Download or read book The Queen s Adept written by Rodolfo Martínez and published by Sportula Ediciones. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The People's Covenant and God's Hammer have raged a Cold War that has lasted for over twenty years. A war without armies, where battles are fought in the dark and information is the most dangerous weapon. In this world —which sometimes seems the Middle Ages, sometimes the Renaissance and sometimes the Nineteenth Century— lives Yáxtor Brandan, empirical adept at the service of the Queen of Alboné. A relentless, amoral and unscrupulous character, Yáxtor fights to recover his own past as he tries to prevent a new player in the espionage game to end the world, as he knows it. A fascinating fast-moving and complex plot, full of tension and surprises and excellently paced; a main character for whom it should be impossible to feel the slightest sympathy, and yet somehow we do, even as his cruelty disturbs us more and more -an extremely difficult feat to pull off so successfully; powerful secondary actors, who either leave you with a sense of uneasiness with regard to their motivations and loyalties, or make you want to shout out -as people did in the early days of cinema- "Look out, don't trust him!"; and a pervading atmosphere of tragedy, especially in a final unexpected and shocking, yet on reflection almost inevitable, scene. In short, a totally addictive and highly original novel set in a world that is at once both strangely familiar and disturbingly alien. —Steve Redwood, author of Fisher of Devils.
Download or read book The Queen s Gamble written by Barbara Kyle and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Queen Elizabeth I's path to the throne has been a perilous one, and already she faces a dangerous crisis. French troops have landed in Scotland to quell a rebel Protestant army, and Elizabeth fears once they are entrenched on the border, they will invade England. Isabel Thornleigh has returned to London from the New World with her Spanish husband, Carlos Valverde, and their young son. Ever the queen's loyal servant, Isabel is recruited to smuggle money to the Scottish rebels. Yet Elizabeth's trust only goes so far-Isabel's son will be the queen's pampered hostage until she completes her mission. Matters grow worse when Isabel's husband is engaged as military advisor to the French, putting the couple on opposite sides in a deadly cold war. Set against a lush, vibrant backdrop peopled with unforgettable characters and historical figures, "The Queen's Gamble" is a story of courage, greed, passion, and the high price of loyalty. . . "Kyle is adept at layering her tale with colorful descriptions, accurate details and exciting twists within a fast-paced plot designed to keep readers' attention." --"Romantic Times" on "The Queen's Captive" "Unfurls a complex and fast-paced plot, mixing history with vibrant characters." --"Publishers Weekly" on "The King's Daughter " "Riveting, heady, glorious, inspired." --Susan Wiggs on "The Queen's Lady"
Download or read book The Queen s Bastard written by C. E. Murphy and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wow. C. E. Murphy is good. Court intrigue in an alternate Elizabethan-era fantasy world: realpolitik with the sex included.” –Kate Elliott, author of Crown of Stars In a world where religion has ripped apart the old order, Belinda Primrose is the queen’s secret weapon. The unacknowledged daughter of Lorraine, the first queen to sit on the Aulunian throne, Belinda has been trained as a spy since the age of twelve by her father, Lorraine’s lover and spymaster. Cunning and alluring, fluent in languages and able to take on any persona, Belinda can infiltrate the glittering courts of Echon where her mother’s enemies conspire. She can seduce at will and kill if she must. But Belinda’s spying takes a new twist when her witchlight appears. Now Belinda’s powers are unlike anything Lorraine could have imagined. They can turn an obedient daughter into a rival who understands that anything can be hers, including the wickedly sensual Javier, whose throne Lorraine both covets and fears. But Javier is also witchbreed, a man whose ability rivals Belinda’s own . . . and can be just as dangerous. Amid court intrigue and magic, loyalty and love can lead to more daring passions, as Belinda discovers that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. “C. E. Murphy vividly reimagines Renaissance Europe as a world both familiar and strange. Filled with intrigue and betrayal, her story is a chess game with six of seven sides, and I look forward to seeing what the next moves are.” –Marie Brennan, author of Warrior and Witch From the Trade Paperback edition.
Download or read book Lives of the Queens of England written by Agnes Strickland and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Body of the Queen written by Regina Schulte and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Michael Jackson explores a variety of contemporary topics, including 9/11, episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of new technologies, mundane forms of ritualization, the magical use of language, the sociality of violence, the prose of suffering, and the discourse of human rights. Throughout this compelling work, Jackson demonstrates that existentialism, far from being a philosophy of individual being, enables us to explore issues of social existence and coexistence in new ways, and to theorise events as the sites of a dynamic interplay between the finite possibilities of the situations in which human beings find themselves and the capacities they possess for creating viable forms of social life."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Terra s Anthem written by P.T.L. Perrin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Glass Palace Chronicle of the Kings of Burma written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 1829 King Bagyidaw of Burma appointed a committee of scholars to write a chronicle of the Burmese kings. The name of the chronicle was taken from the Palace of glass, in which the compilation was made. The present translation is based on the Mandalay edition of 1907. It begins with the third part which opens with history of the three Burmese kingdoms of Tagaung, Tharehkittara, and Pagan. The fourth and fifth parts continue the history of Pagan until the time of its fail.
