Elias the Cursed

Elias the Cursed
Author: Sylviane Corgiat
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2016-04-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781594651410

This sword and sorcery epic follows the once cruel king, Elias, on a redemptive journey to reclaim his identity. The fallen king must restore his face that was stolen by the mighty malevolent sorcerer Melchior. Helped on his quest by an unlikely gang of misfits including a giant, a goblin-like creature and a female scientist, Elias The Cursed must battle both good and evil magic, and attempt to save his face, and perhaps even his soul.

The Oracle and the Curse

The Oracle and the Curse
Author: Caleb Smith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2013-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0674075862

Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper’s Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown’s shaped American literature between the Revolution and the Civil War. In nineteenth-century criminal trials, judges played the role of law’s living oracles, but offenders were also given an opportunity to address the public. When the accused began to turn the tables on their judges, they did so not through rational arguments but by calling down a divine retribution. Widely circulated in newspapers and pamphlets, these curses appeared to channel an otherworldly power, condemning an unjust legal system and summoning readers to the side of righteousness. Exploring the modes of address that communicated the authority of law and the dictates of conscience in antebellum America’s court of public opinion, Caleb Smith offers a new poetics of justice which assesses the nonrational influence that these printed confessions, trial reports, and martyr narratives exerted on their first audiences. Smith shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature.

Curse of Crowns

Curse of Crowns
Author: Garris L. R. Coleman
Publisher: Garris L. R. Coleman
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1792341830

In Curse of Crowns, Blood You Will Taste, author Garris L. R. Coleman delivers a sequel to Kings Transcend sure to surprise and surpass expectations of the imagination. In volume two, continue on the journey into the fiction worlds of Vargha and Argon with our favorite characters as they struggle against dark forces reaching into their realms. Experience dreams, omens, and war as a ancient curse spreads causing havoc through kingdoms and countryside. With Nobles gripping the foreign lands, those that take to the seas continue their search for more control with coin. As an ominous evil emerges and cripples civilization, royalty and commoners both flee to survive the turmoil. For when the future of the lands is touched by the crown, light and darkness collide and all will find that blood you will taste.

Eat, Pray, Love

Eat, Pray, Love
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2007-03-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0747585660

The Number One international bestseller, Eat, Pray Love is a journey around the world, a quest for spiritual enlightenment and a story for anyone who has battled with divorce, depression and heartbreak.

Walt Disney

Walt Disney
Author: Neal Gabler
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 914
Release: 2007-10-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0679757473

The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney. Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films–most notably Snow White, Fantasia, and Bambi. In his superb biography, Neal Gabler shows us how, over the course of two decades, Disney revolutionized the entertainment industry. In a way that was unprecedented and later widely imitated, he built a synergistic empire that combined film, television, theme parks, music, book publishing, and merchandise. Walt Disney is a revelation of both the work and the man–of both the remarkable accomplishment and the hidden life. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography USA Today Biography of the Year

Half a Soul

Half a Soul
Author: Olivia Atwater
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316462802

“Whimsical, witty, and brimming over with charm” (India Holton), Olivia Atwater’s delightful debut will transport you to a magical version of Regency England, where the only thing more meddlesome than a fairy is a marriage-minded mother! It’s difficult to find a husband in Regency England when you’re a young lady with only half a soul. Ever since she was cursed by a faerie, Theodora Ettings has had no sense of fear or embarrassment—an unfortunate condition that leaves her prone to accidental scandal. Dora hopes to be a quiet, sensible wallflower during the London Season—but when Elias Wilder, the strange, handsome, and utterly ill-mannered Lord Sorcier, discovers her condition, she is instead drawn into peculiar and dangerous faerie affairs. If her reputation can survive both her curse and her sudden connection with the least-liked man in all high society, then she and her family may yet reclaim their normal place in the world. But the longer Dora spends with Elias, the more she begins to suspect that one may indeed fall in love even with only half a soul. Praise for Half a Soul “Whimsical but never frivolous, sweet but not sugary. I loved it.” —Alix E. Harrow “Delightful. Half a Soul is the definition of a comfort read.” —Hannah Whitten “I wolfed this down with great pleasure.” —KJ Charles “This winsome, whimsical fantasy romance sweeps you off your feet.” —Megan Bannen “Smart and subversive, Half a Soul will ignite your heart—and your hope.” —Shelley Parker-Chan “A perfect historical fantasy romance: warm, sparkling with magic, dangerous, and delightful.” —Tasha Suri

The Social Cancer

The Social Cancer
Author: Jose Rizal
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 940
Release: 2009-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1775415627

Filipino national hero Jose Rizal wrote The Social Cancer in Berlin in 1887. Upon his return to his country, he was summoned to the palace by the Governor General because of the subversive ideas his book had inspired in the nation. Rizal wrote of his consequent persecution by the church: "My book made a lot of noise; everywhere, I am asked about it. They wanted to anathematize me ['to excommunicate me'] because of it ... I am considered a German spy, an agent of Bismarck, they say I am a Protestant, a freemason, a sorcerer, a damned soul and evil. It is whispered that I want to draw plans, that I have a foreign passport and that I wander through the streets by night ..."

The Curse of the Mistwraith (The Wars of Light and Shadow, Book 1)

The Curse of the Mistwraith (The Wars of Light and Shadow, Book 1)
Author: Janny Wurts
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 786
Release: 2010-06-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007346905

BOOK ONE IN THE GROUNDBREAKING SERIES, THE WARS OF LIGHT AND SHADOW A powerful, layered weaving of myth, prose and pure imagination – Curse of the Mistwraith opens an epic fantasy series perfect for fans of The Dark Tower and Earthsea.

The Inevitable

The Inevitable
Author: Sigma Tramps
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2021-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1685096913

President Li Fung, like Hitler, grew up in abject poverty in China and struggled his way up in the tightly state-controlled armed forces of the PRC. He now wants complete control over the world’s natural resources and to make China an “Empire”. It is 2026. Li Fung leaves no stone unturned to bring the world’s top countries to their knees and activates plans to paralyze their economy, infrastructure, and armed forces by discreetly deploying bioweapons and mini nukes. In Afghanistan, the Taliban are inches away from gaining control over Pakistan’s nukes. In Egypt, Mohd. Ghoneim uses Chinese funds to recruit extremist sleeper cells in various European countries. In Turkey, President Murad Tekant works to restore the Ottoman Empire. In Iran, Supreme Commander Ayatollah explains his attack plans to the Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Army. In the US, FBI agent Dave Watson tries to beat the clock, chasing various mini nukes and bioweapons entering the US from various entry points. China’s threatening activities in the East China Sea sends a red signal to the Pentagon who urgently shift their Naval Armada to protect Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. The world is now on the brink of WWIII, which is now inevitable. “Technology, Trade and Terrorism; Cocktail of this troika, unhesitatingly would be used by Chinese for the furtherance of its expansionist agenda and to gain super economic power status. And this is the running theme of ‘The Inevitable’, a masterpiece thriller cum war fiction novel of Sigma Tramps. A must-read novel”. Air Vice-Marshal Pranay Sinha VSM (Retd.)