Download or read book A Twisted Festival written by Alyn Troy and published by Mystic Brews Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2022-12-17 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Party on with more paranormal cozy mystery in the magical SoCal town of St. Maurice. Star's plans get upended by murder. Basil and Mort are on a chili-cheese-dog mission. Will St. Mo ever be the same? The St. Maurice Founders Festival isn't normally an event to die for... Star Sinclair announces her grand plan for developing St. Maurice's waterfront. Plans that will likely destroy the merfolk town, and the magical protection they cultivate. The leader of the Merfolk and Star are on a collision course of epic proportions over the future of the bay. When a key player turns up dead, Amanda's father gets locked in Star's sights as the primary suspect. Twiz hates to help Star, but finding the real murderer is the only way to clear Amanda's father. To make matters worse, Basil and Mort are out to prove that chili-cheese-dogs are worthy of a star or two in the restaurant guides. Can the gastronomic journalist survive their attentions? Twiz, Kami, Amanda and the mini-dragons have their hands and claws full trying to protect the pier and the bay from Star's wrath, protect Mertown, and unmask the killer before they strike again. Can Twiz figure out whodunnit, and save the pier from imminent destruction? If you love quirky characters, a magical setting, and a real whodunnit with red herrings and clues alike, you'll love Alyn Troy's magical Pixie Twist Mysteries.

Download or read book A Twisted Inferno written by Alyn Troy and published by Mystic Brews Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grill up a paranormal cozy mystery, with a side order of chili-cheese dogs for the mini-dragons, today! When the annual summer beach BBQ returns to St. Mo, murder is on the menu. Mortimer and Basil convince Twiz to help judge the newly added chili-cheese-dog cook-off. But her concern over eating that many dogs is quickly extinguished. The event sours with the discovery of a deceased contestant, which puts the BBQ fires on ice. Ice cream shenanigans, and a smoldering battle between the covens add unwanted spice to Twiz's weekend at the BBQ event. But, when the blaze spread into St. Mo and threatens Twiz's business, she suspects her shadowy ex-boss might be in the hot seat. Can Twiz and her friends clear the smoke enough to untwist the mystery, and keep someone else from getting burned? Another exciting mystery waits to be unraveled in St. Mo. If you love fun fae characters, twisted mysteries, and snarky humor, you'll love Alyn Troy's cozy mystery series. Get your copy today.

Download or read book A Twisted Ballot written by Alyn Troy and published by Mystic Brews Mysteries LLC. This book was released on 2024-09-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder is on the Ballot Election day in St. Maurice is heating up, and not just because of the political debates. Murder has made its way onto the ballot, and it's up to Twizzle Twist to untangle a web of deceit and corruption before it's too late! Star Sinclair, the power-hungry incumbent, is determined to maintain her iron grip on the town council and seal the destruction of the town's beloved pier. Twizzle and her eccentric friends are fighting tooth and nail to secure a council seat and put an end to Star's nefarious plans. But when a body turns up at the polling station, election day takes a sinister turn. As Twizzle juggles the dual responsibilities of solving a murder and safeguarding the ballot box, she finds herself confronted by Star's slippery lawyer and a cunning design consultant With legal shenanigans piling up and the truth buried under a mountain of deception, Twizzle must wade through the muck to uncover the facts. Saving the pier, ensuring a fair election, and keeping her friends out of jail prove to be herculean tasks, but Twizzle isn't one to back down from a challenge. Can Twizzle untwist the tangled conspiracy of ballots and murder? Standing up to Star Sinclair is no easy feat, but with her unique blend of tenacity, wit, and a little bit of pixie magic, Twizzle might just have what it takes to turn the tables on her formidable adversary. Unravel the mystery, root for the underdog, and join Twizzle on her quest to restore justice and democracy in the charming coastal town of St. Maurice. Don't miss out on this enchanting cozy mystery filled with twists, turns, and a dash of magical mayhem! If you support cozy mystery, magical crime-solving adventures, quirky lovable characters, and political intrigue with a twist of humor, then this book should get your vote! Get ready to cast your vote for the latest spellbinding installment in the Pixie Twist series!

