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Author: Robert A. Lancaster Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1426935382 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 157
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Ransacked and ripped off, Carr a young human male, sets out to get back what was wrongfully taken in the name of a King's protection taxes. A writing style said to be comparable to M. Night Shymalan/ Clive Barker, unique interior sketches by the author aid the reader through an amusing and original story. In a world of magic and monsters a young male, educated and trained in unusual skills, struggles with choices in life. - Strengthen the skills learned seeking adventure and fortune - Live a simple honest life working the land Thats too dull, running off in dangerous pursuits of gold is more exciting. The misadventures of youth begin to add up causing serious troubles, including continually upsetting his mother. Returning home to find it over turned he learns a King is stretching out his territory and tax collections. Finding out the Kings men forcefully took what should have never been taken, Carr sets out to set things right. Retrieve wrongfully taken property and make amends with his mother. However plans of the mind rarely work out as planned or as easy. His actions have more repercussions then hell realize and knocking at deaths door.... This is the 1st of 3 stories mainly introducing the characters' friends, family and surroundings.
Author: Robert A. Lancaster Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1426935382 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 157
Book Description
Ransacked and ripped off, Carr a young human male, sets out to get back what was wrongfully taken in the name of a King's protection taxes. A writing style said to be comparable to M. Night Shymalan/ Clive Barker, unique interior sketches by the author aid the reader through an amusing and original story. In a world of magic and monsters a young male, educated and trained in unusual skills, struggles with choices in life. - Strengthen the skills learned seeking adventure and fortune - Live a simple honest life working the land Thats too dull, running off in dangerous pursuits of gold is more exciting. The misadventures of youth begin to add up causing serious troubles, including continually upsetting his mother. Returning home to find it over turned he learns a King is stretching out his territory and tax collections. Finding out the Kings men forcefully took what should have never been taken, Carr sets out to set things right. Retrieve wrongfully taken property and make amends with his mother. However plans of the mind rarely work out as planned or as easy. His actions have more repercussions then hell realize and knocking at deaths door.... This is the 1st of 3 stories mainly introducing the characters' friends, family and surroundings.
Author: Colin Wilson Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company ISBN: 9781571741752 Category : Cult members Languages : en Pages : 0
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Throughout history, Western culture has been bedeviled by false prophets, charlatans, and self-appointed messianic figures. Their appetites for destruction and depravity have led to broken lives and worse-mass suicide and even mass murder. Why does this occur again and again? In Rogue Messiahs, Colin Wilson compellingly recounts the stories and outrageous claims, acts, and abuses of 25 self-proclaimed messiahs who have arisen in the last 300 years. He uncovers the probable factors that turn earnest religious leaders, mystics, or well-intentioned cult leaders into violent, abusive, murderous, and paranoid rogue messiahs. This gallery of spiritual fakers includes many familiar names and faces: David Koresh, leader of the Branch Davidians; Shoko Asahara, founder of the Aum Supreme Truth cult; Rev. Jim Jones; founder of the infamous Jonestown; Jeffrey Don Lundgren, Mormon con man and murderer; Ervil LeBaron and family, deranged cultist, prophets, and murderers; Rock Theriault, late twentieth-century French Canadian self-proclaimed messiah. Further, Wilson includes a study of others who achieved spiritual insight instead of destruction, and demonstrates that mayhem and benevolence are often two sides of the same coin. These would-be messiahs, in Wilson's analysis, are all driven by a childish dream of absolute power. Almost always, they cross the line from inspiration to paranoia, and from the teaching to killing-genuine aspiration mixed with self-deception, says Wilson. This is an incisive review of the motives and madness of cult leaders, spiritual con men, and would-be saviors.
Author: Patrick Radden Keefe Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0385548524 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 386
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing—and one of the most decorated journalists of our time—twelve enthralling true stories of skulduggery and intrigue "An excellent collection of Keefe's detective work, and a fine introduction to his illuminating writing." —NPR “Fast-paced...Keefe is a virtuoso storyteller." —The Washington Post Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for his meticulously-reported, hypnotically-engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. As Keefe says in his preface “They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial.” Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines, examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist, spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain, chronicles the quest to bring down a cheerful international black market arms merchant, and profiles a passionate death penalty attorney who represents the “worst of the worst,” among other bravura works of literary journalism. The appearance of his byline in The New Yorker is always an event, and collected here for the first time readers can see his work forms an always enthralling but deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against them.
Author: Gregory Maguire Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 0763629618 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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As a terrible storm rages, ten-year-old Dinah and her brother and sister listen to their cousin Gage's tale of a newly-hatched, orphaned, skibberee, or tooth fairy, called What-the-Dickens, who hopes to find a home among the skibbereen tribe, if only he can stay out of trouble.
