Download or read book The Snowman s Revenge written by Mark Smythe and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A snowman left out in the cold by himself is out for revenge, especially after he sees kids in the nice warm house, eating cookies, and drinking hot chocolate. This delightful story flows with rhymed verse, and is beautifully illustrated.

Download or read book All I Want for Christmas Is Revenge written by Rachel Rees and published by Fiction Engine. This book was released on 2023-12-20 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When veteran game developers, Sarah and Greg, are unexpectedly laid off right before the holidays, their Christmas cheer suffers a serious debuff. Reeling from the loss, they stumble upon the mysterious Billy Gruffs bar, unaware of the dark forces at play behind its facade. Whilst deep in their cups, they learn the callous venture capitalist responsible for closing their game studio is vacationing in Norway’s winter wonderland, and revenge starts sounding awfully sweet. Goaded into action by the mysterious barman, Sarah and Greg take inspiration from their video game heroine, Karina Fae. Armed with her ruthless tactics, the duo sets out on a clandestine Nordic quest to deliver some old school justice. But can this worldbuilding duo manufacture a real-world takedown? Or will their imperfect scheming snowball into an epic failure? Find out in this dark Christmas tale about losing it all and bravely charging on. All I Want for Christmas Is Revenge is a cheeky, fresh twist on a holiday story as old as time. Wrap yourself up in this fast-paced adventure set amidst the cosy lights of a Scandinavian Christmas.

Download or read book The History of the Snowman written by Bob Eckstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who made the first snowman? Who first came up with the idea of placing snowballs on top of each other, and who decided they would use a carrot for a nose? Most puzzling of all: How can this mystery ever be solved, with all the evidence long since melted? The snowman appears everywhere on practically everything -- from knickknacks to greeting cards to seasonal sweaters we plan to return. Whenever we see big snowballs our first impulse is to deck them out with a top hat. Humorist and writer Bob Eckstein has long been fascinated by this ubiquitous symbol of wintertime fun -- and finally, for the first time, one of the world's most popular icons gets his due. A thoroughly entertaining exploration, The History of the Snowman travels back in time to shed light on the snowman's enigmatic past -- from the present day, in which the snowman reigns as the King of Kitsch, to the Dark Ages, with the creation of the very first snowman. Eckstein's curiosity began playfully enough, but soon snowballed into a (mostly) earnest quest of chasing Frosty around the world, into museums and libraries, and seeking out the advice of leading historians and scholars. The result is a riveting history that reaches back through centuries and across cultures -- sweeping from fifteenth-century Italian snowballs to eighteenth-century Russian ice sculptures to the regrettable "white-trash years" (1975-2000). The snowman is not just part of our childhood memories, but is an integral part of our world culture, appearing -- much like a frozen Forrest Gump -- alongside dignitaries and celebrities during momentous events. Again and again, the snowman pops up in rare prints, paintings, early movies, advertising and, over the past century, in every art form imaginable. And the jolly snowman -- ostensibly as pure as the driven snow -- also harbors a dark past full of political intrigue, sex, and violence. With more than two hundred illustrations and a special section of the best snowman cartoons, The History of the Snowman is a truly original winter classic -- smart, surprisingly enlightening, and quite simply the coolest book ever.

Download or read book Flury Journey of a Snowman written by Tony Bertauski and published by DeadPixel Publications. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life hasn’t been kind to Oliver Toye. As if juvenile diabetes isn’t enough, he’s forced to live with his tyrannical grandmother in a snow-bound house. He spends his days doing chores and the nights listening to the forest rumble. But when he discovers the first leather-bound journal, the family secrets begin to surface. The mystery of his great-grandfather’s voyage to the North Pole is revealed. That’s when the snowman appears. Magical and mysterious, the snowman will save Oliver more than once. But when the time comes for Oliver to discover the truth, will he have the courage? When Flury needs him, will he have the strength? When believing isn’t enough, will he save the snowman from melting away? Because sometimes even magic needs a little help. INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR Where did you come up with the idea of writing science fiction for holiday characters? My nephew mentioned the “secret Santa ninja elves” that visit his school during Christmas, and this spawned the idea of writing a semi-serious sci-fi version of Santa. How the ideas flesh out is a long process. I started keep track of how the story arc of my latest novel evolves, just to remember where it began. It’s all over the place. I love the challenge of bringing a story to light, letting the characters get in my head and telling me where to go. Flury: Journey of a Snowman is the third book in the Claus series. It was originally Frosty the Snowman, but Frosty is copyrighted. It didn’t matter, really. The character was better suited to be something other than Frosty. Flury is a bit more serious. . Are you getting any backlash for rewriting these Christmas legends? Not at all. In fact, a lot of readers have connected to all the unanswered questions surround them, especially Santa Claus. How does he go around the world in a night? Why is he fat? Why does he live on the North Pole? How do reindeer fly? How does he carry all those presents? All of them answered with the magic wand of science fiction… I mean, the science wand of science fiction. The stories still have the fantasy element, of course. Some leaps of imagination. And also the romance angle. Why? Because all stories have love. . What is your favorite character from the books that you have written? Socket Greeny is one of my favorites. That science fiction trilogy was my first story. I wrote it in first person and really connected with him. However, Jack Frost is in Claus (Legend of the Fat Man) and Jack (The Tale of Frost) and has become my all-time fave. He’s childish, irreverent and dangerous, but at the same time lovable. . What order should readers purchase the Claus books? Claus: Legend of the Fat Man is the best start. After that, any order works. They all can be read as standalone novels.

