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Whispers of Emberstones

The Emberheart Saga, #1

by M. Maldonado ...

Series Book 1 - The Emberheart Saga
Deep within the treacherous highlands, where wyvern magic once shaped civilization, three enemy mining cities teeter on the brink of destruction. A century after the last wyvern's fall, the sentient peaks dividing these rivals have awakened, unleashing forces that haven't been seen since the age of legends.ELVA, an engineer who despises magic, is drafted for a mission through monster-infested ... Read more

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Deep within the treacherous highlands, where wyvern magic once shaped civilization, three enemy mining cities teeter on the brink of destruction. A century after the last wyvern's fall, the sentient peaks dividing these rivals have awakened, unleashing forces that haven't been seen since the age of legends.ELVA, an engineer who despises magic, is drafted for a mission through monster-infested
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Tales of a Time Weaver

by Elizabeth M. Herrera ...

Twenty-year-old Emma is enjoying a quiet evening with her cat, Max, when three enigmatic beings—known as the Keepers—step into her living room and ask her to complete a small but vital task to restore the balance between light and darkness. Before she can decide whether to trust them, a shadow-forged entity called the Dark One begins stalking her across time itself.Whisked away to a Victorian ... Read more

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Twenty-year-old Emma is enjoying a quiet evening with her cat, Max, when three enigmatic beings—known as the Keepers—step into her living room and ask her to complete a small but vital task to restore the balance between light and darkness. Before she can decide whether to trust them, a shadow-forged entity called the Dark One begins stalking her across time itself.Whisked away to a Victorian
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Feisty Deeds : Historical Fictions of Daring Women

by Kimberly Sullivan, Elaine Aucoin Schroller, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Kay Smith-Blum, Christy Matheson, Joan Fernandez, Patty W. Warren, Beth Anne Hill, Della Leavitt, Kim Gottlieb-Walker, Marie W. Watts, Julia María Schiavone Camacho, Teri M. Brown, Raquel Y. Levitt, Nina Wachsman, Dawn W. Hogan, Ashley E. Sweeney, Julie Mayerson Brown, Barbara Buckley Ristine, Elisabeth Carson-Williams, Debra Borchert, Suzanne Samuels, Valerie Chalker ...

Even when time periods and geographical locations vary greatly, women’s struggles as they confront adversity are often remarkably universal.The twenty-three stories in this collection follow ordinary women from the 1470s to the 1960s as they rise to meet life’s challenges.An unhappy housewife in 1950s California gathers the strength to escape an abusive marriage. When the local men are shipped off ... Read more

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Even when time periods and geographical locations vary greatly, women’s struggles as they confront adversity are often remarkably universal.The twenty-three stories in this collection follow ordinary women from the 1470s to the 1960s as they rise to meet life’s challenges.An unhappy housewife in 1950s California gathers the strength to escape an abusive marriage. When the local men are shipped off
... Read more
The History of Witchcraft in Europe Throughout the Ages

Trials, Folklore, Demonology, and the Cultural Memory of European Persecution

by John Ashton, William Godwin, Howard Williams, Frederick George Lee, Walter Scott, Jules Michelet, M. Schele de Vere, W. H. Davenport Adams, Charles Mackay, George Moir, Margaret Murray, St. John D. Seymour, John G. Campbell, John Maxwell Wood, Bram Stoker, E. Lynn Linton, Wilhelm Meinhold ...

Translated by Jane Wilde, Lucie Duff-Gordon, Lionel James Trotter ...

The History of Witchcraft in Europe Throughout the Ages surveys the changing meanings of witchcraft from medieval demonology and judicial persecution to folklore, superstition, and modern historical inquiry. Its selections range across antiquarian narrative, legal and ecclesiastical history, ethnographic observation, Gothic-inflected prose, and skeptical social commentary. Accounts of trials, ... Read more

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The History of Witchcraft in Europe Throughout the Ages surveys the changing meanings of witchcraft from medieval demonology and judicial persecution to folklore, superstition, and modern historical inquiry. Its selections range across antiquarian narrative, legal and ecclesiastical history, ethnographic observation, Gothic-inflected prose, and skeptical social commentary. Accounts of trials,
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Vampire Tales: The Big Collection (80+ stories in one volume: The Viy, The Fate of Madame Cabanel, The Parasite, Good Lady Ducayne, Count Magnus, For the Blood Is the Life, Dracula’s Guest, The Broken Fang, Blood Lust, Four Wooden Stakes...)

by Leonid Andreyev, Nikolai Gogol, M. R. James, E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Walter De La Mare, F. Marion Crawford, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert E. Howard, D. H. Lawrence, H. P. Lovecraft, Vernon Lee, Guy de Maupassant, Edith Nesbit, Vincent O’Sullivan, Edgar Allan Poe, Clark Ashton Smith, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Victor Roman, Pu Songling, Johann Ludwig Tieck, John William Polidori, Alexei Tolstoy, Sabine Baring-Gould, William Gilbert, Jan Neruda, A. B. Mitford, Eliza Lynn Linton, Phil Robinson, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Julian Hawthorne, Mary Cholmondeley, Anne Crawford, Marsh Richard, Eric Stenbock, Mary E. Braddon, Fred M. White, H. B. Marriott-Watson, Hume Nisbet, F. G. Loring, Augustus Hare, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Frank Norris, Louise J. Strong, Luigi Capuana, Théophile Gaultier, E. G. Swain, Claude Askew, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Horacio Quiroga, Ulric Daubeny, Uel Key, Dion Fortune, Everil Worrell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hesketh V. Pritchard, Cynthia Asquith ...

