Death and Honor

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440630941
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Death and Honor by : W.E.B. Griffin

Download or read book Death and Honor written by W.E.B. Griffin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June 1943. Many Germans—some of them high-ranking officers—believe the tides of war have turned against them. Increased activity suggests there may be truth to whispers heard by Office of Strategic Services spies: that the Nazis are extorting Jews outside Germany to buy their relatives’ freedom from extermination camps, then smuggling the ransom in Operation Phoenix to fund safe havens in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay for senior Nazi officials when Germany falls. With so much money and more at stake, lives are, too, and it’s up to USMC Major Cletus Frade—the top OSS spook in “neutral” Argentina—to find out. That is, before the ruthless Nazis order his murder...

Bound in Death

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Publisher : Cynthia Eden
ISBN 13 : 0985554460
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (855 download)

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Book Synopsis Bound in Death by : Cynthia Eden

Download or read book Bound in Death written by Cynthia Eden and published by Cynthia Eden. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Cynthia Eden continues her "Bound" paranormal romance series with...BOUND IN DEATH. She can’t remember him… He can never forget her. For over two hundred years, alpha werewolf Alerac O’Neill has been searching for his mate, Keira McDonough, a woman who was taken from him and imprisoned by a dark vampire master. He’s hunted for her, endlessly, using vampire blood to extend his life. He has become a vicious predator, feared by all the supernaturals. His hold on reality seems to slip more each day because he is consumed by her. Only…the woman he discovers in a small Miami bar isn’t the Keira that he remembers. In fact, this woman doesn’t remember anything. She calls herself Jane Smith, and she has no memory at all of Alerac—or of her own past. Now that she’s been found, Alerac knows that his enemies are going to start closing in on her. Jane may try to act human, but she’s not. She’s a pureblood vampire princess, incredibly powerful and incredibly valuable. His enemies want to use her, her enemies want to destroy her, and Alerac—he just wants her. If he can’t make her remember him, then Alerac has to seduce Jane into loving him once again. Because now that he’s found her, he’ll fight hell—and every sadistic vampire that stalks the night—in order to keep her safe at his side. Some bonds go deeper than the flesh. Some go beyond life. Beyond death. Jane will soon learn that a werewolf’s claiming…is forever. Author's Note: BOUND IN DEATH is a dark and sensual paranormal romance. It contains a hot alpha wolf, a vampire heroine with no memory, and some dangerous killers. Adult language and sexy situations are included. Total word count for BOUND IN DEATH is 60,000. Cynthia Eden's BOUND books: BOUND BY BLOOD (Bound, Book 1) BOUND IN DARKNESS (Bound, Book 2) BOUND IN SIN (Bound, Book 3) BOUND BY THE NIGHT (Bound, Book 4) BOUND IN DEATH (Bound, Book 5) Or you can purchase the FOREVER BOUND anthology that includes: BOUND BY BLOOD, BOUND IN DARKNESS, BOUND IN SIN, and BOUND BY THE NIGHT.

The Death-Bound-Subject

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822386623
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis The Death-Bound-Subject by : Abdul R. JanMohamed

Download or read book The Death-Bound-Subject written by Abdul R. JanMohamed and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wright replied that the manner came from the matter, that the “relationship of the American Negro to the American scene [was] essentially violent,” and that he could deny neither the violence he had witnessed nor his own existence as a product of racial violence. Abdul R. JanMohamed provides extraordinary insight into Wright’s position in this first study to explain the fundamental ideological and political functions of the threat of lynching in Wright’s work and thought. JanMohamed argues that Wright’s oeuvre is a systematic and thorough investigation of what he calls the death-bound-subject, the subject who is formed from infancy onward by the imminent threat of death. He shows that with each successive work, Wright delved further into the question of how living under a constant menace of physical violence affected his protagonists and how they might “free” themselves by overcoming their fear of death and redeploying death as the ground for their struggle. Drawing on psychoanalytic, Marxist, and phenomenological analyses, and on Orlando Patterson’s notion of social death, JanMohamed develops comprehensive, insightful, and original close readings of Wright’s major publications: his short-story collection Uncle Tom’s Children; his novels Native Son, The Outsider, Savage Holiday, and The Long Dream; and his autobiography Black Boy/American Hunger. The Death-Bound-Subject is a stunning reevaluation of the work of a major twentieth-century American writer, but it is also much more. In demonstrating how deeply the threat of death is involved in the formation of black subjectivity, JanMohamed develops a methodology for understanding the presence of the death-bound-subject in African American literature and culture from the earliest slave narratives forward.

