Download or read book The Spiked Death written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Constance Allen wanted was to dance with her fiancé at the annual charity ball for police widows and orphans. But when your fiancé is Richard Blakemore, the man hiding behind the steel mask of the mysterious vigilante only known as the Silencer, even such simple wishes are often thwarted. And so Constance finds herself stood up at the ball, while Richard is out hunting Baron Tormento, a villain who terrorizes the city and blackmails powerful men – by torturing young girls to death. At first, it's just another case for the Silencer, albeit a particularly grisly one. But it quickly gets personal, when Richard's friend police captain Justin O'Grady is kidnapped. And soon Constance finds herself facing Baron Tormento's spikes of death… This is a novelette of 14700 words or approx. 45 print pages in the Silencer series, but may be read as a standalone.

Download or read book The Thing from the Dread Swamp written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While travelling through the Dread Swamp, Thurvok, the sellsword, and his friends, Meldom, thief, cutpurse and occasional assassin, Meldom’s sweetheart Lysha and the sorceress Sharenna come across an overturned wagon and the terrified merchant Polyxo who babbles that a monster has taken his daughter Cerissa. Because they are heroes – and because Polyxo has offered them a sizeable reward – the quartet of adventurers offers to rescue Cerissa from the thing that lives in the Dread Swamp. This is a short story of 5300 words or 19 print pages in the Thurvok sword and sorcery series, but may be read as a standalone. Includes an introduction and afterword.

Download or read book Forest of Doom written by Ian Livingstone and published by Wizard Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary Warhammer of Stonebridge lies lost and broken in the treacherous wilderness of Darkwood Forest. Without it, the Dwarves of Stonebridge are doomed...Only the foolhardy would enter the murky depths of Darkwood. But your quest will lead you into the very heart of the forest. Dare you take on the unknown perils of Darkwood, and survive the puzzles, traps and fearsome creatures that lie in wait for you? You alone must find the missing pieces of the Warhammer and save the Dwarves of Stonebridge before it is too late!

Download or read book Quiet Post written by Stephen Goldin and published by Parsina Press. This book was released on 2014-08-16 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of POLLY! and TREK TO MADWORLD comes a truly bizarre comedy of outlandish proportions. The Quasiverse: A land that’s a combination of Oz, Wonderland, Discworld, and general surreality, where anything can happen and often does; a land of snow globe mines and french fries plantations; a land where bossy birds can have teeth and locks can be very particular about how you stick a key in them; a land where you never know what color the sky will be when you wake up in the morning and where murder victims can be only randomly dead. Martia Rosenthal is escaping from a bad love affair, and enlists for a diplomatic assignment in the Quasiverse. With the combination of her wealth and the position of sub-legate, she’s assured it will be a quiet post. But she reckons without the vagaries of this bizarre world, where the unusual nature of her friends, as well as her enemies, threatens to end her sanity, if not her very life. Quiet Post is an absurdist comedy with surprises around every turn and smiles never far from your lips.

Download or read book Lifted written by Andreas Bernard and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented in New York in the 1850s, the elevator became an urban fact of life on both sides of the Atlantic by the early twentieth century. While it may at first glance seem a modest innovation, it had wide-ranging effects, from fundamentally restructuring building design to reinforcing social class hierarchies by moving luxury apartments to upper levels, previously the domain of the lower classes. The cramped elevator cabin itself served as a reflection of life in modern growing cities, as a space of simultaneous intimacy and anonymity, constantly in motion. In this elegant and fascinating book, Andreas Bernard explores how the appearance of this new element changed notions of verticality and urban space. Transforming such landmarks as the Waldorf-Astoria and Ritz Tower in New York, he traces how the elevator quickly took hold in large American cities while gaining much slower acceptance in European cities like Paris and Berlin. Combining technological and architectural history with the literary and cinematic, Bernard opens up new ways of looking at the elevator--as a secular confessional when stalled between floors or as a recurring space in which couples fall in love. Rising upwards through modernity, Lifted takes the reader on a compelling ride through the history of the elevator.

Download or read book The Architectural Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Push Forward written by I.R. Thornton and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Push Forward is the real-life story of Joey Tomaselli, a child soccer prodigy, struck down by OCD, addiction, anxiety, depression and phobias. When Joey’s life implodes, he searches for the answer to his illnesses. He wades through a conveyor belt of quacks and charlatans, and is blessed by others of true wisdom and benevolence. His race to find the source of his anguish and torture is one he has to win or his young life will be snuffed out.

Download or read book Prima s Authorized GameShark Pocket Power Guide written by and published by Prima Games. This book was released on 2002 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reign of the Devourer written by David Annandale and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notorious Doctor Doom’s endless craving for power unleashes a soul-destroying plague on the world, in the latest devastating Marvel Untold novel Victor von Doom saw his future for an instant, and now he cannot rest. His obsession with regaining those memories leads him into the arcane science of geomancy. As he delves into the ancient memories that lie beneath his land, Doom discovers a tremendous concentration of power... one that should never be explored. Doom's excavations and necromancy fracture the prison of something awful: the Devourer of Souls. Now free to roam Latveria, the Devourer spreads a plague of soul-hungry vampires. Doom must choose between seizing this power for himself or destroying it, before his realm is no more.

