Author: Lulu M. Sylvian
Publisher: Moon Tan Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Enjoy this free introductory story to the Berserker Boys romance trilogy. When her friend’s celebrity crush, in full Viking cosplay, sits down for lunch at the same restaurant, Aaliyah is determined to introduce her friend to the man. Instant attraction turns to anger, and instead of asking for an introduction, she sees red. Aaliyah challenges Vik, with his piercing blue eyes, on the meaning of his tattoos. Given a chance and a lot of charm and convincing, Vik hastily explains the true meaning of his marks. He invites Aaliyah and her friends to come see what he means. Vik had already chosen to embrace his Viking persona for game-play when magic forced the shift on him. Magical forces, using the power of online video gaming, are opening portals between worlds. That same magic causes Vik and his friends to shift into their berserker forms when called to do battle against invading hordes of orcs and goblins. It was supposed to be an afternoon of fun and mayhem, but Vik realizes too late, he may have put the feisty, beautiful Aaliyah in danger. Cosplay takes on a whole new meaning when Viking gamers have the power to shape shift. You don’t choose the berserker life. The berserker life chooses you.
Bear: Berserker Boys 1, a FREE Viking gamer shifter adventure romance
Author: Lulu M. Sylvian
Publisher: Moon Tan Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Enjoy this free introductory story to the Berserker Boys romance trilogy. When her friend’s celebrity crush, in full Viking cosplay, sits down for lunch at the same restaurant, Aaliyah is determined to introduce her friend to the man. Instant attraction turns to anger, and instead of asking for an introduction, she sees red. Aaliyah challenges Vik, with his piercing blue eyes, on the meaning of his tattoos. Given a chance and a lot of charm and convincing, Vik hastily explains the true meaning of his marks. He invites Aaliyah and her friends to come see what he means. Vik had already chosen to embrace his Viking persona for game-play when magic forced the shift on him. Magical forces, using the power of online video gaming, are opening portals between worlds. That same magic causes Vik and his friends to shift into their berserker forms when called to do battle against invading hordes of orcs and goblins. It was supposed to be an afternoon of fun and mayhem, but Vik realizes too late, he may have put the feisty, beautiful Aaliyah in danger. Cosplay takes on a whole new meaning when Viking gamers have the power to shape shift. You don’t choose the berserker life. The berserker life chooses you.
Publisher: Moon Tan Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Enjoy this free introductory story to the Berserker Boys romance trilogy. When her friend’s celebrity crush, in full Viking cosplay, sits down for lunch at the same restaurant, Aaliyah is determined to introduce her friend to the man. Instant attraction turns to anger, and instead of asking for an introduction, she sees red. Aaliyah challenges Vik, with his piercing blue eyes, on the meaning of his tattoos. Given a chance and a lot of charm and convincing, Vik hastily explains the true meaning of his marks. He invites Aaliyah and her friends to come see what he means. Vik had already chosen to embrace his Viking persona for game-play when magic forced the shift on him. Magical forces, using the power of online video gaming, are opening portals between worlds. That same magic causes Vik and his friends to shift into their berserker forms when called to do battle against invading hordes of orcs and goblins. It was supposed to be an afternoon of fun and mayhem, but Vik realizes too late, he may have put the feisty, beautiful Aaliyah in danger. Cosplay takes on a whole new meaning when Viking gamers have the power to shape shift. You don’t choose the berserker life. The berserker life chooses you.
Sold to the Berserkers
Author: Lee Savino
Publisher: Silverwood Press LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
One glance and we knew she was ours. We’re the Berserkers. Fearless warriors. And she’s our captive. The woman who can tame us. The only one who can soothe our inner beasts. Her scars lead to her past. She’s been hurt. Sold to us in the middle of wilderness. Now, there are no boundaries. She’s ours to protect. To endlessly pleasure. We need her to break the curse. So, she must choose. Will she escape? Or take her place as our true mate? Sold to the Berserkers is a free dark shifter romance starring two huge, dominant warrior and their true mate.
