Download or read book Tom Derringer the Electrical Empire written by Lawrence Watt-Evans and published by Misenchanted Press. This book was released on 2022-12-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Aloysius Vanderhart has been kidnapped, and his daughter has asked young adventurer Tom Derringer to find him and bring him home. Other scientists and adventurers have also gone missing. Who took them, and why? The search for those answers plunges Tom into new adventures -- and into the heart of a mad millionaire's electrical empire!
Download or read book Shining Steel written by Lawrence Watt-Evans and published by Misenchanted Press. This book was released on 2023-03-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Godsworld was settled by Christian fundamentalists who sought to escape the sinful Earth. They were certain Earth was doomed, and spent a century in suspended animation to reach their new home. But Earth survived, and now the heathens have found them. John Mercy-of-Christ is leading the resistance to the invasion -- but the heathens have far more powerful technology than the Godsworlders.
Download or read book Denner s Wreck written by Lawrence Watt-Evans and published by Misenchanted Press. This book was released on 2023-03-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lost colony planet Denner's Wreck was found by a group of immortal, high-tech tourists who decided it would be fun to hang around for a few centuries playing at being gods for the low-tech descendants of the original colonists. One of the Powers, Geste the Trickster, played a prank on a mere mortal, Bredon the Hunter, and Bredon didn't let it go. He held Geste to account, and found himself caught up in the affairs of the immortal Powers -- one of whom is a murderous psychopath...
Download or read book Celestial Debris written by Lawrence Watt-Evans and published by Misenchanted Press. This book was released on 2023-03-04 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty stories by Hugo-winning author Lawrence Watt-Evans, spanning the cosmos from spaceships to unicorns.
Download or read book Among the Powers written by Lawrence Watt-Evans and published by Misenchanted Press. This book was released on 2023-03-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lost colony planet Denner's Wreck was found by a group of immortal, high-tech tourists who decided it would be fun to hang around for a few centuries playing at being gods for the low-tech descendants of the original colonists. One of the Powers, Geste the Trickster, played a prank on a mere mortal, Bredon the Hunter, and Bredon didn't let it go. He held Geste to account, and found himself caught up in the affairs of the immortal Powers -- one of whom is a murderous psychopath...
Download or read book Nightside City written by Lawrence Watt-Evans and published by Misenchanted Press. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlisle Hsing is a down-on-her-luck detective in Nightside City, a resort town on the planet Epimetheus that's going to be uninhabitable in twenty years -- so why is someone buying up soon-to-be-worthless real estate? A group of squatters hire Hsing to find out.
Download or read book Realms of Light written by Lawrence Watt-Evans and published by Misenchanted Press. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing could get Carlisle Hsing back to Nightside City -- except money, family, and blackmail.
Download or read book The Misenchanted Sword written by Lawrence Watt-Evans and published by Wildside Press. This book was released on 2024-06-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old wizard wasn't exactly happy with Valder, who'd led his enemy to his hut. Now hut and magical supplies were destroyed. But he'd promised the young scout a magic sword to get him safely back to his own lines -- and a much-enchanted sword Valder would get! The resulting sword gave perfect protection -- sometimes! It could kill any man -- or even half demon. In fact, once drawn, it had to kill before it could be put down or sheathed. Army wizards told Valder that the sword would keep him alive until he'd drawn it 100 times; then it would kill him! It wouldn't prevent his being wounded, maimed or cut to pieces, but it wouldn't let him die. If his new job as Chief Assassin for the army didn't make him use up the spell, he'd be practically immortal. Not bad, it seemed. There had to be a catch somewhere. There was -- and it was a lulu!
Download or read book Tom Derringer and the Steam Powered Saurians written by Lawrence Watt-Evans and published by Adventures of Tom Derringe. This book was released on 2020-10-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1884 the "Bone Wars" between rival paleontologists were in full swing, driving fossil hunters to outrageous lengths in pursuit of the latest finds, when reports came out of the Wasatch Mountains in the Utah Territory of the most amazing discovery yet. An adventurer went into the mountains to investigate - and he didn't come back.Fresh from his adventures in the tunnels under Los Angeles, Tom Derringer is hired to find the missing man. With his assistant Betsy Vanderhart he sets out into the wilderness, where he finds more than he bargained for...
Download or read book Shining Steel written by Lawrence Watt-Evans and published by Foxacre Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Mercy-of-Christ's soldiers ran up against weapons like none they had ever seen before, John's campaign to defeat the enemies of The True Word and Flesh came to a sudden halt. Once guns that could only come from Old Earth arrived, the doctrinal differences between his sect and the Chosen of the Holy Ghost had to be put to one side-for what other abominations might be in store? If the starships of Earth were to battle the swords of Godsworld, John was ready for that war. But what he wasn't ready for was just how much the new war was going to change him.
Download or read book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil written by John Berendt and published by Random House. This book was released on 1994-01-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.
