Crusades Fiction

In this second book of The Newton Chronicles, Luke Alexander and his friends Nathan and Lydia are still on the hunt for Luke's father, who has been noted as "missing, presumed dead." But Luke and his friends aren't so sure. After finding a watch in Luke's father's office that helps them jump through time, the three friends are on a quest to find Luke's dad.

Though Aaron Turner would be just as happy to oversee archaeological digs, there might still be a few people out to kill him. What his enemies don’t know is that Aaron really is the One God’s Chosen, called Bringer, known as Death, and he’s become righteously pissed off.

A crusade is called to aid the Kingdom of Azgald in the distant Nordslands, and the young idealistic knight Godfrey does not hesitate to volunteer. Yet Godfrey soon learns that the greatest threat to the expedition's success is not the savage clans under High Warlord Alvir and the Great Witch of the North, Nera, or the orcs and cyclopes that fight beside the clans, but the rivalries among the crusaders themselves.

The mind-blowing conclusion to The Cross-Time Crusade!

Izdanie soderzhit rasskaz Aleksandra Kuprina "Pohod" iz armejskoj prozy pisatelja. V rasskaze "Pohod" Aleksandr Kuprin rasskazyvaet o zhizni russkoj armii i neprostyh vzaimootnoshenijah mezhdu soldatami i oficerami.

Crusade of Tears is an astonishing tale of courage, perseverance, and faith surrounding the tragedy of the Children's Crusade of 1212 in which thousands of German children crossed the Alps in a heart-wrenching attempt to rescue Jerusalem from Islam. Baker paints a masterful portrait of the times, one that blends meticulously researched historical accounts with a compelling plot and an unforgettable assortment of characters.

Former ranger Jack Smith watched an Army bio-warfare experiment go horribly wrong in an Afghan village in 2001, escaping only after he turned to a makeshift mace and bayonet to destroy the skulls of the infected creatures that bullets to the chest could not stop. With the traumatic experience seared into his mind, he earned his PhD, in ancient history and began developing medieval weapons-making skills after he left the service.

When an unknown virus that turns humans into flesh-eating zombies begins to spread around the world, no one is safe. A few small communities in disparate locations manage to create at least temporary safe havens, including the inhabitants of an Israeli kibbutz. As the global crisis tears apart the fabric of human civilization, survivors must learn how to defend themselves against a horrific enemy that turns friends and family into mindless cannibals who can survive seemingly fatal wounds.

Sampson, a thief-turned-guild-leader, completed an Instance in the BloodHaven’s dungeon, revealing that his most powerful guild member wasn’t some starved prisoner Sampson had saved, but in truth, a far more influential person than anyone was ready to handle. And his intentions couldn’t be more unclear.

Valentine never thought death would be so difficult. Tough, a crack shot and popular with her unit. She’s a young woman with a bright future in the Corps. But everything changed the day her unit boarded the dreaded "Burijas", a Leviathan Class Battleship and flagship of the invading Star Empire. The assault is a bloodbath, but little does she know it will be her last action. A devastating blast tears her fragile body apart, leaving her a broken woman close to death.

In 1858, Found Grace Church in northeastern Illinois decides to relocate to Kansas. There they will vote to keep the state free, rather than allow it to fall to those who supported the abomination of slavery. The pastor, Preacher Larrimer, declares the wagon train trip a Holy Crusade.

Comic-Con, 2036. The world is rocked by the bizarre and inexplicable materialization of Cateklysm Catholicon - a colorfully clad whack job decreeing that humanity's only hope lies in the lessons found in superhero comic books. "Cateklysm's Challenge" is born, enticing even the most skeptical with a prize that promises "the power to change the world".

With the great battle between man and the undead apparently won and the situation seemingly in hand, the president leaps into action to take all the credit he can for saving the country and defending the Quarantine Zone. Surrounded by battalions of television news crews, he authorizes Operation Swift Stand in which he commits the nation's entire rapid deployment force in a show-stopping extravaganza designed more to rekindle patriotic fervor and to lift his own sagging poll numbers than to stop the undead.

Quite simply, what could go wrong did go wrong. Given the choice between assuming leadership of a situation that is pure chaos, where the National Guard is forced into a position of going to war against a trapped and possibly infected citizenry, the President chooses to punt. He knows what enforcing a quarantined zone will require: the massacre of tens of thousands of terrified people demanding to get out, and there is no way he's going to have his name and legacy sullied.

Valentine and her Novas are back in action as they defend the Martian moon of Deimos from a massive Ski’lig invasion. The Ski’ligs are back in force, and this time they’ve brought an armada with them. Epsilon Eridani has already fallen and soon the Alliance are in full retreat back to Terra Nova, where they can rally a force strong enough to deal with the unexpected attack. Earth and Mars are alone as they prepare to sell their lives dearly. But Valentine has a plan, one that will spare the colonies of Sol, and force the enemy to deal with the Novas on their terms.

In The Last Crusade, acclaimed adventure author K.T. Tomb pits two kings against each other.... one Christian and one Muslim. Each must sacrifice some of his pride and power in order to fulfill a divine command of obedience on their dangerous quest as they seek the greatest treasure the world has ever known: the Holy Grail....

In an age of war, young Aren travels to the fabled capital city of Erenähl, in the hope of finding the family he never knew. But once a riddle-wreathed storyteller takes up residence in his head, Aren soon realizes he’s stumbled into a legacy older than the kings of yore. Overnight, his hopes for a simple life are shattered and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power.

The war between those of the Sky Empire and those of the Sea Kingdom is as old as this world of endless water itself, and Stella is trapped inside its deadly confines. Stella finally agrees to her highly anticipated betrothal with the most promising leviathan mech fighter. This fighter, a military hero, has an alarming amount of blood on his hands. She isn't after his title, but something more dangerous. Stella's plan may give her the absolution she's been searching for, or she may end up losing her life for nothing.

As an unfathomably powerful AI threatens the freedom of humanity, Martin Raines must return to medieval Europe to learn the truth about GRAIL and the Codex Babylon.

A secret cabal of demonic forces threatens to destroy civilization and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Humanity's only chance is a shadowy organization called GRAIL--the modern day heirs to the Knights Templar--which has discovered the secret to time travel. The past cannot be changed, but if GRAIL can send an agent into the past to recover a lost book on demonology called the Codex Babylon, they may have a fighting chance to save humanity from utter destruction.