The Good The Bad And The Infernal

Author : Guy Adams
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849974929

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The Good, The Bad and The Infernal by Guy Adams Pdf

One day every hundred years, a town appears, its location and character different every time. It is home to the greatest miracle a man could imagine: a doorway to Heaven itself. The town’s name is Wormwood, and it is due to appear on the 21st September 1889, somewhere in the American Midwest. There are many who hope to be there: travelling preacher Obeisance Hicks and his simple messiah, Soldier Joe; Henry and Harmonium Jones and their freak show pack of outlaws; the Brothers of the Order of Ruth and their sponsor Lord Forset (inventor of the Forset Thunderpack and other incendiary modes of personal transport); and finally, an aging gunslinger with a dark history. They will face dangers both strange and terrible: monstrous animals, predatory towns, armies of mechanical natives, and other things besides. Wormwood defends its secrets, and only the brave and resourceful will survive...

Author : Mark Doten
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555973353

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The Infernal by Mark Doten Pdf

A fierce, searing response to the chaos of the war on terror—an utterly original and blackly comic debut In the early years of the Iraq War, a severely burned boy appears on a remote rock formation in the Akkad Valley. A shadowy, powerful group within the U.S. government speculates: Who is he? Where did he come from? And, crucially, what does he know? In pursuit of that information, an interrogator is summoned from his prison cell, and a hideous and forgotten apparatus of torture, which extracts "perfect confessions," is retrieved from the vaults. Over the course of four days, a cavalcade of voices rises up from the Akkad boy, each one striving to tell his or her own story. Some of these voices are familiar: Osama bin Laden, L. Paul Bremer, Condoleezza Rice, Mark Zuckerberg. Others are less so. But each one has a role in the world shaped by the war on terror. Each wants to tell us: This is the world as it exists in our innermost selves. This is what has been and what might be. This is The Infernal.

Author : Greg Keyes
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345516978

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The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel by Greg Keyes Pdf

Based on the award-winning The Elder Scrolls, The Infernal City is the first of two exhilarating novels following events that continue the story from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, named 2006 Game of the Year. Four decades after the Oblivion Crisis, Tamriel is threatened anew by an ancient and all-consuming evil. It is Umbriel, a floating city that casts a terrifying shadow—for wherever it falls, people die and rise again. And it is in Umbriel’s shadow that a great adventure begins, and a group of unlikely heroes meet. A legendary prince with a secret. A spy on the trail of a vast conspiracy. A mage obsessed with his desire for revenge. And Annaig, a young girl in whose hands the fate of Tamriel may rest . . . .

Author : Cassandra Clare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1485 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781442483989

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The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare Pdf

All three books in the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy are now together in one boxed set! Step back in time with the Shadowhunters with this eBook collection of the New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy. Passion. Power. Secrets. Enchantment. The Shadowhunters of the Victorian Age delve into all of these—in addition to darkness and danger—in the Infernal Devices trilogy, packaged in an eBook collection that includes Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess.

Author : Django Wexler
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593101896

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The Infernal Battalion by Django Wexler Pdf

Military might and arcane power clash in Django Wexler’s thrilling new Shadow Campaigns novel. The Beast, the ancient demon imprisoned beneath the fortress-city of Elysium for a thousand years, has been loosed on the world. It absorbs mind after mind, spreading like a plague through the north. The fell army it has raised threatens the heart of Vordan, and it is under the command of the Beast’s greatest prize: legendary general Janus bet Vhalnich. As Queen Raesinia Orboan and soldiers Marcus D’Ivoire and Winter Ihernglass grapple with the aftermath of a hard-fought military campaign, they soon discover a betrayal they never could have foreseen. The news arrives like a thunderbolt: Janus has declared himself the rightful Emperor of Vordan. Chaos grips the city as officers and regiments are forced to declare for queen or emperor. Raesinia must struggle to keep her country under control and risks becoming everything she fought against. Marcus must take the field against his old commander, a man who has seemed an unbeatable strategist. And as Winter recovers from her injuries and mourns her losses, she knows the demon she carries inside her might be the only thing standing between the Beast and the destruction of everything in its path....

