Download or read book Pariah s Lament written by Richie Billing and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK ONE OF THE PARIAH SAGA So often, it's the forgotten who possess the power to change the world. When an attempt is made on the life of Ashara, Keeper of Yurr, his young, hapless advisor Edvar must uncover and stop those behind it. With enemies in the capital and the belligerent Tesh, Keeper of neighboring nation Karrabar, stirring trouble in the Borderlands, can Edvar hold together Ashara's brittle reign? The troubles ripple throughout Yurr, affecting an ancient race of people known as the Amast, who in their time of utmost need, turn to pariah Isy for salvation. Rejected by society, kith, and kin, can Isy guide the Amast to safety during the greatest turmoil Yurr has known since the War of the Damned? An epic underdog's story, PARIAH'S LAMENT delivers action, adventure, romance, and original fantasy. Fans of Joe Abercrombie will appreciate the gritty realism and vivid battle scenes of Pariah's Lament, and those who adore the charismatic characters of Patrick Rothfuss will find a cast who can whisk you away on a journey of discovery, intrigue, friendship, and love. ◆ Reviews ◆ "I went from being hooked to utterly absorbed into the story. I picked up the book every moment I could snag a free minute or two." - Geeks Under Grace. "A tale of acceptance and confidence with breathtaking worldbuilding." - Jessica Mack, Jem Edits Book Blog "The story was perfectly paced, and I was so wrapped up in the story, wanting to know how it was going to end, that I read the entire thing in one go." - Worlds Unlike Our Own. "There is a glorious balance of elements in Pariah's Lament. You have deep political intrigue, strong, engaging characters, humor in even the darkest moments, and dynamic pulse-quickening action." - Bookends and Bagends "Other than Brandon Sanderson, Billing has written my favorite battle scenes where they're epic, grand, but not confusing, leaving me lost." - Sarah Lillian Books ◆ What is an Of Metal and Magic CORE story? ◆ CORE stories are all set in the high fantasy world of Soria. These novels, novellas, and short stories, by every-growing group of authors, overlap and interact to build one unified canon. Creating stories within this sort of large-scale shared universe is what OMAM does best. Within the whole of the OMAM CORE series, multi-volume novels, such as PARIAH'S LAMENT, are separated into sagas. You can expect to see more from Richie Billing in the future. Regarding the world of Soria, refer to the words Professor Nasrin Arakat, of the famed Telsemar University, who writes, "Soria was once a battlefield of the gods. Ten thousand years ago, dragons warred with unicorns and warred among themselves, and men ultimately bore most of the burden. In the short history of this world, tribal warriors have challenged prophets, empires have risen and fell, new races of humans have emerged and been extinguished. Magic has since disappeared, so today we are left with only stories. Some believe these stories are little more than myth. I believe there is more truth to magic than most are willing to accept." Other OMAM CORE books include: CALL OF THE GUARDIAN SCION OF THE ORACLE A WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE ANCIENT HERITAGE ◆ More by Richie Billing ◆ FLYING ON THE GROUND - This short fiction anthology covers a wide-range of genres, including fantasy, dark fiction, general fiction, and crime. A FANTASY WRITERS' HANDBOOK - In this work, Billing provides a complete guide on how to write a fantasy novel.
