Waves of accidents suddenly plague our world. Only the ancient society of Keepers understands that the Blessing is dwindling and life is in peril. These men and women live secretly among us, are descendants of the Biblical Patriarchs who were told: ¿Through you all the people of the earth shall be blessed.¿ Will they be able to restore the Blessing to the earth and prevent the approaching doom?This fast-pace, breathtaking modern fantasy spans four millennia of human history, from Biblical times to the 21st century, and crisscrosses the world between New York, Jerusalem, Switzerland, Algeria, and the entire world.
A brief collection of Lovecraftian Horror... A city descends into chaos, Nyarlathotep preaching the gospel of Azathoth while waiting the arrival of the blind idiot god. A mysterious stranger using "thought forms" to destroy his victims, but what is real and what is merely figments of imagination. A Halloween prank turns deadly, and there are those who decide to enact revenge. A man returns from the dead to fulfill a prophesy, but another awaits his arrival. An old Indian legend rises from the murky waters of a reservoir.
Dark Legacy was a fan magazine of Lovecraftian horror, Chambersian Yellow King tales, and Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E Howard fantasies. This is an anthology of tales from Dark Legacy.
Stephen King once said that books are portable magic. Ran Walker decided to take this phrase a bit more literally in his third short story collection, bringing to life vibrant new landscapes of both the strange and the familiar. A writer finds himself in a love triangle where one of the women is a ghost. A woman discovers that her cure for alopecia has unintended consequences. An artist paints a woman he has been dreaming about, only to discover his dreams might be closer to reality than he thought. A graduating senior learns the true value of sacrifice. A guy professes his love for his girlfriend through an overwhelming metaphor. A social media-focused couple welcomes the world into their adoption struggles. And a relationship is threatened when a childhood secret is revealed. In these seven stories, Walker paints a world where nothing is quite as it seems.
The mountain village teenager obtained a talisman book and embarked on the road of cultivation. Relying on his strong determination, he subdued the Gui Demon and subdued the Female Ghost, and also obtained rewards in the process of exterminating demons and devils. His cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, reaching heights that ordinary people would not be able to reach in the short span of a few years. In the end, he even entered a Minor World and obtained a ten-thousand-year treasure. He established his own power and became the number one figure in the Immortal Cultivation World.
Offers examples of using hypnosis with children to address physical and mental challenges. Changing Children’s Lives with Hypnosis is a timely collection of patients’ healing experiences, the story of how these events changed one physician’s approach to medicine, and the takeaway information parents and practitioners should consider as they deal with medical and psychological challenges in their children’s and patients’ lives. Every year millions of pediatric patients could benefit from hypnosis therapy to deal with and alleviate physical and psychological symptoms big and small. The benefits of hypnosis-facilitated therapy range from complete cures to small improvements. They extend beyond the physical and into the psychological and spiritual, building confidence, positivity and resilience. They include the empowerment of children with chronic health issues to feel more in control of their own minds, bodies and circumstances. They sometimes lead to the reduction or even elimination of medications. Hypnosis is painless, non-invasive, and cost-effective. It doesn’t preclude any other treatment, and drawbacks are virtually nonexistent. In a world where the doctor’s primary role has become more and more one of a technician—pinpoint a problem, prescribe a solution, and move to the next patient—hypnosis brings connection and art back into the process. It relies on a relationship between practitioner and patient, encourages creativity and expression, and allows patients to take ownership of their experience with the support and encouragement of their doctors. Children deserve the opportunity to receive gentle, thoughtful, empowering, and effective treatment in whatever form it’s available. Hypnosis therapy offers all of those things, and it’s time for patients, parents, and medical practitioners to embrace it—even to demand it. Through meaningful stories and expert explanation, this book takes readers through the process of hypnosis for children and its myriad benefits for overall wellness.
one comb two combs three combs free four combs clean five combs strong six combs jinlan sisters in love seven combs great eight combs unstoppable when i was eight years old i poisoned my father and went to my great-aunt's house to be a self-grooming woman from then on i stepped into the world of real self-grooming girls
Columbiana County, Ohio - a place of dark woods, meandering creeks, open farmland, and twisting narrow back country roads. It's colorful there, from the flat farmland in the north to the rolling hills in the south. Picture postcard perfect. Almost. There are also the haunted ruins of a lock and canal system, the Sprucevale ghost town, legends of Big Foot, and other...things...said to walk the dark woods. But it wouldn't be so bad if that's all it was. There is something else in those woods, something ancient, as old as time. It waits and watches, and sometimes whispers to the unsuspecting. On rare occasions someone stumbles upon it. Fortunately, most don't live to regret it.
