by K. M. Frontain and published by K.M. Frontain. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the thumb of the Shadow Master, Kehfrey has spent the last of his childhood learning the killing arts of a monk-assassin. Marun's plans for taking over the kingdom of Winfel and his ever-growing obsession with Kehfrey's extraordinary talents promise a very troubled future indeed. Can Kehfrey save his brother Vik, his family and his friends from Marun's dark designs? Should he try to save himself? Or bind himself to Marun to save everyone else?
Download or read book Being Hers written by Anna Stone and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Melanie, a hard-working law student, meets Vanessa, a glamorous executive, she is drawn to the enigmatic woman and the escape Vanessa offers. Soon, Melanie is caught up in Vanessa's sensual games of submission. When ghosts from the past reappear, both women must face their deepest fears.
Download or read book Daughters of the Stone written by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers It is the mid-1800s. Fela, taken from Africa, is working at her second sugar plantation in colonial Puerto Rico, where her mistress is only too happy to benefit from her impressive embroidery skills. But Fela has a secret. Before she and her husband were separated and sold into slavery, they performed a tribal ceremony in which they poured the essence of their unborn child into a very special stone. Fela keeps the stone with her, waiting for the chance to finish what she started. When the plantation owner approaches her, Fela sees a better opportunity for her child, and allows the man to act out his desire. Such is the beginning of a line of daughters connected by their intense love for one another, and the stories of a lost land. Mati, a powerful healer and noted craftswoman, is grounded in a life that is disappearing in a quickly changing world. Concha, unsure of her place, doesn't realize the price she will pay for rejecting her past. Elena, modern and educated, tries to navigate between two cultures, moving to the United States, where she will struggle to keep her family together. Carisa turns to the past for wisdom and strength when her life in New York falls apart. The stone becomes meaningful to each of the women, pulling them through times of crisis and ultimately connecting them to one another. Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa shows great skill and warmth in the telling of this heartbreaking, inspirational story about mothers and daughters, and the ways in which they hurt and save one another.
Download or read book Cutting for Stone written by Abraham Verghese and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.
Download or read book Weymouth Bound written by Paul Weston and published by . This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No further information has been provided for this title.
Download or read book Bound in Wedlock written by Tera W. Hunter and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History Winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize Winner of the Mary Nickliss Prize Winner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize Americans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with the same reverence. This discriminatory legacy traces back to centuries of slavery, when the overwhelming majority of black married couples were bound in servitude as well as wedlock, but it does not end there. Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century. Drawing from plantation records, legal documents, and personal family papers, it reveals the many creative ways enslaved couples found to upend white Christian ideas of marriage. “A remarkable book... Hunter has harvested stories of human resilience from the cruelest of soils... An impeccably crafted testament to the African-Americans whose ingenuity, steadfast love and hard-nosed determination protected black family life under the most trying of circumstances.” —Wall Street Journal “In this brilliantly researched book, Hunter examines the experiences of slave marriages as well as the marriages of free blacks.” —Vibe “A groundbreaking history... Illuminates the complex and flexible character of black intimacy and kinship and the precariousness of marriage in the context of racial and economic inequality. It is a brilliant book.” —Saidiya Hartman, author of Lose Your Mother
Download or read book Her Surrender written by Anna Stone and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything is falling apart for April. Her latest relationship has self-destructed, and she's been unexpectedly promoted to director of the library she works at, only to find that the building has been sold to a ruthless corporation that plans to tear it down and replace it with luxury apartments. While brooding at a bar, April attracts the attention of Vicki Blake. Vicki is confident, captivating, and has looks to die for. Although April can see right through the woman's seductive smile, she decides to go home with Vicki to forget about her problems. When Vicki gives April a glimpse of her dark desires, it leaves April wanting more. However, April soon discovers that the woman she shared an unforgettable night with is the vice president of the company that wants to demolish her library. Vicki intends to see the project through. April is determined to stop it. Locked in a fierce battle of wills, April and Vicki are helpless to keep the tension between them from heating up. Every time they collide, neither can resist temptation. Will their volatile love-hate relationship cause everything both of them have worked for to go up in flames?
Download or read book Dragon Bound written by Thea Harrison and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING ELDER RACES SERIES! Half-human and half-wyr, Pia Giovanni spent her life keeping a low profile among the wyrkind and avoiding the continuing conflict between them and their Dark Fae enemies. But after being blackmailed into stealing a coin from the hoard of a dragon, Pia finds herself targeted by one of the most powerful—and passionate—of the Elder races. As the most feared and respected of the wyrkind, Dragos Cuelebre cannot believe someone had the audacity to steal from him, much less succeed. And when he catches the thief, Dragos spares her life, claiming her as his own to further explore the desire they’ve ignited in each other. Pia knows she must repay Dragos for her trespass, but refuses to become his slave—although she cannot deny wanting him, body and soul...
Download or read book Dog Soldiers written by Robert Stone and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small-time journalist John Converse thinks to cash in on the last days of the Vietnam War by becoming involved in a major drug deal, but things go very wrong when he gets back to the U.S. and finds himself hunted by a corrupt government agent.
