Author: KB Daly
Publisher: KB Daly
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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With Viktor's help, Sean has to learn to control a new and dangerous power. It's a power Sean will need to fight strange entities that have been unleashed after the defeat of Obelus. While dead and living Obelus members are coming after him, Viktor is determined to learn more about Sean's past, his origins and his true nature.
Author: Mercedes Lackey
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429989181
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mercedes Lackey presents Trio of Sorcery, three exciting short urban fantasy novels featuring three resourceful heroines and three different takes on the modern world and on magics both modern and ancient. Arcanum 101: Diana Tregarde, practicing witch, romance novelist, Guardian of the Earth. Studying at Harvard, Diana is approached by Joe O'Brian, a young cop who has already seen more than one unusual thing during his budding career. The distraught mother of a kidnap victim is taking advice from a "psychic" and interfering in the police investigation. Will Diana prove that the psychic is a fake? Unfortunately, the psychic is not a fake, but a very wicked witch--and the child's kidnapper. Drums: Jennifer Talldeer, shaman, private investigator, member of the Osage tribe. Most of Jennie's work is regular PI stuff, but Nathan Begay brings her a problem she's never seen before. His girlfriend, Caroline, is Chickasaw to his Navaho, but that's not the problem. Somehow, Caroline has attracted the attention of an angry Osage ghost. Thwarted in love while alive, the ghost has chosen Caroline to be his bride in death. Ghost in the Machine: Ellen McBride: computer programmer extraordinaire, techno-shaman. The programmers and players of a new MMORPG find that the game's "boss," a wendigo, is "killing" everyone--even the programmers' characters with their god-like powers. A brilliant debugger, Ellen discovers that the massive computing power of the game's servers have created a breach between the supernatural world and our own. This wendigo isn't a bit of code, it's the real thing . . . and it's on the brink of breaking out of the computers and into the real world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Chase Connor
Publisher: Lion Fish Press
ISBN: 9781951860288
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Being a gay teen can be difficult, but for Dustin Blanchard, it's been pretty boring, actually. In less than twenty-four hours he's going to graduate from high school. His parents and friends have always given him their full support and unconditional love. He's always had plenty of friends in school, he's attractive, always gotten good grades, and he's headed into a new chapter of life-university after his last summer of working at a local ice cream joint. His life has been...blessed. There's just one thing. He's never had a boyfriend. Never gotten laid. Never even been kissed. Well, not like that, anyway. So, life has been good, but it's been boring. When he came out, Dustin imagined his own rom-com, teenage, coming-of-age scenario playing out, finding a boyfriend in high school, and being crowned dual Kings of the Prom. Nothing ever works out the way he imagines, though, and he's getting pretty tired of it. On the night of his graduation, Dustin and his friend, Miguel, come up with a plan while sharing a few beers swiped from the neighborhood barbecue. If you can't get laid through skill and swagger of your own, you can always turn to a professional. All you need is the internet and a device. So, buzzed from the beers, Dustin logs onto Briefly Buddies to find the perfect guy to help him achieve his first real gay experience. And that's where everything really started to go wrong...
Author: Beth Cato
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062313851
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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Full of magic, mystery, and romance, an enchanting steampunk fantasy debut in the bestselling vein of Trudi Canavan and Gail Carriger. Orphaned as a child, Octavia Leander was doomed to grow up on the streets until Miss Percival saved her and taught her to become a medician. Gifted with incredible powers, the young healer is about to embark on her first mission, visiting suffering cities in the far reaches of the war-scarred realm. But the airship on which she is traveling is plagued by a series of strange and disturbing occurrences, including murder, and Octavia herself is threatened. Suddenly, she is caught up in a flurry of intrigue: the dashingly attractive steward may be one of the infamous Clockwork Daggers—the Queen’s spies and assassins—and her cabin-mate harbors disturbing secrets. But the danger is only beginning, for Octavia discovers that the deadly conspiracy aboard the airship may reach the crown itself.
