Soothsayer

Author : Elijah Kinch Spector
Publisher : Erewhon Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645660392

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Kalyna the Soothsayer by Elijah Kinch Spector Pdf

A plucky, sardonic con artist must “prophesize” her way out of peril—discovering along the way that power and politics are nothing more than stories sold as truth. Kalyna’s family has the Gift: the ability to see the future. For generations, they traveled the four kingdoms of the Tetrarchia selling their services as soothsayers. Every child of their family is born with this Gift—everyone except Kalyna. So far, Kalyna has used informants and trickery to falsify prophecies for coin, scrounging together a living for her deteriorating father and cruel grandmother. But Kalyna’s reputation for prophecy precedes her, and poverty turns to danger when she is pressed into service by the spymaster to Rotfelsen. Kalyna is to use her “Gift” to uncover threats against Rotfelsen’s king, her family held hostage to ensure her good behavior. But politics are devious; the king’s enemies abound, and Kalyna’s skills for investigation and deception are tested to the limit. Worse, the conspiracy she uncovers points to a larger threat, not only to Rotfelsen but to the Tetrarchia itself. Kalyna is determined to protect her family and newfound friends, but as she is drawn deeper into palace intrigue, she can no longer tell if her manipulations are helping prevent the Tetrarchia’s destruction—or if her lies will bring about its prophesized downfall.

Author : Col Pradeep Goswami
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Soothsayer's Prophecy by Col Pradeep Goswami Pdf

Simhachalam is an old laid back picturesque village in the foothills of the Sahyadris. Full of queer locations and people, it has numerous stories associated with it . What hides inside the abandoned boat house of Simhachalam? What is the history and the story of this cursed property ? Will the owner ever return to this property or with him will be lost all the hopes of clearing the curse associated to it. What is the "Soothsayer's prophecy" on this? Will it come true? The teenage kids Prateishtha, Esha , Nimisha and Prahar are on a quest to find these answers during their much awaited monsoon vacation. What awaits them is a trail full of adventure, code cracking and visiting mysterious places and meeting strange people! Will they succeed to trace the rightful owner and find the answers to the questions above? Happy reading and find out yourself!

Author : Mahesh Kulkarni,Nikhil Dambal
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781482868739

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A Soothsayer’S Prophesy and Other Stories by Mahesh Kulkarni,Nikhil Dambal Pdf

A man curious about his future goes to an astrologer. The astrologer prophesies that his wife will meet with an accident. Destiny decides to test whether the astrologer will remain true to his craft even though it entails ruin. Will the astrologer pass the test? A sculptor creates a very beautiful statue. The statue is infected with the praise hurled upon it. Is beauty a source of inspiration or cause of destruction? Or are creation and destruction the two great imposters? There is theft in the house of a businessman. An engineering student confesses to the police, yet the investigation starts. There is a dilapidated medieval fort where poltergeist phenomena are reported. Six friends visit the fort, some out of curiosity and some out of compulsion. What happens inside the fort will haunt the ghosts for eternity. Stories that are uninhibited by the constraints of grammar, by the considerations of syntactic propriety, by the rigidities of morals and messages, is a dream destination. We believe that a story belongs more to a reader than its writer. We have tried our best to refrain ourselves from force-feeding the reader with matters that are too peripheral to matter, in spite of the many temptations to do so and have made naive attempts to act as facilitators and allow the reader to paint his own environs and at times, draw his own conclusions . This book is more a sincere than a scholarly attempt to do this.

Author : Allison Sipe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1090777973

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Soothsayer by Allison Sipe Pdf

"Arthurian Legends and Romance? Yes, please!" Some believe Magic should rule the world. Others don't even know Magic is real. With the threat of Morgana's return looming over the Magical world, Violet Evans is the only one who can wake the Lady of the Lake and put a stop to Morgana's vengeance. A centuries old prophecy stalks Violet and when she is brutally attacked, Robert Maxwell saves her life with Magic changing her world forever. With undeniable proof that Magic is real, Violet is thrust into a world she never dreamed possible. As the romantic tension builds so does the threat of Morgana Le Fay. Violet must make a choice; become The Waker or leave the Magical world and Robert behind.

