[PDF] Ravens Choice eBook

Author : Harper Swan
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Paleolithic period
ISBN : 9781540789945

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This omnibus edition of The Replacement Chronicles contains Raven's Choice, Journeys of Choice, and Choices that Cut.Two Lives... separated by millennia but nevertheless linked irrevocably.What possible link could Mark Hayek, an introverted twenty-first century research scientist, have to Raven, a young healer who lived during the late Pleistocene? It has everything to do with an injured Neanderthal man taken captive by Raven's band while he and his brothers were hunting bison.After Raven heals the captive, he leaves for his tribe, and she tries to forget him as she struggles to remain within the band. But it's not possible to stay when several band members make her life with the group untenable. Seeking the Neanderthal man she'd helped and facing her fear of being alone on the dangerous steppes, she begins crossing that grassy land-but a woman like Raven isn't destined to be by herself for long. In the future, Mark Hayek is forced into making his own journey when his uncle dies in the Levant. His travels place him firmly in the footsteps of his Neanderthal and Early Modern Human ancestors, crossing the same ancient lands as he struggles against the fate a wayward kinsman has imposed. He's been made a pawn in a cruel game, but when he encounters a woman being held prisoner in a cave, he seeks a way to save her. Help arrives for the pair, flowing from an unexpected, ancient source, igniting a struggle deep within Mark to accept that the illogical as well as the logical make up existence.Peoples come and go, one group replacing another over time, and echoes from ancient events have always affected the future, but Mark and Raven discover that in certain environments echoes are able to bounce back and forth, blurring their origins.

Author : Richard Spegal
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 2024-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1662952449

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The end Is coming… Queen Qian is missing and presumed dead, and the demon has obliterated everything in its path. Despite this, the new alliance between Raven’s Realm and the Eastern Kingdom seems to be off to a promising start. Unfortunately, there are those working from within to tear it all down. The seemingly sudden disappearance of the demon removes the common threat and encourages others to make their move. Meanwhile, Qian and K’tar must complete their mission to learn the terrible truth about the dark influence spreading throughout their world. The more difficult task will be getting anyone to listen. Along the way, they meet a strange survivor of an unknown tragedy who displays both amazing abilities and abject terror of the world around her. Gabriella wakes up after being cast down as a mortal with no knowledge of the world around her, or even her own body. The former Angel of Voice has been rendered mute. As her thoughts settle, she understands everything about the truth of the world she had always been watching, but what difference does it make? In the second installment of the Wolves and Ravens trilogy, Wolves and Ravens Book 2: Choice, victory is still defeat—final battles are only the beginning.

Author : Sarah M. Cradit
Publisher : Storyville Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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One raven. One boy. One destiny. Escape into this story of fractured duty and forbidden love weaving together a fate bigger than man, bigger than magic. Evrathedyn Blackrook whiles his days away at university, blissfully oblivious to the horrors afflicting his homeland. He escapes into dusty books, content as a second son. Rhosynora Ravenwood spends her sleepless nights fantasizing of ways to escape her icy, suffocating dynasty. To flee her birthright is to invite a traitor’s penance. To stay is another kind of death. But time and fate have a way of mending all mistakes. Evra soon finds himself the new Lord Blackrook. His inheritance is a plague-ridden land, the pyres from his late father’s campaign against magic still smoldering. His realm’s future in the balance, he travels beyond his borders to a remote northern hamlet, where he meets Rhosyn. The spark between them is immediate; the suspicion even stronger. In Rhosyn, Evra sees her rare magic as the perfect answer to his troubles. In Evra, Rhosyn sees everything wrong with the depraved world of men. But Evra is out of options. And Rhosyn is out of time. As they resist the undeniable, forbidden bond growing between them, Evra’s dawning horror of Rhosyn’s fate brings him to an impossible choice. His home, or her? __ The Raven and the Rush is a forbidden love fantasy romance tale set in the Kingdom of the White Sea universe. It is the first story in the Blackwood Cycle of The Book of All Things. The second book in the duology, The Poison and the Paladin, features characters introduced in this novel. The Book of All Things is a series of fantasy romance tales set in the vibrant, epic world first introduced by USA Today Bestselling Author Sarah M. Cradit in the Kingdom of the White Sea trilogy. For content advisories, please visit sarahmcradit.com.

