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Book Hunting Ground

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  • Author : Meghan Holloway
  • Publisher : Polis Books
  • Release : 2020-06-23
  • ISBN : 1951709144
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Hunting Ground written by Meghan Holloway and published by Polis Books. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen years ago, Hector Lewis’s wife and young daughter vanished without a trace. People have long thought he was responsible, but the man he knows is behind their disappearance still walks free. As a police officer, he is sworn to uphold the law. But he has seen how little justice there is in the world. And when a newcomer’s arrival sparks a harrowing series of crimes, Hector finds himself in a race to catch a man he is convinced is a killer. Evelyn Hutto knows what it is to be prey. She moved west to start over. But the remote town of Raven’s Gap, Montana, is not as quiet and picturesque as it appears. The wild borderlands of Yellowstone National Park are home to more than one kind of predator. Women are going missing, and Evelyn’s position at the local museum unearths a collection of Native American art steeped in secrets. As she traces the threads of the past and the present, she finds them tied to one man. Hector is a man obsessed with finding answers. Evelyn is a woman with secrets of her own. As winter whittles the land to bone and ice, the body count rises, and both become locked in a deadly game of cat and mouse with a dangerous man. A man who is as cunning as he is charismatic. A man whose new hunting season is only just beginning.

Book Her Haunting Ground

Download or read book Her Haunting Ground written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THOMAS HARDY: SELECTED POEMS A selection of Thomas Hardy s finest poems. Thomas Hardy s poetry lies at the core of his artistic achievement. Or he would like to think so. It is the novels, in particular Tess of the d Urbervilles, Far From the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Woodlanders and The Return of the Native that have made Hardy popular with readers and critics. For Hardy, though, the poetry is at the heart of his artistic life. It contains his deepest emotions, his thoughts on the most intimate matters. The poetry is, as Robert Graves said, a spiritual autobiography . Thomas Hardy s own biography, The Life of Thomas Hardy, was somewhat manufactured for the critics. The private Hardy, the inner Thomas Hardy, one might say, is to be found in the poetry. Thomas Hardy s poetry is sensual, physical, concise, lyrical, and personal. It is seemingly plain and unadorned, yet it is full of an arcane vocabulary - tangled bine-stems appear in The Darkling Thrush, for instance. Hardy loves the obscure word, some of them being culled from Dorset folklore and legend. He was also complex in his use of stanza forms. As W.H. Auden wrote: no English poet, not even Donne or Browning, employed so many and so complicated stanza forms . Thomas Hardy s subject is love, love experienced and lost, seen from a distance, as a voyeur or observer, or remembered from the vantage point of old age. Hardy s poetry is sober, humorous, and self-loathing. He wallows in his nostalgic recreation of former love affairs. He keeps going back over crisis points, such as that moment when they first met, or their first argument, or when the beloved went out at night and the lover, thinking she had gone, was surprised when she returned and kissed him (in That Kiss in the Dark ).

Book The Hunting Ground

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  • Author : Will Shindler
  • Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
  • Release : 2022-02-03
  • ISBN : 1529340853
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book The Hunting Ground written by Will Shindler and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE THIRD NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BURNING MEN AND THE KILLING CHOICE, FEATURING DI ALEX FIN AND DCI MATTIE PAULSEN Sadie Nicholls has been found dead, brutally and strangely murdered, in her South East London flat. Her little boy is missing. DI Alex Finn and DC Mattie Paulsen know that, in the case of a missing child, it's the first 24 hours that count. They don't have many left to find out where Sadie's son might be and the identity of her killer. Why would anyone want a struggling single mother, loved by many, dead? But when they realise a similar crime was committed at the same house nearly 20 years ago, a question is on everyone's lips: is this more than just a coincidence? This is third in Will Shindler's Finn and Paulsen series - a British detective series that ranks with Mark Billingham, M.J. Arlidge and Stuart MacBride. PRAISE FOR THE DI ALEX FINN AND DC MATTIE PAULSEN SERIES 'Arresting ... an unusual novel with a rising sense of menace' The Sunday Times 'Warm and dealing with recognisable emotions, this is the best kind of police procedural' Literary Review 'An outstanding page-turner' Robin Morgan-Bentley, author of The Wreckage 'A gripping debut with well-rounded characters and an intriguing plot. You won't want it to end' Heat 'The explosive opening hooked me straight in . . . With a cast of credible characters, a twisting plotline and some ingenious twists, the book develops at a cracking pace' Lesley Sanderson, author of The Orchid Girls

