Download or read book Doppelgangster written by Laura Resnick and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Laura Resnick's Doppelgangster, the New York actress is 'resting' between roles by working as a singing waitress at a Manhattan mob restaurant because wiseguys tip well. Then duplicated gangsters appear, bullets start flying, and it's up to Esther and her friend Max the Magician to fight Evil by stopping the gang war before it starts killing the wrong people. And if she has time, maybe Esther can actually keep a hot date with her hunky detective friend Lopez, who doesn't believe in magic. Yet. Unplug the phone and settle down for a fast and funny read." —New York Times bestselling author Mary Jo Putney Doppelgangster is the exciting second novel of the Esther Diamond series.

Download or read book Night Owl Reviews Magazine Issue 4 written by and published by Night Owl Reviews. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Environment on Stage written by Julie Hudson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Environment on Stage: Scenery or Shapeshifter? investigates a pertinent voice of theatrical performance within the production and reception of ecotheatre. Theatre ecologies, unavoidably enmeshed in the environment, describe the system of sometimes perverse feedback loops running through theatrical events, productions, performances and installations. This volume applies an ecoaware spectatorial lens to explore live theatre as a living ecosystem in a literal sense. The vibrant chemistry between production and reception, and the spiralling ideas and emotions this generates in some conditions, are unavoidably driven by flows of matter and energy, thus, by the natural environment, even when human perspectives seem to dominate. The Environment on Stage is an intentionally eclectic mix of observation, close reading and qualitative research, undertaken with the aim of exploring ecocritical ideas embedded in ecotheatre from a range of perspectives. Individual chapters identify productions, performances and installations in which the environment is palpably present on stage, as it is in natural disasters such as floods, storms, famine, conflict and climate change. These themes and others are explored in the context of site-specificity, subversive spectators, frugal modes of narrative, the shifting ‘stuff’ of theatre productions, and imaginative substitutions. Ecotheatre is nothing less than vibrant matter that lets the environment speak for itself

Download or read book Murder by Magic written by Rosemary Edghill and published by Aspect. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology features 20 original stories of murder by acclaimed and award-winning science fiction and fantasy writers.

Download or read book Towards an Ecocritical Theatre written by Mohebat Ahmadi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards an Ecocritical Theatre investigates contemporary theatre through the lens of Anthropocene-oriented ecocriticism. It assesses how Anthropocene thinking engages different modes of theatrical representation, as well as how the theatrical apparatus can rise to the representational challenges of changing interactions between humans and the nonhuman world. To explore these problems, the book investigates international Anglophone plays and performances by Caryl Churchill, Stephen Sewell, Andrew Bovell, E.M. Lewis, Chantal Bilodeau, Jordan Hall, and Miwa Matreyek, who have taken significant steps towards re-orienting theatre from its traditional focus on humans to an ecocritical attention to nonhumans and the environment in the Anthropocene. Their theatrical works show how an engagement with the problem of scale disrupts the humanist bias of theatre, provoking new modes of theatrical inquiry that envision a scale beyond the human and realign our ecological culture, art, and intimacy with geological time. Moreover, the plays and performances studied here, through their liveness, immediacy, physicality, and communality, examine such scalar shifts via the problem of agency in order to give expression to the stories of nonhuman actants. These theatrical works provoke reflections on the flourishing of multispecies responsibilities and sensitivities in aesthetic and ethical terms, providing a platform for research in the environmental humanities through imaginative conversations on the world’s iterative performativity in which all bodies, human and nonhuman, are cast horizontally as agential forces on the theatrical world stage. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre studies, environmental humanities, and ecocritical studies.

Download or read book Fang tastic Fiction written by Patricia O'Brien Mathews and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2011 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathews uses a limited definition of paranormal, and examines works set, for the most part, in a relatively realistic modern world inhabited by both humans and paranormal beings.

