Download or read book Ruins of Fate written by Alledria Hurt and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final installment in the Fate Circle Saga

Download or read book Ruins of Fate written by Jamie A. Waters and published by Omni Towers. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One wrong decision, and the future will crumble... Skye Levanthe traded everything she owned in order to secure a place for herself and her son, Veridian, in a scavenging camp. But all contracts have an expiration date. Desperate to obtain the resources they need to survive, Skye agreed to navigate the dangerous ruins of fallen cities to search for tradeable materials. When a strange storm forced Skye and her scavenging partner into forbidden territory controlled by The Omni Towers, a ruin collapsed, nearly taking their lives and destroying countless others. Only one other person survived the ruin collapse: a mysterious young girl named Kayla. Faced with the decision to save her son or abandon her new foster daughter to a terrible fate, Skye agreed to the only possible course of action--to go into exile and take on the Omni traders in their own den. No one ever said survival would be easy. And every choice has consequences. The Omni Towers is an exciting post-apocalyptic fantasy series with romantic elements and shocking twists. Join Skye as she unearths the secrets of the past and discovers a hidden world no one thought was possible.

Download or read book Ruins written by Achy Obejas and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true believer is faced with a choice between love for his family and the Cuban Revolution. “Daring, tough, and deeply compassionate, Achy Obejas’s Ruins is a breathtaker. Obejas writes like an angel, which is to say: gloriously . . . one of Cuba’s most important writers.” —Junot Díaz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction “[An] honest and superbly written book.” —Miami Herald Usnavy has always been a true believer. When the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959, he was just a young man and eagerly signed on for all of its promises. But as the years have passed, the sacrifices have outweighed the glories and he’s become increasingly isolated in his revolutionary zeal. His friends openly mock him, his wife dreams of owning a car totally outside their reach, and his beloved fourteen-year-old daughter haunts the coast of Havana, staring north. In the summer of 1994, a few years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the government allows Cubans to leave at will and on whatever will float. More than 100,000 flee—including Usnavy’s best friend. Things seem to brighten when he stumbles across what may or may not be a priceless Tiffany lamp that reveals a lost family secret and fuels his long repressed feelings . . . But now Usnavy is faced with a choice between love for his family and the Revolution that has shaped his entire life.

Download or read book Lying In Ruins written by Jami Gray and published by Celtic Moon Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dare to find out why readers are binging on this complete post-apocalyptic romance series from Jami Gray! In a world gone to hell, better to choose the devil you know… The world didn't end in fire and explosions, instead after an intensifying panic of disease, food shortages, wild weather, and floundering economies, it collapsed like slow falling dominoes, until what remained of humanity battles for survival in a harsh new reality. As a ‘Hound, Charity puts the lethal survival skills learned at an early age to use by sniffing out pivotal secrets for one of the most powerful leaders on what remains of the west coast. Her work is deceptive, deadly, and best performed solo, but when her path crosses with a member of the notorious mercenary group known as Fate’s Vultures, she’s faced with a less than stellar choice – join the sexy as hell Ruin in a mockery of teamwork or waste her valuable time shaking him loose. As one of Fate’s Vultures, a nomadic band of ruthless arbitrators, Ruin knows well the type of carnage created by the corruption and greed of what remains of humanity, so when he rides into a brutal murder scene and discovers his friend has been taken hostage, he’ll use whatever resources he can to save him. Even if one of those resources is a damn ‘Hound who’s clearly trouble. Trouble, Ruin knows he should avoid, especially since the suspicious circumstance of Charity’s involvement leaves every cell of his body skeptical - and painfully aroused. But Fate has other plans, especially when Ruin and Charity realize they have a common enemy. Can they set aside their distrust to achieve their mutual goal of justice and revenge? Sometimes, it's better to stick with the devil you know... ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** Dare to find out why readers are binging on this complete post-apocalyptic romance series from Jami Gray with this first in series, LYING IN RUINS and claim your copy now! Meet a new breed of warriors, Fate’s Vultures, a mercenary band who live by a code in a world gone to hell – loyalty to each other, but for the right price, they’ll be the shield for those without. In the ravaged aftermath of the post-apocalyptic these evocative couples will stop at nothing to claim their future. Welcome to the world of The Collapse. "This is a sexy Mad Max that keeps you turning the pages." - Amazon Review "I'm always looking for a good post-apocalyptic romance to sink my teeth into. This book delivered!" - Amazon Review ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** *This is a revised edition of previously released title

Download or read book The Ruins written by Scott Smith and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-07-18 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine in "the best horror novel of the new century" (Stephen King). Also a major motion picture! Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation—sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site ... and the terrifying presence that lurks there. "The Ruins does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches.” —Entertainment Weekly “Smith’s nail-biting tension is a pleasure all its own.... This stuff isn’t for the faint of heart.” —New York Post “A story so scary you may never want to go on vacation, or dig around in your garden, again.” —USA Today

Download or read book Ruins of Fate written by Jamie A. Waters and published by Hidden Realms Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One wrong decision, and the future will crumble… Skye Levanthe traded everything she owned in order to secure a place for herself and her son, Veridian, in a scavenging camp. But all contracts have an expiration date. Desperate to obtain the resources they need to survive, Skye agreed to navigate the dangerous ruins of fallen cities to search for tradeable materials. When a strange storm forced Skye and her scavenging partner into forbidden territory controlled by The Omni Towers, a ruin collapsed, nearly taking their lives and destroying countless others. Only one other person survived the ruin collapse: a mysterious young girl named Kayla. Faced with the decision to save her son or abandon her new foster daughter to a terrible fate, Skye agreed to the only possible course of action—to go into exile and take on the Omni traders in their own den. No one ever said survival would be easy. And every choice has consequences. The Omni Towers is an exciting post-apocalyptic fantasy series with romantic elements and shocking twists. Join Skye as she unearths the secrets of the past and discovers a hidden world no one thought was possible.

