Download or read book Mummies of the Motorway Scarborough Fair written by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time as an ebook pairing, these two short stories by author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough serve as an mystical introduction to her work. In MUMMIES OF THE MOTORWAY, a woman and her niece and nephew travel to an English resort where something ancient and bandaged awaits in the mist. SCARBOROUGH FAIR finds the author helping a woman reconnect with her past at the story’s namesake fair along the English seaside.
Download or read book Scarborough Fair written by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough and published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scarborough Fair and Other Stories includes ten works by the author of the Nebula Award–winning The Healer’s War and many other novels. In “Final Vows,” Mu Mao the Magnificent, the feline bodhisattva from Scarborough’s novel Last Refuge, helps guide a reincarnated cat in solving the mystery of his own betrayal and murder. “Whirlwinds” takes place on the Diné Trail of Tears, when the US military force-marched ninety-five hundred Navajo people from their ancient, sacred homeland to the barren Bosque Redondo area surrounding New Mexico’s Fort Sumner. A coveted princess packs on pounds when a disgruntled suitor casts an evil spell on her in “Worse Than the Curse.” How is a plump princess to cope? And “Long Time Coming Home,” cowritten with Scarborough’s fellow Vietnam veteran Rick Reaser, is a story of the battles and ghosts many vets face after returning from the war. These and other stories capably demonstrate Scarborough’s breadth of skill.
Download or read book The Godmother written by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough’s Godmother puts a new twist in contemporary fantasy with the assertion that fairy godmothers exist here and now, and they have magical power that allows them to intervene in real-world problems. What if someone wished for a fairy godmother would help the entire city of Seattle? An overworked, overstressed social worker named Rose Samson does just that when she makes an idle wish on a mustard seed. Felicity Fortune of Godmothers Anonymous shows up to help. Rose Samson is neither fashion model beautiful nor a twit, and she happily joins forces with Felicity Fortune, a “Godmother” who demonstrates that Grimm’s fairy tales are still relevant in our humdrum modern world. Fairy godmothers are on a magical budget, so every possible way they can get human beings or animals to assist one another, they will try, rather than using up their magical means. Felicity encounters many strangely familiar situations: a pretty stablehand named Cindy Ellis is mistreated by her cruel stepsisters. A rock star’s daughter, scared of the supermodel she married, runs away from home and encounters seven Vietnam veterans at an encounter session and retreat. One of them might be a big bad wolf, who knows? In all their encounters, Rose and Felicity try to blend their magical aid with realistic human initiative and social responsibility. Scarborough’s fully realized settings and the humor built into the mix of magical solutions and grim reality make this work an entertaining and compelling read.
Download or read book Song of Sorcery written by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portentous song sparks an unlikely adventure in this lighthearted contemporary fantasy by the Nebula Award–winning author of The Healer’s War. Colin Songsmith sings a song to an old witch who takes an unlikely revenge. The witch’s granddaughter rescues him from the dire threat of being eaten alive by the cat. She hears the song, which happens to concern her recently married sister and a gypsy. Convinced that she has to save her sister, she takes the minstrel, the cat, and her magical resources to Rowan Castle. The story is rich with descriptive details of setting and encounters with magical and fantastic creatures such as a talking cat, a lovesick dragon, and a bear prince. The characters speak in contemporary slang, which plays nicely against the traditional fantastic settings.
Download or read book Scarborough Fair and Other Stories written by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough and published by eReads.com. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scarborough Fair and Other Stories includes: "Introduction" "The Mummies of the Motorway," 2001 "Final Vows," 1998 "Whirlwinds," 1998 "Worse Than the Curse," 2000 "Boon Companion," 2002 "Long Time Coming Home," with Rick Reaser, 2002 "Mu Mao and the Court Oracle," 2001 "Don't Go Out in Holy Underwear or Victoria's Secret or Space Panties!!!," 1996 "The Invisible Woman's Clever Disguise," 2000 "A Rare Breed," 1995.
Download or read book Scarborough Fair written by Elizabeth Scarborough and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scarborough Fair and Other Stories includes: "Introduction" "The Mummies of the Motorway", 2001 "Final Vows", 1998 "Whirlwinds", 1998 "Worse Than the Curse", 2000 "Boon Companion", 2002 "Long Time Coming Home", with Rick Reaser, 2002 "Mu Mao and the Court Oracle", 2001 "Don¿t Go Out in Holy Underwear or Victoria¿s Secret or Space Panties!!!", 1996 "The Invisible Woman¿s Clever Disguise", 2000 "A Rare Breed", 1995.
Download or read book The Memorial History of Hartford County Connecticut 1633 1884 written by James Hammond Trumbull and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Simulacra and Simulation written by Jean Baudrillard and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.
