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Dreams of Fire and Gods: Fire (Dreams of Fire and Gods #1)
by James ErichDreams of Fire and Gods: Book OneA thousand years ago, two factions of gods, the Stronni and the Taaweh, nearly destroyed the Kingdom of Dasak by warring for the land and the frightened humans who lived there. Then suddenly the Taaweh vanished and the Stronni declared victory. Now, as tensions escalate between the emperor and his regent, Vek Worlen, the vek's son, apprentice mage Sael dönz Menaük, finds himself allied with a homeless vagabond named Koreh. Together they flee the capital city and make their way across a hostile wilderness to the vek's keep, mere steps ahead of the emperor's assassins. But Koreh has dreams--dreams of the ancient Taaweh--and he knows the looming war between the emperor and the vek will be nothing compared to the war that is about to begin. The Taaweh are returning, and the war between the gods may destroy the kingdom once and for all. Winner in the 2013 Rainbow Awards.First: Best LGBT Young AdultNinth: Best Gay Novel
Dreams of Fire and Gods: Fire (Dreams of Fire and Gods #2)
by James ErichDreams of Fire and Gods: Book TwoA thousand years ago, two rival factions of gods, the Stronni and Taaweh, nearly destroyed the Kingdom of Dasak in their war for power. Then the Taaweh vanished and the Stronni declared victory. Now, tensions between the human emperor and his regent are at an all-time high. The regent's son, apprentice mage Sael dönz Menaük, has fled the capital with his master and united with a vagabond named Koreh, but assassins dog their footsteps. The future is more uncertain than ever. Since the Taaweh city of Gyishya reappeared, the mages of Harleh have weakened, cut off from the source of their power. Sael and his father struggle to keep their respective cities from crumbling under the strain or being destroyed by the gods. Then Koreh learns of a dangerous Taaweh plan to rescue their queen from the Stronni--a plan only Koreh and Sael can execute. But they may not get a chance. In Harleh Valley, a young man named Donegh pieces together what happened. Intent, he makes his way through an increasingly alien landscape to carry out his mission: assassinate the Dekan of Harleh, Sael dönz Menaük.
Dreams of Fire and Gods: Fire (Dreams of Fire and Gods #3)
by James ErichDreams of Fire and Gods: Book ThreeLong ago, two factions of gods, the Stronni and the Taaweh, nearly destroyed the Kingdom of Dasak in a great war. The Taaweh vanished when their queen was imprisoned, and the Stronni declared victory. A thousand years later, a young nobleman named Sael and his lover Koreh have rescued the Taaweh queen. In the process Koreh was killed, and now an injured Sael struggles to heal from both injuries and grief. Unknown to him, Koreh embarks on a journey across the land of the dead, trying to make his way back to Sael--and to life. But time moves differently in the underworld, and decades pass while Koreh travels. In the living world, tensions between the emperor and Sael's father, Vek Worlen, who is regent of the eastern kingdom, have soured beyond repair. Worlen conspires with the assassin Donegh to break into the imperial palace and challenge the emperor to a duel to the death. But the goddess Imen has chosen a young priest named Gonim as her champion. Through him she discovers the Taaweh have returned, and her enraged king threatens to destroy Dasak and all its human inhabitants. Sael must save his world, must confront the gods and persuade them not to destroy humankind. But it seems hopeless. If only Koreh were at his side...
Dreams of Fire and Gods: Fire (Dreams of Fire and Gods #4)
by James ErichA thousand years ago, two factions of gods, the Stronni and the Taaweh, nearly destroyed the Kingdom of Dasak by warring for the land and the frightened humans who lived there. Then suddenly the Taaweh vanished and the Stronni declared victory. In the present day, tensions escalate between the emperor and his regent to the point of war, which will be nothing compared to the war that comes with the Taaweh's return. Join the regent's son and apprentice mage Sael and his vagabond lover Koreh as they dodge assassins, rescue the Taaweh queen, and be separated by death ;in their quest to save their world from being destroyed in another confrontation between the gods.See excerpt for individual blurbs.
