Download or read book Ash Franks Hollyweird Detective Trilogy written by Neven Gibbs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-22 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete Ash Franks Trilogy in a single book as a single edition: The Templar Turkey Moonlight Overload The odd and the weird stories of Ash Franks, Hollywood Detective's adventures from the 1940's through th 1960's. His friends join him again through World War II ending the tale with his family life following the war where Ash once again meets his primary and lifetime antagonist. The final conflict concludes with the mystery that follows Ash Franks and his ancestors through out history ending in Baker, California.
Download or read book Men of Desperation written by Neven Gibbs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Carter finds himself hired as the new Sheriff of the town of Desperation. Near the turn of the Century in the Old West. Walter is faced with solving a mystery that could get him killed. Faced with digging up answers from the town's inhabitants. Walter must know and be ready for the "Troubles" that are inflicted on the town each month.
Download or read book Charlie Fancher Episode 4 Government Man written by Neven Gibbs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Episode 4 of the Charlie Fancher Western Mystery Series. Family friendly Adventure series written for all ages. Like the old TV series, Each episode leads Charlie, Frank and Abigail through the adventure solving the mysteries in true Western fashion in 1939. Enjoy each episode as one mystery leads to the next in cliffhanger events that tune in next time for another exciting adventure!
Download or read book Charlie Fancher Episode 5 Whittler s Song written by Neven Gibbs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-04 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final episode in the Charlie Fancher Western mystery series.
Download or read book Charlie Fancher Episode 1 The Medusa Stone written by Neven Gibbs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Fancher, Episode 1 "The Medusa Stone" is set in the early 1900's. Cowboys versus Big City Gangsters. Suitable for all ages. Action, Adventure, Mystery, Light-Romance.
Download or read book Charlie Fancher Episode 3 The Spy written by Neven Gibbs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The further adventures in the Third episode of the Charlie Fancher Series. A Western crime drama set in the early 1900's featuring heroic deeds, mysteries and action. There's even romance as Abigail seeks to hogtie Charlie and drag him to the Preacher whether he knows it or not. Written for all ages.
Download or read book Charlie Fancher Episode 2 The Gold Shipment written by Neven Gibbs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Episode 2 in an all ages adventure series set in the early 1900's. Cowboy Charlie Fancher and his sidekick Frank Jones team up to solve a crime. Evil Villains, Damsel in distress, Chicago Gangsters and the local Townsfolk come together to solve the mystery. Will Charlie and Frank stop the Gangsters? Will Ed the Sheriff and Ed the Barber stop arguing about a game of Checkers? Will Abigail get Charlie to take her to the Saturday night dance? Did Charlie's chickens survive the dynamite? Tune in again next time for another exciting Heroic adventure!
Download or read book Story written by Robert McKee and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Story screenwriting guru Robert McKee presents his powerful and much sought-after knowledge in a comprehensive guide to the essentials of screenwriting and storytelling." -- Methuen.
Download or read book The Northern Conquest written by Katherine Holman and published by Signal Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book reveals another very different side of Viking society. It claims that the Viking legacy was not simply one of 'rape and pillage', but included law and order, agriculture and trade, as well as language and heroic literature. It also provides evidence that the influence of Scandinavians in the British Isles continued well after 1066"--Jacket.
Download or read book Wish You Were Here written by John Allore and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER As compelling as Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark or James Ellroy's My Dark Places, this is the story of a brother's lifelong determination to find the truth about his sister's death, a police force that was ignoring the cases of missing and murdered women, and, to the surprise of everyone involved, a previously undiscovered serial killer. In the fall of 1978 teenager Theresa Allore went missing near Sherbrooke, Quebec. She wasn't seen again until the spring thaw revealed her body in a creek only a few kilometers away. Shrugging off her death as a result of 1970s drug culture, police didn't investigate. Patricia Pearson started dating Theresa's brother John during the aftermath of Theresa's death. Though the two teens would go their separate ways, the family's grief, obsession with justice and desire for the truth never left Patricia. Little did she know, the shockwaves of Theresa's death would return to her life repeatedly over the next forty years. In 2001, John had just moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife and young children, when the cops came to the door. They had determined that a young girl had been murdered and buried in the basement. John wondered: If these cops could look for this young girl, why had nobody even tried to find out what happened to Theresa? Unable to rest without closure, he reached out to Patricia, by now an accomplished crime journalist and author, and together they found answers far bigger and more alarming than they could have imagined--and a legacy of violence that refused to end.
Download or read book Dark Forces written by Kirby McCauley and published by New Amer Library. This book was released on 1989 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the ultimate feast of fear by a host of horror writers such as Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Ramsey Campbell, and others. Twenty-four macabre tales include the nerve-twisting novelette The Mist by Stephen King.
Download or read book Empire of Light written by Michael Bible and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ”Denis Johnson seems to be the abiding spirit of the novel, which achieves the incendiary strangeness of his prose . . . Bible offers us a remarkable vision of adolescence as not just a time of extreme exposure but one of visionary longing.” — THE NEW YORK TIMES After an adolescent prank leads to a stranger’s death, Alvis Maloney rambles westward. He lands in a small North Carolina town and falls in love—in love with his neighbor Molly, with a lonesome quarterback called Miles, with a whole community of enduring misfits and losers. But at the same time, another life takes shape in Maloney’s dreamlike visions: a horse named Forever, a princess with hypochondria, and an electric city that’s always just out of reach. As these two promises of home fight for their hold on Maloney, the story careens toward disaster, and in the end Maloney must choose between love and redemption. From the author Electric Literature called “one of the most interesting and exciting new novelists in years,” Michael Bible’s Empire of Light blooms with mystical imagination and a hopeful heart.