Download or read book The Dragon Done It written by Eric Flint and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MIXING SLEUTHING AND SORCERY CAN BE VERY DANGEROUS. . . Pity the poor plainclothes cop or private eye who has to solve a case which may involve not only femme fatales (who may not be quite human) but also death by black magic, evidence that may have been altered or planted by an itinerant sorcerer, and supernatural entities ranging from ghosts to vampires to dragons. Even when the detective is a master of sorcery himself, the dragon may have an unbreakable alibi. Best-selling authors Eric Flint and Mike Resnick present a generous selection of stories from the intersection of mystery and magic by popular writers Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, David Drake, Harry Turtledove, Esther M. Friesner, and more, including brand-new novelettes by Flint and Resnick themselves. The Dragon Done It is an exciting cross-genre volume that both mystery fans and fantasy fans will enjoy. And so will dragons. . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). ERIC FLINT: "Eric Flint [drops] his readers into another time and place, where cultures collide, the action is hot and heavy, and we get to experience the best of the human spirit."¾David Weber "Eric Flint has a genius for taking his passion for history and turning it into powerful, action-packed stories that instantly grab the readers and plunge them into a time and place that might have been." ¾David Drake ". . . battle scenes depicted with power. . . [Flint is] an SF author of particular note, one who can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure."¾Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Flint has thoroughly mastered storytelling, and his characterization is masterly. His characters. . . are plausible for the time and place, and he makes neither an icon nor a demon of anyone. Irresistible. . . ." ¾Booklist MIKE RESNICK: ". . . on par with the best of Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan series. . . . Resnick is simply a consummate storyteller. . . hits all the right notes."¾Orson Scott Card "One of the most daring and prolific writers in SF. . . and he always delivers."¾David Brin "[F]ew writers have Resnick's gift for pace and momentum . . . his talent for producing a fast, smooth, utterly effortless read." ¾Analog"Resnick is thought-provoking, imaginative . . . and above all galactically grand."¾Los Angeles Times

Download or read book Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art written by Karen Haber and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art profiles and celebrates the work of today’s leading practitioners of art of the fantastic, as well as a handful of gifted newcomers from around the globe. The range and impact of their work is both inspiring and far-reaching. These 28 masters have created images for television, movies, gaming, museum exhibits, theme park rides, and every area of publishing.Some of the artists featured only employ traditional painting techniques, while others use only digital methods, and many more blend the mediums to create their fantastical images. Each artist discusses his/her influences and techniques as well as offering tips to beginning artists. Science Fiction Grandmaster and Hugo Award–winning author Joe Haldeman contributes a foreword. Artists, science fiction fans, and art collectors will appreciate the outstanding artwork featured here. Featured artists include: —Brom —Jim Burns —Kinuko Y. Craft —Dan Dos Santos —Bob Eggleton —Donato Giancola —Rebecca Guay —James Gurney —Gregory Manchess —Stephan Martiniere —Terese Nielsen —John Picacio —Greg Spalenka —Shaun Tan —Charles Vess

Download or read book The Franchiser written by Stanley Elkin and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sentence for sentence, nobody in America writes better than Stanley Elkin." The New Republic

Download or read book The Best Paranormal Crime Stories Ever Told written by Martin H. Greenberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paranormal crime stories by bestselling fiction writers like Kelley Armstrong, Anne Perry, Simon R. Green, Patricia Briggs, and more. A massive, monumental volume of paranormal crime fiction by bestselling authors. Gripping tales of mayhem include both novellas and short stories like “Stalked by,” by Kelley Armstrong, “The Judgment” by worldwide bestselling author Anne Perry, “Appetite for Murder” by Simon R. Green, “, “Road Dogs” by Norman Partridge, “The Hex Is In” by Mike Resnick, “Doppelgangster” by Laura Resnick, the chilling “If Vanity Doesn’t Kill Me” by Michael A. Stackpole, and many, many, more. Compiled and edited by the world’s most prolific anthologist—the award-winning Martin H. Greenberg—this is the biggest paranormal crime book on the market and the ultimate collection for crime lovers, ghost hunters, and thrill seekers everywhere. Also included are multiple stories by New York Times bestselling authors. The Best Paranormal Crime Stories Ever Told is a new book in the series, which includes The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told and The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told.

Download or read book idea journal co constructing body environment written by Julieanna Preston and published by AADR – Art Architecture Design Research. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special guest-edited issue extends the current discussions of art (inclusive of interior/ spatial design and architecture) as a process of social cognition and to address the gap between descriptions of embodied cognition and the co-construction of lived experience. Papers and exhibitions presented at the 2019 Bodies of Knowledge Conference have been advanced significantly as research articles and visual essays to focus on interdisciplinary connections across research practices that involve art and theories of cognition. These contributions emphasise how spatial art and design research approaches have enabled the articulation of a complex understanding of environments, spaces and experiences, including the spatial distribution of cultural, organizational and conceptual structures and relationships, as well as surrounding design features. Contributions address the following questions: • How do art and spatial practices increase the potential for knowledge transfer and celebrate diverse forms of embodied expertise? • How the examination of cultures of practice, Indigenous knowledges and cultural practices offer perspectives on inclusion, diversity, neurodiversity, disability and social justice issues? • How the art and spatial practices may contribute to research perspectives from contemporary cognitive neuroscience and the philosophy of mind? • The dynamic between an organism and its surroundings for example: How does art and design shift the way knowledge and thinking processes are acquired, extended and distributed? • How do art and design practices demonstrate the ways different forms of acquiring and producing knowledge intersect?

