Satires and essays about gender identity, written by a skeptic of self-identity and disbeliever of demigods.

Never underestimate the power of a stubborn witch. Bianca Monroe wants one thing: to create a Sisterhood of Protectors. She might be the only one that thinks it's a good idea. With demigods in Alkarra, and a frustrated Council attempting to usurp her father, Bianca is faced with opposition on every side. When her desire to defend the Central Network with a Sisterhood is rebuffed by everyone whose support she thought she’d have, she’s forced to find a new path. Meanwhile, the influence of god magic grows in Alkarra. Wonky magic, strangers in the land, and crumbling Network ties abound. Will Bianca assemble the support she needs to defend the Network from this unknown enemy? Or will she find the strength to forge her own path? THE RISE OF THE DEMIGODS is the sixth book in THE NETWORK SERIES. Fans of beloved, award-winning saga will be swept back into the world of Alkarra, where magic abounds and enemies are now fast at hand.

HARRY POTTER MEETS PERCY JACKSON Demigods academy is a Young Adult Urban Fantasy novel for readers of all ages. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter and Percy Jackson.

What dangers do runaway demigods Luke and Thalia face on their way to Camp Half-Blood? Are Percy and Annabeth up to the task of rescuing stolen goods from a fire-breathing giant who doesn''t take kindly to intruders? How exactly are Leo, Piper, and Jason supposed to find a runaway table, dodge a band of party-loving Maenads (who just might be a little psychotic), and stave off a massive explosion...all in one hour or less? With his trademark wit and creativity, Rick Riordan answers these questions and more in three never-before-seen short stories that provide vital back-story to the Heroes of Olympus and Percy Jackson books. Original art, enlightening character interviews and profiles, puzzles, and a quiz add to the fun in this action-packed collection.

How do you handle an encounter with Medusa on the New Jersey interstate? What's the best way to take down a minotaur? Become an expert on everything in Percy's world with this must-have guide to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Complete with interviews, puzzles, games, and original short stories by Rick Riordan.

The Incorporeal God: An insight into the higher realms This is an awakening collection of essays, lucidly manifested to discern fact from fiction, where epistemology and the innate knowledge of the higher parameter are truly cultivated. The Incorporeal God insightfully delves into the nature of God, existence, consciousness, the fine-tuning of the universe, and faith-oriented phenomena. The Incorporeal God is an eye-opening masterpiece that insightfully covers spirituality, psychology, morality, and expressing on the essential merits, but is not coerced or deliberate in provoking conflict. It penetrates socio-cultural, socio-economic, and socio-political renditions of our contemporary lifestyle. Compellingly enough, it quenches the thirst of those inquisitive minds and gratifies the curiosity of the intellectuals that are apt to acknowledge the authenticity of the magnificent traces of God that is explicit and evidenced to the human mind and the nervous system via our senses. Present-day attainment is in modern science, in the quantum world, the world of string theory and the like have astonished even the most scholarly minded scientists and prominent philosophers beyond the times of Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, placing them in awe. So many show reverence for the subatomic particles, the unseen world, as most attesting to what we do not see, manages what we see, leaving no chance to sustain ideologies infested with superstition and construed with the idolatrous reasoning for upholding the truth behind existence. It tackles the ambiguities head-on, facing God and existence, where the immaculate traces of our phenomenal universe can solely lead to a supreme being and infinitely intelligent designer. As scientists tell us, even mass energy wears out, which calls for a creator to harness and deal with it, since with energy depletion, no life, from its infinitesimal to cosmically macro-level, is ever possible. “Superstition sets the whole world in flame, philosophy quenches them” (Voltaire). we live in an awakening era, it seems that beautiful minds are influenced with premonition as if they are mandated with a mission to perform gynecology into the womb of Mother Nature and give birth to yet another treasure, leaping into unveiling the mysteries of nature’s obscurities to emancipate man from the clutches of ignorance.

In this volume of essays the Graeco-Roman background and context of early Christianity are explored for significant parallels. From the athlete metaphor in 1 Corinthians 9 to the role of Aphrodite as the goddess of love and sexuality, the important cultural symbols and terminology that the first Christians employed are examined. Garrison maintains that the Graeco-Roman setting of early Christianity is essential to our understanding of the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers.

Inject the very wonderful and lively Greek and Roman myths in your children’s systems because they have tons to learn from them. This reference book features the famous demigods and their parents for your kids to meet and communicate. Widen your children’s perspectives with this book that you can get right here.

The Red Sea has scaled colonies. Blue Mermen, and Mermaids that were taken to be slaves in the black sea to serve the hierarchy as slaves' concubines and entertainment them. The Darkest of Gods live in a castle at the bottom of the dead sea. where a 34-foot-tall statue of himself lies over the entrance. the castle is surrounded in statues of those that he killed in war of monsters' serpents and creatures that crossed into his world by accident. Demi-Gods, and Goddesses he Sired will Inherit His Throne. They will be immortalized in stone to be remembered by those that did not believe in the dark. statues of the dark surround his castle at the bottom of Six seas. a dragon made of white pearl, and another in a dark pearl stand in front of the castle. Both can come to life if commanded by the sound of his voice. Blue Mermen will be enslaved. Mermaids' slaves were taken into the black sea to serve the hierarchy in the colony as slaves and concubines. A snow-white princess will be caught and freed from the slave ship. At the end the Princess will find her family in the Arctic. In an unimaginable world of ice, and snow that explained the color of her scales. Her Father the king will rise in white hair from his Throne made of solid ice. The Arctic will light up in white scaled, and hair in Blue eyed Mermaids. There, will be a war between a black Merman colony, and an Asian colony to retrieve stolen sea dragons. Fantasy, Horror, Adventure. 100,000 words.