The Blood Ballad

The Blood Ballad
Author: Rett MacPherson
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2014-12-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466888792

Genealogist and mother of three Torie O'Shea is out birding on the cliffs of the Mississippi River as part of New Kassell, Missouri's first ever bird-watching Olympics, when someone starts shooting at her and her partner. Disoriented and running for their lives, they stumble over an antique trunk and discover a badly beaten dead body stuffed inside. Soon after this disturbing event, musicologist Glen Morgan shows up at the Kendall House, Torie's new textile museum, claiming to be Torie's cousin and to have proof that Torie's grandfather secretly may have written a number of popular songs for the Morgan Family Players, who were famous country music singers. Being a genealogist and the head of the local historical society, Torie doesn't appreciate anyone shaking up a family tree that she has spent years putting together, but Glen's old recordings are more than she can resist. After a little digging in the library and some serious snooping into the shooting, Torie starts to uncover secrets about her family and the town that even she didn't know. Rett MacPherson's intricate plots and delightful small-town characters with long family histories hit all of the right notes in The Blood Ballad, the newest installment in her terrific Torie O'Shea series.

Blood Ballad

Blood Ballad
Author: Liza Street
Publisher: Liza Street
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2021-06-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Bounty hunter Gracie Boswell knows three things: the vampires want your blood, the fae want your flesh…and worst of all, the demons want your soul. Traveling through the outlaw-infested west is never an easy prospect, and it’s even harder when Gracie realizes she might be half in love with one of the men in her posse. It’s harder still when a demon starts slaughtering entire towns, and nobody else has the guts—or the lack of self-preservation—necessary to go after the demon behind the violence. As Gracie, Boone, and Carson scour the territory for the soulless menace, the local folk show them only distrust and prejudice. Turns out in this region, anyone who wields magic is suspect, and Gracie’s posse has to be just as careful of the demon as they do of the intolerant locals. Because who’s going to save those ungrateful cowherds if Gracie’s dangling from the end of a hangman’s noose? Blood Ballad is the third thrilling installment in USA Today bestselling author Liza Street’s western gothic series. Pick up your copy of Blood Ballad for a wild ride through the dark and dangerous west! Additional keywords: weird west, shapeshifters, gaslamp, wild west, supernatural, horror, thriller, witches, magic

Blood Song

Blood Song
Author: Eric Drooker
Publisher: Harvest Books
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2002
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9780156008846

Written by a 1994 National Book Award winner, this inspiring story is told entirely in pictures and describes three generations unified by a belief in creative expression. In the Introduction, noted graphic novelist and American Book Award-winner Joe Sacco describes "Blood Song" as "the work of an artist of the first order (writing) at his maturity." Full-color throughout.

Blood on the Harp

Blood on the Harp
Author: Turlough Faolain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 568
Release: 1983
Genre: History
ISBN:

This is the story of the Irish resistance, from its beginnings through Robert Emmet's abortive rising. The book describes, in unique format, the path the resitance took to reach its modern republican character, including songs to establish the intricacies of Irish National Tradition.

Blood Magic

Blood Magic
Author: Matthew Cook
Publisher: Wildside Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2007-09-18
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9780809572007

Her sister was murdered, and Kirin hungers for revenge. Using the power of her "blood magic," the young necromancer creates grotesque and inhumanly strong creatures by calling men's souls back into their dead bodies. These "sweetlings," as she calls them, are utterly devoted to her, and Kirin cherishes them as if they were her own children. But while fighting a bloody war against a relentless enemy, she meets Lia Cho, a beautiful and gentle woman who can call the power of storms... and soon, Kirin learns that there is more to life than pain and vengeance.

Blood Song

Blood Song
Author: Anthony Ryan
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2013
Genre: Armies
ISBN: 0425267695

Raised by the brothers of the Sixth Order, Vaelin Al Sorna, a Warrior of the Faith, must battle the Empire and even his own father in the first book of a new fantasy trilogy.

Balada de la Sangre

Balada de la Sangre
Author: María Elena Cruz Varela
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1996
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

"Intense, intimate, often dark collection of poems by dissident Cuban poet imprisoned in early 1990s and now living in Puerto Rico. Translations replicate this highly personal poetic voice with mixed success. En face. Useful biographical introduction by Cruz-Bernal"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58

Blood Bounty

Blood Bounty
Author: Liza Street
Publisher: Liza Street
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2020-08-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Gracie Boswell's got a charmed bullet, a brand new posse, and a pack of outlaw vampires to kill. The tiny town of Penance has a big vampire problem—and charmslinger Gracie Boswell aims to be the solution. A whole nest of vampires makes for a mighty fine bounty, though, and Gracie is far from the only charmslinger angling for the job. When a charming local layabout and an old competitor elbow their way into Gracie's posse, she's forced to at least pretend to play nice...but trust is scarce in the west, and smart bounty hunters always sleep with one eye open. But Gracie doesn't have much time to watch her fellow bounty hunters—Penance's vampire nest is bigger and more organized than anyone suspected, and there's at least one traitor in the town's midst. Soon, Gracie finds herself in the unenviable position of leaning on her posse...and at least one of them isn't what he claims to be. USA Today best-selling author Liza Street continues to thrill with a brand new alternate history, western gothic series of outlaw vampires, sinister fae, magic, and good old-fashioned treachery. Lovers of fantasy and supernatural horror will fall in love with this world. Pick up Blood Bounty for a wild ride through the dark and dangerous west!

And So Began the War

And So Began the War
Author: Ian A Hollis
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Zoe Evelyn Lionheart, a young roboticist, and her house-robot, Herbert, are inadvertently swept away on an adventure to stop a war, after a powerful government vies for control of a much smaller, but technologically superior nation. When the smaller nation's government refuses to be controlled, robot production is put into overdrive in an attempt to create a robot army, alarming the world-renowned roboticist, Michael Alouicious Copperpot. After Lord President Smythe and Vice-President Perriwinkle realise that the robots are disobeying their expertly hacked programming, they resort to unleashing an army of mindlessly obedient clones to overthrow the robots and take control of the resistant nation. Seeing how events are about to unfold, and concerned that the people of the world they created are about to destroy themselves, The First Five Gods send in one of their own - Dalfor, The God of Order & Chaos - to try and soften the blow of the war and prevent things from getting out of hand.