Author : Siri Pettersen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1646906004

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An epic fantasy trilogy from Norway about thousand-year-old secrets, forbidden romance, and what happens to those who make a deal with the devil comes at last to the United States! "Blood magic, blackmail, and battle rock a rich world of fading magic to its core in this internationally bestselling Norwegian epic fantasy." - Publishers Weekly reviews Odin's Child I loved (Odin's Child) deeply from the first to the last word, and was instantly and thoroughly immersed. -- Laini Taylor, bestselling author of Daughter of Smoke and Bone. ...The story examines and upends everything its characters believe in, including their world, their history, their faith, and themselves, while intertwining elements of politics and Norse mythology with a side of forbidden romance. Kirkus Reviews The intrigue, scope, and depth of His Dark Materials, set in an immersive Nordic world as fierce and unforgettable as its characters. Rosaria Munda, author Fireborne/Flamefall - Aurelian Cycle The world building is stupendous. MidWest Book Review Imagine lacking something that everyone else has. Something that proves you belong to this world. Something so vital, that without it, you are nothing. A plague. A myth. A human.” Fifteen winters old, Hirka learns that she is an Odin's child – a tailless rot from another world. Despised. Dreaded. And hunted. She no longer knows who she is, and someone wants to kill her to keep it a secret. But there are worse things than humans, and Hirka is not the only creature to have broken through the gates… Odin’s Child is unique fantasy with Norse roots. An epic clash of xenophobia, blind faith and the right or will to lead. The first in a trilogy, Odin's Child is a thrilling modern fantasy epic.

Author : Bernd Heinrich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 147679457X

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“One of the most interesting discoveries I’ve seen in animal sociobiology in years.” —E.O. Wilson Why do ravens, generally understood to be solitary creatures, share food between each other during winter? On the surface, there didn’t appear to be any biological or evolutionary imperative behind the raven’s willingness to share. The more Bernd Heinrich observed their habits, the more odd the bird’s behavior became. What started as mere curiosity turned into an impassioned research project, and Ravens In Winter, the first research of its kind, explores the fascinating biological puzzle of the raven’s rather unconventional social habits. “Bernd Heinrich is no ordinary biologist. He’s the sort who combines formidable scientific rigor with a sense of irony and an unslaked, boyish enthusiasm for his subject, and who even at his current professorial age seems to do a lot of tree climbing in the line of research.” —David Quammen, The New York Times

Author : Christopher Skaife
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1443455946

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For centuries, the Tower of London has been home to a group of famous avian residents: the ravens. Each year they are seen by millions of visitors, and they have become as integral a part of the Tower as its ancient stones. But their role is even more important than that—legend has it that if the ravens should ever leave, the Tower will crumble into dust and great harm will befall the kingdom. The responsibility for ensuring that such a disaster never comes to pass falls to one man: the Ravenmaster. The current holder of the position is Yeoman Warder Christopher Skaife, and in this fascinating, entertaining and touching book he memorably describes the ravens’ formidable intelligence, their idiosyncrasies and their occasionally wicked sense of humour. The Ravenmaster is a compelling, inspiring and irreverent story that will delight and surprise anyone with an interest in British history or animal behaviour.

Author : Lor E. Lynn
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1643348302

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With Lord Blakely off on a mission to recover the Waverly heiress, and the Duke of Hawkhurst on his honeymoon, only Emmett and Lord Cortland are left to man the Home Office, which makes it difficult when both are sent on missions of their own. The Earl of Billingswood, Lord Cortland’s uncle, offers help where he can but is not actually employed there. They need someone else they can trust to head up the office while they are away. Mrs. Penelope Smythe uses her position as headmistress at the St. Joseph’s convent school as a front for her work. When she learns that Lord Davenport is trying to find her husband, she is distrustful of the charming lord and evades. After sending him on a wild goose chase to distract him from learning of Benedict’s death, he returns to find her home ablaze. Even though he’s torn between frustration and worry, he offers to help her uncover the truth. The same men who murdered her husband for finding something he wasn’t supposed to are determined to finish the job. An image of a coat of arms is their sole clue. Who is the mysterious Crowned Griffon Society, and what are they after?