Download or read book Disappearing Nightly written by Laura Resnick and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esther Diamond, a struggling actress in New York, seems destined to attract supernatural mayhem. When bizarre magical disappearances disrupt shows around the city, Esther receives a mysterious warning not to go on with her off-Broadway show. Desperate to stay on stage rather than resort to waiting tables, Esther turns to her new BFF, Dr. Maximillian Zadok, a 350-year-old mage whose day job is protecting New York from Evil. Determined to get to the bottom of this mystery without losing her job, Esther and Max team up with a conjuring cowboy, a banker with stage aspirations, and a flock of fearless drag queens. Also on the case is Detective Connor Lopez, a sexy cop who has a thing for Esther, but who fears that she and Max may be a bigger problem than the vanishing performers. Since the show must go on—and the astronomical rent must be paid—Esther, Max, and their friends pursue Evil to its lair in their fearless determination to find the missing performers and restore harmony to the city that never sleeps. Disappearing Nightly is the thrilling first novel of the Esther Diamond series.

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Download or read book Polterheist written by Laura Resnick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esther Diamond is working as an elf in a Manhattan department store during the Christmas season. Meanwhile, the store's trucks are getting hijacked. The cops suspect a crime family, but Esther's friend Dr. Zadok believes someone is trying to stage the rebirth of an ancient demon. Original.

Download or read book The Mistress of Illusions written by Mike Resnick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, the second installment of a fantasy trilogy from a Hugo award-winning author, this novel offers an adventure through space and time as Eddie Raven tries to outrun the dark forces pursuing him. Her name is Lisa, and ever since Eddie Raven hooked up with her, strange things keep happening. How strange? Lisa can take on any role at a moment's notice. She's Maid Marian. She's Elizabeth Bennett from Pride and Prejudice. In an instant, she can become the sexy, gum-chewing secretary to his hard-boiled detective. She can even become Doc Holliday's frontier lady, Big Nose Kate. But who is she really? That's something Eddie's got to find out before this series of strange adventures, which began in The Master of Dreams, overtakes him. And if Lisa's not enough of a problem, there's also the powerful creature who claims to be the chief demon in hell, who seems convinced that he, Eddie, and Lisa are on the same side. Is Eddie being told the truth? He'd better decide quickly, because the one thing that's clear is that he's running out of time.

Download or read book Seinfeld Trivia Everything About Nothing Multiple Choice written by Dennis Bjorklund and published by Praetorian Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-10 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seinfeld Trivia: Everything About Nothing, Multiple Choice is authored by a sitcom expert who penned the most comprehensive book ever written about the show—Seinfeld Encyclopedia: The Complete Reference. This latest book, Seinfeld Trivia: Multiple Choice, is the best source for high quality, accurate, and well-written trivia questions about the sitcom voted “The #1 Greatest TV Series of All-Time” by TV Guide. Seinfeld Trivia: Multiple Choice is the perfect book for every type of Seinfeld fan, from casual observer to rabid fanatic. There are 500 questions that range from easy to difficult with 5 multiple choice answers to help solve each question. Many answers offer humorous options to amuse the reader, while others provide legitimate choices to challenge the quiz-taker. Unlike most trivia books that merely provide one-word answers, Seinfeld Trivia: Multiple Choice offers additional descriptive sentences that are often amusing, making the reading experience more enjoyable and entertaining. In addition, every section of the book includes Fun Facts that provide factual details about the show, creators, actors, and other contributors to the series. The Fun Facts are meant to supplement the hilarious question-answer format with fascinating factual tidbits to give the reader the full Seinfeld experience. Seinfeld Trivia: Multiple Choice offers more information than any other trivia book ever written on the subject. The first section analyzes the show, its history, and noteworthy facts that are sure to educate and enthrall the reader. The second chapter covers the Seinfeld environment with questions related to Monk’s Cafe, local businesses, and social acquaintances. The following sections include thorough questions about the main characters—Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Cosmo Kramer, Elaine Benes, and Newman—to highlight the most hilarious episodes and test every viewers’ attention to detail. Beware, there are easy questions but also expect brain-teasers. In addition, Seinfeld Trivia: Multiple Choice goes beyond the cast nucleus, and delves into the lives of other noteworthy characters who helped make the show a success. There are quizzes on Jerry’s parents, George’s parents, memorable one-time and recurring characters, as well as unforgettable friends and neighbors. The list of characters include Tim Whatley, Mickey Abbott, David Puddy, Lloyd Braun, Babu Bhatt, Soup Nazi, Mr. Pitt, J. Peterman, Jackie Chiles, Kenny Bania, Sue Ellen Mischke, Susan Ross, yada, yada, yada… There is something for everyone. Whether a casual watcher or avid fan, this book is sure to provide hours of entertainment and laughter while reliving the finest moments of the show. Photos included, 500 multiple choice questions and answers.