Author: Mandy Schimelpfenig Publisher: ISBN: 9781737669616 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Praed is a country of vast prairies and looming mountains where the elite make their homes along a mighty river. For hundreds of years, to wear the crown is to tempt fate, for in Praed, any man may become king if he's strong enough. Laria Audrey lives in privilege as the daughter of a famous knight, until one night she's ripped from her bed to find that her entire life has gone up in flames. Forced to serve those responsible, Laria pretends to be deaf and mute to survive. But when days turn to weeks, Laria loses hope of awakening from the nightmare and must admit she's truly alone.
Author: Abraham Verghese Publisher: Random House India ISBN: 8184001754 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 560
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Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.
Author: Noah Adams Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 264
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The author journeys back to the America of his ancestors as he follows the New River into the heart of modern-day Appalachia on a 330-mile odyssey on foot, by mountain bike, by canoe, and by whitewater raft.
Author: American Society of Civil Engineers Publisher: ISBN: Category : Civil engineering Languages : en Pages : 440
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Vols. 29-30 contain papers of the International Engineering Congress, Chicago, 1893; v. 54, pts. A-F, papers of the International Engineering Congress, St. Louis, 1904.
Author: Mandy Schimelpfenig Publisher: ISBN: 9781737669630 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Five years after living the trauma of forced servitude, 21-year-old Ula leads an idyllic life aslady-in-waiting to the Queen of Praed. Content to live a sheltered life, she's reluctant to leaveher childhood home when the king and queen declare they'll visit Ilano, the homeland of thepeople who invaded her country and left her toiling in the bowels of Praed Castle.Determined to overcome her shyness, Ula makes new friends, endures heartbreak, and beginsto forge her own path. But when an old enemy threatens hard-won peace, the entire continentunites for the first time in history. With war raging around her, Ula is forced to confront herfeelings and face the most difficult decision of her life - to summon the courage to step out ofher older sister's shadow and seize control of her own fate.This is the continuing story of the Daughters of Riverstone, a saga of women who are notcontent to stand by and allow a world of men to determine their destinies.
Author: Sara Sugar Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1499004788 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 413
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River Stone genre is magic realism. His archetype is a reluctant hero. His main objective is to become immortalised by successfully creating a new genre of art. Impeding him is a supernatural gift hes been given, which he defies; to take away lives by a force of arcane energy when he lays his hands on recipients. He doesnt want to be known as the angel of death. When seeing the Eagle Man, River is given another spiritual gift; eternal life. It is about psychology verses the metaphysical world and fundamentalism verses atheism. He is an environmental activist with the L.L.E, an international, secret society foundation. This organisation assigns him to join the Army Services as a reprographic soldier, to be an undercover agent to gather secret satellite information for their cause. At first, he opposes the assignment, however, his love for the philosophy Hintism and its mentor Lord Va who fatalistically manipulates Rivers existence until he owns nothing. This is a similar scenario to Dulouz (how River sees himself), testing the boundaries of nonconformity within societys dictating constraints, and freedom from materialistic constructs. Through the mere exhaustion caused by his disconnection to the framework of social structure, and failing his desire to find the antidote for his inspirational death inflicted by drudgery, the eternal collective mundane conscious and subconscious of human existence. And, dealing with a curse, jinx, hex and damnation; suffering schizophrenia (un-institutionalised) when experiencing paranormal episodes and extreme poverty...He is finally coerced ethically, socially and financially in joining the Army. The Army doesnt hinder his artistic drive, or, inspiration. The denouement is devastating in respect to his obsession with art, though his true destiny is revealed. The themes are ideological spiritual beliefs. Secret societies. vigilantism. Art, philosophies and the paranormal.
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