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Book Synopsis Swan and Dragon by : Natalie Yacobson
Download or read book Swan and Dragon written by Natalie Yacobson and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natalie Yacobson Swan and Dragon Princess Rose has fallen prey to magic and intrigue. Now she is a hostage of the golden dragon, who rules the whole empire of magical creatures. The dragon, who had torn to pieces many beauties, for some reason spared her alone. And the young man, whom Rosa mistook for a dragon hunter, himself has dragon habits.
Download or read book Bright Star written by Erin Swan and published by Tor Teen. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erin Swan's YA fantasy debut, Bright Star, is an action-packed adventure tale of rebellion, romance, and finding one's voice in the heart of a storm. Paerolia has been at peace for two centuries, and all is well in the land—or so it seems. Beneath the surface, a tyrant is rising to power. A traumatic experience in Andra's childhood has left her mute and subdued, a servant in the Chief Judge’s manor. But when an assassination team, led by the secretive and alluring Kael, infiltrates the manor and makes a quick escape, she takes her chance and flees with them. Andra is thrust into the ranks of a secret rebellion—a group of outcasts and believers seeking to overthrow the Chief Judge and replace the corrupt government with new members, ones who will restore and preserve the land they love. Now, the girl who was once an outcast must somehow become the leader Paerolia needs. But she is stronger than she believes—and with the help of a fiercely loyal dragon, she may just be the one to lead them all to victory. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Dragon Lake written by R. L. Davennor and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One more kill-and then I'm free.If only it were that simple.Ancient curses call for desperate measures, and to escape mine, I've become a murderer. But 'freedom' trades one chain for another, and I'll be damned if I'm marrying that filthy sorcerer.Unfortunately, a girl who turns into a dragon doesn't have many options. Even if I did, who could love a monster?Certainly not the prince in front of me.The handsome prince in front of me-who I'm meant to kill.Could my last target be my final chance?Dragon Lake is the classic fairytale like you've never read it before. Containing graphic violence, adult language, sexual situations, and suicide mentions, this 11.5k word dark retelling isn't for the faint of heart.
Download or read book Dragonswan written by Sherrilyn Kenyon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When scholar Channon MacRea meets the handsome Sebastian who claims to understand the legendary Dragon Tapestry she's been studying for years, she follows him into an alternate world of magic and danger.
Book Synopsis Dragon Swan by : Adrianna M. Scovill
Download or read book Dragon Swan written by Adrianna M. Scovill and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ella's brother, Travis, is kidnapped by slave-traders intent on transporting him across the sea, she and their friend, Luca, vow to do whatever it takes to get the boy back - even if that means stowing away in the dungeon of the ship of a ruthless pirate. When they're discovered, the handsome and surly captain threatens to throw them overboard. Determined to reach her brother at any cost, Ella offers to do anything to secure passage over the ocean. Luca is not happy when the arrangement includes Ella moving into the captain's cabin, but Ella cannot let Luca's hurt, or her own pride, keep her from Travis. It soon becomes clear to her, however, that the captain is not what she'd imagined him to be. As much as Ella loves Travis, and Luca, the two months on the ship might just offer her the one thing she hasn't had in a very long time: a rest. She's looking for a moment of peace. It turns out, so is Captain Swan. They might be able to offer each other more than she'd ever guessed.
Book Synopsis In Search of the Swan Maiden by : Barbara Fass Leavy
Download or read book In Search of the Swan Maiden written by Barbara Fass Leavy and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her compendious study, [of the folktale of the runaway wife] Leavy argues that the contradictory claims of nature and culture are embodied in the legendary figure of the swan maiden, a woman torn between the human and bestial worlds. --The New York Times Book Review This is a study of the meaning of gender as framed by the swan maiden tale, a story found in the folklore of virtually every culture. The swan maiden is a supernatural woman forced to marry, keep house, and bear children for a mortal man who holds the key to her imprisonment. When she manages to regain this key, she escapes to the otherworld, never to return. These tales have most often been interpreted as depicting exogamous marriages, describing the girl from another tribe trapped in a world where she will always be the outsider. Barbara Fass Leavy believes that, in the societies in which the tale and its variants endured, woman was the other--the outsider trapped in a society that could never be her own. Leavy shows how the tale, though rarely explicitly recognized, is frequently replayed in modern literature. Beautifully written, this book reveals the myriad ways in which the folktales of a society reflect its cultural values, and particularly how folktales are allegories of gender relations. It will interest anyone involved in literary, gender, and cultural studies.
