Order of the Stick #6 - Utterly Dwarfed

Order of the Stick #6 - Utterly Dwarfed PDF Author: Giant in the Playground
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985413965
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Book Description
Here comes the sixth volume of The Order of the Stick, the fantasy-comedy webcomic that everyone agrees gets longer with each book released! In Utterly Dwarfed, the Order is on their way north to save the world in style, thanks to their new friends on a cool pirate airship. Little do they suspect that while they deal with monsters and the usual plot stuff, one of their own is facing a battle inside their own mind! (It's Durkon, obviously.) And when the gods themselves start taking a closer interest in Roy's band of misfit heroes, this action-packed adventure ends up having repercussions so big, we couldn't fit them on the page! With almost five years of comics, this mammoth collection is our longest book yet (not counting the previous one). Made in the USA.

Order of the Stick #6 - Utterly Dwarfed

Order of the Stick #6 - Utterly Dwarfed PDF Author: Giant in the Playground
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985413965
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Book Description
Here comes the sixth volume of The Order of the Stick, the fantasy-comedy webcomic that everyone agrees gets longer with each book released! In Utterly Dwarfed, the Order is on their way north to save the world in style, thanks to their new friends on a cool pirate airship. Little do they suspect that while they deal with monsters and the usual plot stuff, one of their own is facing a battle inside their own mind! (It's Durkon, obviously.) And when the gods themselves start taking a closer interest in Roy's band of misfit heroes, this action-packed adventure ends up having repercussions so big, we couldn't fit them on the page! With almost five years of comics, this mammoth collection is our longest book yet (not counting the previous one). Made in the USA.

The Order of the Stick

The Order of the Stick PDF Author: Giant in the Playground
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976658054
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Book Description
The third compilation of the popular online stick figure comic, The Order of the Stick, finds the heroes on the front line of a battle they didn't see coming.

The Order of the Stick

The Order of the Stick PDF Author: In The Playground Giant
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976658085
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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"The Order of the Stick: Blood Runs in the Family brings the titular band of heroes to a strange desert land where hidden family secrets await! We're not going to tell you what they are, because they're secrets. I mean, seriously. But they're pretty great, at least if you're a fan of Rich Burlew's record-smashing fantasy-comedy-action-drama webcomic, The Order of the Stick. Thrill as Roy and the gang face reptilian bounty hunters, mysterious death priests, dinosaur-riding soldiers, and a little something we like to call 'personal responsibility' as they brave the elements in the fifth book in the bewilderingly popular figure saga!"--Page 4 of cover.

This Side of Jordan

This Side of Jordan PDF Author: Monte Schulz
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1606992961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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A seductive novel of southern lyricism. Monte Schulz's prose novel opens in the spring of 1929, as the 19-year-old consumptive farm boy Alvin Pendergast attends an ill-fated dance marathon he's too sickly to participate in. After a year of his life has been stolen by a sanitarium, Alvin knows he's relapsing, and dreads not only the drudgery of his family's homestead, but a return to the hospital. In this state of mind, an invitation for a late-night slice of pie is too seductive to pass up and before he knows it, Alvin crosses the Mississippi River and finds himself working for a slick con artist named Chester Burke. Alvin is no match for Chester, who's not merely a con man, but a gangster from Chicago, following the bootleg liquor trade through the small towns of America's middle border. With Alvin in tow, Chester's insouciant disregard for life serves him well as he embarks upon a series of bank robberies and senseless murders. All summer long, Chester assumes the role of a dark angel on Judgment day, cleansing the scrolls of those whose sad fortune had drawn them across his path. Too ill to flee, too morally weak to object, Alvin resigns himself to what seems like certain doom somewhere down the road. Fortunately, Alvin finds another companion on his journey, a lonely, eccentric, and grandiloquent dwarf named Rascal, whose own infirmity binds his and the farm boy's destiny together. Drawn deeper and deeper into Chester's murderous frolic, they come across a curious assortment of characters, from small town businessmen and religious kooks to wayward girls and dance contestants, spiritualists and sideshow freaks. Caught between Chester's villainy and Alvin's own physical deterioration, the young farm boy must make a decision: stick with Chester, who would surely kill him at the slightest hint of betrayal, or muster the courage to stake his life on faith in Rascal's clever plan to save them both. Tired of being afraid, Alvin finally grasps the need not only to outwit the gangster but to find another road to travel. What he discovers about the meaning of home offers a solution to escape and freedom. This Side of Jordan is a thoroughly American novel told in the voice of a lost generation hurtling toward the Great Depression, and evokes a long ago America of crowded Main Streets and tourist camps, miles of cornfields, rural church¬es, and musty parlors. It ends on the fairgrounds of a traveling wagon circus that beckons gangster, farm boy, and dwarf toward a startling resolution, and a hard-fought absolution for the two young, frightened collaborators. The narrative of this novel has the momentum of a freight train, but told in the seductive, rhythmic tradition of Southern lyricism reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor and Truman Capote, and filled with vivid, outsized literary characters. If Jim Thompson and Carson McCullers went on a collaborative bender by kidnapping Holden Caulfield, Perry Smith, and Ignatius J. Reilly, they'd have come up with something like This Side of Jordan.

The Order of the Stick

The Order of the Stick PDF Author:
Publisher: Paizo Publishing
ISBN: 9780976658009
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Continues the adventures of six stick-figure heroes as they leave the dungeon behind and set out to explore the great outdoors.

Thirteen Moons

Thirteen Moons PDF Author: Charles Frazier
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588365735
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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This magnificent novel by one of America’s finest writers is the epic of one man’s remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life. At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins—for a brief moment—a mysterious girl named Claire, and his passion and desire for her spans this novel. As Will’s destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians—including a Cherokee Chief named Bear—he learns how to fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, and eventually, under the Corn Tassel Moon, Will begins the fight against Washington City to preserve the Cherokee’s homeland and culture. And he will come to know the truth behind his belief that “only desire trumps time.” Brilliantly imagined, written with great power and beauty by a master of American fiction, Thirteen Moons is a stunning novel about a man’s passion for a woman, and how loss, longing and love can shape a man’s destiny over the many moons of a life.

Going Bovine

Going Bovine PDF Author: Libba Bray
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385733976
Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Book Description
Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.

The Dwarves

The Dwarves PDF Author: Markus Heitz
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0748116648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 557

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Book Description
For countless millennia, no man or beast has ever succeeded in breaching the stone gateway into Girdlegard. Until now . . . Abandoned as a child, Tungdil the blacksmith is the only dwarf in a kingdom of men. But when he is sent out into the world to deliver a message and reacquaint himself with his people, the young foundling finds himself thrust into a battle for which he has not been trained. Not only his own safety, but the life of every man, woman and child in Girdlegard depends upon his ability to embrace his heritage. Although he has many unanswered questions, Tungdil is certain of one thing: no matter where he was raised, he is a true dwarf. And no one has ever questioned the courage of the Dwarves. The international bestselling fantasy epic now available in English for the first time. Other books by Markus Heitz: War of the Dwarves The Revenge of the Dwarves The Fate of the Dwarves The Triumph of the Dwarves Righteous Fury Devastating Hate Dark Paths Raging Storm Aera book's one to ten

Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian PDF Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307762521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349

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Book Description
25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Thud!

Thud! PDF Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060815221
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387

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Book Description
Commander Sam Vimes must solve the murder of one dwarf or see the Battle of Koom Valley reenacted right outside his office.