Blood On A Saint

Author : Sebastien de Castell
Publisher : Jo Fletcher Books
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784299644

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Saint's Blood by Sebastien de Castell Pdf

'High energy, highly unique, swashbuckling-cop-epic-noir story. Buy it. BUY IT NOW' Sam Sykes The Greatcoats are back - and this time it's personal. How do you kill a Saint? Falcio, Brasti and Kest are about to find out, as someone is doing just that, and they've started with a friend. The Dukes were already looking for ways to weasel out of their promise to put Aline on her father's throne - but with Saints turning up dead, and Church Inquistitors pushing for control - rumours are spreading that the Gods themselves oppose her ascension. The only way Falcio can stop the country turning into a vicious theocracy is to find and stop the Saint-killer - but his only clue is the iron mask encasing the head of the Saint of Mercy, which prevents her from speaking. And even if he can find the murderer, he will still have to face them in battle - and this may be a duel that no swordsman, no matter how skilled, can win.

Author : Sebastien de Castell
Publisher : Jo Fletcher Books
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681444888

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Saint's Blood by Sebastien de Castell Pdf

"TO READ THEM IS TO LOVE THEM" --The Oklahoman "DE CASTELL HAS MANAGED YET AGAIN TO TOP HIS PREVIOUS BOOK BY CREATING WHAT WILL SURELY BE ONE OF THE BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF THE YEAR." --Tattooed Book Geek The Greatcoats are back--and this time it's personal. How do you kill a Saint? Falcio, Kest, and Brasti are about to find out, because someone has figured out a way to do it and they've started with a friend. The Dukes were already looking for ways out of their agreement to put Aline on the throne, but with the Saints turning up dead, rumors are spreading that the Gods themselves oppose her ascension. Now churches are looking to protect themselves by bringing back the military orders of religious soldiers, assassins, and (especially) Inquisitors - a move that could turn the country into a theocracy. The only way Falcio can put a stop to it is by finding the murderer. He has only one clue: a terrifying iron mask which makes the Saints vulnerable by driving them mad. But even if he can find the killer, he'll still have to face him in battle. And that may be a duel that no swordsman, no matter how skilled, can hope to win.

Author : Tonya Hurley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442429536

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The Blessed by Tonya Hurley Pdf

"Three girls who have lost their way are brought together by a mysterious young man"--

Author : Anne Emery
Publisher : Collins-Burke Mystery
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1770412697

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Blood on a Saint by Anne Emery Pdf

Father Brennan Burke's patience is tested when a woman shares that the Virgin Mary has appeared to her in his churchyard, and hordes of reporters converge on the scene. This pales in comparison to a talk show host who clashes with Burke the minute he arrives. When a body is found at the site, the talk show host is picked up for murder, and lawyer Monty Collins takes him on as a client. Monty and Brennan both have a stake in uncovering the truth. Problem is, they can't talk to each other about it, because one is bound by client confidentiality and the other by seal of confessional.

Author : Gil Anidjar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231167208

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Blood by Gil Anidjar Pdf

Blood, in Gil AnidjarÕs argument, maps the singular history of Christianity. A category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining, sometimes even defining, Western culture, politics, and social practices and their wide-ranging incarnations in nationalism, capitalism, and law. Engaging with a variety of sources, Anidjar explores the presence and the absence, the making and unmaking of blood in philosophy and medicine, law and literature, and economic and political thought, from ancient Greece to medieval Spain, from the Bible to Shakespeare and Melville. The prevalence of blood in the social, juridical, and political organization of the modern West signals that we do not live in a secular age into which religion could return. Flowing across multiple boundaries, infusing them with violent precepts that we must address, blood undoes the presumed oppositions between religion and politics, economy and theology, and kinship and race. It demonstrates that what we think of as modern is in fact imbued with Christianity. Christianity, Blood fiercely argues, must be reconsidered beyond the boundaries of religion alone.

Author : Mark D. Meyerson,Daniel Thiery,Oren Falk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802087744

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A Great Effusion of Blood? by Mark D. Meyerson,Daniel Thiery,Oren Falk Pdf

Exploring the issue from both historical and literary perspectives, the contributors examine violence in a broad variety of genres, places, and times, such as the Late Antique lives of the martyrs, Islamic historiography, Anglo-Saxon poetry and Norse sagas, and more.

Author : S. T. Gibson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316501286

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A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson Pdf

THE DARK FANTASY BOOKTOK BLOCKBUSTER! In this dark, fantasy sensation, S. T. Gibson spins the gothic, seductive tale of Dracula's first bride, Constanta. This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. . . Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king. But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that her beloved is capable of terrible things. Finding comfort in the arms of her rival consorts, she begins to unravel their husband's dark secrets. With the lives of everyone she loves on the line, Constanta will have to choose between her own freedom and her love for her husband. But bonds forged by blood can only be broken by death. "A dizzying nightmare of a romance that will leave you aching, angry and ultimately hopeful." --Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf

Author : Emily A. Duncan
Publisher : Wednesday Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250195685

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Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan Pdf

An instant New York Times bestseller! A girl who can speak to gods must save her people without destroying herself. A prince in danger must decide who to trust. A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings. Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war. In a centuries-long war where beauty and brutality meet, their three paths entwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints, where a forbidden romance threatens to tip the scales between dark and light. Wicked Saints is the thrilling start to Emily A. Duncan’s devastatingly Gothic Something Dark and Holy trilogy. This edition uses deckle edges; the uneven paper edge is intentional.

Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307401984

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Fields of Blood by Karen Armstrong Pdf

From the renowned and bestselling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion's connection to violence. For the first time in American history, religious self-identification is on the decline. Some have cited a perception that began to grow after September 11: that faith in general is a source of aggression, intolerance and divisiveness--something bad for society. But how accurate is that view? And does it apply equally to all faiths? In these troubled times, we risk basing decisions of real and dangerous consequence on mistaken understandings of the faiths subscribed around us, in our immediate community as well as globally. And so, with her deep learning and sympathetic understanding, Karen Armstrong examines the impulse toward violence in each of the world's great religions. The comparative approach is new: while there have been plenty of books on jihad or the Crusades, this book lays the Christian and the Islamic way of war side by side, along with those of Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Daoism and Judaism. Each of these faiths arose in agrarian societies with plenty of motivation for violence: landowners had to lord it over peasants and warfare was essential to increase one's landholdings, the only real source of wealth before the great age of trade and commerce. In each context, it fell to the priestly class to legitimize the actions of the state. And so the martial ethos became bound up with the sacred. At the same time, however, their ideologies developed that ran counter to the warrior code: around sages, prophets and mystics. Within each tradition there grew up communities that represented a protest against the injustice and violence endemic to agrarian society. This book explores the symbiosis of these 2 impulses and its development as these confessional faiths came of age. The aggression of secularism has often damaged religion and pushed it into a violent mode. But modernity has also been spectacularly violent, and so Armstrong goes on to show how and in what measure religions, in their relative maturity, came to absorb modern belligerence--and what hope there might be for peace among believers in our time.

Author : C. M. Stunich,Tate James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1691532193

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Altered By Fire by C. M. Stunich,Tate James Pdf

My life changed in an instant, altered by fire, irreparably damaged.Just like me.I'm a broken, damaged soul on the run from a very real sort of darkness.My father, a notorious mob boss, either wants me back or wants me dead.I find solace in the arms of his enemies.Five deliciously dark men that tempt me to do things I shouldn't.Arsen, Colt, Weston, Mace, and Hawke.They're just as dangerous as the men they're hunting.So, will they save me, or burn me to ashes?Either way, in their arms, I catch fire.I burn.And I love every second of it.**NOTE: This book was originally published as Five Fathers by Kate Morgan. It has undergone a rewrite but the core story remains the same.**

Author : Garigādatta Upreti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HX7C6F

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Proverbs & Folklore of Kumaun and Garwhal by Garigādatta Upreti Pdf

Author : Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575127487

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Blood Games by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Pdf

Since 1978, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has produced about two dozen novels and numerous short stories detailing the life of a character first introduced to the reading world as Le Comte de Saint-Germain. We first meet him in Paris during the reign of Louis XV when he is, apparently, a wealthy, worldly, charismatic aristocrat, envied and desired by many but fully known to none. In fact, he is a vampire, born in the Carpathian Mountains in 2119 BC, turned in his late-thirties in 2080 BC and destined to roam the world forever, watching and participating in history and, through the author, giving us an amazing perspective on the time-tapestry of human civilization. In Blood Games, beginning during the reign of Nero, Saint-Germain finds his way through the political turmoil of the time, and becomes the lover of the incomparable Atta Olivia Clemens.

Author : Saint Catherine (of Siena)
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809122332

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The Dialogue by Saint Catherine (of Siena) Pdf

Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), mystic and Doctor of the Church, wrote The Dialogue, her crowning spiritual work, for "the instruction and encouragement of all those whose spiritual welfare was her concern."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89076979293

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Annals of Saint Joseph by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jessica Coblentz
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814685273

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Dust in the Blood by Jessica Coblentz Pdf

2023 College Theology Society Best Book Award 2023 Catholic Media Association Third Place Award, Theology – Morality, Ethics, Christology, Mariology, and Redemption 2023 Association of Catholic Publishers Second Place Award, Theology Dust in the Blood considers the harrowing realities of life with depression from a Christian theological perspective. In conversation with popular Christian theologies of depression that justify why this suffering exists and prescribe how people ought to relate to it, Jessica Coblentz offers another Christian approach to this condition: she reflects on depression as a wilderness experience. Weaving first-person narratives of depression, contemporary theologies of suffering, and ancient biblical tales of the wilderness, especially the story of Hagar, Coblentz argues for and contributes to an expansion of Christian ideas about what depression is, how God relates to it, and how Christians should understand and respond to depression in turn.