Download or read book Pariah s Lament written by Richie Billing and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "So often it's the forgotten who possess the power to change the world." When an attempt is made on the life of Ashara, Keeper of Yurr, his young, hapless advisor Edvar must uncover and stop those behind it. With enemies in the capital city and the belligerent Tesh, Keeper of neighbouring kingdom Karrabar stirring trouble in the Borderlands, can Edvar hold together Ashara's brittle reign? The troubles ripple throughout Yurr, affecting an ancient race of people known as the Amast, who in their time of utmost need, turn to pariah Isy for salvation. Rejected by society, kith and kin, can Isy guide the Amast to safety during the greatest turmoil Yurr has known since the War of the Damned? An epic underdog's story, Pariah's Lament delivers action, adventure, romance and original fantasy. Fans of Joe Abercrombie and George RR Martin will appreciate the gritty realism and vivid battle scenes of Pariah's Lament, yet at times it possesses a humorous touch akin to the works of James Barclay and Nicholas Eames. And for those who adore the charismatic characters of Brandon Sanderson and Patrick Rothfuss, you'll find a cast that will whisk you away on a journey of discovery, intrigue, friendship and love. Praise for Pariah's Lament "The story was perfectly paced and I was so wrapped up, wanting to know how it was going to end that I read the entire thing in one go." Worlds Unlike Our Own "There is a glorious balance of elements in Pariah's Lament. You have deep political intrigue, strong, engaging characters, humour in even the darkest moments, and dynamic pulse-quickening action." Bookends and Bagends "Masterful world-building, top-notch political manoeuvring, and all the classic elements that make epic fantasy so amazing." The Book Suite Book Blog "Other than Brandon Sanderson, Billing has written my favourite battle scenes where they're epic and grand." Sarah Lillian Book Blog "With themes of vengeance, betrayal, and unity, Pariah's Lament made for an exciting and adventurous read." Bookish Beyond Book Blog "Billing shrewdly delves into the very relatable, human need to actualize and belong." Mark Brooks, Author "Couldn't put this down... compelling characters and really vivid worldbuilding." C.T. O'Mahony, Author "Billing has a knack for writing descriptions that can make readers feel like they're walking in the character's shoes." Anna Civolani, Editor
Download or read book Killer written by Dave Zeltserman and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard March walks free from jail after fourteen years' hard time, served after turning state's witness against his Mafia boss Salvatore Lombard. It's only after Leonard is sentenced that the public learned that he was a Mob hitman with eighteen deaths to answer for. Leonard is released to public outrage and media furore. He spends his time working as a janitor while looking over his shoulder, fearful of a vigilante attack or a revenge hit from his former colleagues. At 62 and with plenty of time on his hands, he is at an age when most men grow reflective and attempt to understand their mark on the world. But for Leonard, while the threats to his safety are not imagined, his self-reflection may pose the greatest threat of all.
Download or read book Democracy and the Death of Shame written by Jill Locke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is shame dead? With personal information made so widely available, an eroding public/private distinction, and a therapeutic turn in public discourse, many seem to think so. People across the political spectrum have criticized these developments and sought to resurrect shame in order to protect privacy and invigorate democratic politics. Democracy and the Death of Shame reads the fear that 'shame is dead' as an expression of anxiety about the social disturbance endemic to democratic politics. Far from an essential supplement to democracy, the recurring call to 'bring back shame' and other civilizing mores is a disciplinary reaction to the work of democratic citizens who extend the meaning of political equality into social realms. Rereadings from the ancient Cynics to the mid-twentieth century challenge the view that shame is dead and show how shame, as a politically charged idea, is disavowed, invoked, and negotiated in moments of democratic struggle.
Download or read book The Modes of Human Rights Literature written by Michael Galchinsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sophisticated book argues that human rights literature both helps the persecuted to cope with their trauma and serves as the foundation for a cosmopolitan ethos of universal civility—a culture without borders. Michael Galchinsky maintains that, no matter how many treaties there are, a rights-respecting world will not truly exist until people everywhere can imagine it. The Modes of Human Rights Literature describes four major forms of human rights literature: protest, testimony, lament, and laughter to reveal how such works give common symbolic forms to widely held sociopolitical emotions.
Download or read book Jewish State Pariah Nation written by Jerold S. Auerbach and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2014-04-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish statehood was restored in 1948 amid a struggle over legitimacy that has persisted in Israel ever since: Who rules? Who decides? Antagonism between the political left and right erupted into bloody violence over the Altalena. Secular-religious discord even made defining who is a Jew in a Jewish state contentious. After the Six-Day War, the return of religious Zionist settlers to biblical Judea and Samaria reframed the struggle over legitimacy. Who decides where in the Land of Israel Jews may live: settlers and rabbis or the government? Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982 provoked the first significant eruption of military disobedience, undermining the authority of the Israel Defense Forces with competing claims of personal conscience. Ever since the United Nations declared Zionism to be “a form of racism,” Israel has confronted an escalating international assault on its legitimacy. In political, academic, media, and cultural circles it has been demonized as an “apartheid,” even “Nazi,” state that much of the world despises. These conflicts are explored in this illuminating study of the dilemmas of legitimacy in the world’s only Jewish state and most reviled pariah nation. A new addition to the Contemporary Society Series from Quid Pro Books.
