The Zedland Chronicles
Title | The Zedland Chronicles PDF eBook |
Author | Ed Rubin |
Publisher | Author House |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2010-12-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1452089655 |
Zed, a bright but troubled fifteen-year-old orphan subject to disturbing but revealing dream-visions, along with a small group of dissident families, must contend with the oppressive, prophecy-driven ways of their clan, as they attempt to overcome long odds to achieve his murdered parents' dream: a world without cruelty, ignorance, or greed. The three-part saga tracks multidimensional characters as they navigate their primitive environment, searching for the twelve magnificent emeralds needed to fulfill the prophecy at the heart of the clan's ritual-bound culture. At the helm is Lunix, the cunning shaman, and Lerk, the headman, a woman-hater who jumps at Lunixs command. Zed's enemies also include Atur, a deeply disturbed man, who is the leader of Lunixs goon squad, and Atok, Aturs son, a bully who walks with anger rather than pride because he fathered a female child. Buela, the medicine woman, is at the center of the progressive group that began with Zeds parents, along with Sani, Buelas daughter and medicine woman-in-training, who possesses sharp wit and astounding sensory acuity. Paramount among Zed's supporters is Zhiaban, an altruistic yet enigmatic, music-loving tree-goddess, whose magical powers come to his aid, as he and his friends first must flee and then find a way to return to their homeland and share their new ways with the clan. Rife with adventure, intrigue, magic, love, humor, triumph, revelation, and disappointment, THE ZEDLAND CHRONICLES/ORPHAN RUNNING examines, with no apologies, controversial subjects such as faith, patricide, parenting, and altered consciousness.
Words to Rhyme with
Title | Words to Rhyme with PDF eBook |
Author | Willard R. Espy |
Publisher | Checkmark Books |
Pages | 692 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9780816043132 |
An easy-to-use dictionary of over 80,000 rhyming words.
Miscellanies; Prose & Verse: Kickleburys abroad; Legend of the Rhine; Rebecca & Rowena; Second funeral of Napoleon; Chronicle of the drum
Title | Miscellanies; Prose & Verse: Kickleburys abroad; Legend of the Rhine; Rebecca & Rowena; Second funeral of Napoleon; Chronicle of the drum PDF eBook |
Author | William Makepeace Thackeray |
Publisher | |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1851 |
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ISBN |
The Betrothed
Title | The Betrothed PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Scott |
Publisher | |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 1863 |
Genre | Crusades |
ISBN |
The King's Exile
Title | The King's Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Swanston |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 2013-08-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1446487288 |
Spring, 1648. When Thomas Hill, a bookseller living in rural Hampshire, publishes a political pamphlet he has little idea of the trouble that will follow. He is quickly arrested, forced on a boat to Barbados and condemned to life as a slave to two of the island’s most notoriously violent brothers. In England war has erupted again, with London under threat of attack. When news of the king’s execution reaches the island, political stability is threatened and a fleet commanded by Sir George Ayscue arrives to take control of the island for Cromwell. The threat of violence increases. Thomas finds himself witness to abuse, poison, rape and savage brutality. When a coded message from Ayscue to a sympathiser on the island is intercepted, Thomas is asked to decipher it. A disastrous battle seems inevitable. But nothing turns out as planned. And as the death toll mounts, the escape Thomas has been relying on seems ever more unlikely...
The Black Friar
Title | The Black Friar PDF eBook |
Author | S.G. MacLean |
Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2016-10-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1784293385 |
Rebellion in the city, and a Royalist spy in his own ranks - Damian Seeker, Captain of Oliver Cromwell's guard, must eradicate both if the fragile Republic is not to fail. 'MacLean skilfully weaves together the disparate threads of her plot to create a gripping tale of crime and sedition in an unsettled city' Sunday Times 'MacLean's light touch portrait of a hard man with a softer core is what makes these books so memorable' The Times London, 1655, and Cromwell's regime is under threat from all sides. Damian Seeker, Captain of Cromwell's Guard, is all too aware of the danger facing Cromwell. Parliament resents his control of the Army while the Army resents his absolute power. In the east end of London, a group of religious fanatics plots rebellion. In the midst of all this, a stonemason uncovers a perfectly preserved body dressed in the robes of a Dominican friar, bricked up in a wall in the crumbling Black Friars. Ill-informed rumours and speculation abound, but Seeker instantly recognises the dead man. What he must discover is why he met such a hideous end, and what his connection was to the children who have started to disappear from around the city. Unravelling these mysteries is challenging enough, and made still harder by the activities of dissenters at home, Royalist plotters abroad and individuals who are not what they seem...
German-Jewish Refugees in England
Title | German-Jewish Refugees in England PDF eBook |
Author | Marion Berghahn |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 1984-06-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1349042102 |