Download or read book A Twisted Festival written by Alyn Troy and published by Mystic Brews Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2022-12-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Party on with more paranormal cozy mystery in the magical SoCal town of St. Maurice. Star's plans get upended by murder. Basil and Mort are on a chili-cheese-dog mission. Will St. Mo ever be the same? The St. Maurice Founders Festival isn't normally an event to die for... Star Sinclair announces her grand plan for developing St. Maurice's waterfront. Plans that will likely destroy the merfolk town, and the magical protection they cultivate. The leader of the Merfolk and Star are on a collision course of epic proportions over the future of the bay. When a key player turns up dead, Amanda's father gets locked in Star's sights as the primary suspect. Twiz hates to help Star, but finding the real murderer is the only way to clear Amanda's father. To make matters worse, Basil and Mort are out to prove that chili-cheese-dogs are worthy of a star or two in the restaurant guides. Can the gastronomic journalist survive their attentions? Twiz, Kami, Amanda and the mini-dragons have their hands and claws full trying to protect the pier and the bay from Star's wrath, protect Mertown, and unmask the killer before they strike again. Can Twiz figure out whodunnit, and save the pier from imminent destruction? If you love quirky characters, a magical setting, and a real whodunnit with red herrings and clues alike, you'll love Alyn Troy's magical Pixie Twist Mysteries.
Download or read book The Star Festival written by Moni Ritchie Hadley and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Freeman Book Awards Honorable Mention - Children's Literature The Best Children's Books of the Year 2022, Bank Street College STARRED REVIEW! "Hadley has created a remarkable debut that flows elegantly, interweaving the two tales in a way that is readable and fun...An exquisite choice for all collections."—School Library Journal starred review A multigenerational retelling of a Japanese legend. Tanabata Matsuri, the Star Festival, celebrates a popular folktale: The Emperor of the Heavens separates his daughter, Orihime, from her love, Hikoboshi, all year—but on this day the two stars finally reunite on a bridge across the Milky Way. For Keiko, her mama, and her grandmother, Tanabata is about making tanzaku wishes, taking in the colorful decorations, and eating delicious food like nagashi somen and shaved ice. But when Obasaan gets lost in the crowd, Keiko and Mama must make their own bridge to find her again—and see if their tanzaku comes true.
Download or read book A Twisted Riposte written by Alyn Troy and published by Mystic Brews Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2021-03-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A town of wonky magic. A fencer stabbed by her own blade. Can Twizzie untangle the twisted mystery? Twizzle Twist isn’t your normal real estate pixie. Nor is St. Maurice your normal Southern California town. The magic in the valley belches at the worst time. Twizzle’s mismatched wings and bum leg are the least of her worries. With a cute new vampire in town, their house-hunting lunges off-target when her client's favorite house comes with more than they bargained for. The owner, second witch of the Stellar Blues coven, is dead, stabbed in the back with her own sword. In addition to murder, Twizzle has more to worry about. Her town has one of the few remaining amusement piers on the west coast. And someone is twisting the town council to tear it down. If that happens, it will be the end of Twizzle's home above the carousel. With a murderer on the loose, a cute vampire she needs to sell a home to, sniping and plotting between the rival covens, and the imminent demise of her home on the pier, Twizzie has too many strikes to dodge all at once. Will Twizzle and her friends, like Mortimer the mini-dragon, pull the right cord to untangle the twisted knot of intrigue in their sleepy SoCal town? Can they do so before the killer lunges again? If you love mysteries with a dash of quirky characters, a dose of warped magic, and snarky humor, you'll love Alyn Troy's Paranormal Cozy Mysteries. Get your copy of A Twisted Riposte today to lunge into this mystery.
