Books with title Blood Runner

When the world was new, the Great Mountain, Enlil, banishes his sister to the Netherworld for taking a lesser as consort. But Sumerian doctor-priest, Kurshram, fights a hard human way through Ereshkigal’s flaming palace to trade his soul and life for the release of his great love. A thousand years later during a temple raid, the blood of slain priests washes into his crypt and reanimates his body while his memories remain locked away with his soul. Only half a man, he thirsts for the Water of Life that woke him and stumbles through darkness in walking half-life, dreaming on she who he cannot recall, forgotten by time, and left without place or purpose…Richard has problems - perennially unsettled, curmudgeonly, immortal... He can’t even remember his real name. Reinventing himself through several millennia while ducking pitchfork-wielding mobs, he finds use as an apothecary, though can’t recall learning the trade. Riddled with guilt, he’s compelled to heal in return for the human blood he steals. Sometimes, he craves ending the nightmare. Mostly? He just wants to be left alone.That’s not working out for him.Eighteenth century Britain sees Maggie burst across his threshold as the mirror of painful self-examination that tears him apart while the vicious pirate captain, Billy the Blackdeath, with a secret as old as his own, tangles them up in an inhuman, rage-fuelled vendetta that burns down his world.Richard still nurses his wounds in the solitude of a remote Canadian forest three hundred years later, but to his undying exasperation, everyone is looking for him - the living and the undead. And fate seems determined to serve him up existence in unexplainable harmony with people he doesn’t know.When the truth comes out, it smacks of supernal collusion and though Richard protests he’s nobody’s hero, a manic, all-consuming need to protect human and not-so-human explodes into a fiery five-thousand-year-old destiny of epic, mythological proportions.

Samuel's parents and young sister, innocent bystanders during an uprising, are killed by South African police. Samuel is sent to live with his uncle, a tribal chief in the Bantu homeland, while his brother vows to join the African National Congress armed struggle and avenge his family's deaths. In the h omeland, Samuel discovers he can run faster than anyone and before long begins to train under his English-educated uncle. Years later, after the end of Apartheid, Samuel is selected as the token black South African athlete to run in the Olympics. President Nelson Mandela is there when he wins his gold medal, and Samuel dedicates it to 'a very special man... I was running for the President. I was running for my country.' This powerful and moving story portrays what it was like for blacks growing up in South Africa aunder Apartheid and the different ways in which they struggled to gain their freedom. For some, like Samuel's brother, it was an armed struggle, but for Samuel it was the opportunity to prove he could run better than any white man.

It's summer vacation! A time to unwind and hang out with friends on the beach. No worries. Just lazy sun-drenched days by the water.At least for every other teenager in Florida but Skyler Stoerm--stuck on a sailing trip to the Bermuda Triangle with only his father and menagerie of pets for company. No Wifi, no Internet, and no friends. Unfortunately, boring doesn't describe Skyler's journey for long, and he finds himself alone and stranded at sea after an attack by a sea serpent straight out of Norse mythology. Help comes by way of a group of fallen heroes on their own path toward redemption. They travel with Skyler to Asgard where the teen learns of his Nordic lineage (cool!). But being the grandson of a Nordic god isn't all muscles and lightning bolts--it comes with an excess of enemies (not cool at all!).To save his father, Skyler must find Odin's lost book of Blood Runes (while dodging harpies and dragons and even a few demigod stalkers).

It's summer vacation! A time to unwind and hang out with friends on the beach. No worries. Just lazy sun-drenched days by the water. At least for every other teenager in Florida but Skyler Stoerm--stuck on a sailing trip to the Bermuda Triangle with only his father and menagerie of pets for company. No Wifi, no Internet, and no friends. Unfortunately, boring doesn't describe Skyler's journey for long, and he finds himself alone and stranded at sea after an attack by a sea serpent straight out of Norse mythology. Help comes by way of a group of fallen heroes on their own path toward redemption. They travel with Skyler to Asgard where the teen learns of his Nordic lineage (cool!). But being the grandson of a Nordic god isn't all muscles and lightning bolts--it comes with an excess of enemies (not cool at all!). To save his father, Skyler must find Odin's lost book of Blood Runes (while dodging harpies and dragons and even a few demigod stalkers).