Download or read book Ethereal s Quest written by Leslie Cook and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-01-20 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is book 3 of the Ethereal series. Kyra is at the mercy of the gods. Separated from the divine power, which she took for granted, she must prove herself worthy to the gods. Death lingers as the fates' judgment decides her outcome. Is she worthy of the destiny thrust upon her? The truth of her past and her identity is revealed. Is she able to accept who and what she is? Danger lingers in the shadows as history grips the future.
Download or read book Ethereal written by Raymond S Flex and published by Dib Books. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redundancy: a horrid word. But it comes as a blessing to fifty-something Trevor Harrison. As he sits in his local graveyard, munching on his lunchtime sandwich, he considers the modelling shop he'll put into place with his payoff. His life's dream. And fate takes just that moment to laugh in his face, sending him off to Ethereal, a land far, far away. Ethereal: A Novel . . . Set in Ethereal
Download or read book Short Stories A I Vol2 written by Johnny Autobot and published by Bill Valiontis. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 13 Short stories created by artificial intelligence.
Download or read book The Golden Quest for Eternal Life written by John V. Kardel and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Quest for Eternal Life: Without God There Is No Eternal Life By: John V. Kardel Have you ever wondered about life, religion, God, humanity, and science, and how they might be connected? Have you ever questioned human origins or the existence of a higher being? The Golden Quest for Eternal Life: Without God There Is No Eternal Life just might challenge the way you think about these profound topics. Originally conceived as a way to elucidate the author’s beliefs for his son, The Golden Quest for Eternal Life is so much more. In this slender and highly readable volume, John V. Kardel endeavors to debunk religious cults, question popular scientific theories, and provide a foundation for meaningful contemplation of who we are, where we come from, and most importantly, why we’re here. “A cursory review of my book may lead one to think of it as anti-religious, but it is not,” says Kardel. Essentially, it is a thoughtful and mature meditation on life, God, and religion that he hopes “will help others avoid religious bickering, bitterness, and zealots; and instill a desire to accomplish something for their God(s).” So, take the plunge, and ponder.
Download or read book Short Stories Vol 1 4 written by Bill Valiontis and published by Bill Valiontis. This book was released on 2023-12-10 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 52 Short Stories.
Download or read book The Crystal Tower written by Liam Donnelly and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zatera Stri was his name. In an ancient quest for power spanning millennia, he travelled the Universe, assuming identities on different worlds, all the while seeking knowledge about one thing. But he never found what he was looking for, despite leaving a trail of terrible wreckage in his wake. Eventually, Max and his kin took it upon themselves to imprison him, until he was awoken by a young Ethereal named Trey Rousseau. Now on Earth, and using Trey's body like a puppet, Zatera begins to build an enormous structure off the coast of New York City, with plans to use it to finally reach The Nexus-the epicenter of creation itself-from where and to where all psychic energy flows. In their quest to stop him, Jane and her friends travel back to the city, attempting to quell the growing panic there as Zatera enchants hundreds of other Ethereals, drawing them toward him and using their power to help him build the edifice that will become The Crystal Tower. At the same time, Max turns west toward California, where he senses another powerful Ethereal, Daniel, may be in danger of similar possession by Zatera. However, Max knows nothing of the tectonic conflict he will soon face there. But Jane was given something by the Rose, a mere fragment of the soul of the Universe itself, and now, it has drawn Zatera's focus. Separated from Max, she and her friends must work to help keep the city safe and remain hidden from the vast reach of Zatera's mind. Once Zatera's odious plan is set in motion, the tower grows quickly. Can they-indeed, can anyone-halt its rapid reach toward the sky? They no longer fight for their own fate, but that of the world now too-and the Universe beyond."
