Download or read book Unnatural Journeys written by John Ezzy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unnatural Journeys Second Night continues John Ezzy's vast and compelling journey into worlds haunted and dark, humorous and uplifting, powerful and merciless. it is unique. Combining novels and short fiction it is an uncompromising work of the imagination. This is the second of four volumes.
Download or read book Unnatural Journeys written by John Ezzy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unnatural Journeys Part One is the beginning of an extraordinary and eclectic reading experience. Over four volumes it will entertain, unsettle, amuse and fascinate. This ambitious project includes two novels and no fewer than 64 short stories, all linked in a strange and wonderful brew. You have never experienced a work of fiction quite like this one. It combines elements of horror, fantasy, the surreal, comedy and much else besides. If you are tired of predictable books, lacking in vitality or originality, then Unnatural Journeys is for you.
Download or read book Unnatural Companions written by Peter Christie and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Highly compelling...page-turning read" — TNC's Cool Green Science We love our pets. Dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, and other species have become an essential part of more families than ever before—in North America today, pets outnumber people. Pet owners are drawn to their animal companions through an innate desire to connect with other species. But there is a dark side to our domestic connection with animal life: the pet industry is contributing to a global conservation crisis for wildlife—often without the knowledge of pet owners. In Unnatural Companions, journalist Peter Christie issues a call to action for pet owners. If we hope to reverse the alarming trend of wildlife decline, pet owners must acknowledge the pets-versus-conservation dilemma and concede that our well-fed and sheltered cats too often prey on small backyard wildlife and seemingly harmless reptiles released into the wild might be the next destructive invasive species. We want our pets to eat nutritionally healthy food, but how does the designer food we feed them impact the environment? Christie's book is a cautionary tale to responsible pet owners about why we must change the ways we love and care for our pets. It concludes with the positive message that the small changes we make at home can foster better practices within the pet industry that will ultimately benefit our pets’ wild brethren.
Download or read book Unnatural Magic written by C. M. Waggoner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “brilliant and terrifically fun”* debut novel brings an enchanting new voice to fantasy. Onna can write the parameters of a spell faster than any of the young men in her village school. But despite her incredible abilities, she’s denied a place at the nation’s premier arcane academy. Undaunted, she sails to the bustling city-state of Hexos, hoping to find a place at a university where they don’t think there’s anything untoward about providing a woman with a magical education. But as soon as Onna arrives, she’s drawn into the mysterious murder of four trolls. Tsira is a troll who never quite fit into her clan, despite being the leader’s daughter. She decides to strike out on her own and look for work in a human city, but on her way she stumbles upon the body of a half-dead human soldier in the snow. As she slowly nurses him back to health, an unlikely bond forms between them, one that is tested when an unknown mage makes an attempt on Tsira’s life. Soon, unbeknownst to each other, Onna and Tsira both begin devoting their considerable talents to finding out who is targeting trolls, before their homeland is torn apart… *Kat Howard, Alex Award-winning author of An Unkindness of Magicians
Download or read book Journeys End written by Justus Miles Forman and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Signs of the Times and Doctrinal Advocate and Monitor written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journey of a Goddess written by and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first translation into English of the Chinese novel Haiyouji, as well as excerpts of a marionette play based on the cult lore of the goddess Chen Jinggu (766–790), a historical shaman priestess who became one of Fujian's most important goddesses and the Lüshan Sect's chief deity. The novel, a 1753 reprint of what is possibly a Ming dynasty novel, was both a popular fiction and a religious tract. It offers a lively mythological tale depicting combat between the shaman goddess and a snake demon goddess. Replete with the beliefs and practices of the cult of this warrior goddess, the novel asserts the importance of Shamanism (i.e., local religious beliefs) as one of the four religions of China, along with Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism. To further develop the links between literature and local religion, Fan Pen Li Chen includes translations of two acts from a Fujian marionette play, Biography of the Lady, featuring the goddess.
