Download or read book Nobody Notices Minerva written by Wednesday Kirwan and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Minerva wakes up in a bad mood and nobody notices, she spends an entire day behaving badly--until some loving advice from dad helps turn things around.

Download or read book The Tragically True Adventures of Kit Donovan written by Patricia Bailey and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 Oregon Book Award Winner—Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature 2018 WILLA Literary Award Winner—Children's/Young Adult Fiction and Nonfiction Category A plucky heroine's search for justice in the lawless West. Life in a Nevada mining town in 1905 is not easy for thirteen-year-old Kit Donovan, who is trying to do right by her deceased mother and become a proper lady. When Kit discovers Papa's boss at the gold mine is profiting from unsafe working conditions, she realizes being a lady is tougher than it looks. With a man's hat and a printing press, Kit puts her big mouth and all the life skills she's learned from reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to work, defying threats of violence, and finds that justice doesn’t always look like she imagined it would.

Download or read book Minerva Wakes written by Holly Lisle and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He has a dragon singing in his bedroom. She's stuck on the wrong side of an alternate universe. Their kids are kidnapped, both the good guys and the bad guys want them dead, and all of this started as somebody else's mistake. For Minerva and Darryl Kiakra, nothing will ever be the same.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction written by Don D'Ammassa and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 2061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents articles on the horror and fantasy genres of fiction, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.

Download or read book So You Want To Be A Vampire written by Jennifer St. Clair and published by Writers Exchange E-Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normally a quiet, serene place, Chelsea Kingdom seems like the perfect location for a centuries' old vampire to blend in and live a normal life, even escape hunters and an angry mob. Unfortunately, his timing couldn't be worse... Chelsea Kingdom is usually a pretty quiet place but recent murders--committed by a vampire--upset the calm. Newcomer to town, Vlad Dhalgren wants only to blend in and live a normal life. He quickly learns that isn't possible, given that other vampires have been hiding in the shadows around the castle--in plain sight--for years. Despite her lineage, Anna Everett, the crown princess of the Kingdom of Chelsea, isn't a wizard like her father, which means she will never be Queen. She has only one friend, Valerian Moreton--Val--who has secrets he's never shared that could get him and Anna killed...

Download or read book The Renaissance Battle for Rome written by Susanna de Beer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, authorities) seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome—a battle over the question of whose claims to this legacy were most legitimate. Distinguishing four domains—power, morality, cityscape and literature—in which ancient Rome represented a particularly powerful example, this book traces the contours of this rhetorical battle across Renaissance Europe, based on a broad selection of Humanist Latin Poetry. It shows how humanist poets negotiated different claims on behalf of others and themselves in their work, acting both as "spin doctors" and "new Romans", while also undermining competing claims to this same idealized past. By so doing this book not only offers a new understanding of several aspects of the Renaissance that are usually considered separately, but ultimately allows us to understand Renaissance culture as a constant negotiation between appropriating and contesting the idea and ideal of "Rome."

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature written by Allen Stroud and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy is a genre in motion, gradually expanding its reach and historical sources to embrace a global identity Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature, Second Edition is a snapshot of the genre in this moment, identifying new themes and sources that are emerging to inspire, enhance and invigorate the published works of fantasy writers.

Download or read book Nanodreams written by Elton Elliot and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come dream a little dream with top SF writers--such as Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford and Charles Sheffield--and scientists, as they explore our Nanotech future. Welcome to the world of the microminiaturized future where all things are possible--but only human wisdom stands between us and unspeakable disaster.

Download or read book Once Upon a Galaxy written by and published by august house. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes fifty folktales from around the world, relating them to contemporary fantasy, science fiction, and cartoon themes.

Download or read book In the Rift written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A North Carolina woman is told by intelligent beings from another world that she must use her magical powers to save Earth from an evil wizard in Florida. The woman sets out to destroy the wizard.

Download or read book Glenraven written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman seeking solace after losing her child and a divorcee become unlikely heroes when they help the people of the magical kingdom of Glenraven overthrow an evil dictator.

Download or read book Dark Roots written by Lucius Valiant and published by Thornhill Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlan Thorne is a professional Hunter. When a solicitor approaches him on behalf of a client facing an unspecified vampire problem, he cannot turn away. But from the moment he steps into the imposing Thornhill Mansion, perched above the hallowed grounds of Highgate Cemetery West, reality itself begins to warp. Harlan soon finds himself swept up in a cyclone of long-held secrets, ancient vendettas, ghostly whispers, and a looming resurrection that demands blood - in abundance. As Harlan unravels the mysteries of Thornhill Mansion and its inhabitants, he unearths buried truths about his own lineage. The deeper he digs, the more he realizes: his fate is hopelessly entangled with the Thornhills’. “Dark Roots" is the debut novel from Danish-British author Lucius Valiant. Sumptuously dark with a wry twist of humor, it’s the first spine-tingling installment in the Thornhill Vampire Chronicles.

Download or read book The A to Z of Fantasy Literature written by Brian Stableford and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.

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Download or read book Trinity written by Olivia Chase and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Cassandra Clare, this kick-ass new series will keep you on the edge of your seat . . . With an occult detective for a dad, Diana's normal life has never been too normal. Uprooted by investigations, she finds herself on a long train journey to Edinburgh, sitting next to a boy who makes her heart melt. Or something melt. Anyway, she's melting. Maybe a new life in Scotland won't be so bad after all. But when Di's recurring nightmares start to come true, her destiny changes for ever. After her dad goes missing, she becomes part of a Trinity of Demon Hunters. Along with her two new friends, she needs to face down death, rescue her dad and save their city. Because that's what Demon Hunters do, right? There's only one question left to answer: how do you kill a dead man?

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Download or read book Hell on High written by Holly Lisle and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil's Point Amusement Park is open for business. It's got the Extinct Species Petting Zoo, a waterpark with real mermaids, a live-action role playing park with special effects straight from hell, the ultimate mall, and acres of other one-of-a-kind attractions. And then there was "Desire" Point, where the customers could find exactly what they wanted. Of course, there's a special fee to get into "this" area.