Author: Gary Bannister
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781469743646
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 1172

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Author: Richard Denham
Publisher: BLKDOG Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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King Arthur has fascinated the Western world for over a thousand years and yet we still know nothing more about him now than we did then. Layer upon layer of heroics and exploits has been piled upon him to the point where history, legend and myth have become hopelessly entangled. In recent years, there has been a sort of scholarly consensus that 'the once and future king' was clearly some sort of Romano-British warlord, heroically stemming the tide of wave after wave of Saxon invaders after the end of Roman rule. But surprisingly, and no matter how much we enjoy this narrative, there is actually next-to-nothing solid to support this theory except the wishful thinking of understandably bitter contemporaries. The sources and scholarship used to support the 'real Arthur' are as much tentative guesswork and pushing 'evidence' to the extreme to fit in with this version as anything involving magic swords, wizards and dragons. Even Archaeology refuses to speak out. Arthur is, and always has been, the square peg that refuses to fit neatly into the historians round hole. Arthur: Shadow of a God gives a fascinating overview of Britain's lost hero and casts a light over an often-overlooked and somewhat inconvenient truth; Arthur was almost certainly not a man at all, but a god. He is linked inextricably to the world of Celtic folklore and Druidic traditions. Whereas tyrants like Nero and Caligula were men who fancied themselves gods; is it not possible that Arthur was a god we have turned into a man? Perhaps then there is a truth here. Arthur, 'The King under the Mountain'; sleeping until his return will never return, after all, because he doesn't need to. Arthur the god never left in the first place and remains as popular today as he ever was. His legend echoes in stories, films and games that are every bit as imaginative and fanciful as that which the minds of talented bards such as Taliesin and Aneirin came up with when the mists of the 'dark ages' still swirled over Britain – and perhaps that is a good thing after all, most at home in the imaginations of children and adults alike – being the Arthur his believers want him to be.

Author: Derek Benz
Publisher: Orchard Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780439795746
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373

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When Max Sumner and three friends play a magical card game called Round Table, they realize that it is up to them to prevent the wicked creatures of the cards from destroying their town, indeed, their world.

Author: Tracy Deonn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 153444162X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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An Instant New York Times Bestseller! Winner of the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe for New Talent Author Award Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn’s YA contemporary fantasy reinvents the King Arthur legend and “braids together Southern folk traditions and Black Girl Magic into a searing modern tale of grief, power, and self-discovery” (Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Belles). After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus. A flying demon feeding on human energies. A secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down. And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw. The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates. She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.

Author: A. C. Arthur
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 1466801441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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He's one of the most powerfully sexy men she has ever met. He's a jaguar out to claim and protect his mate. Washington D.C. police officer Kalina Harper still dreams about that night, two years ago, when a huge jaguar saved her from a crazed attacker. Although she kept the truth to herself, Kalina can never forget the ferocious strength of the beast's fangs and claws--or the raw animal hunger in its eyes. Until she meets Roman Reynolds... Muscular, magnetic, and all man, Roman is a high-powered attorney with a predatory smile and seductive charm. He is also a criminal suspect with suspicious connections to the Amazon jungle. But when Kalina discovers that Roman is linked to a secret race of shapeshifting jaguars--who hunt down maneaters--she is forced to put her trust in a man who unleashes her wildest fantasies and fears. A fierce creature of the night whose nature is to protect his female at any cost...

Author: Marc Brown
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679867371
Category : Aardvark
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Play and learn with Arthur! Seven punch-out figures designed to be put into and taken out of slots on each page--plus lots of flaps with surprises underneath--offer very young children hours of imaginative play and interactive fun!

Author: Harper Wylde
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Within Obsession and Lies is the sexy, action-packed first book in A Court of Gilt and Shadow Series by bestselling authors Stacy Jones and Harper Wylde. Power. Obsession. Lies. Other people dream of being special. They wouldn't, if they knew what a nightmare it is. Arawyn would give anything to be ordinary and rid herself of the power that lives inside her. Dangerous and alluring, it's caused nothing but pain and horror, making her the dark obsession of anyone who gets too close. After years of barely containing it, Arawyn thought she had control... until the night it bursts free and pulses like a beacon. As threats emerge from the shadows, each one more fixated on her than the last, she finds her life infiltrated by three mysterious men. A mafia boss, a psychopath, and a killer. Rathe, Viper, and Fear are much more than they seem. They taste of power and feel impossibly familiar. They call to her soul in a way she's never experienced and might have answers to questions she's been asking her entire life. But darkness and secrets surround them, ones covered in blood and mire. When the monsters stalking her endanger not only her power but her life, she'll have to make a decision: take a risk and let these dangerous men in, or do what she's always done-walk away and try to survive on her own. Trusting them would be a mistake. Yet, she may not have a choice. The monsters hunting her aren't human and they're out for blood. Rathe, Viper, and Fear might be her only chance of making it through this alive. There's only one problem. They aren't human either... From bestselling authors, Stacy Jones and Harper Wylde, comes a darkly seductive new series that blends romance, danger, and the supernatural into an unforgettable read.

Author: Marc Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780099412984
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 10

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ARTHUR'S NEW BABY BOOK Arthur remembers D. W. as a baby and teaches her how she can be a helpful and loving big sister to Baby kate. With nursery rhymes to sing and special ABC flaps to flip to to make learning the alphabet easy, Arthur shows you that being a big brother or sister is fun!

Author: William Edgar Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781073833290
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Arthur Jones created and ran the Nautilus exercise equipment company. This is a biography of when Arthur owned Nautilus, as written and told by me, William Edgar Jones; the youngest son of Arthur Jones. Read about the beginning of the company, and learn some of the inside information that the public never knew. This book covers the early years of Nautilus, until Arthur sold it to Travis Ward.As an inventor there were few people that ever eclipsed Arthur. As a business man, there were many that did. For years Nautilus ran on its own, unmanaged and uncontrolled, while Arthur pursued his hobbies and other fields of interest.Arthur spent money faster than a raging river; and the company somehow survived one disaster after another. Meanwhile I kept quietly in the background, trying to keep track of the ever increasing expenditures and trying everything I could to keep us afloat; while never knowing in advance just what Arthur was planning to do next.Younger women, Faster airplanes and Bigger crocodiles; Arthur had all three, and kept pushing the boundaries to see just how many of each he could have.An exercise empire, almost run by a Caligula, with a little Nero thrown in for fun. Rome burned, but fortunately Nautilus somehow escaped a similar fate.Join me for the roller coaster ride of a lifetime.

Author: Mark T.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329889118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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The ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale arehistorical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate themare also historical. It is not pretended that these laws andcustoms existed in England in the sixth century; no, it is onlypretended that inasmuch as they existed in the English and othercivilizations of far later times, it is safe to consider that it isno libel upon the sixth century to suppose them to have been inpractice in that day also. One is quite justified in inferringthat whatever one of these laws or customs was lacking in thatremote time, its place was competently filled by a worse one