Download or read book The Wizard Strikes Twice written by Kenneth G Old and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frightened, they sent for Beyonder children to help. Those who come must always tell the truth. Although those children haven't yet arrived, the Little People, or Twith, are celebrating their victory in escaping detection. But now, the Wizard sets in motion an even more brilliant plan and doesn't intend to suffer defeat again. In the Wizard Strikes Twice you will find out how a birthday party gets turned topsyturvy and what trickery the Wizard uses to achieve his goals. The Twith realize they will need to take the battle into their homeland, but they must find a way through the invisible curtain that the Wizard put up all along the borders. Dayko's Rime, a poem written by the old high seer, gives clues to what must happen before the Twith can win the victory. Much of it remains a mystery, and the Twith enlist the help of Gumpa's brother to resolve some of that. When the Wizard Strikes Twice, you will fear for what might happen to these vulnerable tiny folk. Will they be able to overcome the wiles of the powerful Wizard or will they find themselves at his mercy?
Download or read book The Wizard Strikes Twice written by Patty Old West and published by Tate Pub & Enterprises Llc. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jock looks around at the children and wonders, Is th' rescuer o' Gyminge among them, or will i' be necessary ta wai' another 'undred years? Or e'en a thousand?Seven Little People, only half a thumb high, escaped when the wicked Wizard of Wozzle invaded their homeland many centuries ago. Up until recently, they lived quite securely and secretly at Gibbins Brook Farm. When he discovered their hiding place, however, he attacked, hoping to capture the lot. Frightened, they sent for truthful Beyonder children to help. Four have arrived, and soon the birds will bring even more help. But now, the wizard sets into motion an even more brilliant plan and does not intend to suffer defeat again. In the Wizard Strikes Twice Bajjer's birthday party goes topsy-turvy when a birthday present turns out to be something definitely not on his wish list. After the pitched birthday battle, the Twith realize they need to take the battle into their homeland, but they must first await the arrival of the Beyonder children and then find a way through the invisible curtain the wizard erected along the borders. Dayko's Rime, a poem written by the old high seer, gives clues to what must happen before the Twith can attain victory. With a lot of guessing and mystery, the Twith lay plans to repel the wizard's second strike and inflict a blow of their own. When the Wizard Strikes Twice, will the vulnerable tiny folk's plans succeed or fail against the wizard's magic? Will they be able to overcome the wiles of the powerful wizard or will they find themselves at his mercy?
Download or read book The Secret Quest written by Kenneth G. Old and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They stand only half a thumb high But have adventures as big as the sky. In The Secret Quest, the seventh installment in The Twith Logue Chronicles, Haymun, the goblin king, has returned to Gyminge under strict orders from the wizard. Bimbo and Bollin, the Shadow Brothers, have been sent on a secret quest. With Dr. Tyfuss, Haymun's court physician, on their side, they feel confident of success. But will their carefully laid plans be ruined when Bimbo and Bollin are captured? See how the smallest among us sometimes have the grandest adventures of all in The Secret Quest! The Twith, the seven Little People of Gibbins Brook Farm, survived the Wizard of Wozzle's invasion of their homeland many centuries ago. But their thrilling quests had only just begun! "I am really enjoying the book, and I can't wait to find out what happens next. " —Alyssa G., age 13 "It was so good I didn't want to put it down. I had to read 'just one more chapter'." —Sandie A. "This is a great book for young adults and adults alike! It is a book that will take you to another place and you will feel like you are right there in the story the entire time! Five star rating." —Meagan H.
Download or read book Beyonders in Gyminge written by Kennth G. Old and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyonders in Gyminge picks up where The Wizard Strikes Twice left off: the wizard has captured gran'ma and taken her to Goblin Castle, where she is now only half a thumb high. Gumpa is frantic to rescue her. The Beyonder children join forces with the Little People for the long march to Gyminge. In Beyonders in Gyminge, you will hold your breath as the rescue team navigates unexpected encounters and goblin ambushes. Jock has only half of his forces with him. The other half had to stay behind to defend the farmhouse against attack. The wizard is confident the goblin king and his troops can handle the invaders even though he has most of the goblin army with him on the Brook. In Beyonders in Gyminge, the fifth installment of The Twith Logue Chronicles, surprises await the rescue team all along the trail. As they approach the castle, events turn into a comedy of errors. The battle is fierce and some are badly hurt. What will happen to the Little People now?