Download or read book A Twisted Inferno written by Alyn Troy and published by Mystic Brews Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grill up a paranormal cozy mystery, with a side order of chili-cheese dogs for the mini-dragons, today! When the annual summer beach BBQ returns to St. Mo, murder is on the menu. Mortimer and Basil convince Twiz to help judge the newly added chili-cheese-dog cook-off. But her concern over eating that many dogs is quickly extinguished. The event sours with the discovery of a deceased contestant, which puts the BBQ fires on ice. Ice cream shenanigans, and a smoldering battle between the covens add unwanted spice to Twiz's weekend at the BBQ event. But, when the blaze spread into St. Mo and threatens Twiz's business, she suspects her shadowy ex-boss might be in the hot seat. Can Twiz and her friends clear the smoke enough to untwist the mystery, and keep someone else from getting burned? Another exciting mystery waits to be unraveled in St. Mo. If you love fun fae characters, twisted mysteries, and snarky humor, you'll love Alyn Troy's cozy mystery series. Get your copy today.
Download or read book A Twisted Dive written by Alyn Troy and published by Mystic Brews Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern California never met a pixie sleuth like Twizzle Twist, nor had whoever murdered the Hollywood starlet! A Hollywood starlet found floating in the bay. St. Mo's pier is still destined for the scrap heap. Can Twiz unbend the mystery, and weather the storm that is brewing? Twiz’s simple Sunday morning of reading on the pier is interrupted with the discovery of the starlet's body. Several of the actor’s enemies are right here in St. Maurice. They all have a motive, but who actually shot the movie star in the back? If that isn’t enough trouble for Twiz, her business and personal life hit rough seas. Under pressure to run for office, she realizes that she can save the pier if she wins the election in the fall. But, when her business gets an unexpected kink in the hose, she’s faced with choices she doesn’t want to make. Add in the weresharks making Twiz an offer she can’t refuse, and Mort’s mini-dragon poker game, and Twiz is facing a tempest of a week. Can Twiz find the murderer and clear the mystery before the mundane celebrity press arrives by the boatload and start snooping through St. Mo’s magical secrets? Can her professional life survive the pressure? Another exciting paranormal cozy mystery lurks below the surface in St. Mo. If you love fun fae characters, twisted mysteries, and snarky humor, you'll love Alyn Troy's Pixie Twist cozy mystery series.
Download or read book A Twisted Treasure written by Alyn Troy and published by Mystic Brews Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2021-09-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murder at an old pirate's mansion... a missing treasure... and chili-cheese dogs? When the son of an infamous pirate captain from St. Maurice's past, is found dead, the mystery behind the old pirates' long-missing treasure resurfaces. Heirs of the old captains return to St. Maurice. But there's more to this than just treasure. Twiz keeps finding mysterious messages left in her car. Who is sending them? When Twizzle's former boss gets involved, and not in a good way, Twiz faces decisions she never wanted to make. Can Twiz un-twist the mystery before the town tears itself apart searching for the booty? And, can Basil and Mort eat all of those chili-cheese dogs? Another exciting mystery waits to be unraveled in St. Mo. If you love fun fae characters, twisted mysteries, and snarky humor, you'll love Alyn Troy's cozy mystery series. Get your copy today.
Download or read book A Twisted Tune written by Alyn Troy and published by Mystic Brews Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2021-05-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A singer silenced. The fate of St. Mo's Amusement Pier is rocked by political waves. Can Twizzle unmask the killer and save her home? Tommy Neptune's talent was the hit of the show, his voice the best they'd ever heard. Following the opening night of a new musical under the pier, Twizzle Twist hopes for a nice evening with her boyfriend But when Twiz and Chaz discover the star of the new musical dead, Twiz finds herself following the tune of another mystery. The death is just another note in Star Sinclair's samba about the town's biggest eyesore. The town council's chairperson hasn't given up her plans to destroy the town's amusement pier. Twiz and her friends find themselves fighting town hall in a race to head off the demolition of one of St. Mo's iconic landmarks, and Twizzle's home. When the murderer strikes again, Twiz and her friends try to hit the chords to uncover clues that can unmask the killer, and bring the deadly chorus to an end. And, can they mobilize enough townsfolk to take on city hall and save the pier? Will Twizzie and her friends hit the right notes to untangle the twisted knot of intrigue and uncover who killed the musician in the night? If you love mysteries with a dash of quirky characters, a dose of warped magic, and snarky humor, you'll love Alyn Troy's new Paranormal Cozy Mystery series. Get your copy of A Twisted Tune today to untie this mystery.
