Author: Matt Twinley
Publisher: Twin Bee Books
ISBN: 1739985656
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Some secrets run deeper than blood… Long ago, a battle was fought against the dark Etheria, creatures who wanted control of the world. Now, Etheria are kept hidden by Trucekeepers. They’re just myths… or are they? Hannah is a frustrated sixteen-year-old—fed up with school, her diabetes and desperate to find somewhere she belongs. Daegan is a Trucekeeper—a fearless warrior with a dark past, sworn to keep the existence of mythical creatures a secret. Their lives couldn’t be more different… But everything changes when a magical blood crystal brings them together. After Daegan saves Hannah from a vicious zburător, Hannah discovers the existence of Etheria, mythical creatures from all around the world, hidden by the Trucekeepers for centuries. As Daegan trains her to become a Trucekeeper, Hannah rubs shoulders with Etheria, learns how to cast magic and finds somewhere she can finally call home… until she discovers that her mysterious past is the key to a war that could destroy the Trucekeepers and her new home forever.
Author: Gil Anidjar
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231537255
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 463
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Blood, according to Gil Anidjar, maps the singular history of Christianity. As a category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining, sometimes even defining Western culture, politics, and social practices and their wide-ranging incarnations in nationalism, capitalism, and law. Engaging with a variety of sources, Anidjar explores the presence and the absence, the making and unmaking of blood in philosophy and medicine, law and literature, and economic and political thought from ancient Greece to medieval Spain, from the Bible to Shakespeare and Melville. The prevalence of blood in the social, juridical, and political organization of the modern West signals that we do not live in a secular age into which religion could return. Flowing across multiple boundaries, infusing them with violent precepts that we must address, blood undoes the presumed oppositions between religion and politics, economy and theology, and kinship and race. It demonstrates that what we think of as modern is in fact imbued with Christianity. Christianity, Blood fiercely argues, must be reconsidered beyond the boundaries of religion alone.
Author: Ben Peek
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466851236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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At the end of The Godless, Mireea lay in ruins, the dead of the city had risen as ghosts, and the keepers Fo and Bau had been slain by Zaifyr. The Mireeans have now fled to the city of Yeflam with the immortal Zaifyr in chains to barter for their safety. With the threat of war arriving at the Floating Cities, Zaifyr's trial will become the center of political games. However, Zaifyr is intent on using his trial to begin a new war, a motive that many fear is an echo of the dangerous man he once was. Ayae, a young girl cursed with the gift of fire, sees a chance to learn more of her powers here in the floating city, but she is weighed down by her new responsibilities regarding the safety of the Mireean people. Across the far ocean, exiled Baron Bueralan and cartographer Orlan have arrived in the city of Ooila with some chilling cargo: the soul of a dead man. As the two men are accepted into the city's court, they are pulled ever deeper into the Queen's web of lies and deceit. All the while, a rumor begins to spread of a man who has come ashore, whose seemingly innocent presence threatens them all.
Author: Leif Wenar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190262923
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 553
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In this sweeping book, one of today's leading political philosophers, Leif Wenar, goes behind the headlines in search of the hidden global rule that thwarts democracy and development-and that puts shoppers into business with some of today's most dangerous men.
Author: Nathanule Blackwell
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 151448031X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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In a world where vampires, werewolves, people of magic, zombies, elves, humans, and creatures of legend live in peace after years of war. Now the peace they work so hard to accomplish, is being threaten. Another war is coming and it cant be ignored. All seven kingdoms are set against each other. Will they destroy each other? Who will rise? Who will fall? Will the Vampires continue their dominance? Will the werewolves show once and for all that they are the superior species? Witches, warlocks, wizards, and other users of magic will not be able to ignore the other kingdoms anymore. What will the humans do? Will the elves still be considered a non threatening kingdom? And the zombies are zombies no one has ever seen before. Who will bleed? Who will make sacrifices? Who will die?
