Download or read book Sundays with Vlad written by Paul Bibeau and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Dracula as a cultural icon, describing his transformation from a fictional character in Bram Stoker's novel to a figure that has pervaded popular culture.
Download or read book The Winds of Wharhalen written by Tom Nelson and published by Multi-Media Publications Inc.. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locke Thomason leaves his homeland in the mountains after a series of personal tragedies and travels south into Killarassee. He meets a pretty young peasant girl who is in the service of a cruel nobleman and seeks to buy her freedom. The treacherous noble takes Locke's gold and has him sold into slavery. Fueled by anger and sustained by his hatred of this man, Locke survives a virtual death sentence in the stone quarries. He then begins an odyssey that will take him through two campaigns with the Queen's army, and sees him rise through the ranks to become a knight. Against a backdrop of medieval warfare, The Winds of Wharhalen is a tale of adventure, romance, treachery, and revenge.
Download or read book Vampires Today written by Joseph P. Laycock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, about real vampires and the communities they have formed, explores the modern world of vampirism in all its amazing variety. Long before Dracula, people were fascinated by vampires. The interest has continued in more recent times with Anne Rice's Lestat novels, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the HBO series True Blood, and the immensely popular Twilight. But vampires are not just the stuff of folklore and fiction. Based upon extensive interviews with members of the Atlanta Vampire Alliance and others within vampire communities throughout the United States, this fascinating book looks at the details of real vampire life and the many expressions of vampirism as it now exists. In Vampires Today: The Truth about Modern Vampirism, Joseph Laycock argues that today's vampires are best understood as an identity group, and that vampirism has caused a profound change in how individuals choose to define themselves. As vampires come "out of the coffin," as followers of a "religion" or "lifestyle" or as people biologically distinct from other humans, their confrontation with mainstream society will raise questions, as it does here, about how we define "normal" and what it means to be human.
Download or read book Cowboy Boyd and Mighty Calliope written by Lisa Moser and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cowboy and his trusty rhinocerous try to prove themselves at the Double R Ranch, where the Slim, Hardtack, and Rancher Rose doubt Calliope's potential, but Boyd believes in her.
Download or read book The Vampire Almanac written by J. Gordon Melton and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grab a stake, a fistful of garlic, a crucifix and holy water as you enter the dark, blood-curdling world of the original pain in the neck in this ultimate collection of vampire facts, fangs, and fiction! What accounts for the undying fascination people have for vampires? How did encounters with death create centuries-old myths and folklore in virtually every culture in the world? When did the early literary vampires—as pictured by Goethe, Coleridge, Shelly, Polidori, Byron, and Nodier as the personifications of man’s darker side—transform from villains into today’s cultural rebels? Showing how vampire-like creatures organically formed in virtually every part of the world, The Vampire Almanac: The Complete History by renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, Ph.D., examines the historic, societal, and psychological role the vampire has played—and continues to play—in understanding death, man’s deepest desires, and human pathologies. It analyzes humanity’s lusts, fears, and longing for power and the forbidden! Today, the vampire serves as a powerful symbol for the darker parts of the human condition, touching on death, immortality, forbidden sexuality, sexual power and surrender, intimacy, alienation, rebellion, violence, and a fascination with the mysterious. The vampire is often portrayed as a symbolic leader advocating an outrageous alternative to the demands of conformity. Vampires can also be tools for scapegoating such as when women are called “vamps” and bosses are described as “bloodsuckers.” Meet all of the villains, anti-heroes, and heroes of myths, legends, books, films, and television series across cultures and today’s pop culture in The Vampire Almanac. It assembles and analyzes hundreds of vampiric characters, people, and creatures, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vlad the Impaler, Edward Cullen and The Twilight Saga, Bram Stoker, Lestat De Lioncourt and The Vampire Chronicles, Lon Chaney, True Blood, Bela Lugosi, Dracula, Dark Shadows, Lilith, Vampire Weekend, Batman, Nosferatu, and so many more. There is a lot to sink your teeth into with this deep exhumation of the undead. Quench your thirst for facts, histories, biographies, definitions, analysis, immortality, and more! This gruesomely thorough book of vampire facts also has a helpful bibliography, an extensive index, and numerous photos, adding to its usefulness.
