The Untamed Moon

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Publisher : Jenn Stark
ISBN 13 : 1943768838
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book The Untamed Moon written by Jenn Stark and published by Jenn Stark. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Swear not by the Moon, the inconstant Moon..." Night is falling on the world of the Arcana Council, and the darkest corners of the psychic community are stirring, eager for war no matter the cost. In a last-ditch effort to maintain the balance of magic, Justice Sara Wilde launches an all-out search for the Moon, one of the Council's most powerful missing members. With a team that includes the darkly formidable Magician, the tech-savant Fool and the incomparable Nikki Dawes...Sara likes her odds for finding her quarry in time. Unfortunately, she's not alone in the hunt. A cry for help from the depths of South America triggers Sara's oldest enemies, the cutthroat artifact hunters of the arcane black market. In a race to find the deeply secretive, elusive Moon, the winner is promised power beyond their wildest imagination. Are these claims pure lies and moonlit fantasy? Or a sign that when the Moon is in play, nothing is ever as it seems? The truth is deadlier than anyone expects. Even your shadow will betray you when you hunt The Untamed Moon.

The Enforcer

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781985636088
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis The Enforcer by : Kele Moon

Download or read book The Enforcer written by Kele Moon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are the lost boys. Sons of mafia mistresses expected to keep their fathers' sins in the shadows. The lucky ones are forgotten. Unfortunately for Valentino "Tino" Moretti, his brother Nova was too smart to be forgotten, and too valuable to risk when he resists a life of crime. So they punished Tino instead. Forced into the cruel world of the Sicilian Mafia at twelve, Tino was broken before he was old enough to know the man he was supposed to be. Now he's what the mafia made him. The enforcer. A trained killer forbidden to love, but he did anyway. He's loved Brianna all along. Raw and beautiful, their romance was all consuming and far too dangerous. They were ripped apart a long time ago. It's not until the borgata puts out a hit on her that Brianna falls back into Tino's arms, churning up their dark past and unraveling all the Moretti brothers' closely guarded secrets. This isn't the end of the story. It's only the beginning, and it is brutal. There's a reason enforcers are considered too deadly to love. "We have to be better than them. Stronger. Faster. Smarter. Lost boys have to fly." Carlo Moretti, original lost boy

Untamed

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Publisher : Bella Jacobs Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Untamed written by Bella Jacobs and published by Bella Jacobs Books. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time there was a very good girl, who followed all the rules. That girl is dead. I am no longer Wren Frame, the bird with the broken wing. I am Wren Wander, a rare shapeshifter determined to take back everything the cult stole from me—my health, my hope, and most importantly, my family. My sister is still out there somewhere. Alive. And with the help of the four brave, formidable, sexy-as-hell alphas destined to be my mates, I intend to keep her that way. All I have to do is gain control of my unpredictable new powers, learn hand-to-hand combat, avoid capture by a mad scientist out to rid the world of shifters, and stay ten steps ahead of a Big Bad Evil hungry for my blood. And that's not the worst of it. In order to fully control my powers, I have to form bonds with all four of my mates. But for a woman who’s been betrayed by every person she’s ever loved, trust doesn’t come easy, no matter how much I'm coming to adore these incredible men. Can I win this battle of the heart in time? Or will the enemies closing in end our fight for the future before it even gets started? UNTAMED is part two of the Dark Moon Shifters series, a red-hot reverse harem paranormal and urban fantasy romance. Expect pulse-pounding action, suspense, swoon-worthy romance, and four sexy shifter men who will make you wish you had a bear, wolf, lynx, and griffin of your own.

The Viper

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Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (797 download)

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Book Synopsis The Viper by : Kele Moon

Download or read book The Viper written by Kele Moon and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcos Rivera is a fighter. A gang member. Someone who has seen the dark side of humankind and survived. He has lost family and gained enemies. He has stolen cars and destroyed hearts, stripping one for money and the other for pleasure. His past is haunted and his future is bleak.Until her.Katie Foster is a high school history teacher. Smart, strong, and sexy. She is a woman Marcos shouldn't want. Shouldn't touch. Shouldn't love. He met her in Garnet, a backwards, hick town that's the last place in the world he wants to be, but he finds himself going back, all for a taste of the forbidden.Katie represents all that is good in the world, and Marcos knows he's nothing but trouble for her perfect life. He fights and he screws. He commits crimes and he breaks the rules. He will never change and he will never escape his gang lifestyle.Or can he?What happens when two different people from two very different walks of life risk it all by giving into the passion that threatens to consume both of them? Can a woman who only knows how to play it safe give her heart to a man who lives hard and loves harder?Can she survive The Viper?

