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Book Synopsis Servant of the Underworld by : Aliette de Bodard
Download or read book Servant of the Underworld written by Aliette de Bodard and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the critically acclaimed Obsidian and Blood trilogy: Year One-Knife, Tenochtitlan the capital of the Aztecs. Human sacrifice and the magic of the living blood are the only things keeping the sun in the sky and the earth fertile. A Priestess disappears from an empty room drenched in blood. It should be a usual investigation for Acatl, High Priest of the Dead--except that his estranged brother is involved, and the the more he digs, the deeper he is drawn into the political and magical intrigues of noblemen, soldiers, and priests-and of the gods themselves... REVIEWS: ‘ gripping mystery steeped in blood and ancient Aztec magic. I was enthralled.’ — Sean Williams ‘An Aztec priest of the dead tries to solve a murder mystery, and finds that politics may be even more powerful than magic. A vivid portrayal of an interesting culture in a truly fresh fantasy novel.’ — Kevin J. Anderson ‘Amid the mud and maize of the Mexica empire, Aliette de Bodard has composed a riveting story of murder, magic and sibling rivalry.’ — Elizabeth Bear ‘The world-building is exquisite and we *believe* we are transported to the 15th century Tenotichtlan and together with the superb voice they formed the main reason I enjoyed this book so much... Highly recommended... Ms. de Bodard is a writer to watch.’ — Fantasy Book Critic
Book Synopsis Underworld: Rise of the Lycans by : Greg Cox
Download or read book Underworld: Rise of the Lycans written by Greg Cox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official movie novelization of the latest film in the blockbuster action/horror movie series, Underworld—coming to theaters in January 2009 from Sony Pictures! Centuries ago...two ageless and terrifying races—the aristocratic vampires and the feral lycans—are bound by a cruel, ancestral relationship between master and servant, and eternally separated by the ongoing, violent rivalry between their two species. But unknown to both nobility and enslaved alike, a clandestine—and forbidden—affair between the lycan servant Lucian and the beautiful vampire noblewoman Sonja burns brightly with an unbridled passion. Seeking to escape Sonja’s tyrannical father, Viktor, and a future in which their love is considered an abomination, Lucian risks the ever-present machinations of the court and his very life to cast himself and his beloved free of their bonds...a daring tactic that will eventually give all lycans the courage to rise up against their oppressive vampire overlords. New alliances are forged even as the chains of slavery are broken...and all that Lucian and Sonja hold dear will be threatened with utter annihilation....
Book Synopsis Harbinger of the Storm by : Aliette de Bodard
Download or read book Harbinger of the Storm written by Aliette de Bodard and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in the critically acclaimed Obsidian and Blood trilogy: The year is Two House, and the Emperor of the Mexica has just died. The protections he afforded the Empire are crumbling, and the way lies wide open to the flesh-eating star-demons--and to the return of their creator, a malevolent goddess only held in check by the War God's power. The council should convene to choose a new Emperor, but they are too busy plotting against each other. And then someone starts summoning star-demons within the palace, to kill councilmen... Acatl, High Priest of the Dead, must find the culprit before everything is torn apart. REVIEWS: ‘Political intrigue and rivalry among a complex pantheon of divinities drive this well-paced murder mystery set at the height of the Aztec Empire in the late 15th century. De Bodard reintroduces the series hero Acatl, high priest of the dead, immediately following the death of the Tenochtitlan leader. One of the council members in charge of choosing a successor has been brutally murdered in what looks like an attempt to influence the decision. But the deaths continue and the political situation grows more complex, while the empire looks to be increasingly at risk of invasion by malignant powers. Acatl must go face-to-face with the most powerful god in his world and put the good of the empire above his antipathy for is rivals to achieve the uneasy succession. De Bodard incorporates historical fact with great ease and manages the rare feat of explaining complex culture and political system without lecturing or boring the reader.’ —Publishers Weekly ‘Another thing that intrigues me here is the whole fact that historically we know that the real empire died out mysteriously and completely and as such there is always that thought in the back of my mind that the author could choose to bring about the end of days. That highlighted sense of possible doom is something that is missing from too many novels. The way the story is told in this book is very impressive, the plot is both mature and seductive, twisting and turning like a weather vane in a force 9 gale while the action is both bloodthirsty and imaginative. The world building is fantastic and we get to learn even more of this rich culture and the many gods and creatures of the dark. I really can’t fault this book at all and recommend it to one and all but if you haven’t yet read Servant of the Underworld I suggest that you get them both and read them in order, you won’t be disappointed.’ —SF Book Reviews ‘Bodard’s writing is polished and striking, as she convincingly fills in the colorful elements of the Aztec culture–even if those colors tend to be of blood and bile as well as flowers and hummingbirds... beautiful, grimy, breathtaking, and morbid. 5*’ —Examiner ‘Aliette de Bodard has done it again. Harbinger of the Storm is an action packed Aztec mystery opera with magic, interventions from the gods and more twists and turns than the first book. It even has a love story with amusing snippets here and there... The story is self contained and can be enjoyed standalone, but you will not want to miss out on the first. I wish it was 2012 already even if the world is going under while I read the final Obsidian & Blood.’ —Cybermage
Book Synopsis Obsidian and Blood by : Aliette de Bodard
Download or read book Obsidian and Blood written by Aliette de Bodard and published by HarperCollins Audio. This book was released on 2012 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy fiction. This is a massive fantasy omnibus containing all three novels in the "Obsidian and Blood" series: "Servant of the Underworld"; "Harbinger of the Storm"; and, "Master of the House of Darts".
