The Last Tsar S Dragons

Author : Jane Yolen,Adam Stemple
Publisher : Tachyon Publications
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616962883

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The Last Tsar's Dragons by Jane Yolen,Adam Stemple Pdf

“Vivid, gripping and actually riveting as the Red Danger takes a whole new meaning here. Loved it.” —The Book Smugglers It is the waning days of the Russian monarchy. A reckless man rules the land and his dragons rule the sky. Though the Tsar aims his dragons at his enemies—Jews and Bolsheviks—his entire country is catching fire. Conspiracies suffuse the royal court: bureaucrats jostle one another for power, the mad monk Rasputin schemes for the Tsar’s ear, and the desperate queen takes drastic measures to protect her family. Revolution is in the air—and the Red Army is hatching its own weapons. Discover Russia’s October Revolution, reimagined in flight by the acclaimed mother-and-son writing team of the Locus Award-winning novel, Pay the Piper, and the Seelie Wars series.

Author : Catrin Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Donet︠s︡ʹk (Ukraine)
ISBN : 0750541075

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The Tsar's Dragons by Catrin Collier Pdf

In 1869, modernising Russian tsar, Alexander II, decided to drag Russia into the industrial age. He began by inviting Welsh entrepreneur John Hughes to build an ironworks in the Russian Steppes. A wealthy, successful, Victorian businessman, John left his wife, family, mansion, and homeland to travel a thousand miles to a primitive backwater, medieval in state and outlook. A charismatic visionary with enormous personal magnetism, John persuaded Britain s old aristocracy and nouveau riche to invest in his venture, while concealing his greatest secret he couldn t even write his own name. He recruited adventurers like himself, prepared to sacrifice everything, including their lives to ensure the success of his new town - Hughesovka. Men like Glyn Edwards, who d spent his married life working out of hotel rooms to avoid his wife in Merthyr. The young and ambitious, typified by newly qualified Dr Peter Edwards and his workhouse raised wife, Sarah, looking for an escape from class ridden Britain. Alexei Beletsky, a Russian aristocrat who sees Russian s future in John s plans. Cowed Jews like Nathan Kharber who accept anti-Semitism as the fate of their race. And those fleeing violence like brother and sister, Richard and Anna Parry. Hughesovka is a town of opportunity and new beginnings that rapidly becomes a hotbed of villainy, where murderers, thieves, whores and illicit love affairs flourish. The immigrants live alongside aristocrats in manors, and peasants whose homes are holes scooped in the steppe and discover plague, famine and massacres can strike in palaces as well as pits. Within a generation, the town of Hughesovka (or Yuzovka), becomes a city. Some of Hughes s working class Welsh Victorian engineers acquire the trappings of aristocrats, great houses, carriages, servants and second homes in St Petersburg but the First World War and revolution loom just over the horizon . . ."

Author : Catrin Collier
Publisher : Cheever Publishing
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 178375320X

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The Tsar's Dragons by Catrin Collier Pdf

The first of a trilogy based on the exploits of John Hughes, who founded a city in Russia in the 1800s In 1869, Tsar Alexander II decided to drag Russia into the industrial age. He began by inviting Welsh businessman John Hughes to build an ironworks. A charismatic visionary, John persuaded influential people to invest in his venture, while concealing his greatest secret - he couldn't even write his own name. John recruited adventurers prepared to sacrifice everything to ensure the success of Hughesovka (Donetsk, Ukraine). Young Welsh men and women fleeing violence in their home country; Jews who have accepted Russian anti-Semitism as their fate and Russian aristocrats, all see a future in the Welshman's plans. In a place where murderers, whores, and illicit love affairs flourish, The Tsar's Dragon is their story of a new beginning in Hughesovka, a town of opportunity.

Author : Zhao Feng
Publisher : Devneybooks
Page : 1631 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781304462350

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The king of Dragon Blood by Zhao Feng Pdf

Totem continent, animal cultivation is rampant, people can become powerful orcs as long as they wake up the animal blood in their bodies.

Author : Xiran Jay Zhao
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781665900720

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Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao Pdf

Percy Jackson meets Tristan Strong in this hilarious middle grade “edge-of-your-seat adventure” (James Ponti, New York Times bestselling author of City Spies) that follows a young boy as he journeys across China to seal the underworld shut and save the mortal realm. Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, and his schools never taught anything except Western history and myths. So Zack is woefully unprepared when he discovers he was born to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China for a vital mission: sealing the leaking portal to the Chinese underworld before the upcoming Ghost Month blows it wide open. The mission takes an immediate wrong turn when the First Emperor botches his attempt to possess Zack’s body and binds to Zack’s AR gaming headset instead, leading to a battle where Zack’s mom’s soul gets taken by demons. Now, with one of history’s most infamous tyrants yapping in his headset, Zack must journey across China to heist magical artifacts and defeat figures from history and myth, all while learning to wield the emperor’s incredible water dragon powers. And if Zack can’t finish the mission in time, the spirits of the underworld will flood into the mortal realm, and he could lose his mom forever.