Coffin Bound #1

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Publisher : Image Comics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Coffin Bound #1 by : Dan Watters

Download or read book Coffin Bound #1 written by Dan Watters and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cars! Guns! Entropy! Chased by an unstoppable killer, Izzy Tyburn has decided that if the world won't have her in it, it can have nothing of her at all. She's re-treading her life, leaving nothing but burned rubber, ash, and the sun-scorched bones of those who get in her way. Join writer DAN WATTERS (Sandman Universe: Lucifer, LIMBO), artist DANI (2000AD, Girl with No Name), and colorist BRAD SIMPSON (JESUSFREAK, MCMLXXV) on a road trip through a blood-splattered life.

Dark Archives

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717427
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis Dark Archives by : Megan Rosenbloom

Download or read book Dark Archives written by Megan Rosenbloom and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy—the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world’s most famous libraries and museums. Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murderers, and indigents whose lives are sewn together in this disquieting collection. Along the way, Rosenbloom tells the story of how her team of scientists, curators, and librarians test rumored anthropodermic books, untangling the myths around their creation and reckoning with the ethics of their custodianship. A librarian and journalist, Rosenbloom is a member of The Order of the Good Death and a cofounder of their Death Salon, a community that encourages conversations, scholarship, and art about mortality and mourning. In Dark Archives—captivating and macabre in all the right ways—she has crafted a narrative that is equal parts detective work, academic intrigue, history, and medical curiosity: a book as rare and thrilling as its subject.

Bound for Murder

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Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
ISBN 13 : 1643852442
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Bound for Murder by : Victoria Gilbert

Download or read book Bound for Murder written by Victoria Gilbert and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue Ridge library director Amy Webber learns it wasn't all peace and love among the "flower children" when a corpse is unearthed on the grounds of a 1960s commune. Taylorsford Public Library director Amy Webber's friend "Sunny" Fields is running for mayor. But nothing puts a damper on a campaign like an actual skeleton in a candidate's closet. Sunny's grandparents ran a commune back in the 1960s on their organic farm. But these former hippies face criminal charges when human remains are found in their fields--and a forensic examination reveals that the death was neither natural nor accidental. With Sunny's mayoral hopes fading, Amy sets her wedding plans aside, says "not yet" to the dress, and uses her research skills to clear her best friend's family. Any of the now-elderly commune members could have been the culprit. As former hippies perish one by one, Amy and her friends Richard, Aunt Lydia, and Hugh Chen pursue every lead. But if Amy can't find whoever killed these "flower children," someone may soon be placing flowers on her grave.

Bound to the Battle God

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Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781077463004
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Book Synopsis Bound to the Battle God by : Ruby Dixon

Download or read book Bound to the Battle God written by Ruby Dixon and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I went to my neighbor's apartment to investigate strange sounds, I never expected to fall through a portal into another world. Yet here I am, a stranger in an even stranger land...and I'm stranded. In this world, might makes right, men carry swords, and gods walk the earth. Within minutes of arriving, I'm enslaved.Fun place.How do I get home? GREAT question. Wish I had an answer.The one person that might be able to help me is also the one person I want to throttle most. Aron, Lord of Storms, Butcher God of Battle, is my new companion. Or rather, I'm his. As Aron's anchor to the mortal realm, I'm the one that's supposed to be guiding him through his exile in the mortal world.Ha. Joke's on him. I know nothing about this place.But Aron and I have a common goal - get home. And we're bonded - anchor and god - with a bond unlike any other. So we travel together. We bicker. We bathe together. We fight our many, many enemies together. And sure, he's a god, but he's also an arrogant jerk. Brawny, smoking hot, irresistible jerk. I should want nothing to do with him. I certainly shouldn't want to do things to him.Mortals and gods don't mix. We stick to the plan and ignore our attraction. Focused, with one goal in mind. One task. One goal.Focused.I-oh heck, I'm going to end up kissing him again, aren't I?