Download or read book Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest written by Agnes Strickland and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning the Tarot written by Joan Bunning and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beginner's guide to the tarot, including a course of 19 lessons covering the basics and then moving gradually into more advanced concepts.
Download or read book Timewrecked written by VV Sinclair and published by Suma Books. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you could erase EVIL from history by changing ONE THING in the past, would you do it? What if it all went horribly WRONG? Prepare for a collision with destiny! Elizabeth Sapphire, 26th century professional time traveler and temporal scientist, is on the verge of a breathtaking discovery when a rogue temporal wave hits her asteroid, stranding her and her cat in 1909, in Gilded Age New York City, without a time machine! Sapphire has only one sure way to return to the 26th century: find her U-boat, customized for time travel, from whenever in time it is, refuel it and jump away before Anacron time enforcers catch up with her. Sounds like a plan – until Sapphire encounters Primeval, a time cult on a crusade to steal her discovery so they can rewrite history according to their twisted vision. Will Sapphire evade Anacron and the clutches of the enigmatic Primeval before her own distant past and mind-blowing destiny catch up with her? Join Elizabeth Sapphire as she battles to save the nature of time itself. Will she preserve history, or remain timewrecked in the past? Get your copy of Timewrecked today and unravel the mysteries of time in this science fiction time travel adventure.
Download or read book The Pursuit of the Millennium written by Norman Cohn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1970 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book explores the millenarianism that flourished in Western Europe between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries.
Download or read book The Tarot According to You written by Nancy Garen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In TAROT MADE EASY, Nancy Garen provided an authoritative, comprehensive guide to the tarot, one of the oldest and most popular divination systems. In her new book, she shows readers how to go a step further. Designed as a workbook that can be used with any tarot deck, THE TAROT ACCORDING TO YOU enables readers to increase their self-awareness and empower themselves by trusting their own interpretations and observations about the meanings of the cards.
Download or read book A Report of the Case of The Queen V Gurney and Others written by William Francis Finalson and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goddesses and Queens written by Annaliese Connolly and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The visual images of Queen Elizabeth I displayed in contemporary portraits and perpetuated and developed in more recent media, such as film and television, make her one of the most familiar and popular of all British monarchs. This collection of essays examines the diversity of the queen’s extensive iconographical repertoire, focusing on both visual and textual representations of Elizabeth, not only in portraiture and literature, but also in contemporary sermons, speeches and alchemical treatises. The collection broadens current critical thinking about Elizabeth, as each of the essays contributes to the debate about the ways in which the queen’s developing iconicity was not simply a celebratory mode, but also encoded criticism of her. Each of these essays explains the ways in which the varied representations of Elizabeth reflect the political and cultural anxieties of her subjects
Download or read book Faces from the Past written by Rodolfo Martínez and published by Sportula Ediciones. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Queen of Alboné and her entourage are going to Honoi in a diplomatic mission. Yáxtor Brandan, empirical adept at the Queen's service, will be among them. But he is not the Yáxtor Brandan he used to be. He has recovered the stolen memories from his past and he is beginning to assimilate them. Little by little, people and places that until now had no meaning for Yáxtor are becoming more and more familiar and the empirical adept finds himself in the middle of an unexpected exploration of his past. Old forgotten faces from his youth walk his mind halls and begin to give new shape to what he is and what he can become. His first love, his old mentor, his wife and his son, a betrayed lover and a new friend... those are the faces from Yáxtor's past he has to confront. And also a new one, an unknown face hidden in the shadows that could be the face of his greatest enemy.
Download or read book Fortune Telling with Playing Cards written by Jonathan Dee and published by Hampton Roads Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published as Simply Fortune Telling with Playing Cards. There is a certain romance attached to playing cards: from the riverboat gamblers on the Mississippi to genteel parlor games and the current popular surge in poker tournaments. How many of us while away our bored moments with a game of solitaire? This user-friendly guide will show you how to turn an ordinary deck of cards into a fun and simple tool for telling the future. Learn the past, present, and future with a regular deck of playing cards--no trivia, no special talents, no psychic ability. If you can read this, you can learn fortune telling with a regular deck of cards. The author explains the meaning of each of the 52 cards in the deck, plus the Joker, presents several layouts for general readings, and answers specific questions.
Download or read book Winds of Fury written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Three of The Mage Winds trilogy. No longer the willful novice of Winds of Fate, Princess Herald Elspeth has completed her magical training. She returns to her homeland with her beloved partner Darkwind. Will they be strong enough to confront the magical evil that is threatening their land?
