The Assassin's Cloak

2020-11-05
The Assassin's Cloak

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  • Author: Irene Taylor
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • ISBN: 1838852921
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 960

'A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen', wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The Assassin's Cloak gathers together some of the most entertaining and inspiring entries for each day of the year, as writers ranging from Queen Victoria to Andy Warhol, Samuel Pepys to Adrian Mole, pen their musings on the historic and the mundane. Spanning centuries and international in scope, this peerless anthology pays tribute to a genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms. This new updated edition is published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the book's original publication.

The Assassin's Cloak

2003
The Assassin's Cloak

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  • Author: Irene Taylor
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • ISBN: 1841954594
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 721

With 170 contributors, a scope that is peerless, international and crosses centuries The Assassin's Cloak pays tribute to a fascinating genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms. There are several diary excerpts for every day of the year beginning with Samuel Pepys and along the way we meet cads and charmers, sailors and psychopaths, rock stars and prima ballerinas, gossips, drunks, snobs, lechers and lovers. There is humour and tragedy, history and the humdrum, often recoded on the same day or in the same entry.

Cloak and Dagger (the IMA, Book #1)

2012-10-23
Cloak and Dagger (the IMA, Book #1)

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  • Author: Nenia Campbell
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781480172920
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 508

Michael Boutilier is a young assassin working for a mysterious organization of mercenaries called the IMA; an organization so powerful that government denies its existence. When a hacker breaks into their computer's mainframe, they send Michael out to finish off the loose ends. But so far, there's just one lead to go on. The hacker's daughter, Christina Parker.Christina seems like any other high school senior. And she is - until she gets kidnapped by a group of people who think she's the key to the malicious code that has infected their mainframe system and she is plunged into a world where the lines between right and wrong are blurred beyond all recognition and terror knows no bounds. What do you do when the odds are against you, and the stake is your life?As she quickly learns, there are good guys and there are bad guys. Sometimes Michael's one, sometimes he's the other--but usually he's both. And right now he's the only one who can save her.

The Assassin's Blade

2014
The Assassin's Blade

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  • Author: Sarah J. Maas
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 1408851989
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 465

Celaena Sardothien is Adarlan's most feared assassin. As part of the Assassins' Guild, her allegiance is to her master, Arobynn Hamel, yet Celaena listens to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. In these action-packed prequel novellas - together in one edition for the first time - Celaena embarks on five daring missions. They take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, where she fights to liberate slaves and seeks to avenge the tyrannous. But she is acting against Arobynn's orders and could suffer an unimaginable punishment for such treachery ...Explore the dark underworld of this kick-ass heroine and find out how the legend begins in the five page-turning prequel novellas to the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series.

The Forever Question

2010-07
The Forever Question

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  • Author: Tonis F. V. Kasvand
  • Publisher: iUniverse
  • ISBN: 1450234941
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 214

When he awakens, he is standing naked, holding a sword adorned in red goo, his insides burning. Five dismembered bodies crowd his feet. He wonders if this is normal as he struggles to remember who he is. Adopting the name DuHero, he innocently brings joy, harm, and death to hundreds of thousands of creatures and uncountable extinction to the servants of the Ovulum Empire in the land of Forever. As a result of his unorthodox thinking and natural innocence, DuHero becomes revered by a dominant culture of violent, facetious jokers; loved by a kingdom of female, man-hating, pacifist fighters; and hunted by a powerful hybrid race of greedy idiots. Flagrot the Goon befriends DuHero to gain access to secrets the Goon anticipates will give him power over the other denizens of Forever. The other races suspect a shift in power and mobilize against him. DuHero, a lost man, tries to adapt to a land filled with contradiction, corruption, and craziness. His contributions lead to catastrophic changes to Forever's landscape. His Gooniness, along with his perceived innocence, brings people to rethink beliefs, motivates their ambitions, and causes death and destruction far beyond what any power monger has created in the past.

