Download or read book Curse of the Chakka Chakka written by Dionie McNair and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brianna must break the curse of the Chakka Chakka and save her family and friends. Brianna is just beginning to settle into her new life in the Crystal Castle when she and Issah are attacked by the Abrasaxons' mortal enemy, the Chakka Chakka. These small blue flying humanoids burrow their slender spiral horn into a host's ear until it pierces their brain. Once the horn is embedded the Chakka Chakka chatter, squeak and whisper semi-intelligible sounds day and night, sending the host mad. Brianna wants to help the Abrasaxon defeat them, but there are those who spurn her efforts, including her half-brother, Hashnok. With the help of her friends she follows the clues to the mountains and finds the secret of the Chakka Chakka. Armed with this information, she sets a trap to capture them. Brianna is injured in the battle, though, and her greatest challenge may turn out to be finding a cure not only to save the other victims, but to save herself as well.
Download or read book There was No Lightning written by Harold Scheub and published by UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chaka written by Martin Kerkhof and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While researching Mayan culture an archeologist unleashes an evil so powerful that it threatens his life and the world around him.
Download or read book Soldiers on the Cultural Front written by Tatiana Gabroussenko and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An understanding of contemporary North Korea’s literature is virtually impossible without an investigation of its formative period, 1945–1960, which saw a gradual transformation from the initial "Soviet era" to a Korean version of "national Stalinism." This turbulent epoch established a long-lasting framework for North Korean literature and set up an elaborate system of political control over literary matters, as well as over the people who served in this field. In 1946 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) leader Kim Il Sung described the country’s writers as "soldiers on the cultural front," thus clearly defining what the nascent Communist regime expected from its intellectuals. As a result, many literary nonentities were rewarded with fame and success (often only to be relegated once again to obscurity within a few years) while many outstanding luminaries of the past were erased from the pages of official publications or even lost their lives. The Soviet cultural impact brought new tropes, artistic images, and rhetoric, which were quickly absorbed into the North Korean discourse. However, the cultural politics of the DPRK and the USSR revealed profound and irreconcilable disparities that were rooted in the different political conditions and traditions of each country. Soldiers on the Cultural Front presents the first consistent research on the early history of North Korea’s literature and literary policy in Western scholarship. It traces the introduction and development of Soviet-organized conventions in North Korean literary propaganda and investigates why the "romance with Moscow" was destined to be short lived. It reconstructs the biographies and worldviews of major personalities who shaped North Korean literature and teases these historical figures out of popular scholarly myth and misconception. The book also investigates the specific forms of control over intellectuals and literary matters in North Korea. Considering the unique phenomenon of North Korean literary critique, the author analyzes the political campaigns and purges of 1947–1960 and investigates the role of North Korean critics as "political executioners" in these events. She draws on an impressive variety and number of sources—ranging from interviews with Korean and Soviet participants, public and family archives, and memoirs to original literary and critical texts—to present a balanced and eye-opening work that will benefit those interested in not only understanding North Korean literature and society, but also rethinking forms of socialist modernity elsewhere in the world.
Download or read book Battlecruiser V Battle Cry written by David Schleifer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-05-23 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth installment of the Battlecruiser Books continues the adventures of the crew of the Battlecruiser Pegasus and the Task Force 1-Able. Saatori is back! He has a new plan as he taps into the memory of his exploits from the attempt of stealing the Battlecruiser Equus and the start of the war. Now he is designing and building two Drazakii warships, Battlecruisers! The Kraken and the Medusa are designed for a purpose and one purpose only; to destroy the Battlecruiser Pegasus. Meanwhile, fleet command has handed Commander Janice Anders Daria and the Battlecruiser Pegasus its biggest mission, to hunt down the Drazakian Third Armada and find the secret base where Saatori is building his new weapon. The Passion of war continues...
