Download or read book Ride the Serpent written by Jerry DePinto and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-06-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ride the Serpent is a story of life on the front lines in Mid America during the late 1960's for a group of Chicago area teenagers. Race riots, drugs, Vietnam War, the Chicago mob, suicides, muscle cars, sexual passion, the Democratic Convention riots, fight clubs, Hippies counter culture and all that teens face growing up. Amazingly the kids deal with all this in the spirit that defines youth. Ride the Serpent is fast paced filled with humor, history and romance. You will learn what life was like when America was growing up and socially throwing up.

Download or read book Riding the Serpent s Back written by Keith Brooke and published by infinity plus. This book was released on with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Keith Brooke's prose achieves a rare honesty and clarity, his characters always real people, his situations intriguing and often moving." World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer With his health failing, the great mage Donn has chosen to pass on his Talents to a new generation: an old era is drawing to a close, a new era about to begin. But with change comes instability. War looms and a rogue church leader threatens to set loose the wild powers of the First City. Donn's children must oppose this man but, also, they must contend with Donn himself: the old mage has not finished with his children yet. On the run from the religious repression of the mainland, Leeth Hamera joins a group of outcasts on the Serpent's Back, a continually changing island continent in the middle of a lava sea. Leeth has never lived up to the expectations of his wealthy merchant family and his only magical skill is the lowly Talent of bonding with animals. But, as he learns, the greatest Talents can sometimes be the slowest to emerge. The leader of the outcasts is Chi, son of Donn and the greatest healer of his generation. Chi is in exile for breaking the Embodied Church's edict against intervening in the natural order: many years ago Chi used his skills to revive his son from the dead. That son, Lachlan Pas, is now a church leader tortured by the guilty knowledge of what his father had to do to return him to life. When he learns Chi is still alive, he orders his execution, determined that his secret should never be exposed. Until now, Chi has been content to live in exile but now he knows that his son's insane and cruel rule must be stopped. Chi summons his half-siblings from throughout the inhabited lands of the Rift valley. The need for action is confirmed when one of them reveals that Lachlan and his mage, Oriole, are rebuilding the ancient city of Samhab - an act which will release the powers of the earth with unforeseeable consequences. Welcome to the magical island city of Zigané, endlessly adrift in the southern lava sea; the searing soda plains home of the Morani warriors; the impenetrable Zochi jungle, full of illusion and hidden hazard; the charmed fortress-like City of the Divine Wall; and Samhab, the fantastic First City of the True, built at the geographical centre of the Rift, where the magical powers of the earth rise up to be set free by the earth-charmers and mages. The novel's cast of shape-changers, earth-charmers, healers and illusionists must battle to save civilization from the evil rule of Lachlan Pas and his followers. For whoever controls the power of Samhab controls the future of the world. "A progressive and skilful writer." Peter F Hamilton, author of the Night's Dawn trilogy "In the recognized front ranks of SF writers." Locus

Download or read book Bedtime stories for Kids written by Mohammed Ayya and published by Mohammed Ayya. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bedtime stories for kids : A Collection of Short stories 5 This book is collection of (bedtime stories for children) few selected fictional stories, fairy tales, folklore and legends about people & animals, that one can read for himself or to his children. Every story carries a message within itself. It depends on every individual what he or she can take & make from them. Especially, its a good source of inspiration for life ahead. ( Bedtime Stories for Kids : Short Stories for Kids, Kids Books, Children Books (Fun Bedtime Story Collection Book 5) ) Please don't forget to leave comment. Scroll up and click 'buy' and spend some quality time with your child!