Download or read book Saint X written by Alexis Schaitkin and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 "'Saint X' is hypnotic. Schaitkin's characters...are so intelligent and distinctive it feels not just easy, but necessary, to follow them. I devoured [it] in a day." –Oyinkan Braithwaite, New York Times Book Review When you lose the person who is most essential to you, who do you become? Recommended by Entertainment Weekly, included in Good Morning America's 20 Books We're Excited for in 2020 & named as one of Vogue's Best Books to Read This Winter, Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of February 2020, and O Magazine's 14 of the Best Books to Read This February! Hailed as a “marvel of a book” and “brilliant and unflinching,” Alexis Schaitkin’s stunning debut, Saint X, is a haunting portrait of grief, obsession, and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know one another. Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X. Several days later, Alison’s body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men–employees at the resort–are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. The story turns into national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved. For Claire and her parents, there is only the return home to broken lives. Years later, Claire is living and working in New York City when a brief but fateful encounter brings her together with Clive Richardson, one of the men originally suspected of murdering her sister. It is a moment that sets Claire on an obsessive pursuit of the truth–not only to find out what happened the night of Alison’s death but also to answer the elusive question: Who exactly was her sister? At seven, Claire had been barely old enough to know her: a beautiful, changeable, provocative girl of eighteen at a turbulent moment of identity formation. As Claire doggedly shadows Clive, hoping to gain his trust, waiting for the slip that will reveal the truth, an unlikely attachment develops between them, two people whose lives were forever marked by the same tragedy. For readers of Emma Cline’s The Girls and Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies, Saint X is a flawlessly drawn and deeply moving story that culminates in an emotionally powerful ending.
Download or read book What We Are The Evolutionary Roots of Our Future written by Lonnie Aarssen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other animals are driven to spend essentially their whole lives just trying to get fed, stay alive, and get laid. That’s about it. The same was true for our proto-human ancestors. And modern humans of course also require a Survival Drive and a Sex Drive in order to leave descendants. But today we spend most of our lives mainly just trying to convince ourselves that our existence is not absurd. In What We Are, Queen’s University biologist, Lonnie Aarssen, traces how our biocultural evolution has shaped Homo sapiens into the only creature that refuses to be what it is — the only creature preoccupied with a deeply ingrained, and absurd sentiment: I have a distinct ‘mental life’—an ‘inner self’—that exists separately and apart from ‘material life’, and so, unlike the latter, need not come to an end. This delusion conceivably gave our distant ancestors some wishful thinking for finding some measure of relief from the terrifying, uniquely human knowledge of the eventual loss of corporeal survival. But this came with an impulsive, nagging doubt — an obsessive underlying uncertainty: ‘self-impermanence anxiety’. Biocultural evolution, however, was not finished. It also gave us two additional, uniquely human, primal drives, both serving to help quell the burden of this anxiety. Legacy Drive generates delusional cultural domains for ‘extension’ of self; and Leisure Drive generates pleasurable cultural domains for distraction – ‘escape’ – from self. Legacy Drive and Leisure Drive, Aarssen argues, represent two of the most profound consequences of human cognitive and cultural evolution. What We Are advances propositions regarding how a visceral susceptibility to self-impermanence anxiety has — paradoxically — played a pivotal role in rewarding the reproductive success of our ancestors, and has thus been a driving force in shaping fundamental motivations and cultural norms of modern humans. More than any other milestone in the evolution of human minds, self-impermanence anxiety, and its mitigating Drives for Legacy and Leisure, account for not just the advance of civilization over the past many thousands of years, but also now, its impending collapse. Effective management of this crisis, Aarssen insists, will require a deeper and more broadly public understanding of its Darwinian evolutionary roots — as laid out in What We Are.
Download or read book The Journey of the Soul and the Ethereal World written by Emma Ruder Drollinger and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The Ethereal Squadron written by Shami Stovall and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorcerers. Grave-Maker Gas. A secret battle fought during World War I. The Ethereal Squadron, a Special Forces team of soldiers who wield magic, wages a secret war against the enemy sorcerers of the central powers. Florence Cavell, codename Geist, has a unique magical ability-she can become ghost-like and incorporeal-allowing her to infiltrate enemy forts with ease. But when the central powers unleash their magic corrupting Grave-Maker Gas, a deadly weapon that warps everything it touches, the war shifts in their favor. To have any hope of combating the new threat, Geist must retrieve the schematics for Grave-Maker Gas, but the production labs are in the heart of enemy-controlled territory. Together with a team of allied sorcerers, each with their own unique magical abilities, Geist must race against time, navigate deadly trench warfare, and fight against warped monsters in order to turn the tides of the Great War.
