Shattered Crystals
Author : Mia Amalia Kanner
Publisher : Cis Communications
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN : 9781560623175
The Shattered Crystal
Author : Christopher P. Todd
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 2001-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0595207278
Book Description
For many, the mind is one’s own. For a few, however, the inner self is a fragmentary and hellish nightmare of darkness, madness, and despair. Join us in a journey of pain, loss, and fragmentation. Join us in the darkness of the divided spirit. The strong survive indeed, but at what cost? When survival means becoming the Incarnation of Darkness and Death Magic, what then is the nature of survival? The one has become many, and the singular voice is dead, replaced by the chaotic, dissonant dirge. Is there some power that can possibly turn the screams in the darkness into a chorus of voices? The whole is destroyed, and what remains is a Shattered Crystal.
The Shattered Crystal Ball
Author : James G. Blight
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822630159
Book Description
'. . . an extraordinarily accurate and insightful account of the Cuban missile crisis. I remember well the fear of which he writes so persuasively.'--Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
Mistress Mage
Author : Kayleigh Nicol
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 2018-09-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781732131736
Book Description
In the peace following the Great Mage Hunt, the king's long-time mistress is revealed as a sorceress. Locked away for the safety of the kingdom, bounties are placed upon the heads of the seven children she birthed. Before they can be found by the kingdom's mage hunters, the seven turn to in-fighting and murder, stealing each other's magics to grow stronger. After the battle on the stone plains, only three of the mage-born bastards remain alive.Kestral searches for Reshi throughout the kingdom, convinced that Reshi's traumatic childhood was the reason for his sudden departure after their last battle together. Meanwhile, Reshi finds a teacher to help him with his newly acquired mystic powers to better protect himself against his murderous older brother. In the course of his studies, Reshi finds more questions than answers regarding the mysterious magic behind the control runes. Is Velyn simply a monster for killing his brothers and sisters? Or is there a darker force at work within the kingdom of Zarapheth?
The Shattered Crown
Author : J. W. Webb
Publisher : J W Webb
Page : pages
File Size : 23,84 MB
Release : 2015-02-24
Category :
ISBN : 9780986350719
Book Description
Corin an Fol, Longswordsman and ex mercenary has but one objective: retire early and settle down. Unfortunately the gods have other ideas. When Corin arrives home after many years fighting foreign wars, he finds bad news waiting for him. The High King has been murdered and his crystal crown, the Tekara, destroyed. The Tekara is no ordinary crown. Wrought of solid crystal it contains a charm of strength that has protected the Four Kingdoms for millennia. But the Tekara is vulnerable to one thing: treachery. So when Caswallon the schemer secretly places the crown on Prince Tarin's head he knows it will shatter, causing the realms to fall apart. He stands to gain as soon as it breaks. Though many suspect Caswallon, who is known as a sorcerer, only one dares stand against him: Queen Ariane of Kelwyn. She is visited by her goddess in a dream who warns that Prince Tarin has fled with the shards of the Shattered Crown, and only by finding both Prince and Crown can the Four Kingdoms be saved. After being promised gold, Corin an Fol reluctantly joins the queen's desperate quest to salvage the missing shards. But Caswallon is on to them and already watching their every move.
To Bleed a Crystal Bloom
Author : Sarah A. Parker
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 2023-03-23
Category :
ISBN : 9780645771404
Book Description
"What a pretty flower to keep locked in a big, rocky tower." Nineteen years ago, I was plucked from the heart of a bloody massacre that spared nobody else. Small. Fragile. An enigma. Now ward to a powerful High Master who knows too much and says too little, I lead a simple life, never straying from the confines of an imaginary line I've drawn around the castle grounds. Stay within. Never leave. Out there, the monsters lurk. Inside, I'm safe...though at a cost far greater than the blood I drip into a goblet daily. Toxic, unreciprocated love for a man who's utterly unavailable. My savior. My protector. My almost executioner. I can't help but be enamored with the arcane man who holds the power to pull my roots from the ground. When voracious beasts spill across the land and threaten to fray the fabric of my tailored existence, the petals of reality will peel back to reveal an ugly truth. But in a castle puddled with secrets, none are greater than the one I've kept from myself. No tower is tall enough to protect me from the horror that tore my life to shreds. To Bleed a Crystal Bloom is a dark Rapunzel reimagining full of immersive imagery and breathtaking angst.