Book Haunting Ground Official Strategy Guide

Download or read book Haunting Ground Official Strategy Guide written by BradyGames (Firm) and published by BradyGames. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BradyGames' Haunting Ground Official Strategy Guide includes the following: UNLOCK THE MYSTERIES OF ALCHEMY - Transform your Medallions into unlimited healing items, weapons, and super-rare life-saving equipment! EVERY PUZZLE SOLVED - Learn all the secrets to master every puzzle. COMPLETE WALKTHROUGH TO SURVIVE THE HORRORS - Where to hide, when to run, and how to fight! HIDDEN ITEMS REVEALED - Over forty hidden items revealed. Where to hunt for the best weapons, medallions and more! TONS OF SECRETS! See all four endings! Find secret items! Six scandalously sexy Fiona costumes! Change Hewie's breed! Much more! Platform: PS2 Genre: Action/Adventure This product is available for sale in North America only.

Book Haunted Ground

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  • Author : Darryl V. Caterine
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2011-08-10
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Haunted Ground written by Darryl V. Caterine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating and insightful tour through present-day meetings of Spiritualists, UFOlogists, and dowsers illuminates our obsession with the paranormal and challenges the misunderstanding of the paranormal as a marginal or inconsequential feature of America's religious landscape. According to a 2005 Gallup poll, 75 percent of Americans believe in some form of paranormal activity. The United States has had a collective fascination with the paranormal since the mid-1800s, and it remains an integral part of our culture. Haunted Ground: Journeys through a Paranormal America examines three of the most vibrant paranormal gatherings in the United States—Lily Dale, a Spiritualist summer camp; the Roswell UFO Festival; and the American Society of Dowsers' annual convention of "water witches"—to explore and explain the reasons for our obsession with the paranormal. Both academically informed and thoroughly entertaining, this book takes readers on a "road trip" through our nation, guided by professor of American religion Darryl V. Caterine, PhD. The author interprets seemingly unrelated case studies of phantasmagoria collectively as an integral part of the modern discourse about "nature" as ultimate reality. Along the way, Dr. Caterine reveals how Americans' interest in the paranormal is rooted in their anxieties about cultural, political, and economic instability—and in a historic sense of alienation and homelessness.

Book The Hunting Ground

Download or read book The Hunting Ground written by Cliff McNish and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Elliott and his brother, Ben, move into the old and crumbling Glebe House they don't expect to find themselves sharing it with ghosts. But soon sinister events are unfolding. An old diary reveals glimpses of the mansion's past - and of a terrible tragedy. A mysterious woman talks to the dead. And evil lurks in the East Wing - a hideous labyrinth of passageways devised by a truly twisted mind. Can Elliott and his family escape the clutches of Glebe House? Or will they be trapped in the maze of corridors, forever hunted by the dead? WINNER OF THE CALDERDALE AWARD 2013 WINNER OF THE HILLINGDON SECONDARY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013

Book Haunting Ground

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  • Author : Deborah J. Hughes
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-08-04
  • ISBN : 9781517401665
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Haunting Ground written by Deborah J. Hughes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While visiting friends in her old home town, Tess becomes involved with two puzzling paranormal mysteries. Of course, with her ability that is nothing new. Determined to solve them, she must also make time for the family of the man who killed her husband. Although she's been able to move on from the tragedy, they have not. The more she gets to know them, the more certain she becomes that there is more to their story than what they are telling her. Stranger still is the increase in paranormal phenomena. All of which tells her there is much more going on than troubled ghosts needing help and a family in turmoil. Answers to her growing pile of questions need to be solved and quick. The messages to "help him" are becoming more urgent and so are her feelings on the matter! There is more at stake here than settling past hurts and putting spirits to rest. But can she solve them in time to matter?

