Download or read book Strangers Dark and Gold written by Norma Johnston and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the Greek myth of Jason, his search with the Argonauts for the Golden Fleece, and the final tragedy resulting from Medea's love for him.

Download or read book Strangers Dark and Gold written by Norma Johnston and published by Vivisphere Publishing. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Free Comic Book Day 2019 General written by Jody Houser and published by Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues). This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Horse is thrilled to announce tales from two diverse worlds in our FCBD Gold Offering featuring Netflix's Stranger Things and a spooky trip into Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston's Eisner Award-winning series Black Hammer with a cover by Chun Lo. In Stranger Things, writer Jody Houser and artist Ibrahim Moustafa bring the adventuring party back together after Eleven's disappearance, as Nancy and Steve find a way to lift the spirits of a despondent Mike. Perhaps all it takes is a roll of the dice. Then, in the world of the Eisner Award-winning Black Hammer series creator Jeff Lemire, guest writer Ray Fawkes, and artist David Rub’n, take the reader on an EC-style tour through Madame Dragonfly's mysterious Cabin of Horrors to witness two groups of brand-new Black Hammer heroes from the past! Learn more at FreeComicBookDay.com.

Download or read book Empire in Black and Gold written by Adrian Tchaikovsky and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city states of the Lowlands have lived in peace for decades, bastions of civilization, prosperity and sophistication, protected by treaties, trade and a belief in the reasonable nature of their neighbors. But meanwhile, in far-off corners, the Wasp Empire has been devouring city after city with its highly trained armies, its machines, it killing Art . . . And now its hunger for conquest and war has become insatiable. Only the aging Stenwold Maker, spymaster, artificer and statesman, can see that the long days of peace are over. It falls upon his shoulders to open the eyes of his people, before a black-and-gold tide sweeps down over the Lowlands and burns away everything in its path. But first he must stop himself from becoming the Empire's latest victim.

Download or read book The Stranger s Guide To Talliston written by John Tarrow and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stranger's Guide To Talliston is a YA fantasy adventure set in Britain's most extraordinary home: Talliston House & Gardens. Abandoned and alone, thirteen-year-old Joe’s world is shattered when he enters a deserted council house and becomes trapped within a labyrinth protecting the last magical places on earth. There, Joe discovers The Stranger’s Guide, a cryptic book charting this immense no-man’s land and his only map through its dark and dangerous puzzle of doors and rooms. Hunted by sinister forces, Joe is forced ever deeper into both the maze and the mystery of his missing parents. What lies at the labyrinth’s centre and will it reunite him with the family he so desperately needs? The novel is inspired by and set inside a unique and amazing house and gardens. Talliston was a 25-year project that took the UK’s most ordinary house and transformed it, room by room, by ordinary people on an ordinary budget, into Britain’s Most Extraordinary Home.

Download or read book The Chronicles of Stranger written by Adjeoda Tekpor and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blade of Anubis is the action-packed sequel to The Chronicles of Stranger, full of danger, mysteries, twists, magic, and battles. In this book, Stranger, now thirteen, truly begins his training as a magician and god. Delve into his mind as well as his adventures while Stranger begins to discover who he really is. The gods have offered him a spot at their god training camp; its a decision that might change his life forever. Will Stranger live to see the day or see his untimely demise? Meanwhile, the Great Serpent of Chaos himself has managed to seep just a wriggle of his essence from his otherworldly prison, spreading chaos and evil in his wake. Concurrently, monsters are being set loose all over the country, causing chaos to ravage the mortals of the earth. Yet Stranger takes more onto his already laden shoulders. Anubis has disappeared, and Stranger has taken it upon himself to find him. Without Anubis, the underworld is back up. The souls of the damned cannot be judged, and the worlds foundations are weakening. A strange woman in white keeps appearing to Stranger. Who is she, and what does she want from him? Can Stranger prepare himself for whats to come and save the world? If he cant, more will be lost than just his life . . .

