Download or read book House of Leaves written by Mark Z. Danielewski and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2000-03-07 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious.” —The New York Times Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Now this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

Download or read book Visiting the Minotaur written by Claire Williamson and published by Seren is the book. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claire Williamson's poems in Visiting the Minotaur are evidence of her adventures into the labyrinth of her past in a difficult and sometimes violent family. To uncover the truths she craves, she reconstructs circumstances, often borrowing characters from myths or paintings or legends, in order to come to terms with the dark facts of her childhood.

Download or read book The Minotaur written by Barbara Vine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Minotaur - a thrilling novel from the bestselling queen of crime Barbara Vine Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway. Despite being treated as an outsider, Kerstin is nevertheless determined to help John. But she soon discovers that there are others in the family who are equally as determined that John remain isolated, for sinister reasons of their own ... 'The reader is kept in suspense throughout . . . vintage wine from the Rendell vine' Independent 'The Cosway family is a mesmerizing creation... I rushed through the last pages' Penelope Lively, Sunday Times 'Stealthy, credible, ingenious and addictive' Literary Review 'The Rendell/ Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together' Ian Rankin The Minotaur is a modern masterpiece of the crime genre and will leave you gripped from the first page to the last. If you enjoy the novels of P.D. James, Ian Rankin and Scott Turow, you will love this book. Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym, including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include: A Dark Adapted Eye; The House of Stairs; Gallowglass; Asta's Book; No Night Is Too Long; In the Time of His Prosperity; The Brimstone Wedding; The Chimney Sweeper's Boy; Grasshopper; The Blood Doctor; The Minotaur; The Birthday Present and The Child's Child.

Download or read book The Mermaid and The Minotaur written by Dorothy Dinnerstein and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A seminal text in the womenís movement." –Ethel S. Person, author of The Sexual Century "Still the most important work of feminist psychoanalytic exploration, its re-release is a celebratory occasion." –Eli Sagan, author of Freud, Women and Mortality "[The Mermaid and the Minotaur] continues to astonish us with the depth and wisdom of its psychoanalytic approach even as its major ideas have become as unobtrusively essential to psychoanalytic feminism as the atmosphere." –Jessica Benjamin, author of The Bonds of Love

Download or read book The Minotaur written by Russell Roberts and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Minotaur is one of the most famous monsters from Greek mythology. This ferocious creature, half-human and half-bull, lived in the Labyrinth. Built by master inventor Daedalus, the Labyrinth was a dark, gloomy maze of passageways that twisted and turned so much that it was impossible for him to ever find its way out. But if the monster was imprisoned, so were the innocent girls and boys who were placed inside the Labyrinth as food for the Minotaur. Once inside the Labyrinth, these youths could not escape. Inevitably, the Minotaur found them and ate them. Into this grisly hall of death comes a young hero named Theseus. He has vowed to kill the Minotaur, or die trying. But he has no weapons, he only has a ball of string! Will Theseus kill the Minotaur . . . or will he be its next victim? Find out what happened to Theseus and the Minotaur, and about their legacy.

Download or read book Meeting the Minotaur written by Carol Dawson and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An audacious modern-day retelling of an ancient Greek myth. "A sinister, slapstick thriller."--USA Today; "An abundant feat of imagination deftly executed."--The Dallas Morning News; "An exhilarating, self-assured novel with brains, muscle, and an eccentric beauty that keeps catching us by surprise."--The Boston Globe; "Scenes that are as taut, gritty, and violent as those in the best noir thrillers."--Publishers Weekly.

Download or read book Suddenly the Minotaur written by Marie Hélène Poitras and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Guatemalan immigrant Mino Torres try to rape Quebec student Ariane? What was the failed attempt's aftermath? In this terse, prize-winning novel, Marie Helene Poitras, with an imagination tutored by the Minotaur myth, offers a controversial tale about a thug who exults in his ferocious urges and is as incorrigible as a primal force. Torres (the bull) enthusiastically and unapologetically seeks hectic transcendence through rape and recurring fits of epilepsy. Ariane (Ariadne), straying into his twisted, downtown Montreal labyrinth, suffers the consequences of his random sexual predation, though significantly, her refusal to be a terrorized and passive victim haunts him. Ariane's deliverance from his maze, her conquest of persistent fears, is prolonged past her assailant's capture. Once more she must learn to live and love - in particular, men - to pick up and follow the thread of human trust, to feel sure again about her flat's dark places and her walk-in cupboard's contents. On the site of the Berlin Wall, in a reunified Germany that has survived its own and other regimes' violent perversions, she permits herself to be gently hoisted up and passed from palm-to-palm over a vast and joy-filled crowd.

Download or read book The Journey written by Wesal Alammar and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ariana arrives at her new boarding school, Ravenwood School, where she befriends several other students, who come from different families. As the school progresses, the students quickly make new friends. Soon after the school year starts, Ariana and her friends discover keys. They learn that these keys unlock a portal to a magical school, Starlight Academy. However, a prank by one of the students leaves them vulnerable to danger.

Download or read book The Minotaur written by Ty Hutchinson and published by Ty Hutchinson. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What’s half-man, half-bull, and lives in a labyrinth? A nightmare. Mui and Ryan have escaped to Crete for a few relaxing days, but an encounter with a young woman whose uncle is missing puts them on a collision course with the Minotaur, a ruthless arms trafficker who lives up to his nickname. Will Mui and Ryan find the missing man, or will they fall victim to the Minotaur’s labyrinth? The Minotaur grabs hold of you on page one and doesn’t let go.