Download or read book A Twisted Festival written by Alyn Troy and published by Pixie Twist Mysteries. This book was released on 2022-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star's plans get upended by murder. Basil and Mort are on a chili-cheese-dog mission. Will St. Mo ever be the same? The St. Maurice Founders Festival isn't normally an event to die for... Star Sinclair announces her grand plan for developing St. Maurice's waterfront. Plans that will likely destroy the merfolk town, and the magical protection they cultivate. The leader of the Merfolk and Star are on a collision course of epic proportions over the future of the bay. But then a key player turns up dead, Amanda's father gets locked in Star's sights as the primary suspect. Twiz hates to help Star, but finding the real murderer is the only way to clear Amanda's father. To make matters worse, Basil and Mort are out to prove that chili-cheese-dogs are worthy of a star or two in the restaurant guides. Can the gastronomic journalist survive their attentions? Twiz, Kami, Amanda and the mini-dragons have their hands and claws full trying to protect the pier and the bay from Star's wrath, protect Mertown, and unmask the killer before they strike again. Can Twiz figure out whodunnit, and save the pier from imminent destruction? If you love quirky characters, a magical setting, and a real whodunnit with red herrings and clues alike, you'll love Alyn Troy's magical Pixie Twist Mysteries. Get your copy today.
Download or read book A Big Twisted Set written by Alyn Troy and published by Mystic Brews Mysteries. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 1229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a pixie girl with a bum leg and mismatched wings untangle the paranormal puzzles and solve the quirky mystery? A town of wonky magic. A fencer stabbed by her own blade. Can Twizzie untangle the twisted mystery? Twizzle Twist isn't your normal real estate pixie. Nor is St. Maurice your normal Southern California town. The magic in the valley belches at the worst time. Twizzle's mismatched wings and bum leg are the least of her worries. Twiz is fortunate to have friends like the ancient Chinese wizard, the barista mermaid with the bent tail, a pixie cop, and two chili-cheese-dog obsessed mini-dragons to aid her. And she'll need all the help they can muster when the town council leader has Twizzle's SoCal home on the St. Maurice amusement pier in the path of her wrecking ball. When a cute new vampire arrives in town, and needs a handicapped accessible home due to his wheelchair, Twizzle has one pesky rule. Don't date your clients. So she needs to finish the home sale, before she can land a new boyfriend. But, when their first home showing comes with the homeowner stabbed in the back with her own sword, Twizzle gets tangled in a mystery not of her making. Can she untangle the knot of clues, parry the magical red herrings, and solve the mystery in time to sell the home, and stop the killer? Twiz and her friends have to save their pier, catch the killers, and find time for Mortimer and Basil the mini-dragon to get their chili-cheese-dog fix. Each story is a self-contained mystery, with an evolving backstory as Twiz and her friends fight to save their town's beloved amusement pier. This omnibus includes the previously published tomes: A Twisted Riposte A Twisted Tune A Twisted Dive A Twisted Treasure A Twisted Inferno A Twisted Festival If you love mysteries with a dash of quirky characters, a dose of warped magic, and snarky humor, you'll love Alyn Troy's Paranormal Cozy Mysteries.
Download or read book The Twisted Muse written by Michael H. Kater and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is music removed from politics? To what ends, beneficent or malevolent, can music and musicians be put? In short, when human rights are grossly abused and politics turned to fascist demagoguery, can art and artists be innocent? These questions and their implications are explored in Michael Kater's broad survey of musicians and the music they composed and performed during the Third Reich. Great and small--from Valentin Grimm, a struggling clarinetist, to Richard Strauss, renowned composer--are examined by Kater, sometimes in intimate detail, and the lives and decisions of Nazi Germany's professional musicians are laid out before the reader. Kater tackles the issue of whether the Nazi regime, because it held music in crassly utilitarian regard, acted on musicians in such a way as to consolidate or atomize the profession. Kater's examination of the value of music for the regime and the degree to which the regime attained a positive propaganda and palliative effect through the manner in which it manipulated its musicians, and by extension, German music, is of importance for understanding culture in totalitarian systems. This work, with its emphasis on the social and political nature of music and the political attitude of musicians during the Nazi regime, will be the first of its kind. It will be of interest to scholars and general readers eager to understand Nazi Germany, to music lovers, and to anyone interested in the interchange of music and politics, culture and ideology.
