Sisters of Isis: #4 - The Haunting
Title | Sisters of Isis: #4 - The Haunting PDF eBook |
Author | Lynne Ewing |
Publisher | Hyperion Books for Children |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-04-29 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781423108429 |
Meri, Sudi, and Dalila are three girls living in Washington, D.C., but have little else in common. Or so they think. When an ancient magic is revealed, so are their true identities as Sisters of Isis. Strange things are happening to Sudi. And when her date with her new crush Raul turns into a huge disaster, Sudi can’t deny the truth anymore—she’s got a ghost on her hands. But instead of being scared, Sudi sees this as an opportunity; it’s like having a special pet that can spy for her and play tricks on her nemesis, Michelle. Only this friendly ghost turns out to be not so friendly, and Sudi quickly discovers that it is actually a mut, one of the dangerous dead who tormented the ancient Egyptians. Sudi, Meri, and Dalila are soon caught up in the spirit’s brutal plan to wreak havoc in the world. Will the magic of the Sisters of Isis be strong enough to stop it?
The Summoning
Title | The Summoning PDF eBook |
Author | Lynne Ewing |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 528 |
Release | 2011-12-13 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 142316430X |
Meri, Sudi, and Dalila are three girls who live in Washington, D.C., but have little else in common. Or so they think. When an ancient magic is revealed, so are their true identities as Sisters of Isis. The Summoning After receiving an anonymous invitation to dinner at the Sky Terrace, Sudi meets a mysterious guy named Abdel, and two other girls, both strangers. Sudi doesn't know whether to laugh or run when Abdel claims that she and the other girls are the descendants of Egyptian pharaohs, powerful ancestors who have given them magical gifts and powers of transformation.
The Last Girl
Title | The Last Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Nadia Murad |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2017-11-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1524760455 |
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE • In this “courageous” (The Washington Post) memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, this life ended. Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused to convert to Islam and women too old to become sex slaves. Six of Nadia’s brothers were killed, and her mother soon after, their bodies swept into mass graves. Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade. Nadia would be held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten. Finally, she managed a narrow escape through the streets of Mosul, finding shelter in the home of a Sunni Muslim family whose eldest son risked his life to smuggle her to safety. Today, Nadia's story—as a witness to the Islamic State's brutality, a survivor of rape, a refugee, a Yazidi—has forced the world to pay attention to an ongoing genocide. It is a call to action, a testament to the human will to survive, and a love letter to a lost country, a fragile community, and a family torn apart by war.
Sisters of Isis #3: Enchantress
Title | Sisters of Isis #3: Enchantress PDF eBook |
Author | Lynne Ewing |
Publisher | Hyperion |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2007-09-25 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781423106845 |
Following the incredible success of Daughters of the Moon, Lynne Ewing has created an all new fun and hip teen fantasy series. Based in Egyptian mythology and set in modern-day Washington, D.C., Sisters of Isis follows the lives of Meri, Sudi, and Dalila, three fifteen-year-old girls who have just discovered they are descendants of very powerful ancestors—Egyptian pharaohs. From these ancestors they’ve inherited magical powers of transformation, the ability to cast spells from the Book of Thoth, and, as they will soon learn, the responsibility of protecting the world from the evil forces of Chaos.
Strange Tales #8 (Vol. 4, No. 1)
Title | Strange Tales #8 (Vol. 4, No. 1) PDF eBook |
Author | Darrell Schweitzer |
Publisher | Wildside Press LLC |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0809533413 |
The legendary pulp magazine STRANGE TALES -- rival to Weird Tales in its prime -- returns as an anthology series edited by renowned pulp fiction expert Robert M. Price. Volume 4, number 1 (continuing the classic numbering sequence) features contributions from a range of modern masters, including RICHARD A. LUPOFF, DARRELL SCHWEITZER, ADRIAN COLE, and many more. Cover art by JASON VAN HOLLANDER.
Beautiful Bad
Title | Beautiful Bad PDF eBook |
Author | Annie Ward |
Publisher | Harlequin |
Pages | 397 |
Release | 2019-03-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1488099596 |
A perfect marriage reveals its dark secrets in this psychological thriller of a devoted wife, her veteran husband, and a shocking murder. Maddie and Ian’s love story began with a chance encounter at a party overseas; he was serving in the British Army and she was a travel writer visiting her best friend, Jo. Now almost two decades later, married with a beautiful son, Charlie, they are living the perfect suburban life in Middle America. But when a camping accident leaves Maddie badly scarred, she begins attending writing therapy, where she gradually reveals her fears about Ian’s PTSD; her concerns for the safety of their young son; and the couple’s tangled and tumultuous past with Jo. From the Balkans to England, Iraq to Manhattan, and finally to an ordinary family home in Kansas, sixteen years of love and fear, adventure and suspicion culminate in The Day of the Killing, when a frantic 911 call summons the police to the scene of a shocking crime.
A Catered Halloween
Title | A Catered Halloween PDF eBook |
Author | Isis Crawford |
Publisher | Kensington Books |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780758221926 |
In the fifth adventure in Crawford's much-loved culinary mystery series, sisters Libby and Bernie Simmons attend a haunted house fundraiser--with some truly spooky surprises.