Wavering Sands

Wavering Sands
Author: Chuck Swaim
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2014-08-29
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 131247114X

This is Chuck Swaim's third book of poetry. These poems were written in 1991 when he was 22 & 23 years old. He was in a universe of love and loss, which he chronicled during that year. Illustrations done by the author. Paper book version images are in black & white and E-book version has color images.

The Restless Sands of Neel

The Restless Sands of Neel
Author: Stephanie Flint
Publisher: Infinitas Publishing
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2020-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A dragon without wings. A kid whose language he can't speak. And an ever-increasing amount of debt.... Troublesome raiders? Horses can outrun a raider. A kid with untamed beast magic whose fear of raiders frightens said horses? One overturned cart, countless bruises, and a bill of property damage later... Ro'nor might have descended from dragons, but he wasn’t born with wings or special powers, and he can't shift into their form. No bards will sing of his heroic deeds. His only magic is a gift for scrying. But his uneventful plans to foretell weather patterns in a distant desert are thrown from a far-too-literal cart when raiders spook his horses and he finds himself the de facto warden for a terrified kid only his guide can understand. According to her, the kid's family has been kidnapped by slavers. But with Ro’nor’s scrying skills and a careful redirection of the kid’s beast magic, he might be able to track the slavers and rescue the kid’s family. Can he evade the dangers of the desert, mount a perilous rescue, and earn a tale that rivals the songs of his ancestors? Adventure through the scorching deserts of Cirena... Read The Restless Sands of Neel today! ~ Each of these Legends of Cirena stories can be read stand-alone: ~ * The Wind Mage of Maijev (Livena) * The Gryphon and the Mountain Bear (Nuaka) * The Restless Sands of Neel (Ro'nor) * The Cursed Halls of Kalecen (Hahven) * The Scars of Her Past (Alia) * The Dragons of the Mist (Zynia) ~ Crossovers (It will help to have read the previous stories involving the featured characters): ~ * The Wind Mage and the Wolf - Features Livena (The Wind Mage of Maijev) and Nuaka (The Gryphon and the Mountain Bear) * The Trial of Bells and Blood - Features Hahven (The Cursed Halls of Kalecen) and Alia (The Scars of Her Past) KEYWORDS: fantasy, epic fantasy, young adult fantasy, YA fantasy, fantasy novella, horses, mystical creatures, mythical creatures, mage life, mages, magical quest, magical journey, fantasy mage adventure, fantasy vigilante, fantasy monsters, gods goddesses monsters pantheon, seer magic, fantasy deities, beast magic, desert fantasy, scrying magic

The Riddle of the Sands

The Riddle of the Sands
Author: Erskine Childers
Publisher: Seafarer Books
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780850364767

Set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War. Bored with his life in London, a young man accepts an invitation to join a friend on a sailing holiday in the Baltic. The story builds in excitement as these two young adventurers discover a German plot to invade England.

American Catholic Heritage

American Catholic Heritage
Author: William Barnaby Faherty
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1991
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781556124174

Faherty presents a lively history of the American Catholic Church from colonial days to the present. He appraises Vatican II, especially in terms of changes that council brought to the pursuit of religious liberty. Will Catholics ever build a truly America Catholic Church? Can the Church constructively influence a nation threatened by moral decline? American Catholic Heritage gives the historical context that will shape the answers to these questions.

From Behind the Other Chair

From Behind the Other Chair
Author: Claran D'Orr
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2009-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1440150117

From a traumatized psyche pours the therapeutic poetry of a licensed marriage and family therapist, a new genre of poetic design called 'meta-symbolic encoded verse'. As a trauma survivor the author speaks to the hearts of humanity 'From Behind the Other Chair' in a gesture of peace and healing. Three consecutive volumes are autobiographical and begin with the present, flowing backward in time to the original severe traumas of commitments to a mental ward and jail sentences to the mental health unit of a correctional facility. The experiences gained by these atrocities inflicted brutal damage, but also taught valuable lessons in survival and endurance. Poetry is this therapist's therapy. As d'Orr tells her tragic story it is her hope and purpose to touch the soul of the reader with the tenderness of a fellow wounded spirit, yet also with a firmness demanding that society reexamine the abysmal treatment of the lowest echelon of our culture, the mentally ill adult female. She has no advocate and suffers the nightmares of the mentally afflicted locked into a prison she herself inadvertently constructed. You will perhaps think it could not happen to you. As did she. Her human rights were stripped and her dignity obliterated. She could not defend herself, nor could she comprehend the chain of events. Her world became surreal and horrific as she spun into a madness she could not control.

Gunmen of the Desert Sands

Gunmen of the Desert Sands
Author: Ralph Cotton
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2008-11-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101078847

Even the Fastest Gun Alive can use a little backup now and then. When a teenage Mexican girl shouts out a warning in the midst of a gunfight, Fast Larry Shaw knows he owes her his life. Francisca believes the gunslinger is the angel she and her mother have prayed for to save them from the outlaws that have made their life a living hell. Shaw’s no angel, but he is well equipped to offer protection—and hope. And maybe it’s not too late to sway the scales in the favor of some basic human decency…if Shaw can handle the odds. With the town trapped in a crossfire between federales and banditos, Shaw’s going to need all the prayers—and ammo—he can lay his hands on.

The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service

The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service
Author: Erskine Childers
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1998-07-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0199982562

One of the first great spy novels, The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War. The story builds in excitement as two young men on a sailing holiday discover a German plot to invade England. This edition is complemented by a fine introduction which examines the novel in its political and historical context. - ;`About this coast... In the event of war it seems to me that every inch of it would be important, sand and all.' Executed in 1922 for his involvement in Irish republicanism, Childers in remembered most vividly for his ground-breaking spy novel, The Riddle of the Sands (1903). In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office, the sardonic civil servant Carruthers is finding it hard to endure the emptiness and boredom of his life in London. He reluctantly accepts an invitation from a college friend, Davies, the shyly intrepid yachtsman, and joins him on a sailing holiday in the Baltic. The regeneration of Carruthers begins as he is initiated into the mysteries of seamanship, but the story builds in excitement as Carruthers and Davies discover a German plot to invade England. Like much contemporary British spy fiction, The Riddle of the Sands reflects the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War and the intricacy of its conception and its lucid detail make it a classic of its genre. This edition is complemented by a fine introduction which examines the novel in its political and historical context. -

Karl Ludwig Sand; Celebrated Crimes

Karl Ludwig Sand; Celebrated Crimes
Author: Alexandre Dumas Père
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2023-09-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3387021593

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Dragon Sands [The Xephon Alliance 3]

Dragon Sands [The Xephon Alliance 3]
Author: Karly Maddison
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN: 1622418581

[BookStrand Futuristic Sci-Fi Romance, HEA] After a six-year relationship finishes, archaeologist Doctor Sharn Lawrence makes a radical change in direction and embarks on a long trip to the world Xephon. Once there, she discovers she’s not taken as seriously as she’d have hoped and is sent on some minor mission to the Dragon Sands territory at Nielurk. However, things turn more interesting when the crew of the Zhen Khe capture a Tarourke leader in the desert and take him back to the moon base while on their way to join another mission with the Xenxaphan. After meeting the winged alien held in the brig with his Xephon infidel, Sharn finds she’s totally mesmerized by his magnetic aura and mysterious beauty. When she’s offered the opportunity to travel to his previously impenetrable base, she can hardly believe her good luck. But artifacts aren’t the only thing she’s interested in, and the Tarourke leader Rem Salek exhibits unexpected interest in more than her research as well. ** A BookStrand Mainstream Romance