The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now we have compiled the ... Read more

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The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now we have compiled the
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Opportunity of a Lifetime

by M. Ullrich ...

Luca Garner is eager and hardworking, but her new boss is a total nightmare: snarky and uncooperative, not to mention an ice queen. VP Stephanie Austin doesn’t mean to be unkind, but the last thing she wants is an assistant getting under her skin, especially one who is as attractive as she is kind. ... Read more

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Luca Garner is eager and hardworking, but her new boss is a total nightmare: snarky and uncooperative, not to mention an ice queen. VP Stephanie Austin doesn’t mean to be unkind, but the last thing she wants is an assistant getting under her skin, especially one who is as attractive as she is kind.
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How to steal like an artist

A simple guide

by Joel .m Simmons ...

There's nothing in the world that hasn't existed before, the search for originality is rather a waste of good time. How to steal like an artist explores the problems encountered in the creative world and obstacles blocking the flow of creativityJoel .m. Simmons' How To Steal Like an Artist takes this creative problems into test and critical solutions for artists. Teaching the various ways to draw ... Read more

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There's nothing in the world that hasn't existed before, the search for originality is rather a waste of good time. How to steal like an artist explores the problems encountered in the creative world and obstacles blocking the flow of creativityJoel .m. Simmons' How To Steal Like an Artist takes this creative problems into test and critical solutions for artists. Teaching the various ways to draw
... Read more
Neurogastronomy

How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters

by Gordon M. Shepherd ...

"A personal yet magisterial account of the new brain-based approach to flavor perception . . . [a] panoramic view of science, culture, and behavior."—Avery Gilbert, author of What the Nose KnowsLeading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the "human brain flavor system," laying the foundations for a new scientific field: neurogastronomy. Challenging the ... Read more

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"A personal yet magisterial account of the new brain-based approach to flavor perception . . . [a] panoramic view of science, culture, and behavior."—Avery Gilbert, author of What the Nose KnowsLeading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the "human brain flavor system," laying the foundations for a new scientific field: neurogastronomy. Challenging the
... Read more
Native American Studies: History Books, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies (22 Book Collection)

Exploring Culture, Myths, and History of Tribes

by Charles C. Royce, Clay MacCauley, Franz Boas, William John McGee, James Mooney, Garrick Mallery, John Wesley Powell, Lewis Spence, Erminnie A. Smith, James Owen Dorsey, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Cyrus Thomas, John G. Bourke, Elias Johnson, John Heckewelder, William C. Reichel, Joseph Kossuth Dixon, Alexander Scott Withers, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, Edward S. Curtis, Washington Matthews, Black Hawk, Charles M. Scanlan ...

"Native American Studies" is an interdisciplinary collection which examines the history, culture, religion and language of indigenous people in North America. This meticulously edited collection explores the life of the biggest Native American tribes; including: Cherokee, Iroquois, Sioux, Navajo, Zuñi, Apache, Seminole and Eskimo. Contents: History: The North American Indian The Cherokee Nation of ... Read more

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"Native American Studies" is an interdisciplinary collection which examines the history, culture, religion and language of indigenous people in North America. This meticulously edited collection explores the life of the biggest Native American tribes; including: Cherokee, Iroquois, Sioux, Navajo, Zuñi, Apache, Seminole and Eskimo. Contents: History: The North American Indian The Cherokee Nation of
... Read more
Space Opera

by Catherynne M. Valente ...

Series series Space Opera, The
HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVELThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets the joy and glamour of Eurovision in bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente's wildly funny space opera spectacle, where sentient races compete for glory in a galactic song competition…and the stakes are as high as the fate of planet Earth.A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the ... Read more

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HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVELThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets the joy and glamour of Eurovision in bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente's wildly funny space opera spectacle, where sentient races compete for glory in a galactic song competition…and the stakes are as high as the fate of planet Earth.A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the
... Read more
Marshal Louis N. Davout And The Art Of Command

by Major John M. Keefe ...

This paper involves an in-depth study of the art of command at all three levels of warfare. It examines this art through the eyes of one of Napoleon's ablest Marshals, Louis N. Davout. The paper addresses and accomplishes three primary goals. First, it defines the art of command and shows its relevance to modern day warfare. Second, the paper shows that Marshal Davout was the best of Napoleon's ... Read more

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This paper involves an in-depth study of the art of command at all three levels of warfare. It examines this art through the eyes of one of Napoleon's ablest Marshals, Louis N. Davout. The paper addresses and accomplishes three primary goals. First, it defines the art of command and shows its relevance to modern day warfare. Second, the paper shows that Marshal Davout was the best of Napoleon's
... Read more
Tools for Theosis

Becoming God-like in Christ

by Father Anthony M. Coniaris ...

The tools of Theosis (becoming like God) are made available not only to special saints or monastics but given to all Christians when they are baptized and chrismated. This book explores the countless tools that our Lord has placed at our disposal to enable us to move from being created in His image to becoming like Him. Orthodox Christians refer to this movement as Theosis (deification or ... Read more

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The tools of Theosis (becoming like God) are made available not only to special saints or monastics but given to all Christians when they are baptized and chrismated. This book explores the countless tools that our Lord has placed at our disposal to enable us to move from being created in His image to becoming like Him. Orthodox Christians refer to this movement as Theosis (deification or
... Read more