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Author: Chen Defa
Publisher: Sellene Chardou
Published:
Total Pages: 1347
ISBN-13: 1304390179
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As the snow fell, some people carried shovel brooms to sweep the street at first, but after sweeping, they covered it again and covered it again. Slowly, fewer and fewer people were willing to sweep, and the heavy snow finally covered every inch of Luoyang City irresistibly
Author: Sam Farren
Publisher:
Published: 2019-10-13
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781697398304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Princess Castelle is the last of her bloodline. Kept safe by the spirits bound to the forest surrounding her, Castelle devotes herself to studying all a future Queen needs to know, waiting for the day she can wield Brackish. The spirit-sword is her birthright. Only those worthy of ruling the archipelago can temper Brackish's ancient rage without succumbing to it. After half a lifetime spent waiting to reclaim her mother's throne, Castelle's frustration gets the better of her. After yet another assassination attempt, her disenchantment with her exile forces her to act. Castelle wanders into the forest, crossing the lines that have kept her safe. (If you're looking for a character-driven, slow-burn lesbian romance set in a rich fantasy world, this might just be the novel for you.)
Author: Amy Harmon
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-05-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781533134134
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"'Swallow, daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them 'til they've time to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, 'til the hour. You won't speak and you won't tell, you won't call on heaven or hell. You will learn and you will thrive. Silence, daughter. Stay alive.' The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn't speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would trade his soul and lose his son to the sky. My father has a claim to the throne, and he is waiting in the shadows for all of my mother's words to come to pass. He wants desperately to be king, and I just want to be free. But freedom will require escape, and I'm a prisoner of my mother's curse and my father's greed. I can't speak or make a sound, and I can't wield a sword or beguile a king. In a land purged of enchantment, love might be the only magic left, and who could ever love ... a bird?"--Back cover.
Author: Andrew Preston
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2012-02-28
Total Pages: 779
ISBN-13: 0307957608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A richly detailed, profoundly engrossing story of how religion has influenced American foreign relations, told through the stories of the men and women—from presidents to preachers—who have plotted the country’s course in the world. Ever since John Winthrop argued that the Puritans’ new home would be “a city upon a hill,” Americans’ role in the world has been shaped by their belief that God has something special in mind for them. But this is a story that historians have mostly ignored. Now, in the first authoritative work on the subject, Andrew Preston explores the major strains of religious fervor—liberal and conservative, pacifist and militant, internationalist and isolationist—that framed American thinking on international issues from the earliest colonial wars to the twenty-first century. He arrives at some startling conclusions, among them: Abraham Lincoln’s use of religion in the Civil War became the model for subsequent wars of humanitarian intervention; nineteenth-century Protestant missionaries made up the first NGO to advance a global human rights agenda; religious liberty was the centerpiece of Franklin Roosevelt’s strategy to bring the United States into World War II. From George Washington to George W. Bush, from the Puritans to the present, from the colonial wars to the Cold War, religion has been one of America’s most powerful sources of ideas about the wider world. When, just days after 9/11, George W. Bush described America as “a prayerful nation, a nation that prays to an almighty God for protection and for peace,” or when Barack Obama spoke of balancing the “just war and the imperatives of a just peace” in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, they were echoing four hundred years of religious rhetoric. Preston traces this echo back to its source. Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith is an unprecedented achievement: no one has yet attempted such a bold synthesis of American history. It is also a remarkable work of balance and fair-mindedness about one of the most fraught subjects in America.
Author: Japonica F. Edmonds Smith
Publisher: WestBowPress
Published: 2013-08-02
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 1449787908
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Japonica F. Edmonds Smith is a seasoned writer of poetry, prose, and inspirational short stories. In Gods now latter blessings rain! I shall continue to seek the Father in order to give His people divine revelation in their thoughts as well as in their walk within their lives. It is the Father Jehovah that inspires us spiritually to draw the reader inward, in order to have an intimate walk within our heart to walk with Him. It is without question that it is God who awakens ones heart to seek His son, Jesus. It is He that wants His plan and purpose to be fulfilled in our lives and to show us that in the midst of life trials, there is still a word from the Father. God has always been concerned about you, the saints of God in Christ Jesus. He loves you with an everlasting love. He showed humanity His agape love, when He thought it not robbery to give His Son, Jesus, to take our place, by being on the cross. That was designed for the sins of humanity each and every one of us individually! Thank God for His Son! We have been redeemed by His blood! IT IS FINISHED! His immeasurable love raised Jesus from the dead. Hallelujah! For He sent forth His Son that we might have life and life that more abundantly, so that we will have true intimacy, fellowship, communion, and relationship with Jesus. After all is said and done, after we have repented, we shall have true forgiveness from our sins, thereby receiving healing, growth, and restoration for ourselves as we restore love to one another with forgiveness! With the sword of the spirit in my mouth, I decree as well as command, that I am a victorious woman of God, without any constraints to do the will of the Father Jehovah in Jesus name. Amen! It is Gods will for all the saints of God to seek and to save those who are lostto teach the found to go after the lost, so that all shall be saved and none perish.