Download or read book EX A Twisted love Story written by Novoneel Chakraborty and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To get to his heart, she seduced his mind What will you do if one day a svelte and sexy girl comes up to you and says she is your ex? And the only thing you know about her is that you don’t know anything about her. Neel, an aspiring author, meets Nivrita at the Jaipur Literature Festival. Though Nivrita says she is his ex, he remembers nothing, and yet everything about her seems to lure him to unravel the mystery she personifies. The more he is drawn to her, the more Neel feels guilty because he is already in a steady relationship with Titiksha, the love of his life. When Nivrita makes a tempting offer to Neel, which he accepts for his own good, his life slowly begins to spiral out of control while Titiksha starts turning into a stranger until Neel realizes there’s much more than his eyes can see and mind can recollect. Novoneel Chakraborty, bestselling author of A Thing beyond Forever, That Kiss in the Rain and How About a Sin Tonight? brings forth yet another poignant story, twisted in essence. Ex will make you your jaw drop wide open.
Download or read book The Twisted Muse Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich written by Department of History York University Michael Kater Distinguished Research Professor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996-12-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is music removed from politics? To what ends, beneficent or malevolent, can music and musicians be put? In short, when human rights are grossly abused and politics turned to fascist demagoguery, can art and artists be innocent? These questions and their implications are explored in Michael Kater's broad survey of musicians and the music they composed and performed during the Third Reich. Great and small--from Valentin Grimm, a struggling clarinetist, to Richard Strauss, renowned composer--are examined by Kater, sometimes in intimate detail, and the lives and decisions of Nazi Germany's professional musicians are laid out before the reader. Kater tackles the issue of whether the Nazi regime, because it held music in crassly utilitarian regard, acted on musicians in such a way as to consolidate or atomize the profession. Kater's examination of the value of music for the regime and the degree to which the regime attained a positive propaganda and palliative effect through the manner in which it manipulated its musicians, and by extension, German music, is of importance for understanding culture in totalitarian systems. This work, with its emphasis on the social and political nature of music and the political attitude of musicians during the Nazi regime, will be the first of its kind. It will be of interest to scholars and general readers eager to understand Nazi Germany, to music lovers, and to anyone interested in the interchange of music and politics, culture and ideology.
Download or read book Pixie Twisted 2 written by Alyn Troy and published by Mystic Brews Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A town of wonky magic. A lost treasure, a chili-cheese-dog cookoff, and the town's festival all turn deadly. Can Twizzle untangle the twisted mysteries? Dive into this paranormal mystery series set in a magical fae town where disabilities are just part of their nature. Twizzle Twist isn’t your normal real estate pixie. Nor is St. Maurice your normal Southern California town. The magic in the valley belches at the worst time. Twizzle’s mismatched wings and bum leg are the least of her worries. The town council leader is out to destroy Twizzle's home on her town's amusement pier. With a gang of friends including a pixie cop, a mermaid barista with a bent tail, an ancient Chinese wizard with a sweet tooth, and a couple of chili-cheese-dog loving mini-dragons, Twiz is embroiled in mystery after mystery, all while trying to save the pier and date the cute new vampire in town. This Collection is comprised of the second three of the previously published books in Alyn Troy's Pixie Twist Mysteries. You'll get the following titles in this volume: A Twisted Treasure A Twisted Inferno A Twisted Festival If you love supernatural mysteries with a dash of quirky characters, a dose of warped magic, and lots of snarky humor, you'll love Alyn Troy's Paranormal Cozy Mysteries. Get your copy today to untangle this twisted mystery series.