Download or read book Beyond the Ruins written by Jefferson Cowie and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Download or read book Gods of the Runes written by Frank Joseph and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient origins and divinatory power of the runes • Uncovers the original divinatory meaning of each rune through the myths of its corresponding Norse god or goddess • Includes beautiful full-color illustrations of the runic gods and goddesses • Presents rune-casting spreads for divination and character analysis • Explores the controversial history of runes from the Paleolithic Stone Age to today Invented long before the appearance of the runic alphabet Futhark less than two thousand years ago, the runes were originally created as symbols for specific deities. Representing the twenty-four Norse gods and goddesses from the Vanir and Aesir pantheons, the runes provide a way to establish direct contact with the divine shapers of fate. Based on the work of Austrian mystic and runologist Guido von List and anthropologist Marija Gimbutas as well as the oldest rune artifacts to survive from pre-Christian Europe, this book reveals the long history of runes from their appearances in Paleolithic cave paintings through their rechristening in Medieval times to their modern resurgence as a popular tool of divination. It uncovers the original names and divinatory meanings of each rune by exploring the myths, personality traits, astrological periods, identifying colors, and gemstones of the rune’s corresponding god or goddess. It also illustrates and explains five ancient rune-casting spreads used by Norse adepts for divination as well as character analysis. By renewing their link with the divine, Gods of the Runes shows how working with the runes can be a genuine mystical experience, enabling a personal connection with the gods and a rediscovery of their perennial truths.

Download or read book The Ruins Lesson written by Susan Stewart and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 'The Ruins Lesson,' the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet-critic Susan Stewart explores the West's fascination with ruins in literature, visual art, and architecture, covering a vast chronological and geographical range from the ancient Egyptians to T. S. Eliot. In the multiplication of images of ruins, artists, and writers she surveys, Stewart shows how these thinkers struggled to recover lessons out of the fragility or our cultural remains. She tries to understand the appeal in the West of ruins and ruination, particularly Roman ruins, in the work and thought of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, whom she returns to throughout the book. Her sweeping, deeply felt study encompasses the founding legends of broken covenants and original sin; Christian transformations of the classical past; the myths and rituals of human fertility; images of ruins in Renaissance allegory, eighteenth-century melancholy, and nineteenth-century cataloguing; and new gardens that eventually emerged from ancient sites of disaster"--

Download or read book Ruins of Ancient Cities written by Charles Bucke and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ruins written by Constantin-François Volney and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ruins" is a work by Constantin-François Volney, a French philosopher and historian. The full title of the book is "The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature." It was first published in 1791. In "The Ruins," Volney explores the historical and philosophical implications of the rise and fall of empires. The work delves into the causes of societal decay and the cyclical nature of civilizations. Volney draws on his observations during travels in the Middle East, including visits to ancient ruins, to support his reflections on the fate of empires. The book is considered a significant work of Enlightenment thinking and has influenced discussions on history, politics, and philosophy. Volney's reflections on the patterns of human societies have contributed to the understanding of the rise and decline of civilizations. For readers interested in Enlightenment philosophy, the history of ideas, and reflections on the fate of empires, "The Ruins" by C. F. Volney provides a thought-provoking exploration of these themes.

Download or read book El Palacio written by Bruce T. Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ruins of Ancient Cities Abydos Memphis written by Charles Bucke and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Pursuit of Ruins written by Christina Bueno and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins argues that the government effort to take control of the ancient remains took off in the late nineteenth century during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. Under Díaz Mexico acquired an official history more firmly rooted in Indian antiquity. This prestigious pedigree served to counter Mexico’s image as a backward, peripheral nation. The government claimed symbolic links with the great civilizations of pre-Hispanic times as it hauled statues to the National Museum and reconstructed Teotihuacán. Christina Bueno explores the different facets of the Porfirian archaeological project and underscores the contradictory place of indigenous identity in modern Mexico. While the making of Mexico’s official past was thought to bind the nation together, it was an exclusionary process, one that celebrated the civilizations of bygone times while disparaging contemporary Indians.

Download or read book Ruins of Many Lands a Descriptive Poem written by Nicholas Michell and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ruins of Ancient Cities written by Charles Bucke and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Ruins of Ancient Cities by Charles Bucke

Download or read book Visions and ruins written by Joshua Davies and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions and ruins explores the production of cultural memory in the Middle Ages and the uses the medieval past has been put to in modernity. Working with texts in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as visual and material culture, it traces connections in time, place, language and media to explore the temporal complexities of cultural production and subject formation. The book interrogates critical, poetic, artistic and political archives to reveal exchanges of cultural energy and influence between past and present, offering new ways of knowing the medieval past and the contemporary moment.