A Plague Of Angels

Author : Sheri S. Tepper
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307573773

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A Plague of Angels by Sheri S. Tepper Pdf

Atop a twisting, canyon-climbing road, a witch lurks in a fortress built strong to keep out dragons and ogres. In another part of the countryside, a young orphan is maturing into a beautiful woman in the enchanted village that is her home. Somewhere nearby, a young man is seeking adventure after running away from his family's small farm. Suddenly a strange and terrible prophecy sets off a chain of events that will bring these three together in the heroic, romantic, and thrilling tale of an age-old battle.

Author : Adam Warren,Toren Smith
Publisher : Dark Horse Manga
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1569710295

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A Plague of Angels by Adam Warren,Toren Smith Pdf

In the cyberpunk future, the Worlds Welfare Work Association is an important weapon against crime. 3WA's best operatives, Kei and Yuri - the Lovely Angels - also have a reputation for causing catastrophe in the execution of their duties, and have earned a new nickname: the Dirty Pair.

Author : Sheri S. Tepper
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062008732

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The Waters Rising by Sheri S. Tepper Pdf

“Sheri S. Tepper takes the mental risks that are the lifeblood of science fiction and all imaginative fiction.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, Los Angeles Times Her first new novel since The Margarets, The Waters Rising marks the glorious return of the extraordinary Sheri S. Tepper, the award-winning contemporary master whom Locus has called, “one of sf’s most distinctive voices.” The Waters Rising tells a gripping story of a future already ravaged and now in even graver peril when a dreadful, awesome killing power is resurrected from the past. Readers of Margaret Atwood and Marge Piercy will join with fans of literary sf in praising this stunning masterwork of speculative fiction from one of the acknowledged greats.

Author : Dave Rudden
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781405938648

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Doctor Who: Twelve Angels Weeping by Dave Rudden Pdf

Twelve extraordinary Doctor Who stories, each featuring a monstrous villain from the Doctor Who world. On every planet that has existed or will exist, there is a winter . . . Many of the peoples of Old Earth celebrated a winter festival. A time to huddle together against the cold; a time to celebrate being half-way out of the dark. But shadows are everywhere, and there are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things, lurking in the cold between the stars. Here are twelve stories - one for each of the Twelve Days of Christmas - to remind you that to come out of the darkness we need to go into it in the first place. We are not alone. We are not safe. And, whatever you do: don't blink. Written by popular children's author, and lifelong Doctor Who fan, Dave Rudden.

Author : Sheri S. Tepper
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1473222656

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Raising the Stones by Sheri S. Tepper Pdf

Author : Alden Bell
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429929677

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The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell Pdf

Zombies have infested a fallen America. A young girl named Temple is on the run. Haunted by her past and pursued by a killer, Temple is surrounded by death and danger, hoping to be set free. For twenty-five years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself and keeping her demons inside her heart. She can't remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember an old man who took her in and the younger brother she cared for until the tragedy that set her on a personal journey toward redemption. Moving back and forth between the insulated remnants of society and the brutal frontier beyond, Temple must decide where ultimately to make a home and find the salvation she seeks. “Alden Bell provides an astonishing twist on the southern gothic: like Flannery O'Connor with zombies.” —Michael Gruber, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Air and Shadows

Author : Phil Rickman
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857890160

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The Wine of Angels by Phil Rickman Pdf

The Merrily Watkins series will have you hooked. Join Merrily in her chilling tales of murder, mystery and intrigue. The new vicar had never wanted a picture-postcard parish - or a huge and haunted vicarage. Nor had she wanted to walk into a dispute over a controversial play about a seventeenth-century clergyman accused of witchcraft... a story that certain long-established families would rather remained obscure. But this is Ledwardine, steeped in cider and secrets... A paradise of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses. And also - as Merrily Watkins and her teenage daughter, Jane, discover - a village where horrific murder is a tradition that spans centuries. Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and criminal better than Rickman. - Guardian

Author : Heather Killough-Walden
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101588666

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Messenger's Angel by Heather Killough-Walden Pdf

Since the beginning of time, the archangels have longed to know true love. When four female angels were created for the four archangels, Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, and Azrael, a chaos spurred by jealousy erupted, and the archesses were secreted away to Earth. The four favored archangels followed, prompting a search that has lasted millennia… For hundreds of years, Gabriel has passed himself off as a common Scottish villager. Few know he is the Messenger, a powerful archangel who has secretly scoured the world for the only woman who can complete him. Now, he’s shocked to discover the object of his fierce and driving desire shows up in his own backyard. Researching her Ph.D. in the Outer Hebrides, Juliette Anderson has always been the rational type—until she looks across a quaint pub and into the flashing silver eyes of a stranger. He’s handsome. He’s intense. And he claims her with a soul-searing kiss on the spot. Gabriel’s scorching gaze, wavy black hair and deep, sexy brogue ignite a fire in her that can’t be denied, and yet every instinct she has tells her to run. But when a familiar dark force rises, and the truth of her incredible identity is revealed, Juliette must follow her heart and put her faith in the tall, dark mysterious man who enflames her.