ZOTHIQUE?is the last inhabited continent of Earth. The continents of our present cycle have sunken, perhaps several times. Some have remained submerged, others have re-risen, partially, and re-arranged themselves? The science and machinery of our present civilization have long been forgotten, together with our religions. But many gods are worshipped, and sorcery and demonism prevail as in ancient days.
Fantasy and horror, shadows and dark forms lurking around every corner, in alleys and hallways, in statues and ancient tomes, intruding upon thoughts and minds...and, of course, the esteemed Professor Abelard.
The Massachusetts seaside village has seen its better days. What remains is a ruined and rotting collection of buildings teetering on the brink of collapse. The scent of fish permeates the air. Trench coated villagers prowl dark allies and side streets. They gather in the night on the village wharf while lantern light flickers off the coast on the craggy cliffs of Devil Reef. Unholy cacophonous sounds echo from the Hall of the Esoteric Order of Dagon on New Church Green. Yes, there's something unholy about the village, a malignancy dark and mysterious that its inhabitants seem to guard closely from outsiders. Fair warning...do not delve too deeply into their affairs else you may be begging for a swift and merciful death.
Friends stumble upon a strange mysterious bracelet in a local coffee shop that leads them into confrontation with the Great Old Ones. Some die as a result, and one ends up at the great library of the Elder Gods on Celaeno where he meets the man himself...H P Lovecraft. Suddenly, in the end, everything falls into place. The stars are right in their course...
Once, she was a proud daughter of heaven that everyone looked up to. She was jailed for a conspiracy! Become a prisoner!A few years later, she returned with hatred in her heart, thinking of only one thing: I want to kill that man!She had been through tens of thousands of flowers but not a single leaf had touched her body. Countless men had fallen for her.As for that man ... She actually became her number one pursuer?SOME MAN: Wife, it's your birthday tomorrow, so I've chartered a yacht party for you.Qin Ran: No.SOME MAN: Wife, the ml limit has been reached. Would you like to try it?Qin Ran: Scram.Finally, this woman couldn't take it anymore: Gu Lingfeng, are you sick?
It's written in the Kitab al-Azif that when the stars are right, the Great Old Ones shall return. Although the stars are not yet right for their return, they are beginning to stir. A mysterious stranger with unlimited powers and a 400 year old man with a legendary name take it upon themselves to ensure the return is not premature.
In this lifetime, we shall never meet again!" A piece of paper stopped her from writing and she was locked in the side courtyard. She cried to the wind and sighed to Yue Chang; he sat with his concubine and drank and talked merrily! He was a prince of the Southern Dynasties, but he did not specialize in emotions. She was a consort who had been humiliated to her heart, and her love was deep! He hated her for her luck, she hated him for his ruthlessness! When the army came to the city, he abandoned her and she became a prisoner. The prince of the Northern Dynasty, however, fell in love with her at first sight. The war resumed. When the two countries were fighting, he astonishingly discovered that the princess of the northern imperial court, who was sitting on the chariot with a cold smile on her face, was actually his concubine?!
It was a dastardly kidnap plot. The Dreaded Hooded Frog has kidnapped Princess Linda. We're off on a wild raucous and riotous hilarious ride across the Multiverse with Billy Space Boy and the Astro Dog, Zap. From Dangerous Danny's Spaceside Burger, Bar, and Disco to the Planet Slagheep, follow the adventures of Billy and Zap as they attempt to rescue Princess Linda and bring peace and tranquility back to the Multiverse. And you thought this was just going to be your standard boring Dreaded Hood Frog and Princess formula story...! Yeah, right.
