Crimsonheart Chronicles: The Tale of Ascension

Crimsonheart Chronicles: The Tale of Ascension
Author: Jake R. C. Wells
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2023-10-25
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1039184375

Can those who keep secrets be trusted? Aboard the floating city of Sylphicus, secrets abound. It’s one year after the Battle of the Prismwood, and Althea Crimsonheart—future Empress of Endellion and esteemed hero of the southern war—is on a journey to learn about the wider world, alongside her companions: Gorn, a scholar of Arivolli; Kamil, an outcast of the Kingdom of Ormilla; Zianna, daughter of the ousted House Aghamora; and Dzarò, Althea’s bonded companion, a hybrid spiròt desperate to understand his place among spiròt-kind. While travelling through the skies, the group begins to uncover a clandestine plot that connects Gorn’s family with the Arivollish black market and a horrifying series of experiments that, if allowed to continue, will lead to the creation of an invincible army of chimeras. Upon receiving a sacred task from the primordial spiròt Itl, Althea and her companions must decide who they can trust: the enigmatic hermit, or the secretive primordial dragon. Their quest places them in the middle of yet another conflict, this time in Zianna's homeland of Uayat, a nation divided by desire and ideology. Dark secrets and betrayals continue to unfold as Althea stands resolute in her convictions, following her own path just as she did a year ago. However, she soon realizes that the will of others has just as much of a role to play in her destiny as her own choices, and she and her allies are pushed to accept all that they cannot control. When many forces collide, those caught in between must understand the consequences of their choices, or risk being swallowed by the turbulent tides of destiny.

Crimsonheart Chronicles: The Tale of Enlightenment

Crimsonheart Chronicles: The Tale of Enlightenment
Author: Jake R. C. Wells
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2022-05-19
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1039135838

As the Endellion Emperor’s daughter, Althea Crimsonheart is expected to train in the ways of the enlightenment. Where Althea struggles in her training, her friend Jidan excels. To aid their training, Althea and Jidan’s mentor sends them on a journey to a wise sage rumoured to have achieved enlightenment. Meanwhile, Endellion is at war with Ormilla, a neighbouring kingdom, while the spiròts shun their people. Meeting friends and foes along their journey, Althea and Jidan discover startling truths about the world they thought they knew. When many forces collide, those caught between will be forced to make tough choices and learn how to steer the wheel of their own destiny.

Mistborn Trilogy

Mistborn Trilogy
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 1413
Release: 2011-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429989815

This discounted ebundle includes: Mistborn: The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, The Hero of Ages From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn trilogy is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action. For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. This saga dares to ask a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails? Mistborn: The Final Empire — Kelsier, a brilliant thief has turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler as the mark. Kel's plan is the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into the fold. But she will have to learn to trust if she is to master powers of which she never dreamed. The Well of Ascension — Evil has been defeated; the war has just begun. Vin, the street urchin who has become the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and Elend Venture, the idealistic young nobleman who loves her, must build a healthy new society in the ashes of an empire. The Hero of Ages — The Deepness has returned, along with unusually heavy ashfalls and powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed. Vin and Eland investigate the past to save the future, and in the end, sacrifices must be made. Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson The Cosmere The Stormlight Archive The Way of Kings Words of Radiance Edgedancer (Novella) Oathbringer The Mistborn trilogy Mistborn: The Final Empire The Well of Ascension The Hero of Ages Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne series Alloy of Law Shadows of Self Bands of Mourning Collection Arcanum Unbounded Other Cosmere novels Elantris Warbreaker The Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians The Scrivener's Bones The Knights of Crystallia The Shattered Lens The Dark Talent The Rithmatist series The Rithmatist Other books by Brandon Sanderson The Reckoners Steelheart Firefight Calamity At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Eremitic Life

The Eremitic Life
Author: Cornelius Wencel
Publisher: Holy Family Hermitage
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-06
Genre: Eremitic life
ISBN: 9780972813235

Father Cornelius Wencel, Er.Cam. was born in Gosty , Poland, in 1964. He made his final vows as a Camaldolese hermit in 1993 and was ordained priest in 1999. He now serves as prior and novice master at the Hermitage of the Five Martyrs in Bieniszew, Poland. Father Cornelius has published four books in Polish, and this is the first one to be translated into English. He received a doctorate in theology in 2004, successfully defending his dissertation on "The Trinitarian-Christological Perspective of Theological Anthropology in the Theodramatic of Hans Urs von Balthasar". The author profits from the insights of Balthasar, Kierkegaard, Merton, and various contemporary Polish thinkers. Topics treated in this book include seeking God, existential openness, discipline, simplicity, contemplation, interreligious dialogue, and ecology.

In the Footprints of the Padres

In the Footprints of the Padres
Author: Charles Warren Stoddard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1902
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909) and his family left Rochester, New York, for California in 1855. In the 1870s and 1880s, he became a well known writer of travel books, most notably his South-Sea Idylls. He taught at Notre Dame and the Catholic University of America before retiring to California at the end of his life. In the footprints of the padres (1902) recalls Stoddard's boyhood and family life in San Francisco: schools, Chinatown, social life, Happy Valley, and the Vigilance Committee. He also describes a voyage to New York in 1857 with his ailing older brother and offers miscellaneous anecdotes of California missions, Monterey, and Theresa Yelverton.

Contemplation in a World of Action

Contemplation in a World of Action
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Image
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1973
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780385025508

The American trappist monk outlines means of reorganizing monastic life to meet the needs of contemporary man

Rule for Solitaries

Rule for Solitaries
Author: Grimlaicus
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0879078308

The monk Grimlaicus (ca. 900) wrote a rule for those who, like himself, pursued the solitary life within a monastic community. Never leaving their cell yet participating in the liturgical life of the monastery through a window into the church, these enclosed" sought to serve God alone. Beyond the details of horarium, reception of newcomers, diet, and clothing, Grimlaicus details practical measures for maintaining spiritual, psychological, and physical health, and for giving counsel to others. Scripture, the Rule of St. Benedict, and the teachings of early ecclesial and monastic writers form the kernel of Grimlaicus's wise and balanced rule, presented here for the first time in English translation. Andrew Thornton is a monk of Saint Anselm Abbey and associate professor in the department of Modern Languages at Saint Anselm College, where he teaches German language and Chinese philosophy. He is organist in the abbey church. He translated the poems of the twelfth-century recluse Ava, the first woman to write in a European vernacular (The Poems of Ava, Liturgical Press). "

Seeking in Solitude

Seeking in Solitude
Author: Bernadette McNary-Zak
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2014-06-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1606089692

Seeking in Solitude examines select forms of contemporary Roman Catholic eremitic life and practice in the United States. Given the sustained presence of, and increased interest in, the eremitic life and practice, this book responds to the question of the place of the hermit in American Catholicism in a way that neither mystifies nor mythologizes it, but rather attempts to understand it.

Búsqueda Del Presente

Búsqueda Del Presente
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: Ecco
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1990
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The speech delivered by Paz in acceptance of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature, in which he discusses gratitude, separateness, and modernity. Published in a handsome bilingual edition. Translated by Anthony Stanton.