Author: S. Lee Dunning
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781500360009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Freaks 2- The Corruption of the Crystal CastleIn the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a fishman starts to remember another life. A sound on his surveillance monitor triggers a memory of long ago. He recalls a life of opulence and riches, where he once ruled as a king in a long forgotten secret society of hybrid humans. He had escaped this life, only now to be woken from his reality to save another. The hunt was on.This story continues the adventure of the first book. Cherissa is a freakish, mutant girl who finds a new life far away, in a perfect, sparkling Crystal Castle. After realizing that her beautiful refuge was really a prison, she longs for the love she left behind. Escaping back to the swamp, and the love she knew previously, Cherissa stumbles into a dark, hidden secret. A tale of treachery, betrayal and jealousy. As the story unravels, she is reunited with other lost souls. These strange creatures, unlike herself, are facing the same issues of exsisting secretly beyond the sight of normal, human society.This story mixes fantasy with a sci-fi/military edge. Appealing to audiences who need a different type of hero. You will learn about corruption, greed and manipulation. Finally cheering for the heros to win against the unseen enemy of the north. Everything ends with a bang as the epic battle for power continues on.
Freaks 2 - the Corruption of the Crystal Castle
Author: S. Lee Dunning
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781500360009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Freaks 2- The Corruption of the Crystal CastleIn the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a fishman starts to remember another life. A sound on his surveillance monitor triggers a memory of long ago. He recalls a life of opulence and riches, where he once ruled as a king in a long forgotten secret society of hybrid humans. He had escaped this life, only now to be woken from his reality to save another. The hunt was on.This story continues the adventure of the first book. Cherissa is a freakish, mutant girl who finds a new life far away, in a perfect, sparkling Crystal Castle. After realizing that her beautiful refuge was really a prison, she longs for the love she left behind. Escaping back to the swamp, and the love she knew previously, Cherissa stumbles into a dark, hidden secret. A tale of treachery, betrayal and jealousy. As the story unravels, she is reunited with other lost souls. These strange creatures, unlike herself, are facing the same issues of exsisting secretly beyond the sight of normal, human society.This story mixes fantasy with a sci-fi/military edge. Appealing to audiences who need a different type of hero. You will learn about corruption, greed and manipulation. Finally cheering for the heros to win against the unseen enemy of the north. Everything ends with a bang as the epic battle for power continues on.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781500360009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Freaks 2- The Corruption of the Crystal CastleIn the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a fishman starts to remember another life. A sound on his surveillance monitor triggers a memory of long ago. He recalls a life of opulence and riches, where he once ruled as a king in a long forgotten secret society of hybrid humans. He had escaped this life, only now to be woken from his reality to save another. The hunt was on.This story continues the adventure of the first book. Cherissa is a freakish, mutant girl who finds a new life far away, in a perfect, sparkling Crystal Castle. After realizing that her beautiful refuge was really a prison, she longs for the love she left behind. Escaping back to the swamp, and the love she knew previously, Cherissa stumbles into a dark, hidden secret. A tale of treachery, betrayal and jealousy. As the story unravels, she is reunited with other lost souls. These strange creatures, unlike herself, are facing the same issues of exsisting secretly beyond the sight of normal, human society.This story mixes fantasy with a sci-fi/military edge. Appealing to audiences who need a different type of hero. You will learn about corruption, greed and manipulation. Finally cheering for the heros to win against the unseen enemy of the north. Everything ends with a bang as the epic battle for power continues on.
Albion's Seed
Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019974369X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 981
Book Description
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019974369X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 981
Book Description
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
The Well of Loneliness
Author: Radclyffe Hall
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473374081
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Well of Loneliness' is a novel that follows an upper-class Englishwoman who falls in love with another woman while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473374081
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Well of Loneliness' is a novel that follows an upper-class Englishwoman who falls in love with another woman while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.
Gotham Central
Author: Ed Brubaker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Police
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Police
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Poisonwood Bible
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061804819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061804819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.
The Conduct of Life
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In Bluebeard's Castle
Author: George Steiner
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300017106
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The author presents a penetrating analysis of the collapse of Western culture during the last half of the twentieth century
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300017106
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The author presents a penetrating analysis of the collapse of Western culture during the last half of the twentieth century
Midgard Worldbook
Author: Wolfgang Baur
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936781829
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"Pathfinder roleplaying game compatible."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936781829
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"Pathfinder roleplaying game compatible."
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Author: Charles Mackay
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Excerpt from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, Vol. 2 A forest huge of spears and thronging helms Appear'd, and serried shields, in thick array. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Excerpt from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, Vol. 2 A forest huge of spears and thronging helms Appear'd, and serried shields, in thick array. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Jan Brueghel the Elder
Author: Arianne Faber Kolb
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367709
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Kolb has produced a thoroughly researched essay on this painting, which is in the Getty Museum. The study focuses on Brueghel's depiction of nature, especially his exacting representation of identifiable species of animals and birds, the names of which are listed. Brueghel's collaboration with other painters, his and other painters' re-use of the same theme and composition, and the history and practice of natural history collection and representation are central themes. The volume, which is printed in a horizontal format (it's 11x8") and heavily illustrated, is written for a general audience, though art historians will also find much of interest.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367709
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Kolb has produced a thoroughly researched essay on this painting, which is in the Getty Museum. The study focuses on Brueghel's depiction of nature, especially his exacting representation of identifiable species of animals and birds, the names of which are listed. Brueghel's collaboration with other painters, his and other painters' re-use of the same theme and composition, and the history and practice of natural history collection and representation are central themes. The volume, which is printed in a horizontal format (it's 11x8") and heavily illustrated, is written for a general audience, though art historians will also find much of interest.