Bøker av David Burton

High fantasy swords and sorcery novella, set in a world where the gods walk among men. Lampide, city of light and law, has stood for two hundred years. Together, the goddess Onore and the five castes she rules have built a shining beacon of civilization and progress. As the city comes under threat from Ombra, god of shadow and vigilantes, the two begin a war whose only true end can be Onore's death, or Ombra's retreat. Ombra's cultists attack and destroy, and Onore's dogs strike back in an endless cycle of escalation. Officer Lukas Hawkwood of the guard tries to balance his principles with the demands of war and his desire to escape the shame of his father's betrayal of the goddess. Caught in the crossfire, mortals pick their sides in a war for the soul of the city, whether freedom in darkness, unity in obedience, or merely surviving to see another sunrise. What else can mortals do when the gods go to war?

If your innocent soul is sent to Hell by mistake, you had better hope your loved ones can afford a Soul Retriever. This exciting supernatural adventure, the sequel to Soul Retrievers, is another vivid romp through the diverse landscape of Hell. Getter and Sneaker, Warn The Devil's unlikely heroes, join forces in attempting to retain the balance of good and evil - for the sake of humanity and the universe. Soul Retrievers are men and women who brave the depths and horrors of the underworld to rescue innocent souls who have been incorrectly sent to Hell. Getter is one such Soul Retriever, and on top of his day-to-day grind against demons, wormholes, golems, and worse, he happens to be the subject of a prophecy which he wants no part of. A relatively mundane retrieval, rapidly becomes more complicated when the Soul Retriever Council volunteers Getter to go to the Golden Palace and Warn the Devil that one of his closest officers is planning to take over Hell. With him is Sneaker, his sometime partner, sometime lover. Her skills are among the best, but she rarely receives the acclaim she deserves from the other, mostly-male, Soul Retrievers. On top of all that, she's recently been turned into a vampire, and isn't terribly pleased with the ordeal. Gregory, the diminutive 150-year-old soul of a Scotsman murdered in Hell who has helped Getter in the past, volunteers himself to go with them. When someone even more evil than Satan wants to take over Hell, and doesn't care about disrupting the balance of the universe, there's only one thing to do - Warn The Devil. But will that warning be enough? Will Satan even take heed of this warning from a live Soul Retriever? Satan saves Sneaker's life, so maybe there is hope for Hell, and all of us.

A Cautionary Tale Fear can be a good thing, it can save your life, unless it's used to kill. The fast paced psychological thriller Fear Killer follows Detective Martha Newton who has a shockingly brutal murder to solve. She is dogged in her investigation, but is distracted by her own fear, change -- a new man in her life who seems too perfect. Emily Perrit, timid and married to an abusive husband, has her own fears to work through - no change. Befriended by Martha after an earlier attack, she wants Martha to help her, like a mother. For Martha, Emily's growing desire to be close to her "new" mother becomes another problem, along with the love live of her Detective partner and the self-esteem crisis of her real surrogate daughter, whom Emily believes takes much too much of her mother's time. As more murders occur all of their lives become intertwined. Is one, or more, of them a murderer? Reluctantly, Martha has to put her fears for all of them aside and follow the evidence until it breaks her heart or kills her.

He remained a myth throughout his life - almost a horror story. To many just a rumour, and to others, UK's most feared gangster! Nobody knew him. Now it was his turn to tell his story and expose several truths regarding organised crime and corruption. But how much can he reveal - how much can we believe? A life of blood, fear and regret compiled with a search for understanding and empathy. Is he looking for forgiveness? Or does he only have a tale to tell? We've all read about villains - hard men. It has captivated us, shocked us and in some cases inspired us, but in this book, Paul Reddy looks to educate and inform us, and to a lesser extent, looks to entertain us too. The shocking story of Britain's most infamous gangster in his own words!

Cambridge English Empower is a general adult course that combines course content from Cambridge University Press with validated assessment from Cambridge English Language Assessment.

Cambridge English Empower is a general adult course that combines course content from Cambridge University Press with validated assessment from the experts at Cambridge English Language Assessment. Included in Combo A is the first half of the Student's Book and the print Workbook (with key).

This three-volume collection examines the evolution of the sealed bottle from the 1640s to the late 1800s and provides a detailed description to accompany each entry.

Suitable for the one-semester undergraduate number theory course taken by math majors, secondary education majors, and computer science students, this text provides a simple account of classical number theory, set against a historical background that shows the subject's evolution since antiquity.

Provides historical context to the mathematics that undergrad math and math education majors encounter every day. This title illuminates the people, stories, and social context behind mathematics' historical advances while maintaining appropriate focus on the mathematical concepts themselves.

Evocative images detail the rich past of this developing market town

As they made their mark on their host culture, the formidable memsahib - or English housewife - made sure that much traditional cuisine was rejected in favour of an impossible combination of European customs, and the results were frequently chaotic. Anglo-India cooking was at its best when it achieved a kind of cultural balance;