Eternal's Agenda


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Always a catch... For Bannor Starfist, the savant of reality, nothing is ever easy...including getting married. Fresh from an earth-shattering duel with allfather Odin, Bannor tries to start a new life in Malan with his cherished betrothed, Sarai. He hopes the worst of his troubles will be preparing for the elaborate royal marriage ceremonies. As usual, things don't go according to plan... Creation, annihilation, perpetuity... the words boom in Bannor's mind through his magical powers. The message is just a precursor to another big mess done Garmtur style. Daena, the savant of attractions turned immortal goddess, is up to something and Advocate Eternal Koass doesn't like the rumblings. Bannor goes to Eternity's Heart to speak on Daena's behalf and ends up the Shael Dal's latest draftee. The Protectorate has a problem. A million bloodthirsty war-mages are running rampant through the Ring Realms, destroying everything they come in contact with. The difficulty is, nobody can find them... except maybe someone with the reality-bending power of the Garmtur Shak'Nola. Bannor agrees to help but quickly learns the hard lesson that no good deed goes unpunished...




Caves of Challenge


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Return to the land of Glede for new adventures with the next generation! Their heads filled with stories of adventures spun by their father and uncles, Princes Vantann and Thomlin Merripen decide to have an adventure of their own. Through an old book, they learn of the Caves of Challenge. If they can survive the challenges within the caves, they will emerge as men. Blackmailed by their young friend, Shuri, the boys agree to take her along. Before the trio has a chance to adequately prepare, however, they are sent to the Caves by haphazard magic. Once there, Shuri and Vantann are captured by War Gnomes, while Thomlin is lost in a dark swamp. His only consolation is that, somehow, he has snagged King Jansson van Tannen on the magic strand. Jansson is reassuring, telling Thomlin that there will be a rescue party sent out and all they need do is wait. But the rescue party is having trouble of their own, and they find much more than they bargained for in the Caves. The question now becomes, who will be forced to stay in the Caves of Challenge forever.




The Dark Prince


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Prince Rugan Merripen, once thought to be the rightful master of the Triskelion's magic, was cast aside by the medallion itself when it chose his half-brother Treyas Beckering as master. Now Rugan is on a quest to regain the magic and power he thinks is rightfully his. Befriended and manipulated by Vaalde, an evil sorcerer who has only his own goals in mind, Rugan attempts to drain Glede of elfin magic. Once gone, only sorcery magic will remain and Vaalde can then rule the world. It is up to King Jansson and Treyas to stop him and restore the balance of magic once again. Each boy will face what seem to be insurmountable odds, and both will discover that friends are there to depend on in times of travail. And Treyas will move towards a destiny that he never envisioned.




The Soul in Everyday Life


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Argues that contemporary psychology neglects the soul and addresses ways to remedy this. The Soul in Everyday Life argues that modern psychology has given up on dealing with the idea of soul (or psyche), even though the field is named after it. If psychology wishes to be truly satisfying, it needs to be more than behavioral science, according to Daniel Chapelle. He concludes that psychology can only satisfy the deepest human needs when it can offer a sense of soul in everyday life. He explores ways of restoring this sense of soul to everyday life by examining how talk about something as elusive as the soul is possible and by reanimating a sense for what the notion of soul can mean. Working in the tradition of Nietzsche, Freud, Jung, and Jung's student James Hillman, Chapelle reaches back into millennia of Western thought to reanimate the dying sense of soul in everyday life and put the "psyche" back in "psychology."




Conspiracy Prophecy II


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Conspiracy Prophecy II is totalism of prophecies and conspiracies. Its interpretations of Prophecies by parody are somewhat sourced from movies and mythologies, i.e. Hollywood works and Hellenistic worldviews. It seeks to ignite soul of all readers by blunt revelations of conspiracies by Christians. Its fright is dark force of democracy. It deals with bullies, bums, beautification, beatification, nature, nymphs, spirits, saints, GI, governments, WWI/II/III/IV, Vietnam,VA, Heaven, Harleys, Earth, etc. It dealt with ecumenical, education, economy, environment, ecclesiastics, etc. Its jokes are justified in truth and transmigration. Its hard rumors are founded in human reasoning for or of freedom. It is shy of extremism and shuns extremists. It has calculations for initial creation to end of eternity. It is both BS and religiously ritual.




Eternals


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Collects Eternals (1985) #1-12; Iron Man Annual (1971) #6; Avengers (1963) #246-248; material from What If (1977) #23-30. The awesome Uni-Mind and a tragic death set the stage for a new era in the battle between the godly Eternals and their Deviant adversaries! The Eternals have spread out among the human population in secret. In these uncertain times, their new leader must hold the remaining Eternals together even as a new adversary emerges from deep in the Deviants’ underground stronghold. Ghaur, leader of the Deviant priesthood, has discovered the location of a renegade Celestial, defeated and sealed away by his brethren long ago. If the Eternals can’t come together and stop Ghaur, he will possess the cosmic power of this Dreaming Celestial — and conquer Earth! Plus: Don’t miss the origins of the Eternals from rare WHAT IF? backup features!




The Next Best Thing to Heroes


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When Earth is conquered by a technologically superior race called the Grath, humanity is forced to work--and fight--for them. But not all humans are content to submit to their masters... While the rest of humanity is forced to toil away their lives in dank factories building equipment for the alien war machine of the Grath, Jason Cull and a select few are being trained to help fight battles in place of their masters. According to the Academy's brochures, Jason should be one of the best and the brightest the human race has to offer. So why does he feel decidedly average? As graduation and the impending trials of war close in, Jason and his closest friends find themselves kidnapped by forces with radically different plans. Thrown into the midst of a resistance movement that demands him to fight against the Grath instead of alongside them, Jason begins the process of proving himself all over again.




Paladin


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Paladin is the conclusion of The Interregnum Series (Book 7), continuing its account of Hibernia's royalty from 1473 to date. After being discharged, half-burned and lacking memories, Lilian Morgan emerges at the Dublin City Dump. She knows only that she must keep the repentant Cain (Samadeya) on task with his millennia-old assignment of thwarting the enemy Pelik--alternate and unrepentant continuation of Cain--in his agenda of death and destruction. Discipline is swift and brutal when she departs from the mission. Lilian also shares one of the Cain curses: returning after death to some reorganised portion of her body. Paladin also completes The Throne Series (Book 4), re-telling in interleaved chapters the First Battle of Glenmorgan and the destruction of Manse Devereaux. Interregnum characters approach a new battle at Glenmorgan that will decide the outcome of Tara's civil war. Conflict and treachery at Tara threaten one Earth civilization with extinction. Pelik schemes for power over two other worlds...and springs a trap.




Greenspell


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In this collection of fantasy short stories all featuring female protagonists, you'll find diverse, imaginative tales, including: A sorceress unravels a spell and gets a result she could never have expected... A young girl wins a contest--her prize: to speak with a god... A vampire in hiding fears she'll be blamed for the reckless depredations of another of her kind... A minstrel travels with a witch who has a pair of very unusual cart horses... As a bonus, this anthology includes "The Sow's Ear", originally published in Marion Zimmer Bradley's acclaimed Sword and Sorceress series.




Alien Thought


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An ordinary Saturday morning turns extraordinary for seventeen-year-old Dave Duggan when a couple of girls from his school ask for help in finding their way into the mountains beyond their town. After entering a dark area of rainforest, birds, bugs and small animals inexplicably begin to die around them. Dave's life is threatened and no reasonable explanation fits. Forced to take responsibility for three lives, Dave finds himself losing his heart while in very real danger of losing his life.