Mortal Enemy
Author : Nicholas Ryan Howard
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,88 MB
Release : 2021-05-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781954381964
My Mortal Enemy
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307805247
Book Description
First published in 1926, this book is Willa Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of domestic happiness. As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love--a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family. But this worldly, sarcastic, and perhaps even wicked woman may have been made for something greater than love. In her portrait of Myra and in her exquisitely nuanced depiction of her marriage, Cather shows the evolution of a human spirit as it comes to bridle against the constraints of ordinary happiness and seek an otherwordly fulfillment. My Mortal Enemy is a work whose drama and intensely moral imagination make it unforgettable.
Rome's Last Citizen
Author : Rob Goodman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312681232
Book Description
This biography of Marcus Cato the Younger -- Rome's bravest statesman, an aristocratic soldier, a Stoic philosopher, and staunch defender of sacred Roman tradition -- is rich with resonances for current politics and contemporary notions of freedom.
Mortal Enemy, Immortal Lover
Author : Olivia Gates
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 10,73 MB
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1460820002
Book Description
From the moment they met, Javed and Desiree have shared an explosive passion. Yet Javed fears that being with Desi will put her in danger from the monsters that inhabit his world...monsters like himself. An immortal half-vampire, half-demon with both species' powers and none of their weaknesses, even Javed may not be strong enough to save Desi from his enemies. He is determined to end their affair to protect Desi...and to tell her the truth about himself. But Javed isn't the only one with a deadly secret. For Desi is an Eradicator, a breed of human with special powers trained from childhood to eliminate all demons. Once their true identities are revealed, will these destined enemies destroy one another - or will their love be enough to overcome an otherworldly feud centuries in the making?
Blood Enemy
Author : Greg Cox
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 2004-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743480724
Book Description
Based on characters from Screen Gems's 2003 motion picture starring Kate Beckinsale, this all-original prequel reveals the origins of the rival clans of vampires and werewolves, and how their clandestine war has been fought in the shadows of the mortal world. Original.
Mortal Consequences
Author : Clayton Emery
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 078696393X
Book Description
In the final installment in the Netheril Trilogy, Sunbright Steelshanks returns home to find much has changed since his departure The Netherese Empire is at risk of collapse as a forgotten foe, armed with a hell-spawned source of destructive magic, returns to seek her revenge and claim a lost love. Against this backdrop of war and chaos, Sunbright—weary of his banishment—returns to his home and the accusations from which he escaped. However, much has changed since Sunbright’s departure, and his people are suffering greatly. Equipped with skills learned on his adventures, Sunbright must discover whether he can forgive his early enemies and rise to a role of leadership for the good of his homeland—all while evading the wrath of the gods.
Hammer of the Gods
Author : Michael Avon Oeming
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,31 MB
Release : 2009
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
On War
Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Military art and science
ISBN :
Book Description
Frostgrave: Mortal Enemies
Author : Joseph A. McCullough
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1472858182
Book Description
Enhance your Frostgrave campaigns with recurring villains that grow more powerful over time and give your wizards somewhere to hide with expanded rules for bases. On the violent and deadly streets of the Frozen City, feuds and vendettas are commonplace. Wizards may start out focused on discovery and exploration, fighting when necessary for survival or to win possession of some long-lost artefact or grimoire, but such battles can swiftly become intensely personal. Competitors become adversaries and, as the cycle of violence continues, some wizards lose sight of their original goals and focus their efforts on the elimination of their hated foes – their mortal enemies. This supplement for Frostgrave: Fantasy Wargames in the Frozen City presents rules for creating recurring villains in both competitive and solo campaigns. These characters are unique individuals who return over the course of a campaign to plague the players' wizards, gaining experience, recruiting allies, and becoming more deadly with each appearance. Against such threats, a wizard's base becomes as much hideout as headquarters, and an expanded range of options for enhancing bases is provided, as are rules for defending your own... and attacking those of your rivals!
Being Mortal
Author : Atul Gawande
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1627790551
Book Description
#1 New York Times Bestseller In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.