Download or read book A Twisted Riposte written by Alyn Troy and published by Mystic Brews Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2021-03-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A town of wonky magic. A fencer stabbed by her own blade. Can Twizzie untangle the twisted mystery? Twizzle Twist isn’t your normal real estate pixie. Nor is St. Maurice your normal Southern California town. The magic in the valley belches at the worst time. Twizzle’s mismatched wings and bum leg are the least of her worries. With a cute new vampire in town, their house-hunting lunges off-target when her client's favorite house comes with more than they bargained for. The owner, second witch of the Stellar Blues coven, is dead, stabbed in the back with her own sword. In addition to murder, Twizzle has more to worry about. Her town has one of the few remaining amusement piers on the west coast. And someone is twisting the town council to tear it down. If that happens, it will be the end of Twizzle's home above the carousel. With a murderer on the loose, a cute vampire she needs to sell a home to, sniping and plotting between the rival covens, and the imminent demise of her home on the pier, Twizzie has too many strikes to dodge all at once. Will Twizzle and her friends, like Mortimer the mini-dragon, pull the right cord to untangle the twisted knot of intrigue in their sleepy SoCal town? Can they do so before the killer lunges again? If you love mysteries with a dash of quirky characters, a dose of warped magic, and snarky humor, you'll love Alyn Troy's Paranormal Cozy Mysteries. Get your copy of A Twisted Riposte today to lunge into this mystery.

Download or read book A Twisted Dive written by Alyn Troy and published by Mystic Brews Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern California never met a pixie sleuth like Twizzle Twist, nor had whoever murdered the Hollywood starlet! A Hollywood starlet found floating in the bay. St. Mo's pier is still destined for the scrap heap. Can Twiz unbend the mystery, and weather the storm that is brewing? Twiz’s simple Sunday morning of reading on the pier is interrupted with the discovery of the starlet's body. Several of the actor’s enemies are right here in St. Maurice. They all have a motive, but who actually shot the movie star in the back? If that isn’t enough trouble for Twiz, her business and personal life hit rough seas. Under pressure to run for office, she realizes that she can save the pier if she wins the election in the fall. But, when her business gets an unexpected kink in the hose, she’s faced with choices she doesn’t want to make. Add in the weresharks making Twiz an offer she can’t refuse, and Mort’s mini-dragon poker game, and Twiz is facing a tempest of a week. Can Twiz find the murderer and clear the mystery before the mundane celebrity press arrives by the boatload and start snooping through St. Mo’s magical secrets? Can her professional life survive the pressure? Another exciting paranormal cozy mystery lurks below the surface in St. Mo. If you love fun fae characters, twisted mysteries, and snarky humor, you'll love Alyn Troy's Pixie Twist cozy mystery series.

Download or read book A Twisted Treasure written by Alyn Troy and published by Mystic Brews Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2021-09-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murder at an old pirate's mansion... a missing treasure... and chili-cheese dogs? When the son of an infamous pirate captain from St. Maurice's past, is found dead, the mystery behind the old pirates' long-missing treasure resurfaces. Heirs of the old captains return to St. Maurice. But there's more to this than just treasure. Twiz keeps finding mysterious messages left in her car. Who is sending them? When Twizzle's former boss gets involved, and not in a good way, Twiz faces decisions she never wanted to make. Can Twiz un-twist the mystery before the town tears itself apart searching for the booty? And, can Basil and Mort eat all of those chili-cheese dogs? Another exciting mystery waits to be unraveled in St. Mo. If you love fun fae characters, twisted mysteries, and snarky humor, you'll love Alyn Troy's cozy mystery series. Get your copy today.