Download or read book The Legend of Kyomaru written by Caleb Brown and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventure begins when Zekoshimimaru Asarus team of twenty-five super-humans are threatened by another team of super-humans. This team sends a dragon to attack Zekoshimimarus team, but when the dragon fails, they send a mysterious letter that challenges his Zekoshimimarus team to travel to their mansion and fight them, or die. In this action-packed adventure, Zekoshimimaru and his team are threatened by much more than a dragon; they must travel miles away on foot, facing deadly obstacles along the way. One mistake could mean the end of their lives.

Download or read book Land of the Minotaurs written by Richard A. Knaak and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume in the Lost Histories series introduces readers to one of Krynn's most enduring and formidable races—the minotaurs Of all the peoples of Krynn, one race has remained strong in its pride and beliefs. The powerful minotaurs envision themselves as the children of destiny, the future masters of the world. Despite adversity, defeat, and enslavement, that belief has never wavered. If there is a foe capable of destroying the minotaurs, it is their own arrogance. As clan clashes against clan, the exiled champion Kaz must discover the terrible secret of the empire before he and his entire race suffer the disastrous consequences and implement their own demise.

Download or read book Kaz the Minotaur written by Richard Knaak and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old friends become new foes in this follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Legend of Huma, starring renegade minotaur Kaz After the defeat of the Dark Queen and the death of Huma Dragonbane, Kaz the minotaur wanders throughout Krynn, telling the tale of the land’s most legendary hero. Already hunted by his own kinsmen, he discovers that he has also been declared an outlaw by the Knights of Solamnia, who once hailed him as a hero. But he has no idea why. With old comrades now chasing him as a dreaded enemy, Kaz searches for the truth. But when he hears rumors of evil incidents, he returns to warn the Knights of Solamnia—and is plunged into a dark waking nightmare. Magic and treachery assail him from every side, but it is the ghosts of the past that may prove the most dangerous threat.

Download or read book Theros Ironfeld written by Don Perrin and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy stood on the dock of his fishing village and watched the minotaur war barge approach. It would change his life from a lad who would have grown to follow in the footsteps of his father, to the greatest weaponsmith in the history of Krynn. As a boy, Theros Ironfeld was captured and pressed to service under the minotaurs. As a man, he first fought draconians to a standstill in Solace, and later, by mysterious means, acquired a silver arm. And when the evil dragons came to conquer, he was the only man who could forge the fabled dragonlances necessary to defeat them. The Warriors series details the exploits of the heroes and villains of the War of the Lance.

Download or read book Reavers of the Blood Sea written by Richard Knaak and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaos's evil shadow sweeps over Krynn During the hottest summer in memory, minotaurs fight against the Knights of Takhisis, into whose hands their god Sargonnas has delivered them. In the midst of the conflict, the armies of Chaos plunge into the heart of Ansalon. Now the minotaur warrior Aryx must unite his people and their enemy, the knights, against the monstrous servants of Chaos. If he succeeds, the two sides may forge a bond that will change Krynn for all time. If he fails, then they will all perish. Richard Knaak, author of the New York Times best-selling The Legend of Huma, tells this thrilling tale of the minotaurs of Krynn in the time of the Chaos War.

Download or read book The Olympians written by Alda Yuan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the world of Kartha, the Achaean peninsula is the only place where the gods still hold sway. The Olympians, unhappy with their diminished position, hatch a plan to spread their influence. Caught in the middle is a young Spartan princess named Helen who becomes an excuse to begin a full scale war. What the Olympians don’t know is that a group of extraordinary immortals including Heracles and Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi, is gathering to oppose them. Led by Kyra, the Immortal Warrior, the group heads toward Troy to try to stop the war. Along the way, they encounter dangers at every turn as well as legends both friend and foe. It is only when they finally arrive at Troy that they discover restoring peace may take much more than they imagined. It may even mean having to defeat the wayward gods themselves.

Download or read book King of the Labyrinth Vol 1 light novel written by Shien BIS and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the tenth-floor boss room of the Sazardon Labyrinth, the mighty minotaur awakens once more. Unlike its predecessors, slain at the hands of treasure-seeking adventurers, this monster’s primal urges push it further than ever before. Kill. Consume. Grow stronger. The more powerful its opponent, the more powerful it becomes. Even the very rules of the labyrinth seem to bend to its indomitable will. Can none triumph against this bovine behemoth? Will the minotaur ever meet its match…?

Download or read book Minotaur Planet written by Thom L. Nichols and published by Thom L Nichols. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durf isn't dead. Brianna's Call is back.It's all happening again, but nothing is the same. The world is populated by minotaurs and it's all happening at the World Series. Finding Durf alive, Billy is transported to an alternate world where he finds Durf inhabiting a female baseball player named Billie. Trying to get to Brianna's call, and thinking that he went back in time, Durf didn't realize that Billie wasn't Billy and that the World Series wasn't the Super Bowl or even that Billie was a girl and not a guy. Making matters worse, Brianna's Call is being chased by a fleet of ships trying to figure out a way to use the magic. Unfortunately, they accidentally transformed it solid and now it's about to crash into the Earth. While trying to transform it back, Billy and the others are forced to confront Durfs from this planet, weapons left behind by the Norse Gods, and alien wizards all while pretending to be female baseball players.