Author: Theophilus Monroe
Publisher: Theophilus Monroe
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
They thought they kept the nightmare caged with blood. They were wrong. Sebastian Winter's world explodes when he uncovers a dark secret... ...a pact fueled by human sacrifice holding back an ancient, slumbering evil. Now, the pact is broken. The entity awakens, hungry and enraged. Sebastian races against time to stop it before a city bleeds dry... ...but can he navigate the web of lies and hidden agendas of those who made the deal in the first place? Blood Pact is the second book in the Sebastian Winter series. He's not your run-of-the-mill hunter or slayer. He doesn't hunt down monsters because of what they are. He only takes out the guilty. But not all hunters see things the same way...
Blood Pact
Author: Theophilus Monroe
Publisher: Theophilus Monroe
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
They thought they kept the nightmare caged with blood. They were wrong. Sebastian Winter's world explodes when he uncovers a dark secret... ...a pact fueled by human sacrifice holding back an ancient, slumbering evil. Now, the pact is broken. The entity awakens, hungry and enraged. Sebastian races against time to stop it before a city bleeds dry... ...but can he navigate the web of lies and hidden agendas of those who made the deal in the first place? Blood Pact is the second book in the Sebastian Winter series. He's not your run-of-the-mill hunter or slayer. He doesn't hunt down monsters because of what they are. He only takes out the guilty. But not all hunters see things the same way...
Publisher: Theophilus Monroe
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
They thought they kept the nightmare caged with blood. They were wrong. Sebastian Winter's world explodes when he uncovers a dark secret... ...a pact fueled by human sacrifice holding back an ancient, slumbering evil. Now, the pact is broken. The entity awakens, hungry and enraged. Sebastian races against time to stop it before a city bleeds dry... ...but can he navigate the web of lies and hidden agendas of those who made the deal in the first place? Blood Pact is the second book in the Sebastian Winter series. He's not your run-of-the-mill hunter or slayer. He doesn't hunt down monsters because of what they are. He only takes out the guilty. But not all hunters see things the same way...
Welcome To Coolsville
Author: Jason Mordaunt
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446449947
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Nine days is a long time in Coolsville. More than enough time for Dr. Kiely Flanagan to shop business mogul J.P. Gillespie to a scandal-hungry media, collect the bounty and split for the sun. Time enough, Marshall McLemon hopes, to secure the backing he needs for his online museum exhibit, getting him - work wise at any rate - out of boresville and into something real. Papa Charlie McCormack is racing against the clock to discover if Sister Jasmine Ylang-Ylang is the type of nun that goes in for celibacy or not, and the directors of the WentWest Inc, are anxious to see an end to the year-long plague visited upon them by the cyber-terror organisation known as Mantra. Whether any of them succeed is something else, as one thing depends on the other in this finely balanced, gripping and often hilarious satire.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446449947
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Nine days is a long time in Coolsville. More than enough time for Dr. Kiely Flanagan to shop business mogul J.P. Gillespie to a scandal-hungry media, collect the bounty and split for the sun. Time enough, Marshall McLemon hopes, to secure the backing he needs for his online museum exhibit, getting him - work wise at any rate - out of boresville and into something real. Papa Charlie McCormack is racing against the clock to discover if Sister Jasmine Ylang-Ylang is the type of nun that goes in for celibacy or not, and the directors of the WentWest Inc, are anxious to see an end to the year-long plague visited upon them by the cyber-terror organisation known as Mantra. Whether any of them succeed is something else, as one thing depends on the other in this finely balanced, gripping and often hilarious satire.
Dynasty
Author: Robert Elegant
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504042255
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller: An epic of love and adultery, money and power, set amid the revolutionary turbulence of twentieth-century China, from the author of Manchu and Mandarin. Founder of the Sekloong dynasty of Hong Kong, Sir Jonathan, the illegitimate offspring of an Irish adventurer and his Chinese mistress, overcame colonial prejudice to build a vast and influential trading empire spanning half a century. The marriage of Sir Jonathan’s profligate son Charles to the ambitious and beautiful Mary Osgood comes to embody, on both personal and political levels, the tensions between Orient and Occident, and between Nationalists and Communists fighting for control of postimperial China. Dynasty follows the Sekloongs’ triumphs, tragedies, betrayals, and bloodshed through the decades as they expand and protect their own empire, even as their homeland is torn apart from within by war and ideological upheaval, from the fall of the last emperor to the triumph of Mao Tse-tung. As China turbulently enters the modern world, the Sekloongs also grow in stature and strength—as do their desires and wayward passions. Fluent in Mandarin, author Robert Elegant spent many years in Hong Kong as a journalist and commentator, and has authored many acclaimed books on China. His stirring drama combines vivid writing with a deep understanding of Chinese culture, creating “an action-packed novel . . . conjured up with perception and vigor” (TheNew York Times Book Review).
