Tales Of Ryca The Complete Series Epic Fantasy Sword And Sorcery Boxset

Enjoy this young adult epic fantasy box set by USA Today Bestselling fantasy author Shereen Vedam… Dragons, giants, and magical resurgence, oh my. The Tales of Ryca will introduce you to two brave sisters who are in serious trouble. One must face an enemy out to destroy her entire family. The other will confront a villain who plans to alter her world beyond recognition. Hidden: When a young girl, injured and alone, faces a family tragedy of epic proportion, she has but one choice. Run. Hide. Stay inconspicuous. But what if she's found out? Hushed: When a teenager is imprisoned for most of her young life, what does she do once free? She fights to make sure no one ever controls her again. But what if that unyielding attitude hurts an innocent? Enter the Tales of Ryca and meet two fiercely independent women who have vastly different beliefs about how to survive. These epic fantasy tales will whisk you across a world and spin you around the universe in pursuit of the most elusive commodities in life: freedom, acceptance, and love. *** KEYWORDS: World building, world-wide conflict, quest, secondary world fantasy, high fantasy, magic, high-stakes, wizard, sorcerer, sorceress, witch, dragons, sword and sorcery, action and adventure, full novel, happily ever after, young adult, romantic novels, no cliffhangers, series books, family feud, love books, love stories, collection, romantic novels, new beginnings, happily ever after, high-stakes story, medieval world, guaranteed HEA

The history of western notions about Islam is of obvious scholarly as well as popular interest today. This book investigates Christian images of the Muslim Middle East, focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, when the nature of divine as well as human power was under particularly intense debate in the West. Ivan Kalmar explores how the controversial notion of submission to ultimate authority has in the western world been discussed with reference to Islam’s alleged recommendation to obey, unquestioningly, a merciless Allah in heaven and a despotic government on earth. He discusses how Abrahamic faiths – Christianity and Judaism as much as Islam – demand devotion to a sublime power, with the faith that this power loves and cares for us, a concept that brings with it the fear that, on the contrary, this power only toys with us for its own enjoyment. For such a power, Kalmar borrows Slavoj Zizek’s term "obscene father". He discusses how this describes exactly the western image of the Oriental despot - Allah in heaven, and the various sultans, emirs and ayatollahs on earth – and how these despotic personalities of imagined Muslim society function as a projection, from the West on to the Muslim Orient, of an existential anxiety about sublime power. Making accessible academic debates on the history of Christian perceptions of Islam and on Islam and the West, this book is an important addition to the existing literature in the areas of Islamic studies, religious history and philosophy.

The true, though well-embellished, story of the seventeenth-century English celebrity pirate, John Ward (later Yusuf Rais), who shocked Jacobean England by converting to Islam in 1608.

It is the story of Yuga, a mysterious young warrior, who was born and brought up in the forest. He lives with his Guru who tries to save the hidden secrets of the Shatapatha Kingdom from the followers of Darkness. Their ancestors are afraid of the rebirth of the Shadow of Darkness Lord in the future. Aryan is the king of their kingdom, who is wise and generous. He and his protectors begin their Tapasya to please their creator, ‘Garuda - The King of Birds' for grace and to defend them from the followers of Lord Darkness. The Creator pleases and boon them with the hidden secrets, and also, reminds them to do some karma so that they can own the hidden secrets. In the middle of a battle, the Shatapathans find one of their protectors who had disappeared with King Aryan for so many years. The protector sends Yuga with them. It’s a journey of Yuga exploring the hidden secrets.

A young forensics investigator finds his worldview turned upside down when a bizarre religious triple homicide introduces him to the Rulers, godlike beings who have ruled humanity since the dawn of time. From writer PAUL JENKINS (SPAWN: RESURRECTION, The Inhumans, Marvel Knights: Sentry) and artist HENDRY PRASETYA (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), GOD COMPLEX: DOGMA is a unique spin on ancient mythology with a focus on one manÍs journey of faith. Collects GOD COMPLEX #1-6

Contemporary painter Jonas Wood's exuberantly colorful portraits: an uncanny blend of realism and abstraction The latest book from Los Angeles-based artist Jonas Wood (born 1977) follows the style of his previous publications Sports Book and Interiors, this time taking up the subject of portraiture. Portraits compiles the many works completed over Wood's career, done in a variety of media, and with a range of subjects and sitters, including paintings of artist friends, self-portraits, intimate familial moments in domestic interiors and the artist's own cultural and sports heroes, from basketball players and boxers to Philip Guston and Pablo Picasso--though Wood's esteem for these figures is beside the point, as he notes: "I don't depict only those athletes who have meaning for me. Sometimes it is about the images being interesting, or that I like the color of the card, and sometimes it is about loving the athlete." Wood's subjects are presented in bright light with lively color, graphic flatness and minute detail rendered impeccably. Jonas Woods: Portraits reveals an intimate look at the life of an artist at the forefront of contemporary painting.