Dreams of Fire: A Descent: Legends of the Dark Novel (Descent: Legends of the Dark)
by Davide ManaA wandering outcast must reconcile their brutal past and their need for vengeance in this action-packed fantasy novel from Descent: Legends of the DarkSoldier. Dreamer. Exile. Dragon hybrid Vaerix has already lived an age in Terrinoth and seen more than their fair share of horror and hatred. Cast out for their strange ability to dream, Vaerix wanders the world in search of connection. When an expedition to the volcanic Molten Heath offers Vaerix the chance to confront those who wronged them, they cannot resist the temptation. But there is more at stake than treasure and truth. There are powers here beyond comprehension, and everyone has their own game to play. The future of Terrinoth will be written in blood and flame.
Dreams of Forever
by Brenda JacksonMontana horse breeder McKinnon Quinn is adamant about his "no women on my ranch" rule. So when Casey Westmoreland asks for a job training horses, he turns her down flat. Despite her innocent looks, she tempts him beyond reason. Casey vows to get McKinnon to hire her, and to make him her first and only lover. But after every steamy encounter, he avoids her, infuriating her even more. It's as if he has a secret he is desperate to hide...making Casey just as desperate to uncover it.Millionaire deal-maker Spencer Westmoreland agrees to bail out Chardonnay Russell's failing Napa Valley vineyard. In return, she agrees to bear his children. She doesn't dare hope Spencer will fall in love with her, so her only choice is to accept the arrogant businessman's proposal. But becoming Spencer's wife-in every way-sets her body and heart on fire. And soon, Chardonnay wants what is strictly forbidden....
Dreams of Forever: Seduction, Westmoreland Style / Spencer's Forbidden Passion (Mills And Boon Kimani Arabesque Ser. #10)
by Brenda JacksonTwo classic, must-read novels from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson The Westmorelands series, collected here in one volume!Seduction, Westmoreland StyleMontana horse breeder McKinnon Quinn savored his “no women on my ranch” rule. So when Casey Westmoreland asked for a job training horses, he turned her down flat. For despite her innocent looks, she tempted him beyond reason.Casey had vowed to get McKinnon to hire her and make him her first—her only—lover. Yet after everysteamy encounter, the infuriating man dodged her.It was as if he had a secret he was desperate to keep…making Casey just as desperate to uncover it.Originally published in 2007Spencer’s Forbidden PassionMillionaire deal-maker Spencer Westmoreland would bail out Chardonnay Russell’s failing Napa Valley vineyard. And in return she’d bear his children. But she shouldn’t dare hope Spencer would ever fall in love with her.Her only choice was to accept the arrogant businessman’s proposal. But becoming Spencer’s wife—in every way—set her body, her heart, on fire. And soon Chardonnay wanted what was strictly forbidden….Originally published in 2007
Dreams of Freedom
by Laurie WallmarkHere is the story of eight-year-old Laurie's experience attending the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Dreams of Ghosts: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Lian XiaoQiEveryone wished to have a characteristic that was different from ordinary people, but Gu Xiaoyu was very dissatisfied with the ability that the heavens had bestowed upon him.Other people's dreams were like fresh meat, except she only dreamed of dead people every day. This wasn't all, she still had to listen to everything these ghosts said!This really pissed her off!However, she didn't have the ability to reject them. Those ghosts were really despicable. If she didn't listen to them, then nothing good would happen the next day.What? What?Fuck, you want me to dig an ancestral grave again?No! He refused to go no matter what!What? High pay?No! I have a room and a car, so it's not a big deal!Was there a jade hairpin in the grave? Alright, let's go!You damned bastard, you actually lied to me!
