Download or read book The Dark Eye Starless Sky written by Eevie Demirtel and published by Ulisses Spiele. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Eye Short Story Anthology When stars fall from the sky, the peoples of Aventuria see visions of impending doom. The signs are clear to everyone, from simple farmers to clergy and even crowned heads of state. Whether these visions will prove true, or even possible, none can say. The Walls of Alveran tremble as the Nameless God rattles his chains, setting monumental events in motion. The Turn of Ages brings great change to Aventuria, and the fate of the entire world hangs in the balance. Will valiant heroes tip the scales of destiny? This collection of short stories gathers tales related to the fateful and ongoing event known as the Starfall. Within these pages you'll find 24 fantastical stories to transport you to the far corners of Aventuria and beyond, giving you a further glimpse into the richly detailed setting of The Dark Eye.
Download or read book A Moonless Starless Sky written by Alexis Okeowo and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD "A rich and urgently necessary book" (New York Times Book Review), A Moonless, Starless Sky is a masterful, humane work of journalism by Alexis Okeowo--a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism. In A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph Kony's LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely campaign against modern-day slavery; a women's basketball team flourishing amid war-torn Somalia; and a vigilante who takes up arms against the extremist group Boko Haram. This debut book by one of America's most acclaimed young journalists illuminates the inner lives of ordinary people doing the extraordinary--lives that are too often hidden, underreported, or ignored by the rest of the world.
Download or read book Idiot Savant written by Anthony M. Alioto and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall semester, 1969: a socially awkward student, Sylvian Matreya, returns to a small Midwestern university in order to continue his studies in physics. Despite his efforts to avoid student activism, he becomes a sought-after recruit by the Great Truth Cloud (a psychedelic hippie cult) and the People's Will (a violent band of revolutionaries). Both seek to indoctrinate him and bring him into their respective movements. But why? Why him? Up to this point in his life, Sylvian has been invisible. People call him an "idiot." After the revolutionary murder of a student, our "idiot" seems to drop through the floor of reality into a murky, fantastic world of wild plots and stranger people. And in so doing, Sylvian discovers his own surprising destiny.
Download or read book The Power of One A Journal for Educators written by Pamula Handsborough and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-22 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of One: A Journal for Educators is a reflection journal designed for educators. As class sizes, demographics, mobility rates and parental involvement continues to change, teachers are looking for solutions to help them reach all students sitting in their classrooms. This educator reflection journal challenges teachers to analyze their own attitudes, beliefs and practices and make the necessary changes to be "The Power of One", leading their students to success.
Download or read book Transfusion written by Deborah J. Ross and published by Deborah J. Ross. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vampire has known only evil since he was made, until an unlikely friendship reconnects him with life... Two women mourning two dead mothers tread the boundaries between grief and obsession... A ghoulish spirit haunts a refugee in Renaissance Venice... A healer discovers a dying man with the heart of a dragon on her doorstep... Two boys travel back in time to discover the true nature of Tyrannosaurus rex... A mother vampire, struggling to raise two vampire children in Hollywood, encounters her biggest challenge yet: the PTA. From the ancient Indus Valley to post-apocalyptic California come fourteen tales of love, redemption, and hope...and occasional humor.
Download or read book Wings to the Sun written by K. E. Griffin and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morphee, a mighty gryphon of royal descent, is a sought-after commodity within the borders of Arginne. Everyone wants her for something: war, love, companionship. Master Mage Rynor, however, feels he has the biggest claim to her and will do what is necessary to secure both Morphee and all of Arginne as his own. Will he ever understand that even his smallest decisions affect so many and the courses of actions? Everyone has their personal struggles with self-worth, whether it be having too much or too little. Follow the soon-to-be-beloved characters of Arginne and discover that everyone has a purpose, worth, and hidden talents.
Download or read book The Bard of the North a Series of Poetical Tales Illustrative of Highland Scenery and Character written by Dugald MOORE (Scottish Poet.) and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bard of the North written by Dugald Moore and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gothiniad written by Surazeus Astarius and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothiniad of Surazeus - Oracle of Gotha presents 150,792 lines of verse in 1,948 poems, lyrics, ballads, sonnets, dramatic monologues, eulogies, hymns, and epigrams written by Surazeus 1993 to 2000.
Download or read book Hey Let Me Go written by , Alpenlibe and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little guy brandished his fist and shouted in exasperation, Quickly put me down, I'm an adult now The man held him high up in the air and replied, "Yes, yes. You will become an adult soon." The little guy was flustered and exasperated. It swung its tail at the man's face and said, "Don't think of me as a child, f*ck off to an adult!"
