[PDF] Rotten Magic eBook

Author : Jeffrey Bardwell
Publisher : Twigboat Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1943289247

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Destiny in one hand. Doom in the other. Which will destroy him first? Artificers are the gilded princes of the Iron Empire. Mages are violent criminal outcasts. Devin competes to become the best artificer in the empire . . . but he's secretly a mage. Devin, a young skilled apprentice, dreams of becoming the master of his craft if he can only resist the sinuous allure of magic. His secret grows heavier as he claws his way to the top of his competitive, cutthroat guild. Friends and rivals start taking notice when Devin glorifies in the persona of the dragon and builds mechanical armor to match. He's also started hearing voices in his head: the stout words of the being he calls 'the artificer' and the sly, oily voice of 'the mage.' How long can Devin be satisfied with fake dragon armor when the promise of true arcane power whispers in his ear? Embark on Devin's dark, epic journey in Book One of The Artifice Mage Saga. Join the fantasy steampunk brawl of metal vs. magic where sorcery is bloody, science is greasy, and nobody's hands are clean.

Author : Devon Monk
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101580003

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Allison Beckstrom’s talent for tracking spells has put her up against some of the darkest elements in the world of magic. But she’s never faced anything like this. Magic itself has been poisoned, and Allie’s undead father may have left the only cure in the hands of a madman. Hunted by the Authority—the secret council who enforces the laws–wanted by the police, and unable to use magic, she’s got to find the cure before the sickness spreads beyond any power to stop it. But when a death magic user seeks to destroy the only thing that can heal magic, Allie and her fellow renegades must stand and fight to defend the innocent and save all magic…

Author : Nalini Singh
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0698154045

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Four masters of urban fantasy and paranormal romance plunge readers into the dangerous, captivating world unearthed beyond the dark... New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh delivers a smoldering story with Secrets at Midnight, as the scent of Bastien Smith’s elusive lover ignites a possessiveness in him that’s as feral as it is ecstatic. And now that he’s found his mate, he’ll do anything to keep her. In #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews’ novella, Magic Steals, when people start going missing, shapeshifting tigress Dali Harimau and jaguar shifter Jim Shrapshire must uncover the truth about the mysterious creatures responsible. From Milla Vane—a warrior princess must tame The Beast of Blackmoor to earn a place among her people. But she quickly discovers that the beast isn't a monster, but a barbarian warrior who intends to do some taming himself. It’s seer Makenna Frazier's first day on the job at Supernatural Protection and Investigations, and her first assignment is more than she bargained for when bodyguard duty for a leprechaun prince’s bachelor party goes every which way but right in national bestselling author Lisa Shearin’s Lucky Charms.

Author : Mary Jackman
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459701410

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Liz, a restaurateur, tries to clear her chef's name when he is suspected of killing her meat supplier, but it becomes difficult when he disappears, customers are poisoned at his moonlighting gig, and she falls for the detective assigned to the case.

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 35,64 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101523093

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A story about love and friendship and Marxism Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends “commissioned” one of their number to write a political book. Time passes and opinions change. “Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest?” Rose Curtland asks. “The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history,” Jenkin Riderhood suggests. The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement. Tamar Hernshaw has a different trouble and a terrible secret. Can one die of shame? In another quarter a suicide pact seems the solution. Duncan Cambus thinks that since it is a tragedy, someone must die. Someone dies. Rose, who has gone on loving without hope, at least deserves a reward.

Author : Autumn Stevens
Publisher : Troublemaker Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 199891402X

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She’s been chosen by prophecy. But can she prevail after coming face-to-face with destiny? Gwen Findlay is no longer on her own. With her half-human-half-orc mentor and their trusted companions, the orphaned young woman is growing more accustomed to the realm of Faelaw and her own magical abilities. And though she still has much to learn, she journeys into a hostile land to find the ruthless Fey-King’s crystal heart… and crush it. Determined to destroy the villain’s source of power despite the deadly risk, Gwen arrives at an acid lake with no way to get to the other side. And as she and her friends hunt for a way to continue their dangerous quest, she fears endless monstrous obstacles stand between her and any chance at vanquishing the great evil. Can she claim her fate before it demands a lethal price? Fey-King is the atmospheric second book in the Faelaw Chronicles epic fantasy series. If you like strong female characters, mystical worlds, and slow-burning romance, then you’ll love Autumn Stevens’s wondrous adventure. Buy Fey-King to defeat shadowy forces today!

Author : Catherine Doyle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1526655098

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'Utterly brilliant. Sensationally swashbuckling. Completely magical' – A.F Steadman, author of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief From the award-winning author of The Storm Keeper's Island, set sail on Catherine Doyle's latest perilous adventure to the magical islands of Darksea Deep in the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, where the full moon rests on the horizon, lies a secret kingdom called Darksea. Ruled by the Pirate King, Captain O'Malley, Darksea's tranquil waters have, of late, been haunted by an invisible and deadly monster – a monster that is eating the once-beautiful islands in gigantic bites. On the other side of the horizon, at his home in Galway, Max Reid and his family are battling a different monster. His big brother Christopher is in hospital and getting sicker – and his parents have begun to talk of miracles. Then one night a loud, bright red parrot taps on Max's bedroom window, carrying an invitation from the pirate king. Captain O'Malley needs a new crew member for a dangerous quest; and the reward is everything Max has been hoping for. But in Darksea, not everyone is as they seem. When Captain O'Malley's secret threatens to upend their mission and destroy Max's chance to help his family, Max realises he's going to have to navigate much more than he bargained for...

Author : Irene Radford
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0756409152

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"Full of life and energy, Lily has great ability with plants and their healing properties, but no magical talent. In contrast, her beloved twin sister Valeria has unmatched magical abilities, but is frail and often ill. Since birth the two sisters have completed each other, but the older they become, the more apparent it is that magic is taking its toll on Val. Together the sisters embark on a journey to solve Val's magical problem, and along the way to meet their mentors, the girls encounter several other magic users also struggling with severe weaknesses"--Amazon.com.

Author : Randall Styers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2004-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0198037899

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Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of "magic" has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science. Across these disciplines, magic has regularly been configured as a definitively non-modern phenomenon, juxtaposed to distinctly modern models of religion and science. Yet this notion of magic has remained stubbornly amorphous. In Making Magic, Randall Styers seeks to account for the extraordinary vitality of scholarly discourse purporting to define and explain magic despite its failure to do just that. He argues that this persistence can best be explained in light of the Western drive to establish and secure distinctive norms for modern identity, norms based on narrow forms of instrumental rationality, industrious labor, rigidly defined sexual roles, and the containment of wayward forms of desire. Magic has served to designate a form of alterity or deviance against which dominant Western notions of appropriate religious piety, legitimate scientific rationality, and orderly social relations are brought into relief. Scholars have found magic an invaluable tool in their efforts to define the appropriate boundaries of religion and science. On a broader level, says Styers, magical thinking has served as an important foil for modernity itself. Debates over the nature of magic have offered a particularly rich site at which scholars have worked to define and to contest the nature of modernity and norms for life in the modern world.