Download or read book A Twisted Tune written by Alyn Troy and published by Mystic Brews Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2021-05-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A singer silenced. The fate of St. Mo's Amusement Pier is rocked by political waves. Can Twizzle unmask the killer and save her home? Tommy Neptune's talent was the hit of the show, his voice the best they'd ever heard. Following the opening night of a new musical under the pier, Twizzle Twist hopes for a nice evening with her boyfriend But when Twiz and Chaz discover the star of the new musical dead, Twiz finds herself following the tune of another mystery. The death is just another note in Star Sinclair's samba about the town's biggest eyesore. The town council's chairperson hasn't given up her plans to destroy the town's amusement pier. Twiz and her friends find themselves fighting town hall in a race to head off the demolition of one of St. Mo's iconic landmarks, and Twizzle's home. When the murderer strikes again, Twiz and her friends try to hit the chords to uncover clues that can unmask the killer, and bring the deadly chorus to an end. And, can they mobilize enough townsfolk to take on city hall and save the pier? Will Twizzie and her friends hit the right notes to untangle the twisted knot of intrigue and uncover who killed the musician in the night? If you love mysteries with a dash of quirky characters, a dose of warped magic, and snarky humor, you'll love Alyn Troy's new Paranormal Cozy Mystery series. Get your copy of A Twisted Tune today to untie this mystery.

Download or read book A Twisted Festival written by Alyn Troy and published by Pixie Twist Mysteries. This book was released on 2022-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star's plans get upended by murder. Basil and Mort are on a chili-cheese-dog mission. Will St. Mo ever be the same? The St. Maurice Founders Festival isn't normally an event to die for... Star Sinclair announces her grand plan for developing St. Maurice's waterfront. Plans that will likely destroy the merfolk town, and the magical protection they cultivate. The leader of the Merfolk and Star are on a collision course of epic proportions over the future of the bay. But then a key player turns up dead, Amanda's father gets locked in Star's sights as the primary suspect. Twiz hates to help Star, but finding the real murderer is the only way to clear Amanda's father. To make matters worse, Basil and Mort are out to prove that chili-cheese-dogs are worthy of a star or two in the restaurant guides. Can the gastronomic journalist survive their attentions? Twiz, Kami, Amanda and the mini-dragons have their hands and claws full trying to protect the pier and the bay from Star's wrath, protect Mertown, and unmask the killer before they strike again. Can Twiz figure out whodunnit, and save the pier from imminent destruction? If you love quirky characters, a magical setting, and a real whodunnit with red herrings and clues alike, you'll love Alyn Troy's magical Pixie Twist Mysteries. Get your copy today.

Download or read book A Big Twisted Set written by Alyn Troy and published by Mystic Brews Mysteries. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 1229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a pixie girl with a bum leg and mismatched wings untangle the paranormal puzzles and solve the quirky mystery? A town of wonky magic. A fencer stabbed by her own blade. Can Twizzie untangle the twisted mystery? Twizzle Twist isn't your normal real estate pixie. Nor is St. Maurice your normal Southern California town. The magic in the valley belches at the worst time. Twizzle's mismatched wings and bum leg are the least of her worries. Twiz is fortunate to have friends like the ancient Chinese wizard, the barista mermaid with the bent tail, a pixie cop, and two chili-cheese-dog obsessed mini-dragons to aid her. And she'll need all the help they can muster when the town council leader has Twizzle's SoCal home on the St. Maurice amusement pier in the path of her wrecking ball. When a cute new vampire arrives in town, and needs a handicapped accessible home due to his wheelchair, Twizzle has one pesky rule. Don't date your clients. So she needs to finish the home sale, before she can land a new boyfriend. But, when their first home showing comes with the homeowner stabbed in the back with her own sword, Twizzle gets tangled in a mystery not of her making. Can she untangle the knot of clues, parry the magical red herrings, and solve the mystery in time to sell the home, and stop the killer? Twiz and her friends have to save their pier, catch the killers, and find time for Mortimer and Basil the mini-dragon to get their chili-cheese-dog fix. Each story is a self-contained mystery, with an evolving backstory as Twiz and her friends fight to save their town's beloved amusement pier. This omnibus includes the previously published tomes: A Twisted Riposte A Twisted Tune A Twisted Dive A Twisted Treasure A Twisted Inferno A Twisted Festival If you love mysteries with a dash of quirky characters, a dose of warped magic, and snarky humor, you'll love Alyn Troy's Paranormal Cozy Mysteries.