Untamed

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Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429931825
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Untamed by : P. C. Cast

Download or read book Untamed written by P. C. Cast and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life sucks when your friends are pissed at you. Just ask Zoey Redbird – she's become an expert on suckiness. In one week she has gone from having three boyfriends to having none, and from having a close group of friends who trusted and supported her, to being an outcast. Speaking of friends, the only two Zoey has left are undead and unMarked. And Neferet has declared war on humans, which Zoey knows in her heart is wrong. But will anyone listen to her? Zoey's adventures at vampyre finishing school take a wild and dangerous turn as loyalties are tested, shocking true intentions come to light, and an ancient evil is awakened in PC and Kristin Cast's spellbinding fourth House of Night novel. (Recommended for readers age 13 and older)

The Slayer

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781985636033
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis The Slayer by : Kele Moon

Download or read book The Slayer written by Kele Moon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Chuito the apartment was a self-imposed prison for a lifetime of sins. To Alaine, the girl next door, it was salivation from her overbearing, religious father. He was a devil. She was an angel. Two people who should've never met, let alone become friends, but it's not until they give in to the dangerous passion that's been simmering under the surface for five years that things go to hell. On the outside, Chuito "The Slayer" Garcia in on top of the world. He's successful. He's wealthy. He's a champion MMA fighter surrounded by friends who support him, but they don't know what he was before he came to Garnet. A gangster. A thief. An addict. A murderer. Now his past is churning up demons he can't ignore. Chuito knows he needs to go back to Miami to end it, but there's something holding him back, a single temptation he can't resist before leaving. Alaine. She's the one drug he can't give up...even if it destroys them both. "To me you're coke. Fine. Smooth. Perfectly white. Very bad for me, but so sexy I don't care. It's worth going down for." --Chuito Garcia

I Promise You the Moon

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Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1613460694
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (134 download)

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Book Synopsis I Promise You the Moon by : Rhonda Russell

Download or read book I Promise You the Moon written by Rhonda Russell and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Kate met Dan at the Brass Rail bar that fateful night, she didn't know what to expect. She was a young, single mother looking for a good time and possibly a man to share her life and her daughter with. What she found was an untamed love in Dan, who seemed confident and sure. And for the three glorious days Dan was in town on his construction job, Kate felt like it was heaven on earth. But when Dan had to leave to go back home, he dropped the ultimate bomb: he was married with children. Rhonda Russell's heartfelt and romantic book,I Promise You the Moonis the account of two people who are hopelessly entwined in one another's lives. Though their bond is strong and deep at first, life circumstances force them apart and bring them together over the course of time. Will their relationship endure the stormy weather? Will their families ever be able to coexist? Find out in Rhonda Russell'sI Promise You the Moon.

Moon Chosen

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Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250100747
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis Moon Chosen by : P. C. Cast

Download or read book Moon Chosen written by P. C. Cast and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in an epic series. Five months on the bestseller list. Read the book that started the blockbuster bestselling series by #1 New York Times bestselling author P.C. Cast. #1 New York Times bestselling author P.C. Cast brings us Moon Chosen, a new epic fantasy set in a world where humans, their animal allies, and the earth itself has been drastically changed. A world filled with beauty and danger and cruelty... Mari is an Earth Walker, heir to the unique healing powers of her Clan; but she has cast her duties aside, until she is chosen by a special animal ally, altering her destiny forever. When a deadly attack tears her world apart, Mari reveals the strength of her powers and the forbidden secret of her dual nature as she embarks on a mission to save her people. It is not until Nik, the son of the leader from a rival, dominating clan strays across her path, that Mari experiences something she has never felt before... Now, darkness is coming, and with it, a force, more terrible and destructive than the world has ever seen, leaving Mari to cast the shadows from the earth. By forming a tumultuous alliance with Nik, she must make herself ready. Ready to save her people. Ready to save herself and Nik. Ready to embrace her true destiny...and obliterate the forces that threaten to destroy them all.

Listen to the Moon

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Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 125007861X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Listen to the Moon by : Michael Morpurgo

Download or read book Listen to the Moon written by Michael Morpurgo and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfie lives off the coast of England. Merry lives in New York City. Until Merry and her mother set sail on the Lusitania for England, where Merry's father is recuperating from a war injury. People told them not to go, hearing rumors that the Lusitania might be carrying munitions. But they are desperate to be reunited with Merry's father. Alfie and his father find a lost girl in an abandoned house on a small island. The girl doesn't speak, except to say what sounds like "Lucy." Alfie's mother nurses her back to health. The others in the village suspect the unthinkable: Lucy is actually German-an enemy-because she's found with a blanket with a German tag. Told from Alfie and Merry's points of view, this exquisite novel tells of friends, enemies, and unexpected kindnesses.