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504042255
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller: An epic of love and adultery, money and power, set amid the revolutionary turbulence of twentieth-century China, from the author of Manchu and Mandarin. Founder of the Sekloong dynasty of Hong Kong, Sir Jonathan, the illegitimate offspring of an Irish adventurer and his Chinese mistress, overcame colonial prejudice to build a vast and influential trading empire spanning half a century. The marriage of Sir Jonathan’s profligate son Charles to the ambitious and beautiful Mary Osgood comes to embody, on both personal and political levels, the tensions between Orient and Occident, and between Nationalists and Communists fighting for control of postimperial China. Dynasty follows the Sekloongs’ triumphs, tragedies, betrayals, and bloodshed through the decades as they expand and protect their own empire, even as their homeland is torn apart from within by war and ideological upheaval, from the fall of the last emperor to the triumph of Mao Tse-tung. As China turbulently enters the modern world, the Sekloongs also grow in stature and strength—as do their desires and wayward passions. Fluent in Mandarin, author Robert Elegant spent many years in Hong Kong as a journalist and commentator, and has authored many acclaimed books on China. His stirring drama combines vivid writing with a deep understanding of Chinese culture, creating “an action-packed novel . . . conjured up with perception and vigor” (TheNew York Times Book Review).
Grail of Power
Author: Theophilus Monroe
Publisher: Theophilus Monroe
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The holy grail has been found. In the right hands, its elixir can give life, heal, restore... In the wrong hands, it grants he who sips from it incredible power. Who stole the grail from the otherworld? My client hired me to retrieve her son from a new cult that claims to wield the grail's power. This is more about one young man looking for a spiritual experience. The grail of their dark communion has great power... But it comes at an unthinkable cost. Grail of Power is the third book in the new Druid Detective Agency urban fantasy series. Elijah and Emilie already went through one adventure. Now, ten years after The Druid Legacy, they are facing a new challenge, one that will test their limits. The real threat isn't the otherworldly magic, the magic that once birthed life itself in Eden/Annwn. There was a reason why humanity was cast from the garden groves. When the magic of that place comes home, it won't take long to find out why. The real threat was here all along, hidden in human hearts, now made manifest by the power of creation itself. Harry Potter meets Harry Dresden in Druid Detective Agency.
Publisher: Theophilus Monroe
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The holy grail has been found. In the right hands, its elixir can give life, heal, restore... In the wrong hands, it grants he who sips from it incredible power. Who stole the grail from the otherworld? My client hired me to retrieve her son from a new cult that claims to wield the grail's power. This is more about one young man looking for a spiritual experience. The grail of their dark communion has great power... But it comes at an unthinkable cost. Grail of Power is the third book in the new Druid Detective Agency urban fantasy series. Elijah and Emilie already went through one adventure. Now, ten years after The Druid Legacy, they are facing a new challenge, one that will test their limits. The real threat isn't the otherworldly magic, the magic that once birthed life itself in Eden/Annwn. There was a reason why humanity was cast from the garden groves. When the magic of that place comes home, it won't take long to find out why. The real threat was here all along, hidden in human hearts, now made manifest by the power of creation itself. Harry Potter meets Harry Dresden in Druid Detective Agency.