Once he was teleported over, Chu Qingge became the crown prince of Azure Dragon Country. To say that she was an inexperienced and unlearned person and that she was a complete idiot? To say that she was timid, anyone could bully her? She wanted to let these people see if she, Chu Qingge, was an idiot, could anyone bully her? Those who went against her, they would all have to pay a painful price! Just that, this Prince Regent who was beneath him and above everyone, she didn't seem to be able to do anything to him! Moreover, this dangerous man always had many ambiguous actions towards her. Is there a mistake? She was the crown prince, and also a man. Could it be that he wanted to play with her? She didn't have such a hobby! *** A certain man was extremely shocked, "You are a woman?" The girl held her head high and stuck out her chest with a face that was neither servile nor overbearing. "So what if I am a woman?" Staring at her flat chest that was like a washboard, a certain man smirked, "Then I can eat you without a care in the world!" A certain woman was panic-stricken, "What are you doing?! Where are you putting your hands?
From one of China's most celebrated contemporary novelists comes this riveting tale of a young woman's emotional and sexual awakening. Set in the turbulent decades of the Cultural Revolution and the Tian'anmen Square incident, A Private Life exposes the complex and fantastical inner life of a young woman growing up during a time of intense social and political upheaval. At the age of twenty-six, Ni Niuniu has come to accept pain and loss. She has suffered the death of her mother and a close friend and neighbor, Mrs. Ho. She has long been estranged from her tyrannical father, while her boyfriend—a brilliant and handsome poet named Yin Nan—was forced to flee the country. She has survived a disturbing affair with a former teacher, a mental breakdown that left her in a mental institution for two years, and a stray bullet that tore through the flesh of her left leg. Now living in complete seclusion, Niuniu shuns a world that seems incapable of accepting her and instead spends her days wandering in vivid, dreamlike reveries where her fractured recollections and wild fantasies merge with her inescapable feelings of melancholy and loneliness. Yet this eccentric young woman—caught between the disappearing traditions of the past and a modernizing Beijing, a flood of memories and an unknowable future, her chosen solitude and her irrepressible longing—discovers strength and independence through writing, which transforms her flight from the hypocrisy of urban life into a journey of self-realization and rebirth. First published in 1996 to widespread critical acclaim, Chen Ran's controversial debut novel is a lyrical meditation on memory, sexuality, femininity, and the often arbitrary distinctions between madness and sanity, alienation and belonging, nature and society. As Chen leads the reader deep into the psyche of Ni Niuniu—into her innermost secrets and sexual desires—the borders separating narrator and protagonist, writer and subject dissolve, exposing the shared aspects of human existence that transcend geographical and cultural differences.
There are two swords long thought to be fable. One is the Zyn Blade, legendary sword of the centuries dead King of Zyntrolm, Ilian Zyn. The other is its more powerful sister sword, the Korlan Sword, both forged by the legendary Venenae sorcerer, Korlan. Shown the location of the Zyn Blade in a vision, King M'lerek Zyn retrieves the sword and decides that if the Zyn Blade exists, so must the Korlan Sword. The young king sets off in quest of the Korlan Sword. Little does he know that dark forces are gathering far to the north in the Gnydron nation of Shokkuhl, forces that will set in motion a time known as The Darkening. So it is written in Vergama's Book of Destiny.
A BEST OF THE MONTH SELECTION BY OPRAH MAGAZINE AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2021 “An eminent South Korean talent makes her American début in this poignant watercolor of a novel . . . Kim is a writer on the move.” —O, The Oprah Magazine Ae-ran Kim's My Brilliant Life explores family bonds and out-of-the-ordinary friendships, interweaving the past and present of a tight-knit family, finding joy and happiness in even the most difficult times. Areum lives life to its fullest, vicariously through the stories of his parents, conversations with Little Grandpa Jang—his sixty-year-old neighbor and best friend—and through the books he reads to visit the places he would otherwise never see. For several months, Areum has been working on a manuscript, piecing together his parents’ often embellished stories about his family and childhood. He hopes to present it on his birthday, as a final gift to his mom and dad; their own falling-in-love story. Through it all, Areum and his family will have you laughing and crying, for all the right reasons. “This novel snuck up on me and captured my heart.” —Margarita Montimore, USA Today bestselling author of Oona Out of Order At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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