The Red Scrolls of Magic

• Author : Cassandra Clare,Wesley Chu
• Publisher : Simon & Schuster Children's
• Release : 01 September 2020

The Eldest Curses dives even deeper into Magnus Banes's exciting and mysterious life in this sequel series to the internationally bestselling Moral Instruments from Cassandra Clare.

• Author : Cassandra Clare,Wesley Chu
• Publisher : Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Release : 01 September 2020

From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu comes the second book in the Eldest Curses series and a thrilling new adventure for High Warlock Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood, for whom a death-defying mission into the heart of evil is not just a job, it’s also a romantic getaway. The Lost Book of the White is a Shadowhunters novel. Life is good for Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood. They’re living together in a fabulous

• Author : David Humphreys
• Publisher : Janus Publishing Company Lim
• Release : 03 June 2023

Though widely read by early Christians, the book of Enoch was banned by the church in the fourth century and considered lost for 1,600 years. A mention of it in the New Testament led 19th-century scholars to a manuscript of the Enoch story in Hebrew and Aramaic verse, and a theological study of the manuscript in English followed in 1912. Yet it too eventually disappeared from public view. This edition of the lost biblical book is re-written in contemporary English and recounts

• Author : Pia Maria Jolliffe,Thomas Richard Bruce
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 30 October 2018

How particular has Southeast Asia’s experience of educational development been, and has this led to an identifiably distinct Southeast Asian approach to the provision of education? Inquiry into these questions has significant consequences for our understanding of the current state of education in Southeast Asia and the challenges it has inherited. This book contributes to a better understanding of the experience of educational development in Southeast Asia by presenting a collection of micro-historical studies on the subject of education,

• Author : Katherine Howe
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release : 25 June 2009

While clearing out her grandmother's cottage for sale, Connie Goodwin finds a parchment inscribed with the name Deliverance Dane. And so begins the hunt to uncover the woman behind the name, a hunt that takes her back to Salem in 1692 . . . and the infamous witchcraft trials. But nothing is entirely as it seems and when Connie unearths the existence of Deliverance's spell book, the Physick Book, the situation takes on a menacing edge as interested parties reveal their desperation to find

• Author : Pia Jolliffe
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 07 September 2016

Focusing on the Karen people in Burma, Thailand and the United Kingdom, this book analyses how global, regional and local developments affect patterns of learning. It combines historical and ethnographic research to explore the mutual shaping of intergenerational relations and children’s practical and formal learning within a context of migration and socio-political change. In this endeavour, Pia Jolliffe discusses traditional patterns of socio-cultural learning within Karen communities as well as the role of Christian missionaries in introducing schooling to

• Author : Rose MacDowell
• Publisher : Bantam
• Release : 27 September 2011

Three very different women, each trying to reconcile her dreams with reality, are drawn together by a hypnotic voice from the past. In a once-grand Southern California neighborhood, Linda, a New York City transplant, is panicking over the disappearance of her precocious ten-year-old stepdaughter. Christine, who has struggled to get pregnant for years, finds herself expecting a baby—just as her husband is accused of murder. And Audrey, who’s always played it safe because of her family’s history

• Author : Caitlín Matthews,John Matthews
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 16 July 2019

Reveals the long-forgotten prequel to the Grail mythos and how it has profound resonance with modern times • Includes the complete text of the Grail prequel, The Elucidation of the Grail, a 13th-century poem newly translated by Gareth Knight and Caitlín Matthews • Examines the forgotten story of the Faery Wars and the role of Well Maidens in the Grail story • Discusses the Seven Guardians of the Stories, the Grail Kings and Anti-Grail Kings, the Rich Company, the Courts of Joy,

• Author : Michael Zapata
• Publisher : Harlequin
• Release : 04 February 2020

*Winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction* A Heartland Booksellers Award Nominee An NPR Best Book of the Year A BookPage Best Book of the Year A Library Journal Best Winter/Spring Debut of 2020 A Most Anticipated Book of 2020 from the Boston Globe and The Millions A Best Book of February 2020 at Salon, The Millions, LitHub and Vol 1. Brooklyn “A stunner—equal parts epic and intimate, thrilling and elegiac.”—Laura Van den Berg, author of The Third

• Author : Leah Swann
• Publisher : Xou Pty Limited
• Release : 01 May 2015

Book three of the Ragnor Trilogy 'I'm no wolf-queen,' Irina thought bitterly. 'I'm barely more than a girl, a stupid girl at that, who got herself helplessly trapped in a Narrowlands cell.' A terrifying army marches south towards Irina's family and friends. Locked in prison, she is powerless to stop it. The Book of the Junsong is lost, her mother is under an evil enchantment, and she is separated from her beloved wolves. Now, Irina must face her

• Author : MARK BEWLEY
• Publisher : BookRix
• Release : 14 April 2019

David Massa the librarian, is bored and misrable. After years being amoung books, David decides to write his own novel. Now he dreams of an alien world, the very world he is writing about. Then after some unusual experiences, he finds himslf in a land called Shomaia.

• Author : Stuart Kelly
• Publisher : Birlinn
• Release : 05 November 2012

An account of books destroyed, misplaced, never finished, or never even begun - from ancient Greek and Arabic masters through Shakespeare, Dante and Hemingway right up to the present day.

• Author : Patrick Anderson
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release : 25 November 2016

Sun Yatsen (1866-1925) occupies a unique position in modern Chinese history: he is equally venerated as the founding father of the nation by both the mainland Communist government and its Nationalist rival in Taiwan. The first president of the Republic of China in 1911-12, the peasant-born yet Western-trained Dr Sun was also a dedicated political theorist, constantly in search of the ideal political and constitutional blueprint to underpin his incomplete revolution. A decade before the public emergence in Japan of

• Author : Kyra Halland
• Publisher : Kyra Halland
• Release : 27 October 2013

Long-hidden truths and the most dangerous book of all... Professor Roric Rossony is about to begin the most important work of his life. With the help of his irritatingly - yet intriguingly - free-spirited assistant Perarre Tabrano, he must figure out why the powerful magica is no longer working. Before long, he discovers that everything known about the magica might not be true at all. Driven by the need to find the truth about the magica - and with his

• Author : Benedict Rogers
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 June 2023

The gentle Karen, a tribe in Burma's eastern regions, call their country a land without evil. They number between four and five million, and have been fighting for half a century to keep their land and identity. Many - at least 40 per cent - are Christians, and have suffered particularly harsh treatment. Burma today, and Karen State in particular, is a land torn apart by evil. It is a land ruled by a regime which took power by force, ignored