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1) R i t u a l
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Sean Kilpatrick's Collected Poems 2003-2023. Poems featured in 200 magazines, including: Boston Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Vice, Fence, LIT, fluland and Hobart.
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Prosas con Amplitud Mental ReligiosaUna obra literaria escrita por:Carlos Rafael Fernández MorilloCarfer Las prosas o poesias podrían ser catalogadas como inspiración divina ya que las musas o ninfas de la inspiración asisten y guían a muchos poetas, Carfer no ha tenido esa suerte de ser inspirado por estos seres mitológicos; pero analizo un libro religioso y con su estilo muy propio nos presenta un grupo de sus prosas o poesias urbanas, las...
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A land held in perpetual summer, the Dream Valley is as lush and beautiful as when the world was born. The air is as sweet as nectar and the water so clear it mirrors the clouds from the sky itself. Nothing ever dies there except for the very old. Never has there been a care until an unexpected invasion from a land long thought dead envelops the Chrystum and two life-long friends are thrown into the ravages of war.Creatures they once fought only in...
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When she escaped her father, she had no idea her journey was just beginning.
Cara's father crippled her soul to steal her magic, but the key to recovering what she lost waits for her in her dreams. A chance encounter with a mercenary her father intends to kill opens her eyes to her father's evil and she flees with him hoping to find a way to heal her soul.
But death follows her every step from the frozen tundra through the Tanglewood to the...
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Lothar Face uses laboratory enhanced diseases to begin a gigantic depopulation of the world to follow his computer's model of an idyllic world environment. There is a massive sea and air battle over the Caribbean Sea. Williams is heroic and successful in a prototype jet, before the enemy downs him, and sends him towards certain death. But the powerful good witches are always there to protect him and all of us, as they also resist the powers of evil....
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"I Dreamed of Owl. That Means Wizardry is Near."
Tristen is a weapon in an ancient war between wizardry and sorcery. He is a summoning and a shaping, brought to life by a wizard. And his sword is a weapon as well. Its keen blade, marked Illusion on one side and Truth on the other, once helped Tristen win the throne of Ylesuin for the young king Cefwyn, gaining Tristen the stewardship of the brave country of Amefel.
Tristen's rule in Amefel is...
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The Hinterlands are a lawless place of broken dreams and broken people.
Roth is a bodyguard trying to leave his dark past behind, but history has a way of turning back up. Cynthia is a bandit who's trying to make a future by wading through blood. They travel separately, trying to live by their own codes. All while a man in a red cloak tracks their blood-soaked footprints.
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Sokoras. A frigid, icy region of endless winter where weakness invites death, or worse, undeath.
Leif, a Sokoran Ranger has a choice to make against a creature he barely understands. But with every decision, subversive shadows nip at his heels, calling him towards death.
Mangarmyr, an ancient wolf spirit, fights a world plagued by darkness. He is alone... searching for a love powerful enough to save him.
Finn, a Sokoran Ranger, is trapped...
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La Odisea es un poema épico griego que narra la vuelta a casa, tras la guerra de Troya, del héroe griego Odiseo (Ulises). Además de haber estado diez años fuera luchando, Ulises tarda otros diez años en regresar a la isla de Ítaca, de la que era rey, período durante el cual su hijo Telémaco y su esposa Penélope han de aguantar en su palacio a los pretendientes que buscan desposarla (pues creían muerto a Ulises), al mismo tiempo que consumen...
10) A Stormy Path
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Princess Aria has come a long way since surviving a near-death encounter with a wierlling and averting invaders in Torrannon, but the fight against mental illness can sometimes be one step forward, two steps back. As she struggles to overcome the health anxiety, her beloved horse, Storm, becomes lost in the wilderness. Aria will once again have to find the strength to face more challenges and figure out new ways to get more control over her mind....
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A zombie private detective must determine who's scalping werewolves in this mystery by a New York Times–bestselling author.
