Download or read book The Diablo s Curse written by Gabe Cole Novoa and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Wicked Bargain comes a high-stakes race to defeat a curse designed to kill--about a teen demon who wants to be human, a boy cursed to die young, and the murderous island destined to bury them both. Dami is a demon determined to cancel every deal they've ever made in order to tether their soul to earth and become human again. There's just one person standing in their way: Silas. An irresistibly (and stubborn) cute boy cursed to die young, except for the deal with Dami that is keeping him alive. If they cancel the deal, Silas is dead. Unless... they can destroy the curse that has plagued Silas's family for generations. But to do so, Dami and Silas are going to have to work together. That is, if the curse doesn't kill them first. . . .

Download or read book The Emperor written by John Norman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complexities and storms of the Telnarian Histories are brought to their unexpected and rousing climax. Following a palace coup, in the midst of intrigue and turmoil, Otto, the blond barbarian giant, King of the Otungs, a tribe of the Vandal Nation, has set aside the boy emperor, Aesilesius, and seized the throne of the vast, unstable, threatened Telnarian Empire. A raging torrent of complex, perilous events ensues. Can the throne be held? Can the empire survive? In The Emperor, we meet again fierce Abrogastes, the Far Grasper, lord of the Drisriaks, hegemonic tribe of the dreaded Aatii Nation, enemy to the Vandal Nation; his envious, treacherous son, Ingeld, aspirer to the High Seat of the Drisriaks; Sidonicus, devious, unscrupulous exarch of Telnar, seeker of power through the perversion of religion; envious Fulvius, his ambitious subordinate; a corrupt senate, an unruly citizenry, and private armies; Atalana, superstitious and cunning Empress Mother; her son, the reclusive boy emperor, Aesilesius; his lovely sisters, Alacida and Viviana, one of whom will learn chains and the whip; Julian, of the Aureliani, scion of an embittered and divided aristocracy; and many other players in the games of betrayal, blood, and power.

Download or read book The Bedside Baccalaureate the Second Semester written by David Rubel and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a different learning experience, intending to place facts within the framework of knowledge and containing 20 courses created by experts in their fields with the intention of making the topics accessible and entertaining.

Download or read book Welcome to the Microbiome written by Rob DeSalle and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suddenly, research findings require a paradigm shift in our view of the microbial world. The Human Microbiome Project at the National Institutes of Health is well under way, and unprecedented scientific technology now allows the censusing of trillions of microbes inside and on our bodies as well as in the places where we live, work, and play. This intriguing, up-to-the-minute book for scientists and nonscientists alike explains what researchers are discovering about the microbe world and what the implications are for modern science and medicine. Rob DeSalle and Susan Perkins illuminate the long, intertwined evolution of humans and microbes. They discuss how novel DNA sequencing has shed entirely new light on the complexity of microbe-human interactions, and they examine the potential benefits to human health: amazing possibilities for pinpoint treatment of infections and other illnesses without upsetting the vital balance of an individual microbiome. This book has been inspired by an exhibition, The Secret World Inside You: The Microbiome, at the American Museum of Natural History, which will open in New York in early November 2015 and run until August 2016. It will then travel to other museums in the United States and abroad.

Download or read book I Am Murdered written by Bruce Chadwick and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation's most influential state." —Publishers Weekly George Wythe clung to the mahogany banister as he inched down the staircase of his comfortable Richmond, Virginia, home. Doubled over in agony, he stumbled to the kitchen in search of help. There he found his maid, Lydia Broadnax, and his young protegé, Michael Brown, who were also writhing in distress. Hours later, when help arrived, Wythe was quick to tell anyone who would listen, "I am murdered." Over the next two weeks, as Wythe suffered a long and painful death, insults would be added to his mortal injury. I Am Murdered tells the bizarre true story of Wythe's death and the subsequent trial of his grandnephew and namesake, George Wythe Sweeney, for the crime—unquestionably the most sensational and talked-about court case of the era. Hinging on hit-and-miss forensics, the unreliability of medical autopsies, the prevalence of poisoning, race relations, slavery, and the law, Sweeney's trial serves as a window into early nineteenth-century America. Its particular focus is on Richmond, part elegant state capital and part chaotic boomtown riddled with vice, opportunism, and crime. As Wythe lay dying, his doctors insisted that he had not been poisoned, and Sweeney had the nerve to beg him for bail money. In I Am Murdered, this signer of the Declaration of Independence, mentor to Thomas Jefferson, and "Father of American Jurisprudence" finally gets the justice he deserved.

Download or read book Roseblood written by Paul Doherty and published by Headline. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1455, and as war approaches, each must choose their allegiance... Master historian Paul Doherty brings to life the brutal world of London in 1455 as he tells the epic story of the advent of the Wars of the Roses. Perfect for fans of C.J. Sansom and Susanna Gregory. 'Deliciously suspenseful, gorgeously written and atmospheric' -Historical Novels Review England, 1455: a kingdom on the brink of civil war. The Red Rose: King Henry of Lancaster's days are numbered. Deemed unfit for rule, even by his own mother, he surely cannot last on the throne for long. Simon Roseblood - London lord, taverner and alderman - is one of few loyal servants left to fight his cause. The White Rose: Ruthless Richard of York has his eye firmly set on the crown - and plenty of powerful allies who will do anything to help him win it. Henchman Amadeus Sevigny makes no bones about enforcing his own authority and asserting law and order at York's command. When Roseblood is summoned by Sevigny to stand trial for a crime he knows he didn't commit, their paths cross in ways that alter them both for ever. And as the Wars of the Roses looms, an even greater foe is poised to rock the foundations of England, and wreak horror in a hotbed of political unrest. What readers are saying about Roseblood: 'Paul Doherty is a synonym for quality and entertainment' 'A compelling tale of historical fiction that exudes accuracy and detail' 'The book is as entertaining as it is fascinating [and] satisfying as intricate plots and plans are revealed. The author takes the reader deep into this world of squalor and colour, stench and gore, death and deception, introducing characters whose strengths and weaknesses keep the tale alive and compelling'