The Untamed Witch

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Publisher : Fair Winds Press
ISBN 13 : 0760376646
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Book Synopsis The Untamed Witch by : Lidia Pradas

Download or read book The Untamed Witch written by Lidia Pradas and published by Fair Winds Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personalized magick is the most powerful magick. The Untamed Witch empowers you to use your own instincts, intuition, and personal environment in your witchcraft. Witchcraft is not one defined, arbitrary path. Rather, it is a diversity of practices that you can curate and align with based on your lifestyle and unique gifts. Moreover, those practices are not meant to be done the same way by every witch. Someone else’s love spell is how they conjure love. Why use lavender in a ritual if it isn’t native to your surroundings or you simply don’t like it? This guide gives you the insight and tools to undomesticate your craft from formulaic—to inspired—practice. The Untamed Witch also outlines: Tools and practices to access the subconscious How to work with the life, death, rebirth cycle How to use elemental and land witchcraft Ancestry work and communicating with spirit guides and entities With this book at your side, learn to use your instincts to rewild your magick.

Hunter's Moon

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1627794778
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)

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Book Synopsis Hunter's Moon by : Philip Caputo

Download or read book Hunter's Moon written by Philip Caputo and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Powerful....Caputo's wisdom runs deep. Few writers have better captured the emotional lives of men." —The New York Times Book Review From Philip Caputo—the author of A Rumor of War, The Longest Road, and Some Rise By Sin—comes a captivating mosaic of stories set in a small town where no act is private and the past is never really past Hunter’s Moon is set in Michigan’s wild, starkly beautiful Upper Peninsula, where a cast of recurring characters move into and out of each other’s lives, building friendships, facing loss, confronting violence, trying to bury the past or seeking to unearth it. Once-a-year lovers, old high-school buddies on a hunting trip, a college professor and his wayward son, a middle-aged man and his grief-stricken father, come together, break apart, and, if they’re fortunate, find a way forward. Hunter’s Moon offers an engaging, insightful look at everyday lives but also a fresh perspective on the way men navigate in today’s world.

Seasons of Moon and Flame

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Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1608686434
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis Seasons of Moon and Flame by : Danielle Dulsky

Download or read book Seasons of Moon and Flame written by Danielle Dulsky and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to Be Mentored by the Sacred Hags! The yearning to slow down and simplify, return to the earth, and maybe even “rewild” what has been tamed in ourselves persists even though that dream may seem ever more remote in contemporary life. Danielle Dulsky shows that even in our high-tech and high-pressure lives, it is possible to manifest your own “year of the wild” and to tap into often-forgotten holy wisdom. Seasons of Moon and Flame guides you to live cyclically while working with the archetype of the Sacred Hag, or wild grandmother, who appears in various guises. Wonderfully inclusive, with adaptations for families, spiritual groups, and other traditions, this book is a potentially life-changing guide to living mystically, magically, and in empowering harmony with the worlds of spirit and nature.

September Moon

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ISBN 13 : 9781945184123
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (841 download)

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Book Synopsis September Moon by : Candice Proctor

Download or read book September Moon written by Candice Proctor and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternately poignant, uplifting, and laugh-out-loud funny, this is an enchanting tale of love, self-forgiveness, and the joyous discovery that it's never too late to become what you were meant to be.Stranded in Adelaide, South Australia, after the death of her former employer, Englishwoman Amanda Davenport is compelled by her rapidly dwindling resources to accept a position as governess on a sheep station in the wilds of the Australian outback. Frightened by the raw desolation she discovers there, Amanda is desperate to earn her passage home to England. Yet against her will, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to both the strange, haunting land and to the easy smile and rugged sensuality of the down-to-earth man who has made it his home.Struggling to bring up three irrepressible, motherless children on an isolated station plagued by all the hardships and dangers of the Flinders Ranges in the 1860s, Patrick O'Reilly thinks the last thing he needs in his life is a prim and proper English gentlewoman. But it isn't long before O'Reilly begins to suspect that Miss Davenport is not exactly what she seems . . .Rich with the memorable characters and flawless sense of time and place for which Candice Proctor is acclaimed, SEPTEMBER MOON is a heartwarming story of resilience and passion set against the harshly beautiful and untamed landscape of the Australian outback." . . . a consummate storyteller." -Publishers Weekly" . . . one of the best romance writers in the business today!" -The Literary TimesFrom the original 1999 Random House edition: In this, her third novel, the multitalented author of NIGHT IN EDEN returns to the glorious setting of nineteenth-century Australia, to the ancient, primal vistas of the outback, to a land as untamed as a man's soul . . . Patrick O'Reilly loves life in the wilderness. All he needs is his land, his work, and the company of the children he adores. The last thing he wants is the prim and proper Englishwoman who arrives to care for his unruly children. Amanda Davenport seems unprepared for the harshness of the place O'Reilly calls home, and yet he finds himself drawn to this proud woman and the fire he knows exists beneath her refined exterior.Accepting a joy as governess is the only way Amanda can earn passage back to her beloved England and away from this country she hates-rugged, uncivilized, intoxicating, like Patrick O'Reilly himself. Despite her fears, Amanda gradually awakens to the shimmering heat of this wild primitive land, to the children she can't help but love, and to this magnificent man whose raw sensuality dares to expose her own undeniable passion . . .

