Download or read book Twisted Peace Colors Hidden in Shadow written by Dennis Beggs and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about looking into mortality knowing that around every corner death could be waiting. Its about enjoying your short time here not worring about the petty things. It is also about the first six chapters of Cain The First drop The first vampire from his own perspective as he was given the ultimate punishment to feed only of blood and eat of only ash. How Lucifer tricks him and how the rest of the vampire population came into being. How without the story of Cain and Abel none of the other tales you have been told would even exist. I hope you enjoy and are looking forward to the rest of the novel coming out soon Dennis Beggs

Download or read book Where Shadows Hide the Sun The First Years written by D. G. H. Delgado and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-12-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'll do anything--I'll even preach!" As a boy, Dave cut a deal with God to save his life. Decades later, Dave and his friends are on his final street-preaching trip. "Jesus came for all, so we should go to all!" With that attitude, Dave fights spiritual resistance as he and his young family endeavor to leave the life they've known and join a team of missionaries stationed in an increasingly militant Islamic country. "God's calling is clear," Dave's pastor reassures him. Yet Dave is unaware of how catastrophic his sin will be . . . or the dangers his children will face . . . or how deep the calling will go . . . in the land where shadows hide the sun.

Download or read book The Shadow of the Wind written by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-01-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller “The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice) “One gorgeous read.” —Stephen King Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.

Download or read book Twisted Pretty Things written by Ariana Nash and published by Crazy Ace Publishing. This book was released on with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something wicked is moving in the shadows of London… In the underground world of glitzy illegal auctions, fast cars, and stolen magical artifacts, John “Dom” Domenici knows he’s out of his depth. But he needs the job at Kempthorne & Co like he needs to breathe. The alternative—going back to the organized crime gangs of London’s East End—is unthinkable. So when Alexander Kempthorne, boss of Kempthorne & Co Artifact Retrieval Agency, wants him on a special case to track down an illegal artifact dealer, Dom can’t say no. It shouldn’t matter that Kempthorne’s world is full of deadly secrets. It shouldn’t matter that the billionaire is sexy as sin, and it really shouldn’t matter how there’s an American agent stalking Dom, an American who knows more than he should about Dom’s case, including the real reason Alexander Kempthorne hired Dom. The only thing that really matters to Dom is solving the case and finding the artifact dealer. Because there are worse things in London than a conflicted billionaire and a trigger-happy American. Something wicked is stalking London’s streets, and if Dom doesn’t stop it, its shadows will rise and consume them all. *** Twisted Pretty Things is the first book in the all-new Shadows of London MM urban fantasy series. Action, mystery, and gay romance combine in this fast-paced adventure from the author who brought you the award-winning Silk & Steel series and the best-selling Prince's Assassin series. Please note the Shadows of London series is set in London and the characters are all British (so is the author). Although the series has been edited in US English for the US market, to include US spelling and grammar, many English slang words and spelling remain as part of the character of the work.

Download or read book Inside Out Back Again written by Thanhha Lai and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.

Download or read book Embers at Galdrilene written by A.D. Trosper and published by Silver Spirit . This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five hundred years after the War of Fire, the ability to use magic is a death sentence and dragons are remembered as a curse. But a hidden clutch of unhatched dragons sing for their riders...and six lives are changed forever. A thief, a soldier, a simple young woman, a rejected healer, a man dedicated to his Watch, and another sent away by a father who knows the truth. Each with a growing magic inside them and no choice but to leave the lives they had behind. The elements of magic are drawn together as the dragons’ call leads them on a journey where they learn everything they've been taught to believe about magic and dragons is wrong. A journey that forges friendships and love into unbreakable bonds. When an evil from the past rises again and one of their own is captured, they will risk everything to save a future none of them thought possible.

Download or read book The Hidden Spirituality of Men written by Matthew Fox and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is no secret that men are in trouble today. From war to ecological collapse, most of the world’s critical problems stem from a distorted masculinity out of control. Yet our culture rewards the very dysfunctions responsible for those problems. To Matthew Fox, our crucial task is to open our minds to a deeper understanding of the healthy masculine than we receive from our media, culture, and religions. Popular religion forces the punitive imagery of fundamentalism on us, pushing most men away from their natural yearning for spirituality and toward intolerance and domination. Meanwhile, many men, particularly young men, are looking for images of healthy masculinity to emulate and finding nothing. To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he unearths ten metaphors, or archetypes, ranging from the Green Man, an ancient pagan symbol of our fundamental relationship with nature, to the Grandfatherly Heart to the Spiritual Warrior. He explores archetypes of sacred marriage, showing how partnership becomes the ultimate expression of healthy masculinity. By stirring our natural yearning for healthy spirituality, Fox argues, these timeless archetypes can inspire men to pursue their higher calling to reinvent the world.