Download or read book Reason s Muse written by Geneviève Fraisse and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-05-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Revolution proclaimed the equality of all human beings, yet women remained less than equal in the new society. The exclusion of women at the birth of modern democracy required considerable justification, and by tracing the course of this reasoning through early nineteenth-century texts, Genevieve Fraisse maps a moment of crisis in the history of sexual difference. Through an analysis of literary, religious, legal, philosophical, and medical texts, Fraisse links a range of positions on women's proper role in society to specific historical and rhetorical circumstances. She shows how the Revolution marked a sharp break in the way women were represented in language, as traditional bantering about the "war of the sexes" gave way to serious discussions of the political and social meanings of sexual difference. Following this discussion on three different planes—the economical, the political, and the biological—Fraisse looks at the exclusion of women against the backdrop of democracy's inevitable lie: the affirmation of an equality so abstract it was impossible to concretely apply. This study of the place of sexual equality in the founding moment of democracy offers insight into a persistent question: whether female emancipation is to be found through the achievement of equality with men or in the celebration of female difference.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Bible A Feasts written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Bible Dealing with Its Language Literature and Contents Including the Biblical Theology A Feasts written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Violence written by Priyadarshini Vijaisri and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Violence: Pollution, Sacrifice and Madness is an exploration of the intersecting histories of caste and violence in the Indian context foregrounding ideational and temporal continuities and deep linkages between ideas, processes and events by combing historical sources with ethnographic data. Traversing the diverse and conflicting strands in Indian traditions, it traces the centrality of the idea of violence in discourses on sacrificial violence, self, body, evil and danger and their reverberations in critical moments of Indian history. The discourse on caste violence is unpacked through analysis of concepts like danda, matsyanyaya and vadhoavadha, religious and textual exegesis of negation and demonization and historical sites to locate processes of transitions in cultures of violence via the Telangana armed uprising and imagined cartography of the incipient nation. By drawing attention to the nature of caste violence in postcolonial Andhra, the book offers glimpses into the emergence of contradictory pulls in the forging of caste identities, nationhood and the shifts in the subjectivity of outcastes within the context of repressive political culture of postcolonial democratic experience.
Download or read book Outsourced written by Dave Zeltserman and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from his ultra noir trilogy - Small Crimes, Pariah and Killer - is Outsourced, Zeltserman's most commercial book to date. A classic heist thriller pitched somewhere between Ocean's Eleven and Dog Day Afternoon, it's the story of a group of software engineers who lose their jobs due to an industry push to outsourcing. Desperate, and seeing their middle class lives crumbling apart, they come up with a brilliant plan to use their computing skills to rob a bank. But not even a systems analyst can foresee every eventuality, so the group falls foul of the Russian Mafia. Movie rights have already been sold to Outsourced. The film will be produced by the team behind the hugely successful Resident Evil films.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Bible written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Among the Brahmins and Pariahs written by Johannes A. Sauter and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of the Bible A Fests written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pariah written by Bob Fingerman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a zombie plague infects most of the world, the residents of a New York City apartment, who have escaped infection, fight among themselves until they spy an uninfected teenage girl outside, not getting attacked.
Download or read book The Character Builder written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Viramma Life of an Untouchable written by Viramma and published by Verso. This book was released on 1997 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viramma is an agricultural worker and midwife in Karani, a village near Pondicherry in southeast India. Viramma is a member of the caste called Untouchable. Of her 12 children, only three survive. Viramma's story--told over the course of 10 years--is a vivid portrayal of a proud and expressive woman living at the margins of society. 12 photos.
