Download or read book The Distant Kingdoms Volume Two written by David A. Petersen and published by Distant Kingdoms. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to a scientific catastrophe, numerous people from a vast variety of places and various timelines have been deposited on the world of Perencore. Since arriving they have been in a constant fight for survival against an often hostile people and strange creatures. In some instances their endeavours to exist in this new environment lead them to form alliances with the planets original inhabitants.
Download or read book The Distant Kingdoms Volume One written by David A. Petersen and published by MoshPit Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MINERVA - The Roman Goddess of wisdom and the sciences as well as war. THE MINERVA PROJECT - A development of the multi-national corporation ScienceStart SCIENCESTART - Colin Bourke’s company whose main aim is to develop financially viable scientific achievements. Six of the finest scientific minds in the western world are working on a venture to lay the foundations to control the last bastion of our natural world- time. This unique experiment becomes a disaster when the Minerva Project suffers a catastrophic malfunction causing five members of the team to find themselves no longer on Earth. The sixth member of the team remains on his home world to ponder his part in this devastating failure. Along with the five members of the project’s initial research team, numerous other people from across Earth are summarily torn from their lives and deposited without rhyme or reason on this foreign world. These unfortunates include the last surviving members of a doomed British military expedition on the mountain of Isandhlwana in Africa, an Iroquois helicopter crew from an ill-fated mission during the Vietnam War, a hunted man from the streets of a city in Ireland, an SS officer on the run from justice in the aftermath of World War Two, a group of soldiers on opposite sides of the American Civil War and a suburban family innocently on holidays. Many other people are also transferred to the world of Perencore where they face a constant battle for survival in a harsh existence against seemingly overwhelming odds. Earth and Perencore are not the only worlds involved in this terrible violation of the natural order. The remnants of a mighty tribe of a people known as the Appor arrive in this new setting from their own planet. They too must face a constant fight to survive and find themselves battling a dreaded enemy from a time long past. These different characters individually, or as a collective begin an exploration of this extraordinary setting to seek answers to many questions about their current state of existence. More importantly they desperately search this new planet for a means of returning to their former lives on their home worlds. Some of the people involved in this dilemma find their lives uncomplicated enough to manage in this new society while others are forced to deal with a brutal existence where each and every day may bring about a sudden death at the hands of Perencore’s inhabitants. Their only means of defence on this world is their superior know-how, intellect and advanced technology. The main threat to the lives of this world’s new arrivals come in the form of a wide ranging group of merciless bandits called the Anhil. Another threat to the lives of the new inhabitants soon referred to by the local people as ‘Beyonders’ is the fact a long simmering feud is slowly escalating into a full-scale war between two mighty powers. The benign Hamaforth Kingdoms under the command of King Entell Thellon the Third have long been under threat of invasion by those persons overseeing the enemy state, The Azzil Territories whose overlord, Ruler Jom Azzer has vowed to take control of the entire Kingdoms at all costs. By the end of this volume some of the new arrivals to this planet have, with the kind assistance of the more benevolent members of the local community assimilated themselves into this rudimentary and antiquated society. Others find their fight for survival an endless nightmare and one character advances to the upper echelon of the nobility. In these, their new lives they unknowingly become involved in the machinations of ongoing hostilities between the two forces which include numerous assassination plots and an attempt to overthrow the Hamaforth Kingdoms’ monarchy by a bloody coup.
Download or read book The Angels of War written by David A Petersen and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality of Human Resources Education Volume II written by Natalia P. Tarasova and published by EOLSS Publications. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality of Human Resources: Education is a component of Encyclopedia of Human Resources Policy, Development and Management which is part of the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme is organized into five different topics which represent the main scientific areas of the theme: Foundations of Educational Systems; Knowledge for Education; Structural Foundations of Educational Systems; Educational Systems: Case Studies and Educational Indices; Education for Sustainable Development. Each of these consists of a topic chapter emphasizing the general aspects and various subject articles explaining the back ground, theory and practice of a specific type of education which is a very important factor in human development and awareness for achieving global sustainable development. These three volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students, Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers and NGOs.
