Download or read book The Magnificent Mask written by Janine Skeens and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Magnificent Mask was inspired by true events. Written during the height of the global pandemic, the book examines the world's changes through the lens of an inquisitive, playful, and resilient little girl named Jordan. The story follows Jordan and her mom as they run errands one day in the midst of the pandemic. Where Jordan's imagination takes her and her friends on a wild adventure. Where they must face their fears head on. The book addresses some of the challenges we may face with respects to our feelings, questions, and fears dealing with the uncertainty of a rapidly changing world.
Download or read book Magnificent Masks written by Sharon Parsons and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2000 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bookwise is a carefully graded reading scheme organized into five cross-curricular strands, encouraging links to other subjects. Comprising 16 fiction and ten non-fiction titles, the 25 books at each level span a two-year reading age and the three-tier levelling system within each level facilitates an accurate match of reading ability and text. The full-colour readers are accompanied by teacher's guides and resource sheets to help teachers get the most out of their guided reading and writing sessions.
Download or read book The Magnificent Bastards written by Wayne Kyle Spitzer and published by Hobb's End Books. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a single, sharp tap of the drums followed by a rapid succession of beats as the crushed velvet curtains spread and the audience gasped: for Tran had taken her position in the box and was even now being secured as Williams struck a gunfighter pose and his hand hovered next to his weapon. “Ladies and gentlemen, I think it goes without saying,” said the announcer over the speaker system, “Do not try this at home.” Williams relaxed his entire body even as his mind cycled through the calculations—altitude, the breeze, humidity, temperature, the curvature of the earth, the spinning of the earth … It was, like music, a largely mathematical proposition; a cold equation he’d had a gift for ever since he could remember, ever since he was a boy with a Daisy BB gun in the backyard of their southern California home. He focused on the knife blade as the balloons to each side of it warbled in the breeze. It was a funny thing, sharpshooting, so utterly unlike music, in that each time he did it he felt like he was doing it for the first time, felt like he was starting over from scratch. With music his fingers just automatically found the frets, just instantly knew where to begin and where to end; he never felt as though he were lost in a vortex of potentialities, never doubted his ability to perform. But sharpshooting was a different beast altogether. With sharpshooting he had to call on something outside of himself as well as from within—something which was not his to control. Something which either kissed him with its ghostly lips or turned away with perfect indifference—like love itself, he supposed. Or God. And then the drum taps stopped and he was alone with the breeze, and it was time to make the intuitive leap which would set the bullet in motion. And as he breathed out and drew his revolver and squeezed its trigger softer than he would a daisy, he knew, even before the crack! and the ka-chink! and the pop of the balloons, that the projectile had found its target. That it had found the slim blade and split like an atom—becoming two loaves rather than one—two soft but lethal slugs, which had spread like shrapnel in the Fresno heat and ruptured the red balloons—releasing their air in a vacuum-like rush and causing the audience to gasp and to cheer. And then his wife was there, having loosed her mock bonds and scrambled out of the tall wooden box (with its crushed velvet curtains and bulletproof glass), and she’d bowed to the audience before embracing him like the wind, and he had kissed her as he always did after completing their final act—when air raid sirens sounded and he looked at the sky, which had darkened with a storm front as fast-moving as it was inexplicable ...
Download or read book Diamond Mask written by Julian May and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st century was drawing to a close, and metapsychic humankind was poised at last to achieve Unity -- to be admitted into the group mind of the already unified alien races of the Galactic Milieu. But a growing corps of rebels was plotting to keep the people of Earth forever separate in the name of human individuality. And the rebels had a secret supporter: Fury, the insane metapsychic creatrue that would stop at nothing to claim humanity for itself. Fury's greatest enemy was the mutant genius Jack the Bodiless, whose power it craved. But Jack would never be a tool for Fury . . . And so it turned to Dorothea Macdonald, a young woman who had spent a lifetime hiding her towering mindpowers from the best mind readers of the Milieu. But she could not hide them from Fury -- or from Jack. Time and again she rejected their advances, unwilling to be drawn into the maelstrom of galactic politics or megalomaniacal dreams. And in the end, no one -- not Jack, not Fury, not even the Galactic Milieu -- would be a match for the awesome powers of the girl who would come to be called Diamond Mask . . .
Download or read book The Magnificent Strangers written by Brett Halsey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-08-09 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, greed, money and power are all in a days work for the American exiles in the film community in Rome. Unknowns can become stars overnight, while wealthy men lose fortunes, and sexual prowess is always a way to get ahead. Caught up in the explosive world of fame, glamour, money, drugs and orgies are wealthy businessmen, playboys, social climbers, gold-diggers, actors and actresses, movie moguls, agents, and more. Rex Starr is a handsome actor used to playing the hero, who doesnt believe in love. Ellen Watson is unhappy in her marriage to one of the worlds wealthiest men. Sandy Kantor is an agent who has seen everything and wishes to keep parts of his own past secret. Dick Wynters is a professional stud whose sexual ability is a ticket to success. All play and scheme in the swinging movie colony which makes up Rome, where they are all Magnificent Strangers.