Download or read book Stonelifting written by Author - Martin Jancsics / Co Author - Bill Crawford and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Training with and lifting stones will shape you into a very strong and powerful individual. It can arguably be said that lifting a stone to a great height is the ultimate test of strength. Throughout time strength and the desire to be strong has been the back bone of an individual's ability and willingness to be better. Lifting Stones provides a natural test of strength and challenge that stems back thousands of years, stones that were lifted to make the step from being known as a boy and welcomed into manhood and as a test of strength, both as a competition and as an individual's sacred and personal contest against the stone. In this book you will read about stones that are situated round Scotland and Iceland which had been used as such a test of strength, as a result of this these stones have a hidden history behind each and every one with stories and tales that will have you rushing to lift them, testing your own abilities and becoming part of the stones unique history. You will learn about correct lifting technique and form, gym exercises that will push you further in your stonelifting strength abilities, and how to train with stones alone.Learn the science behind stonelifting with 'The Basic 10', which is the 10 individual aspects to be taken into consideration before lifting each stone, and 'The 10 Building Blocks of Stonelifting', a guide to preparing you to lift as well as lifting a stone as high up and away from the ground as you can. Learn the lifting technique and training methods that will prepare you to lift any stone in your path, like, the famous Dinnie Stones, Inver Stone, Testing Stone Of The Fianna, Barevan Stone that sits in the ruins of an old Scottish church yard and Iceland's Husafell Stone as well as many more.
Download or read book Hers to Keep written by Anna Stone and published by Karen Arthur. This book was released on 2019-03-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lindsey had big plans for her post-art school life--a successful art career, excitement, adventure, meeting the man of her dreams. She never expected she'd end up joining a sugar baby website to pay off her crippling debt. And she definitely didn't expect that her first client would be a charming, vivacious woman named Camilla. The older woman has an unusual proposal for Lindsey--move into her mansion for three months as her girlfriend and submissive, and all of Lindsey's financial woes will disappear. It's the perfect solution to Lindsey's problems, and she can't say no to three months of pleasure and luxury beyond her wildest dreams. Camilla has made it clear that she's comfortable with the arrangement. A difficult life has left the solitary woman hesitant to let anyone get too close. And Lindsey isn't attracted to women, anyway. It's all just a charade. Until it isn't. When Lindsey can no longer deny her feelings toward her Mistress, she runs the risk of losing everything. It was all supposed to be pretend. One big lie. What happens when the lie becomes the truth?
Download or read book Guarded Desires written by Anna Stone and published by Violet Ocean Press. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A headstrong bodyguard. An heiress who expects to be treated like a queen. A dangerously hot combination. Bodyguard Carmen Torres is a professional. She gets the job done, she doesn't get attached to her clients, and she does not mix business with pleasure. When she gets a job as personal bodyguard to domineering heiress Amber Pryce, she has no intention of breaking those rules, no matter how enticing she finds her client. But Amber has other ideas. As the sole heir to the Pryce family fortune, Amber is accustomed to being treated like royalty. Anything she wants, she takes. That includes Carmen, the stubborn bodyguard Amber hired to protect her from a mysterious stalker. Amber is determined to have Carmen bow to her. And even though Carmen won't allow herself to admit it, she craves the sweet surrender that Amber commands. Engaged in a fiery game of seduction, tensions heat up between the two women. But with an unhinged stalker on Amber's trail, the stakes keep rising, putting both women's lives at risk, along with their hearts.
Download or read book Freeing Her written by Anna Stone and published by Violet Ocean Press. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith is thrilled to land a job as a nanny for a wealthy, recently divorced mother of two. The pay is great, and the kids are angels. The only problem is their mother, Eve. She's uptight, controlling, and impossible to please. The worst part? Faith can't stop thinking about her. When Faith discovers a side to her new boss that she never expected, it becomes clear that behind Eve's strict facade is a passionate woman bursting to break free and make Faith hers. Faith knows all too well what it's like to keep part of herself hidden. And she finds Eve and the sweet surrender she demands irresistible. But as they confront their long-suppressed desires, Eve and Faith must keep everything between them secret or they risk losing everything. Eve is locked in a custody battle with her ex-husband, and he isn't afraid to play dirty. As the stakes rise and fear threatens to drive them apart, will Faith and Eve find the strength to stand together?
Download or read book Isle of Blood and Stone written by Makiia Lucier and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen years ago, two princes vanished. Now a riddle hidden on a mysterious map could chart a course towards the truth and the missing royals in this historical fantasy that's perfect for fans of Rachel Hartman and Tamora Pierce. Eighteen years ago two princes of the island kingdom of St. John del Mar were kidnapped and murdered, a deadly plot by the rival kingdom of Mondrago. Everyone knows the story, but for Elias, Mercedes, and Ulises, the aftermath of that tragic day is deeply personal. Elias grew up without his father, who was killed trying to protect the princes. Mercedes is half-Mondragan, leaving her to grow up in the shadow of del Mar’s hate. And Ulises, as the youngest and only remaining prince, inherited the throne meant for his older brothers. Now, the three friends just want to move on with their lives. But when two maps surface—each with the same hidden riddle—troubling questions arise. What really happened to the young princes? And why do the maps look like they were drawn by Elias’s father, whose body was never found? To discover what really happened that fateful day, Elias, Mercedes, and Ulises must follow the clues hidden in the maps, uncovering long-held secrets and unimaginable betrayals along the way. But the truth is dangerous, and not everyone wants it to come out. Isle of Blood and Stone is a sweeping fantasy full of intrigue and schemes, romance and friendship, and fearless explorers searching for the truth.
Download or read book Cultures of Stone written by Gabriel Cooney and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume establishes a rich cross-disciplinary dialogue about the significance of stone in society across time and space. The material properties of stone have ensured its continuing importance; however, it is its materiality which has mediated the relations between the individual, society and stone. Bound up with the physical properties of stone are ideas on identity, value, and understanding. Stone can act as a medium through which these concepts are expressed and is tied to ideas such as monumentality and remembrance; its enduring character creating a link through generations to both people and place. This volume brings together a collection of seventeen papers which draw on a range of diverse disciplines and approaches; including archaeology, anthropology, classics, design and engineering, fine arts, geography, history, linguistics, philosophy, psychology and sciences.
Download or read book The International Encyclopaedic Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