Author: Ilona Andrews
Publisher: Nancy Yost Literary Agency, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781641970402
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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"Hugh is a shadow of the warrior he was, but when he learns that the Iron Dogs, soldiers who would follow him anywhere, are being hunted down and murdered, he must make a choice: to fade away or to be the leader he was born to be ... Elara Harper is a creature who should not exist. Her enemies call her Abomination; her people call her White Lady. Tasked with their protection, she's trapped between the magical heavyweights about to collide and plunge the state of Kentucky into a war that humans have no power to stop. Desperate to shield her people and their simple way of life, she would accept help from the devil himself--and Hugh d'Ambray might qualify"--Back cover.
Author: Natasha Pulley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 140887847X
Category : Blessing and cursing
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg. When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment of malaria--from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea. Nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is desperate to escape the strange events plaguing his family's crumbling estate, so he sets off, against his better judgment, for the edge of the Amazon. There he meets Raphael, a priest around whom the villagers spin unsettling stories of impossible disappearances, cursed woods, and living stone. Merrick must separate truth from fairy tale, and gradually he realizes that Raphael is the key to a secret which will prove more valuable than quinine.
Author: Frances Stonor Saunders
Publisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1595589147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.
Author: Zona Gale
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Newspaper reporter St. George sets out for the royal island of Yaque in search of answers to all the mysteries surrounding the Holland family.
Author: Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691191344
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried Kracauer examines German society from 1921 to 1933, in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel. He explores the connections among film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time. Kracauer makes a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. With a critical introduction by Leonardo Quaresima which provides context for Kracauer’s scholarship and his contributions to film studies, this Princeton Classics edition makes an influential work available to new generations of cinema enthusiasts.
Author: Ada Stuart
Publisher: Ada Stuart
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Mated to three large alpha shifters? No way, Leah decides. She might be an omega, but who says she needs to follow every dust-covered tradition? She would rather work on her studies than count male abs. Particularly when those abs belong to three of her uncle’s most intimidating enforcers. Unfortunately, her uncle is also the Alpha, the pack leader. And he has too many unmated males to deal with. Still, Leah refuses to solve the Alpha’s ‘problem’. Particularly not when she learns that her fated mate is her childhood tormentor - and he wants to mate her with two of his friends.. —————————- “Mating the Omega” is a steamy hot Dubcon Reverse Harem Erotic Wolf Shifter Romance. Full length, explicit sex scenes, standalone, no cheating or cliffhangers - and Happily Ever After. Reader advisory: This story contains elements of non-consensual sex, strong language, suicide thoughts and very explicit sex scenes. Themes: Reverse Harem, Enemies to lovers, Happily ever after, Opposites attract, Alpha male, Unrequited love, Matchmaker, Accidental pregnancy, Arranged marriage, Love triangle, Menage, Protector, Return to hometown, Wolf shifter, Pack life, Omega, Alpha NOTE: The cover has been changed, but the content remains the same. ————— Excerpt: The next morning, Leah tried to stick to her usual routines and ignore what had happened yesterday. It wasn’t a great success. Her mind seemed to be constantly churning on how she could avoid her fate. But so far, no good ideas had come forward. She needed to calm down. That would help her mind work more efficiently. But even a long, warm shower had failed to calm her nerves. She dried her hair and got dressed. Taking some comfort in doing what she always did in the morning. There had to be a way out of this mess. Some miracle that would restore her life to normal and wake her up from this nightmare. As she left the bathroom, Leah heard her mother call from the story below her. "Leah?" "Yes?" "There's someone here to see you." "Who?" "Come down and see for yourself, dear." Leah had a strong suspicion who it might be. Taren. Otherwise, her mother would have said so. She had briefly told her mother what her uncle had ordered her to do. Her mother had seemed relieved, but she hadn’t nagged about it. Instead, she had kept her questions to a minimum, as if she sensed Leah was too shocked to want to talk about it. In fact, she didn’t even want to think or talk about the mating. She wanted to forget the whole thing. But the people around her wouldn’t forget. Particularly not if her so-called mate would become a frequent visitor to her house. Leah heard muttered voices coming from the living room as she moved closer. Fearing the meeting, yet it was better to know. She stood in the doorway and looked inside. At the same time, they stopped talking and turned their attention to her. Even if she had moved silently, it felt like she had barged in. Leah stiffened when she saw Taren wasn’t the only visitor. Three large men towered over her mother. Each of them so large and broad, their living room suddenly felt tiny. Their faces turned to her. Leah felt their eyes scan her entire body from top to toe. As if they were weighing her, judging her. ——————