Download or read book Chaka written by Thomas Mofolo and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaka is a genuine masterpiece that represents one of the earliest major contributions of black Africa to the corpus of modern world literature. Mofolos fictionalized life-story account of Chaka (Shaka), translated from Sesotho by D. P. Kunene, begins with the future Zulu kings birth followed by the unwarranted taunts and abuse he receives during childhood and adolescence. The author manipulates events leading to Chakas status of great Zulu warrior, conqueror, and king to emphasize classic tragedys psychological themes of ambition and power, cruelty, and ultimate ruin. Mofolos clever nods to the supernatural add symbolic value. Kunenes fine translation renders the dramatic and tragic tensions in Mofolos tale palpable as the richness of the authors own culture is revealed. A substantial introduction by the translator provides valuable context for modern readers.
Download or read book Colonial Discourse and the Jesus fication of King Chaka written by Daniel M. Mengara and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Chaka is considered an African literary masterpiece, Thomas Mofolo has paradoxically been dismissed by critics as an author naively extolling the virtues of the white man’s “civilizing mission” in Africa. Daniel M. Mengara’s Colonial Discourse and the Jesus-fication of King Chaka: How Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka Turned the Zulu Monarch into a Messiah offers a rereading of Chaka to show that Mofolo in fact astutely deconstructs, and then reconstructs, Zulu king Chaka into a messianic figure whose life trajectory and destiny blasphemously mirror those of Jesus Christ. This volume avoids the pitfalls of the traditional “mission interpretations” of Chaka and provides an interpretative inflection that paints a more nuanced and balanced picture and understanding of Thomas Molofo’s fictional account of the mythologized historical figure. Mengara delves into the circumstances and controversies surrounding the publication of the novel and shows how Molofo “Jesus-fied” King Chaka in a sly, yet sacrilegious ploy to subvert the colonial discourse and missionary ethos of his time. This book stands as a reassessment of Thomas Mofolo’s often-ignored nationalism and calls for a rediscovery of Mofolo’s work in ways that resituate him within the history of the African novel as the undisputed pioneer of engaged African literature.
Download or read book Pook Sahib written by Peter Pook and published by Emissary Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant Pook sounds pretty good, at least it did to Pook himself, who was seconded to the Royal Ramsami Navy to undertake the strangest mission ever to befall a naval officer. Precisely what that mission was, though, Pook never quite discovered. Assisted by Honners as navigating officer, Peter Pook sets out from the Eastern state of Ramsam as crack naval diver of the Fleet, on board the mystery ship Soonong. In command of the vessel is one of the toughest characters ever to sail the notorious China Coast, Commander Bray—250lb of the liverish breed that made Britain great, whose brilliant seamanship has made his name a legend throughout the repair yards of the Orient. His dislike of Pook is apparent from the first, and is helped along by jealousy over a beautiful half-caste girl, whom Pook unwittingly introduces to a house of ill-fame in the wicked city of Shaggapore. With superb confidence, born of utter incompetence, Pook blunders through the hazards of naval diving, religious taboos and Oriental marriage, under the all-seeing eye of the Nawab of Ramsam. He flirts with the Nawab’s wife, falls in love with a night-club singer, swims across a sacred lake and finally becomes enmeshed in the macabre religious practices of the Ramsamis. Nevertheless he still finds time to be shipwrecked in the Bay of Bengal and sink a warship under his captain’s feet. Happily, Commander Bray and Lieutenant Pook decide to bury the past like true shipmates and as a result of this resolve their bloody fight on the waterfront of Chattoo dockland sets a new standard in human conflict and endurance, albeit a new low in naval discipline. Whether or not the reader is acquainted with Pook’s earlier adventures in Banking on Form, Pook in Boots and Pook in Business, he will recognize this personality as the funniest on the current comedy scene.
Download or read book Twelve African Writers written by Gerald Moore and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1980, this book introduces the student to twelve of the most exciting and significant African authors of the 20th Century, whose work represents Anglophone and Francophone writing (with translation) drawn from West, East and Southern Africa. Twelve African Writers was a revised, updated and extended edition of the pioneering Seven African Writers which did so much to make students aware of African literature. The book also contains an extensive bibliography of the works not just of the selected writers, but other important African authors and recommendations of further critical works.