Book Synopsis Underworld London by : Catharine Arnold
Download or read book Underworld London written by Catharine Arnold and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with an atmospheric account of Tyburn, we are set up for a grisly excursion through London as a city of ne'er do wells, taking in beheadings and brutality at the Tower, Elizabethan street crime, cutpurses and con-men, through to the Gordon Riots and Highway robbery of the 18thcentury and the rise of prisons, the police and the Victorian era of incarceration. As well as the crimes, Arnold also looks at the grotesque punishments meted out to those who transgressed the law throughout London's history - from the hangings, drawings and quarterings at Tyburn over 500 years to being boiled in oil at Smithfield. This popular historian also investigates the influence of London's criminal classes on the literature of the 19thand 20thcenturies, and ends up with our old favourites, the Krays and Soho gangs of the 50s and 60s. London's crimes have changed over the centuries, both in method and execution. Underworld London traces these developments, from the highway robberies of the eighteenth century, made possible by the constant traffic of wealthy merchants in and out of the city, to the beatings, slashings and poisonings of the Victorian era.
Book Synopsis Servant of the Underworld by : Aliette de Bodard
Download or read book Servant of the Underworld written by Aliette de Bodard and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT IS THE YEAR ONE-KNIFE IN TENOCHTITLAN - THE CAPITAL OF THE AZTECS. The end of the world is kept at bay only by the magic of human sacrifice. A Priestess disappears from an empty room drenched in blood. Acatl, High Priest of the Dead must find her, or break the boundaries between the worlds of th living and the dead. But how do you find someone, living or dead, in a world where blood sacrifices are an everyday occurrence and the very gods stalk the streets? File Under: Fantasy [ Aztec Mystery | Locked Room | Human Sacrifice | The Dead Walk! ]
Book Synopsis Servant of the Dragon by : David Drake
Download or read book Servant of the Dragon written by David Drake and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 2000 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third book of Drake's LORD OF THE ISLES series, the young King Garric is faced with all the burdens of kingship. Guided by the ghost of King Carus and the help of the soceress Tenoctris, Garric should have few problems. But a threat emerges from the past - the Wizard Purlio seeks to conquer the future with an army of the dead. And Garric's sister Sharina has gone missing, abducted through time itself by a gigantic bird. And if Garric hopes to defeat the dead, he must become one of them . . .
Book Synopsis Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld and the Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle by : Alhena Gadotti
Download or read book Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld and the Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle written by Alhena Gadotti and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alhena Gadotti offers a much needed new edition of the Sumerian composition Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld, last published by Aaron Shaffer in his 1963 doctoral dissertation. Since then, several new manuscripts have come to light, prompting not only a new edition of the text, but also a re-examination of the composition. In this book, Gadotti argues that Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld was the first, not the last of the Sumerian stories about Gilgamesh. She also suggests that a Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle, currently only attested in old Babylonian manuscripts (ca. 18th century BCE), was in fact developed during the Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BCE). Providing a new way to look at the Sumerian Gilgamesh stories, this book is relevant not only to scholars of the ancient Near East, but also to anyone interested in epic and epic cycle.
Book Synopsis The Literature of Ancient Sumer by : Jeremy Black
Download or read book The Literature of Ancient Sumer written by Jeremy Black and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-11-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of Sumerian literature constitutes the most comprehensive collection ever published, and includes examples of most of the different types of composition written in the language, from narrative myths and lyrical hymns to proverbs and love poetry. The translations have benefited both from the work of many scholars and from our ever-increasing understanding of Sumerian. In addition to reflecting the advances made by modern scholarship, the translations are written in clear, accessible English. An extensive introduction discusses the literary qualities of the works, the people who created and copied them in ancient Iraq, and how the study of Sumerian literature has evolved over the last 150 years.
Book Synopsis Ghost inside My Venter by : Jiu Mingyemao
Download or read book Ghost inside My Venter written by Jiu Mingyemao and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strange dream, I woke up with a head full of sweat, and then the unceasing mischief, always feeling that there was a person standing behind me, looking back to see nothing. From time to time, my stomach would give out, either in a heart-wrenching pain, or it would suddenly swell up like a three-to-five month pregnant woman.