Download or read book The Fallen Sparrow written by Dorothy B. Hughes and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An escapee from a Spanish prison hunts for his best friend’s killer in New York For more than a year, Kit McKittrick languishes in a Fascist prison, his days spent in darkness and his nights tortured by fear of his limping jailer, whose name he never learns. He escapes Spain with the help of Louie Lepetino, a childhood friend who came with him to fight on behalf of the Republican cause. Back in the United States, Kit heads out West to recover from his ordeal, while Louie returns to a life of cafés and cocktail parties in New York. But Kit’s convalescence is cut short when he learns Louie has taken a fatal tumble out of a window, and he journeys to New York to discover who gave his savior the final push. Only a woman could have led Louie to his death, Kit thinks, and New York is full of femmes fatales. But man or woman, Louie’s murderer should watch out for Kit: He wants vengeance, and he’s willing to kill for it.

Download or read book Crichton written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Veiled Truths written by H. T. Martin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethereal forest tucked into the southernmost part of the Wastelands which holds a powerful entity within its misty folds is the newest destination on Shadows journey to gain more power in order to combat his brother and sister. Accompanied by Duclaw, Scorpio, and, ironically enough, Poison; the unlikely congregation makes their way past Barbarian patrols while also being hunted by an elite assassin, with an array of strange techniques, who is known across the land as The Black Scorpion. Surviving their mission and capturing the entity they needed to retrieve, Shadow and his comrades make their way to the Northern Kingdom only to be sent on yet another mission by Arkadios. Shadow and Poison travel across a vast ocean to the eastern lands to speak with the leader of Mastagon to retrieve the last of Therons black scrolls. After their meeting and failure to retrieve the scroll, the warriors head to the small village of Basket where Poisons mother was born. Here, Shadow is poisoned by a great beast and it is up to Poison and Tourma to kill the monster and fi nd an antidote to cure Shadow before his painful and untimely death. Journey with Shadow as he struggles to survive in his world without the aid of his black chakra. Watch as he learns of Sorcery and all the benefi ts the most ancient form of chakra manipulation will be able do for him. The possibilities are endless, but only if a cure is found.

Download or read book Judith written by Richard Capper and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Pearson s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearson's Magazine (1899-1925), a monthly magazine devoted to literature, politics, and the arts, was founded as a New York affiliate of the London periodical of the same name, part of which it reprinted. From 1916 to 1923, it was edited by Frank Harris.

Download or read book Drunk from the Bitter Truth written by Anna Margolin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 Yiddish Literature and Translation from Yiddish presented by the Helen and Stan Vine Annual Canadian Jewish Book Awards 2007 Runner Up of the National Jewish Book Award in Poetry Born Rosa Lebensboym in Belarus, Anna Margolin (1887–1952) settled permanently in America in 1913. A brilliant yet largely forgotten poet, her reputation rests on her volume of poetry published in Yiddish in 1929 in New York City. Although written in the 1920s, Margolin's poetry is remarkably fresh and contemporary, dealing with themes of anxiety, loneliness, sexual tensions, and the search for intellectual and spiritual identity, all of which were clearly reflected in her own life choices. Sensitively and beautifully translated here, the poems appear both in the original Yiddish and in English translation. Shirley Kumove's fascinating critical-biographical introduction highlights Margolin's tempestuous and unconventional life. An exceptionally beautiful and gifted woman, Margolin adopted a bohemian and an eccentric lifestyle, and threw herself into both intellectual pursuits and romantic attachments beyond her two marriages.

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Download or read book What Is Good Writing written by Geoffrey Huck and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though we all think we know what good writing is when we see it, it's difficult to define it precisely; and without a satisfactory definition, it becomes problematical to assess as well as to teach. In What Is Good Writing?, Geoffrey J. Huck advances the contemporary debate on writing achievement by drawing on empirical research in linguistics and the other cognitive sciences that shed light on the development of fluency in language. The utility of defining "good writing" as "fluent writing" or writing that is on par with the typical fluency in speech attained by normal adults, is demonstrated by the progress it permits in evaluating the success of current writing programs in school and university--programs which, for the most part, have proved unable to deliver writing assessments that are both valid and reliable. Huck advances an alternative approach that rests on more scientific footing. He explains why reading is key to good writing and why standard composition programs often do not live up to their aspirations.

Download or read book Twilight Revolution written by Candace N. Coonan and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fadreamas time is almost up The world of Fadreamas greatest enemy, Ralston Radburn, is making one last attempt to conquer everything and everyone. He hopes to do this by gaining control of the five Crystal Points located throughout the land. Only Dawn and her companions stand a fighting chance against Ralstons malice, but in stopping the evil, they may lose everything they have ever loved. Join Dawn, Alan, Evan, Ian and Mizu, as they battle to save Fadreama from the darkness, one last time.