The fur really flies when a serial scalper stalks the supernatural citizens of the Unnatural Quarter, targeting werewolves-and what's sadder than a bald lycanthrope?
Dan Shamble, zombie P.I., is on the case, trying to stop an all-out gang war between full-time and full-moon werewolves. As he combs through the tangled clues...
12) Lilith's Castle
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In this sequel to The Memory Palace, fantasy crosses over to the real world as the Malthassan Archmage Koschei Corbillion becomes Guy Parados, his creator.
When the magician Koschei escaped through the mind of his creator Guy Parados into the world where he is fiction, he became Guy Parados. And Parados became the Red Horse in the land of Malthassa... his own invention, he believed. But Malthassa has deeper roots, as deep as hell, and it is there...
13) Stone of Tears
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With Darken Rahl defeated, Richard and Kahlan head back to the Mud People to be married. As they wait for their wedding day to approach, they discover three Sisters of Light are pursuing Richard, intending to take him back to the Old World to be trained as a Wizard. Additionally, unbeknownst to Richard and Kahlan, the veil has been torn and the Stone of Tears has entered the world. According to prophecy, the only person who has a chance at closing...
14) Humility Garden
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The Stunning Debut Novel From Two-Time John W. Campbell Award Nominee Felicity Savage!An ordinary girl from the countryside ... sucked into a corrupt, elite society obsessed with sex and death.Humility never expected to leave her hardscrabble farming village, until Beau, her beautiful cousin, was chosen for the cruel ritual of ghosting. Now Delta City gleams like a diamond, drawing them to a future beyond their control and a destiny entwined with...
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Crispin is a "circus baby," born in a caravan, working as a daemon handler and aerialist... until an accident on the high wire casts him out into a world even stranger that the circus that nurtured him.Crispin falls headlong into the arms of Rae, an orphan girl of equally exotic origins. And soars in daemon-powered biplanes over the wastelands of the Raw, joining the awesome battle between Ferupe's slow-dying Queen and her adversary, the Lizard Significant.The...
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Civil war erupts in Pakistan, fueled by a movement known only as Kz. The international community watches helplessly as a nuclear power destabilizes from within, but when Americans are rounded up and positioned as human shields, the United States sends its best.
The 25th Marine Expeditionary Unit is the newest in battalion-strength special operations packing the hardest charging Marines and most advanced close-air support to date. There's no fighting...
17) Angst
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When Angst turned 40, he knew it was over. Angst had longed to be a knight of Unsel, to make his mark in history, to be remembered for heroic deeds and wondrous acts. He grew up knowing he was destined for something great, but now it is too late. Not only is 40 far too old to become a knight, Angst is one of the few able to wield "the magics".For 2,000 years magic has been outlawed, repressed, even outright destroyed throughout the world of Ehrde....
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Book 2 in the epic romantic fantasy novella series, The Forgotten Kingdom. Caya and Morgan are running out of time to save their kingdoms from Arnost. Lacking the numbers necessary to face him head-on, they launch a two-pronged assault: a sabotage mission to disrupt his supply lines, and a whisper campaign designed to provoke unrest. As determined as Caya is to stop him, when faced with the reality of having to fight against her own people, she finds...
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The risk of dying from a goldfish attack is low, but it isn't zero.The sole survivor of a hunt gone horribly wrong, Yeveka is forced to ally with Maran. While potentially a deranged mystic, he claims to have knowledge of a weapon lost to history - her first glimmer of hope for getting the revenge she so desperately desires.After setting off on a wild journey through space and time, she is left with a few pressing questions; Has Maran eaten one too...
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Treachery and deceit run rampant throughout a devastated land, spawning dark alliances in the terrible war ignited by the enmity of two families. But unbeknownst to all, there are others who truly control the beleaguered kingdom's destiny-combatants emerging from eons of restless sleep to renew the bloody terror of a battle older than time.
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