Author : Kathryn Amurra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798642802380

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Soothsayer by Kathryn Amurra Pdf

Aurelia has always valued love and happiness over titles and power. Though her kind-hearted father has allowed her to turn away suitor after suitor in pursuit of a love she cannot yet define, when he dies her choices die with him. Knowing that marrying the elderly governor of a neighboring province can secure her mentally challenged brother's safety, she gives up on her dream of finding love in return for his protection.Cassius is the ill-fated captain of the governor's guard tasked with escorting the Lady Aurelia and her unpleasant aunt to the governor's estate. Since the soothsayer Tullia foretold an early death for him, Cassius wants nothing more than to keep his hands busy with labor and his heart free from any connections to the world he believes he will be leaving soon. As they work through a series of misfortunes on the road to the governor's province, the words of the soothsayer start to make sense, and together they find the courage to allow their true destiny to unfold.

Author : Rupert Matthews
Publisher : The Salariya Book Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781911242451

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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Mayan Soothsayer! by Rupert Matthews Pdf

You are the son of a Mayan soothsayer, living near the city of Copan in about AD 710. Becoming a soothsayer yourself means you could become an important man. However, you'd rather stay in your peaceful village being a farmer - get something wrong as a soothsayer and you'll be sacrificed! This title in the best-selling children’s history series, You Wouldn't Want To…, features full-colour illustrations which combine humour and accurate technical detail and a narrative approach placing readers at the centre of the history, encouraging them to become emotionally-involved with the characters and aiding their understanding of what life would have been like as a Mayan soothsayer. Informative captions, a complete glossary and an index make this title an ideal introduction to the conventions of information books for young readers. It is an ideal text for Key Stage 2 shared and guided reading and helps achieve the goals of the Scottish Standard Curriculum 5-14.

Author : Canada Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1652264175

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Soothsayer by Canada Jackson Pdf

Salome was raised in a fundamentalist community. She is being courted by the head of the church and has done little more than hold his hand as prescribed by their rules. She wears their uniform on her body and obeys their rules with all her heart, terrified that any deviation will cause the loss of her salvation.She had been taught from the moment her breasts began to grow that she needed to hide the things away that may make men desire her. Men were hapless; they reacted to a woman's wiles despite their desire for goodness and the quest for modesty and sobriety rested solely in her hands. She denies everything carnal that simmers within her and succumbs to manipulation and control that borders on abuse.A chance meeting throws her into the world of the Nephilim where she meets a half demon named Braith who is the opposite of everything she has been taught. He is beautiful, powerful and empowering. He sweeps Salome off her feet and shows her that the line between good and evil is sometimes blurred.She yearns to be free from her community and the indoctrination of her strict upbringing and considers joining his coven of half demon warriors who are about to embark on a war against their evil brethren.But that would mean becoming an immortal and equally powerful "Daughter of the Night" and this would bring a whole new set of challenges.Soothsayer is Book 1 of a 5 part series but can be read as a stand alone.FROM THE AUTHOR: Soothsayer tackles fundamentalist thinking and every woman who has ever felt sympathy for a female raised in a patriarchal system will love the liberation of the main character.

