The Gripping Beast

The Gripping Beast

Author: Margot Wadley

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Published: 2002-04-15

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1429982012

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In Northern Scotland The Gripping Beast introduces readers to a land full of ancient history and modern day intrigue. Orkney Island was first inhabited by the Picts and then the Vikings and the residents now believe that witches live among them. Margot Wadley uses the dramatic background to debut her heroine, Isabel Garth, a young American woman who has come to the island to illustrate her deceased father's notebooks. As soon as Isabel steps off the ferry she is accosted by a beautiful young woman who warns her to leave. Andrew, a young boy she met on the ferry, proudly announces that the woman, Thora, is a witch. Isabel doesn't know what to think and as she continues her vacation she starts to feel that maybe Thora was right--maybe she is in danger. She is puzzled by the behavior of two men who seem to be following her and by the rash of accidents that are plaguing her. Then, while out sketching one day, Isabel finds Thora's body--apparently murdered. In a dramatic climax, a life is lost, a life is saved, and the treasure at the root of all the violence disappears forever.


The Gripping Beast

The Gripping Beast

Author: Peter Craigie

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-06-15

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0955986443

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Terry Lennox, business consultant and slightly tarnished white knight, finds himself caught up in a bewildering and dangerous world of financial and sexual corruption at the secret heart of Edinburgh's well-bred business community. Wrestling with conflicting loyalties, his attempts to unravel the truth lead him into ever more sinister secrets. International finance, a bizarre piece of Viking jewellery, the dark side of Brussels and a weird mountain fastness in Switzerland are all part of the mystery, which comes to a violent conclusion in the icy waters around Orkney.


The Gripping Beast

The Gripping Beast

Author: Joan Dugdale

Publisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia)

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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Novel in which an upheaval in Ursula's life propels her on a quest into her Anglo-Norse heritage. Two journeys - one actual, one imagined - converge and lead Ursula to renewed joy in life. The author's book, 'Struggle of Memory', won the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies award for Best Australian Book of the Year in 1991.


The Beast

The Beast

Author: J.R. Ward

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 0698192974

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Fan favorite couple Rhage and Mary return in this gripping novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Nothing is as it used to be for the Black Dagger Brotherhood. The slayers of the Lessening Society are stronger than ever, preying on human weakness to acquire more money, more weapons, more power. But as the Brotherhood readies for an all-out attack on them, one of their own fights a battle within himself... For Rhage—the Brother with the biggest appetites, but also the biggest heart—life was supposed to be perfect. Or at the very least, perfectly enjoyable. But he can’t understand or control the panic and insecurity that plague him. Terrified, he must reassess his priorities after suffering a mortal injury. And the answer, when it comes to him, rocks his—and his beloved Mary’s—world...


The Gripping Beast

The Gripping Beast

Author: Torgeir Hansson

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9781480112322

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Revenge Is An Overused Word. But When You Pick On A Northman's Family, Expect It.Eirik Hjaltison is barely sixteen when his world turns to ashes. Alone, betrayed, and on the run, he barely escapes his father's enemies. He is thrown into the perilous world of Ninth-Century Europe, where your only protection is your skill with your weapons, and friends who will stand with you when hope is all you have left.Over the Northern Sea and down the Roman Road, ever south, Erik follows the dark trail of the Medieval Slave Trade towards a place that holds what he seeks-inside a cage in a dungeon, behind the brooding walls of a stone fortress. But there is a bright-eyed Egyptian girl who can sew wounds, and seven lean men from the North who thought it could be good with some plunder, and perhaps to shop for some fancy boots at a local market. They find themselves part of something else: a quest to right a grievous wrong, in a world where there is a hundred ways to die. Nothing is harder to win back than a man's honor.A Northman's name is everything. Erik ran once, and that he cannot live with. While those who spat on his father's body are still alive, there can be no honor, and no peace. But men's weaknesses show themselves when they do their worst, and Eirik's pride threatens to undo everything. Everything he loves, everything he wants to live, everything he ever fought for, rides on one last chance, one last fight, to win it all, or lose it all.


The Gripping Beast

The Gripping Beast

Author: Charlene Teglia

Publisher: Samhain Publishing

Published: 2006-05

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 9781599980553

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Lorelei Michaels, flamboyant lead vocalist of the all-female rock band "The Sirens," has a passion for myths and legends. She just never expected to find herself actually living one. While touring with the band, a Viking armband with a design known as the gripping beast throws her into a time warp--full of Norsemen, macho attitudes, and into the arms of her very own Viking.


A History of the Vikings

A History of the Vikings

Author: Gwyn Jones

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 9780192801340

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A look at the ancient Scandinavian peoples.


The Beast

The Beast

Author: Oscar Martinez

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1781682976

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An Economist and Financial Times “Best Book of the Year” “Harrowing” true stories from two years of immersion reporting on the migrant trail from Chiapas to Arizona—an “honorable successor to enduring works like George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier” (New York Times) One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two years spent traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America and across the US border. More than a quarter of a million Central Americans make this increasingly dangerous journey each year, and each year as many as 20,000 of them are kidnapped. Martínez writes in powerful, unforgettable prose about clinging to the tops of freight trains; finding respite, work and hardship in shelters and brothels; and riding shotgun with the border patrol. Illustrated with stunning full-color photographs, The Beast is the first book to shed light on the harsh new reality of the migrant trail in the age of the narcotraficantes.


Beast Keeper #1

Beast Keeper #1

Author: Lucy Coats

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-01-08

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0448461935

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Beasts of Olympus is a series of 144-page illustrated chapter books set in a magical Ancient Greece where strange things still walk the Earth. Beast Keeper tells the story of Pandemonius (a.k.a. "Demon," the half-god son of Pan) who, on his tenth birthday, is called upon to look after all the mythical creatures that belong to the stables of Olympus.


The Cambridge History of Scandinavia

The Cambridge History of Scandinavia

Author: Knut Helle

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-09-04

Total Pages: 942

ISBN-13: 9780521472999

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This volume presents a comprehensive exposition of both the prehistory and medieval history of the whole of Scandinavia. The first part of the volume surveys the prehistoric and historic Scandinavian landscape and its natural resources, and tells how man took possession of this landscape, adapting culturally to changing natural conditions and developing various types of community throughout the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. The rest - and most substantial part of the volume - deals with the history of Scandinavia from the Viking Age to the end of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (c. 1520). The external Viking expansion opened Scandinavia to European influence to a hitherto unknown degree. A Christian church organisation was established, the first towns came into being, and the unification of the three medieval kingdoms of Scandinavia began, coinciding with the formation of the unique Icelandic 'Free State'.