Download or read book Voyage of the Mourning Dawn written by Rich Wulf and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young thief races to recover a powerful, long-lost super-weapon in this first Heirs of Ash novel set in the magical world of Eberron For years, rumors have spoken of the Legacy, a device beyond imagination and the brain child of the brilliant Ashrem d’Cannith. Some say it was a weapon; others claim it was a portal to other worlds. But in Cyre, on the Day of Mourning, Ashrem and his Legacy vanished in the greatest cataclysm the world had ever seen. Now, a struggling young thief named Seren stumbles upon a clue that may lead to the lost Legacy. But what begins as a routine burglary has the authorities out to arrest her, ruthless spies out to kill her—and one of the heirs of Ashrem trying to save her. To stay alive, Seren and her new crewmates on The Mourning Dawn must find Ashrem’s Legacy before it falls into the hands of her pursuers. For if they fail, Eberron will plunge into another century of war.

Download or read book Voyage of the Mourning Dawn written by Rich Wulf and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich Wolf kicks off this new Eberron trilogy that focuses around the interplay of characters far above the ground. In Eberron airships travel among the many lands, and just as in the golden age of travel by water, all manner of dangers lurk for the unwary, including pirates, mercenaries, and unsavoury characters of all stripe. A young street thief finds herself embroiled in a quest to find a powerful super-weapon thought lost during the final days of the Last War. She's never known anything but the dingy streets of her own city, but when she is taken in by the crew of the airship Mourning Dawn, she soon finds herself in strange lands filled with wonders and horrors beyond her wildest dreams.

Download or read book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader adult written by C. S. Lewis and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a thousand stories in the land of Narnia, and the first is about to be told in an extraordinary motion picture, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, from Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media. In the never-ending war between good and evil, The Chronicles of Narnia set the stage for battles of epic proportions. Some take place in vast fields, where the forces of light and darkness clash. But other battles occur within the small chambers of the heart and are equally decisive. Journeys to the ends of the world, fantastic creatures, betrayals, heroic deeds and friendships won and lost -- all come together in an unforgettable world of magic. So take a voyage into the unknown. The fifth volume in The Chronicles of Narnia® The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Narnia ... where a dragon awakens ... where stars walk the earth ... where anything can happen. A king and some unexpected companions embark on a voyage that will take them beyond all known lands. As they sail farther and farther from charted waters, they discover that their quest is more than they imagined and that the world's end is only the beginning.

Download or read book Moon Tide written by Dawn Clifton Tripp and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut novel, set in a small fishing town on the Massachusetts coast, chronicles the lives of three very different women--Eve, a beautiful artist; her wealthy, eccentric grandmother, Elizabeth; and Maggie, an exotic stranger involved with a ruthless rum smuggler--from 1913 to the Great New England Hurricane of 1938. A first novel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Download or read book Night of Long Shadows written by Paul Crilley and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the dark under-belly of Khorvaire with Eberron's version of the private detective - The Inquisitives! Nights of the Long Shadow: the three nights of the year when the darkest powers of the world gain strength and rise to prey upon the unwary. When one of Sharn's most famed Inquisitives is hired to investigate a brutal murder at Morgrave University, his brilliance may be his damnation, as he uncovers a trail of blood leading from the deediest neighborhoods of the City of Towers to the highest reaches of power.

Download or read book Undead written by Richard Lee Byers and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sequel to Unclean, the citizens of Thay rally together to thwart the undead hordes attacking their home What started as one wizard’s ambition to take over the ruling council has become a vicious civil war that breeds a monstrous army of undead. And while the undead have always been part of life in Thay, after ten years of constant battles, they have come to outnumber the living. As the undead armies mass and march to the beat of an evil necromancer's drum, the living citizens of the magic-rich realm must unite and mount a defense before they die and join their enemy's ranks.

Download or read book The Savage Caves written by T. H. Lain and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in a series featuring characters from the D&D core rules. Featuring the iconic characters that appeared throughout the third edition of the D&D game, this new series will attract new players and readers to the various worlds featured in the Wizards of the Coast book publishing line. The already familiar characters and D&D-related content will also make this series very approachable to current players.

Download or read book Flight of the Dying Sun written by Rich Wulf and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy-roman.

Download or read book The Doom of Kings written by Don Bassingthwaite and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The return of the shifter Geth! In the wake of the Last War, a new king has risen and seeks to unite the newly formed goblin kingdom of Darguun under his rule. He seeks an ancient scepter, a symbol under which to unite his people and hires Geth, a shifter who owns one of the trio of artifacts to which the scepter once belonged, to find it. But will the artifact do what the Darguul king needs it to?