Publisher: Silverwood Press LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
One glance and we knew she was ours. We’re the Berserkers. Fearless warriors. And she’s our captive. The woman who can tame us. The only one who can soothe our inner beasts. Her scars lead to her past. She’s been hurt. Sold to us in the middle of wilderness. Now, there are no boundaries. She’s ours to protect. To endlessly pleasure. We need her to break the curse. So, she must choose. Will she escape? Or take her place as our true mate? Sold to the Berserkers is a free dark shifter romance starring two huge, dominant warrior and their true mate.
Mafia Captive (2022)
Author: Kitty Thomas
Publisher: Blue Pencil Media
ISBN: 9781938639968
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The perfect novel for anyone looking to dip a toe into the dark side." - Bookie Nookie Reviews I just witnessed a mob hit. The lighter flicks like the sound of a gunshot. Smoke from his cigarette slips through the cracks of my hiding place. His dark chuckle haunts future nightmares I'll never get to have. Please walk away. Please. The sound of a zipper...and then his voice: "Faith Jacobson. 580 Flatbush Avenue. Brooklyn." He's got my wallet. My driver's license. He knows who I am. It's over for me. He flings open the lid of the dumpster. The nearby streetlight illuminates me, and suddenly he decides I'm not dying tonight. No, I am now to become a gift... to his even deadlier brother. I just became the property of Leo Raspallo. Originally published April 17th, 2013. This is a standalone contemporary Dark Romance. Includes NEW Bonus Epilogue.
Publisher: Blue Pencil Media
ISBN: 9781938639968
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The perfect novel for anyone looking to dip a toe into the dark side." - Bookie Nookie Reviews I just witnessed a mob hit. The lighter flicks like the sound of a gunshot. Smoke from his cigarette slips through the cracks of my hiding place. His dark chuckle haunts future nightmares I'll never get to have. Please walk away. Please. The sound of a zipper...and then his voice: "Faith Jacobson. 580 Flatbush Avenue. Brooklyn." He's got my wallet. My driver's license. He knows who I am. It's over for me. He flings open the lid of the dumpster. The nearby streetlight illuminates me, and suddenly he decides I'm not dying tonight. No, I am now to become a gift... to his even deadlier brother. I just became the property of Leo Raspallo. Originally published April 17th, 2013. This is a standalone contemporary Dark Romance. Includes NEW Bonus Epilogue.
The Sea of Trolls
Author: Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 184739731X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Jack is an apprentice bard and just beginning to learn the secrets of his mysterious master, when he and his little sister are captured by Viking chief, Olaf One-Brow, and taken to the court of Ivar the Boneless. Ivar is married to a half-troll named Frith, an evil and unpredictable queen with a strange power over her husband's court. Jack is sent on to the kingdom of the trolls, where he has to find the magical well and undo the charm he has cast on Frith. He is accompanied by Thorgill, a shield maiden, aged 12, who wants to be a berserker when she grows up. Together, they are set for a magical and exciting adventure.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 184739731X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Jack is an apprentice bard and just beginning to learn the secrets of his mysterious master, when he and his little sister are captured by Viking chief, Olaf One-Brow, and taken to the court of Ivar the Boneless. Ivar is married to a half-troll named Frith, an evil and unpredictable queen with a strange power over her husband's court. Jack is sent on to the kingdom of the trolls, where he has to find the magical well and undo the charm he has cast on Frith. He is accompanied by Thorgill, a shield maiden, aged 12, who wants to be a berserker when she grows up. Together, they are set for a magical and exciting adventure.