Download or read book Nature View written by Sebastiaan Bedaux and published by Lannoo Publishers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether lakes, deserts or forest, nature is often a holiday destination, but not every nature traveller wants to camp or stay in cheap hotels. This book is for the discerning traveller who wants to stay in style and enjoy nature at the same time. Here are 50 of the most stylish homes, settled in spectacular landscapes from around the world. And each is available for holiday rental. AUTHOR: Sebastiaan Bedaux works as a freelance lifestyle and travel journalist for several renowned Belgian magazines and newspapers. For the past ten years he has been travelling the world and writing about his holiday experiences on his travel blog, ambassador.land, which has won several awards. SELLING POINTS: * 50 stylish hidden gems in the middle of nature, each one rentable * Companion to Mountain View (ISBN: 9789401447607) and Ocean View (ISBN: 9789401446150) * Includes all the important contact information for each destination 250 colour images
Download or read book The Seventh Etching written by Judith K. White and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historic family drama based in and near 1640 Amsterdam, the wealthiest city on earth at the time, The Seventh Etching tells the story of two families over a one-year period. Both Griet and Johannes Verhoeven, farmers, in their early 20s and Jos and Myriam Broekhof, wealthy merchants in their 30s, face devastating losses that threaten their livelihoods and their marriages. After a major flood, Griet and Johannes attempt to rebuild two combined family farms a unique, promising inheritance that initially brought them together, but now overwhelms them. Myriam secretly sells her husbands valuable art collection to build a hidden monument to her deceased daughter. Jos suffers despair and defeat as he combs every corner of the city in his obsessive attempt to complete a set of playfully erotic etchings. It is a six-year old Gypsy orphan, Nelleke, who connects the two couples. Sprightly and spirited, Nelleke both delights and exasperates. Might this mysterious child have the power to heal struggling adults and find the permanent home she seeks? Does she, innocently and unknowingly, hold the clue to the missing etching, as Jos suspects?
Download or read book Defying Hitler written by Sebastian Haffner and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defying Hitler was written in 1939 and focuses on the year 1933, when, as Hitler assumed power, its author was a 25-year-old German law student, in training to join the German courts as a junior administrator. His book tries to answer two questions people have been asking since the end of World War II: “How were the Nazis possible?” and “Why did no one stop them?” Sebastian Haffner’s vivid first-person account, written in real time and only much later discovered by his son, makes the rise of the Nazis psychologically comprehensible. “An astonishing memoir... [a] masterpiece.” — Gabriel Schoenfeld, The New York Times Book Review “A short, stabbing, brilliant book... It is important, first, as evidence of what one intelligent German knew in the 1930s about the unspeakable nature of Nazism, at a time when the overwhelming majority of his countrymen claim to have know nothing at all. And, second, for its rare capacity to reawaken anger about those who made the Nazis possible.” — Max Hastings, The Sunday Telegraph “Defying Hitler communicates one of the most profound and absolute feelings of exile that any writer has gotten between covers.” — Charles Taylor, Salon “Sebastian Haffner was Germany’s political conscience, but it is only now that we can read how he experienced the Nazi terror himself — that is a memoir of frightening relevance today.” — Heinrich Jaenicke, Stern “The prophetic insights of a fairly young man... help us understand the plight, as Haffner refers to it, of the non-Nazi German.” — The Denver Post “Sebastian Haffner’s Defying Hitler is a most brilliant and imaginative book — one of the most important books we have ever published.” — Lord Weidenfeld
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Download or read book Strewn Love written by Dr.Dibyendu Pal and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man and woman have to face many things initially in their life, such as the first day in school, the pleasant memory of the first day of the tour with their parents, relishing the first day of friendship, sweet memory of the first day of love. When a lover and his lady-love think about their first love, the sense-perception that originates within their inner self can’t be expressed in words. This memory of first love might have evolved even at the fag-end of life. An individual might have fallen in love many times, but first love is special. A lover can’t forget the thrill of the very sensitive first touch, bartering of infatuating looks, bewitches the relishing of a first kiss. The first love came in the life of Shubhro. Due to some unnatural reasons, his sweetheart, Chandralekha, lost her life forever. Frustrated Shubhro ran about distractedly from place to place bearing the memoir of his first love. Facing some distracted love in his life, he escaped to some distant regions. Will he be able to find peace of mind?
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Download or read book Traitor s Blade written by Sebastien de Castell and published by Jo Fletcher Books. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With swashbuckling action that recalls Dumas's Three Musketeers, Sebastien de Castell has created a dynamic new fantasy series. In Traitor's Blade, a disgraced swordsman struggles to redeem himself by protecting a young girl caught in the web of a royal conspiracy. The King is dead, the Greatcoats have been disbanded, and Falcio Val Mond and his fellow magistrates Kest and Brasti have been reduced to working as bodyguards for a nobleman who refuses to pay them. Things could be worse, of course. Their employer could be lying dead on the floor while they are forced to watch the killer plant evidence framing them for the murder. Oh wait, that's exactly what's happening. Now a royal conspiracy is about to unfold in the most corrupt city in the world. A carefully orchestrated series of murders that began with the overthrow of an idealistic young king will end with the death of an orphaned girl and the ruin of everything that Falcio, Kest, and Brasti have fought for. But if the trio want to foil the conspiracy, save the girl, and reunite the Greatcoats, they'll have to do it with nothing but the tattered coats on their backs and the swords in their hands, because these days every noble is a tyrant, every knight is a thug, and the only thing you can really trust is a traitor's blade.
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Download or read book The Ancient Domestic Edifices of Bruges written by Charles Verschelde and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-18 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
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