Author: John Bellairs
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575126205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
While thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon lies dying, possessed by an evil spirit, his friends, an elderly professor and a schoolmate, try to find some way to free him.
The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull
Author: John Bellairs
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497614392
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A bookish boy searches for his missing best friend in this spooky tale by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls On a country lane in snowbound 1950s New Hampshire, a car goes skidding off the road. Professor Childermass and Johnny Dixon escape unscathed, but their car is stuck, and they are forced to walk into town. Johnny doesn’t mind. A curious young man, he has fun anytime the professor takes him out, because he’s treated like an adult. Together they’ve gotten into all sorts of supernatural scrapes, and this winter night, they’ll face their toughest challenge yet. When Childermass suddenly vanishes, Johnny is the only one who can find him. The mystery is linked to a tiny skull taken from a child’s dollhouse, which seems to have powers too terrible to guess at. With the help of a crusty old Irish priest, Johnny chases the clues to his friend’s disappearance all the way to the rocky coast of Maine, where something evil hungers for revenge. From the author of the series featuring Lewis Barnavelt and Anthony Monday, the Johnny Dixon novels are charmingly old-school and shot through with suspense, and The Spell of the Sorcerer’s Skull may be the most chilling of them all.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497614392
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A bookish boy searches for his missing best friend in this spooky tale by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls On a country lane in snowbound 1950s New Hampshire, a car goes skidding off the road. Professor Childermass and Johnny Dixon escape unscathed, but their car is stuck, and they are forced to walk into town. Johnny doesn’t mind. A curious young man, he has fun anytime the professor takes him out, because he’s treated like an adult. Together they’ve gotten into all sorts of supernatural scrapes, and this winter night, they’ll face their toughest challenge yet. When Childermass suddenly vanishes, Johnny is the only one who can find him. The mystery is linked to a tiny skull taken from a child’s dollhouse, which seems to have powers too terrible to guess at. With the help of a crusty old Irish priest, Johnny chases the clues to his friend’s disappearance all the way to the rocky coast of Maine, where something evil hungers for revenge. From the author of the series featuring Lewis Barnavelt and Anthony Monday, the Johnny Dixon novels are charmingly old-school and shot through with suspense, and The Spell of the Sorcerer’s Skull may be the most chilling of them all.
The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost
Author: John Bellairs
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575126205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
While thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon lies dying, possessed by an evil spirit, his friends, an elderly professor and a schoolmate, try to find some way to free him.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575126205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
While thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon lies dying, possessed by an evil spirit, his friends, an elderly professor and a schoolmate, try to find some way to free him.
Blood Revenge, War, and Victory Feasts Among the Jibaro Indians of Eastern Ecuador
Author: Rafael Karsten
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Sorcerer's Shadow
Author: Jordan Quinn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534400001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Prince Lucas, his friend Clara, and Ruskin the dragon travel with a team of knights to the forest of Trellis, where they discover that an evil sorcerer's shadow has cursed the land and only someone pure of heart and full of hope can save them.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534400001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Prince Lucas, his friend Clara, and Ruskin the dragon travel with a team of knights to the forest of Trellis, where they discover that an evil sorcerer's shadow has cursed the land and only someone pure of heart and full of hope can save them.
Game of Thrones as a Contemporary Feminist Revenge Tragedy
Author: Lea M. Peters
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527545946
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
It is common knowledge that the television series Game of Thrones and revenge go together well, but whether Game of Thrones and feminism are compatible is debatable, to say the least. This book shows how the series’ female characters in particular utilise revenge to acquire autonomy, fight objectification, and pursue equality. On the one hand, they do so by mirroring the female characters of English Renaissance Revenge Tragedies. On the other, prevailing feminist ideas of the 21st century are also incorporated. The resulting tension between models from the Renaissance and current feminist impulses allows for an interpretation of Game of Thrones as a contemporary, feminist version of a Revenge Tragedy. Thus, this book discusses gender, equality, and representation, problematising the heteronormative, binary perspective so commonly given on the series. As such, the book is for everyone interested in popular culture and its influences and developments, both fans and critics of the show, feminists, and those who aspire to educate themselves.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527545946
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
It is common knowledge that the television series Game of Thrones and revenge go together well, but whether Game of Thrones and feminism are compatible is debatable, to say the least. This book shows how the series’ female characters in particular utilise revenge to acquire autonomy, fight objectification, and pursue equality. On the one hand, they do so by mirroring the female characters of English Renaissance Revenge Tragedies. On the other, prevailing feminist ideas of the 21st century are also incorporated. The resulting tension between models from the Renaissance and current feminist impulses allows for an interpretation of Game of Thrones as a contemporary, feminist version of a Revenge Tragedy. Thus, this book discusses gender, equality, and representation, problematising the heteronormative, binary perspective so commonly given on the series. As such, the book is for everyone interested in popular culture and its influences and developments, both fans and critics of the show, feminists, and those who aspire to educate themselves.