Download or read book The Last Shadow written by Orson Scott Card and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender's Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe—the deadly virus they call the descolada, which is incurable and will kill all of humanity if it is allowed to escape from Lusitania. One planet. Three sapient species living peacefully together. And one deadly virus that could wipe out every world in the Starways Congress, killing billions. Is the only answer another great Xenocide? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Crossing Color written by Therese Steffen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rita Dove (b. 1952) was elected Poet Laureate--the first ever African-American to hold the position--in 1993, in recognition of work that combines racially sensitive observation with searing and immediate personal experience. She is best known for her substantial body of poetry, although she has also been recognized for her many accomplishments in drama and fiction, written in both German and English. Crossing Color, written by a well-known Americanist in the European community, is the first full-length critical study offering a comprehensive biographic and literary portrait of Rita Dove and her work.

Download or read book A Dark and Secret Magic written by Wallis Kinney and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! A warm, spellbinding tale about a witch and the secrets her coven has been keeping from her, with echoes of the classic Hades and Persephone story, in the tradition of Practical Magic and Witch of Wild Things. Hecate Goodwin, Kate to her friends, has curated the perfect life as a hedge witch, living in a secluded cottage with only a black cat for company. She spends her days foraging herbs from the Ipswich forest, gardening, and creating tinctures to sell at the apothecary she owns. Most evenings pass without her speaking to another human being, an arrangement she quite prefers. Kate’s solitude is thrown into disarray when her older sister, Miranda, reaches out and asks her to host their coven’s annual Halloween gathering. The day marks the beginning of the new year for witches and is also Kate’s birthday. The pressure from her coven to make the evening memorable mounts as the event draws near. To complicate things further, a handsome man from Kate’s past turns up at her cottage, asking for sanctuary. It is Kate’s duty as a hedge witch to honor this request, much to her dismay. Matthew Cypher is no ordinary lost soul–he’s a practitioner of forbidden magic who’s tricked Kate once before, and her guard is up. As she juggles Matthew’s arrival and the preparations for Halloween, Kate comes across an old tome shrouded in dark magic. She is horrified when she realizes the blood-red inscription is written in familiar handwriting: her recently deceased mother’s. Afraid to even touch the dark magic her mother secretly studied, Kate can turn only to Matthew for help. Her idealized memory of her mother begins to distort, and as she and Matthew grow closer, Kate has to reevaluate whom she can really trust. A Dark and Secret Magic is a celebration of the Halloween season and a love letter to anyone who drinks pumpkin spice in August and carries the spirit of a witch inside their heart all year long.

Download or read book Avatar The Last Airbender The Rise of Kyoshi Chronicles of the Avatar Book 1 written by F.C. Yee and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender comes the instant USA Today and New York Times bestselling novel starring Avatar Kyoshi—now in paperback! Written in consultation with Michael Dante DiMartino, the visionary cocreator and executive producer of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra animated TV series. Justice begins with one woman. After nine years of desperate searching for the next Avatar, the discovery of young, charming Avatar Yun has brought stability to the four nations—that is, until Earth Kingdom-born Kyoshi, Yun’s unassuming friend and servant, demonstrates remarkable bending during a mission to the South Pole. With the identity of the true Avatar at stake and the growing unrest among her allies turning into violence, Kyoshi is forced to flee the Avatar mansion with her fiery friend Rangi, taking little more than the metal war fans and headdress her parents left behind. It isn’t easy finding Avatar training on the run, but Kyoshi and Rangi find unlikely supporters in the daofei: ragtag criminals and outlaws living in the shadows of the Earth Kingdom. Torn between following the traditional path of an Avatar and seeking vengeance for those she has lost, Kyoshi struggles to accept her newfound power as she trains in secret. But while Kyoshi, Rangi, and her daofei friends face off against brutal underworld rivals, those who seek to control the Avatar draw ever closer to her, leaving trails of the dead in their wake. The story behind the longest-living Avatar in the history of this beloved world, The Rise of Kyoshi maps Kyoshi’s journey from a girl of humble origins to the merciless pursuer of justice still feared and admired centuries after becoming the Avatar. “Yee artfully weaves in political entanglements as well as complex cultural identities to fully immerse readers in Kyoshi’s world. . . . An action-packed tale that answers some long-awaited questions; fans will look forward to the promised sequel.” —Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book What About the Baby written by Clare McNally and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MOTHER. BABY. AND EVIL MADE THREE… Though little older than a child herself, Gabrielle Hansen is determined to give her baby all the love that had been denied her in the orphanage she called home. Except as the baby grows inside her, strange chants begin to enter her mind. . . visions of death haunt her dreams . . . and dead animals turn up in her bed, their blood smeared on bedroom mirrors. But the real horror begins when Gabrielle learns the truth about the dark forces that have been watching her, and lusting after her unborn son. She races across the country in desperation, trying to flee an undying evil from the past that wants the one thing that Gabrielle holds most dear— her baby. PRAISE FOR CLARE MCNALLY: “You won’t sleep after you read this one!” ~The West Orange Times on Somebody Come and Play "A macabre imagination and a tight rein on your nerves are required for McNally's latest release.” ~Publishers Weekly on Good Night Sweet Angel

