Download or read book Gumwood Tales written by John T. Winter and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first of the Gumwood tales takes place around the village of Muchadoo in the land of Gumwood. The villagers have just heard that their mayor’s precious ceremonial regalia has been stolen. Who could have taken it? The friends platypus, brush turkey, and possum are falsely accused of the dastardly theft, following a failed attempt to persuade sergeant bulldog to rescue a rabbit from two nasty foxes that ambushed the rabbit and put him in a sugar bag. The king of the foxes has also trapped an unsuspecting goose and put her in a bag. A more subtle enticement is carried out by a cat who wrongly thinks she’s in league with the foxes. She leads a brush turkey into a trap, only to find she’s also caged and ready to be cooked on a bonfire! It turns out the animals were trapped to furnish food for the grand foxes’ yearly feast. Police dogs and the sergeant bulldog go on a wild chase after the friends. Meanwhile, at the great fox feast, the village animals attack the foxes, scattering them into the forest, but the foxes gather together, and while the villagers are looking for them in the forest, the foxes make their way to the village, where they wreak havoc. They light another bonfire, and commence smashing, stealing, eating, and drinking until the villagers return and another fight begins. Where will this all lead? Good triumphs over evil in the end, but there are casualties and one mystery that remains for the next book in the series.
Download or read book American Gothic Tales written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-12-01 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable anthology of gothic fiction, spanning two centuries of American writing, gives us an intriguing and entertaining look at how the gothic imagination makes for great literature in the works of forty-six exceptional writers. Joyce Carol Oates has a special perspective on the “gothic” in American short fiction, at least partially because her own horror yarns rank on the spine-tingling chart with the masters. She is able to see the unbroken link of the macabre that ties Edgar Allan Poe to Anne Rice and to recognize the dark psychological bonds between Henry James and Stephen King. In showing us the gothic vision—a world askew where mankind’s forbidden impulses are set free from the repressions of the psyche, and nature turns malevolent and lawless—Joyce Carol Oates includes Henry James’s “The Romance of Certain Old Clothes,” Herman Melville’s horrific tale of factory women, “The Tartarus of Maids,” and Edith Wharton’s “Afterward,” which are rarely collected and appear together here for the first time. Added to these stories of the past are new ones that explore the wounded worlds of Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Raymond Carver, and more than twenty other wonderful contemporary writers. This impressive collection reveals the astonishing scope of the gothic writer’s subject matter, style, and incomparable genius for manipulating our emotions and penetrating our dreams. With Joyce Carol Oates’s superb introduction, American Gothic Tales is destined to become the standard one-volume edition of the genre that American writers, if they didn’t create it outright, have brought to its chilling zenith.
Download or read book Brewtown Tales written by John Gurda and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Gurda’s South Side Milwaukee family loved potluck dinners. “From the Jell-O salads at the start of the line through the hot dishes in the middle and on to the pumpkin bars at the end, the food was always hearty, abundant, and certifiably homemade,” he writes. Drawing from Gurda’s long-running Sunday Milwaukee Journal Sentinel column, Brewtown Tales was prepared in the spirit of those fondly remembered meals. The main dish is Milwaukee history, served in a multitude of ways. You will find in these pages the biography of a bridge, a requiem for a union, tales of two shipwrecks, a frank take on segregation, and memories of the summer of ’68, among many other things. There are also side dishes that convey the distinctive flavors of Wisconsin and a few more exotic places, from Vilas County to Vietnam. Brewtown Tales will satisfy your hunger, introduce you to new and unexpected tastes, and whet your appetite for more homemade history.
Download or read book Tales from The Gum Tree May Gibbs written by May Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oh my! cried Snugglepot. Im flying, Im really flying! He couldnt believe he was up in the big blue sky, and it was simply glorious. Join Snugglepot and Cuddlepie on their enchanting adventures through the Australian bush. With amazing butterfly rides, boating escapades and a surprise moonlight pageant, prepare to fall in love with May Gibbs' classic characters.
Download or read book Gumtree Gargoyles Episodes 5 to 8 written by Rebecca Rosengrave and published by Rebecca Rosengrave . This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perched atop her steeple, Katie knows this city is far from holy, but she’s damn well determined to maintain the sanctity of the status quo. Nothing comes from nowhere and they don’t say ‘once upon a time…’ for nothing! Steeped in the fantasy of fairy tales, mythologies and folklore alike, is the true reality of all that is. Forced into exile by human religious elites, mystics have been living in the shadows of reality for centuries. For those who can morph into human form, they live amongst us incognito. For those who cannot, they live in bitter exile. Terrorist factions amongst the social castaways have formed and now they seek to emerge from the shadows and reclaim the life they once knew. It is up to Katie, as the new Gargoyle Guardian, to embrace her very belated coming of age and quell these uprisings. This series is a 13-episode urban fantasy action and adventure script. The series has been split across three books. Start your journey into the world of the mystics, with Katie as your guide!
Download or read book Tales of the Old Regime written by Price Warung and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gumtree Gargoyles Episodes 1 to 4 written by Rebecca Rosengrave and published by Rebecca Rosengrave . This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perched atop her steeple, Katie knows this city is far from holy, but she’s damn well determined to maintain the sanctity of the status quo. Nothing comes from nowhere and they don’t say ‘once upon a time…’ for nothing! Steeped in the fantasy of fairy tales, mythologies and folklore alike, is the true reality of all that is. Forced into exile by human religious elites, mystics have been living in the shadows of reality for centuries. For those who can morph into human form, they live amongst us incognito. For those who cannot, they live in bitter exile. Terrorist factions amongst the social castaways have formed and now they seek to emerge from the shadows and reclaim the life they once knew. It is up to Katie, as the new Gargoyle Guardian, to embrace her very belated coming of age and quell these uprisings. This series is a 13-episode urban fantasy action and adventure script. The series has been split across three books. Start your journey into the world of the mystics, with Katie as your guide!
Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles part 1 F 1901 written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dingoes and Other Tales written by Robert Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Trouble Gum written by Matthew Cordell and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Matthew Cordell, the author-illustrator of the Caldecott award-winning book Wolf in the Snow, comes this delightful picture book that's as charming as it is fun. It's raining. There's nothing to do. Ruben is bored. But things start looking up when his grandmother gives him and his little brother some gum. Gum is fun. There's just one problem with gum—it tends to make a mess! Uh-oh. . . .
Download or read book Quincentenary written by David L. Smallman and published by Hypatia Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The United States Catalog written by Mary Burnham and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Winning Without Thinking written by Nick Mordin and published by Aesculus Press Ltd. This book was released on 2002 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to take advantage of recurring patterns in the results of horse-race Basic principles that govern racing results and the betting market Mistakes commonly made by the general betting public - and how to exploit them Full details of betting systems used by professional gamblers that have made them millions How to predict and profit from new trends How to use computers to increase your returns from betting
