Author: Publisher: noemata.net
ISBN: 8292860002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11285
Book Description
Ash Boy
Author: Lucy CoatsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781781127186
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Boys of Fire and Ash
Author: Meaghan McIsaacPublisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0385390130
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"The compelling mythology and dystopian setting will appeal to genre readers. Fans of James Dashner, Margaret Peterson Haddix, and Patrick Ness need look no further."--Kirkus Fans of Rick Riordan and Anthony Horowitz will want to read this action-filled debut novel that offers a new world to enjoy and a new underdog to root for.--Booklist Abandoned at birth, the Brothers of the Ikkuma Pit know no mothers. They fend for themselves, each training their Little Brother to survive until they turn sixteen, when it’s their Leaving Day. No boy knows what’s beyond the forest. But when Urgle’s Little Brother, Cubby, is carried off by troll-like predators, Urgle and two of his Brothers embark on a quest to rescue him from a place from which no one has ever returned. More praise for The Boys of Fire and Ash: "McIsaac’s debut fantasy novel is fast-paced and heartstopping. . . . This self-contained story is an entertaining read that will be enjoyed by many."--School Library Journal "The novel is urgently gritty, with rich worldbuilding and plenty of action."--Publishers Weekly "Contemplative readers will be left with questions to ponder and ethical decisions to mull as well as a satisfying and tense read."--The Bulletin
Re: The Ash Lad
Author: Publisher: noemata.net
ISBN: 8292860002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11285
Book Description
Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd
Author: Michael WallisPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393342182
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
"This engaging biography exactly and vividly catches the tone of a region, a time, and a man."—Larry McMurtry From the best-selling author of Billy the Kid and Route 66, a true-life story of a notorious outlaw that magnificently re-creates the vanished, impoverished world of Dust Bowl America. Michael Wallis evokes the hard times of the era as he follows the life of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd from his coming of age, when there were no jobs and no food, to his descent into a life of petty crime, bootlegging, murder, and prison. Before long he was one of the FBI's original "public enemies." After a series of spectacular bank robberies he was slain in an Ohio field in 1934 at the age of thirty. Pretty Boy is social history at its best, portraying, with a sweeping style, the larger story of the hardscrabble farmers whose lives were so intolerably shattered by the Depression.
Researching American Culture
Author: Conrad Phillip KottakPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472080243
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Applies anthropological techniques to the study of contemporary American behavior
Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society
Author: Elsie Worthington Clews ParsonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Continental Philosophy Reader
Author: Richard KearneyPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415095259
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Continental Philosophy Reader is the first complete anthology of classic writings from the major figures in European thought and provides a powerful introduction to one of the 20th century's most influential intellectual movements.
Tewa Tales
Author: Elsie Clews ParsonsPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816546487
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
The Tewa are a Pueblo Indian group from New Mexico, some of whom migrated around 1700, in the aftermath of the second Pueblo Revolt, to their present location on First Mesa of the Hopi Reservation in northern Arizona. This collection of more than one hundred tales from both New Mexico and Arizona Tewa, first published in 1926, bears witness to their rich cultural history. In addition to emergence and animal stories, these tales also provide an account of many social customs such as wedding ceremonials and relay racing--that show marked differences between the two tribal groups. A comparison of tales from the two divisions of the tribe reveals something of what has happened to both emigrant and home-staying Tewa over two centuries of separation. Yet, while only half of the Arizona tales are distinctly parallel to the New Mexican, additional similarities may be found in such narrative features as the helpfulness of Spider old woman and her possession of medicine, creating life magically under a blanket, or Coyote beguiling girls into marriage. Elsie Clews Parsons was a pioneering anthropologist in the Southwest whose works included the encyclopedic Pueblo Indian Religion. The Tewa tales she gathered for this volume are thus notable not only as fascinating stories that will delight curious readers, but also as authentic reflections of a people less known to scholars.
Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society
Author: Trolls: A Compendium
Author: Christopher Jon Luke DowginPublisher: Salem House Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Following in the tradition of Abrams' fantasy coffee table series of books, Faeries by Brian Froud and Alan Lee and Gnomes by Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet, we introduce Trolls: A Compendium. A richly illustrated narrative of the history of Trolls found within Scandinavian myth, fantasy, lore, sagas, and folktales. Do you think you know what a Troll is? Our northern neighbors consider anything magical to be a Troll, including faeries, elves, draugar, nissen, huldras, dragons, jotuns, ghosts, berserkers, and gods.