Download or read book Our Week with the Juffle Hunters written by Richard Sugg and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katie and Dan Chatham start off having an ordinary bad day, and end up having one very good, very crazy week. What should be the first day back at school turns into a sudden trip to their Uncle Jake, out on the wild seal-splashed coast. Meanwhile, Mum is on a work mission she didn't exactly choose, which sends her... WHOOOSH! up to the North Pole. Go huskies! Go walrus! Go penguin and polar bear suits, and... FAR too much snow! Mum's company is Jumping Jackets. Once the Top Jacket Company in the Universe, it is suddenly being whupped real hard by the mysterious new Juffle Jackets - whose clothes are just spooky warm. How do they do it? Do they REALLY steal rare birds for their super-heated feathers?And... more importantly, who can save Mum? Well - soon enough, it starts to look like Mum's problem is also Katie and Dan's problem. As Uncle Jake explains, the juffles are some strange unlikely birds - but they DO actually exist. And someone is poaching them from this very coast. You may have heard, these days, about how Nature is a very sensitive thing. A thing being messed up pretty bad by human carelessness. Well, on the Juffmadoc coast, this is equally true. So, when the juffles are taken, the weather goes weird, the fish disappear, and the sunny fun holiday tumbles into one wild helter-skelter mission. Can Jake, Katie and Dan find the magical Seal Island? Do purnapples taste as good as they look? Can they stop the mean and nasty juffle hunters? Read on, if you dare. As Mum's arctic guide Joseph tells her at their darkest Arctic Hour: 'Nature always finds a way.'
Download or read book Spectrum Language Arts Grade 8 written by and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An understanding of language arts concepts is key to strong communication skills—the foundation of success across disciplines. Spectrum Language Arts for grade 8 provides focused practice and creative activities to help your child master sentence types, grammar, parts of speech, and vocabulary. This comprehensive workbook doesn’t stop with focused practice–it encourages children to explore their creative sides by challenging them with thought-provoking writing projects. Aligned to current state standards, Spectrum Language Arts for grade 8 includes an answer key and a supplemental Writer’s Guide to reinforce grammar and language arts concepts. With the help of Spectrum, your child will build the language arts skills necessary for a lifetime of success.
Download or read book Mummies Around the World written by Matt Cardin and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Please see the attached text file"--
Download or read book The Healer s War written by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough and published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1989 Nebula Award Award for Best Novel of 1988. “A brutal and beautiful book” that follows the surreal, fantastical journey of a Vietnam War nurse (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). A literary departure for acclaimed fantasy author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Healer’s War draws on her personal experience as an army nurse in Da Nang to create a classic novel of the Vietnam War, enriched with a magical, mystical twist. Lt. Kitty McCulley, a young and inexperienced nurse tossed into a stressful and chaotic situation, is having a difficult time reconciling her duty to help and heal with the indifference and overt racism of some of her colleagues, and with the horrendously damaged soldiers and Vietnamese civilians she encounters during her service at the China Beach medical facilities. She is unexpectedly helped by the mysterious and inexplicable properties of an amulet, given to her by one of her patients, an elderly, dying Vietnamese holy man, which allows her to see other people’s “auras” and to understand more about them as a result. This eventually leads to a strange, almost surrealistic journey through the jungle, accompanied by a one-legged boy and a battle-seasoned but crazed soldier—as McCulley struggles to find herself and a way to survive through the madness and destruction.
Download or read book A Theory of Intergenerational Justice written by Joerg Chet Tremmel and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly accessible book provides an extensive and comprehensive overview of current research and theory about why and how we should protect future generations. It exposes how and why the interests of people today and those of future generations are often in conflict and what can be done. It rebuts critical concepts such as Parfits' non-identity paradox and Beckerman's denial of any possibility of intergenerational justice. The core of the book is the lucid application of a veil of ignorance to derive principles of intergenerational justice which show that our duties to posterity are stronger than is often supposed. Tremmel's approach demands that each generation both consider and improve the well-being of future generations. To measure the well-being of future generations Tremmel employs the Human Development Index rather than the metrics of utilitarian subjective happiness. The book thus answers in detailed, concrete terms the two most important questions of every theory of intergenerational justice: what to sustain? and how much to sustain?
Download or read book Structures written by J E Gordon and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1991-09-26 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The New Science of Strong Materials" the author made plain the secrets of materials science. In this volume he explains the importance and properties of different structures.
Download or read book The Dawn of Astronomy written by J. Norman Lockyer and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2006-04-28 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneer in the fields of astrophysics and astro-archeology, J. Norman Lockyer believed that ancient Egyptian monuments were constructed "in strict relation to the stars." In this celebrated study, he explores the relationship between astronomy and architecture in the age of the pharaohs. Lockyer addresses one of the many points already extensively investigated by Egyptologists: the chronology of the kings of Egypt. All experts are in accord regarding the identity of the first monarch, but they cannot agree upon the dates of his reign within a thousand years. The author contends that by applying a knowledge of astronomy to the actual site orientation of the region's pyramids and temples, accurate dating can be achieved. In order to accomplish this, Lockyer had to determine the level of the ancient Egyptian ideas of astronomy. Some of his inferences have been invalidated by subsequent scholarship, but many of his other conclusions stand firm and continue to provide sensational leads into contemporary understanding of archaic astronomy.
Download or read book Anthony Adverse written by Hervey Allen and published by Henry Holt. This book was released on 1960 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Adverse, an orphan, travels throughout the world as he looks for adventure.
Download or read book Omnia Sunt Communia written by Doctor Massimo De Angelis and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this weaving of radical political economy, Omnia Sunt Communia sets out the steps to postcapitalism. By conceptualising the commons not just as common goods but as a set of social systems, Massimo De Angelis shows their pervasive presence in everyday life, mapping out a strategy for total social transformation. From the micro to the macro, De Angelis unveils the commons as fields of power relations – shared space, objects, subjects – that explode the limits of daily life under capitalism. He exposes attempts to co-opt the commons, through the use of code words such as 'participation' and 'governance', and reveals the potential for radical transformation rooted in the reproduction of our communities, of life, of work and of society as a whole.