Witch

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Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1781807833
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (818 download)

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Book Synopsis Witch by : Lisa Lister

Download or read book Witch written by Lisa Lister and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaim your inner witch with the magical rituals, divination tools, spells and ancient wisdom in this revolutionary book. A witch is a woman in her power. She's wise, a healer, someone who is aligned with the cycles of Mother Nature and the phases of the Moon. Yet for so long, the word 'witch' has had negative connotations - being used as an insult, a slur and to perpetuate fear. In this book, third generation hereditary witch Lisa Lister explains the history behind witchcraft, why in past centuries the word 'witch' has led women to be tortured, drowned and burned at the stake, and why the witch is now waking once again in women across the world today. This book will help women to remember, reconnect and reclaim the word 'witch' and its power. It explores the many different versions of witchcraft and their core principles and practices, and shares ancient wisdom made relevant for waking witches, including how to: · Align your energy with the wheel of the year, the sabbats and the cycles of the Moon · Connect with and trust your intuition · Use divination tools such as oracle cards, scrying and rune reading · Cast circles, create altars and set sacred space · Work with the elements of nature and use herbs and crystals · Discover and work with five different aspects of the witch: the Force of Nature, the Creatrix, the Healer, the Oracle and the Sorceress · Rediscover your powers and manifest your reality with spell casting Lisa also shares her own journey to reclaiming the word 'witch', along with personal, hands-on rituals and spells from her family lineage of gypsy witch magic.

Unleashed

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781724821157
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (211 download)

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Book Synopsis Unleashed by : Bella Jacobs

Download or read book Unleashed written by Bella Jacobs and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One woman on the run. Four dangerously sexy bodyguards. And a war brewing that will change the shifter world forever... I'm living on borrowed time, fighting for survival against a deadly new virus that has no cure and a cult doing its best to brainwash me. But when a mysterious note shows up on my windowsill one night, its chilling message--Run, Wren--launches me out of the frying pan and into the fire. Within hours, everything I thought I knew about my life, my family, and my origins is obliterated, and I'm racking up enemies at an alarming rate. Between the cult I've just escaped, a violent shifter faction out for my blood, and an ancient evil who eats "chosen ones" like me for breakfast, my last hope is to join forces with four dangerous-looking men who claim they were sent to guard my life. Luke, a werewolf with a rap sheet. Creedence, a lynx shifter who never met a mark he couldn't con. Kite, a bear kin with a mean right hook and heart of gold. And Dust, my childhood best friend and dude voted least likely to be a secret shape-shifting griffin. But are these men really what they seem? Or are my alpha guardians hiding a secret agenda of their own? I'm not sure, but one thing is for certain-choosing the right allies will mean the difference between life and death. For me, and everyone I love. UNLEASHED is book one in the Dark Moon Shifter's series. It is a true reverse harem featuring one woman and her four mates.

Dragon Moon

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101498226
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Dragon Moon by : Alan F. Troop

Download or read book Dragon Moon written by Alan F. Troop and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A secret race as old as time, they have inspired our greatest legends, our grimmest fairy tales, and our grandest nightmares. Changelings by day and slayers at dark, they call themselves People of the Blood. Mankind calls them Dragons. One has stepped forward to tell his story. Four long, lonely years have passed since the murder of Peter DelaSangre’s beloved wife. Although he is devoted to caring for their young son, Peter longs for a mate, someone to fill the void left by his wife’s death. But only one female can satisfy his deepest desire: Chloe Blood, the younger sister of his dead wife. Intending to claim her as his bride, Peter travels to the wilds of Jamaica and settles into a lush jungle estate, where he plans to bide his time until Chloe comes of age. But there are those who do not take kindly to Peter’s arrival. And they will stop at nothing to make sure that Peter never leaves Jamaica alive.

Empire of the Summer Moon

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416597158
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Empire of the Summer Moon by : S. C. Gwynne

Download or read book Empire of the Summer Moon written by S. C. Gwynne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revelation…will leave dust and blood on your jeans” (The New York Times Book Review). Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. Gwynne’s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads, and the amazing story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son Quanah—a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being. Hailed by critics, S. C. Gwynne’s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told. Empire of the Summer Moon announces him as a major new writer of American history.