Download or read book The Wizard For All written by Joan Walsh and published by RWG Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FUNNY, SAD, ENLIGHTENING--- THOUGHT PROVOKING INSIGHTS INTO AMERICAN HISTORY AND LIFE IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY-- NOT JUST ANOTHER JADED AMERICAN PYSCHE--- TAKE THE JOURNEY WITH TRAVIS N. TARKINGTON, A ROGUE DRONE KNOWN AS NINER, AND A CLONE NAMED ZEL AS THEY SEARCH FOR ANSWERS TO HOW HU-MANIMALS BECAME THE LEAST VALUED OF ALL SPECIES AND HOW THE ETERNALS CAME TO POWER. HE WEAVES A HUMOROUS YET DARK PICTURE OF THE FUTURE. "It was when I first read CS Lewis that I began to see that astute and watchful men were aware of this progressive movement during the ages in which they lived. Anyway, what Lewis was saying about his world in the 1940's was that socialism already waxed a sway over people. He talks about society being ignorant (willingly so) due to their attachment to the existing humanistic philosophies of his generation. Lewis wasn't the only writer to see this blackness creeping into the political agenda of men. Hundreds of writers throughout history knew of this sinister thread being woven into the mural of mankind. I had only found one small thread. I wanted to know how we got to the point where our own government killed us and called us Hu-manimals instead of people. It is so outrageous, so insane that I couldn't believe it myself, and how did you convince others of a plot even you could not believe? I needed proof. Of course the SG had sent these flying bird drones to kill off us remaining stragglers. The cowards had not come themselves. It was a numbing realization to know you were targeted for extinction. It struck me that reality had flipped flopped. It was hunting season in reverse. Blimy! This time the drone birds had the guns, and they were shooting first!" A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY, TRUTH, AND ONE THAT BY THE END BECOMES AS CLEAR AS A YELLOW BRICK ROAD-
Download or read book King Vidor in Focus written by Kevin L. Stoehr and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-08-12 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Vidor (1894-1982) had the longest career of any Hollywood director, and his works include some of the most dramatic, sublime moments in the history of American cinema. Regarded by many film historians as one of the greatest of silent era filmmakers--especially for masterworks The Big Parade, The Crowd, and Show People--Vidor is nonetheless one of the most underrated of Hollywood's "old masters" in terms of his overall career. His sound era films include Hallelujah, Street Scene, The Champ, The Stranger's Return, Our Daily Bread, Stella Dallas, The Citadel, Northwest Passage, Duel in the Sun, Beyond the Forest, The Fountainhead, Ruby Gentry and War and Peace. He also helped to establish the Screen Directors Guild and served as its first president. This book charts the ways in which Vidor's vast, complex body of work ranges over diverse genres and styles while also expressing his recurring personal interests in spirituality (especially Christian Science), aesthetics, metaphysics, social realism, and the myth of America. The first book since 1988 to give a comprehensive view of Vidor's career, it discusses his artistic evolution in a way that appeals to the general reader as well as to the film scholar.
Download or read book Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature A Handbook written by Jane Garry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an authoritative presentation and discussion of the most basic thematic elements universally found in folklore and literature. The reference provides a detailed analysis of the most common archetypes or motifs found in the folklore of selected communities around the world. Each entry is written by a noted authority in the field, and includes accompanying reference citations. Entries are keyed to the Motif-Index of Folk Literature by Stith Thompson and grouped according to that Index's scheme. The reference also includes an introductory essay on the concepts of archetypes and motifs and the scholarship associated with them. This is the only book in English on motifs and themes that is completely folklore oriented, deals with motif numbers, and is tied to the Thompson Motif-Index. It includes in-depth examination of such motifs as: Bewitching; Chance and Fate; Choice of Roads; Death or Departure of the Gods; the Double; Ghosts and Other Revenants; the Hero Cycle; Journey to the Otherworld; Magic Invulnerability; Soothsayer; Transformation; Tricksters.
Download or read book The Cursed Codex written by Matthew S. Cox and published by Division Zero Press. This book was released on 2020-02-09 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy roleplayers often get deep into their games, but thirteen-year-old Keith Croft is about to take it to a new level. He’s been invisible for seven years, smart but not working hard, athletic enough, but too lazy to excel. His parents are sorta cool, but only two weeks into his eighth-grade year, his friends are all busy with sports or projects and can’t hang out. On the way home one day, he stops at a neighbor’s yard sale and discovers a book for Crypts & Creepers that the lonely old woman says belonged to her granddaughter who disappeared without a trace. Days after he convinces his friends to try this bizarre game that doesn’t require electronics, strange noises in his closet wake him. His increasing inability to focus on anything other than a girl who vanished before he was born―and his obsession with her NPC ranger―drives him to dig deeper into the past, searching for what really happened to her. By the time Keith realizes the Gamemaster’s Codex holds something darker than rules within its pages, the curse that claimed the soul of a girl in 1987 has its claws in his group as well. Keith vows his friends will escape―even if he can’t.