Download or read book The Falcon and the Snowman written by Robert Lindsey and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating account of how two young Americans turned traitor during the Cold War is an “absolutely smashing real-life spy story” (The New York Times Book Review). At the height of the Cold War, some of the nation’s most precious secrets passed through a CIA contractor in Southern California. Only a handful of employees were cleared to handle the intelligence that came through the Black Vault. One of them was Christopher John Boyce, a hard-partying genius with a sky-high IQ, a passion for falconry, and little love for his country. Security at the Vault was so lax, Boyce couldn’t help but be tempted. And when he gave in, the fate of the free world would hang in the balance. With the help of his best friend, Andrew Daulton Lee, a drug dealer with connections south of the border, Boyce began stealing classified documents and selling them to the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. It was an audacious act of treason, committed by two spoiled young men who were nearly always drunk, stoned, or both—and were about to find themselves caught in the middle of a fight between the CIA and the KGB. This Edgar Award–winning book was the inspiration for the critically acclaimed film starring Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn—a true story as thrilling as any dreamed up by Ian Fleming or John le Carré. Before Edward Snowden, there were Boyce and Lee, two of the most unlikely spies in the history of the Cold War.

Download or read book The Illustrated History of the Snowman written by Bob Eckstein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoroughly entertaining exploration, this book travels back in time to shed light on the snowman's enigmatic past -- from the present day, in which the snowman reigns as the King of Kitsch, to the Dark Ages, with the creation of the very first snowman. Eckstein's curiosity began playfully enough, but soon snowballed into a (mostly) earnest quest of chasing Frosty around the world, into museums and libraries, and seeking out the advice of leading historians and scholars. The result is a riveting history that reaches back through centuries and across cultures -- sweeping from fifteenth-century Italian snowballs to eighteenth-century Russian ice sculptures to the regrettable "white-trash years" (1975-2000). The snowman is not just part of our childhood memories, but is an integral part of our world culture, appearing -- much like a frozen Forrest Gump -- alongside dignitaries and celebrities during momentous events. Again and again, the snowman pops up in rare prints, paintings, early movies, advertising and, over the past century, in every art form imaginable. And the jolly snowman -- ostensibly as pure as the driven snow -- also harbors a dark past full of political intrigue, sex, and violence. With over two hundred illustrations, The Illustrated History of the Snowman is a truly original winter classic -- smart, surprisingly enlightening, and quite simply the coolest book ever.

Download or read book Scoundrels Jig written by J. S. Volpe and published by J. S. Volpe. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A darkly comic novel set in the world of Eridia. When a dying man staggers into a crowded underworld tavern and tells the assorted desperate characters gathered inside that there’s a huge block of gold hidden in a remote canyon half a day’s journey west, it sets off the craziest, bloodiest treasure hunt Eridia has ever seen. Among the many crooks, scum, losers, and fools vying for this priceless prize are Bastard Jack, the biggest, baddest, and probably hairiest bandit in the land; Kirby and Blunt, small-time thieves whose schemes always backfire; John Grommet, a timid scribe in need of money to save his dying mother; Gaspard and Merizen, lusty con-artists who find the thought of all that gold stimulating enough to necessitate the occasional time-out for a quickie; the Yellow Pawns, a trio of nihilistic cultists who want the treasure to further their apocalyptic agenda; Illyana and Luornu, young barmaids who dream of a life free from the pawing hands of drunken idiots; and then there’s…Ludwig van Beethoven? In their mad scramble to get the gold the various competitors must contend not only with each other but also with a team of local constables, a race of monster-people called the gorgim, a peevish dryad, a killer robot, and a gibberish-spouting, pistol-toting serial killer in a plastic snowman mask. And if they think that stuff’s bad, wait till they find out what’s in store for them when they actually reach the gold…

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1985-04-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Download or read book Bitter Fruit written by Keith Gordon Ford and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No church founder or planter likely intends to start a church with the stated goal of allowing abuse or abusing those within it. Yet sadly and too often, even in the best of churches abuse does occur. The bitter fruit of abuse does not appear from nowhere. Its origins, the soil in which it grows, and the structures that support it need be understood if we are to eradicate this fruit from within our churches and Christian organizations. Bitter Fruit: Dysfunction and Abuse in the Local Church describes those psychologies, social psychologies, and inadequate theologies that are frequently true in churches that enable abuse, regardless of the form the abuse may take. It is vital that you understand these things if you are a pastor, leader, or lay person seeking to maintain a healthy church environment.

