The world of the dream around Karyn seems more solid than the real world she left behind. That is, until she gets a good look at the characters around her. A drunk shape-shifting chronomancer, a bartender whose form shifts depending on who he's talking to, a waitress with four arms and green plant-like skin, an angel playing chess with a woman in a wheelchair, a maître d' who can't speak and writes everything on a small chalkboard, and a host whose face won't come into focus no matter how ...

Billy Ransom has been recruited by a small band of civilian and military personnel who use technological advancements to send agents, called Guardians, into an ethereal world overlapping our own. On an anti-terrorist mission the Guardians discover they are not the only ones venturing into the ether when they encounter a battle between an angel and a demon over possession of a human soul. What happens next draws the members of the Guardians into a much larger conflict, bigger than any of th...

When the Ogre Mage defeated the kingdom of Ioudas in the Great War he ordered all battle gears and gear grunts decommissioned or destroyed. For Sergeant Major 03111337, sole survivor of the Battle of the King's Way it meant hiding his regimental colors and becoming a greeter for a struggling repair shop deep in the city. After decades of disrepair and neglect, the passing of his beloved master, and the taking over of the business by his three sons there may yet be an opportunity for the ho...

Billy Ransom has been recruited by a small band of civilian and military personnel who use technological advancements to send agents, called Guardians, into an ethereal world overlapping our own. On an anti-terrorist mission the Guardians discover they are not the only ones venturing into the ether when they encounter a battle between an angel and a demon over possession of a human soul. What happens next draws the members of the Guardians into a much larger conflict, bigger than any of th...

The date is March 18, 1314. The King of France in conjunction with the Pope in Rome has orchestrated the fall of the Knights of the Temple of Solomon, the Knights Templar. A spiritual war has been raging on earth for centuries and the Templars are the last order to still know how to use fervent prayer to enter the spiritual realm known as the ether. It is in this unseen world of the ether where godly men and women have been fighting alongside God's heavenly host of angels against the demon...

Billy Ransom continues to grapple with the idea that Angels and Demons are real as he works with the top secret Guardian program to protect his country. While searching for the terrorist Robert Dante the Guardians discover he can completely disappear off the face of the Earth and no one can figure out how he does the impossible. That is until two Frenchmen arrive claiming to be friends, but knowing far too much about the Ether, Billy, and even the existence of the Guardian's hidden base. B...

While searching for the terrorist Robert Dante the Guardians discover he can completely disappear off the face of the Earth and no one can figure out how he does the impossible. That is until two Frenchmen arrive claiming to be friends, but knowing far too much about the Ether, Billy, and even the existence of the Guardian's hidden base. Billy must find Robert Dante before he can kill again, protect those he cares about, and sort out friend from foe or his may be the next soul lost in the ...

Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury and passion of the kind she reads about in romantic novels. But life with her country doctor husband in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. This new translation by Margaret Mauldon perfectly captures Flaubert's distinctive style. - ;'Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives!' When Emma Rouault marries ...

Does prophecy really matter? Christians cannot seem to agree on it, so why spend time trying to understand future events? When souls are perishing, why become distracted by something which is not a salvation issue? Yet prophecy is important. Although not a test of orthodoxy, it helps Christians grow in their faith. This book has four aims: to establish guidelines of interpretation of prophecy; to differentiate between Dispensational and Covenant Theology (which largely determines how w...

Understanding where ageing occurs, how it is experienced by different people in different places, and in what ways it is transforming our communities, economies and societies at all levels has become crucial for the development of informed research, policy and programmes.This book focuses on the interdisciplinary field of study – geographical gerontology – that addresses these issues. With contributions from more than 30 leading geographers and gerontologists, the book examines the...

The threat of biological weapons has never attracted as much public attention as in the past five years. Current concerns largely relate to the threat of weapons acquisition and use by rogue states or by terrorists. But the threat has deeper roots—it has been evident for fifty years that biological agents could be used to cause mass casualties and large-scale economic damage. Yet there has been little historical analysis of such weapons over the past half-century.Deadly Culture...

Shortly before his death, Percy Grainger (1882-1961) lodged over twenty unpublished sketches in his Australian Museum. Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger draws exclusively from these sketches, revealing for the first time an illuminating portrait of the composer's life. With such titles as "The Aldridge-Grainger-Strom Saga," "Thunks," "Ere-I-Forget," "The Love-Life of Helen and Paris," and "Anecdotes," these manuscripts were intended as precursors to Grainger's autobiography, My ...