A Gift Of The Emperor

Author : Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Publisher : Games Workshop
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1849703973

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The Emperor's Gift by Aaron Dembski-Bowden Pdf

The critically acclaimed Grey Knights novel, now available in paperback The Grey Knights are all that stands between mankind and the ravages of Chaos. Since their secretive beginnings during the Horus Heresy, these legendary Space Marine daemon hunters have journeyed into the dark realms of the warp – and beyond – in pursuit of their supernatural enemies. Through an intensive regime of psychic training, new recruits are brought to the clandestine fortress of Titan to join the hallowed and vaunted ranks of the 666th Chapter. More than ever, these legendary battle-brothers must be vigilant and ever ready to defend the Imperium for the forces of Chaos are never truly defeated, and Armageddon beckons…

Author : Therese Park
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595350056

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A Gift of the Emperor by Therese Park Pdf

In World War II, Soon-ah, 17, is among a class of Korean schoolgirls abducted by Japanese troops to serve as comfort women. A Japanese reporter falls in love with her, they manage to escape and are rescued by the U.S. Navy.

Author : Emma Bradford
Publisher : I Dolls
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1889514209

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Kat and the Emperor's Gift by Emma Bradford Pdf

Having traveled in her time machine to the court of Kublai Khan, Kat comes to the aid of a Mongolian princess who is facing a fearful future.

Author : Mark Frutkin
Publisher : Esplanade Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1550653369

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A Message for the Emperor by Mark Frutkin Pdf

The inner workings of the jazz “business.” “Off the books” refers to a life lived outside of conventional 9 to 5 society. Jazz music itself is “off the books” as far as much of pop culture is concerned. Many jazz lives have unfolded as marginal existences, as jazz guitarist Peter Leitch attests in this honest memoir. Off the Books: A Jazz Life is the story of a life lived in search of excellence in music and art, but also a life lived battling depression and alienation, and overcoming narcotics addiction. Leitch vividly relates a life lived trying to eke out a living in jazz clubs, nightclubs and studios in Montreal, Toronto and New York. He tells of growing up as an Anglophone in Montreal’s working class and predominantly French-speaking East End refinery district, discovering jazz on CBC radio and learning to play it—outside of the academy.

Author : Julie Otsuka
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307430212

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When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka Pdf

From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times. On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty incarceration camp in the Utah desert. In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism. When the Emperor Was Divine is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today's headlines.

Author : Xiran Jay Zhao
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781665900720

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Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao Pdf

Percy Jackson meets Tristan Strong in this hilarious middle grade “edge-of-your-seat adventure” (James Ponti, New York Times bestselling author of City Spies) that follows a young boy as he journeys across China to seal the underworld shut and save the mortal realm. Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, and his schools never taught anything except Western history and myths. So Zack is woefully unprepared when he discovers he was born to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China for a vital mission: sealing the leaking portal to the Chinese underworld before the upcoming Ghost Month blows it wide open. The mission takes an immediate wrong turn when the First Emperor botches his attempt to possess Zack’s body and binds to Zack’s AR gaming headset instead, leading to a battle where Zack’s mom’s soul gets taken by demons. Now, with one of history’s most infamous tyrants yapping in his headset, Zack must journey across China to heist magical artifacts and defeat figures from history and myth, all while learning to wield the emperor’s incredible water dragon powers. And if Zack can’t finish the mission in time, the spirits of the underworld will flood into the mortal realm, and he could lose his mom forever.

Author : Ben Counter
Publisher : Black Library
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08
Category : Science fiction, English
ISBN : 1849707588

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The Grey Knights Omnibus by Ben Counter Pdf

This omnibus features the novels 'Grey Knights', 'Dark Adeptus', and 'Hammer of Daemons'.

Author : RuNyx
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1087945429

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The Emperor by RuNyx Pdf

Dante Maroni, the heir to an underworld empire, and Amara, his housekeeper's daughter, find themselves entangled in a story that begins with unrequited childhood infatuation and grows into a tale of forbidden love, trauma, and power.

Author : Victoria Goddard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1988908671

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The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard Pdf

An impulsive word can start a war. A timely word can stop one. A simple act of friendship can change the course of history. Cliopher Mdang is the personal secretary of the Last Emperor of Astandalas, the Lord of Rising Stars, the Lord Magus of Zunidh, the Sun-on-Earth, the god. He has spent more time with the Emperor of Astandalas than any other person. He has never once touched his lord. He has never called him by name. He has never initiated a conversation. One day Cliopher invites the Sun-on-Earth home to the proverbially remote Vangavaye-ve for a holiday. The mere invitation could have seen Cliopher executed for blasphemy. The acceptance upends the world. Lays of the Hearth-Fire #1.