Download or read book The Law of Revenge written by Theresa Collins and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alma Bashears had fled Contrary, Kentucky, severing her Appalachian roots, to forget a brutal gang rape. Now she's a savvy attorney at a prestigious San Francisco law firm. When Alma's brother is charged with murder, she discovers that the prosecutor is the boy responsible for her rape. And a "white-trash hollow girl" is about to dispense a little country justice. Films rights have been sold to Warner Television Production.

Download or read book London Rising written by Leo Hollis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the middle of the seventeenth century, London was on the verge of collapse. Its ancient infrastructure could no longer support its explosive growth; the English Civil War had torn society apart; and in 1665 the capital was struck by a plague that claimed 100,000 lives. And then, the following year, the Great Fire destroyed huge swaths of the city. As Leo Hollis recounts in his stirring history of the period, modern London was born out of this crucible. Among the catalysts for this rebirth were five extraordinary men, each deeply influenced by the Civil War, whose intersecting lives form the heart of London Rising: famed philosopher John Locke, whose ideas about the individual would outline a new theory of civil society based on natural rights; diarist John Evelyn, who insightfully chronicled the tumult and transformation before him; the polymathic scientist and architect Robert Hooke; developer Nicholas Barbon, who rebuilt much of the city after the fire; and Christoper Wren, astronomer, geometer, and the greatest English architect of his time, whose reconstruction of St. Paul's Cathedral was the essential symbol of London's rebirth. The city today is in great part the result of the myriad advances in literature, planning, science, and social issues forged by these five. Hollis paints a vibrant portrait of one of the world's greatest cities, and of a generation of men whose impact on London is unmatched.

Download or read book The Phoenix written by Leo Hollis and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A tour de force of biography, history, politics, philosophy and experimental science' ECONOMIST The remarkable and inspiring story of how London was transformed after the Great Fire of 1666 into the most powerful city in the world, and the men who were responsible for that achievement. 'Wonderfully rich and informative ... a rare achievement' Tom Holland 'Fascinating' Lucy Moore 'An ingenious and fluent overview of extraordinary men at an extraordinary moment, with St Paul's standing as its symbolic heart' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Opening in the 1640s, as the city was gripped in tumult leading up to the English Civil War, THE PHOENIX charts the lives and works of five extraordinary men, who would grow up in the chaos of a world turned upside down: the architect, Sir Christopher Wren; gardener and virtuosi, John Evelyn; the scientist, Robert Hooke; the radical philosopher, John Locke and the builder, Nicholas Barbon. At the heart of the story is the rebuilding of London's iconic cathedral, St Paul's. Interweaving science, architecture, history and philosophy, THE PHOENIX tells the story of the formation of the first modern city.

Download or read book Beware The Snowman Goosebumps 51 written by R. L. Stine and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaclyn used to live with her aunt Greta in Chicago. But not anymore. They've moved to a place called Sherpia. It's a tiny village on the edge of the Arctic Circle.Jaclyn can't believe she's stuck out in Nowheresville. No movie theaters. No malls. No nothing. Plus, there's something really odd about the village.At night there are strange howling noises. And in front of every house there's a snowman. A creppy snowman with a red scarf. A deep scar on his face. And a really evil smile...

Download or read book The Abominable Snowman written by Paul E. Foster and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Abominable Snowman introduces readers to Joe Cooper and Digby Wilson, two former police officers now working as private enquiry agents. The story begins when media magnate Donald Ridgeway approaches them to help him find his lost greatgrandson. While most people view Ridgeway as a rich man with no children, he reveals that he was married to a European woman named Anna long before he came to Australia. He got separated from her during the turmoil of events in Eastern Europe at the end of World War II. It turns out that Anna gave birth to a girl six months after their marriage. Their daughter later married an East German and together, with a child of their own, they tried to escape to the West. In the attempt the husband was killed but his daughter and granddaughter were successful. They continued to live in West Berlin and his granddaughter married and gave birth to two children. One of them, Ridgeway’s greatgrandson Matthew, has gone missing, and the millionaire could do nothing to find him. Can Joe and Digby help Ridgeway find him? Only time can tell.

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Download or read book Biscotti and Brutality written by Wendy Meadows and published by Majestic Owl Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bethany thought she could outrun murder and vacation in a cozy autumn town in Vermont. After moving to small-town Snow Falls Alaska, Bethany quickly learns that murder seems to be stalking her. So at the advice of her good friend, Sarah Spencer, Bethany takes Julie Walsh and they go on vacation in Vermont. Their bed and breakfast, owned by two comedians, is perfect… until a vicious murder takes place. Thrown into the heart of a murder case, she begins to unravel clues while realizing that the Snowman that chased her is now after her friend Sarah. Torn between two places and two murderers, Sarah finds herself in a precarious position; protect a killer, or become his next victim. But he’s not the only stone-cold killer lurking in the chilly autumn wind. Even if Bethany makes all the right choices, she might not survive her trip to Vermont—the snowman might finally exact his revenge.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction written by Don D'Ammassa and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction provides comprehensive coverage of the major authors and works in these popular genres. Each entry includes a brief discussion of the author's life and work and includes a full bibliography. Each entry on