Download or read book A Bond Never Broken written by Elysium Irie and published by Elysium Irie. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the captivating novel, "A Bond Never Broken," Andromeda Cirillo, heir to the New Moon pack, dreams of becoming a protector of the werewolf realm, defying her Alpha lineage. Meanwhile, Alexander Lykiaos, the next Alpha King, is destined to be with Andromeda as his fated mate. But as war looms between realms, their love is tested. Andromeda's parents, Alpha Jaron and Luna Elise, guide her path, while Alexander's brother Hector covets the throne and seeks power with the cunning Anastasia. As the kingdom of Calir hails their beloved prince, threats from vampires, witches, and rogue wolves emerge, uniting the once-rivaling factions. Facing daunting challenges and temptations, Alexander and Andromeda's bond is put to the test, and they must confront their true destinies. With a world at stake and alliances forming, the tale culminates in a thrilling battle against an unknown evil, a powerful sorcerer threatening to consume all realms. "A Bond Never Broken" weaves a tale of love, sacrifice, and courage, where two fated mates must embrace their roles as Alpha King and Luna, to preserve their love and protect the werewolf realm from dark forces. But, will they see their destiny?

Download or read book The Silent Vineyard written by Miriam Richardson and published by Field Books. This book was released on with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Ravenwood, a town where life moves at a slower pace, the air is filled with the aroma of freshly baked bread and the sweet scent of ripening grapes, and everyone knows everyone else's business. It's a place where the biggest scandals involve missing pie recipes and the most daring adventures involve finding the perfect spot for a picnic. But Ravenwood is also a town with secrets. Beneath the surface of its idyllic charm, there are hidden rivalries, long-held grudges, and whispers of the past that refuse to fade away. And when a renowned wine critic is found dead during the town's annual wine festival, the peaceful facade of Ravenwood cracks, revealing a web of intrigue that will forever change the lives of its inhabitants. Enter Lily Matthews, a retired schoolteacher who has traded in her classroom for the serenity of her thriving vineyard. Lily leads a quiet life, finding peace in the rhythmic tasks of tending her vines and crafting award-winning wines. But when the victim's last drink is revealed to be her vineyard's prize-winning vintage, suspicion falls upon Lily. Determined to clear her name and restore peace to her beloved town, Lily embarks on an unlikely investigation with the help of her eccentric best friend, the town librarian, and her trusty golden retriever. Join Lily as she delves into the heart of Ravenwood, unearthing long-buried secrets and uncovering the truth behind the murder. From the bustling vineyards to the quaint town square, every corner holds a clue, every resident a suspect. This is a story of friendship, courage, and the unraveling of a mystery that will captivate you until the very last page.

Download or read book In Beautiful Shadows written by Lady Trish and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even after leaving the neighborhood where she spent half of her childhood, the past still hunted Dara. She luckily got away from the vicious circle that would have eaten her alive, but her mind could not escape from all the secret burden she carried with her. not even love could conquer the emptiness inside of her twisted soul.

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Download or read book Ravenous Innocence written by Myra Danvers and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I can give you everything," he whispered, smiling through the lie. All I had to do was kneel... The Caledonian forces come armed, yet offer peace. Spouting claims that they can deliver a new era—one of luxury and ease—they think to seduce. They promise our countries will thrive together, that they will save us from ourselves in exchange for Tritan's secrets, our expertise in the mystical arts of wielding ki. Partner with warmongers unaccustomed to being refused, or fall beneath their boots. These conquerors fool no one. They seek to leash my people and claim our priestesses for their own sick uses. But I will not kneel. Especially not to him. Captain Asher Rawlings. Powerful... Elite... Relentless... He's been tasked to hunt me down and dress me in chains—a mission he relishes, for with one taste of my lips, he hungers for my submission above all else... In an instant, the deadly secret I've been keeping for years is exposed to his attention. He knows what I am, what I might be capable of, and he's drawn to my fire... my ki... With a kiss, he feeds me whispers of a coddled life kneeling at his precious feet, his offer nothing more than the life of a cherished pet. But he won't have me or my ki, for his betrayal has given me strength even he didn't expect. Only one thing is certain—he'll either put me on my knees, or I'll kill them all.