Author : Stephen R. Lawhead
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781595545183

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Dragon King Trilogy by Stephen R. Lawhead Pdf

Author : Xu Ze gang
Publisher : Publicationsbooks
Page : 5012 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781304438805

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Dragon demon Legend by Xu Ze gang Pdf

In addition to this mountain is a mysterious place with a fierce name in the "real world", it seems that there are many incomprehensible mysteries around this mountain. On this mountain, birds and animals are extinct, but the traces of birds and animals in the mountains are not seen here at all.

Author : James Donaldson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469723662

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The Last Dragon Harper by James Donaldson Pdf

The Last Dragon Harper completes the story of Lailoken's early years. Ceidio's kingdom has been destroyed and Gwenddolau, his youngest son, finds himself the new king. Lailoken steps from the shadows of his personal demons with a dream of peace and prosperity. And he will fight with all his strength to hold onto that bright dream, to stand at Gwenddolau's side, and to seek to love again. Dragon Skies is the dark and magical history of northern Britain in the late sixth century. The series blends myth, legend, and history into a vibrant and powerful retelling of the events that led to the birth of Northumbria and the collapse of the Romano-British kingdoms that comprised Y Gogledd. One lonely man, fated by the gods to walk the battlefields and witness the events, will become legend. This is the history of Lailoken, known as Myrddin, the last dragon harper.

Author : G. A. Henty
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788829515851

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THE DRAGON AND THE RAVEN - A Tale of the Days of King Alfred by G. A. Henty Pdf

Living in the present days of peace and tranquillity it is difficult to picture the life of our ancestors in the days of King Alfred, when the whole country was for years overrun by hordes of pagan Norsemen, who slaughtered, plundered, and destroyed at will. The wholesale massacres and outrages which would in such a case have been inflicted upon the conquered Saxons at the hands of the Danes. From this terrible state of subjection and suffering the Saxons were rescued by the prudence, the patience, the valour and wisdom of King Alfred. In all subsequent ages, England has produced no single man who united in himself so many great qualities as did this first of great Englishmen. He was learned, wise, brave, prudent, and pious; devoted to his people, clement to his conquered enemies. He was as great in peace as in war; and yet few English boys know more than a faint outline of the events of Alfred's reign, except, maybe, that he burnt the cake. In this time of chaos and Viking onslaught, Alfred the untested Saxon King of Wessex, had to fight to save his people and his land. This tale is told by a young thane, Edmond (a fictitious character), who trains as a knight, becomes Alfred's friend and mightiest warrior. When the Danes over run the land and the Saxons capitulate, this young knight trains and leads a highly motivated corps of pike-men to recapture the kingdom. ============== KEYWORDS/TAGS: Viking, Norse, Danelaw, Alfred the Great, Danish, Danes, Dragon and the Raven, G. A. Henty, , Edmund, men, great, Dragon, , arrows, attack, boats, country, course, Egbert, enemy, England, enter, father, fight, fleet, fought, Freda, galleys, ground, hands, King Alfred, marshes, might, night, Northmen, numbers, oars, Paris, party, river, Saxon, sea, ships, shore, Siegbert, strength, Sweyn, together, vessels, Viking, walls, way

Author : Kalenca
Publisher : Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Dragon King's Obsession by Kalenca Pdf

" One of you three will become the Dragon king's wife ! " said the king .Without even knowing it , this one sentence would change Charlotte's life forever . From a forgotten princess to the wife of the most feared king on earth . The dragon king , Damien PenDraco ! He was ruthless , he was cold-blooded, he was a pure dragon with a scary appearance and skin similar to a snake... Charlotte was the second daughter of the king . Her mother was one of the king's concubines . Her father lost his favor towards her mother and her . Although Charlotte was a princess , she was never treated as one. They often got bullied and mistreated by the queen and her daughters . When the marriage offer came from king Damien , the palace was in shock . King Damien used the marriage as an excuse so that he could get his hands on the land where the crystal of power could be found .The king couldn't refuse him . Neither of his daughters wanted to marry him . The marriage proposal was the only way Charlotte could be free .In exchange for her mother's divorce from her father and freedom, she started her journey to king Damien's castle . ' Everywhere is better than this hell! ' thought Charlotte .King Damien was exactly as described, a real dragon ." If you don't want to be my wife, you will work as a servant in my castle! "said Damien looking at Charlotte's rejection ." No problem ! " said Charlotte .When the king learns about Charlotte's immense knowledge of archeology , he offered her the freedom she longed for in exchange for her help in finding the crystal of power .The two of them agreed and started their journey in finding the crystal power but after finding it , king Damien refused to let her go . " You're mine ! "