Download or read book EX A Twisted love Story written by Novoneel Chakraborty and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To get to his heart, she seduced his mind What will you do if one day a svelte and sexy girl comes up to you and says she is your ex? And the only thing you know about her is that you don’t know anything about her. Neel, an aspiring author, meets Nivrita at the Jaipur Literature Festival. Though Nivrita says she is his ex, he remembers nothing, and yet everything about her seems to lure him to unravel the mystery she personifies. The more he is drawn to her, the more Neel feels guilty because he is already in a steady relationship with Titiksha, the love of his life. When Nivrita makes a tempting offer to Neel, which he accepts for his own good, his life slowly begins to spiral out of control while Titiksha starts turning into a stranger until Neel realizes there’s much more than his eyes can see and mind can recollect. Novoneel Chakraborty, bestselling author of A Thing beyond Forever, That Kiss in the Rain and How About a Sin Tonight? brings forth yet another poignant story, twisted in essence. Ex will make you your jaw drop wide open.

Download or read book Folk and Festival Costume written by R. Turner Wilcox and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasury of ethnic dress, this book ranges from the Amish of Pennsylvania to the Zulu of South Africa. Alphabetical entries cover more than 150 countries and regions, each represented by six or more illustrations. Six hundred drawings include images of men, women, and children. Captions describe the costumes and their associated traditions.

Download or read book Death Is a Festival written by João José Reis and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazil's independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia. The book opens with a lively account of the popular riot that ensued when, in 1836, the government condemned the traditional burial of bodies inside Catholic church buildings and granted a private company a monopoly over burials. This episode is used by Reis to examine the customs of death and burial in Bahian society, explore the economic and religious conflicts behind the move for funerary reforms and the maintenance of traditional rituals of dying, and understand how people dealt with new concerns sparked by modernization and science. Viewing culture within its social context, he illuminates the commonalities and differences that shaped death and its rituals for rich and poor, men and women, slaves and masters, adults and children, foreigners and Brazilians. This translation makes the book, originally published in Brazil in 1993, available in English for the first time.

Download or read book Producing Independent 2D Character Animation written by Mark A. Simon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PRODUCING INDEPENDENT 2D CHARACTER ANIMATION takes an in-depth look at the artistry and production process of cel animation in a friendly, how-to manner that makes the sometimes tedious process of animation enjoyable and easy to understand. This book guides animators through every step of planning and production; includes examples of actual production forms, organization tips, screen shots, and sketches from the pre- to post-production processes; and contains detailed information on the hardware and software used to complete each step. By mapping out the course of how his small studio brainstormed, created, then produced its award-winning animation, TIMMY'S LESSONS IN NATURE, Mark Simon explains to animators what it takes-both creatively and resource-wise-to get their animations to market. Includes exclusive interviews with Oscar-nominated independent animator Bill Plimpton, Craig McCracken, creator of the POWER PUFF GIRLS, Craig "Spike" Decker of SPIKE & MIKE'S SICK AND TWISTED FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION, David Fine & Alison Snowden who are the Academy Award-Winning producers of BOB AND MARGARET, Cartoon Network's Senior Vice President of Original Animation, Linda Simensky, and Tom Sito, Co-Director of OSMOSIS JONES...as well as others.