Author: Donna Mosley
Publisher:
Published: 2004-05-01
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781418442514
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →My book is about the power of passion, adventure, romance and fairytale, it's the kind of ancient passion that intrigues the soul the spirit, it tells of the loyalty of the kind of love that holds the heart. My book is about testimonies. A persons who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones, it's about my dreams. In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities, it's about inspiration and going the extra mile to heal yourself as well as others, it's about my experiences. Experiences is a hard teacher because it gives test first, the lessons afterwards, it's about humility it doesn't mean you think less about yourself it means you think of yourself less, it's my poetry, my writings, and my fairytales as they are the secrets of life to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks, many of our fears are tissue paper thin, a single courageous step would carry us clear though them, as I did through my writings, life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself, as when I started writing my poetry, all beginnings require that you unlock a new door, don't look behind what we see depends mainly on what we look for. I have a playa melody and my philosophy, it means don't over arrange, don't make life difficult, just play the melody and do it the simplest way possible, it's a way of showing your love for yourself as well as others, there are victories of the soul and the spirit it has pride, class, character, without the wisdom and the rich heart your life becomes shallow, my book is about sharing and taking the first step, the first step in faith and in hope, you don't have to see the whole staircase, take the step the first step in finding yourself as I did. Readmy book with an open mind read upon the beauty of the words the heart felt the ups and downs, maybe you'll begin to find yourself, I think everyday begins with possibilities.
Author: Robin McKinley
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-04-26
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 006240072X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Newbery Honor Book and a modern classic of young adult fantasy, The Blue Sword introduces the desert kingdom of Damar, where magic weaves through the blood and weaves together destinies. New York Times–bestselling and award-winning author Robin McKinley sets the standard for epic fantasy and compelling, complex heroines. Fans of Sarah J. Maas, Leigh Bardugo, and Rae Carson will delight in discovering the rich world of Damar. Harry Crewe is a Homelander orphan girl, come to live in Damar from over the seas. She is drawn to the bleak landscape, so unlike the green hills of her Homeland. She wishes she might cross the sands and climb the dark mountains where no Homelander has ever set foot, where the last of the old Damarians, the Free Hillfolk, live. Corlath is the golden-eyed king of the Free Hillfolk, son of the sons of the legendary Lady Aerin. When he arrives in Harry’s town to ally with the Homelanders against a common enemy, he never expects to set Harry’s destiny in motion: She will ride into battle as a King’s Rider, bearing the Blue Sword, the great mythical treasure, which no one has wielded since Lady Aerin herself. Legends and myths, no matter how epic, no matter how magical, all begin somewhere.
Author: Lisa Bevere
Publisher: WaterBrook
Published: 2014-02-18
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0307457826
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A passionate call for Christian women to effectively "wield the sword" of their God-given feminine strength against any evil that threatens them and those they love. What if you discovered you have been entrusted with an invisible, invincible, and incorruptible weapon? Would you use it? In a day of worldwide trafficking, gendercide, discrimination, and other hostility against women, Lisa Bevere points to a biblical foundation to present a model of feminine strength that will empower women to live confidently. Drawing on the many references to swords throughout Scripture, the author constructs a revealing and compelling female paradigm that will impact every area of a woman's self identity, spiritual awareness, relationships, and life vision and mission. Long known for her passionate and articulate expression of biblical womanhood, Bevere presents fresh imagery--as enticing and strong as polished steel--to prepare women boldly for the challenges they face in today's world. It's not enough to just be wise and strong: Now a woman must know how to wield her sword. Creatively forging the imagery of swords, the Word of God, and the Cross, Girls with Swords will teach you: • How to speak the language of heaven on earth • What it means to intercede • What it means to carry your cross • What it means to be discerning • How to disarm the enemy • Why women are the enemy’s target—and why God needs them to be heroes It’s time to take up your sword and be a hero.
Author: Ad Putter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-06
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 1317885554
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Middle English popular romances enjoyed a wide appeal in later medieval Britain, and even today students of medieval literature will encounter examples of the genre, such as Sir Orfeo, Sir Tristrem, and Sir Launfal. This collection of twelve specially commissioned essays is designed to meet the need for a stimulating guide to the genre. Each essay introduces one popular romance, setting it in its literary and historical contexts, and develops an original interpretation that reveals the possibilities that popular romances offer for modern literary criticism. A substantial introduction by the editors discusses the production and transmission of popular romances in the Middle Ages, and considers the modern reception of popular romance and the interpretative challenges offered by new theoretical approaches. Accessible to advanced students of English, this book is also of interest to those working in the field of medieval studies, comparative literature, and popular culture.
Author: Nicola Griffith
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-11-12
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 0374280878
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Daughter of a poisoned prince and a crafty noblewoman, quiet, bright-minded Hild arrives at the court of King Edwin of Northumbria, where the six-year-old takes on the role of seer/consiglieri for a monarch troubled by shifting allegiances and Roman emissaries attempting to spread their new religion.