Dreams of Ghosts: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Lian XiaoQiEveryone wished to have a characteristic that was different from ordinary people, but Gu Xiaoyu was very dissatisfied with the ability that the heavens had bestowed upon him.Other people's dreams were like fresh meat, except she only dreamed of dead people every day. This wasn't all, she still had to listen to everything these ghosts said!This really pissed her off!However, she didn't have the ability to reject them. Those ghosts were really despicable. If she didn't listen to them, then nothing good would happen the next day.What? What?Fuck, you want me to dig an ancestral grave again?No! He refused to go no matter what!What? High pay?No! I have a room and a car, so it's not a big deal!Was there a jade hairpin in the grave? Alright, let's go!You damned bastard, you actually lied to me!
Dreams of Ghosts: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Lian XiaoQiEveryone wished to have a characteristic that was different from ordinary people, but Gu Xiaoyu was very dissatisfied with the ability that the heavens had bestowed upon him.Other people's dreams were like fresh meat, except she only dreamed of dead people every day. This wasn't all, she still had to listen to everything these ghosts said!This really pissed her off!However, she didn't have the ability to reject them. Those ghosts were really despicable. If she didn't listen to them, then nothing good would happen the next day.What? What?Fuck, you want me to dig an ancestral grave again?No! He refused to go no matter what!What? High pay?No! I have a room and a car, so it's not a big deal!Was there a jade hairpin in the grave? Alright, let's go!You damned bastard, you actually lied to me!
Dreams of Ghosts: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Lian XiaoQiEveryone wished to have a characteristic that was different from ordinary people, but Gu Xiaoyu was very dissatisfied with the ability that the heavens had bestowed upon him.Other people's dreams were like fresh meat, except she only dreamed of dead people every day. This wasn't all, she still had to listen to everything these ghosts said!This really pissed her off!However, she didn't have the ability to reject them. Those ghosts were really despicable. If she didn't listen to them, then nothing good would happen the next day.What? What?Fuck, you want me to dig an ancestral grave again?No! He refused to go no matter what!What? High pay?No! I have a room and a car, so it's not a big deal!Was there a jade hairpin in the grave? Alright, let's go!You damned bastard, you actually lied to me!
Dreams of Ghosts: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Lian XiaoQiEveryone wished to have a characteristic that was different from ordinary people, but Gu Xiaoyu was very dissatisfied with the ability that the heavens had bestowed upon him.Other people's dreams were like fresh meat, except she only dreamed of dead people every day. This wasn't all, she still had to listen to everything these ghosts said!This really pissed her off!However, she didn't have the ability to reject them. Those ghosts were really despicable. If she didn't listen to them, then nothing good would happen the next day.What? What?Fuck, you want me to dig an ancestral grave again?No! He refused to go no matter what!What? High pay?No! I have a room and a car, so it's not a big deal!Was there a jade hairpin in the grave? Alright, let's go!You damned bastard, you actually lied to me!
Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #3)
by Laini TaylorWhat power can bruise the sky?Two worlds are poised on the brink of a vicious war. By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera's rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her.When the brutal angel emperor brings his army to the human world, Karou and Akiva are finally reunited--not in love, but in tentative alliance against their common enemy. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people. And, perhaps, for themselves.But with even bigger threats on the horizon, are Karou and Akiva strong enough to stand among the gods and monsters?The New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy comes to a stunning conclusion as--from the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond--humans, chimaera, and seraphim strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.
Dreams of Gods and Monsters: The Sunday Times Bestseller. Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy Book 3 (Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy #3)
by Laini Taylor*An Amazon Best Book of the Year*The final book in the gripping Sunday Times bestselling series. By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz.Common enemy, common cause.When Jael's brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people.And, perhaps, for themselves. Toward a new way of living, and maybe even love.But there are bigger threats than Jael in the offing. A vicious queen is hunting Akiva, and, in the skies of Eretz ... something is happening. Massive stains are spreading like bruises from horizon to horizon; the great winged stormhunters are gathering as if summoned, ceaselessly circling, and a deep sense of wrong pervades the world.What power can bruise the sky From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy. At the very barriers of space and time, what do gods and monsters dream of ? And does anything else matter
Dreams of Gods and Monsters: The Sunday Times Bestseller. Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy Book 3 (Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy #3)
by Laini TaylorBy way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz.Common enemy, common cause.When Jael's brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people.And, perhaps, for themselves. Toward a new way of living, and maybe even love.But there are bigger threats than Jael in the offing. A vicious queen is hunting Akiva, and, in the skies of Eretz ... something is happening. Massive stains are spreading like bruises from horizon to horizon; the great winged stormhunters are gathering as if summoned, ceaselessly circling, and a deep sense of wrong pervades the world.What power can bruise the sky From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy. At the very barriers of space and time, what do gods and monsters dream of? And does anything else matter?(P)2014 Hachette Audio
Dreams of Gold
by Maynard F. ThomsonThe world of international championship ice skating is brought to vivid life in this rich and absorbing page-turner of love, courage, and betrayal. The Olympic dreams of America's star ice-skating couple are dashed when a car accident ends Clay's career. His partner, Maggie, ends up training in Japan as a singles skater and puts her lessons to work in a dramatic finale on the Olympic rink.