Author : Guy Haley
Publisher : Games Workshop
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1784965936

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The Devastation of Baal by Guy Haley Pdf

The Blood Angels Chapter and their successors mount a desperate defence of their home world of Baal from the predations of the tyranid hive fleet Leviathan. After a brutal campaign in the Cryptus System fighting the alien tyranids, Lord Dante returns to Baal to marshal the entire Blood Angels Chapter and their Successors against Hive Fleet Leviathan. Thus begins the greatest conflict in the history of the sons of Sanguinius. Despite a valiant battle in the void around Baal, the Blood Angels are unable to stop the tyranids drawing ever closer, but their petitions for reinforcements are met with dread news. The Cadian Gate, the Imperium’s most stalwart bastion against Chaos, has fallen. In their darkest hour, no help will reach the beleaguered Dante and his warriors. Is this truly then the Time of Ending?

Author : Sheri S. Tepper
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307573964

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Sideshow by Sheri S. Tepper Pdf

On the planet of Elsewhere, the Council had always enforced the governing of each province in the manner the people had chosen, so long as each respected its neighbors' local customs--and so long as the people remained within their homelands. Generations later, inhabitants have begun to question this tradition. The Council has received mysterious messages and reports of strange manifestations across the planet. Now, Enforcer Fringe Owldark has been sent with a small crew of seven, each possessing an unusual talent, to investigate their worst fear--the arrival of the Hobbs Land gods. Free will and the reality of God are just too of the timeless issues this courageous band of humans must confront as they strive to decide if complete tolerance and leaving others alone is evil. . .and what they should do if it is. Vividly imagined and exquisitely rendered, Sideshow is Sheri S. Tepper's most controversial novel yet.

Author : P F Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1038765498

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A Plague of Angels by P F Chisholm Pdf

In 1592, dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey took up his northern post as Warden of the West March in order to escape the complications of creditors and court life. Trouble, however, dogs his heels wherever he goes. And where he goes in autumn, after the summer's misadventures in Carlisle, is back to London upon a summons from his father. Carey is on difficult terms with his powerful sire, Henry, Lord Hunsdon. Hunsdon, son of Anne Boleyn's elder sister, Mary-and probably of a young King Henry VIII-swings a lot of weight as ''cousin'' to Queen Elizabeth. But Hunsdon needs his ingenious younger son, Carey to sort out the difficulties his elder son has got himself into as an innocent party in a plot to discredit the family. Accompanied by the shrewd Sergeant George Dodd, who's like a fish out of water as he copes with the strange Londoners, Carey tackles Catholics, treachery, and such persons known to history and students of literature as George Greene and Christopher Marlowe who are working as spies and double agents. Most arresting is a portrait of a love-sick, sniveling hanger-on named Will Shakespeareâ ].

Author : Phil Kelly
Publisher : Games Workshop
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1784967092

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War of Secrets by Phil Kelly Pdf

In the shadow of the Great Rift, Primaris Marines fight alongside the Dark Angels against the t'au, but as whole worlds burn, a terrible psychic curse is unleashed. Lieutenant Xedro Farren is a Primaris Marine, stronger and more adept than even the Space Marines his brotherhood has been sent to fight alongside. As he and his Primaris brethren support the Dark Angels in fighting a trauma-scarred force of t’au seemingly hellbent on destroying their own allies, their true quarry soon becomes clear: the shadowy instigator of a psychic curse that could plunge a string of Imperial planets into madness. As worlds burn in the fires of battle, an unthinkable pact is struck, and Lieutenant Farren begins to peel back layer after layer of deceit to discover an appalling truth. Can he hope to emerge from this web of lies without losing his honour – or come to that, his life?

Author : Salley Vickers
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007364336

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Miss Garnet’s Angel by Salley Vickers Pdf

Salley Vicker’s sensational debut novel, ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’, is a voyage of discovery; a novel about Venice but also the rich story of the explosive possibilities of change in all of us at any time.

Author : Mitchel Scanlon
Publisher : Games Workshop
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1849708142

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Descent of Angels by Mitchel Scanlon Pdf

Book six in the New York Times bestselling series The planet of Caliban exists much as it has for thousands of years – the knightly orders protect the common people, fighting back the beasts that lurk in the depths of the seemingly endless forests. Young Zahariel and Nemiel aspire to join the greatest of the orders, led by the example of mighty Lion El’Jonson and his vision of a peaceful and unified world. But the coming of the Imperium brings new concerns and a new destiny for the Lion as part of the Great Crusade, and the sons of Caliban must decide if they will follow him to glory among the stars.

Author : John Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692405518

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Scorn of Angels by John Kennedy Pdf

Creation is Doomed... Nyx, Queen of Hell, lies broken and burning in a box at the bottom of the Lake of Fire, put there but her lover Tribunal, who is God's Son. Nyx's daughter Epiphenia, has been slaughtered by Tribunal and Lucifer. Her companions, Persephone and Ishtar, were captured and are now suffering unspeakable torture. Lucifer, one Nyx's second-in-command, has taken over Hell and is ruling with a depraved will and an iron fist. And on Earth, Arcana, Angel of Heaven, has arrived a thousand years too late. And that isn't even the worst of it. Tribunal is going to destroy the human race, if he can keep God from noticing. He's already building a wall of illusion to hide creation from the eyes of God. And when that wall is complete, Tribunal will order Lucifer to take his Descended Angels and destroy all of humanity. And that's just for a start. Now the Angels in Heaven and the Queen of Hell must join forces to defeat a greater power than any of them have ever faced, and at stake is the very existence of Creation, and of God himself!