Giants Monsters and Dragons

Giants Monsters and Dragons
Author: Carol Rose
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2001-12-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393322118

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that describe the imaginary creatures found in legends, religions, folklore, oral history, and theologies around the world.

The Rising of the Shield Hero Volume 22

The Rising of the Shield Hero Volume 22
Author: Aneko Yusagi
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2021-12-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 164273182X

The minor nation of Siltran, with the aid of the Naofumi's village, has managed to drive off the assault of the massive nation of Piensa. But Piensa then begins to invade the nations that have come seeking an alliance with Siltran. Some of Naofumi's allies who are scouting Piensa get caught up in the chaos and are badly injured as a result—and to make matters worse, the injuries as marked as incurable, unable to be treated even by the Shield Hero no matter what Naofumi tries. “I'll do whatever it takes to save my friends!” Could Naofumi's brave determination lead to the discovery of new powers?! The healing begins in the twenty-second volume of this still rising otherworld fantasy!

Beautiful Secret

Beautiful Secret
Author: Christina Lauren
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2015-04-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476778019

AN UPTIGHT BRITISH EXECUTIVE. AN ADVENTUROUS AMERICAN NEWBIE. A SEXY INTERNATIONAL SCANDAL IN THE MAKING. New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author Christina Lauren’s Beautiful and Wild Seasons series hook up in Beautiful Secret for an erotic intercontinental romp that celebrates the best of both worlds! When Ruby Miller’s boss announces he’s sending her on an extended business trip to New York City, she’s shocked. As one of the best and brightest young engineers in London, she knows she’s professionally up to the task. The part that’s throwing her is where she’ll be spending a month up close and personal working alongside—and staying in a hotel with—Niall Stella, her firm’s top urban planning executive and The Hottest Man Alive. Despite her ongoing crush, Ruby is certain Niall barely knows she’s alive…until their flirty overnight flight makes him sit up and take notice. Not one for letting loose and breaking rules, recently divorced Niall would describe himself as hopeless when it comes to women. But even he knows outgoing California-girl Ruby is a breath of fresh air. Once she makes it her mission to help the sexy Brit loosen his tie, there’s no turning back. Thousands of miles from London, it’s easy for the lovers to play pretend. But when the trip is over, will the relationship they’ve built up fall down?

Dragon Unleashed

Dragon Unleashed
Author: Grace Draven
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2020-06-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0451489772

A dragon shapeshifter and a healer with power over the earth fight a corrupt empire in this thrilling and deeply emotional romantic fantasy from the USA Today bestselling author of Radiance. Magic is outlawed in the Krael Empire and punishable by death. Born with the gift of earth magic, the free trader Halani keeps her dangerous secret closely guarded. When her uncle buys a mysterious artifact, a piece of bone belonging to a long-dead draga, Halani knows it's far more than what it seems. Dragas haven't been seen for more than a century, and most believe them extinct. They're wrong. Dragas still walk among the denizens of the Empire, disguised as humans. Malachus is a draga living on borrowed time. The magic that has protected him will soon turn on him--unless he finds a key part of his heritage. He has tracked it to a group of free traders, among them a grave-robbing earth witch who fascinates him as much as she frustrates him with her many secrets. Unbeknownst to both, the Empire's twisted empress searches for a draga of her own, to capture and kill as a trophy. As Malachus the hunter becomes the hunted, Halani must risk herself and all she loves to save him from the Empire's machinations and his own lethal birthright.

The Fire Eye Kronicles

The Fire Eye Kronicles
Author: Konrad Sneed
Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2022-05-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1645449556

Scrappy fifteen-year-old Dallas Marge and his older brother, Logan, strive to live a normal life, in the infamous city of kaspers, Starfall City. However, an unspoken truth between the two siblings leads Dallas to find a mysterious orb imprisoning a malevolent entity called Oryga, the tiger god, that curses him with an unimaginable power. Training under the supervision of the formerly villainous dragon kasper, Singuard, Dallas adapts to his newfound strength. Anxious to test himself, he disregards Singuard's warnings about the dangerously ominous and superpowered criminal underworld and the kasper hunting militia, GAUNTLET, challenging them both as Starfall's first-ever vigilante, Kirikon. However, the novice mask, alongside his friends, struggle to save Starfall from a sinister duo of otherworldly creatures when they target him for reasons unknown. Discover the truth behind the tigris orb as Kirikon blasts his way into action in this adventurous and gripping chapter of a brand new series, The Fire Eye Kronicles.

Africanization and Americanization Anthology, Volume 1

Africanization and Americanization Anthology, Volume 1
Author: Rinos Mwanaka
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 079749698X

Africanization and Americanization Anthology, Volume 1: Searching for Inter-racial, Interstitial, Inter-sectional, and Interstates meeting spaces, Africa Vs North America, comprises of 107 pieces from 43 poets, 4 essayists, 6 storytellers, and 1 playwright from North America and Africa regions: professors, leading theorists and researchers. The contributors are: Barbara Foley, Barbara Howard, Biko Agozino, poets; A.D Winans, Tim Hall, C Liegh McInnis, Nat Turner, Allan Kolski Horwitz, Changming Yuan, Tiel Aisha Ansari, Diane Raptosh, Wanjohi wa Makokha, storytellers; Paris Smith, Sheree Rene Thomas, and journalists; Kenneth Weene and several other essayists, street poets, academicians, musicians, visual artists... This collection is vibrant, discursive, penetrating, and is invaluable to literary and language experts, poetry collections, social and human scientists, political theorists, race theorists, development practioners, students, general readers and many others.

Congregation

Congregation
Author: James F. Hopewell
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 244
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451410358

In a unique, full-scale study of congregational life, Hopewell shows that it is narrative-the oral tradition-that knits a congregation together.

Jesus Unleashed

Jesus Unleashed
Author: Ron Clark
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2014-01-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1630871036

Luke's narrative of Jesus was presented to Christians who had already heard and read stories of Jesus and the birth of this new movement, Christianity. Luke seemed to rewrite the story of Jesus similar to ancient epics of the history of a nation, a movement, and the tale of a hero. Jesus and the church emerged in occupied Judea, a nation that was not only oppressed but was in exile. Occupied Judea, however, struggled for power and honor and in turn, for marginalized people who needed God. Jesus, the epic hero, journeyed to earth and Jerusalem to free those on the margins of society. This epic story lives on today in a church that also has heard the story of Jesus, but has forgotten that the friend of sinners calls Christians to also reach those who are marginalized by our occupied culture. Luke invites Christians to emerge as a movement that seeks and saves those ostracized by our communities.