Son of Death

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Publisher : Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN 13 : 0857155504
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Book Synopsis Son of Death by : Nikki McCoy

Download or read book Son of Death written by Nikki McCoy and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Seth, a Keeper of the Gods, finds the two men he is destined to live eternity with, he must defy the very Gods themselves to save his mates and preserve the existence of man and love. Discovering love with the one person who is fated to compliment everything that you are is blessing enough, but what do you do when another knight in shining armor sweeps you off your feet? Jamie found a second chance at life when Loland rescued him from the ignorance and abuse of those who should have protected him. For years they struggled together to cope with Jamie's powers of precognition and his ability to absorb energy from living things. After centuries of waiting for his other half, Seth finally met Loland, a man that embodied all he'd ever dreamt of in a mate. Meeting Loland's lover, Jamie, and finding that they are both his mates only made the pot sweeter. But while exploring the love they find as mates and the D/s relationships they crave, all three must challenge the will of the Gods and the twisted plans of Jamie's mysterious family. Ultimately, Seth knows there is nothing he wouldn't do to save the lives and love of his mates.

Fate Bound

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Publisher : Laurealinde Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Fate Bound by : Madeline Freeman

Download or read book Fate Bound written by Madeline Freeman and published by Laurealinde Publishing LLC. This book was released on with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One girl will change the supernatural world forever. When she’s fatally stabbed during a botched robbery, Ava’s life changes. She wakes to miraculously healed wounds, heightened senses, and a startling truth: She’s a werewolf. But things are not as they seem. Soon, Ava’s strength wanes and the only thing that can revive her is the one thing she shouldn’t need: human blood. She is a hybrid, an abomination that shouldn’t exist. When the supernatural community learns what Ava is, her alpha Jack will do anything he can to keep her safe. But is one life worth risking the human world Jack is sworn to protect? If you like sexy shifters, vicious vampires, and fast-paced action, you’ll love Fate Bound. Buy Fate Bound today to begin this deliciously addicting series! Google Subjects: teen fiction, ya fiction, paranormal romance, teen romance, urban fantasy, series, vampires, werewolves, werewolf, shifter, magic, witches, teenagers books for free, teenage books for free girls, young adults books, young adults free books, werewolf romance, free, free series starter, free ya book, free werewolf book, free shifter book