Download or read book Savage Sword of Conan Volume 5 written by Roy Thomas and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains some of the most ambitious adaptations of Conan material to date, reprinting the epic battle that leads to Conan becoming the king of Aquilonia in "Conan the Liberator," the sword-and-sorcery classic "Sword of Skelos," and the exhilarating "Conan and the Sorcerer." Collecting selections from The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian issues 49 through 60, this volume also includes the frontispieces and pinups from each issue, drawn by such amazing talent as Ernie Chan, Carl Potts, and Neal Adams! As a special bonus, you'll find a companion piece to Savage Sword Volume 1's "A Witch Shall Be Born" story-that hasn't seen print since its original publication in 1980! * For the first time ever, these classic, uncensored tales are being collected in a series of omnibus-style books, with over 500 pages of sword-and-sorcery adventure in each volume — for the complete Conan collector! * A New York Times bestseller!
Download or read book The Knight written by Gene Wolfe and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality. Very quickly transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Able and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, a sword he will get from a dragon, the one very special blade that will help him fulfill his life ambition to become a knight and a true hero. Inside, however, Able remains a boy, and he must grow in every sense to survive the dangers and delights that lie ahead in encounters with giants, elves, wizards, and dragons. His adventure will conclude next year in the second volume of The Wizard Knight, The Wizard. Gene Wolfe is one of the most widely praised masters of SF and fantasy. He is the winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Nebula Award, twice, the World Fantasy Award, twice, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the British Fantasy Award, and France's Prix Apollo. His popular successes include the four-volume classic The Book of the New Sun. With this new series, Wolfe not only surpasses all the most popular genre writers of the last three decades, he takes on the legends of the past century, in a work that will be favorably compared with the best of J. R. R. Tolkien, E. R. Eddison, Mervyn Peake, and T. H. White. This is a book---and a series---for the ages, from perhaps the greatest living writer in (or outside) the fantasy genre. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Lamp written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Darwath Series written by Barbara Hambly and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 1129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a New York Times–bestselling author, three novels of a modern-day medievalist beset by murder and magic—“A fabulously talented writer” (Charlaine Harris). As a student of medieval history, Gil Patterson is a woman familiar with dark stories. She knows the Crusades, the Black Death, and the other horrors of the Middle Ages all too well, but it is another kind of atrocity that has begun to haunt her dreams. She sees forces of evil assaulting a beleaguered kingdom, whose kind people are on the brink of annihilation, and awakes each morning in a cold sweat. In The Time of the Dark, Gil dismisses the dreams until a wizard appears in her apartment. He has crossed into her dimension, passing through the fraying fabric of the universe, to ask her help. For mankind to survive he must protect an infant prince, whom he plans to hide in Gil's world. She is about to get much closer to evil than she ever imagined. In The Walls of Air and The Armies of Daylight, Gil and Rudy know the world is no longer safe and there is nowhere to hide from the Dark. Since the Dark Ones returned, the world has been laid to waste. The land’s wizards have been slaughtered, its cities destroyed, and its people scattered in terror. Few have witnessed more of the destruction than Gil and Rudy, and both of them will need all their strength to survive this final challenge. Ingold, the master wizard, has devised a spell to hide the user from the deathly stare of the Dark, and he intends to use it to strike at their very heart. Finally, Gil, Rudy, and the rest of mankind’s survivors will take the offensive, bringing an end to this terrible war, for better or for worse.
Download or read book Nathan Bedford Forrest written by Nathan Bedford Forrest and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Civil War biography sheds new light on the life of the legendary Confederate general before, during, and after the conflict that defined his legacy. Shelby Foote called Nathan Bedford Forrest one of the most authentic geniuses produced by the American Civil War, and Ulysses S. Grant said that Forrest was the only Confederate cavalry leader he feared. Sherman wanted him killed even if doing so broke the broke the Federal treasury and cost ten thousand lives. Arguably the best cavalry leader of the Civil War and undoubtedly one of the greatest in the history of mounted warfare, Nathan Bedford Forrest has been acclaimed and vilified, revered and hated, and still he is a man whose life defies categorization. This in-depth biography goes beyond Forrest’s war exploits. Here, historians Eddy W. Davison and Daniel Foxx depict a man as complex, brilliant, revolutionary, and tragic as the times in which he lived. In addition to revealing details about his childhood, marriage, and life as a businessman and civic leader, this comprehensive biography explains the alleged massacre at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, and the reasons for Forrest’s leadership in the Ku Klux Klan.
Download or read book The Book Buyer written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review and record of current literature.
Download or read book The Necromancer Book Two written by Paul Terence Matthias Jackson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wizard is born, but the Necromancer with his Phantom-Vampires and Dragon-riders has Museria in his grip. Is it too late for young Anaxan and the weary Muserians?
Download or read book Wizards Inc written by Martin H. Greenberg and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 15 original stories about those who earn their living through spellcraft From a boy who discovers life can be an illusion...to a man who maintains company security through enchantment...to a young woman who inherits a real magic shop...to a gambler who needs a sure way to beat the odds...to a woman who creates unique chocolates-here are 15 imaginative tales that run the whole gamut of wizardly professions.
Download or read book The Independent written by Leonard Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