Download or read book Pick up A Handsome Boy For Festival written by Qing Yi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the day of registration, Lin Mo was furious after being ditched by his boyfriend. He swore to break off all ties with the man who played him, and perhaps the heavens were behind her, after being reneged on by the scum of a man, she met a handsome military brother at the entrance of the Civil Affairs Bureau. Lin Mo laughed out loud, hahaha! There is one as old as I am. But, Big Brother Jun, your wife doesn't want you anymore. There was no worst off, only worse off. At the new husband's friend banquet, who was going to be the one to break the engagement with? What? The scum man was Cang Qing's eldest nephew! A mouthful of blood gushed out from Lin Mu's mouth, but he still could not spit it out. "Leave everything to me." Cang Qing pulled Lin Mo into his embrace and swore the oath he made for his entire life. With just four words, he moved Second Young Master Lin to tears. He was willing to follow Cang Qing home and give birth to a bun for him ...

Download or read book The Cheltenham Festival written by Robin Oakley and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cheltenham Festival is nowadays the biggest event in the racing year – in visitor numbers eclipsing Royal Ascot, the Grand National or the Derby. In 2011 it is a hundred years since the 1911 running of the National Hunt Chase marked the birth of the Festival, providing the perfect occasion for Robin Oakley's new history. This is a work of both history and celebration – telling the story of how three days of jump racing beneath Cleeve Hill in Cheltenham became a vast sporting event attracting an average of 50,000 spectators per day. Before the War it saw legendary horses like Golden Miller; after the War the Irish invasion began – both horses and spectators; in the Sixties, Arkle, the greatest jumps horse of all time duelling with Mill House in the Gold Cup. In recent years there have been Cheltenham favourites like Desert Orchid, winning a gruelling Gold Cup in the mud, Dawn Run, Best Mate (2 Gold Cups), hurdlers like Istabraq and Persian War, and the grey hero One Man. But also it is a story of the craic and the characters, like the Irishman who won enough on Istabraq to pay off his mortgage, then lost it again on the Champion Chase, and reflected, "Ach, it was only a small house anyway…" This is a book for both the committed Festival-goer, Guinness in hand, and every armchair racing fan.

Download or read book Lysistrata The Women s Festival and Frogs written by Aristophanes and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most readers nowadays encounter the plays of Aristophanes in the classroom, not the theater. Yet the "father of comedy" wrote his plays for the stage, not as literary texts. Many English translations of the plays were written decades ago, and in their outdated language they fail to capture the dramatic liveliness of the original comedies. Now Michael Ewans offers new and lively translations of three of Aristophanes' finest plays: Lysistrata, The Women's Festival, and Frogs. While remaining faithful to the original Greek, these translations are accessible to a modern audience—and actable on stage. Here readers will discover—in all its uncensored glory—the often raw sexual and scatological language Aristophanes used in his fantastically inventive works. This edition also contains all that a reader needs to understand the plays within a broader context. In his comprehensive introduction, Ewans discusses political and social aspects of Aristophanic comedy, the conventions of Greek theater, and the challenges of translating ancient Greek into modern English. In his theatrical commentaries—a unique feature of this edition—Ewans draws on his own experience of directing the plays in a replica of the original theater. In scene-by-scene analysis, he provides insight into the major issues each play raises in performance. The volume concludes with two glossaries—one of proper names and the other of Greek terms—as well as a bibliography that includes the most recent scholarship on Aristophanic comedy.

Download or read book The Fundamentals of Animation written by Paul Wells and published by AVA Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fundamentals of Animation by Paul Wells offers an illustrated and visually stimulating introduction to the key elements of animation. It discusses the key principles and processes involved in animation, exploring the entirety of the creative process from finding and researching a concept, through the preparation and techniques used, to the execution of the work. Each stage is presented in an engaging visual style, accompanied by examples and analysis of contemporary student and commercial animation. The book also discusses the links between animation and the styles and narratives of other areas of popular culture, aligning theory and ideas to practical advice. It includes a section for aspiring animators examining career paths, portfolios and the structure of the creative industries.