Dark Airs
Author: Brendan Cooper
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039118618
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In discussions of American poetry since World War II, the work of John Berryman has become increasingly neglected and marginalized. Critics have overwhelmingly chosen to favour the notion that he is an academic, 'establishment' poet whose career can comfortably be described as a move from New Critical traditionalism towards self-absorbed confessionalism. This study shows how such a narrow understanding of Berryman's work is reflective of a broader critical inclination towards a codification of the literary canon as a duel between competing factions of a formalist, establishment 'mainstream' and an experimentalist, countercultural 'avant-garde'. By examining the extent to which Berryman's poetry engages with the complex religiopolitical climate of Cold War American culture, this study exposes the inadequacy of the paradigm of mainstream traditionalism in relation to his work. In doing so, it opens up threads of comparative possibility between his work and that of poets ordinarily segregated from him by divisive conceptions of the literary canon. As such, this volume provides a reconsideration of Berryman's work that simultaneously asks broader questions about the nature of the American poetic canon and established definitions of 'postmodern' poetry.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039118618
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In discussions of American poetry since World War II, the work of John Berryman has become increasingly neglected and marginalized. Critics have overwhelmingly chosen to favour the notion that he is an academic, 'establishment' poet whose career can comfortably be described as a move from New Critical traditionalism towards self-absorbed confessionalism. This study shows how such a narrow understanding of Berryman's work is reflective of a broader critical inclination towards a codification of the literary canon as a duel between competing factions of a formalist, establishment 'mainstream' and an experimentalist, countercultural 'avant-garde'. By examining the extent to which Berryman's poetry engages with the complex religiopolitical climate of Cold War American culture, this study exposes the inadequacy of the paradigm of mainstream traditionalism in relation to his work. In doing so, it opens up threads of comparative possibility between his work and that of poets ordinarily segregated from him by divisive conceptions of the literary canon. As such, this volume provides a reconsideration of Berryman's work that simultaneously asks broader questions about the nature of the American poetic canon and established definitions of 'postmodern' poetry.
King
Author: S. Green
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468579495
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 767
Book Description
'I AM KING!' 'MAJESTY I KNOW NOT WHO I FEAR THE MOST, THEM OR YOU.' Loveable tyrant and handsome rogue, Courtians King Rapheaus Nolitus is deemed the most powerful and wealthiest monarch in the medieval world of elite knights and chivalry. Feared and loathed by his enemies, he is a great strategist demanding loyalty and respect. Cast into a web of the deepest darkest deception by those who surround him and influence his decisions to safeguard their power, he then meets the seductive Lavanya, an undescribable beauty of no noble birth who reluctantly enters the kings domain. Desire lust and erotic passion ensue but her past soon catches up with her and she fears for her life. Will the king protect her or cast her aside? Thrown into a world of betrayal they both must fight to defend themselves but they must first decide if they can trust each other. Wars are fought on brutal battlefields filled with bloodshed and treachery. Knights defend what is morally right and honourable but their allegiance is soon bought into question. Who amongst them will stand by their convictions? Will the kings obsession and tyrannical rule win hearts or test obedience? Only one person can uncover the cruel twist of truth in the end but it is the king who must have the courage to decide their fate. Conspiracy, greed and treason leads to, 'NO MERCY!'
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468579495
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 767
Book Description
'I AM KING!' 'MAJESTY I KNOW NOT WHO I FEAR THE MOST, THEM OR YOU.' Loveable tyrant and handsome rogue, Courtians King Rapheaus Nolitus is deemed the most powerful and wealthiest monarch in the medieval world of elite knights and chivalry. Feared and loathed by his enemies, he is a great strategist demanding loyalty and respect. Cast into a web of the deepest darkest deception by those who surround him and influence his decisions to safeguard their power, he then meets the seductive Lavanya, an undescribable beauty of no noble birth who reluctantly enters the kings domain. Desire lust and erotic passion ensue but her past soon catches up with her and she fears for her life. Will the king protect her or cast her aside? Thrown into a world of betrayal they both must fight to defend themselves but they must first decide if they can trust each other. Wars are fought on brutal battlefields filled with bloodshed and treachery. Knights defend what is morally right and honourable but their allegiance is soon bought into question. Who amongst them will stand by their convictions? Will the kings obsession and tyrannical rule win hearts or test obedience? Only one person can uncover the cruel twist of truth in the end but it is the king who must have the courage to decide their fate. Conspiracy, greed and treason leads to, 'NO MERCY!'
Bloody Moon
Author: Theophilus Monroe
Publisher: Theophilus Monroe
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
When the blood moon rises... so do the souls of the dead. A few hauntings. No big deal, right? What's the worst that can happen? They might scare the crap out of you. You might need to change your bedsheets... But ghosts can't really hurt people... Or, can they? Vampires don't have souls. They remain in possession of Baron Samedi... The ghosts have decided to fill the vacancy. My magic is protecting me... for now... But I might be the only real vampire left. How do you exorcise a human spirit from a vampire's body? Is it even possible? Bloody Moon is the eighth book in The Fury of a Vampire Witch. You've met Mercy before in The Legacy of a Vampire Witch and The Blood Witch Saga. She's fought against devils and demons, insidious witches, and old-world vampires. When she returns to Exeter, where she grew up as a girl, she'll find enemies even bigger and badder than anything she's ever faced before. A great series for fans of the True Blood / Sookie Stackhouse novels or the Underworld franchise to sink their fangs into. The Fury of a Vampire Witch features a dark and twisty romance, action that could even get a vampire's heart pumping, and a snarky badass heroine.
