An Ashen Sky

I see your future, and I see my own. My future is terrifying. Ten years ago, on my twenty-first birthday, I discovered the bloodied body of my uncle who'd raised me. Rumor said a secret society known as The Whispers had tortured and killed him when he wouldn't turn over a magical pendant. Rumor said his niece-me-who'd disappeared right after, had the stone and chain. A series of small towns sheltered me before I landed in the beach city I've called home for seven years, eking out an anonymous living as a Tarot card reader. The cards help focus my far-sight. If you sit at my table, I will see your true future. I see my own, too. But my far-sight didn't warn me my apartment would be set on a fire or that a tiny blue dragon would save me from the flames. I certainly wasn't expecting Aiden Maddox-a too-good-looking trainer and bodyguard whom the dragon insists on hiring-or what his touch does to me. Now The Whispers are closing in. Again. An Ashen Sky features magic, romance, and a grumpy dragon with a deep and abiding love of bacon.

Barry Moser's extraordinarily detailed and evocative relief engravings decorate this translation of Pliny the Younger's two famous letters to Tacitus about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the death of his uncle, Pliny the Elder. Printed in black and white, the engravings are works of art that illustrate various descriptions in the letters. The text includes a brief description of the eruption of the volcano, concise biographies of Tacitus and of both Plinys, and a summary of how the texts of the two letters have survived until today.

Little remains of our technological society. A millennia after thermonuclear war, only a handful of prophets know the truth about magic - namely, that it isn't really magic at all... a telekinetic technology lingers from a forgotten time, allowing wizards to reign and terrorize with godly powers. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Highly Rated Series An immersive world reminiscent of The Wheel of Time and Game of Thrones. An exhilarating fantasy with science lurking at its core. Times are far from ideal in the capital city of Erotos. The struggle for power blurs the lines of friend and foe. Between the Arcanum, the queen, the Ver'konus, and the threat of enemy agents hiding in plain sight, everyone is a pawn in somebody's deadly game. The military academy holds claim over Javic and Belford, but with all-out war looming on the horizon, and unpredictable fluctuations of the Power literally tearing the streets of Erotos apart beneath their feet, there is little time for either of them to focus on their mandated training. Belford's past becomes clear as his memories resurface, but the more he learns about who he is and where he came from, the less certain the future becomes. Can Belford stitch together the shards of his forgotten memories before his past inevitably catches up with him?

Liam dreams of returning to Earth, the planet his fellow humans left long ago. But the obstacles in front of him are extreme. The trip is long, dangerous, and requires a ship and a crew. Those cost money, and Liam has none of it. Bereft of resources, and facing a dwindling lifespan on a hostile planet, Liam seeks out his only remaining option: reward money for a radical terrorist.

Daphne is vividly alive, fiery, passionate, hungry for lifeand yet she has been gone for nearly two thousand years. Daphne died in AD 79, when Mount Vesuvius destroyed her seaside town of Herculaneum. Now, she is lost in time. Anne McCarthy has no one. Angry with God, she exists in the present day, but she feels dead inside. Trapped in her unresolved grief over the loss of her husband and five-year-old son in a car accident, she tries to insulate herself from all emotion. But she is haunted by disturbing dreams and visions from another language, time, and place. A priest recommends she take a retreat at a convent, where she hopes she can finally find the peace she needs to move forward. When the dreams become more sinister, Anne decides to travel to Rome for answers, soon realizing that her path to healing has only just begun. In this moving story, two women separated by centuries but joined in spirit must make a perilous journey together to the edge of death and beyond, as one attempts to right an ancient wrong and the other finds a way to live and love again.

An unsettling encounter with Aleister Crowley in a Soho pub launches Dylan Thomas on an adventure whose first stop is the opening of the Surrealist Exhibition on June 11, 1936. With the Welsh poet is his first editor Victor Neuburg, the Beast’s lapsed apprentice. In the bohemian fleshpots of Fitzrovia and Soho they connect with such luminaries of the period as Nina Hamnett, Augustus John, Tom Driberg, King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, as well as Crowley himself. Neuburg confronts the terrifying magick of his youth and something even more menacing — a Crowley orchestrated MI5 plot to avert the abdication. Aleister Crowley MI5 is an exhilarating work of fiction with highly researched fact at its core.

"French Frenzies" is a lively history of French popular music that responds to a real need: how to understand the cultural differences between France and the English speaking countries of Britain and North America? The book is unique in showing how French forms of cultural expression are rooted in social and political tensions that, although shared by other countries, are not generally commented upon in songs with the same degree of clarity. In France, the persistence of strong literary and political traditions continues to nurture an exceptional current of criticism in songs and musical expression.

To reach souls for Christ and counter the philosophies of those advocates of church growth that eliminate such scriptural doctrines as sin, judgment, and Hell, Red Sky's a Blazin' is presented to you. This book is a collection of awesome, prophetic end-time events recorded in the Bible that not even Hollywood with all its money and technology could come anywhere near dramatizing. If you have had difficulties understanding prophecy, Norm Sharbaugh's simple, no-nonsense, straightforward approach to God's Word in Red Sky's a Blazin' is an absolute must read book. The author brings to this work over 130 illustrations from his 39 year preaching ministry. Many are from his personal experiences. For those that are busy in the ministry, this book could be a great aid in preparing Bible lessons and sermons. Norm Sharbaugh is a graduate of St. Joseph's College in Rennsselaer, Indiana, with a degree in biology. While teaching religion and science related subjects at a catholic high school and coaching basketball at a local college in Grand Rapids, he received Christ as his Savior. He attended Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary. He met and married Teri Hubble and they now have six children and fifteen grandchildren. Norm has been an evangelist for 39 years and has held over 1400 revival, evangelistic, prophecy, and creation meetings. He has authored three books: The present one, Red Sky's a Blazin', The Treasure in Earthen Vessels, and Ammunition: For Piercing the Armor of the Philosophy of Evolution. His wife Teri has authored an exciting novel, Compelled to Love a Stranger. The two presently live in Brownsburg, Indiana. Check out Norm's website at www.normsplace.homestead.com.