Author: Barbara Kesel Publisher: IDW Publishing ISBN: 9781600103186 Category : Adventure stories Languages : en Pages : 132
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Annja Creed is a world-traveling archeologist who also happens to be the heir to Joan of Arc’s mystic sword. In this debut story, Annja’s drive to explore unrecorded, shadowy history leads her to Virginia City in search of a rumored manuscript that could change the public perception of Mark Twain forever. But a very powerful mystery man doesn't want anyone to find the truth, and will stop at nothing — not even murder — to keep Annja away from the answers she seeks.
Author: Gerry Finley-Day Publisher: Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu-Earth ISBN: 9781906735340 Category : Graphic novels Languages : en Pages : 0
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Nu-Earth, a planet ravaged by war, its atmosphere poisoned by chemical weapons. In this battle-scarred landscape, the Norts and the Southers fight where only the Genetic Infantrymen can survive unaided. Rogue is one such soldier and these are his tales.
Author: Kelly Hunter Publisher: Tule Publishing ISBN: 194224083X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 131
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A no-strings affair between two dedicated professionals? It should have been the perfect solution. Ugly duckling Dawn Turner doesn’t do relationships. She has her reasons and they’re good ones. But she can’t resist the magic in Finbar Sullivan’s touch, so she negotiates the next best thing with him. Scorchingly perfect, utterly casual sex. World class musician Finnbar Sullivan always pushes the limits to get what he wants, and he wants Dawn. All of her. Love, commitment and a future together. So he reneges on the deal and composes a new one. So what’s stopping her? And will Finn’s latest offer be enough to change Dawn’s mind?
Author: Paulo Lemos Horta Publisher: Liveright Publishing ISBN: 1631493647 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 986
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“[A]n electric new translation . . . Each page is adorned with illustrations and photographs from other translations and adaptations of the tales, as well as a wonderfully detailed cascade of notes that illuminate the stories and their settings. . . . The most striking feature of the Arabic tales is their shifting registers—prose, rhymed prose, poetry—and Seale captures the movement between them beautifully.” —Yasmine Al-Sayyad, New Yorker A magnificent and richly illustrated volume—with a groundbreaking translation framed by new commentary and hundreds of images—of the most famous story collection of all time. A cornerstone of world literature and a monument to the power of storytelling, the Arabian Nights has inspired countless authors, from Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe to Naguib Mahfouz, Clarice Lispector, and Angela Carter. Now, in this lavishly designed and illustrated edition of The Annotated Arabian Nights, the acclaimed literary historian Paulo Lemos Horta and the brilliant poet and translator Yasmine Seale present a splendid new selection of tales from the Nights, featuring treasured original stories as well as later additions including “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” and definitively bringing the Nights out of Victorian antiquarianism and into the twenty-first century. For centuries, readers have been haunted by the homicidal King Shahriyar, thrilled by gripping tales of Sinbad’s seafaring adventures, and held utterly, exquisitely captive by Shahrazad’s stories of passionate romances and otherworldly escapades. Yet for too long, the English-speaking world has relied on dated translations by Richard Burton, Edward Lane, and other nineteenth-century adventurers. Seale’s distinctly contemporary and lyrical translations break decisively with this masculine dynasty, finally stripping away the deliberate exoticism of Orientalist renderings while reclaiming the vitality and delight of the stories, as she works with equal skill in both Arabic and French. Included within are famous tales, from “The Story of Sinbad the Sailor” to “The Story of the Fisherman and the Jinni,” as well as lesser-known stories such as “The Story of Dalila the Crafty,” in which the cunning heroine takes readers into the everyday life of merchants and shopkeepers in a crowded metropolis, and “The Story of the Merchant and the Jinni,” an example of a ransom frame tale in which stories are exchanged to save a life. Grounded in the latest scholarship, The Annotated Arabian Nights also incorporates the Hanna Diyab stories, for centuries seen as French forgeries but now acknowledged, largely as a result of Horta’s pathbreaking research, as being firmly rooted in the Arabic narrative tradition. Horta not only takes us into the astonishing twists and turns of the stories’ evolution. He also offers comprehensive notes on just about everything readers need to know to appreciate the tales in context, and guides us through the origins of ghouls, jinn, and other supernatural elements that have always drawn in and delighted readers. Beautifully illustrated throughout with art from Europe and the Arab and Persian world, the latter often ignored in English-language editions, The Annotated Arabian Nights expands the visual dimensions of the stories, revealing how the Nights have always been—and still are—in dialogue with fine artists. With a poignant autobiographical foreword from best-selling novelist Omar El Akkad and an illuminating afterword on the Middle Eastern roots of Hanna Diyab’s tales from noted scholar Robert Irwin, Horta and Seale have created a stunning edition of the Arabian Nights that will enchant and inform both devoted and novice readers alike.
Author: Robert A. Lancaster
Author: Robert A. Lancaster
Author: Colin Wilson
Author: Hathaway Jones
Author: Patrick Radden Keefe
Author: Gregory Maguire
Author: Barbara Kesel
Author: Gerry Finley-Day
Author: John Francis Campbell
Author: Kelly Hunter
Author: Paulo Lemos Horta