A Hero S Curse

Author : P. S. Broaddus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1320923739

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A Hero's Curse by P. S. Broaddus Pdf

Author : Kajsa Norman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849047951

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A Hero's Curse by Kajsa Norman Pdf

"For nearly two hundred years Venezuela's political leaders have evoked the legacy of their liberator, Simón Bolívar, to stir popular support for their positions. While Bolívar's heroic struggle helped free a continent, his eventual affinity for dictatorial rule spawned a vicious cycle of liberation and tyranny that has haunted Venezuela ever since. A Hero's Curse is the story of modern Venezuelans whose lives have taken shape in the shadow of Bolívar and his most passionate disciple, Comandante Hugo Chávez. It chronicles the rise and fall of Chávez, but also tells the story of a new generation of leaders, and the tragic impact of Venezuela's "heroic" politics on ordinary citizens. Since the death of Chávez, the battle for Venezuela's future has intensified. Amidst a collapsing economy, escalating violence, and shortages of basic goods, there are increasing calls for a change of leadership. Rivals for power compete in their efforts to demonstrate to the masses that they are the new, true, Venezuelan hero come to set them free. Thus the stage is set for yet another turn in Venezuela's cycle of perpetual liberation."

Author : Parker Broaddus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996544615

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A Hero's Curse by Parker Broaddus Pdf

The fun and fantastical adventure of Essie Brightsday, a young blind girl who is propelled on a perilous journey to find her realm's missing king.The story is a fast-paced adventure of pain and hope and heroism in the face of family cover ups, an unstable kingdom, a lost king and a vindictive daemon. And she happens to have a talking cat."For nearly ten years a strange drought has consumed the Kingdom of Mar. Essie, her sarcastic cat Tigrabum, (just call him "Tig"), and her secretive family are struggling to survive on their small farm nestled against the forbidding cliffs of the Valley of Fire. And then a rebellion against the cruel interim ruler is sparked.Forced to flee for their lives Essie and Tig lose themselves in the twisting labyrinth of the ancient lava flow. When Essie finds proof that the missing King Mactogonii may be alive, she is given the opportunity to help restore stability to the kingdom.But the course of her journey will force her to face her deepest fears and unravel the mystery behind her own blindness."

Author : Jack J. Lee
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1477553444

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Hero's Curse by Jack J. Lee Pdf

I've got no choice but to warn you. Read further, the truth will be revealed and it will enslave you. You don't want to know how the Universe works. I know I didn't. I don't care who you are or what you believe-Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Wiccan, Atheist, anything and everything. You're all wrong. The following is a story of my life after I got drafted by God to fight the minions of darkness. Jehovah of the Holy Bible exists and holy warriors are needed to defend us. If you're wise, you'll set this book down now and walk away. Keep your illusions; they won't hurt you. Learn too much, open the door that is better left closed, and you'll be fighting by my side.

Author : Jasmine Day
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134297962

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The Mummy's Curse by Jasmine Day Pdf

The most penetrating study of the curse ever conducted, The Mummy's Curse uncovers forgotten writings, examines original surveys and field observations of museum visitors, revolutionizes the study of mummy horror films and shows that the curse's structure, meaning and interpretation was changed by events such as the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb.

Author : Alice Hemming
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780702305030

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The Cursed Unicorn by Alice Hemming Pdf

From Alice Hemming, the bestselling author of THE MIDNIGHT UNICORN, comes a brand-new unicorn fairytale. In the faraway kingdom of Elithia, a powerful king holds the throne, with ten Royal Knights under his trusted command. Fearsome warriors and talented fighters, the knights are led by Samara, the most exceptional of them all. Samara's brother, Hero, also works for the king, and his role as the king's advisor gives him a privilege unrivalled by most. So when he falls ill, the king sends for the wisest healers in the kingdoms. Many healers answer his call, but none are able to discover the reason for Hero's failing health. In desperation, Samara seeks out a wizard called Ardis who practices dark magic. Ardis promises Samara the chance to save her brother's life, but the cost is her soul. When Samara refuses, Ardis curses her in rage. Weaving his magic, he forces Samara to take the form of a unicorn and Samara becomes an outcastÜand a legend: the Cursed Unicorn becomes well-known in the surrounding kingdoms, though where the unicorn came from nobody could say. Will Samara remain a unicorn forever, or will she break the magic that traps her? Her story started once upon a time, but who knows how it will end...