Author : John Feinstein
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 2007-09-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0316028118

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In the NFL there is only one certainty: that every day, someone will have to be the Next Man Up. Football is an unrelentingly punishing sport, played and practiced at undiminished intensity, and it devours its players. Confronting injuries, trades, and the grim reality of competition, every NFL team prepares constantly for the likelihood -- the certainty -- that even franchise players can go down at any time. And someone new must be ready, trained, and primed to step in at the highest level. Bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein persuaded one NFL team to lift the extraordinary secrecy that shrouds the sport and let him see how a team operates at the closest level. One team let him join every practice, every coaches' meeting, every players' gathering, every strategy debate. From the give-and-take of draft day, into the grinder of summer training camps, and from 100-degree practice games to the last game in frigid conditions, Feinstein reveals how a football team works -- or fails to work -- as no writer has done before. Next Man Up unveils rituals (what a coach tells a player at the moment he cuts him); rules (the inanities of league-appointed "uniform Nazis"); conflicts (the scouts vs. the coaches, the general managers vs. the agents, the offense vs. the defense, the special teams coaches vs. everybody); money (how much a journeyman makes, and how his life differs from the multi-million-dollar-a-year star players)-every nuance of a team's life, from the owner's goals to the coach's day-to-day travails to the feeling of the sleet-soaked ball in the hands of a receiver on artificial turf. The access John Feinstein enjoyed allows him to discuss with equal understanding the owner's management strategy, the coaches' and coordinators' plans for each new game, and how it all affects the players themselves. Anyone who loves football -- any team, in any era -- will savor the thousands of details revealed here for the first time, and the extraordinary drama that goes into following week after week, the most sensational sport in America.

Author : Michael Butterworth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110660881

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Sport is a universal feature of global popular culture. It shapes our identities, affects our relationships, and defines our communities. It also influences our consumption habits, represents our cultures, and dramatizes our politics. In other words, sport is among the most prominent vehicles for communication available in daily life. Nevertheless, only recently has it begun to receive robust attention in the discipline of communication studies. The Handbook of Communication and Sport attends to the recent and rapid growth of scholarship in communication and media studies that features sport as a central site of inquiry. The book attempts to capture a full range of methods, theories, and topics that have come to define the subfield of "communication and sport" or "sports communication." It does so by emphasizing four primary features. First, it foregrounds "communication" as central to the study of sport. This emphasis helps to distinguish the book from collections in related disciplines such as sociology, and also points readers beyond media as the primary or only context for understanding the relationship between communication and sport. Thus, in addition to studies of media effects, mediatization, media framing, and more, readers will also engage with studies in interpersonal, intercultural, organizational, and rhetorical communication. Second, the handbook presents an array of methods, theories, and topics in the effort to chart a comprehensive landscape of communication and sport scholarship. Thus, readers will benefit from empirical, interpretive, and critical work, and they will also see studies drawing on varied texts and sites of inquiry. Third, the Handbook of Communication and Sport includes a broad range of scholars from around the world. It is therefore neither European nor North American in its primary focus. In addition, the book includes contributors from commonly under-represented regions in Asia, Africa, and South America. Fourth, the handbook aims to account for both historical trajectories and contemporary areas of interest. In this way, it covers the central topics, debates, and perspectives from the past and also suggests continued and emerging pathways for the future. Collectively, the Handbook of Communication and Sport aspires to provide scholars and students in communication and media studies with the most comprehensive assessment of the field available.

Author : Raymond John Pierotti
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0300226160

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"Raymond Pierotti and Brandy Fogg change the narrative about how wolves became dogs and, in turn, humanity's best friend. Rather than recount how people mastered and tamed an aggressive, dangerous species, the authors describe coevolution and mutualism. Wolves, particularly ones shunned by their packs, most likely initiated the relationship with Paleolithic humans, forming bonds built on mutually recognized skills and emotional capacity. This interdisciplinary study draws on sources from evolutionary biology as well as tribal and indigenous histories to produce an intelligent, insightful, and often unexpected story of cooperative hunting, wolves protecting camps, and wolf-human companionship"--Dust jacket flap.