Books with title The Executioner

In a kingdom of merciless tyrants, Jebel Rum's family is honored as royalty because his father is the executioner. But Rashed Rum is near retirement. And when he goes, there will be a contest to determine his successor. It is a contest that thin, puny Jebel has no chance of winning.Humiliated and ashamed, Jebel sets out on a quest to the faraway home of a legendary fire god to beg for inhuman powers so that he can become the most lethal of men. He must take with him a slave, named Tel Hesani, to be sacrificed to the god. It will be a dark and brutal journey filled with lynch mobs, suicide cults, terrible monsters, and worse, monstrous men. But to Jebel, the risk is worth it.To retrieve his honor . . .To wield unimaginable power . . .To become . . .The thin executioner.Inspired by Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, international bestselling master of horror Darren Shan takes readers on a thrilling, fast-paced journey into a nightmarish world where compassion and kindness are the greatest crimes of all.

The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer, Hutchinson, 1979, 1st edition (UK).1,056 pages. Dust jacket. Description: Book; Blue cloth with both silver and copper lettering to spine only, publisher's motif embossed on the cover, goldenrod endpapers. Dust jacket; Black wraparound design with white lettering over and under sunset photograph by Roger Ward, author's photo on back cover. Not price clipped. Condition: Book; Near fine. Bright and clean covers and pages with no marks. Rubbing to lower edge of spine, some dust to front and back boards. Autopen-signature on Title page, title page professionally laid in from identical book that had water damaged to boards and other pages. Book is Pulitzer Prize winner. Mailer "longpen" signed books at the 6/16/07 Edinburgh International Book Festival when health prevented him attending in person. It is not known if this is the first and/or only time the author used a autopen. Dust jacket; Near fine. Bright and clean, not price clipped, no marks or tears, very light crease to three of the points, else fine.

The riveting tale of an executioner's daughter who struggles to find a different path in lifeBorn into the family of an executioner, Lily has always been sheltered by her mother from the horrors of her father's occupation. But when her ailing mother takes a turn for the worse, Lily is suddenly thrust into the paralyzing role of executioner's assistant. Aside from preparing healing concoctions for the suffering and maimed, Lily must now accompany her father at the town executions, something she has never done before. Though she loves her father, the emotional burden of his disturbing profession is just too much for her to bear. Lily must find a way to change her destiny, no matter the consequences.Set in medieval England, this well-researched and beautifully written novel tells the story of one girl's fight to rise above her fate.