Download or read book To Trust a Stranger written by Lynn Bulock and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A faded childhood photograph of the Barker girls was the only cluefound at a crime scene. But it didn't explain who'd want Jessie Barker'ssister dead. The snapshot brought back memories of another tragedy,shrouded in mystery, that left the Barker girls orphaned as children.Jessie had to find out what happened to her beloved sister, but she'dhave to trust a stranger with a twenty-five-year-old story that no onehad ever believed. Yet detective Steve Gardner did believe—and withGod's help he would aid Jessie in her dangerous quest for the truth....

Download or read book Seduced by A Stranger written by Eve Silver and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Just One Glance. . . The vast, dense forest and murky lake that surround Cairncroft Abbey aren't the only menacing elements that envelop the estate. For a dark history lies behind its walls--where secrets and evil still linger. . . She Falls. . . Catherine Weston arrives at Cairncroft Abbey to visit her childhood friend Madeline St. Aubyn whose health seems to deteriorate with each passing day. Even stranger, Madeline appears to grow more nervous whenever she is in the presence of her cousin, Gabriel. But Gabriel has quite a different effect on Catherine--stirring a longing deep within her. . . Under His Dangerous Spell. . . Gabriel St. Aubyn is haunted by the curse that has plagued his family for decades. Living with the constant torment that he too will succumb to it one day, he has resigned himself to a solitary existence. Yet when he meets Catherine, he cannot resist her company--or his growing desire for her. But when a young woman is found dead, Catherine cannot ignore the link between this horrific crime and Gabriel. Is he the tender, charismatic man she loves--or a sinister stranger waiting to make her his next victim?. . . Praise for the novels of Eve Silver. . . "Riveting! A dark, steamy and twisted tale!" --Lisa Jackson on His Dark Kiss "A dark and delicious gothic. I gobbled it up in a single sitting. Oh, how I have missed books like this!" --Linda Lael Miller on Dark Desires

Download or read book A Stranger on Her Doorstep written by Julie Miller and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She senses he's in danger because of his past. If only he could remember why… Ava Wallace feels safe in her remote cabin—until a wounded man collapses at her door. He remembers being a marine, but he has no idea who left him for dead or how he ended up in the mountains of Wyoming. As the stranger begins to recover his memory, he and Ava begin to trust each other. But every recollection brings them closer to a deadly revelation… From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.

Download or read book The Face of a Stranger written by Anne Perry and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exhilarating series debut, police detective William Monk must solve the mystery of his own past. His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk's efforts doubly difficult, since he's forgotten his professional skills along with everything else. “Richly textured with the sights and sounds of London and its countryside . . . Solidly absorbing and Perry's best to date.”—Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book The Stranger in the Mirror written by Jane Shilling and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle age took Jane Shilling by surprise. She hadn't seen it coming, and she certainly wasn't ready for it. Living a flawed, bittersweet version of the idyll she dreamed of in her twenties, in a tumbledown urban cottage by the Thames, with a son, a cat and a horse in a livery fifty miles away, she wondered whether middle age was the beginning of the end. Or was there one last great adventure to be had? The Stranger in the Mirror is one woman's attempt to understand what middle age means for her and whether, as a new generation of women turns fifty, a revolution is under way. It definitely won't reverse the signs of ageing - but it will make you laugh, it will make you think and it could just make you look in the mirror in a slightly different way...

Download or read book Stranger s of Fate written by Sarah Hoad and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Stranger's of Fate' is the third novel in the chilling Scripted Destiny series. Varela lives in New York with her family, working for one of the wealthiest families in the city. The day before her seventeenth birthday she awakens to the news that the ones closest to her have been killed in a boating accident. With a new master coming into her life, everything is thrown into turmoil. Varela starts to see images from the past, creatures presently living in her home and beyond all that, she is faced with a demon slowly casting his darkness around her. She is left with no choice but to run and in doing so she is faced with her strangers of fate, revealing a enchanting prophesy that could end it all.