Download or read book Underworld written by Greg Cox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official novelization of the third installment of the Underworld film series--a prequel to the first two films that explores the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the ageless, aristocratic vampires known as Death Dealers and their onetime slaves, the Lycans. The film opens in theaters on January 23. Original.
Download or read book Self-bunning Lady written by Ran Xiaohu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 1429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One comb, two combs, three combs free, four combs clean, five combs strong, six combs Golden Sister Lan girls in love, seven combs great, eight combs unstoppable ... When I was eight, I poisoned my father and went to the Aunt House to become a Self-bunning Lady. From then on, I stepped into the world of the real Self-bunning Lady.
Book Synopsis Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America, 1618-1718 by : John Wareing
Download or read book Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America, 1618-1718 written by John Wareing and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key role played by indentured servants in the settlement and development of the English colonies in the West Indies and the North American mainland in the first century of English colonization has been overshadowed by interest in the much larger later trade in African slaves. 'There is Great Want of Servants' provides the first full examination of the English trade in indentured servants, which delivered the majority of an estimated 457,000 white people who migrated to the American colonies before 1720. English colonisation intended to create 'new Englands out of England' - to enlarge trade and plantation - but settlement required people to work the land. Labour had to be transported over 4,000 miles of threatening ocean in a new system of indentured servitude, in which people paid for their transportation and keep, with four years of unpaid service for adults, and more for children and adolescents. The system was not benign, neither in the sugar plantations of the West Indies and the tobacco plantations of Maryland and Virginia, nor at the centre of the trade in London and in other ports such as Bristol. Merchants, procurers, and masters of ships often used illicit methods to recruit servants as human cargo. Measures to reduce spiriting by making the offence a felony punishable by hanging, or registering servants in new offices, had little effect. The 1718 Transportation Act eased servant recruitment, but when wars in 1689-1697 and 1702-1713 disrupted the supply of servants, and demand for the addictive products of the sugar and tobacco colonies soared in Britain and Europe, white servants were increasingly substituted by African chattel slaves.
Download or read book True Love Waits written by Little John and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far would you go for the one you love? How long would you fight for the one you love? How much would you sacrifice for the one you love? Ultimately, what would you sacrifice for the one you love? Let’s find out by going through the love story of John and Sara.
Book Synopsis Your Majesty, the Empress Runs Again by : Yi FangZi
Download or read book Your Majesty, the Empress Runs Again written by Yi FangZi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shen Xin, the direct descendent of the Grand Preceptor; Qin Ao, the current emperor. When the Grand Emperor's cry rang out, Qin Ao had no choice but to hang himself. With a wave of his hand, an imperial decree was made, fulfilling the Grand Emperor's' beautiful intentions'. According to the blessing of the heavens, the emperor decreed that the direct daughter of the Shen family was a pure orchid with a pure heart. She was the epitome of a woman in the world and had entered the Eastern Palace. This is it! " The Supreme Emperor laughed. A certain emperor continued to feel helpless, and the chicken leg in a certain woman's hand fell to the ground. From then on, entering the main East Palace, watching the battles between the tigers, eating and drinking, became Shen Xin's goal. But of course, this person, Shen Xin, was also a peerless glutton. Even entering the palace wouldn't change the nature of a foodie. I would never have thought that the biggest rival in my life was none other than all kinds of delicious food. PS: Boys, this is an aerial script, please do not enter the collection with history
Download or read book Supreme Emperor written by Deng XiaWuYu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man named Qin Feng, who was the ninth son of Dragon Emperor in the previous life, was attacked by his brother in a war, and his army was overwhelmed. Not only that, even his family was killed by his brother and his beloved woman was token away. Unwilling to die like this, he practiced for a full 10,000 years, and finally practiced his martial arts. In this life, he must return to the peak and revenge ten times.☆About the Author☆Dengxia Wuyu is a well-known online novelist. He has rich creative experience, strong writing ability, and has authored many novels. Among his representative works are: Sword Master Close to the Sky, Supreme Emperor. His novels are loved for deeply describeing the characters.
Book Synopsis Eyewitness Companions: Mythology by : Neil Philip
Download or read book Eyewitness Companions: Mythology written by Neil Philip and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally told to explain the mysteries of the world—such as creation, divine will, fertility, death, and love—myths are a major part of many cultures throughout the world, and each area has its own myths. Organized by geographic region, each myth is placed within the civilization’s history and context. The key elements of world mythology, such as the hero, his divine connection, the labyrinth, the initiation, and the transformation,are explored in boxes and features throughout the book. Philip Wilkinson has more than 50 titles to his credit in the fields of mythology, history, and the arts, including DK’s Illustrated Dictionaries of Mythology and Religions. Neil Philip is the author of many books on folklore and mythology, including The Illustrated Book of Myths and Myths and Legends Explained. Synopses of the great myths that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present Covers mythology around the globe, from the classic Greek to lesser known Malaysian Catalogs of gods by subject enable comparisons of distant civilizations