Author: Brock Rivers
Publisher: Bad Wolf Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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From a secret facility underneath the New Mexico desert, to the frozen moon of Enceladus in Saturn's rings, this historical science fiction thriller will entertain you from beginning to end. A year before the Spanish set foot on the Yucatán shores, a handful of the strongest Aztec were selected for an important mission. Led by their greatest warrior, they raced to escape with the empire’s gold. Over five hundred years later, the treasure they’d sworn to protect is found in a West Texas cave, putting anyone near it at great risk. In the future, no communications are private from the National Security Agency. A group of five must navigate the dangers that follow their discovery; the wrath of a biker gang, hellbent on revenge. A shadow government, wielding the power of highly trained soldiers and the unrelenting artificial intelligence of the world's smartest computer.
Author: Joshua M. Es Reverend Joshua M. Escritt
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 144019727X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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And the daemon of the Lord spake: "Open your eyes, see what the dark lords poured out on his people." And, thus, the children cried out in great joy at the site of Asmodeus. And, thus, you shall accompany me in hell, where thy delights of the spirit can dwell, with all infernal glories. And, thus, the time is at stake, for the Kingdom of Hell is at hand, Thus, need more strength. Upon his kingdom, blessings are poured out. Lust is wrought. Hail to our Infernal King, who hath the power to pull heavens walls down. Upon his kingdom that dwelleth on earth, be mighty amongst men, and women, and children, and beast of every field. Hear my words and understand.
Author: John Pearson
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1448207770
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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From the author of All the Money in the World, now a major motion picture, comes a history of Lady Diana's family, the Spencers, a dynasty that rose from sheep farmers to the ranks of upper aristocracy and, finally, royalty. When Lady Diana Spencer married the Prince of Wales in 1981, very little attention was given to her feudal family. The once powerful Spencer dynasty was in disarray and seemed to have outlived its usefulness. In the years following Diana's death, however, the spotlight turned to and remained on the Spencers. Members of what appeared to be a dysfunctional aristocratic family more than came into their own. Blood Royal: The Story of the Spencers and the Royals addresses the questions surrounding the Spencer family story: their chequered history, their intriguing character, and, through the influence of Prince William, their future role within the monarchy. For while Diana left an indelible mark on the British nation and on those who loved and admired her around the world, she also left an indelible mark on the royal family of Windsor: her Spencer genes.
Author: Roger Bartra
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822329237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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DIVIn this collection Bartra offers commentary on connections between popular culture, national ideology, and the state, assessing sociocultural events and processes in Mexico and analyzing Mexico’s cultural and political relationship to the U.S./div
Author: Peter G. Tsouras
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597972118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
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“Do you know what military glory is? It is ‘that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood—that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.'” —Abraham Lincoln The Union in dire peril! The war that began in Peter G. Tsouras's previous alternate history, Britannia's Fist, accelerates during a few desperate weeks in October 1863. From the bayous of Louisiana to the green hills of the Hudson Valley, from Chicago in flames to the gates of Washington itself, the Great War uncoils in ropes of fire. French and British armies are on the march, and heavy reinforcements have put to sea. Copperheads have risen in revolt to drag the Midwest into the Confederacy as a vital Union army stands starving and under siege in Tennessee. Meanwhile, Robert E. Lee and the Royal Navy set in motion a stroke that is boldness itself. The Union staggers under these blows. While the Grenadier Guards march into glory in upstate New York's apple orchards, from the second story of a shot-up Washington hotel Abraham Lincoln watches a forest of the red flags of rebellion waving over a Confederate column rushing across the Long Bridge. To stop them is a war-worn regiment of New York soldiers. To their backs Washington burns. But new technologies and the art of intelligence are thrown onto the scales, while Russia plans to enter the war to avenge its humiliation in the Crimean War. A Rainbow of Blood brings forward the Great War from its outbreak to the first great crisis of the embattled republic. Peopled with remarkable personalities of the age, the book rattles with the tramp of armies marching down one of the most intriguing roads not taken—or even imagined—until now.
