Ancient gods Artemis and Apollo get caught up in a game of love with a mortal woman in this Goddess Summoning novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author P. C. Cast... Tired of dating egomaniacs, interior designer Pamela Gray has nearly given up. She wants to be treated like a goddess—preferably by a god. As she whispers her wish, she unwittingly invokes the goddess Artemis, who has some tricks up her celestial sleeve… Twins Artemis and Apollo have been sent to the kingdom of Las Vegas to test their mettle. Their first assignment: make Pamela’s wish come true. So Artemis volunteers her golden brother. After all, who better than the handsome God of Light to bring love to this lonely woman? It might be a first, but here in Sin City, where life is a gamble, both god and mortal are about to bet on a high-stakes game of love...

The explosive space epic continues, as the techno-mages come face-to-face with the devastating evil of the Shadows . . . War against the Shadows is inevitable, and the ruling Circle has ordered the techno-mages into hiding. Many are unhappy with this decision--none more so than Galen, the only mage who has faced the Shadows and lived. But the Shadows aren't Galen's only enemy--he is driven to hunt and kill Elizar, the traitor who murdered the beautiful mage Isabelle while Galen stood by helplessly, his hands tied by the Circle's sacred code he had sworn to follow. Now a new mission awaits as the Circle contrives a plan that may enable the five hundred mages to escape without leaving a trace. Dispatched to the Shadow's ancient capitol to uncover the enemy's plans, Galen will find everything he so desperately seeks--including a shocking legacy that threatens to consume his very soul. Babylon 5 created by J. Michael Straczynski

SIHR DJINN AFARIT AND HOW TO SUMMON THEM: The Banned Book Of Sorcery, Spells, Magic and Witchcraft. 3rd Edition. Published by Times Square Press, New York. "This is a heavy-duty Kitab (Book) on Sihr (Magic, Witchcraft, Sorcery), Djinns, Afarit, Kitabaat (Magical writings), and Talasem (Talismans). As a practitioner of Ilmu Al Sihr, you will have the rare and unprecedented opportunity to polish and perfect your practice. As a novice and a researcher, you will learn quite a lot about all these subjects which were never before discussed and explained in any other language than in Arabic. As you already know, Djinns, Afarit and Sihr originated in the ancient Middle East, Arab Peninsula and North Africa, and the Saher (Magician, Sorcerer) used only Arabic, and the secret languages of Al-Arwaah (Spirits) and "Etheric Entities" to summon multiple and various categories of Spirits and entities which remained shrouded in absolute secrecy for centuries." Honorable Ulema Master Farid Tayara.

As Valusha, Kokoro, the princess of Candrah, wandered the Anchorage without regard for anyone but herself. All that changed on her wedding day when an exile, a former general from the prison world Nemesis, Shikisha Shippai, attacked. Forced through a unstable space-time portal, she crashed onto Akamon, the world below, a millenia later. Her first discovery, a prophecy that declared that she would die if she sought to rule. So she hid. She lived a lie about who she was unaware that a delicate balance broke the day she vanished. One that had to be restored soon or total destruction would fall on both worlds. So with her immortal father, her friend Naiusa and an unlikely ally Tolaris, she begins the journey of restoration. One that changes everyone it meets, and everything it touches. For without the heroes of old, the Yatsarim, there is only dark failure. It is time to Summon the Heroes!

The MMORPG Cross Reverie's top player, Takuma Sakamoto, is summoned to another world where he's forced to play the part of the Demon Lord Diablo! The next opponent standing in his way is the Demon Overlord! Sensing he might not win this time, Diablo visits the swordmaster to develop his skills as a warrior to break the limit of the races. Just as he does, the Demon Lord's army marches on the citadel city of Faltra! The adventurer Emile and the governor Galford take up their blades to do battle, but the strength of the enemy exceeds all their expectations! "Heheheh... You claim the title of Demon Overlord and yet do not know of me? Your ignorance knows no bounds!" This is the ninth volume of the adventures of an earth-shakingly powerful Demon Lord (or at least someone who acts like one) taking on another world!

In the MMORPG Cross Reverie, Takuma Sakamoto is so powerful that he is lauded as the "Demon Lord" by other players. One day, he is summoned to a world outside his own-- but with the same appearance he had in the game! There, he meets two girls who both proclaim themselves to be his Summoner. They perform an Enslavement Ritual to turn him into their Summon... but that's when Takuma's passive ability activates! Instead, it is the girls who become enslaved! Though Takuma may be the strongest Sorcerer there is, he has no idea how to talk with other people. It is here he makes his choice: to act based on his persona from the game! "Amazing? But of course... I am Diablo, the being known and feared as the Demon Lord!" So begins a tale of adventure with an earth-shakingly powerful Demon Lord (or at least someone who acts like one) taking on another world!

A collection of profound spiritual poetry by an accomplished author, poet and abbess of a Poor Clare monastery. Organized around the themes of the Liturgy, mysteries of the Faith, and the religious life, these beautiful and moving poems will deepen your awareness of Godಙs presence in your life. ಜA book to be kept near oneಙs missal and oneಙs Bible.ಝ Thomas Howard, Author, Lead Kindly Light

As Valusha, Kokoro, the princess of Candrah, wandered the Anchorage without regard for anyone but herself. All that changed on her wedding day when an exile, a former general from the prison world Nemesis, Shikisha Shippai, attacked. Forced through a unstable space-time portal, she crashed onto Akamon, the world below, a millenia later. Her first discovery, a prophecy that declared that she would die if she sought to rule. So she hid. She lived a lie about who she was unaware that a delicate balance broke the day she vanished. One that had to be restored soon or total destruction would fall on both worlds. So with her immortal father, her friend Naiusa and an unlikely ally Tolaris, she begins the journey of restoration. One that changes everyone it meets, and everything it touches. For without the heroes of old, the Yatsarim, there is only dark failure. It is time to Summon the Heroes!

Nicholas D. Smith presents an original interpretation of the Republic, considering it to be a book about knowledge and education. Over the course of Summoning Knowledge in Plato's Republic, he argues for four main theses. Firstly, the Republic is not just a work that has a lot to say about education; it is a book that depicts Socrates as attempting to engage his interlocutors in such a way as to help to educate them and also engages us, the readers, in a way that helps to educate us. Secondly, Plato does not suppose that education, properly understood, should have as its primary aim putting knowledge into souls that do not already have it. Instead, the education Plato discusses, represents occurring between Socrates and his interlocutors, and hopes to achieve in his readers is one that aims to arouse the power of knowledge in us and then to begin to train that power always to engage with what is more real, rather than what is less real. Thirdly, Plato's conception of knowledge is not the one typically presented in contemporary epistemology. It is, rather, the power of conceptualization by the use of exemplars. And finally, Plato engages this power of knowledge in the Republic in a way he represents as only a kind of second-best way to engage knowledge - and not as the best way, which would be dialectic. Instead, Plato uses images that summon the power of knowledge to begin the process by which the power may become fully realized.

I AM BECOME DEATH, THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS ALLY WESTER struggles with her newfound powers in the white magic. But her power has drawn notice, and dark creatures desire to claim her for their own. ARRAN BELPHON has vowed to protect Ally Wester. And it will take everything he has to defend her - his strength, his heart, and even his life itself may be the price. MARUGON is the last of the Warlocks, the greatest wielder of black magic ever to walk under the sun. Now, at last, he possesses what he has long sought, and his true work can begin. And the TOWER OF ENDLESS WORLDS shall burn...