Crooked Star's Soul Slaughter could sever the demonic dream, and the blood colored Asura Shadow could do nothing to him!This book told the story of how a young man with a soul fused with the Star Flame and transformed into a Star Flame Soul. It was a story about how, one step at a time, he went from an unknown to a peak expert of the Star Soul Continent.

PIRATE TALES: 80+ Novels, Stories, Legends & History of the True Buccaneers is an anthology that sails across the tumultuous seas of piracy, encapsulating an era of adventure, peril, and treasure. This collection boasts a remarkable diversity in literary styles and perspectives, encompassing the romantic, the Gothic, and the factual, to illuminate the multifaceted lives of pirates. Amongst its pages, readers will find the daring exploits of famed pirates, and the courageous men who battled against them, depicted through a spectrum of narrativesfrom the thrilling escapades in the works of Daniel Defoe and Alexandre Dumas to the haunting tales of Edgar Allan Poe and William Hope Hodgson, each piece contributes to the canvas of buccaneering lore, making this collection unparalleled in its scope and depth. The contributing authors and editors of PIRATE TALES form an illustrious cadre of writers whose individual contributions to literature are unparalleled. From the pioneering adventure novels of Jules Verne and the psychological depth of F. Scott Fitzgerald's narrative to the vivid historical detail in the stories of Rafael Sabatini and Stanley Lane-Poole, this collection intersects a wide array of historical, cultural, and literary movements. The diversity of authors enriches the anthology, enabling a comprehensive exploration into the lawless life of pirates and their enduring legacy on maritime history and literature. PIRATE TALES is an indispensable anthology for readers yearning to embark on a voyage across the high seas of literary history. It offers a unique opportunity to delve into the legends of piracy, exploring its allure and danger through a tapestry of voices and styles. This collection serves not only as an educational resource but also as a portal to different eras and viewpoints, inviting readers to immerse themselves in the thrilling and often perilous world of pirates. For scholars, enthusiasts, and casual readers alike, PIRATE TALES presents a treasure trove of narrative riches, promising countless hours of engaging reading.

In an evolving universe, Gods dreams are covering Resurrection Valley, and there is no escape from the human legends. Three men find themselves in the midst of an amazing world emerging all around them. Hazar wants to be free from the vicious cycle that has monopolized his young life. Accompanied by Elem the Drifter and Atilla the Warrior of God, Hazar embarks on a dangerous and frightening journey through the Resurrection Valley. With the goal of curing his pain, Hazar begins a search for the Anarkis castle, where he hopes to meet Nil, the source of life and the love he has never been able to attain. But because Nil is a creation of the black widow that Darkon the Evil has instilled in Hazars soul, it appears that Hazar is forever enslaved. Even as Hazar falls apart in his own world and attempts to suppress his ruthlessness, the dream world opens and new horizons appear. As experienced world traveler Elem struggles with his fears and Atilla challenges mortality with his Kaledzar sword, Hazar must battle his own inner demons as he immerses himself in a complex mission revolving around love, power, and an unforgettable legend.

The first complete English translation of the Hebrew classic Sefer Ha-Aggadah brings to the English-speaking world the greatest and best-loved anthology of classical Rabbinic literature ever compiled. First published in Odessa in 1908-11, it was recognized immediately as a masterwork in its own right, and reprinted numerous times in Israel. The Hebrew poet Hayim Nahman Bialik and the renowned editor Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, the architects of this masterful compendium, selected hundreds of texts from the Talmud and midrashic literature and arranged them thematically, in order to provide their contemporaries with easy access to the national literary heritage of the Jewish people -- the texts of Rabbinic Judaism that remain at the heart of Jewish literacy today. Bialik and Ravnitzky chose Aggadah -- the non-legal portions of the Talmud and Midrash -- for their anthology. Loosely translated as "legends", Aggadah includes the genres of biblical exegesis, stories about biblical characters, the lives of the Talmudic era sages and their contemporary history, parables, proverbs, and folklore. A captivating melange of wisdom and piety, fantasy and satire, Aggadah is the expressive medium of the Jewish creative genius. The arrangement of this compendium reflects the theological concerns of the Rabbinic sages: the role of Israel and the nations; God, good and evil; human relations; the world of nature; and the art of healing. Here, the reader who wants to explore traditional Jewish views on a particular subject is treated to a selection of relevant texts at his fingertips but will soon become immersed in a way of thinking, exploring, and questioning that is the hallmark of Jewish inquiry. "Whatever the imagination can invent is found in the Aggadah," wrote the historian Leopold Zunz, "its purpose always being to teach man the ways of God." The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah, now available in william Braude's superbly annotated translation, enables modern Jews to experience firsthand the richness and excitement of their cultural inheritance.