Book Golden   Grey  A Good Day for Haunting

Download or read book Golden Grey A Good Day for Haunting written by Louise Arnold and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his triumph over a ghost collector and a doctor who does no good, Tom Golden thinks life is finally...well, golden. Grey Arthur and his ghostly crew have happily settled into their roles as Invisible Friends while Tom has made a new human friend with Pick-Nose Pete. But when one friendly ghost is overly enthusiastic about his duties, the TV show Exceedingly Haunted Homes of England is called in to investigate. A hysterical fear of ghosts takes over the school, and the Invisible Friends are glad that they witness the chaos unheard and unseen. Too bad that the same cannot be said for the ghosts in the world beyond. The disappearance of the Crown Jewels in a rather Poltergeist-like manner is trouble enough, but a frightening specter caught on film and a knight seen charging through streets and pedestrians spell trouble. Restoration of the peace between the ghostly and human realms may be too much for one boy to handle, but Tom hopes that the help of Grey Arthur and the Invisible Friends may be just what he needs to track down the cause of this supernatural chaos. In this third installment to the Golden & Grey series, Louise Arnold takes the reader on an exciting adventure full of Laundry Runs, ancient castles, and the ever dark and dangerous woods.

Book The Judge

Download or read book The Judge written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Videogames and the Gothic

Download or read book Videogames and the Gothic written by Ewan Kirkland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the many ways Gothic literature and media have informed videogame design. Through a series of detailed case studies, Videogames and the Gothic illustrates the extent to which particular tropes of Gothic culture –neo-medieval aesthetics, secret-filled labyrinthine spaces, the sense of a dark past impacting upon the present – have been appropriated by and transformed within digital games. Moving beyond the study of the generic influences of horror on digital gaming, Ewan Kirkland focuses in on the Gothic, a less visceral mode tending towards the unsettling, the uncertain and the uncanny. He explores the extent to which imagery, storylines and narrative preoccupations taken from Gothic fiction facilitate the affordances and limitations of the videogame medium. A core contention of this book is that videogames have developed as an inherently Gothic form of popular entertainment. Arguing for close proximity between Gothic culture and the videogame medium itself, this book will be a key contribution to both Gothic and digital game scholarship; as such, it will have resonance with scholars and students in both areas, as well as those interested in Gothic novels, media and popular culture, digital games and interactive fiction.

Book Kentucky Happy Hunting Ground

Download or read book Kentucky Happy Hunting Ground written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Follow Me to Ground

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  • Author : Sue Rainsford
  • Publisher : Scribner
  • Release : 2020-01-21
  • ISBN : 1982133635
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Follow Me to Ground written by Sue Rainsford and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palm Beach Post, BuzzFeed, and LitHub’s Most Anticipated of 2020 A haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal—one that upends our understanding of power, predation, and agency. Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a village where they help sick locals—or “Cures”—by cracking open their damaged bodies or temporarily burying them in the reviving, dangerous Ground nearby. Ada, a being both more and less than human, is mostly uninterested in the Cures, until she meets a man named Samson. When they strike up an affair, to the displeasure of her father and Samson’s widowed, pregnant sister, Ada is torn between her old way of life and new possibilities with her lover—and eventually comes to a decision that will forever change Samson, the town, and the Ground itself. Follow Me to Ground is fascinating and frightening, urgent and propulsive. In Ada, award-winning author Sue Rainsford has created an utterly bewitching heroine, one who challenges conventional ideas of womanhood and the secrets of the body. Slim but authoritative, Follow Me to Ground lingers long after its final page, pulling the reader into a dream between fairy tale and nightmare, desire and delusion, folktale and warning.

Book The Summer Cottage

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  • Author : Annie Rains
  • Publisher : Forever
  • Release : 2021-05-25
  • ISBN : 1538703432
  • Pages : 479 pages

Download or read book The Summer Cottage written by Annie Rains and published by Forever. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This summer, they’ll learn that home is where the heart is. Somerset Lake is the perfect place for Trisha Langly and her son to start over. As the new manager for the Somerset Cottages, Trisha is instantly charmed by the property’s elderly residents and her firecracker of a new boss, Vi Fletcher. But Trisha is less enchanted by Vi’s protective grandson Jake. No matter how tempting she finds the handsome lawyer, Trisha knows that if Jake discovers the truth about her past, she’ll lose the new life she’s worked so hard to build. Jake Fletcher left Somerset Lake after a tragic loss, but he’s returning for the summer to care for his beloved grandmother, hoping Vi will sell the run-down cottages and finally slow down. There’s just one problem: Trisha, Vi’s new employee. She’s smart, beautiful, and kind, but Jake’s job is to protect his grandmother’s interests, and his gut is telling him Trisha’s hiding something that could jeopardize Vi’s future. However, as they spend summer days renovating the property and bonding over their love for the town, Jake realizes that Trisha is a risk worth taking—if only she can trust him with her secrets . . . and her heart. Includes the bonus novella Kiss Me in Sweetwater Springs!