Publisher: Theophilus Monroe
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
When the blood moon rises... so do the souls of the dead. A few hauntings. No big deal, right? What's the worst that can happen? They might scare the crap out of you. You might need to change your bedsheets... But ghosts can't really hurt people... Or, can they? Vampires don't have souls. They remain in possession of Baron Samedi... The ghosts have decided to fill the vacancy. My magic is protecting me... for now... But I might be the only real vampire left. How do you exorcise a human spirit from a vampire's body? Is it even possible? Bloody Moon is the eighth book in The Fury of a Vampire Witch. You've met Mercy before in The Legacy of a Vampire Witch and The Blood Witch Saga. She's fought against devils and demons, insidious witches, and old-world vampires. When she returns to Exeter, where she grew up as a girl, she'll find enemies even bigger and badder than anything she's ever faced before. A great series for fans of the True Blood / Sookie Stackhouse novels or the Underworld franchise to sink their fangs into. The Fury of a Vampire Witch features a dark and twisty romance, action that could even get a vampire's heart pumping, and a snarky badass heroine.
Baladrar
Author: Dale Soderberg
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1449083110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
When the cell phone market soars late in the Twentieth Century, incredible profits are assured for investors in any cell phone corporations. Two Mafia families, Villario from America and Ficuzza from Sicily, seize the opportunity and invest heavily in Svenska, the largest producer of cell phones. The families then join forces to balloon their profits by instigating a horrific sequence of actions that transfers Svenska's major source of microchips from a Maltese company to one in California. Malta's economy is shaken to the core, and the shock waves reverberate across the Mediterranean to Baladrar on Spain's Costa Blanca where Kate and Marty Boyd have resettled to escape the wrath of Luca Villario, Kate's father. The two Americans and their Anglo-Saxon friends are abruptly caught in the eye-of-the-storm with the FBI and Spain's Guardia Civil on one side and the Mafia families on the other.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1449083110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
When the cell phone market soars late in the Twentieth Century, incredible profits are assured for investors in any cell phone corporations. Two Mafia families, Villario from America and Ficuzza from Sicily, seize the opportunity and invest heavily in Svenska, the largest producer of cell phones. The families then join forces to balloon their profits by instigating a horrific sequence of actions that transfers Svenska's major source of microchips from a Maltese company to one in California. Malta's economy is shaken to the core, and the shock waves reverberate across the Mediterranean to Baladrar on Spain's Costa Blanca where Kate and Marty Boyd have resettled to escape the wrath of Luca Villario, Kate's father. The two Americans and their Anglo-Saxon friends are abruptly caught in the eye-of-the-storm with the FBI and Spain's Guardia Civil on one side and the Mafia families on the other.
Stones and Bones
Author: Theophilus Monroe
Publisher: Theophilus Monroe
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
The earth speaks for the angry dead... The ley lines no longer offer me their power. My best guess? New construction on an ancient burial ground. If they'd stirred up a few vengeful spirits that would be one thing... That's common enough. I could deal with that. If that's all it was. But for some reason the earth has taken up these spirits' cause. Nature has turned against us. It's turned against all of us... And the more people who die, the more their rage infects the ley lines... If I don't find a way to stop this soon, it won't just be the destruction of St. Louis that's at stake. The earth will tear herself apart... Stones and Bones is the sixth book in the new Druid Detective Agency urban fantasy series. Elijah and Emilie already went through one adventure. Now, ten years after The Druid Legacy, they are facing a new challenge, one that will test their limits. The real threat isn't the otherworldly magic, the magic that once birthed life itself in Eden/Annwn. There was a reason why humanity was cast from the garden groves. When the magic of that place comes home, it won't take long to find out why. The real threat was here all along, hidden in human hearts, now made manifest by the power of creation itself. Harry Potter meets Harry Dresden in Druid Detective Agency.