Download or read book Ninja High School Omnibus 5 written by Ben Dunn and published by Antarctic Press. This book was released on with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 5th collected volume in the Ninja High School series!

Download or read book A Series of Unfortunate Events 6 The Ersatz Elevator written by Lemony Snicket and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES In their most daring misadventure, the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by very, very rich people, whose penthouse apartment is located mysteriously close to the place where all their misfortune began. Even though their new home in the city is fancy, and the children are clever and charming, I'm sorry to say that still, the unlucky orphans will encounter more disaster and woe. In fact, in this sixth book in A Series of Unfortunate Events, the children will experience a darkened staircase, a red herring, an auction, parsley soda, some friends in a dire situation, a secret passageway, and pinstripe suits. Both literary and irreverent, hilarious and deftly crafted, A Series of Unfortunate Events offers an exquisitely dark comedy in the tradition of Edward Gorey and Roald Dahl. Lemon Snicket's uproariously unhappy books continue to win readers, despite all his warnings.

Download or read book Criminal Business written by Megan Matthews and published by Megan Matthews. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who the hell gave Frankie Zanetti a bazooka? I’ve made mistakes in the past. Many of them. By far, the worst one has to be climbing into the back of a vehicle with Maine’s number one mobster. Who gets herself kidnapped twice in one evening? Either way you spin it, I’m dead. At least this way, I’ll go down, staring at the hottest Italian boss to walk the earth rather than the dirty back alley where he found me. Pelican Bay is a charming town, but I belong in Chicago. If Frankie doesn’t let me return and confess my sins, the Grandmaster will blow up the entire coast to get me home. When two mobsters go to war, everything I love may end up in a cloud of bullets and blood. Want your leading man hard on the outside, but with a heart of gold who will do anything for his girl? Grab a copy of Criminal Business and let Frankie Zanetti carry you away.

Download or read book The Night Court written by Cora Buhlert and published by Pegasus Pulp Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-10 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Vanadur suffers under the thumb of the Night Court, whose bailiffs snatch random people off the streets and whose masked judges know only one verdict: guilty. Meldom, thief, cutpurse and occasional assassin, is one of those who are snatched off the streets and put on trial by the Night Court. The accusation: murder. But while Meldom may have done many questionable things in the past, he knows that he did not commit this particular murder. However, the Night Court is not inclined to believe him and so it’s up to Thurvok, Sharenna and Lysha to save him from the gallows. This is a short story of 7100 words or 25 print pages in the Thurvok sword and sorcery series, but may be read as a standalone. Includes an introduction and afterword.

Download or read book The National Real Estate Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Doctor Who Doom s Day Extraction Point written by MG Harris and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the Doctor's universe. 24 hours to find them. 24 hours to escape death. The finest time-travelling assassin in the cosmos is running scared. Doom's own death is coming for her in a matter of hours. And the only person in the universe who might just be able to save her is the Doctor - so long as it's the right Doctor. But as Doom searches for aid, the hits keep coming in. Kill a crabby Kraal and his replica world! Assassinate a ghost on Satellite Five! Eliminate a living asteroid! Doom finds her talents - and her patience - stretched to breaking point. But these apparently random jobs are linked in a way Doom could never imagine. And when not one but TWO different Doctors get involved, on the trail of an old enemy, the ensuing fireworks might just end the lives of billions. Can Doom solve the mystery before her allotted hours are up? It's not only a planet she must save from destruction, but herself...

Download or read book Genesis written by Keith R. A. DeCandido and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-08-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hive: a subterranean genetic research facility owned and operated by Umbrella, an immensely powerful corporation with interests in everything from human longevity to biowarfare. With computerized defenses and heavily armed human backup, the Hive is impregnable and invulnerable. Or so Umbrella believes. But something has gone fatally wrong. The Hive has lost containment of its most lethal and horrific creation: a virus that kills and reanimates human life, reducing the entire facility staff of five hundred men and women to mindless creatures with a single driving force -- hunger. And the key to stopping them rests with one young woman who cannot even remember who she is.

Download or read book Hotel Shenanigans written by Pepper McGraw and published by PMG Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, he met a fairy. The only trouble is he doesn’t know if she was real. When Harry inherits his family’s hotel, he knows this is his chance to finally discover the truth. Though the hotel seems to have long lost its magic, Harry still hopes to prove to himself that his best friend from childhood was real and not just the figment of his imagination everyone always said she was. Lily’s been waiting decades for Harry to return to the hotel where they once met. The only problem is when he finally arrives, he’s no longer able to see the magic of the hidden world. If Harry no longer believes, it’s up to Lily to somehow convince him. Of course, since he can’t see her, she’s going to need a bit of help from the locals. With the Shenanigans crew involved, though, things are bound to get out of hand fast.