Download or read book Hollywood Genres Formulas Filmmaking and The Studio System written by Thomas Schatz and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages. This book was released on 1981-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central thesis of this book is that a genre approach provides the most effective means for understanding, analyzing and appreciating the Hollywood cinema. Taking into account not only the formal and aesthetic aspects of feature filmmaking, but various other cultural aspects as well, the genre approach treats movie production as a dynamic process of exchange between the film industry and its audience. This process, embodied by the Hollywood studio system, has been sustained primarily through genres, those popular narrative formulas like the Western, musical and gangster film, which have dominated the screen arts throughout this century.
Download or read book A 10s Over Kosovo written by Phil M. Haun and published by www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK. This book was released on 2011 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003. The NATO-led Operation Allied Force was fought in 1999 to stop Serb atrocities against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. This war, as noted by the distinguished military historian John Keegan, "marked a real turning point . . . and proved that a war can be won by airpower alone." Colonels Haave and Haun have organized firsthand accounts of some of the people who provided that airpower-the members of the 40th Expeditionary Operations Group. Their descriptions-a new wingman's first combat sortie, a support officer's view of a fighter squadron relocation during combat, and a Sandy's leadership in finding and rescuing a downed F-117 pilot-provide the reader with a legitimate insight into an air war at the tactical level and the airpower that helped convince the Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, to capitulate.
Download or read book On the Road with Bob Dylan written by Larry Sloman and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as “the War and Peace of rock and roll” by Bob Dylan himself, this is the ultimate backstage pass to Dylan’s legendary 1975 tour across America—by a former Rolling Stone reporter prominently featured in Martin Scorsese’s Netflix documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story. In 1975, as Bob Dylan emerged from eight years of seclusion, he dreamed of putting together a traveling music show that would trek across the country like a psychedelic carnival. The dream became reality, and On the Road with Bob Dylan is the behind-the-scenes look at what happened when Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Revue took to the streets of America. With the intimate detail of a diary, Larry “Ratso” Sloman’s mesmerizing account both transports us to a celebrated period in rock history and provides us with a vivid snapshot of Dylan during this extraordinary time. This reissue of the 1978 classic resonates more than ever as it chronicles one of the most glittering rock circuses ever assembled, with a cast that includes Joan Baez, Robbie Robertson, Joni Mitchell, Allen Ginsberg, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and a wild entourage of groupies, misfits, sinners, and saints who trailed along for the ride. Sloman candidly captures the all-night revelry and musical prowess—from the backstage antics to impromptu jams—that made the tour a nearly mystical experience. Complete with vintage photos and a new introduction by renowned Texas musician, mystery writer, and Revue member Kinky Friedman, this is an unparalleled treat for Dylan fans old and new. Without question, On the Road with Bob Dylan is a remarkable, revealing piece of writing and a rare up-close and personal view of Dylan on tour.
Download or read book Event written by David L. Golemon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A secret agency must solve the riddles of history to battle an apocalyptic alien threat in this supernatural thriller series debut. In the summer of 1947, an unidentified object crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. There were no survivors. Now it’s happened again. But this time, two creatures have emerged from the wreckage. One is a small, benevolent being, brimming with intelligence. The other is an animal of remarkable strength, brought to Earth to annihilate all life on the planet. It is called the Destroyer of Worlds. In the desert wastelands of the American Southwest, a battle is about to commence as the two creatures set out to fulfill their own destinies among the human race. Only the Event Group, the US government’s most secret agency, is prepared to stop the devastation. Now they must uncover the hidden truths of ancient myths and legends to ensure that history’s errors will never be repeated. Led by the valiant Major Jack Collins, the Event Group wages total war in the desert. Using the benevolent creature as an ally and resource, they combine forces with the US military and prepare themselves for an epic battle against the most dangerous threat humanity has ever faced.
Download or read book A Fool s Errand by One of the Fools written by Albion Winegar Tourgée and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mourning Lincoln written by Martha Hodes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historian examines how everyday people reacted to the president’s assassination in this “highly original, lucidly written book” (James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom). The news of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded a war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons. Public responses to the assassination have been well chronicled, but this book is the first to delve into the personal and intimate responses of everyday people—northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, black people and white, men and women, rich and poor. Exploring diaries, letters, and other personal writings penned during the spring and summer of 1865, historian Martha Hodes captures the full range of reactions to the president’s death—far more diverse than public expressions would suggest. She tells a story of shock, glee, sorrow, anger, blame, and fear. “’Tis the saddest day in our history,” wrote a mournful man. It was “an electric shock to my soul,” wrote a woman who had escaped from slavery. “Glorious News!” a Lincoln enemy exulted, while for the black soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts, it was all “too overwhelming, too lamentable, too distressing” to absorb. Longlisted for the National Book Award, Mourning Lincoln brings to life a key moment of national uncertainty and confusion, when competing visions of America’s future proved irreconcilable and hopes for racial justice in the aftermath of the Civil War slipped from the nation’s grasp. Hodes masterfully explores the tragedy of Lincoln’s assassination in human terms—terms that continue to stagger and rivet us today.