Dreams of Green: A Three Kings' Day Story
by Mariel JungkunzIn this story about Día de los Reyes, or Three Kings&’ Day, a girl and her family discover new ways to celebrate their Puerto Rican heritage in Ohio.It&’s eleven days after Christmas and Lucía yearns to be in lush Puerto Rico celebrating Día de los Reyes with family and friends. But this year, instead of dancing and singing in the parrandas of her Puerto Rican neighborhood, she is surrounded by cold and silence in snow-blanketed Ohio. How will she ever be able to guide the Three Kings to her new home in the frosty Midwest? This picture book is a celebration of Puerto Rican culture, heartwarming family tradition, and a reminder that we all carry a piece of home with us wherever life may take us.
Dreams of Ivory and Gold
by Kirk DougalGregor Novara hunts evil, despite being loathed by those who see him as an abomination for the incubus blood flowing through his veins. In Dreams of Ivory and Gold, Gregor Novara hunts another of his kind, seeking to stop an incubus before it can put a cataclysmic prophecy into motion-a prophecy the Catholic Church has hidden for centuries. Novara's hopes gradually turn to despair as he descends into darkness and risks giving in to the very evil he is hunting. Meanwhile, New York City homicide detective Morgan Kelly is plagued with a growing list of murdered women. The mutilated victims are interlinked by the manners of their deaths and an ancient bloodline. Fresh off a psych evaluation (and a suspension), Detective Kelly desperately seeks the killer, while also dealing with the ongoing nightmares disrupting her life. Father Roger Greene has been ordered by the Vatican to watch over the emotionally unstable emissary called Gregor Novara, while also counseling his childhood friend, the aforementioned Detective Kelly. Startled to discover the Church's dark secrets and the serial killer plaguing NYC are one and the same, Father Greene must put aside his fears and help Novara destroy the incubus before it captures his friend Det. Kelly and initiates the Biblical apocalypse.
Dreams of Joy: A Novel (Shanghai Girls #2)
by Lisa SeeIn her beloved New York Times bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, and, most recently, Shanghai Girls, Lisa See has brilliantly illuminated the potent bonds of mother love, romantic love, and love of country. Now, in her most powerful novel yet, she returns to these timeless themes, continuing the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl's strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy.Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, and anger at her mother and aunt for keeping them from her, Joy runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father--the artist Z.G. Li, with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism and defiance, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the communist regime. Devastated by Joy's flight and terrified for her safety, Pearl is determined to save her daughter, no matter the personal cost. From the crowded city to remote villages, Pearl confronts old demons and almost insurmountable challenges as she follows Joy, hoping for reconciliation. Yet even as Joy's and Pearl's separate journeys converge, one of the most tragic episodes in China's history threatens their very lives.Acclaimed for her richly drawn characters and vivid storytelling, Lisa See once again renders a family challenged by tragedy and time, yet ultimately united by the resilience of love.From the Hardcover edition.