Author : M. W. De Visser
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781605204109

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The Dragon in China and Japan by M. W. De Visser Pdf

Little is known of Dutch author MARINUS WILLEM DE VISSER (1876-1930) beyond his academic life as a classicist with an interest in Chinese and Japanese language and culture, and as a popularizer of Japanese art in the Netherlands. He is best remembered today for having given us a cornerstone examination of the legends of fantastic flying reptiles known as dragons. The Dragon in China and Japan contains "the most interesting quotations concerning the dragon in China, systematically arranged, selected from the enormous number of passages on this fantastic animal in Chinese literature, from the remotest eras down to modern times," notes cryptozoologist Loren Coleman in his new introduction. Coleman also praises the book's use of primary source material. "If cryptozoologists are to study the Asian dragons of India, China, and Japan, it must not be done through the screen of today's New Age mentality. Scholarly, level-headed examinations of living, breathing reports of serpentine flying beasts, water-borne megafauna, and shadowy entities must be balanced with investigations of the legends and folktales of these dragons from Asian texts," such as de Visser's here. This new edition, a replica of the 1913 first edition complete with extensive notes in the original Asian alphabet, is part of Cosimo's Loren Coleman Presents series. LOREN COLEMAN is author of numerous books of cryptozoology, including Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America and Mothman and Other Curious Encounters.

Author : Mary Jay
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781685371050

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War of the Dragon King by Mary Jay Pdf

War of the Dragon King By: Mary Jay For as long as anyone can remember, the kingdom of Lumnkar have known that dragons are just terrible monsters that no one wants around. Even their king has begun to slaughter dragons to expand his kingdom’s territory. And the king may succeed, unless his nephew Egil stops him. Egil, a kind-hearted and caring young man, is forced to join the Ranger's Guild where he discovers the truth about dragons and how misunderstood they are. Egil must try to stop his uncle from destroying an entire race and allowing these mistreated, beautiful creatures to live amongst humans once again.

Author : Steven James Cardimona
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469798028

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Godiva and the Golden Dragon by Steven James Cardimona Pdf

With the Royal Dragon banner following Harold Godwinsson, England enjoyed peace...until 1066. England suddenly found itself beset by enemies from across the sea. Harold of Wessex, Duke William of Normandy, and King Haraald of Norway: These pivotal characters were men of passion and strength. Not surprising then to find that the spark that lit the bonfire was a woman. Lady Godiva, wife of Harolds rival in Mercia, chooses a radical way to command attention. Aldbald, a craftsman of Coventry and the only eye witness to Godivas naked ride, falls in love with the Lady. Aldbald unwittingly carries the momentum which sets England on an irreversible course that destroys the mighty king of Norway, brings an end to Anglo-Saxon rule, and allows William to change his surname from the Bastard to the Conqueror. History records that it was William who won in 1066. However, on the battlefield where the future of England was decided, so too did Harold, Godiva and Aldbald each find that for which they searched.

Author : A. A. Attanasio
Publisher : A. A. Attanasio
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983608431

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The Dragon and the Unicorn by A. A. Attanasio Pdf

The demon Lailoken, as old as time, is tricked by angels and trapped in a human body. He becomes Merlinus, a wandering wise man expert in magic, destined to work for good among humans, opposed by the Furor (Odin). An encounter with the unicorn, a spirit similarly earthbound, brings Merlinus to Ygrane, queen of the Celts, and she sets him a task to find her king, a man seen in vision and fated to be her love-match. Merlinus-Lailoken seeks and finds him: Theodosius, a stable worker. But Ygrane has commanded the demon-wizard to bring her a king, so Merlinus sets to work making one.

Author : Kassandrae Wones
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984532350

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The Quest of the Gold Dragon by Kassandrae Wones Pdf

The quest is nearing its completion, and the eggs are already beginning to show signs of hatching. Can Goldarayne and her companions get to them in time to prevent a catastrophe in two worlds? Or will all be lost? What evil is lurking there on Terra Earth waiting to claim the throne that Arthur left behind for the gold dragon to care of? Follow Goldarayne and her companions as they face an ancient evil that was left behind after the Great Migration of dragonkind. Goldarayne will face a foe that will cost her greatly.