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Author : Brent Monahan
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 2024-03-31
Category : Fiction
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Vampire Vincent DeVilbiss' centuries-long existence is built on a demonic bargain - and a lie. For millennia, Satan has played a chess game to take humans who can better the world off the board - and used DeVilbiss' addiction to a supernatural blood additive to enslave him as his murderous pawn. But no more. Close to a chemical substitute, DeVilbiss must first destroy an ancient Akkadian scroll kept in Princeton University's fortress-like Firestone Library to prevent his secret from being exposed - and to stick a vengeful, triumphant finger in his infernal overlord's eye. Standing in his way is Simon Penn: a young, brilliant, rare books curator in love from afar with university reference librarian Frederika Vanderveen. Unfortunately, DeVilbiss has also set his sights on her as his key to accessing the scrolls - and his freedom. Soon, DeVilbiss, Vanderveen and Penn find themselves locked in a deadly struggle, with their lives - and the world - on the line. And there will be hell to pay.

Author : Brent Monahan
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312093495

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Modern vampire Vincent DeVilbiss travels to Princeton University to destroy an ancient cuneiform scroll being translated before the scroll's powers can be turned against the inhabitants of the underworld.

Author : Neal Shusterman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 2006-08-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780142405994

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Dread Locks is the first entry in the Dark Fusion series from master storyteller Neal Shusterman. He cleverly weaves together familiar parts of fairy tales and Greek mythology to tell the story of fourteen-year-old Parker Bear, rich and utterly bored with life—until a new girl arrives in town. Tara's eyes are always hidden behind designer sunglasses, and her hair, blond with glimmering spirals, seems almost alive. Parker watches, fascinated, as one by one Tara chooses high school students to befriend; he even helps her by making the necessary introductions. Over time, her “friends” develop strange quirks, such as drinking gallons of milk, eating dirt, and becoming lethargic. By the time Parker realizes what Tara is doing, he is too embroiled to stop her. In fact, she has endowed him with certain cravings of his own. . . .To say more would spoil the spooky fun of this wild thriller—let the twist speak for itself and leave you still as a statue.

Author : Melissa de la Cruz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1101607874

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“As fearless as a futuristic Game of Thrones.”— MARGARET STOHL, New York Times bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures trilogy From Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston, the New York Times bestselling authors of the Blue Bloods and Witches of East End series. Welcome to New Vegas, a city once covered in bling, now blanketed in ice. Like much of the destroyed planet, the place knows only one temperature—freezing. But some things never change. The diamond in the ice desert is still a 24-hour hedonistic playground and nothing keeps the crowds away from the casino floors, never mind the rumors about sinister sorcery in its shadows. At the heart of this city is Natasha Kestal, a young blackjack dealer looking for a way out. Like many, she's heard of a mythical land simply called “the Blue.” They say it’s a paradise, where the sun still shines and the waters are turquoise. More importantly, it’s a place where Nat won’t be persecuted, even if her darkest secret comes to light. But passage to the Blue is treacherous, if not impossible, and her only shot is to bet on a ragtag crew of mercenaries led by a cocky runner named Ryan Wesson there. Danger and deceit await on every corner, even as Nat and Wes find themselves inexorably drawn to each other. But can true love survive the lies? Fiery hearts collide in this fantastic tale of the evil men do and the awesome power within us all. This is a remarkable first book in a spellbinding new series about the dawn of a new kind of magic.

Author : John Gwynne
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316502235

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Acclaimed epic fantasy author John Gwynne returns with the first book in a new trilogy, perfect for fans of George R. R. Martin, Brandon Sanderson, and David Gemmell. "A Time of Dread reminds me of why I became a fantasy enthusiast in the first place." -- Robin Hobb A race of warrior angels, the Ben-Elim, once vanquished a mighty demon horde. Now they rule the Banished lands, but their peace is brutally enforced. In the south, hotheaded Riv is desperate to join the Ben-Elim's peacekeeping force, until she unearths a deadly secret. In the west, the giantess Sig investigates demon sightings and discovers signs of an uprising and black magic. And in the snowbound north, Drem, a trapper, finds mutilated corpses in the forests. The work of a predator, or something far darker? It's a time of shifting loyalties and world-changing dangers. Difficult choices need to be made. Because in the shadows, demons are gathering, waiting for their time to rise. . .

Author : Justina Ireland
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 39,52 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0062570625

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New York Times bestseller; 6 starred reviews! At once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiar—a country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads where race, humanity, and survival meet. Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also opportunities—and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It's a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. After all, not even being the daughter of a wealthy white Southern woman could save her from society’s expectations. But that’s not a life Jane wants. Almost finished with her education at Miss Preston's School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesn’t pay much mind to the politics of the eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose. But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems. "Abundant action, thoughtful worldbuilding, and a brave, smart, and skillfully drawn cast entertain as Ireland illustrates the ignorance and immorality of racial discrimination and examines the relationship between equality and freedom." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List")

Author : Brent Monahan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 2001-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312276980

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Many are wondering if the "richest of the rich can literally get away with murder" as local sheriff John Le Brun investigates the shooting death of one of the members of the exclusive club which includies the Vanderbilts, Goulds, Rockefellers, Morgans, and Pulitzers.

Author : Brent Monahan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 12,92 MB
Release : 2000-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312262921

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Presents a fictionalized diary in which schoolteacher Richard Powell tells the story of Tennessee's Bell Witch, a poltergeist that began harassing the family of John Bell in 1818 and is reported to have caused his death.

Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307368297

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A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis’s award-winning memoir, Experience. Koba the Dread captures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief systems of the 20th century — one that spread through the world, both captivating it and staining it red. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of 20th-century thought: the indulgence of Communism by the intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginnings and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one-hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible. The author’s father, Kingsley Amis, though later reactionary in tendency, was a “Comintern dogsbody” (as he would come to put it) from 1941 to 1956. His second-closest, and then his closest friend (after the death of the poet Philip Larkin), was Robert Conquest, our leading Sovietologist whose book of 1968, The Great Terror, was second only to Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago in undermining the USSR. The present memoir explores these connections. Stalin said that the death of one person was tragic, the death of a million a mere “statistic.” Koba the Dread, during whose course the author absorbs a particular, a familial death, is a rebuttal of Stalin’s aphorism.