Dreams of Justice
by Dick AdlerDick Adler reviews mysteries and thrillers every other week in his Crime Watch column for the Chicago Tribune. He is the co-author, with the late Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, of Public Justice, Private Mercy: A Governor's Education On Death Row. Anthony Lewis in the New York Times Book Review called it "a compelling and important book," and Jonathan Kirsch in the Los Angeles Times said, "Some of the most fascinating passages are the dozen or so case histories of the men and women themselves, the stuff of hard-boiled detective fiction come to life." Adler has also written Sleeping with Moscow, an account of the Richard Miller FBI espionage case. His mystery novel, The Mozart Code, was published in May, 1999, as an electronic book and was a Frankfurt eBook Award nominee in 2000.
Dreams of Lilacs (De Piaget series #16)
by Lynn KurlandIsabelle de Piaget is determined to elude her overprotective family by means of a hasty escape to France. But instead of making a surprise visit to her brother there, she winds up shipwrecked on the French coast with no memory of who she is or how she came to awaken in the dark and forbidding castle of an equally brooding lord.<P><P> Gervase de Seger rescues--very reluctantly--the bedraggled urchin he finds on the road and puts her to work where he can ignore her. Unfortunately, he soon realizes that her brother is an intimidating lord who is going to be absolutely furious when he learns that his beloved sister has been laboring as a scullery maid. Yet Isabelle may be the one who holds the key to solving Gervase's most pressing problem: that someone has been trying to finish the task of separating him from his title and his lands.<P> Finding the truth propels Gervase and Isabelle from the buried secrets of half-ruined keeps to the glittering French court, and to the realization that love can blossom in the most perilous circumstances--and in the most unexpected places of the heart . . .
Dreams of Maryam Tair: Blue Boots and Orange Blossoms
by Mhani AlaouiOutside of time, the legendary queen Sheherazade tells a little girl a story that has happened, and is yet to happen. Dreams of Maryam Tair brings readers to a Casablanca of myth and metaphor, of curses, witches, djinns and demons.<P><P> But it is also a very present-day Casablanca: a raw, pitiless landscape of crumbling urbanism and rusty ports, of bureaucrats and student revolts, and of a deep human solitude. During the Casablanca Bread Riots of 1981, a child is born to a mother surveilled and detained. She is born with the scent of orange blossoms and a body filled with pain. They call her Maryam Tair. A special, singular child, she is prophesized to carry three perfect gifts-and one relentless curse.
Dreams of Modernity
by Laura MarcusLaura Marcus is one of the leading literary critics of modernist literature and culture. Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema covers the period from around 1880 to 1930, when modernity as a form of social and cultural life fed into the beginnings of modernism as a cultural form. Railways, cinema, psychoanalysis and the literature of detection - and their impact on modern sensibility - are four of the chief subjects explored. Marcus also stresses the creativity of modernist women writers, including H. D. , Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf. The overriding themes of this work bear on the understanding of the early twentieth century as a transitional age, thus raising the question of how 'the moderns' understood the conditions of their own modernity.
Dreams of Molly
by Jonathan BaumbachA staple in the literary scene for over forty years, Jonathan Baumbach's latest novel, Dreams of Molly, is a wonderful addition to his oeuvre. A love story as only Baumbach can write, it is filled with the longings and lingerings, the sex and deprivation, the humor and heartache, and the New York nuances that have driven Baumbach's fiction from the start.Jonathan Baumbach is the author of fourteen books of fiction, including You, or The Invention of Memory; On The Way To My Father's Funeral: New and Selected Stories; B, A Novel; D-Tours; Separate Hours; Chez Charlotte and Emily; The Life and Times of Major Fiction; Reruns; Babble; and A Man to Conjure With. He has also published over ninety stories published in such places as Esquire, Open City, and Boulevard.Baumbach, co-founder of The Fiction Collective in 1973, the first fiction writers cooperative in America (it was reinvented as FC2 in 1988), has seen his work widely praised. His short stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, The PEN / O.Henry Prize, and The Best of Tri Quarterly. The New York Times Book Review referred to him in 2004 as "an underappreciated writer." He employs a masterfully dispassionate, fiercely intelligent narrative voice whose seeming objectivity is always a faltering front for secret passion and despair."