Forever Bound

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Publisher : Cynthia Eden
ISBN 13 : 098555441X
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Forever Bound written by Cynthia Eden and published by Cynthia Eden. This book was released on 2012-07-22 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOREVER BOUND includes the following best-selling titles by Cynthia Eden: BOUND BY BLOOD BOUND IN DARKNESS BOUND IN SIN BOUND BY THE NIGHT Word Count: 90,000 The BOUND stories are dark and sexy tales of paranormal romance. Vampires and werewolves must trust each other in these stories--their lives are on the line, and so are their hearts. BOUND BY BLOOD Vampires and werewolves have been blood enemies for centuries, but now a new threat is rising...demons are escaping from hell and those demons are intent on wiping out both the vamps and the werewolves. In order to stop the demons, pureblood vampire princess Morgan LaBeaux agrees to the treaty offered by werewolf alpha Jace Vaughn. She'll mate with him, share her blood with him...and in return, the wolves will aid the vampires in this battle. But Morgan doesn't realize just how dangerous the wolves can truly be. Jace has been waiting years to claim her. He's set a trap for his princess, and now that he has her, Jace doesn't plan to let her go. He'll send the demons back to hell, and he'll keep his vampiress--forever. BOUND IN DARKNESS When it comes to killing vampires, werewolf Cade Thain is the best slayer in the Northwest. So when a witch hires him to take out a pureblood vamp, the assassin thinks it will be just business as usual. One less vicious vamp on the streets...one more undead parasite gone from the earth. Then he meets her. Allison Gray isn't the prey that Cade expects. Beautiful, innocent, she stirs a dark desire within him. Allison hasn't transformed fully into a vampire, not yet, and it's Cade's job to make sure that she never does. Allison thinks that he's at her side to keep her safe, but Cade is supposed to pick the right moment--and kill her. Killing Allison is soon the last thing that Cade plans. As she begins the transformation that will turn her into a vampire, her bloodlust and their desire merge in an explosion of need that neither can control. But Allison's enemies are closing in, and the coming battle will take Cade and Allison beyond life, beyond love...and into a deadly darkness that waits to claim them both. BOUND IN SIN Human Paige Sloan once loved werewolf Drake Wyler more than life, but then that life was taken away from her. Attacked by vampires, Paige was bitten, and, on a cold, dark night, the life she'd known ended. She was reborn as a vampire-a werewolf's deadliest enemy. When Paige learns that Drake is being targeted for death, she knows that she can't hide in the shadows any longer. She has to return to him, and she will do anything-anything-in order to make sure that he keeps living. The vampires might have destroyed her chance to live and love Drake, but they won't take him. Not over her undead body. BOUND BY THE NIGHT For the last fifteen years, vampire queen Iona has been dead to the world. Trapped under the power of a brutal curse, she has been helpless. A prisoner, locked within her own still body. Then alpha werewolf Jamie O'Connell fights his way to her side. After defeating the guards that surround her, Jamie gives Iona his blood...and she rises. The world has changed a great deal in the last fifteen years, and Iona has changed, too. Once known as the Blood Queen because of her dark reputation, she now finds herself longing for the blood of only one man...only he isn't just a man. She wants the blood of her werewolf--Jamie's blood. But Iona doesn't realize that Jamie has been keeping secrets from her. Very dark, dangerous secrets. And Iona may have traded one curse for another. Author's Note: The stories in this collection are adult paranormal romances. They contain sex, violence, and adult language (the stories also contain hot vampires and werewolves).

Bound by Night

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476700192
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Book Synopsis Bound by Night by : Larissa Ione

Download or read book Bound by Night written by Larissa Ione and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first installment in a sexy new paranormal romance series by Larissa Ione, author of the bestselling Demonica series! Nicole Martin was only eight years old when she narrowly survived a massacre: her family’s vampire slaves rebelled and killed everyone in her household. Twenty years later, Nicole now dedicates herself to finding a vaccine against vampirism…and eradicating the gruesome memories that give her nightmares. Riker, a member of the wild vampire Moon Clan, is haunted by his own demons—his wife Lorraine had been captured and enslaved by the Martin family. It was during a botched escape attempt that she was killed, along with their unborn child. Still wracked with grief and anger, Riker is now fueled solely by the desire to rescue vampire slaves…and slaughter their owners. When Riker stumbles upon Nicole in a chance meeting, he immediately recognizes her as a member of the Martin family that once enslaved his wife—and she recognizes him as the wild vampire she saw kissing a pregnant slave in the moments before her violent death—an image that has haunted her dreams for years. When Riker kidnaps Nicole and they spend a night together in a cave on the way back to his clan, suddenly they begin to realize that they aren’t as different from one another as they may have thought—and they’re finding themselves drawn to one another…

The Mixer and Server

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Mixer and Server written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Snow Bound

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Publisher : Laurel Leaf
ISBN 13 : 0307546896
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Snow Bound by : Harry Mazer

Download or read book Snow Bound written by Harry Mazer and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At fifteen, Tony Laporte is what many people would call a throughly spoiled kid. He gets away with a lot because his parents want him to have all the things they never had. But when they surprise him by refusing to let him keep a stray dog he has found, Tony decides to teach them a lesson by running off in his mother's old Plymouth. Driving without a license in the middle of a severe snowstorm, he picks up a hitchhiker named Cindy Reichert, an aloof girl who has always had difficulty forming friendships. To impress Cindy, Tony tries to show off his driving skills and ends up wrecking the car in a very desolated area far from the main highway. After spending precious days bickering with each other and waiting for rescue that never comes, they finally realize that their lives are at stake and they must cooperate to survive. The question is--can they survive?