Download or read book Festival Man written by Geoff Berner and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maverick music manager Campbell Ouiniette makes a final destructive bid for glory at the Calgary Folk Festival. Travel in the entertaining company of a man made of equal parts bullshit and inspiration, in what is ultimately a twisted panegyric to the power of strange music to change people from the inside out. At turns funny and strangely sobering, this “found memoir” is a picaresque tale of inspired, heroic deceit, incompetence, and — just possibly — triumph. Follow the flailing escapades of maverick music manager Campbell Ouiniette at the Calgary Folk Festival, as he leaves a trail of empty liquor bottles, cigarette butts, bruised egos, and obliterated relationships behind him. His top headlining act has abandoned him for the Big Time. In a fit of self-delusion or pure genius (or perhaps a bit of both), Ouiniette devises an intricate scam, a last hurrah in an attempt to redeem himself in the eyes of his girlfriend, the music industry, and the rest of the world. He reveals his path of destruction in his own transparently self-justifying, explosive, profane words, with digressions into the Edmonton hardcore punk rock scene, the Yugoslavian Civil War, and other epicentres of chaos.
Download or read book Death Is a Festival written by João José Reis and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazil's independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia. The book opens with a lively account of the popular riot that ensued when, in 1836, the government condemned the traditional burial of bodies inside Catholic church buildings and granted a private company a monopoly over burials. This episode is used by Reis to examine the customs of death and burial in Bahian society, explore the economic and religious conflicts behind the move for funerary reforms and the maintenance of traditional rituals of dying, and understand how people dealt with new concerns sparked by modernization and science. Viewing culture within its social context, he illuminates the commonalities and differences that shaped death and its rituals for rich and poor, men and women, slaves and masters, adults and children, foreigners and Brazilians. This translation makes the book, originally published in Brazil in 1993, available in English for the first time.
Download or read book Producing Independent 2D Character Animation written by Mark A. Simon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PRODUCING INDEPENDENT 2D CHARACTER ANIMATION takes an in-depth look at the artistry and production process of cel animation in a friendly, how-to manner that makes the sometimes tedious process of animation enjoyable and easy to understand. This book guides animators through every step of planning and production; includes examples of actual production forms, organization tips, screen shots, and sketches from the pre- to post-production processes; and contains detailed information on the hardware and software used to complete each step. By mapping out the course of how his small studio brainstormed, created, then produced its award-winning animation, TIMMY'S LESSONS IN NATURE, Mark Simon explains to animators what it takes-both creatively and resource-wise-to get their animations to market. Includes exclusive interviews with Oscar-nominated independent animator Bill Plimpton, Craig McCracken, creator of the POWER PUFF GIRLS, Craig "Spike" Decker of SPIKE & MIKE'S SICK AND TWISTED FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION, David Fine & Alison Snowden who are the Academy Award-Winning producers of BOB AND MARGARET, Cartoon Network's Senior Vice President of Original Animation, Linda Simensky, and Tom Sito, Co-Director of OSMOSIS JONES...as well as others.
Download or read book The Fundamentals of Animation written by Paul Wells and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with examples from classic and contemporary films, The Fundamentals of Animation presents each stage of the animation production process in an engaging visual style, whilst providing an historical and critical context for four core disciplines: drawn/cel; 2D/3D stop-motion; computer generated; and experimental animation. With insightful commentary from leading animators, Wells and Moore also introduce you to the many different career paths open to aspiring animators, from storyboard artist or character designer to VFX artist or writer and director. They also provide you with key tips on producing engaging portfolios and show reels. - Illustrated with over 300 images, including preliminary sketches, frame-by-frame analyses and shots of animators at work. - Now explores the animated documentary genre and the role of visual effects and gaming in contemporary animation. - Features more than 20 interviews with a range of international practitioners including Pete Docter, Director, Monsters, Inc. (2001), Up (2009) and Inside Out (2015). Featured Artists Sarah Cox, ArthurCox Lluis Danti, Media Molecule Pete Docter, Pixar Paul Driessen Eric Fogel Cathal Gaffney, Brown Bag Films Adam Goddard Philip Hunt, STUDIO AKA The Brothers McLeod Bill Plympton Ellen Poon, Industrial Light and Magic Barry Purves Joanna Quinn Chris Randall, Second Home Studios Maureen Selwood Koji Yamamura