Rifts Coalition Wars
Author: Kevin Siembieda
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781574570519
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781574570519
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Firebird's Vengeance
Author: Sarah Zettel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440543763
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Magic and the force of destiny propelled Bridget Lederle across the void between worlds, through the Land of Death and Spirit, to the world of Isavalta, where she discovered secrets about herself and her family that had been hidden since before her birth. It seems like only yesterday that a charismatic stranger swept her from her home on the shore of Lake Superior and took her on an impossible journey to a strange, bejeweled world where sorcery could spring from the simplest of patterns, with most serious effect. In Isavalta she also discovered magical powers she had never suspected she possessed before her transit between the worlds. More than self-knowledge has changed her: she is in love with Sakra, a powerful sorcerer and her staunch ally. And she learns that her daughter, who she thought was lost to her, is alive. But that daughter is also the pawn in a dangerous game of power and politics. The powerful spells of a ruler intent on conquest threaten to destroy both mother and daughter. Torn between the contending forces of magic and empire, Bridget lives an extraordinary adventure replete with unimaginable dangers. Beset by enemies on all sides, she must rely on the aid of supernatural forces she can’t control, lest she be destroyed by a fate she cannot imagine.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440543763
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Magic and the force of destiny propelled Bridget Lederle across the void between worlds, through the Land of Death and Spirit, to the world of Isavalta, where she discovered secrets about herself and her family that had been hidden since before her birth. It seems like only yesterday that a charismatic stranger swept her from her home on the shore of Lake Superior and took her on an impossible journey to a strange, bejeweled world where sorcery could spring from the simplest of patterns, with most serious effect. In Isavalta she also discovered magical powers she had never suspected she possessed before her transit between the worlds. More than self-knowledge has changed her: she is in love with Sakra, a powerful sorcerer and her staunch ally. And she learns that her daughter, who she thought was lost to her, is alive. But that daughter is also the pawn in a dangerous game of power and politics. The powerful spells of a ruler intent on conquest threaten to destroy both mother and daughter. Torn between the contending forces of magic and empire, Bridget lives an extraordinary adventure replete with unimaginable dangers. Beset by enemies on all sides, she must rely on the aid of supernatural forces she can’t control, lest she be destroyed by a fate she cannot imagine.
Continuity and Innovation in the Magical Tradition
Author: Gideon Bohak
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004203516
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This volume brings together thirteen studies by as many experts in the study of one or more ancient or medieval magical traditions, from ancient Mesopotamia and Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt to the Greek world, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It lays special emphasis on the recurrence of similar phenomena in magical texts as far apart as the Akkadian cuneiform tablets and an Arabic manuscript bought in Egypt in the late-twentieth century. Such similarities demonstrate to what extent many different cultures share a “magical logic” which is strikingly identical, and in particular they show the recurrence of certain phenomena when magical practices are transmitted in written form and often preserve, adopt and adapt much older textual units.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004203516
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This volume brings together thirteen studies by as many experts in the study of one or more ancient or medieval magical traditions, from ancient Mesopotamia and Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt to the Greek world, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It lays special emphasis on the recurrence of similar phenomena in magical texts as far apart as the Akkadian cuneiform tablets and an Arabic manuscript bought in Egypt in the late-twentieth century. Such similarities demonstrate to what extent many different cultures share a “magical logic” which is strikingly identical, and in particular they show the recurrence of certain phenomena when magical practices are transmitted in written form and often preserve, adopt and adapt much older textual units.
British and American Drama (English Book)
Author: Dr. Sangeeta Arora
Publisher: Thakur Publication Private Limited
ISBN: 9354804675
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Discover the captivating world of British and American Drama with our comprehensive e-Book designed for B.A. 3rd Semester students at U.P. State Universities. Aligned with the common syllabus of NEP-2020, this engaging resource offers in-depth insights and analysis of iconic plays, characters, and themes from both British and American theatrical traditions. Elevate your understanding of Drama and excel in your studies with this essential e-Book.
Publisher: Thakur Publication Private Limited
ISBN: 9354804675
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Discover the captivating world of British and American Drama with our comprehensive e-Book designed for B.A. 3rd Semester students at U.P. State Universities. Aligned with the common syllabus of NEP-2020, this engaging resource offers in-depth insights and analysis of iconic plays, characters, and themes from both British and American theatrical traditions. Elevate your understanding of Drama and excel in your studies with this essential e-Book.
Theology in Context
Author: Dave Johnson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532633971
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
In This Book: Dave Johnson takes a thorough look at the culture of one of the Filipino people groups with a view toward developing a contextual theology that is biblically accurate, missiologically sound and culturally relevant throughout the Filipino lowlands. He delves deep, seeking to understand the religious worldview assumptions that underpin and drive the various religious practices and the people who are involved in them. Some of the specific issues he tackles are: • All Saints’ Day and the dead returning to their gravesites • Praying to Mary and the Saints • Demon possession • Town Fiestas • Sickness and healing • How people have been transformed by the power of God within their own cultural setting, both in the past and present • And much more!
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532633971
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
In This Book: Dave Johnson takes a thorough look at the culture of one of the Filipino people groups with a view toward developing a contextual theology that is biblically accurate, missiologically sound and culturally relevant throughout the Filipino lowlands. He delves deep, seeking to understand the religious worldview assumptions that underpin and drive the various religious practices and the people who are involved in them. Some of the specific issues he tackles are: • All Saints’ Day and the dead returning to their gravesites • Praying to Mary and the Saints • Demon possession • Town Fiestas • Sickness and healing • How people have been transformed by the power of God within their own cultural setting, both in the past and present • And much more!