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Download or read book The Stranger in Ireland written by Sir John Carr and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Black Stranger and Other American Tales written by Robert Ervin Howard and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful compilation of heroic fantasy and horror tales from the founding father of the sword-and-sorcery genre includes "The Black Stranger," an action-packed novella in which the author's legendary hero Conan faces his ultimate challenge, as well as "Pigeons from Hell," "Black Canaan," and other tales of the sinister forces that lurk beneath the surface of the ordinary life. Simultaneous.

Download or read book A Perfect Stranger written by Danielle Steel and published by Dell. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only daughter of a European banking dynasty, Raphaella had always been sheltered from the world. Married to a much older American, she was kept in the privacy of great luxury, tended to by servants, watched over by bodyguards. She was the beautiful dark-eyed woman the young lawyer from San Francisco, Alexander Hale, saw sitting alone one misty evening. Before he could approach her, she rushed away into the garden. She was the "perfect stranger" he couldn't forget. When they met again their lives would change forever.

Download or read book The Blades of the Rose Bundle Warrior Scoundrel Rebel Stranger written by Zoe Archer and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 2562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoe Archer’s BLADES OF THE ROSE series—featuring dashing men and fearless women—is finally together in one complete bundle! Warrior -- Book One The vicious attack Capt. Gabriel Huntley witnesses in a dark alley sparks a chain of events that will take him to the ends of the Earth and beyond--where what is real and what is imagined become terribly confused. And frankly, Huntley couldn't be more pleased. Intrigue, danger, and a beautiful woman in distress--just what he needs. Raised thousands of miles from England, Thalia Burgess is no typical Victorian lady. A good thing, because a proper lady would have no hope of recovering the priceless magical artifact Thalia is after. Huntley's assistance might come in handy, though she has to keep him in the dark. But this distractingly handsome soldier isn't easy to deceive... Scoundrel -- Book Two London Harcourt's father is bent on subjugating the world's magic to British rule. But since London is a mere female, he hasn't bothered to tell her so. He's said only that he's leading a voyage to the Greek isles. No matter, after a smothering marriage and three years of straitlaced widowhood, London jumps at the opportunity--unfortunately, right into the arms of Bennett Day. Bennett is a ladies' man, when he's not dodging lethal attacks to protect the powers of the ancients from men like London's father. Sometimes, he's a ladies' man even when he is dodging them. But the minute he sees London he knows she will require his full attention. The woman is lovely, brilliant, and the only known speaker of a dialect of ancient Greek that holds the key to calling down the wrath of the gods. Bennett will be risking his life again--but around London, what really worries him is the danger to his heart... Rebel -- Book Three Nathan Lesperance is used to being different. He's the first Native attorney in Vancouver, and welcome neither with white society nor his sometime tribe. Not to mention the powerful wildness he's always felt inside him, too dangerous to set free. Then he met Astrid Bramfield and saw his like within her piercing eyes. Now, unless she helps him through the harsh terrain and the harsher unknowns of his true abilities, it could very well get him killed... Astrid has traveled this path before. Once she was a Blade of the Rose, protecting the world's magic from unscrupulous men, with her husband by her side. But she's loved and lost, and as a world-class frontierswoman, she knows all about survival. Nathan's searing gaze and long, lean muscles mean nothing but trouble. Yet something has ignited a forgotten flame inside her: a burning need for adventure, for life--and perhaps even for love... Stranger -- Book Four Gemma Murphy has a nose for a story--even if the boys in Chicago's newsrooms would rather focus on her chest. So when she runs into a handsome man of mystery discussing how to save the world from fancy-pants Brit conspirators, she's sensing a scoop. Especially when he mentions there's magic involved. Of course, getting him on the record would be easier if he hadn't caught her eavesdropping... Catullus Graves knows what it's like to be shut out: his ancestors were slaves. And he's a genius inventor with appropriately eccentric habits, so even people who love him find him a little odd. But after meeting a certain redheaded scribbler, he's thinking of other types of science. Inconvenient, given that he needs to focus on preventing the end of the world as we know it. But with Gemma's insatiable curiosity sparking Catullus's inventive impulses, they might set off something explosive anyway...