The Assassin's Cloak

2004-02
The Assassin's Cloak

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  • Author: Irene Taylor
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780756771744
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 684

Over ten years in the making, this anthology of the world's greatest diaristspays tribute to a fascinating genre that is at once the most intimate and themost public of all literary forms. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Gatekeeper's Trials: The Complete Trilogy

The Gatekeeper's Trials: The Complete Trilogy

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  • Author: Emma L. Adams
  • Publisher: Emma L. Adams
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 776

Hazel Lynn has spent her entire life preparing to take on the role of Gatekeeper between the Summer Court and the mortal realm. With her entire family bound into service to Faerie, she doesn’t exactly have a choice in the matter, but she's made it her mission to keep the peace between humans and fae -- enforced by her blade, if necessary. Her plans go sideways when she's called to take on the deadly Gatekeeper's Trials and assigned a stuck-up half-fae mentor who hates humans like her. He might be pretty to look at, but he has no intention of giving her an easy time of it. But things go from bad to dire when the King of the Summer Court is assassinated. Worse, all the signs point to a human being responsible. Since Hazel and her family are the only humans permitted to enter the King's domain, the blame lands squarely on them. Before long, Hazel's aggravating new mentor is the only person in Faerie she can trust not to sentence her to death on the spot… assuming he isn't the murderer himself. With her loved ones' fates resting in her hands, it's up to Hazel to catch the killer before the vengeful Sidhe take out their wrath on the rest of humanity. This boxed set contains the complete Gatekeeper's Trials trilogy: Hidden Crown, Hidden Court, and Hidden Power. Keywords: urban fantasy, faeries, magic, portal fantasy, folklore, fairy tales, contemporary fantasy, fae urban fantasy series, complete fantasy series, Seelie Court, Unseelie Court, crown, throne, urban fantasy series, British fantasy, ghost mystery, female protagonist urban fantasy, ghosts, post-apocalyptic fantasy, Scotland, action urban fantasy, myths and legends

Sentinelspire

2012-08-14
Sentinelspire

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  • Author: Mark Sehestedt
  • Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
  • ISBN: 0786963778
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 344

To save the future, he must embrace his past... A ranger and his apprentice are captured by a group of assassins who demand their help in overthrowing their leader and the ruler of the fortress of Sentinelspire, the Old Man of the Mountain. Although the ranger doesn't want to help, he discovers the Old Man's plans may involve the master druid who gave him a new life--and the destruction of all he now holds dear. A series that centers on the citadels - castles, keeps, fortreeses, and watchtowers - of the Forgotten Realms world, each book in The Citadels series is a self-contained fantasy adventure.

Quest for the Sundered Crown

2020-08-04
Quest for the Sundered Crown

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  • Author: Matthew Olney
  • Publisher: M S Olney
  • ISBN: 1386499234
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 257

Danon's army sweeps across the Kingdom of Delfinnia and Luxon, the only one capable of stopping the annihilation of the realm embarks on a desperate quest to cure himself of the deadly Void Sickness that threatens his life. To find the cure, Luxon must travel through the Magic Gates and find the Waters of Magic, but in doing so, he will be sent to new worlds and even through time. There he will uncover the shocking truth about Danon and another he calls friend and mentor. Elsewhere dragons ravage the eastern lands spurring Kaiden to reform the Knights of Niveren and in the south, the King's Legion, led by the usurper Ricard makes a desperate stand against Danon's hordes. As the world turns ever darker, one hope remains. The legendary sacred sword Asphodel remains hidden. The Quest is on to claim the blade and perhaps push back the evil threatening creation itself.

Of Darkest Valor

2014-10-21
Of Darkest Valor

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  • Author: Thomas Cifichiello
  • Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
  • ISBN: 1634171314
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 432

Varkuvia, ruled by five powerful kings, is the richest, most powerful kingdom in the land. For centuries they have been protected by the Order of Acrium, the greatest fighting force known in the history of men. Many have tried to invade the land, but since the order has been formed, they had not lost a single battle. However, the four lords of the city-states of the mountainous terrain of the east have formed an alliance, secretly brewing a plan to overthrow this kingdom. Unscrupulously, and with unconscionable manipulation, the Order is disbanded. On the eastern side, the Legion of the Rising Sun is created, modeled around the Order of Acrium. But whereas the Order is famed for its codes of honor, the Legion is known for its brutality. And thus the Legion and the four treacherous lords kindle the fires of war, spreading the flames to the impregnable city of Karalis. Trystan, a member of the disbanded Order of Acrium, is thrown in the midst of war. By his honor as a member, he takes up arms to save the city of Karalis, its people, and his friends. But in every corner lurks darkness, lies, and danger; and Trystan must find it within himself to see the light of hope. This tale of power, lust, and deceit will take you into the vast kingdom of Varkuvia, into the lives of the kings, and into the life of one man who became a kingdom’s hero. A man who has finally come to fully understand the meaning of darkest valor—to always uphold the peace, protect the weak, and vanquish the wicked.