Book Dangerous Families

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  • Author : Matt Bernstein Sycamore
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2012-11-12
  • ISBN : 1136572430
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Dangerous Families written by Matt Bernstein Sycamore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer survivors piece together the clues to discover their own lives! Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving goes beyond the recovery narrative to create a new queer literature of investigation, exploration, and transformation. Twenty-six stories illuminate the reality of growing up in fear, struggling to rebuild lives damaged by sexual, physical, and/or emotional abuse. The book explores how abuse turns queer survivors—male, female, and transgendered—into healers, heartbreakers, and homicidal maniacs, presenting brilliant stories that sear and soar. Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving addresses all forms of abuse head-on, representing a cross-section of queer survivors in terms of race, class, ethnicity, education, origin, sexuality, and gender. Contributors use their own life experiences to create a book that takes back control from well-meaning “outsiders,” as they recount the daily struggle to overcome the damage done to their minds, bodies, and spirits in a world that denies their gender, sexual, and social identities. From the editor: “Dangerous Families consists entirely of writing by survivors of childhood abuse. That's right—no therapists analyzing our plight, no talk-show hosts exploiting us—just survivors, exploring our complicated, frightening, and fulfilling lives. These stories dispense with the usual technique of carefully massaging the reader's fragile worldview before plunging this unsuspecting innocent into a world of horror. They go right to the horror, the beauty, and the joy, often throwing the reader off-guard, revealing layers of meaning before the reader can step back.” Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving is an anthology of 26 true stories of growing up queer in families that magnify the horrors of the outside world instead of offering protection. The book is an essential read for therapists, caseworkers, cultural studies specialists, and anyone struggling to survive childhood abuse.

Book Silence Fallen

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  • Author : Patricia Briggs
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2017-03-07
  • ISBN : 0698195817
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Silence Fallen written by Patricia Briggs and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the #1 New York Times bestselling Mercy Thompson novels, the coyote shapeshifter has found her voice in the werewolf pack. But when Mercy’s bond with the pack—and her mate—is broken, she’ll learn what it truly means to be alone... Attacked and abducted in her home territory, Mercy finds herself in the clutches of the most powerful vampire in the world, taken as a weapon to use against alpha werewolf Adam and the ruler of the Tri-Cities vampires. In coyote form, Mercy escapes—only to find herself without money, without clothing, and alone in the heart of Europe... Unable to contact Adam and the rest of the pack, Mercy has allies to find and enemies to fight, and she needs to figure out which is which. Ancient powers stir, and Mercy must be her agile best to avoid causing a war between vampires and werewolves, and between werewolves and werewolves. And in the heart of the ancient city of Prague, old ghosts rise...

Book Haunted Boston

Download or read book Haunted Boston written by Taryn Plumb and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among Massachusetts's many treasures is Boston, a city rich in culture and history. Haunted Boston, a collection of stories of ghosts, mysteries, and paranormal happenings in Beantown, will leave readers delightfully frightened.

Book Distressing Language

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  • Author : Michael Davidson
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2022-04-19
  • ISBN : 1479813842
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Distressing Language written by Michael Davidson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is about the role of disability and deafness in contemporary aesthetics and how physical and intellectual difference challenges generic terms for art and poetry. The book's title combines language that disturbs or causes anxiety with language that is ripped, worn, or damaged. This interplay brings together the social environment in which language is exchanged with the materiality of words that frustrate easy comprehension. Where hearing and speaking are considered normative conditions of the human, what happens when words are misheard and misspoken? How have writers and artists, both disabled and non-disabled, used error as generative elements in contesting the presumed value of "sounding good?" This book grows out of the author's experience of hearing loss in which misunderstandings have become a daily occurrence. Deafness becomes a guide in each chapter in considering how verbal confusions are less an aberration in understanding than a component of new knowledge"--