Cultural Techniques
Author: Bernhard Siegert
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823263770
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so as to redefine the concept through something more fundamental than the empiricist study of a medium’s individual or collective uses or of its cultural semantics or aesthetics. Rather, Siegert seeks to relocate media and culture on a level where the distinctions between object and performance, matter and form, human and nonhuman, sign and channel, the symbolic and the real are still in the process of becoming. The result is to turn ontology into a domain of all that is meant in German by the word Kultur. Cultural techniques comprise not only self-referential symbolic practices like reading, writing, counting, or image-making. The analysis of artifacts as cultural techniques emphasizes their ontological status as “in-betweens,” shifting from firstorder to second-order techniques, from the technical to the artistic, from object to sign, from the natural to the cultural, from the operational to the representational. Cultural Techniques ranges from seafaring, drafting, and eating to the production of the sign-signaldistinction in old and new media, to the reproduction of anthropological difference, to the study of trompe-l’oeils, grids, registers, and doors. Throughout, Siegert addresses fundamental questions of how ontological distinctions can be replaced by chains of operations that process those alleged ontological distinctions within the ontic. Grounding posthumanist theory both historically and technically, this book opens up a crucial dialogue between new German media theory and American postcybernetic discourses.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823263770
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so as to redefine the concept through something more fundamental than the empiricist study of a medium’s individual or collective uses or of its cultural semantics or aesthetics. Rather, Siegert seeks to relocate media and culture on a level where the distinctions between object and performance, matter and form, human and nonhuman, sign and channel, the symbolic and the real are still in the process of becoming. The result is to turn ontology into a domain of all that is meant in German by the word Kultur. Cultural techniques comprise not only self-referential symbolic practices like reading, writing, counting, or image-making. The analysis of artifacts as cultural techniques emphasizes their ontological status as “in-betweens,” shifting from firstorder to second-order techniques, from the technical to the artistic, from object to sign, from the natural to the cultural, from the operational to the representational. Cultural Techniques ranges from seafaring, drafting, and eating to the production of the sign-signaldistinction in old and new media, to the reproduction of anthropological difference, to the study of trompe-l’oeils, grids, registers, and doors. Throughout, Siegert addresses fundamental questions of how ontological distinctions can be replaced by chains of operations that process those alleged ontological distinctions within the ontic. Grounding posthumanist theory both historically and technically, this book opens up a crucial dialogue between new German media theory and American postcybernetic discourses.
The Berserker Saga - Books 1-5
Author: Lee Savino
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781521439746
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
For over a hundred years, the Berserker warriors have fought and killed for kings. There is but one enemy we cannot defeat: the beast within. * The first 5 books of the Berserker Saga in one volume! Plus exclusive extras--including an excerpt from the soon-to-be released "Captured by the Berserkers" Inside: Sold to the Berserkers Mated to the Berserkers Taken by the Berserkers Given to the Berserkers Claimed by the Berserkers Plus an author interview, glossary, list of characters and excerpt from "Captured by the Berserkers" Sold to the Berserkers: I'll never forget the first time I saw them, warriors moving like shadows from the trees. Their eyes seemed to glow with a fierce golden light, moving more like beasts than men. I trembled, every hair on my flesh prickled in the age old response of the hunted. They were predators and I was prey. They entered the clearing and brought with them the smell of blood. Clad in furs and leather, bristling with weapons, they were warriors the likes of which I'd never seen. Huge, hulking forms, dark shapes pricked with those glowing pairs of eyes. I could not face them properly, for I was bound to a tree, in the middle of a wilderness, helpless as I waited to be sold to the Berserkers. Mated to the Berserkers A Highlander and Viking claim their woman... A witch told us of the one who can save us--a woman marked by the wolf. We found and claimed her. But will she accept us as mates? Can she soothe our feral nature before it is too late? Highland werewolf Daegan never expected to defeat the curse of his bloodline. But when a prophecy tells of a woman who holds the cure to his Berserker rage, he and his Viking warrior