Download or read book Dictionary of Jamaican English written by Frederic G. Cassidy and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The method and plan of this dictionary of Jamaican English are basically the same as those of the Oxford English Dictionary, but oral sources have been extensively tapped in addition to detailed coverage of literature published in or about Jamaica since 1655. It contains information about the Caribbean and its dialects, and about Creole languages and general linguistic processes. Entries give the pronounciation, part-of-speach and usage of labels, spelling variants, etymologies and dated citations, as well as definitions. Systematic indexing indicates the extent to which the lexis is shared with other Caribbean countries.
Download or read book Black World Negro Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1975-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1943, Negro Digest (later “Black World”) was the publication that launched Johnson Publishing. During the most turbulent years of the civil rights movement, Negro Digest/Black World served as a critical vehicle for political thought for supporters of the movement.
Download or read book Of Demons and Blue Moons written by Andy Farman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Moon Cursed Princess, 'Fae', aka Princess Aimee Adrianna of the Guardian Rings. Warrior, adventurer, demon slayer, closet witch and overt hedonist, an almost-hell-born, time-slipping Faerie, with a hell hound and a succubus for absentee parents. Scott Bennett, an invalided Royal Marine turned London cabbie, with a demonic price on his head for having saved Fae from rape and killing her shadow-like attacker, one of 'The Seven', the most terrible denizens of Hell. Holle auf Erden, Hell on Earth, is coming and the only way to stop it is to keep Fae alive while she hunts down the rest of The Seven. ........................................................ ""I did you an injustice, Princess, and I do not know how to apologise." "Well oddly enough, I can think of a way to make amends," The G-string slithered down. "Would you do me a great favour by changing, one simply adores the sensation of warm fur between her thighs?""
Download or read book Queer Compassion in 15 Comics written by Andrew Thomas and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comics from an international cast of queer artists that respond to trauma with compassion
Download or read book Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa written by John Conteh-Morgan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study to be entirely devoted to African literary drama in French, a major component of African theater. Beginning with a detailed analysis of its relationship to a variety of precolonial, but sometimes still contemporary, traditions of performance that constitute part of its roots, the author examines this drama in both its literary and theatrical dimensions. He discusses its development, themes and techniques up to and including contemporary theater. The book is divided into two sections: Part One offers a theoretical and historical background; Part Two analyzes key individual plays central to the repertoire, including two from the Caribbean. All quotations are translated into English.
Download or read book Interstellar True Dragon written by Guo WangYunFeiYang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-10-25 with total page 1113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long Yi, was originally just an ordinary student of Ling Feng Saint Emperor's Academy in Gesun City of China! He had an extremely ordinary family background and extremely ordinary strength! He had been dependent on his mother since he was young! However, once again, he inadvertently found out a secret that he could not believe! All along, his mother had disguised herself, but he was actually the undying legendary figure of Earth, the son of the Ling Feng Saint Emperor — Yun Zhi! From then on, an interstellar journey that transcended time and space to search for the miracle of the Great Father began ...
Download or read book Nada the Lily written by Haggard and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strike written by Mahadevan and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-Year-Old Hari Tries To Make Sense Of His Tumultuous And Complex World In 1980S India. His Experiment At Eating Fish Leads To The Accidental Death Of His Grandmother; His Preference For Hindi Over His Mother Tongue Tamil Leads To Slanderous Graffiti Against His Family In Madras; And His Friendship With The Household Help Lands Him In Trouble With Vishu, A Militant Tamil Film Fan And Political Functionary. Matters Come To A Head When Mgr, The Film Star Turned Politician, Dies And His Supporters Led By Vishu Declare A Strike, Trapping Hari And His Mother In A Train Bound For Madras. Oblivious To The Crosscurrents Of Tension Pulsating Outside The Train, Hari Experiences The First Stirrings Of His Adolescent Sexuality In The Company Of An Aspiring Actor And A Loquacious Transsexual. When Protestors Try To Take Over The Engine Of The Train And The Driver Fights To Keep Them Out, Hari&Rsquo;S Attempt To Help Has Devastatingly Tragic Results. Vivid, Often Erotic, And Laced With Humour, Anand Mahadevan&Rsquo;S Remarkable First Novel Is A Coming-Of-Age Tale Replete With Family Ambitions, Adolescent Curiosity, Sensuality, Shame, Guilt And Danger.