Presenting spectacular photographs of astronomical objects of the southern sky, all taken by author Stephen Chadwick, this book explores what peoples of the South Pacific see when they look up at the heavens and what they have done with this knowledge. From wives killing brothers to emus rising out of the desert and great canoes in the sky, this book offers the perfect blend of science, tradition and mythology to bring to life the most famous sights in the heavens above the southern hemisphere. The authors place this starlore in the context of contemporary understandings of astronomy. The night sky of southern societies is as rich in culture as it is in stars. Stories, myths and legends based on constellations, heavenly bodies and other night sky phenomena have played a fundamental role in shaping the culture of pre-modern civilizations throughout the world. Such starlore continues to influence societies throughout the Pacific to this day, with cultures throughout the region – from Australia and New Zealand in the south to New Guinea and Micronesia in the north - using traditional cosmology as a means of interpreting various aspects of everyday life.

Two science fiction novels, written during the nineteen thirties, chronicle the future of civilization, foretelling such events as the worldwide fuel shortage and man's exploration of space

The following tales are an outcome of a long residence in New Zealand, and of many opportunities whilst travelling amongst the Maoris of becoming acquainted with their folk-lore, superstitions, and customs. From a vast mass of legendary tales, rich in variants, and recorded often in a fragmentary manner, I have chosen those in this little volume as the oldest and best known amongst the natives. I have endeavoured to adhere to the true spirit of the tales themselves, and to give them the form, expression, and speech characteristic of the country and clever native race. The Maoris, as a rule, are eloquent, and their language is full of metaphor and poetical allusion, and musical with open vowels. Every syllable ends with a vowel, every vowel is sounded, and that according to the Italian method. Though the Maori practice of cannibalism in times past is revolting to a higher civilisation, it may, to a certain extent, have been due to the entire absence of any quadrupeds larger than a rat, and to the craving for flesh food so well described in Stanleys accounts of some of the races in Central Africa. The Maoris are a strong race both physically and mentally. Revengeful and cruel to their enemies, they were passionate in love and ever fearless in war. Religious, they venerated their gods, and believed in an atzkn, or spiritual essence, their deities being rarely represented by any image. Their priests were consulted on all great occasions and their mandates obeyed, especially when they spoke as the oracle making known to the people the will of the gods. Whence came the race, with their strange superstitions their worship of Tane, the creation-god, of the sun-god. I must leave for others to discuss. But it is an accepted fact that the natives of New Zealand, and of some of the groups of Pacific Islands, in many respects show evidence of a common origin for instance, their general appearance, long straight hair, ignorance of bows and arrows, of the art of pottery, and their knowledge of the same legends and folk-lore, though told in various forms. When Captain Cook first visited New Zealand he had a native of Hawaii who acted as interpreter. In ancient New Zealand tradition, the Maoris are said to have come from Hawaii in four large war-canoes, about the twelfth or thirteenth century. For these reasons I have not hesitated to include in this book four South Sea tales, which, though not told by New Zealand natives, will, I hope, be acceptable for their beauty and peculiarities, They are specified in the Notes. The illustrations are by the late Mr. R. Atkinson, and are of special value, as they were drawn by that able artist Preface from sketches of natives and native surroundings made by him while staying amongst the Maorjs both in the remote King country and in the hot-lake district Rotorua. His picture of the little grandchild of Ic-heu-heu, the well known war-chief of Lalie Taupo, was exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1891. I regret that the size of the book does not make it possible to do full justice to the beauty of the original drawings.

Andrea and Darra live in a dead-end Massachusetts town, making their way through high school with hopeful (but slim) dreams of escape. Everything's going according to plan until a chance encounter with an otherworldly spirit named Carmen changes everything! Carmen promises Andrea eternal life, but a mysterious young boy named Liam shows up claiming he had also made a deal with Carmen, and it didn't go well . . . 100 years ago. Liam must convince his new friends of Carmen's evil nature before Andrea is tricked into a supernatural bargain that will upend her new life before it even starts.