Author : Gabrijela Buljan,Ljubica Matek,Biljana Oklopčić,Jasna Poljak Rehlicki,Sanja Runtić,Jadranka Zlomislić
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527557376

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Essays in Honour of Boris Berić’s Sixty-Fifth Birthday by Gabrijela Buljan,Ljubica Matek,Biljana Oklopčić,Jasna Poljak Rehlicki,Sanja Runtić,Jadranka Zlomislić Pdf

Written as a Festschrift honouring a beloved professor, colleague, and friend, this volume comprises a collection of essays offering a wide array of contemporary approaches to literature, linguistics, and applied linguistics. It covers a variety of topics, ranging from medieval to contemporary literature and language, and explores genres as diverse as fantasy, dystopia, drama, poetry, and film, addressing issues such as post- and transhumanism, age, gender, identity, family, metonymy, and narrative discourse. The diversity of themes and methodologies here makes the collection a widely applicable resource in the academic discussion of literature, language, and culture, both as a significant contribution to different philological fields and a useful educational tool for anyone teaching or studying English, Anglophone literature, British, American, and German studies, English as a Second Language, linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and applied linguistics, or conducting research in these fields.

Author : Nikki Chartier
Publisher : Nicole Chartier
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Three Words Cursed by Nikki Chartier Pdf

Eighteen-year-old Haven doesn’t remember life before the Surge. Before electricity was zapped to near non-existence. Before families sold their children and big cities became ghost towns. Before she met her best friend Cricket, the 6’10” boy she rescued from a freak show. After spending a year as the McCall circus’s star dancer, Haven is blindsided when her employer sells her to a brothel. Refusing to be sold into prostitution, she hatches an escape plan, but after her final show, she and Cricket are interrupted mid-escape by an intoxicated assassin named Breck. He is everything Haven fears about the outside world - dangerous, cold, and yet incredibly charming. But Breck’s arrival ends with a trail of blood and their faces plastered on WANTED posters. Haven agrees to leave under his protection on one condition - Cricket goes too - and because Breck can’t fight his burning infatuation with Haven, he agrees. Hopping trains and hiding out in a misfit circus wasn’t the life she’d envisioned, but as Breck’s hard exterior softens and Cricket’s smile is no longer painted, Haven finally realizes how badly she wants to be free and in control of her own life. With the brothel and McCall’s investors closing in on them, Haven must fight for what she wants - but the price for freedom is greater than she ever imagined.

Author : Bernard Knox
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520049578

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The Heroic Temper by Bernard Knox Pdf

The first two chapters of this book isolate and describe the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero. In all but one of the extant Sophoclean dramas, a heroic figure who is compounded of the same literary elements faced a situation which is essentially the same. The demonstration of this recurrent pattern is made not through character-analysis, but through a close examination of the language employed by both the hero and those with whom he contends. The two chapters attempt to present what might, with a slight exaggeration, be called the "formula" of Sophoclean tragedy. A great artist may repeat a structural pattern but he never really repeats himself. In the remaining four chapters, a close analysis of three plays, the Antigone, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus, emphasizes the individuality and variety of the living figures Sophocles created on the same basic armature. This approach to Sophoclean drama is (as in the author's previous work on the subject) both historical and critical; the universal and therefore contemporary appeal of the plays is to be found not by slighting or dismissing their historical context, but by an attempt to understand it all in its complexity. "The play needs to be seen as what it was, to be understood as what it is."