Download or read book Beautiful Darkness written by Kami Garcia and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall under the spell of the Beautiful Darkness, the sequel to the instant New York Times bestselling gothic fantasy, Beautiful Creatures! There were no surprises in Gatlin County. At least, that's what I thought. Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong. Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin as a place where nothing ever changed. Then mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes revealed a secret world of curses and Supernaturals with terrifying abilities. Lena showed him a Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen. Sometimes life-ending. And now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.
Download or read book Backstitched and Stabbed written by Tilly Wallace and published by Ribbonwood Press. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only thing worse than wet woollen togs, is a knife in the back… As the kiwi summer draws to a close, a family outing to the beach takes a deadly turn when a lifeless body washes up on shore. Grace is devastated to recognise the victim, Ricky, who worked in her friend’s bakery. But when the supposed drowning victim is rolled over, a shocking truth is revealed—he was murdered. Drawn into finding the murderer of the cheerful baker, Grace picks at the tangled web of secrets that surrounded Ricky. The man lived a double, or even triple, life. But which version of him had provoked the fatal encounter? Grace and her friends must find the person responsible, before another life is lost to the same tide of violence that claimed Ricky. This is the second instalment in the Grace Designs mystery series, about a seamstress turned sleuth in Wellington, New Zealand at the dawn of the 1920s.
Download or read book Darkspell written by Katharine Kerr and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the long roads of Deverry ride two mercenaries whose fates like hidden deep in that of their own land. But Lord Rhodry, exiled from the dragon court of Aberwyn, has yet to discover his true parentage, and his swordmaster-lover, Jill, has barely glimpsed her awesome powers. Meanwhile, the ancient sorcerer Nevyn, held back by his vows from boldly intervening in their lives, can only watch and wait as Rhodry and Jill move ever closer to danger. For as the two struggle to recover the Great Stone, the mystic jewel that guides the conscience of the kingship of Deverry, malevolent dark masters are weaving terrifying spells against them--and displacing messengers of death. Katharine Kerr has extensively rewritten Darkspell, incorporating major changes in the text, making this her definitive edition. Here the epic saga that began with the Daggerspell continues--a tale of might and magic, lust and glory, dark danger and poignant desires that echo from Deverry's sapphire waters to its secret mountain caverns. It's a spellbinding story destined to please fantasy lovers everywhere.
Download or read book Sovereignty The ArcKnight Wolf Pack Chronicles 2 written by Alexia Purdy and published by Lyrical Lit. Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This includes previously titled book 3: Enmity, & book 4: Sovereign, now combined into one novel. In the City of Temple only the most cunning supernaturals survive. At odds for years, the ArcKnight and MarkTier wolf-shifter packs of Temple must work together against a new threat before all is lost, and everything they’ve built falls to ruin.
Download or read book The ArcKnight Chronicles Omnibus Books 1 4 written by Alexia Purdy and published by Lyrical Lit. Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the treacherous City of Temple where supernaturals and humans intertwine, only the most cunning will survive. At odds for years, the ArcKnight and MarkTier wolf packs of Temple must work together against a new threat before all is lost and everything they’ve built falls to ruin. Time has finally run out as a centuries-old evil seeks to rule the shifter strongholds once and for all. This includes books 1-4
Download or read book Taming the Beast written by Beau Lake and published by 4 Horsemen Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can they find a way to move past their dark secrets and find solace in each other? Returning to his hometown in Tennessee, Samuel Campbell is searching for absolution. He made a promise in Wharton to never hurt another human ever again. Coming home is the ultimate test. There are dark memories here, a trail of bodies left behind by a once-rabid wolf. In Sevierville, he discovers the hardest part of confronting his past is facing his own conscience. Kindergarten teacher Nadia Montanari is accustomed to whispers and stares. After all, she is recently divorced, which is the absolute *worst* thing a 1940’s American woman can be. Then, she discovers she is pregnant. If her secret comes to light, her livelihood will be taken from her. Her family will disown her. She’ll be a pariah. When Samuel and Nadia meet, sparks fly. But both are harboring relationship-ending secrets. And there’s something far darker too: Nadia has met Samuel before. She was nearly one of Samuel’s victims back in 1937, though neither one can remember.
Download or read book Violet Eyes written by Elaine Ramsay and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the surface, London’s hairdressing world in the 1960’s is a world of glamour, wealth and celebrity. A world of excitement and opportunity. But all is not what it at first seems and the superficial gloss masks something deeper, more sinister.