Author : Guy Adams
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849978804

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For A Few Souls More by Guy Adams Pdf

THE THRILLING CONCLUSION TO THE HEAVEN'S GATE TRILOGY! The uprising in Heaven is at an end and Paradise has fallen, becoming the forty-third state of America. Now angels and demons must learn to get along with humans. The rest of the world is in uproar. How can America claim the afterlife as its own? It’s certainly going to try as the President sets out for the town of Wormwood for talks with its governor, the man they call Lucifer. Hell has problems of its own. There’s a new evangelist walking its roads, trying to bring the penitent to paradise, and a new power is rising. Can anyone stand up to the Godkiller?

Author : Bianca Scardoni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Amulets
ISBN : 1999387422

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Infernal by Bianca Scardoni Pdf

Hell is empty. The Devil is here. There is no road so long and winding as the one that leads you to the finish line. Every bend is meant to test you, every junction meant to bring you closer to that place where love and sacrifice meet. To that place in the valley where the sun doesn

Author : Guy Adams
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849974981

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Once Upon a Time in Hell by Guy Adams Pdf

A WEIRD WESTERN, A GUN-TOTING, CIGARILLO-CHEWING FANTASY BUILT FROM HANGMAN’S ROPE AND SPENT BULLETS. Wormwood has appeared, and with it a doorway to the afterlife. But what use is a door if you can’t step through it? Hundreds have battled unimaginable odds to reach this place, including the blind shooter Henry Jones; the drunk and liar Roderick Quartershaft; that most holy, yet enigmatic of orders, the Brotherhood of Ruth; the inventor Lord Forset and his daughter Elisabeth; the fragile messiah Soldier Joe and his nurse Hope Lane. Of them all, Elwyn Wallace, a young man who only wanted to travel west for a job, would have happily forgone the experience. But he finds himself abroad in Hell, a nameless, aged gunslinger by his side. He had thought nothing could match the terror of his journey thus far, but time will prove him wrong. On the road to Hell, good intentions don’t mean a damn.

Author : PETER. SHAPIRO
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571359825

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Turn the Beat Around by PETER. SHAPIRO Pdf

A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized beats in the late sixties. As a genre, disco radically re-defined the sensibility of the seventies to the extent where reactionary rockers felt the need to launch a paranoid 'Disco Sucks' campaign at the end of the decade. Featuring artists such as Chic, Sylvester, Donna Summer and Frank Grasso, Turn the Beat Around illustrates why and how disco changed the face of popular culture forever.

Author : Cassandra Clare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416975915

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Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare Pdf

When seventeen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray is kidnapped by the villainous Mortmain in his final bid for power, the London Institute rallies to save her, but is beset by danger and betrayal at every turn.

Author : Daniel Kalder
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627793438

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The Infernal Library by Daniel Kalder Pdf

"A mesmerizing study of books by despots great and small, from the familiar to the largely unknown." —The Washington Post A darkly humorous tour of "dictator literature" in the twentieth century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more, which shows how books have sometimes shaped the world for the worse Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literally) captive audiences. The titans of the genre—Stalin, Mussolini, and Khomeini among them—produced theoretical works, spiritual manifestos, poetry, memoirs, and even the occasional romance novel and established a literary tradition of boundless tedium that continues to this day. How did the production of literature become central to the running of regimes? What do these books reveal about the dictatorial soul? And how can books and literacy, most often viewed as inherently positive, cause immense and lasting harm? Putting daunting research to revelatory use, Daniel Kalder asks and brilliantly answers these questions. Marshalled upon the beleaguered shelves of The Infernal Library are the books and commissioned works of the century’s most notorious figures. Their words led to the deaths of millions. Their conviction in the significance of their own thoughts brooked no argument. It is perhaps no wonder then, as Kalder argues, that many dictators began their careers as writers.

Author : Dafydd ab Hugh,Brad Linaweaver
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416525172

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Infernal Sky by Dafydd ab Hugh,Brad Linaweaver Pdf

Hawaii-- last outpost of civilization on an Earth overrun by demons, traitors. and nightmarish creatures straight out of the pits of hell. Humanity seems doomed to a bloody ending. Then Hawaii receives a message from aliens claiming to be on our side in the battle. Our last chance: make contact. The only man for the job-- Corporal Flynn Taggart, U.S. Marine Corps-- "Fly" to his friends. He led the fight against the demon invaders when they swarmed through the Gates at Phobos Base. Now Fly's got to face the toughest task of his dirty career. Return to Phobos-- and fight his way past those demons to contact mankind's would-be rescuers...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11371399

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Contemporary Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015035836272

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The Contemporary Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Science
ISBN : HARVARD:TZ1AFE

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The Popular Science Monthly by Anonim Pdf