Download or read book Ride the Panther written by Kerry Newcomb and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To stop a savage war from spreading west, two brothers stare down an army The year is 1863. Even as the Union Army verges on total victory over the rebellious south, there are those in the North who clamor for a negotiated truce. Along a creek in the Indian Territories, North and South collide, and conflict simmers between slaveholding plantation owners and the settlers who would keep the West free. As this tension threatens to boil over into open war, hardened settler Ben McQueen goes east to plead for help from Washington. But when an assassin in Kansas City ambushes and nearly kills McQueen, his sons must try to fulfill the mission themselves. Though brothers, Jesse and Pacer Wolf McQueen have grown up in different worlds. But when a conspiracy threatens to destroy their family and tear apart the country they love so dearly, they will put aside their differences and fight. As long as these brothers stand together, the Union has a chance.

Download or read book The Serpent s Tooth written by B.M. Croker and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Download or read book Riding the Snake written by Stephen J. Cannell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Beverly Hills golden boy whose glow is fading, Wheeler Cassidy, an aimless, hard-drinking womanizer, is partying toward dissipation. But after his brother's mysterious death, Wheeler embarks on a perilous journey to find himself and the Chinese gangsters who murdered the only member of his family he ever really loved. Along the way, he teams up with Tanisha Williams, a beautiful African-American detective raised in Watts and now assigned to the L.A.P.D. Asian Crimes Task Force. The two make an unlikely pair, but together they face the violence and corruption that stretches from Hong Kong's notorious criminal Triad to the highest reaches of the American government. It's an international conspiracy of huge proportions that will take Wheeler and Tanisha halfway around the world and into the most dangerous adventure of their lives...

Download or read book The Serpent s Curse written by Lisa Maxwell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta uses her affinity for time to give her an edge, and she's trained her whole life for one mission: travel back to 1902 New York, steal the ancient Book of Mysteries, and use its power to destroy the Brink and free the Mageus from the Order's control. But Seshat, an angry goddess was trapped within its pages. Now that terrible power lives within Harte, and if given the chance, Seshat will use Esta to destroy the world and take her revenge. Searching for the elemental stones needed to bind Seshat's power, Esta and Harte have found themselves stranded in time with a continent between them. And the Order is no longer the only obstacle standing in her way. -- adapted from jacket

Download or read book The Serpent s Tale written by Ariana Franklin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The follow-up to Mistress of the Art of Death- in the national bestselling series hailed as "the medieval answer to Kay Scarpetta and the CSI detectives." When King Henry II's mistress is found poisoned, suspicion falls on his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. The king orders Adelia Aguilar, expert in the science of death, to investigate-and hopefully stave off civil war. A reluctant Adelia finds herself once again in the company of Rowley Picot, the new Bishop of St. Albans...and her baby's father. Their discoveries into the crime are shocking- and omens of greater danger to come.

Download or read book The Serpent s Tooth written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Serpent s Gambit written by David M. Couchman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First one, then four. Four sets of human remains with alarming things in common. All four had been military active duty. All four had disappeared from Roswell Army Air Base in 1947. All four had the same physical anomalies. All four had military records that were classified. Unraveling the cord of mystery takes local citizens and a small knot of Army personnel on a trail that leads through Area 51 to the White House, from Moscow to deep space, and through a maze of people who are not who or even what they seem to be. Who do you trust, if anyone at all?

Download or read book The Serpent s Mark written by Tamera Lawrence and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She stared into the hypnotic eyes, drowning, thoughts scattered. The serpent’s eyes were compelling, raw, pulling secrets from her soul. It tried to merge with her mind, become as one. It was terrifying, and yet, she couldn’t stop it. When foster teen, RACHEL LARK is sent to camp, she plans to run away. But the city girl is unprepared for what she encounters in the woods, a terrifying serpent. As Rachel looks for help, she finds camp leaders aren’t what they seem. Now Rachel will face the evil changeling using survival skills she never knew she possessed. For deep within the Serpent’s lair, Rachel will come face to face with the beast from her nightmares.