Author : Philip Dwyer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300190663

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Citizen Emperor by Philip Dwyer Pdf

In this second volume of Philip Dwyer’s authoritative biography on one of history’s most enthralling leaders, Napoleon, now 30, takes his position as head of the French state after the 1799 coup. Dwyer explores the young leader’s reign, complete with mistakes, wrong turns, and pitfalls, and reveals the great lengths to which Napoleon goes in the effort to fashion his image as legitimate and patriarchal ruler of the new nation. Concealing his defeats, exaggerating his victories, never hesitating to blame others for his own failings, Napoleon is ruthless in his ambition for power. Following Napoleon from Paris to his successful campaigns in Italy and Austria, to the disastrous invasion of Russia, and finally to the war against the Sixth Coalition that would end his reign in Europe, the book looks not only at these events but at the character of the man behind them. Dwyer reveals Napoleon’s darker sides—his brooding obsessions and propensity for violence—as well as his passionate nature: his loves, his ability to inspire, and his capacity for realizing his visionary ideas. In an insightful analysis of Napoleon as one of the first truly modern politicians, the author discusses how the persuasive and forward-thinking leader skillfully fashioned the image of himself that persists in legends that surround him to this day.

Author : Kwame Mbalia,Prince Joel Makonnen
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338665871

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Last Gate of the Emperor by Kwame Mbalia,Prince Joel Makonnen Pdf

From Kwame Mbalia and Prince Joel David Makonnen comes an Afrofuturist adventure about a mythical Ethiopian empire. Sci-fi and fantasy combine in this epic journey to the stars. Yared Heywat lives an isolated life in Addis Prime -- a hardscrabble city with rundown tech, lots of rules, and not much to do. His worrywart Uncle Moti and bionic lioness Besa are his only family... and his only friends. Often in trouble for his thrill-seeking antics and wisecracking sense of humor, those same qualities make Yared a star player of the underground augmented reality game, The Hunt for Kaleb's Obelisk. But when a change in the game rules prompts Yared to log in with his real name, it triggers an attack that rocks the city. In the chaos, Uncle Moti disappears. Suddenly, all the stories Yared's uncle told him as a young boy are coming to life, of kingdoms in the sky and city-razing monsters. And somehow Yared is at the center of them. Together with Besa and the Ibis -- a game rival turned reluctant ally -- Yared must search for his uncle... and answers to his place in a forgotten, galaxy-spanning war.

Author : CS Richardson
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385670913

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The Emperor of Paris by CS Richardson Pdf

Like his father before him, Octavio runs the Notre-Dame bakery, and knows the secret recipe for the perfect Parisian baguette. But, also like his father, Octavio has never mastered the art of reading and his only knowledge of the world beyond the bakery door comes from his own imagination. Just a few streets away, Isabeau works out of sight in the basement of the Louvre, trying to forget her disfigured beauty by losing herself in the paintings she restores and the stories she reads. The two might never have met, but for a curious chain of coincidences involving a mysterious traveller, an impoverished painter, a jaded bookseller, and a book of fairytales, lost and found . . .

Author : Therese Park
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504036177

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A Gift of the Emperor by Therese Park Pdf

A Gift of the Emperor is the poignant fictional account of real-life atrocities inflicted upon more than 200,000 Asian women by the Japanese military during World War II. This haunting story is narrated by Soon-ah, a Korean schoolgirl whose life is shattered when Emperor Hirohito’s soldiers abduct her from her village and ship her and her schoolmates to a “house of relaxation” in the South Pacific. Here, on an island with surreal beauty, Soon-ah is forced into prostitution as a “comfort woman” to the Japanese military. This scorching account of one woman’s endurance of sexual degradation and the unspeakable horror of war provides compelling testimony to the strength of the human spirit, the power of love over hate, and the ultimate triumph of hope over despair.

Author : Valentino Garavani
Publisher : Editions Assouline
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 1614282935

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Valentino by Valentino Garavani Pdf

The emperor not only of fashion but also of l art de vivre, Valentino Garavani is in a class all his own. At the Emperor s Table is an invitation into his refined world of graceful and cultured living. The remarkable collection of table settings and objets d art housed in his five residences, in Gstaad, London, Rome, New York, and Paris, as well as on his yacht, evoke the grandeur in which he lives and are presented in this first-ever edition with photographs by Oberto Gili. Recipes by Mr. Garavani s personal chefs are also included and bring readers one step closer to discovering his extraordinary surroundings."

Author : Ludwig Bemelmans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1585678457

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When You Lunch with the Emperor by Ludwig Bemelmans Pdf