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" Ugarit, Syria, 1450 B.C.E. Eighteen-year-old Leah, the eldest daughter of a wealthy winemaker, is past the traditional age of betrothal. Vowed to wed the wealthy but cruel shipbuilder Jotham, Leah declines his offer of marriage after discovering that he and his family suffer from "the falling sickness." Enraged by her refusal and his ruined reputation, he blackmails Leah's father, a punishment forgiven only by offering Leah's hand in marriage. With...
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"J-Bee, son of a military officer, is raised in a violent milieu during the 1960s. After his little brother is persecuted by bullies, J-Bee commits a retaliatory act of brutality, the nature of which scars him. When his best friend, Gilly, volunteers to fight in Vietnam, J-Bee--repulsed by his own violence--refuses to follow either his father or Gilly into the military. Instead, he matriculates at Columbia in 1971, an era of counterculture, drugs...
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In 'The Serpent's Heir: A Legacy Reclaimed' by Eleanor Hargrave, a riveting fantasy unfolds, blending dark magic with a tale of love and sacrifice. When Lillian discovers she's the last in a line of guardians tasked with protecting the world from an ancient serpent, her life transforms overnight. Bound by fate to Gabriel, a spirit warrior with a mysterious past, they embark on a perilous quest to break the centuries-old curse that plagues her family's...
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“A Serpent’s Lament” is a collection of poems spanning a decade. This body of work depicts the turbulent navigation of life through the lens of a young and troubled writer. In this collection, you will find poetry with the common theme of war, particularly between the heart and mind. Common themes of despair and unrequited love are presented and pondered. “A Serpent’s Lament” is a journey through the deepest, darkest corners of the human...
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The Serpent's Eye'The only battle worth the blood is the final one, that which brings us peace.'Regardless of whether it was down to his own failings or because it was meant to be,a mysterious young girl takes the Liberator on an ill-advised journey into theForbidden Mountains.Warned of the danger, he knew in his heart he must show courage and facethe dreaded Dark Energy to safeguard the bearer of the Serpent's Eye.Weakened by the Delta witches, he...
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THE SERPENT'S GUILE is a psychological thriller with three main characters - a famous writer, his personal chauffeur and the unwitting biracial sex worker embroiled into the dark world of the writer. All three of them hiding secrets, all puppets of greed, all three magnificent liars. Set in an opulent background of the privileged few, it shows humanity at its lowest and at its most human element. Unlike books of same genre, readers know who the serpent...
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In The Serpent's Promise, Steve Jones retells many of the Biblical tales in the light of modern science. Are we all descended from a real-life Adam and Eve? Are some-or all-of us marked with the molecular equivalent of original sin, and if so what can we do about it? Was the Bible's great flood a memory of the end of the Ice Age? And what can science tell us of the mystical experiences reported by the faithful, or of the origin of faith itself?
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First published in 1918, "The Serpent Power" is an important and influential text for the modern practice of Kundalini yoga in the West. Written by Sir John George Woodroffe, under his pseudonym Arthur Avalon, it is a scholarly and insightful study of both ancient texts and the philosophies of Kundalini, Shakti, meditation, and yogic practice. Woodroffe was born in Calcutta, India and followed in his father's footsteps in a successful legal career...
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In the previous book, The Celtic Serpent, after a diagnosis of cancer and the death of her grandmother, Angi Talismann found herself on an incredible journey. Shackled to an unstable piece of ancient technology in the form of a medallion, she and her colleagues were forced to locate lost medallion gemstones which had been scattered to different countries in the seventeenth century. Close on their heels was a resolute killer bent on acquiring the medallion....
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"A rousing tale of courtly intrigues and chivalrous honor" from the author of The Glass Magician (Charles de Lint, award-winning writer).
Just as hard-fought peace has come to the land of Staunton, war hero Sir Anthony Folville lies dead-but not due to his battle wounds. He has been poisoned by the medic treating him, a man supposedly paid by Queen Andred's heir to perform this dastardly act.
Now, with the prince imprisoned and accused...
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A hired gun delivers frontier justice on a colony world.
The man called Twelve is a hired gun, taking his laser pistol from planet to planet, hiring his services out to the highest bidder.
He finds himself on Glycon-Prime, a new colony at the edge of space. On the hunt for work, Twelve blows into a small, frontier town-only to find a massacre.
The only survivors? A trio of young children, devastated by the murder of their families. They are...
92) The Serpent Wand
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A sinister Masonic-Templar organization - The Brotherhood Of The Wand - is planning to bring the world to its knees and create a dystopian one-government world. The price? 80% of the world's population. To achieve this aim, they are planning to harness ley lines and other ancient earth energies to reawaken the Serpent: a mythical creature known to all early civilisations by different names. On the winter solstice at Avebury, an apocalyptic event is...
93) The Serpent Mage
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In this sequel to THE INFINITY CONCERTO Michael Perrin, a teenage poet returns to contemporary Los Angeles hoping to lead a normal life. But his time trapped in the dangerous faerie land of the Sidhe has left him with magical skills and a mystery to solve. The Song of Power still hangs in the air, strange bodies have been discovered in a nearby hotel, and an ancient creature calls to Michael from the waters of Scotland. Worlds are falling apart. An...
94) A Serpent's Bond
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A former foster kid, Hudson always had a simple dream for a perfect life. A husband to love and a family he could come home to every night. It wasn't a fancy wish, but it might as well have been. Still single and approaching forty, not to mention fighting a battle of the bulge, Hudson knows it probably isn't going to happen. Not in this lifetime. Especially with Drakein Nacash, the drop dead gorgeous man, who is the subject of his nightly fantasies...
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A mystical tale of a half Scythian, half Mongolian warrior called 'Manu Kai', who was born to a Scythian tribal Chieftain. Set in Scythia around 2400 B.C., the raw brutality of the age, and his bitter and justifiable hatred of the rising Roman Empire, creates conflict between his role within the Agari priesthood and his duty as a warrior and future leader of his people. He is destined to face many trials and tribulations along the way, but perhaps...
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"Expertly researched narrative abounds with fascinating lore . . . this flamboyant re-creation of the distant past . . . is another genre triumph." -Kirkus Reviews
When Norse raiders slaughtered his family and abducted his sister, Corban Loosestrife set out on an odyssey that took him across half the world, from the Viking fortress of Jorvik to the wild and desolate shores of Vinland in the New World. Now Corban struggles to make a new life alone...
97) A Serpent's Love
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After being blamed for his wife's murder, the disappearance of his son leads a man to the discovery of a deadly tribe of women known as lamia, who propagate the earth with the seed of prominent men and kill them within the boundaries of an ancient curse.
Throughout the world, Maxwell Bunting patterns the lamia's insatiable appetite for eating boys, and in Virginia, the hunter not only finds love but also meets his prey as ancient documents reveal...
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Excerpt: "As a child, Letty had promised to be rather pretty, and Mrs. Fenchurch believed that with her own social advantages, she would marry her off ere long; but before arriving at this happy period, she resolved to make the poor relation useful in the house. She should dust china, arrange flowers, pour out tea, help in the garden, and take over the Mothers' Sewing Club. Her own hands were more than full both at home and abroad (indeed, the influence...
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In Serpent Crusher, Jeff Voth offers his readers a Christocentric response to common challenges that plague and crush men today. This response provides applicable insights from the lives of historical figures, biblical heroes, and Jesus Christ himself, the ultimate serpent crusher. This book will equip its readers strategically, practically, and prayerfully to crush enemy attacks--attacks against one's time management, thought life, sexuality, identity,...
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