Download or read book The Difference written by Marina Endicott and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new novel by the award-winning author of Good to a Fault and The Little Shadows, about two sisters who live aboard a merchant ship on a fateful voyage through the South Pacific. "Up from underneath comes a blue-black swell, a whale rising in a long arc. Kay waits, hovering in the difference between herself and the creature." What is the difference between ourselves and other humans? Between human and animal? Where does that difference persist in our minds? These are the questions Marina Endicott, one of our most beloved storytellers, explores in this sweeping, intoxicating novel set on the Morning Light, a ship from Nova Scotia sailing the South Pacific in 1912. Thea and Kay are half-sisters, separated in age by more than a decade. After the death of their stern father, head of a residential school in western Canada, the elder sister, Thea, returns east for her long-awaited marriage to the captain of the ship. She cannot abandon her younger sister, so Kay joins her, and together they embark on a life-changing voyage around the world. At the heart of The Difference is one crystallizing moment in Micronesia: Thea forms a bond with a young boy from one of the islands, and takes him as her own. The repercussions of this act reverberate through the novel--forcing Kay to examine her own assumptions about what is forgivable, and what is right. Taking inspiration from the true story of a small boy who was brought on board a Canadian sailing ship in the South Seas, Marina Endicott shows us a vanished world in all its wildness and wonder, and its darkness, prejudice, and difficulty too. She also brilliantly illuminates our own times through Kay's preoccupation with the idea of "difference"--between people, classes, continents, cultures, customs, and species. A breathtaking tour-de-force by one of our most celebrated authors, a writer with the astonishing ability to bring a past world to vivid life while revealing the moral complexity of our own.

Download or read book Legacy of Wolves written by Marsheila Rockwell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of grisly murders has shaken the small city of Aruldusk. Both the Church and the Crown send in agents to investigate. But when the body count continues to rise, these rival factions will have to learn to work together to track down the killers--even if it means hunting through the highest reaches of power. Original.

Download or read book The Sense of an Ending written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Download or read book City of Towers written by Keith Baker and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a thrilling line of novels set in Eberron, a fantasy world ravaged by endless war and full of magic, danger, and adventure Hardened by the Last War, four soldiers have come to Sharn—fabled City of Towers, capital of adventure, home to the best and worst that Eberron has to offer. After a lifetime of fighting, war is all they know. Kingdoms lie shattered, armies are broken, and an entire country has been laid to waste. Now, in a time of uneasy peace, they must struggle to survive. But then people start turning up dead. The battle-weary heroes—Daine, Jode, Lei, and Pierce—soon find themselves caught in a plot that will take them from the highest reaches of power to the most sordid depths of the city of wonder, shadow, and adventure.

Download or read book Marked for Death written by Matt Forbeck and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wielders of the twelve dragonmarks, powerful and magical artifacts held by the scions of mighty Houses, are confronted by a new peril when they discover the existence of a thirteenth dragonmark. Original.

Download or read book The Way Through the Woods written by Litt Woon Long and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing—hunting for mushrooms. “Moving . . . Long tells the story of finding hope after despair lightly and artfully, with self-effacement and so much gentle good nature.”—The New York Times Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They fell in love, married, and settled into domestic bliss. Then Eiolf’s unexpected death at fifty-four left Woon struggling to imagine a life without the man who had been her partner and anchor for thirty-two years. Adrift in grief, she signed up for a beginner’s course on mushrooming—a course the two of them had planned to take together—and found, to her surprise, that the pursuit of mushrooms rekindled her zest for life. The Way Through the Woods tells the story of parallel journeys: an inner one, through the landscape of mourning, and an outer one, into the fascinating realm of mushrooms—resilient, adaptable, and essential to nature’s cycle of death and rebirth. From idyllic Norwegian forests and urban flower beds to the sandy beaches of Corsica and New York’s Central Park, Woon uncovers an abundance of surprises often hidden in plain sight: salmon-pink Bloody Milk Caps, which ooze red liquid when cut; delectable morels, prized for their earthy yet delicate flavor; and bioluminescent mushrooms that light up the forest at night. Along the way, she discovers the warm fellowship of other mushroom obsessives, and finds that giving her full attention to the natural world transforms her, opening a way for her to survive Eiolf’s death, to see herself anew, and to reengage with life. Praise for The Way Through the Woods “In her search for new meaning in life after the death of her husband, Long Litt Woon undertook the study of mushrooms. What she found in the woods, and expresses with such tender joy in this heartfelt memoir, was nothing less than salvation.”—Eugenia Bone, author of Mycophilia and Microbia

Download or read book The Thieves of Blood written by Tim Waggoner and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the dark world of Eberron as one assassin-turned-cleric searches for peace in a land that knows only blood Diran Bastiaan was once one of the most feared assassins in the land—one of the best money could buy. But after a life-altering spiritual experience, he has turned his back on murder, seeking the life of a wandering priest of the Silver Flame. All he wants is peace. But in a rough port town on the edge of the world, his past is about to catch up to him—and killing may be his only hope. When raiders known as the Black Fleet hit the town, capturing Diran’s former lover, he must risk everything to save her. Accompanied by a half-orc fighter named Ghaji, he races against the clock, knowing time is quickly running out. For these are no ordinary pirates bent on plunder, but minions of Erdis Cai, a warlord and servant of the Blood of Vol . . .

Download or read book Japanese Death Poems written by and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1998-04-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.