Download or read book The Serpent s Game written by A.C. Frieden and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don’t stand and wait as Hurricane Katrina barrels down on New Orleans, unless you don’t have a choice, and maritime lawyer Jonathan Brooks has none. His career in shambles and duty bound to help a figure from his past locate her missing nephew feared drowned in the Mississippi, Brooks is burdened with responsibility and devoid of options. But Mariya is no friend. The sultry Russian provocateur saved his life a decade ago but not without dragging him into a world of murder, mayhem and deceit. As darkness bleeds into the Crescent City, Brooks’ search for the truth behind a body in the river catapults him into an international storm that sweeps into the espionage underworld of Russia, the intelligence centers of Washington, D.C., the politics of North Korea, the waterways of the Panama Canal, the back streets of Havana and the barrios of Caracas—and into the heart of Jonathan’s own darkness.

Download or read book Tantric Yoga written by Gavin Frost and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced text discusses the inherent quadrality of the Gods and Goddesses, and how creation systems work. Through a series of meditations and visualizations, the authors show how knudalini energy can be safely activated and cycled, bringing you through a psychic loop that empowers you to discover new knowledge, and bring it back into consciousness with you.

Download or read book The Serpent and the Rose written by Kathleen Bryan and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beautiful Averil is heir to the Duchy of Quitaine, in the Kingdom of Lys. She is a powerful mage, trained by the Ladies of the Isle, but when her father calls her home to take up her duties, she must leave that life behind. In her city of Fontevrai, she meets Gereint, raised as a common villager but greatly gifted in magic, a novice of the magical order of the Knights of the Rose. The Knights and their sister order, the Ladies of the Isle, defend a great secret: the means and location of the Serpent's imprisonment a thousand years ago by the Young God in whose name their order was founded. Quitaine is under subtle attack by the King of Lys, who has secretly become an adept of the hidden order of the Serpent, and he will let nothing and no one stand in the way of his quest to discover how to free his God. But the Knights of the Rose, and the Ladies of the Isle believe that if the Serpent is freed, the world will be enslaved to chaos: humanity will destroy itself, and all that man has made will be corrupted. The War of the Rose and Serpent has begun again, after a thousand years. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Luciferian Witchcraft Book of the Serpent written by Michael Ford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second Edition completely revised and edited version now available! Luciferian Witchcraft is a complete grimoire of Left Hand Path initiation. Many books have been written of the so-called left hand path, very few actually were written by initiates. Beginning with a lengthy exploration of the forms of the Adversary throughout history, a foundation of ideology is given by identification with the Adversary. The reader is then led through dark and twisting corridors with Four Chapters, a complete system of the History of the Adversary and the Witchcraft associated with the Left Hand Path. What is found within Luciferian Witchcraft is a Talismanic text which presents the medieval concepts of the Black Book being a conjuration itself of the Devil, a complete initiatory system detailing High Ceremonial Magick, The lore of the Adversary and ritualistic and forbidden sex magick. Approach with caution, you may open the gates of hell within'¦

Download or read book Journeys into Terror written by Cynthia J. Miller and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since ancient times, explorers and adventurers have captured popular imagination with their frightening narratives of travels gone wrong. Usually, these stories heavily feature the exotic or unknown, and can transform any journey into a nightmare. Stories of such horrific happenings have a long and rich history that stretches from folktales to contemporary media narratives.This work presents eighteen essays that explore the ways in which these texts reflect and shape our fear and fascination surrounding travel, posing new questions about the "geographies of evil" and how our notions of "terrible places" and their inhabitants change over time. The volume's five thematic sections offer new insights into how power, privilege, uncanny landscapes, misbegotten quests, hellish commutes and deadly vacations can turn our travels into terror.

Download or read book Dust Be the Serpent s Meat written by Carver Wendell Waters and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a small town near the Gulf of Mexico, this novel is both social commentary on the lives of Black folk, as well as examination of the lives of five Black boys during the summer of 1954. The adult Black folk in Riverville are keenly aware of family histories which have developed under segregation, but which are inter-related to the white community. The diversity, resilience, and faults of these characters do not hinder their progress towards equality.