Book Synopsis The Witch of Dragon Swan by : Trish Reynolds
Download or read book The Witch of Dragon Swan written by Trish Reynolds and published by Dubsar House Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quest for answers begins...with a dream. There haven?t been any dragons in Pretava for generations. Most people assume they died out long ago or were merely creatures of myth and legend. But not everyone... The Krys witch, Laural, knows that somehow her fate is bound up in the dragons? disappearance. The answers are trapped, concealed in the forbidden history of her people and her own unresolved past. Something terrible happened in the Before Time, and dreams of dragons invade the young witch's sleep until she can take them no longer. Laural is certain that unless she learns what really happened to the dragons of Pretava, the same fate awaits the people of Dragon Swan. The tendency today is to think of the fantasy genre as kid stuff...but Trish Reynolds blows that theory out of the water. This is not your children's Harry Potter. Hang on for a ride full of adventure, dragons, and even sex. Fantasy is not exclusively for the younger set anymore!
Book Synopsis Dragon Apocalypse: The Complete Collection by : James Maxey
Download or read book Dragon Apocalypse: The Complete Collection written by James Maxey and published by James Maxey. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad girls, big dragons! An eclectic band of female adventures must come together to save the world from the primal dragons. DRAGON APOCALYPSE: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION, gathers all four novels of the critically acclaimed series by James Maxey, author of the bestselling BITTERWOOD series. It also includes the novella GREATSHADOW: ORIGINS, the story that provided the inspiration for the novels.
Book Synopsis The Dragon Swan Princess by : Tamara Grantham
Download or read book The Dragon Swan Princess written by Tamara Grantham and published by Clean Teen Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dragon Swan Princess is the second book in the Twisted Ever After series by Tamara Grantham, the award-winning author of more than a dozen books and novellas. Odette Von Alarissa is a prisoner, her captivity the result of a decades-old war between the dragon shifters and the witches. But there has been a recent change in her ownership. Xaldain Von Rothbart, the traitor responsible for starting the war, is her captor now. A dragon-shifter just like Odette, Xaldain has plans for her that are unimaginable—but with a magical mark on her shoulder that prevents her escape, and the survival of her people hanging in the balance—she has no real choice but to comply. Drekken Von Fiddlestrum has returned to his homeland to find himself in an unhappy quandary. To save his kingdom, he must marry a noble – yet he has no desire to do so. When he crosses paths with Odette, he agrees to help her. But as their feelings for each other grow, it can only lead to destruction for them both. Drekken must marry for duty, and Odette must consent to Xaldain if she wants her people to survive. True love and obligation collide in this compelling retelling of the classic Swan Princess story.
Book Synopsis The Knight and the Dragon by : Tomie dePaola
Download or read book The Knight and the Dragon written by Tomie dePaola and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-02-03 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a sheepish knight and a not-so-fierce dragon fight for the very first time? Well, it's no ordinary battle since the knight has to go to the castle library to learn about dragon-fighting and the dragon must dig through his ancestor's things to find out how to fight a knight! "Spontaneity of line and feeling are backed by zesty colors and a jovial, tongue-in-cheek tone to which children can relate—a top springtime choice." —Booklist "There's a swirl of good-humored life to the book." —The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book Doom written by Niall Ferguson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All disasters are in some sense man-made." Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters. Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises. and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted, or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet in 2020 the responses of many developed countries, including the United States, to a new virus from China were badly bungled. Why? Why did only a few Asian countries learn the right lessons from SARS and MERS? While populist leaders certainly performed poorly in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Niall Ferguson argues that more profound pathologies were at work--pathologies already visible in our responses to earlier disasters. In books going back nearly twenty years, including Colossus, The Great Degeneration, and The Square and the Tower, Ferguson has studied the foibles of modern America, from imperial hubris to bureaucratic sclerosis and online fragmentation. Drawing from multiple disciplines, including economics, cliodynamics, and network science, Doom offers not just a history but a general theory of disasters, showing why our ever more bureaucratic and complex systems are getting worse at handling them. Doom is the lesson of history that this country--indeed the West as a whole--urgently needs to learn, if we want to handle the next crisis better, and to avoid the ultimate doom of irreversible decline.