brother will stop at nothing to claim her. They bring her to their mountain home and train her according to pack rules. But will her power be enough to break the Berserker curse? Taken by the Berserkers My mother warned me not to go alone to the grove. But when the moon is full, heat stirs my blood...and it calls to them. The Berserkers came in the night and took me. I woke chained outside the monsters' cave. They were warriors, cursed by a witch to become ravening beasts. They tell me I'm their mate. The prophecy says I am the only one who can heal them. But can I tame the beast that haunts their mind...before it's too late? Given to the Berserkers Captured to be a prize in the brutal Berserker Games... My life changed forever when the Berserkers took me. These fearsome warriors must find women to keep their lethal rage at bay...and I am an ideal mate. The Alphas decree that all warriors must compete in a series of Highland Games for my hand. Of all the giant warriors, two have caught my eye, but I have no choice. When the final match is over, I will belong to the ruthless victors. They will possess me fully. I can only hope they will be the two I could come to love... Claimed by the Berserkers "You're ours now, lass. We're claiming ye." My mind and body are weakened by the curse of my magic. My three sisters have mated with Berserker warriors, but I am too frail to be a bride. One night, three warriors break into my home. They steal me away. They tell me I belong to them, and that they'll never let me go. To convince me, they spend hours giving me endless pleasure... But there's an preying on me. It wants me for its own, and none none can stand in its way. Except the Berserkers.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781521439746
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
For over a hundred years, the Berserker warriors have fought and killed for kings. There is but one enemy we cannot defeat: the beast within. * The first 5 books of the Berserker Saga in one volume! Plus exclusive extras--including an excerpt from the soon-to-be released "Captured by the Berserkers" Inside: Sold to the Berserkers Mated to the Berserkers Taken by the Berserkers Given to the Berserkers Claimed by the Berserkers Plus an author interview, glossary, list of characters and excerpt from "Captured by the Berserkers" Sold to the Berserkers: I'll never forget the first time I saw them, warriors moving like shadows from the trees. Their eyes seemed to glow with a fierce golden light, moving more like beasts than men. I trembled, every hair on my flesh prickled in the age old response of the hunted. They were predators and I was prey. They entered the clearing and brought with them the smell of blood. Clad in furs and leather, bristling with weapons, they were warriors the likes of which I'd never seen. Huge, hulking forms, dark shapes pricked with those glowing pairs of eyes. I could not face them properly, for I was bound to a tree, in the middle of a wilderness, helpless as I waited to be sold to the Berserkers. Mated to the Berserkers A Highlander and Viking claim their woman... A witch told us of the one who can save us--a woman marked by the wolf. We found and claimed her. But will she accept us as mates? Can she soothe our feral nature before it is too late? Highland werewolf Daegan never expected to defeat the curse of his bloodline. But when a prophecy tells of a woman who holds the cure to his Berserker rage, he and his Viking warrior brother will stop at nothing to claim her. They bring her to their mountain home and train her according to pack rules. But will her power be enough to break the Berserker curse? Taken by the Berserkers My mother warned me not to go alone to the grove. But when the moon is full, heat stirs my blood...and it calls to them. The Berserkers came in the night and took me. I woke chained outside the monsters' cave. They were warriors, cursed by a witch to become ravening beasts. They tell me I'm their mate. The prophecy says I am the only one who can heal them. But can I tame the beast that haunts their mind...before it's too late? Given to the Berserkers Captured to be a prize in the brutal Berserker Games... My life changed forever when the Berserkers took me. These fearsome warriors must find women to keep their lethal rage at bay...and I am an ideal mate. The Alphas decree that all warriors must compete in a series of Highland Games for my hand. Of all the giant warriors, two have caught my eye, but I have no choice. When the final match is over, I will belong to the ruthless victors. They will possess me fully. I can only hope they will be the two I could come to love... Claimed by the Berserkers "You're ours now, lass. We're claiming ye." My mind and body are weakened by the curse of my magic. My three sisters have mated with Berserker warriors, but I am too frail to be a bride. One night, three warriors break into my home. They steal me away. They tell me I belong to them, and that they'll never let me go. To convince me, they spend hours giving me endless pleasure... But there's an preying on me. It wants me for its own, and none none can stand in its way. Except the Berserkers.
Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore
Author: Theresa Bane
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786495057
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
"Here there be dragons"--this notation was often made on ancient maps to indicate the edges of the known world and what lay beyond. Heroes who ventured there were only as great as the beasts they encountered. This encyclopedia contains more than 2,200 monsters of myth and folklore, who both made life difficult for humans and fought by their side. Entries describe the appearance, behavior, and cultural origin of mythic creatures well-known and obscure, collected from traditions around the world.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786495057
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
"Here there be dragons"--this notation was often made on ancient maps to indicate the edges of the known world and what lay beyond. Heroes who ventured there were only as great as the beasts they encountered. This encyclopedia contains more than 2,200 monsters of myth and folklore, who both made life difficult for humans and fought by their side. Entries describe the appearance, behavior, and cultural origin of mythic creatures well-known and obscure, collected from traditions around the world.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior
Author: Kresley Cole
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 184983346X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
A ruthless Norse warrior will defeat anything standing between him and his beautiful obsession - even Death itself. A millennium ago, Aidan the Fierce lost his heart to the Valkyrie Regin the Radiant, but he was murdered before he could win her. Since then, he has reincarnated into different identities, with his memory of the past buried deep. This time he has returned as Declan Chase, a human soldier bent on exterminating all immortals - including Regin, his newest captive. The proud Northman that Regin still mourns has been replaced by a twisted madman. Once tortured by immortals, Chase now metes out vengeance against them, and he's fixated on her. Regin's only hope is to make him remember her, though she knows that whenever he recovers his memories, history will repeat itself, and he'll be lost to her again. . . .
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 184983346X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
A ruthless Norse warrior will defeat anything standing between him and his beautiful obsession - even Death itself. A millennium ago, Aidan the Fierce lost his heart to the Valkyrie Regin the Radiant, but he was murdered before he could win her. Since then, he has reincarnated into different identities, with his memory of the past buried deep. This time he has returned as Declan Chase, a human soldier bent on exterminating all immortals - including Regin, his newest captive. The proud Northman that Regin still mourns has been replaced by a twisted madman. Once tortured by immortals, Chase now metes out vengeance against them, and he's fixated on her. Regin's only hope is to make him remember her, though she knows that whenever he recovers his memories, history will repeat itself, and he'll be lost to her again. . . .
The Folk-stories of Iceland
Author: Einar Ólafur Sveinsson
Publisher: Viking Society for Northern Research University College
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In Iceland, people do not compose verse just to comfort themselves; they worship poetry and believe in it. In poetry is a power which rules men's lives and health, governs wind and sea. This book contains an account of the various types of Icelandic folk-story, their origins and sources, the folk-beliefs they represent, and their meanings.
Publisher: Viking Society for Northern Research University College
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In Iceland, people do not compose verse just to comfort themselves; they worship poetry and believe in it. In poetry is a power which rules men's lives and health, governs wind and sea. This book contains an account of the various types of Icelandic folk-story, their origins and sources, the folk-beliefs they represent, and their meanings.
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Author: Greg Palast
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110121323X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
"Palast is astonishing, he gets the real evidence no one else has the guts to dig up." Vincent Bugliosi, author of None Dare Call it Treason and Helter Skelter Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast digs deep to unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the world today have the courage or ability to cover. From East Timor to Waco, he has exposed some of the most egregious cases of political corruption, corporate fraud, and financial manipulation in the US and abroad. His uncanny investigative skills as well as his no-holds-barred style have made him an anathema among magnates on four continents and a living legend among his colleagues and his devoted readership. This exciting collection, now revised and updated, brings together some of Palast's most powerful writing of the past decade. Included here are his celebrated Washington Post exposé on Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris's stealing of the presidential election in Florida, and recent stories on George W. Bush's payoffs to corporate cronies, the payola behind Hillary Clinton, and the faux energy crisis. Also included in this volume are new and previously unpublished material, television transcripts, photographs, and letters.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110121323X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
"Palast is astonishing, he gets the real evidence no one else has the guts to dig up." Vincent Bugliosi, author of None Dare Call it Treason and Helter Skelter Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast digs deep to unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the world today have the courage or ability to cover. From East Timor to Waco, he has exposed some of the most egregious cases of political corruption, corporate fraud, and financial manipulation in the US and abroad. His uncanny investigative skills as well as his no-holds-barred style have made him an anathema among magnates on four continents and a living legend among his colleagues and his devoted readership. This exciting collection, now revised and updated, brings together some of Palast's most powerful writing of the past decade. Included here are his celebrated Washington Post exposé on Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris's stealing of the presidential election in Florida, and recent stories on George W. Bush's payoffs to corporate cronies, the payola behind Hillary Clinton, and the faux energy crisis. Also included in this volume are new and previously unpublished material, television transcripts, photographs, and letters.