Publisher: Theophilus Monroe
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
The earth speaks for the angry dead... The ley lines no longer offer me their power. My best guess? New construction on an ancient burial ground. If they'd stirred up a few vengeful spirits that would be one thing... That's common enough. I could deal with that. If that's all it was. But for some reason the earth has taken up these spirits' cause. Nature has turned against us. It's turned against all of us... And the more people who die, the more their rage infects the ley lines... If I don't find a way to stop this soon, it won't just be the destruction of St. Louis that's at stake. The earth will tear herself apart... Stones and Bones is the sixth book in the new Druid Detective Agency urban fantasy series. Elijah and Emilie already went through one adventure. Now, ten years after The Druid Legacy, they are facing a new challenge, one that will test their limits. The real threat isn't the otherworldly magic, the magic that once birthed life itself in Eden/Annwn. There was a reason why humanity was cast from the garden groves. When the magic of that place comes home, it won't take long to find out why. The real threat was here all along, hidden in human hearts, now made manifest by the power of creation itself. Harry Potter meets Harry Dresden in Druid Detective Agency.
Ten Bob an Hour
Author: Steve Phillips
Publisher: Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks
ISBN: 1908223278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
When Steve Phillips started as a 15-year-old apprentice with a Birmingham engineering company in 1961, the Beatles were still the Quarrymen and a pint of mild cost one shilling and three pence. Five years of dirt and grind, leg pulls, laughter and sheer hard graft later, Steve was a skilled turner and fitter, schooled the old fashioned way by senior craftsmen who knew how to turn a screw, mill a die or grind a component to half a thousandth of an inch using manually-controlled machine tools, a micrometer and the skill in their fingers. He had also found the time – and saved the money - to marry his teenage sweetheart and buy a house.Steve went on to a varied and successful career in the manufacturing industry. Half a century on, now retired and living in Cyprus, he looks back on an era before computers and CNC machines, when Birmingham and its factories were the backbone of industrial Britain and families and workmates stuck together. Ten bob an hour is a fascinating portrait of an era long gone.Steve says 'Fifty years ago, a 15-year-old Brummie school-leaver called Stephen Phillips walked into the reception area of a big Midland manufacturing company to start an apprenticeship in engineering. That was me. I hadn’t a clue what was coming – the dirt and grind, the hard work and the long hours, the leg pulls and laughter, the comradeship and the slow graduation from greenhorn to skilled man. The next five years would prove arduous, difficult and dirty, but at the end of it all, thanks largely to some of the best mates and colleagues I ever had, I managed to emerge a trained and qualified engineer on the ‘holy grail’ pay rate of ‘ten bob an hour’ – that’s 50p in today’s coinage. It doesn’t sound like much, but it was a lot of money in those days. It certainly seemed like it.This book is about those never-to-be forgotten years'.
Publisher: Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks
ISBN: 1908223278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
When Steve Phillips started as a 15-year-old apprentice with a Birmingham engineering company in 1961, the Beatles were still the Quarrymen and a pint of mild cost one shilling and three pence. Five years of dirt and grind, leg pulls, laughter and sheer hard graft later, Steve was a skilled turner and fitter, schooled the old fashioned way by senior craftsmen who knew how to turn a screw, mill a die or grind a component to half a thousandth of an inch using manually-controlled machine tools, a micrometer and the skill in their fingers. He had also found the time – and saved the money - to marry his teenage sweetheart and buy a house.Steve went on to a varied and successful career in the manufacturing industry. Half a century on, now retired and living in Cyprus, he looks back on an era before computers and CNC machines, when Birmingham and its factories were the backbone of industrial Britain and families and workmates stuck together. Ten bob an hour is a fascinating portrait of an era long gone.Steve says 'Fifty years ago, a 15-year-old Brummie school-leaver called Stephen Phillips walked into the reception area of a big Midland manufacturing company to start an apprenticeship in engineering. That was me. I hadn’t a clue what was coming – the dirt and grind, the hard work and the long hours, the leg pulls and laughter, the comradeship and the slow graduation from greenhorn to skilled man. The next five years would prove arduous, difficult and dirty, but at the end of it all, thanks largely to some of the best mates and colleagues I ever had, I managed to emerge a trained and qualified engineer on the ‘holy grail’ pay rate of ‘ten bob an hour’ – that’s 50p in today’s coinage. It doesn’t sound like much, but it was a lot of money in those days. It certainly seemed like it.This book is about those never-to-be forgotten years'.