Bound

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459622030
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Book Synopsis Bound by : Vanda Symon

Download or read book Bound written by Vanda Symon and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brutal home invasion shocks the nation. A man is murdered, his wife bound, gagged and left to watch. But when Detective Sam Shephard scratches the surface, the victim, a successful businessman, is not all he seems to be. And when the evidence points to two of Dunedin's most hated criminals, the case seems cut and dried... until the body count starts to rise. Meanwhile, Sam is in big trouble again?

The Ties that Bound

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Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195045642
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (456 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ties that Bound by : Barbara A. Hanawalt

Download or read book The Ties that Bound written by Barbara A. Hanawalt and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara A. Hanawalt's richly detailed account offers an intimate view of everyday life in Medieval England that seems at once surprisingly familiar and yet at odds with what many experts have told us. She argues that the biological needs served by the family do not change and that the ways fourteenth- and fifteenth-century peasants coped with such problems as providing for the newborn and the aged, controlling premarital sex, and alleviating the harshness of their material environment in many ways correspond with our twentieth-century solutions. Using a remarkable array of sources, including over 3,000 coroners' inquests into accidental deaths, Hanawalt emphasizes the continuity of the nuclear family from the middle ages into the modern period by exploring the reasons that families served as the basic unit of society and the economy. Providing such fascinating details as a citation of an incantation against rats, evidence of the hierarchy of bread consumption, and descriptions of the games people played, her study illustrates the flexibility of the family and its capacity to adapt to radical changes in society. She notes that even the terrible population reduction that resulted from the Black Death did not substantially alter the basic nature of the family.

Dragon Bound

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101514396
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Dragon Bound by : Thea Harrison

Download or read book Dragon Bound written by Thea Harrison and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING ELDER RACES SERIES! Half-human and half-wyr, Pia Giovanni spent her life keeping a low profile among the wyrkind and avoiding the continuing conflict between them and their Dark Fae enemies. But after being blackmailed into stealing a coin from the hoard of a dragon, Pia finds herself targeted by one of the most powerful—and passionate—of the Elder races. As the most feared and respected of the wyrkind, Dragos Cuelebre cannot believe someone had the audacity to steal from him, much less succeed. And when he catches the thief, Dragos spares her life, claiming her as his own to further explore the desire they’ve ignited in each other. Pia knows she must repay Dragos for her trespass, but refuses to become his slave—although she cannot deny wanting him, body and soul...

Bound

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471103390
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis Bound by : Donna Jo Napoli

Download or read book Bound written by Donna Jo Napoli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOUNG XING XING IS BOUND. Bound to her father's second wife and daughter after Xing Xing's father has passed away. Bound to a life of servitude as a young girl in ancient China, where the life of a woman is valued less than that of livestock. Bound to be alone and unmarried, with no parents to arrange for a suitable husband. Dubbed "Lazy One" by her stepmother, Xing Xing spends her days taking care of her half sister, Wei Ping, who cannot walk because of her foot bindings, the painful but compulsory tradition for girls who are fit to be married. Even so, Xing Xing is content, for now, to practice her gift for poetry and calligraphy, to tend to the mysterious but beautiful carp in her garden, and to dream of a life unbound by the laws of family and society. But all of this is about to change as the time for the village's annual festival draws near, and Stepmother, who has spent nearly all of the family's money, grows desperate to find a husband for Wei Ping. Xing Xing soon realizes that this greed and desperation may threaten not only her memories of the past, but also her dreams for the future. In this searing story, Donna Jo Napoli, acclaimed author of Beast and Breath,delves into the roots of the Cinderella myth and unearths a tale as powerful as it is familiar.