Author: Dean F. Wilson
Publisher: Dioscuri Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Welcome to the Wild North, a desolate wasteland where criminals go to hide—if they can outlast the drought and the dangers of the desert. Or the dangers of something else. Meet Nox, the Coilhunter. A mechanic and toymaker by trade, a bounty hunter by circumstance. He isn't in it for the money. He's in it for justice, and there's a lot of justice that needs to be paid. Between each kill, he's looking for someone who has kept out of his crosshairs for quite a while—the person who murdered his wife and children. The trail has long gone cold, but there are changes happening, the kind of changes that uncover footprints and spent bullet casings. Plagued by nightmares, he's made himself into a living one, the kind the criminals and conmen fear. So, welcome, fair folk, to the Wild North. If the land doesn't get you, the Coilhunter will. This is a standalone book in the Coilhunter Chronicles series, which can be read in any order.
Author: Roger Caillois
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252070334
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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According to Roger Caillois, play is an occasion of pure waste. In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this study, the author defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from the rest of life.
Author: Jesse McCann
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 1782021736
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Something fishy's going down in Coolsville... When Velma wins first place at the science fair, she and the Mystery Inc. gang get a special after-hours tour of the Coolsville Aquarium and a sneak peek at the new exhibit - the super-rare Rainbow Flounder Everything is going swimmingly until - yikes - a Fishy Phantom shows up Can Scooby and the gang solve this mystery before they're all wet?
Author: R. E. Vance
Publisher: Paradise Lot
ISBN: 9781916950382
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Marcos (subcomandante.)
Publisher: Autonomedia
ISBN: 1570271186
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
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'We are all Zapatistas.' Subcomandante MarcosThis book began in 1994, when Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos replied to a 10-year-old girl from Mexico City who had sent him a drawing. The ensuing collection of related tales about the warrior-beetle, narrated by his pipe-smoking, black-ski-masked human squire is an extraordinary account for the general reader of current global political struggle.Marcos created a humorous fictitious character, Don Durito, a beetle with Quixotic fantasies which regards Marcos as his Sancho Panza. In this book, Marcos creates a new political genre, so-called "postdata": ironical commentaries which he affixes to his formal communiqués or declarations. In one of them he even offers to perform a striptease for government negotiators.'We are the product of 500 years of struggle...They [Mexican government] don't care that we have nothing, absolutely nothing, not even a roof over our heads; no land, no work, no health care, no food, no education... nor is there peace nor justice for ourselves and our children. But today, we say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!' First EZLN declaration of war, December 31st 1993The Zapatistas are not Marxist, Rightists, or Anarchists. They seek not to replace one infrastructure of power with another, thus rejecting the normal goal of an armed struggle. They are armed but do not use violence as a tool to expand their aims. Although a localized rebellion, the Zapatistas are unified in a worldwide struggle that transcends the mainstream media's limited perspective through eloquent dictations distributed globally via the Internet.With a fresh perspective and tactics that have never been seen in relation to an armed insurrection, the EZLN (Zapatista National Liberation Army) has changed the definition of what revolution means. From the marginalized confines of the poorest region in Mexico, a new concept of revolutionary change with a new solution to societies woes is currently being proposed.
Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316389714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 407
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Geralt the Witcher battles monsters, demons and prejudices alike in Sword of Destiny, the second collection of adventures in Andrzej Sapkowski’s groundbreaking epic fantasy series that inspired the Netflix show and the hit video games. Geralt is a Witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless hunter. Yet he is no ordinary killer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. Sword of Destiny is the follow up to The Last Wish, and together they are the perfect introduction to a one of a kind fantasy world. Witcher collections The Last Wish Sword of Destiny Witcher novels Blood of Elves The Time of Contempt Baptism of Fire The Tower of Swallows Lady of the Lake Season of Storms Hussite Trilogy The Tower of Fools Warriors of God Translated from original Polish by David French
Author: Kenneth L. Untiedt
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574414712
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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"The Texas Folklore Society has been alive and kicking for over one hundred years now, and I don't really think there's any mystery as to what keeps the organization going strong. The secret to our longevity is simply the constant replenishment of our body of contributors. We are especially fortunate in recent years to have had papers given at our annual meetings by new members--young members, many of whom are college or even high school students. "These presentations are oftentimes given during sessions right alongside some of our oldest members. We've also had long-time members who've been around for years but had never yet given papers; thankfully, they finally took the opportunity to present their research, fulfilling the mission of the TFS: to collect, preserve, and present the lore of Texas and the Southwest. "You'll find in this book some of the best articles from those presentations. The first fruits of our youngest or newest members include Acayla Haile on the folklore of plants. Familiar and well-respected names like J. Rhett Rushing and Kenneth W. Davis discuss folklore about monsters and the classic 'widow's revenge' tale. These works--and the people who produced them--represent the secret behind the history of the Texas Folklore Society, as well as its future."--Kenneth L. Untiedt
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1053
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A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.
Author: R. E. Vance
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781791382889
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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First the gods left. Then the Others came. When the gods ditched Earth, the displaced mythical creatures from heaven and hell ended up at my doorstep. To keep my business afloat, I've been forced to handle the dramas of folklore and fairytale creatures who are way out of their element. To say these succubi, poltergeists, and angels are out of touch with the mortal way of life would be an understatement. But preparing my new tenants for the real world is just the start of my problems. An ominous monster has been terrorizing the night and the creature's bloody deeds are exhuming a past best left dead and buried. I guess sometimes the dead don't want to stay buried and the past will dig itself out of a cold grave just to kick you in the nuts. My name is Jean-Luc Matthias and if I want to save my business, protect my legendary tenants, stop the monster and ... oh yeah ... stop the apocalypse from happening again, then I guess I'd better pull up my big-boy pants and get to work. GoneGod World is a hilariously dark urban fantasy novel with an imaginative twist. If you like gritty worlds, reimagined mythology, and shadowy mysteries, then you'll love Ramy Vance's divinely comedic adventure. Buy GoneGod World today for an insane fantasy of mythic proportions! Books in the KEEP EVOLVING Series: *GoneGod World (Book 1) *Keep Evolving (Book 2) *CrystalDreams (Book 3) *Penemue's Inferno (Book 4)- out soon! Other books set in the GoneGod Universe: *Mortality Bites (Book 1) *Family Matters (Book 2) *Superhero Me! (Book 3) *Orphaned Follies (Book 4)
Author: Justin Taylor
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 9781433510496
Category : Oral communication
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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John Piper, Sinclair Ferguson, Mark Driscoll, and other leaders from Desiring God's 2008 conference examine the life-altering power of our words and their impact in sharing the gospel.