Download or read book On Monsters written by Stephen T. Asma and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as "a feast" (Washington Post) and "a modern-day bestiary" (The New Yorker), Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters--how they have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and what shapes they are likely to take in the future. Beginning at the time of Alexander the Great, the monsters come fast and furious--Behemoth and Leviathan, Gog and Magog, Satan and his demons, Grendel and Frankenstein, circus freaks and headless children, right up to the serial killers and terrorists of today and the post-human cyborgs of tomorrow. Monsters embody our deepest anxieties and vulnerabilities, Asma argues, but they also symbolize the mysterious and incoherent territory beyond the safe enclosures of rational thought. Exploring sources as diverse as philosophical treatises, scientific notebooks, and novels, Asma unravels traditional monster stories for the clues they offer about the inner logic of an era's fears and fascinations. In doing so, he illuminates the many ways monsters have become repositories for those human qualities that must be repudiated, externalized, and defeated.
Download or read book Unnatural Selection written by Andrea Ross and published by CavanKerry Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopted at birth, Andrea Ross grew up inhabiting two ecosystems: one was her tangible, adoptive family, the other her birth family, whose mysterious landscape was hidden from her. In this coming-of-age memoir, Ross narrates how in her early twenties, while working as a ranger in Grand Canyon National Park, she embarked on a journey to discover where she came from and, ultimately, who she was. After many missteps and dead ends, Ross uncovered her heartbreaking and inspiring origin story and began navigating the complicated turns of reuniting with her birth parents and their new families. Through backcountry travel in the American West, she also came to understand her place in the world, realizing that her true identity lay not in a choice between adopted or biological parents, but in an expansion of the concept of family.
Download or read book Travel in England in the Seventeenth Century written by Joan Parkes and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exotic Journeys written by Justin D. Edwards and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of eroticization, sexuality, race, and colonial discourse in U.S. travel writing.
Download or read book Unnatural Creatures written by Neil Gaiman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen and introduced by Neil Gaiman, this thoroughly beguiling collection of short stories is inhabited by an amazing menagerie of creatures from myth, legend and dark imagination The griffin, the sunbird, manticores, unicorns – all manner of glorious creatures never captured in zoos, museums or photographs are packed vividly into this collection of stories. Neil Gaiman has included some of his own childhood favourites alongside stories classic and modern to spark the imagination of readers young and old. All contributors have given their work free to benefit Dave Eggers' literacy charity, 826DC. Includes stories by: Peter S. Beagle, Anthony Boucher, Avram Davidson, Samuel R. Delany, Neil Gaiman, Maria Dahvana Headley, Nalo Hopkinson, Diana Wynne Jones, Megan Kurashige, E. Nesbit, Larry Niven, Nnedi Okorafor, Saki, Frank R. Stockton, Gahan Wilson, E. Lily Yu.
Download or read book Journeys Beyond the Pale written by Leah Garrett and published by . This book was released on 2003-02-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journeys beyond the Pale is the first book to examine how Yiddish writers, from Mendele Moycher Sforim to Der Nister to the famed Sholem Aleichem, used motifs of travel to express their complicated relationship with modernization. The story of the Jews of the Pale of settlement encompasses current-day Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland.
Download or read book Unnatural Deeds written by Cyn Balog and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "a PG-13 version of Gone Girl" by Kirkus, Unnatural Deeds is a novel of infatuation and obsession with an electrifying ending that readers won't see coming." Victoria Zell doesn't fit in, not that she cares what anyone thinks. She and her homeschooled boyfriend, Andrew, are inseparable. All they need is each other. That is, until Zachary Zimmerman joins her homeroom. Within an hour of meeting, he convinces good-girl Vic to cut class. And she can't get enough of that rush. Despite Vic's loyalty to Andrew, she finds her life slowly entwining with Z's. Soon she's lying to everyone she knows and breaking all the rules to be with Z. She can't get enough of him—or unraveling the stories of the family he's determined to keep hidden. Except Z's not the only one with a past. Straight-laced Vic is hiding her own secrets... secrets that are about to destroy everything in her path.
Download or read book Travel Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Despair s Last Journey written by David Christie Murray and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