Crystal Promise
Author : James Funfer
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780615665191
Book Description
The country of Novem is in a dire state of affairs. Still recovering from a great war in which they were the aggressor, an economic depression has swept the continent and leaves Novem in the throes of poverty. The republic struggles to hold back a revolution, but strong socialist sentiments threaten Novem's stability, and many seek to return Novem to its former glory as a powerful totalitarian empire. Novem runs on crystals mined from the ground, but many consider them to be more than just a power source. The Church of Novem worships a 'Great Crystal', which is thought to be a liaison between the gods and humanity. Those who can alter crystals at will, known as crystal-speakers, are an important part of that link between the earth and the divine. For finishing school students Jacoby, Timori, Racquela and Crystara, concerns about revolutions and the church are overshadowed by school, dances, sports and summer vacations. But when the Great Crystal selects its arranged marriages that year, a chain of events is set into motion that threatens to upset the entire nation. Betrothal promises are made with rings of crystal, but if they shatter, hearts are not the only things that will break...
Veil of Lies: The Shattered Truth
Author : Richard Benipayo
Publisher : Richard Benipayo
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
In Veil of Lies: The Shattered Truth, the third book in the Veil of Lies series, Richard King finds himself in a race against time to uncover the truth and protect it from those who would use it to enslave the world. Deep in the frigid landscape of the Alps, Richard and his team must come to terms with the devastating loss of Maria while facing betrayal from within. The journey takes them to an ancient, hidden library filled with secrets, manuscripts, and the truth that The Obscura has desperately tried to keep hidden. This book is a heart-pounding adventure that explores the depths of faith, the cost of loyalty, and the relentless pursuit of truth. With breathtaking settings, powerful confrontations, and revelations that shake the very core of the protagonist's beliefs, The Shattered Truth offers a thrilling conclusion filled with cliffhangers, intense emotional battles, and a relentless enemy determined to shroud the world in darkness. Follow Richard as he delves deeper into the shadowy truths of history, risks everything to preserve the light of Yahuah, and battles the overwhelming forces of The Obscura. The stakes are higher, the risks greater, and the truths revealed more shattering than ever before. Will Richard be able to protect the ancient knowledge, or will the veil of lies remain, forever obscuring humanity's connection to the true Creator?
The Shattered Land
Author : Keith Baker
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,94 MB
Release : 2010-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786956674
Book Description
Intent on saving one of their own, a band of heroes travels to Eberron’s most isolated continent—facing drow elves and powerful magics along the way Xen'drik, the dark continent. A land of once-proud empires that now lie in ruin. A land shrouded in mystery where monsters and dark powers stalk the jungles, where only the bravest and most foolhardy will venture. Now, a band of former soldiers must brave the depths of Xen'drik to save Daine—their fearless leader, close companion, and the hero of the City of Towers. After joining forces with a mysterious woman, the friends venture to the dark continent, where they hope to find the ancient artifact that is the last hope to save Daine’s life.
On Form
Author : Angela Leighton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019156432X
Book Description
What is form? Why does form matter? In this imaginative and ambitious study, Angela Leighton assesses not only the legacy of Victorian aestheticism, and its richly resourceful keyword, 'form', but also the very nature of the literary. She shows how writers, for two centuries and more, have returned to the idea of form as something which contains the secret of art itself. She tracks the development of the word from the Romantics to contemporary poets, and offers close readings of, among others, Tennyson, Pater, Woolf, Yeats, Stevens, and Plath, to show how form has provided the single most important way of accounting for the movements of literary language itself. She investigates, for instance, the old debate of form and content, of form as music or sound-shape, as the ghostly dynamic and dynamics of a text, as well as its long association with the aestheticist principle of being 'for nothing'. In a wide-ranging and inventive argument, she suggests that form is the key to the pleasure of the literary text, and that that pleasure is part of what literary criticism itself needs to answer and convey.