Download or read book Pete Von Sholly s Lovecraft Illustrated written by Pete Von Sholly and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full color collection of over 325 images- covering ALL the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft arranged in the order in which the stories were written. The book also features notes. sketches and an intro by S. T. Joshi. Pete Von Sholly has storyboarded over 100 films including THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, MARS ATTACKS!, DARKMAN, and THE MIST. His work has also been seen in his satiric magazines as well as Last Gasp's FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE and NEUROCOMICS, which he did with Timothy Leary.
Download or read book The Monsters Know What They re Doing written by Keith Ammann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular blog The Monsters Know What They’re Doing comes a compilation of villainous battle plans for Dungeon Masters. In the course of a Dungeons & Dragons game, a Dungeon Master has to make one decision after another in response to player behavior—and the better the players, the more unpredictable their behavior! It’s easy for even an experienced DM to get bogged down in on-the-spot decision-making or to let combat devolve into a boring slugfest, with enemies running directly at the player characters and biting, bashing, and slashing away. In The Monsters Know What They’re Doing, Keith Ammann lightens the DM’s burden by helping you understand your monsters’ abilities and develop battle plans before your fifth edition D&D game session begins. Just as soldiers don’t whip out their field manuals for the first time when they’re already under fire, a DM shouldn’t wait until the PCs have just encountered a dozen bullywugs to figure out how they advance, fight, and retreat. Easy to read and apply, The Monsters Know What They're Doing is essential reading for every DM.
Download or read book Allegorical Quests from Deguileville to Spenser written by Marco Nievergelt and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of sixteenth-century quest narratives, focussing on their conscious use of a medieval tradition to hold a mirror up to contemporary culture. Offers the first full study of the allegorical knightly quest tradition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Richly satisfying, as impressive in the detail of its scholarship as in the elegance of its critical formulations. It seamlessly moves between different literary traditions and across conventional period boundaries. In Dr Nievergelt's treatment of this theme, the successive retellings of the tale of the knight's quest come to stand as an emblemof shifting values and norms, both religious and worldly; and of our repeated failures to realise those ideals. Dr Alex Davis, Department of English, University of St Andrews. The literary motif of the "allegorical knightly quest" appears repeatedly in the literature of the late medieval/early modern period, notably in Spenser, but has hitherto been little examined. Here, in his examination of a number of sixteenth-century English allegorical-chivalric quest narratives, focussing on Spenser's Faerie Queene but including important, lesser-known works such as Stephen Bateman's Travayled Pylgrime and William Goodyear's Voyage of the Wandering Knight, the author argues that the tradition begins with the French writer Guillaume de Deguileville. His seminal Pèlerinage de la vie humaine was composed c.1331-1355; it was widely adapted, translated, rewritten and printed overthe next centuries. Dr Nievergelt goes on to demonstrate how this essentially "medieval" literary form could be adapted to articulate reflections on changing patterns of identity, society and religion during the early modern period; and how it becomes a vehicle of self-exploration and self-fashioning during a period of profound cultural crisis. Dr Marco Nievergelt is Lecturer (Maître Assitant) and SNF (Swiss National Science Foundation) Research Fellow in the English Department at the Université de Lausanne
Download or read book Rebirth God Master of Myriad Realms written by Jiang NanQiYin and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wang Zheng, as the most unremarkable diaosi among the diaosi, was instantly smashed by the Myriad Realm Emperor Spirit System into becoming a demon possessing the Myriad Realm Divine Spark. You have money, don't you? Acting cool is it? Your father's God of Fortune has taken control of the fortunes of a country, seizing the fortunes of all eighteen generations of your ancestors. Stealing a national goddess from me? Yue Lao had tied several tens of thousands of red strings, while the First Lady had come to buy me tea. An expert from a pirate country had come to provoke him? Possess the body of a wargod until you cry for your father and calling for your mother. With the activation of the Celestial Emperor Divine Spark, every single God would support it!
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