Download or read book The Far Kingdoms written by Allan Cole and published by Allan Cole. This book was released on 2008 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young, pampered Amalric Antero cared only for real places and possible dreams. The time had come to find his trade wind, to make the traditional journey seeking out new lands, new riches, and new customers as his merchant father, and his father's father, had done before him. Original.
Download or read book The Distant Kingdoms Volume Four written by David A. Petersen and published by Distant Kingdoms. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Domain of Blurican ...The City of Varmorth ...The Grand Duke Termer Bethnorack ...Dale Johnstone, Connie York and Sean Corrigin find themselves in the Domain of Blurican.And all the gods in their infinite wisdom sent forth foul climates to punish those persons of the Domain of Blurican for their most wicked practices and heathen beliefs.
Download or read book A Kingdom Far and Clear written by Mark Helprin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-20 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a rare collaboration, bestselling authors Helprin and Van Allsburg worked for nearly a decade on this ambitious, multi-generational trilogy that pits the power of love and devotion against dark forces of greed and suppression. For the first time, this hardcover volume collects all three of Helprin's contemporary fantasies —Swan Lake,The Veil of Snows, andA City in Winter— along with Van Allsburg's sensitively wrought illustrations from the original editions. 39 full-color plates.
Download or read book Between Two Kingdoms written by Suleika Jaouad and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the author of the Life, Interrupted column in The New York Times ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, Library Journal, Booklist • “I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere. . . . Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown.”—Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review “Beautifully crafted . . . affecting . . . a transformative read . . . Jaouad’s insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us.”—The Washington Post In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. It started with an itch—first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times. When Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward—after countless rounds of chemo, a clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant—she was, according to the doctors, cured. But as she would soon learn, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it’s where it begins. She had spent the past 1,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal—to survive. And now that she’d done so, she realized that she had no idea how to live. How would she reenter the world and live again? How could she reclaim what had been lost? Jaouad embarked—with her new best friend, Oscar, a scruffy terrier mutt—on a 100-day, 15,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital: a teenage girl in Florida also recovering from cancer; a teacher in California grieving the death of her son; a death-row inmate in Texas who’d spent his own years confined to a room. What she learned on this trip is that the divide between sick and well is porous, that the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms throughout our lives. Between Two Kingdoms is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fierce, tender, and inspiring exploration of what it means to begin again.
Download or read book Bring Up the Bodies written by Hilary Mantel and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Award The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice. At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over three terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies follows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally with his natural enemies, the papist aristocracy. What price will he pay for Anne's head? Bring Up the Bodies is one of The New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2012, one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012 and one of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2012
Download or read book Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom written by Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for 1918-61 include reports of the proceedings of affiliated societies and congresses
Download or read book The Distant Kingdoms Volume Five written by David A. Petersen and published by Distant Kingdoms. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE AZZIL TERRITORIES - The second major power to be found on the world of Perencore and traditional enemy of the Hamaforth Kingdoms. THE CITY OF TERRIMORTER - The capital city of the Azzil Territories. RULER JOM AZZER - The man who rules the Azzil Territories with absolute authority. A major military conflict now brews between the two powers of the Hamaforth Kingdoms and their dreaded enemy the Azzil Territories. These authorities are currently vying for a superior position in an upcoming war. Eventually, the king, Entell Thellon the Third leads a mighty army to the west to combat the constant threat but discovers recent events are not what they initially appeared to be leading up to this conflict. The evil authority over in the dreaded nation of Blurican has fallen thanks to the interference of Dale Johnstone, Connie York and Sean Corrigan. They have now fled back to the Hamaforth Kingdoms and are attempting