Download or read book The Ancient Hours written by Michael Bible and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ancient Hours […] packs a wallop" —New York Times Book Review "The Ancient Hours is brilliant.” —Bud Smith, author of Work "Bible is a fantastic writer." —Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here Harmony, North Carolina is a typical town—full of saints and sinners you can’t tell apart... Its history echoes with lynchings and shootings; mob violence and vigilante justice. But those are just whispers of a past lost to time. The summer of 2000 was different. Iggy in the Baptist church. Gasoline and a match. Twenty-five people dead. This, Harmony couldn’t forget. Told in a kaleidoscope of timelines and voices, Michael Bible examines every dimension of a tragic but all-too-American story in The Ancient Hours. The victims, witnesses, perpetrators, and condemned comingle and evolve as the passage of time works its way through their lives. What emerges is a fable of the American South in the highest tradition: soaring, tragic, and eternally striving for redemption.
Download or read book The Films of Steven Spielberg written by Douglas Brode and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pictorial study puts Steven Spielberg's career in focus: from his first feature, "The Sugarland Express", through his phenomenal blockbusters, including "Jaws", Jurassic Park", and "Schindler's List". Photos.
Download or read book Deathbird Stories written by Harlan Ellison and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterpieces of myth and terror about modern gods from technology to drugs to materialism—“fantasy at its most bizarre and unsettling” (The New York Times). As Earth approaches Armageddon, a man embarks on a quest to confront God in the Hugo Award–winning novelette, “The Deathbird.” In New York City, a brutal act of violence summons a malevolent spirit and a growing congregation of desensitized worshippers in “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs,” an Edgar Award winner influenced by the real-life murder of Queens resident Kitty Genovese in 1964. In “Paingod,” the deity tasked with inflicting pain and suffering on every living being in the universe questions the purpose of its cruel existence. Deathbird Stories collects these and sixteen more provocative tales exploring the futility of faith in a faithless world. A legendary author of speculative fiction whose best-known works include A Boy and His Dog and I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream—and whose major awards and nominations number in the dozens, Harlan Ellison strips away convention and hypocrisy and lays bare the human condition in modern society as ancient gods fade and new deities rise to appease the masses—gods of technology, drugs, gambling, materialism—that are as insubstantial as the beliefs of those who venerate them. In addition to his Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, Edgar, and other awards, Ellison was called “one of the great living American short story writers” by the Washington Post—and this collection makes it clear why he has earned such an extraordinary assortment of accolades. Stories include: “Introduction: Oblations at Alien Altars” “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs” “Along the Scenic Route” “On the Downhill Side” “O Ye of Little Faith” “Neon” “Basilisk” “Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes” “Corpse” “Shattered Like a Glass Goblin” “Delusion for a Dragon Slayer” “The Face of Helene Bournouw” “Bleeding Stones” “At the Mouse Circus” “The Place with No Name” “Paingod” “Ernest and the Machine God” “Rock God” “Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W” “The Deathbird”
Download or read book Lab Coats in Hollywood written by David A. Kirby and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How science consultants make movie science plausible, in films ranging from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Finding Nemo. Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in 1968, is perhaps the most scientifically accurate film ever produced. The film presented such a plausible, realistic vision of space flight that many moon hoax proponents believe that Kubrick staged the 1969 moon landing using the same studios and techniques. Kubrick's scientific verisimilitude in 2001 came courtesy of his science consultants--including two former NASA scientists--and the more than sixty-five companies, research organizations, and government agencies that offered technical advice. Although most filmmakers don't consult experts as extensively as Kubrick did, films ranging from A Beautiful Mind and Contact to Finding Nemo and The Hulk have achieved some degree of scientific credibility because of science consultants. In Lab Coats in Hollywood, David Kirby examines the interaction of science and cinema: how science consultants make movie science plausible, how filmmakers negotiate scientific accuracy within production constraints, and how movies affect popular perceptions of science. Drawing on interviews and archival material, Kirby examines such science consulting tasks as fact checking and shaping visual iconography. Kirby finds that cinema can influence science as well: Depictions of science in popular films can promote research agendas, stimulate technological development, and even stir citizens into political action.
Download or read book Veniss Underground written by Jeff VanderMeer and published by Picador. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel, Veniss Underground, takes readers on a journey to a labyrinthine city of tunnels, and the dangers lurking behind each turn. This paperback edition features the bonus novella “Balzac’s War.” In a dark and decadent far future, the city of Veniss persists beside a dead ocean. Earth has become a desert wasteland ravaged by climate change. Veniss endures on the strength of its innovative tech of almost Boschian intensity, but at what cost? Where does the line between “made creature” and “person” lie? Against this backdrop, Veniss Underground spins the tale of Nicholas, an aspiring, struggling Artist; his twin sister, Nicola; and Shadrach, Nicola’s former lover. A fateful trip by Nicholas to the maverick biotech Quin will have far-reaching consequences for all three—and for the fate of Veniss itself, as insurrection stirs and the oppressed begin to revolt. Veniss Underground is Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel, a spectacular surreal foray into a world as influenced by Alejandro Jodorowsky as by Ursula K. Le Guin. Readers of VanderMeer’s later work will be enchanted and horrified by the marvels within, including the author’s signature fascination with the nonhuman and the environment. By turns beautiful and powerful, Veniss Underground explores the limits of love, memory, and obsession against a backdrop of betrayal and biological mutation. This reissue includes a new introduction by the National Book Award–winning author Charles Yu and a bonus story from Jeff VanderMeer.