Download or read book Mask of the Sun written by John Dvorak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Emily Dickinson, slave revolts, Babylonian Kings, and Monticello all have in common? A solar eclipse. Whether it was deciding on the location of a grand home (or castle), inspiring poetry, timing battles and revolts, or planning expeditions, eclipses have inspired fear and fascination. Solar eclipses allowed Ptolemy to determine the length of the Mediterranean and helped Einstein establish his General Theory of Relativity. Preliterate societies recorded eclipses on turtle shells found in "The Wastes of Yin" and on the Mayan "Dresden Codex." Eclipses were later instrumental in the creation of longitude and allowed Hubble to understand the expansion of the Universe (and disprove another theory of Einstein's in the process). John Dvorak, the acclaimed author of Earthquake Storms and The Last Volcano, examines this amazing phenomena and reveals the humanism behind the science. With insightful detail and vividly accessible prose, he provides explanations as to how and why eclipses occur—as well as insight into the eclipse of 2017, which was visible across North America.
Download or read book The Magnificent Lizzie Brown and the Mysterious Phantom written by Vicki Lockwood and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century London Lizzie Brown wants nothing more than to escape from the slums and her drunk, abusive father, so finding work and friends in a passing circus seems like a dream come true--but when she starts to have visions she finds herself confronting the mysterious phantom of London.
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Download or read book The Magnificent Book of Treasures Ancient Rome written by Stella Caldwell and published by Weldon Owen International. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step back in time 2,000 years to visit the powerful Roman Empire. Every page reveals a fabulous treasure and its unique story—from gladiator battles with lions; chariot races for vast cheering crowds; and mock naval ship battles in flooded auditoriums, to mythical tales of magic and monsters; gods and goddesses for every occasion; and wondrous feasts in fantastical gardens. Learn about Ancient Rome’s fast-food joints, the original multi-tool pocketknife, and how some escaped Pompeii’s legendary volcanic eruption. DOZENS OF ARTIFACTS: Learn about 36 iconic objects, from a gladiator’s sword to the original multi-tool pocketknife. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED: Vibrant, detailed images of the art, objects, people, and icons of Ancient Rome. FASCINATING FACTS: Includes hundreds of amazing facts about Ancient Roman treasures in an easy-to-read Layout that will enthrall amateur historians of all ages. CLASSROOM TO COFFEE TABLE: This beautiful volume is equally at home on a school bookshelf to support student learning as in a living room to be enjoyed by the whole family. COLLECT THE SERIES: More fascinating compendiums for all ages include The Magnificent Book of Treasures: Ancient Rome, The Magnificent Book of Horses, The Magnificent Book of Extinct Animals, The Magnificent Book of Birds, and more!
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Download or read book Radiance from the Waters written by Sylvia Ardyn Boone and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sande Society of the Mende people of Sierra Leone is a secret female regulatory society that both guards and transmits the ideals of feminine beauty so fundamental to the aesthetic criteria in Mende culture. In this eloquent and moving book, Sylvia Ardyn Boone describes the Society, its rituals and organization, and the mask worn by its members. Her book is an evocative account of Mende life and philosophy as well as a unique contribution to the study of African art, one based on African conceptions about the person and the human body. This is a beautiful and beautifully written book. ... Boone writes in ways that reveal her evident devotion to Mende culture.--John Picton, African Affairs A major contribution to our ethnographic understanding of Mende culture, and to understanding the way concepts of women's bodies encode cultural messages about gender relations.--E. Frances White, Women's Review of Books A respectful approach to [the mysteries of the Sande], by an art historian who has tiptoed where anthropologists feared to tread. Radiance from the Waters deserves to be read. ... It provides something more interesting than esoteric knowledge: an extended meditation on notions of beauty and decorum and the way in which these can be translated simultaneously into art and ... advancement for women.--John Ryle, London Review of Books The first text to illuminate the power of the feminine aesthetic in West African art.--Ms.
Download or read book The Adventures of Stunning Stephen Edwards as the Stunning Kid in the Time Traveling Marshals written by David Dorris and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First there was The Westside Kids meet The Small Fry followed by Stunning Stephen Edwards and The West Side Kids in The Invisible Man. If you like westerns, time travel and like to be entertained, you will like this ONE OF A KIND OF WESTERN THAT HAS A GREAT STORY. THIS BOOK IS AN EASY READ FOR ANY AGE that will make you laugh as you read along with the plots, twists and turns that will blind side you with the surprises. Now the gang goes back in time in The Adventures of Stunning Stephen Edwards as The Stunning Kid in The Time Traveling Marshals to Dodge City Kansas, 1880 to help Rex's great, great, great, grandfather, Marshal Allen. A new masked hero is introduced, known as The Stunning Kid. In this story there are many characters that are smart, fun, confused, stupid and dangerous that supply the action, adventure, surprises and comedy. This makes it a fun read for all as the gang fights The Dean Dickerson Gang who chase homesteaders off of their land to gain water rights, rustle cattle, rob stages and banks. As The Stunning Kid begins to interfere with The Dean Dickerson Gang's operations, The Dean Dickerson Gang comes up with a plan to get rid of The Stunning Kid. This is when The Stunning Kid calls on Rex, Columbo and The West Side Kids for help. THIS IS A MUST READ. So saddle up and ride with Stunning Stephen Edwards and the gang when they move back to 1880 with the 21st century knowledge and tools to regain law and order in the old west.
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Download or read book Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest written by Agnes Strickland and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