to come to grips with the horrors they faced while in that northern nation aiding the Freedom Brigade who were in a rebellion against the authority of the now deceased Grand Duke Termer Bethnorack and the horrific slave trade he openly supported. The Appor tribe and their associates, the Bonaparte family arrive at Valderhien, the capital city of the Hamaforth Kingdoms to discover that Carl Buchanan and the other Civil War soldiers along with Sergeant Major Walter Bradshaw and his British redcoat squad are already in place. Unfortunately, due to an issue within the Appor tribe a conflict arises between these various groups of Beyonders. Colin Bourke and his associates are involved in cleaning up the chaos after the attempted invasion of Xerous from the Azzil Territories under the guise of reinstalling Lord Perorn back on the Porran throne. During this time he is aided by Lieutenant Gary Wyndham and his Marines squad who have recently escaped a siege by the Anhil bandits just across the border. Unfortunately, not everything goes according to plan and they still face threats from inside the city. And further to the west, Victor Chan, Lorraine Montague and the Rider, Immir Hanis have been captured by a battalion of Territorian soldiers who will eventually escort them across the Azzil Territories to the city of Terrimorter to meet with none other than Ruler Jom Azzer. During their journey, they come across numerous threats to their safety from mysterious beasts to insane members of the local military. On reaching Terrimorter, they discover their lives in constant peril from the many different sources to be found in this legendary city.
Download or read book Kingdom Hearts 3D Dream Drop Distance The Novel light novel written by Tomoco Kanemaki and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To prepare for the great battle to come, Sora and Riku have been summoned to take the Mark of Mastery exam and become full-fledged Keyblade masters. This time, their journey will take them through the Sleeping Worlds, where they must find the seven Keyholes to gain a new kind of power. But not long after their test begins, the two friends find themselves separated, journeying through different versions of each world. What’s going on? And what awaits them at the end...?
Download or read book Distant Reading written by Franco Moretti and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and explores the polemics that have often developed around his positions. From the evolutionary model of "Modern European Literature," through the geo-cultural insights of "Conjectures of World Literature" and "Planet Hollywood," to the quantitative findings of "Style, inc." and the abstract patterns of "Network Theory, Plot Analysis," the book follows two decades of conceptual development, organizing them around the metaphor of "distant reading," that has come to define-well beyond the wildest expectations of its author-a growing field of unorthodox literary studies.
Download or read book Sand in the Wind written by Robert Roth and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vietnam War Novel focusing on I Corps and the Marines who fought there.
Download or read book Thom s Irish Almanac and Official Directory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 2032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emily Wilde s Encyclopaedia of Faeries written by Heather Fawcett and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north in this “incredibly fun journey through fae lands and dark magic” (NPR), the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series. “A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic.”—Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, PopSugar Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party—or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, Shadow, and the Fair Folk to other people. So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, muddle Emily’s research, and utterly confound and frustrate her. But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones—the most elusive of all faeries—lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town, she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she’ll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all—her own heart. Book One of the Emily Wilde Series
Download or read book Kingdoms of the Cursed written by Greg Keyes and published by Night Shade. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Greg Keyes has always been both a skilled storyteller.”—Terry Brooks, New York Times bestselling author Errol Greyson is awake and back in his own body, thanks to his friends Aster the witch and Veronica the half-dead girl. Unfortunately, due to the attempted suicide that led to his months-long coma and temporary reincarnation in Aster’s wooden automaton in the first place, he’s also in a mental hospital. But when the last person Errol expects breaks him out and forces him back to the magical Kingdoms, he has no other option but to attempt to undo a deadly curse threatening reality itself, in hopes of returning the realm to equilibrium. It’s dangerous business, especially in Errol’s merely-human form, weakened from months in bed. Fearing for their friend’s life, Aster and Veronica follow, but are quickly separated. Aster is captured by an ancient evil—the source of the curse—while Veronica confronts a mysterious admirer, her own evolving nature, and the dark spirit that murdered her years earlier. As vast armies collide and dragons take wing, the friends must find each other—and themselves—again.