Book Synopsis The dragon's blood by : Rebecca Mark
Download or read book The dragon's blood written by Rebecca Mark and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Demonology and Devil-lore by : Moncure Daniel Conway
Download or read book Demonology and Devil-lore written by Moncure Daniel Conway and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Seneca Effect written by Ugo Bardi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid". This sentence summarizes the features of the phenomenon that we call "collapse," which is typically sudden and often unexpected, like the proverbial "house of cards." But why are such collapses so common, and what generates them? Several books have been published on the subject, including the well known "Collapse" by Jared Diamond (2005), "The collapse of complex societies" by Joseph Tainter (1998) and "The Tipping Point," by Malcom Gladwell (2000). Why The Seneca Effect? This book is an ambitious attempt to pull these various strands together by describing collapse from a multi-disciplinary viewpoint. The reader will discover how collapse is a collective phenomenon that occurs in what we call today "complex systems," with a special emphasis on system dynamics and the concept of "feedback." From this foundation, Bardi applies the theory to real-world systems, from the mechanics of fracture and the collapse of large structures to financial collapses, famines and population collapses, the fall of entire civilzations, and the most dreadful collapse we can imagine: that of the planetary ecosystem generated by overexploitation and climate change. The final objective of the book is to describe a conclusion that the ancient stoic philosophers had already discovered long ago, but that modern system science has rediscovered today. If you want to avoid collapse you need to embrace change, not fight it. Neither a book about doom and gloom nor a cornucopianist's dream, The Seneca Effect goes to the heart of the challenges that we are facing today, helping us to manage our future rather than be managed by it.
Book Synopsis The Value of Systems and Complexity Sciences for Healthcare by : Joachim P Sturmberg
Download or read book The Value of Systems and Complexity Sciences for Healthcare written by Joachim P Sturmberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This visionary reframing of health and healthcare uses a complexity science approach to building healthcare systems that are accessible, effective, and prepared for change and challenges. Its holistic map for understanding the human organism emphasizes the interconnectedness of the individual’s physical, psychological, cognitive, and sociocultural functioning. Applications of this approach are described in primary, specialist, and emergency care and at the organizational and policy levels, from translating findings to practice, to problem solving and evaluation. In this model, the differences between disease and illness and treating illness and restoring health are not mere wordplay, but instead are robust concepts reflecting real-world issues and their solutions. Based on the Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Systems and Complexity for Healthcare, topics covered include: • Coping with complexity and uncertainty: insights from studying epidemiology in family medicine • Anticipation in complex systems: potential implications for improving safety and quality in healthcare • Monitoring variability and complexity at the bedside • Viewing mental health through the lens of complexity science • Ethical complexities in systems healthcare: what care and for whom? • The value of systems and complexity thinking to enable change in adaptive healthcare organizations supported by informatics • If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the theory: implications for health system reform The Value of Systems and Complexity Sciences for Healthcare will interest and inspire health and disease researchers, health professionals, health care planners, health system financiers, health system administrators, health services administrators, health professional educators, and, last but not least, current and future patients.
Download or read book Dandelion Wine written by Ray Bradbury and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1985-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding—remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury. The only god living in Green Town, Illinois, that Douglas Spaulding knew of. The facts about John Huff, aged twelve, are simple and soon stated. • He could pathfind more trails than any Choctaw or Cherokee since time began. • Could leap from the sky like a chimpanzee from a vine. • Could live underwater two minutes and slide fifty yards downstream. • Could hit baseballs into apple trees, knocking down harvests. • Could jump six-foot orchard walls. • Ran laughing. • Sat easy. • Was not a bully. • Was kind. • Knew the words to all the cowboy songs and would teach you if you asked. • Knew the names of all the wild flowers and when the moon would rise or set and when the tides came in or out. He was, in fact, the only god living in the whole of Green Town, Illinois, during the twentieth century that Douglas Spaulding knew of. “[Ray] Bradbury is an authentic original.”—Time
Book Synopsis The Growth of Literature by : H. Munro Chadwick
Download or read book The Growth of Literature written by H. Munro Chadwick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering comparative study in three volumes, published 1932-1940, covering the development of world literature from Iceland to Polynesia.