Author : Mike Resnick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612422705

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Soothsayer (Oracle Trilogy Book 1) by Mike Resnick Pdf

Readers of Santiago and Mike Resnick's other exciting and evocative novels know that the galaxy's Inner Frontier is filled with some mighty dangerous characters, such as the Iceman, the Mouse, Merlin, the Yankee Clipper, the Mock Turtle, and more. But we'll bet you didn't know that the most dangerous person on the Frontier, perhaps the most dangerous human or alien who ever lived, is a frightened little six-year-old girl who wishes she was anyone else. Come meet her, and her one friend, and her multitude of enemies, in the pages of Soothsayer, the first book of the Oracle Trilogy - and experience an adventure similar in tone both to Santiago and to Josh Whedon's TV series Firefly (and its follow-up movie Serenity). Mike Resnick is the winner of 5 Hugos (from a record 37 nominations), as well as dozens of other major awards all across the world, and was the Worldcon Guest of Honor in 2012.

Author : Salma Jayyusi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857710871

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Beyond the Dunes by Salma Jayyusi Pdf

Saudi Arabia has changed beyond all recognition in the past few decades, and the country's writers have been pre-eminent in grappling with the dilemmas, the cultural jarring and the identity problems thrown up by such an accelerated pace of change. "Beyond The Dunes" opens up for the first time the diversity and richness of contemporary Saudi Arabian literature to an English-speaking audience in this uniquely accessible book. Mansour al Hazimi, Salma Khadra Jayyusi and Ezzat Khattab have put together a varied selection of poetry, short stories, novel extracts, personal accounts, drama and essays which provide a fascinating insight into the challenges and tensions of a culture that is striving to balance globalisation and modernity with highly cherished traditional values. The social dislocation experienced by Saudi Arabians finds vivid formal expression in the dramas included in this volume, which may surprise many Western readers with their bold experimentalism and surrealist elements. Novelist Ahmad al Siba'I, a more traditional writer, offers a reflective, humanistic response to the world, whilst poets such as Ghassan al-Khunaizi, Ahmad al Mulla and Huda al Daghfaq reflect both the rich stylistic heritage of Saudi literature and the new techniques and outlook of modern Arabic poetry. Even when they are harking back to the vanished world of pre-modern Saudi Arabia, many of these writers reflect generational dialogues and an awareness of contemporary resonances. "Beyond the Dunes" places women's voices firmly in the centre of the Saudi literary canon for the first time, reflecting the increasing pre-eminence of writers such as Raja' 'Alem, Qumasha al-Ulayyan, Noura al-Ghamidi and Fawziyya Abu Khalid. This ground-breaking book provides an indispensable introduction to the thoughts, forms and expressions of one of the most complex and fascinating of world literatures at a moment of pivotal transformation.

Author : Anon E Mouse
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE SOOTHSAYERS WIFE AND THE HODJA - A Middle Eastern Folktale narrated by Baba Indaba by Anon E Mouse Pdf

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 27 In Issue 27 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Persian tale of the Soothsayer's Wife and the (poor) Hodja. - a teacher of sorts who wants to improve his lot in life. But just how does the hodja succeed? It is believed that folklore and tales are believed to have originated in India and made their way overland along the Silk and Spice routes and through Central Asia before arriving in Europe. This book also has a "Where in the World - Look it Up" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story, on map. HINT - use Google maps. Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".

Author : Walter Savage Landor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:300017910

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The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor: Dialogues in verse : Gebir. Acts and scenes. Hellenics by Walter Savage Landor Pdf

Author : Walter Savage Landor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015014137791

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Dialogues in verse : Gebir. Acts and scenes. Hellenics by Walter Savage Landor Pdf

Author : Walter Savage Landor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWE4L2

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Works and Life: Gebir, etc. 1876 by Walter Savage Landor Pdf

Author : Tan Twan Eng
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781838858353

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The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Penang, 1939. Being half Chinese and half English, Philip Hutton always felt like he never belonged. That is until he befriends Hayato Endo, a mysterious Japanese diplomat and master in the art of aikido. But when Japan invades Malaya, Philip realises Endo bears a secret, one powerful enough to jeopardise everything he loves. This masterful début conjures an unforgettable tale of courage, brutality, loyalty, deceit and love.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082509467

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Antony and Cleopatra. Titus Andronicus. King Lear by William Shakespeare Pdf