Author : Stephen Arthur Martin Jr.
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781039113671

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Retaliation of The Cursed by Stephen Arthur Martin Jr. Pdf

Retaliation of the Cursed: A Historical Investigation of The Origins of Worship, World Religion, Mythology, Paganism, Astrology and Atheism, and Their Contributions Leading to Modern Hinduism is a sweeping look at the ancient cross-cultural flows that worked to shape the long legacies of the major religions, right up to our contemporary moment. Primarily grounded in examining the Sumerian, Akkadian, Greek, Egyptian, Pagan, and biblical origins of various religious figures, practices, and beliefs, but drawing on a wide array of mythologies that stretch beyond this, this book is stunning in its scope and impressive in the rich, fascinating detail in which it presents its findings. Ultimately, author Stephen Martin makes a compelling case for the shared origins of the world’s great religions, arguing that by reincorporating many previously excommunicated spiritualities and atheisms, Hinduism manifested itself as the complex, multi-faceted cosmology it is today. As well-suited to an amateur audience as it would to a professional theologian, this book is sure to make an excellent read for anyone interested in studies of comparative religion or ancient civilizations—or those simply interested in better understanding the roots of the religious beliefs and spiritual practices of themselves and those around them.

Author : Eric Koester
Publisher : New Degree Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9798885040563

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The Pennymores and the Curse of the Invisible Quill by Eric Koester Pdf

This “supernatural adventure story, filled with atmosphere, twists, the sublime and dripping with heart” (NY Weekly)—about a young girl whose beliefs about magic are shattered when her brother vanishes in the middle of the night—is perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Narnia, & The School of Good & Evil. Inspired from a bedtime story created by Eric and daughters Quinn and Parker, the Pennymores begins with a simple premise: what would the world look like if writing were forbidden. How would we communicate, how would we engage, how would we transact, how would we rule, and how would we remember? And what happens when a group of 11-year olds began to question this idea and push against a roving mob bent on preventing writing from ever returning? The Plumes, a secret writing society created by Parker Pennymore, vows to teach her classmates the power of writing and along the way uncovers a world of magic writers hidden before their eyes. It's an adventure story, a story of family, and a fantastical journey of whimsy, imagination, and creativity that all happens with the magical stroke of a quill. The setting was first inspired by Malala Yousafzai and her mission to help more than 120 million girls around the world who are not able to attend school. Proceeds of the book's sales will benefit the Malala Foundation in an effort to ensure writing is never forbidden, banned, outlawed, or stopped -- letting the magical power of writing live free. There's magical creativity in the book that could only come from the contribution of children's minds, and our story was created just as both Percy Jackson and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy began as bedtime stories by Rick Riordan and JRR Tolkien, respectively. Inside this world, you'll meet all varieties of creatures from talking animals, elves, dwarves, wizards, witches, and much more as you go deep inside a unique world built around the written word.

Author : Nicolas Wyatt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351879552

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'There's such Divinity doth Hedge a King' by Nicolas Wyatt Pdf

The ideology of power is as much a part of modern life as in the ancient world, in which it has its long-lasting roots. Communities have always provided a supernatural sanction for the maintenance of power by the few, often dressing it up in elaborate mythic fictions, rich iconography and complex rituals. This volume presents Nicolas Wyatt's discussions of royal ideology, its mythic and ritual expressions and various literary treatments in ancient Israel, viewed from a comparative perspective. Exploring the possibility that in many of the manifestations of Israelite kingship we can detect the influence of broader cultural patterns, notably as found in Egyptian and West Semitic contexts, he considers the main early cultural influences on Israel and emphasizes the mythic dimension in which the 'divinity' of the king is a real factor.

Author : Necoco,Yoh Hihara
Publisher : Seven Seas Entertainment
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781685793685

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Disciple of the Lich: Or How I Was Cursed by the Gods and Dropped Into the Abyss! (Light Novel) Vol. 4 by Necoco,Yoh Hihara Pdf

Things in Locklore just keep getting more complicated! Kanata meets a dragon-girl on the run from mysterious enemies, and he and his friends agree to help her out. But soon she leads them into dangerous, uncharted territory--the homeland of dragons! Meanwhile, Kanata may have eked out a win and saved the city of Manaloch, but his actions have also drawn attention from the beings he wants to avoid most: the gods who sent him to the world of Locklore in the first place! What lies in store once they find the level 1 character who escaped the inescapable labyrinth?

Author : Rick Riordan
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781423131977

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Three: The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan Pdf

When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped. And now it's up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess?

Author : John Thomas Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B900062550

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A Dictionary in Oordoo and English by John Thomas Thompson Pdf