Castles From Cobwebs

Author : J.A. Mensah
Publisher : Saraband
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781915089588

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Castles from Cobwebs by J.A. Mensah Pdf

Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and named among the 50 most notable new books from Africa, Castles from Cobwebs follows one girl’s transition from youthful innocence to understanding as she navigates questions about family, identity, and race. "I'd always known that I was Brown. Black was different though; it came announced. Black came with expectations, of rhythm and other things that might trip me up." Imani is a foundling. Rescued as a baby and raised by nuns on a remote Northumbrian island, she grows up with an ever-increasing feeling of displacement. Full of questions, Imani turns to her shadow, Amarie, and her friend Harold. When Harold can't find the answers, she puts it down to what the nuns call her "greater purpose". At nineteen, Imani answers a phone call that will change her life: she is being called to Ghana after the sudden death of her biological mother. Past, present, faith and reality are spun together in this enthralling debut. Following her transition from innocence to understanding, Imani's experience illuminates the stories we all tell to make ourselves whole

Author : Jan Wahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : UOM:39076006988526

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Cobweb Castle by Jan Wahl Pdf

Having read and dreamed too many fairy tales, the grocer sets off to live one, but finds the world not at all conducive to his fantasies.

Author : David Keck
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429988346

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A King in Cobwebs by David Keck Pdf

“A gritty, medieval fantasy full of enchantment” (Publishers Weekly), David Keck's epic Tales of Durand trilogy concludes with A King in Cobwebs Once a landless second son, Durand has sold his sword to both vicious and noble men and been party to appalling acts of murder as well as self-sacrificing heroism. Now the champion of the Duke of Gireth, Durand’s past has caught up with him. The land is at the mercy of a paranoid king who has become unfit to rule. As rebellion sparks in a conquered duchy, the final bond holding back the Banished break, unleashing their nightmarish evil on the innocents of the kingdom. In his final battle against the Banished, Durand comes face to face with the whispering darkness responsible for it all—the king in cobwebs. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Joseph Smith Fletcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:17011997

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Cobweb Castle by Joseph Smith Fletcher Pdf

Author : Abraham Norwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Universalism
ISBN : HARVARD:32044050974658

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The Acts of the Elders by Abraham Norwood Pdf

Author : Abraham NORWOOD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019555017

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The Acts of the Elders, Commonly Called the Book of Abraham, to which is Appended a Chapter from the Book of Religious Errors, with Notes and Explanation. New and Revised Edition by Abraham NORWOOD Pdf

Author : Abraham Norwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Universalism
ISBN : MINN:319510020983277

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The Acts of the Elders, Commonly Called the Book of Abraham by Abraham Norwood Pdf

Author : Shirley Jackson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1967-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0822212269

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Pdf

THE STORY: The home of the Blackwoods near a Vermont village is a lonely, ominous abode, and Constance, the young mistress of the place, can't go out of the house without being insulted and stoned by the villagers. They have also composed a nasty s

Author : Brown University. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : American drama
ISBN : UOM:39015082991871

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Dictionary Catalog of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island by Brown University. Library Pdf

Author : Jennifer Donnelly
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780358063681

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A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly Pdf

In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.

Author : Tammy Swoish
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780375846427

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Hot Scots, Castles, and Kilts by Tammy Swoish Pdf

Little does 16-year-old Sami Ames know what she’s in for when she and her mother head to Scotland to help their cousins save MacKensie Manor. Sami feels like she’s landed in a medieval time warp. There’s no electricity, no running water, or hair conditioner! But Sami joins in the challenges of daily peasant life in order to get MacKensie Manor up and running as a working farm tourist attraction. She can’t imagine people paying to make soap, dye wool, or milk cows. What’s worse, a ghost has invaded her room. Sami can’t figure out cousin Fiona, who obsesses over an ancient family feud with the McClintoggs, but Sami’s thrilled when she has a close encounter with a hot Scot. Too bad it’s Adan McClintogg!

Author : Scott Reeves
Publisher : Aether Wind
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Dream of an Ancient God by Scott Reeves Pdf

Samuel Walker is a painfully shy, bumblingly inept college student who always seems to have the worst luck at everything. Tasma Thompson is a gorgeous, carefree young woman who catches Samuel's eye. Unfortunately, she's repulsed by him. They're thrown together on a flight to Phoenix, but before they can exchange much more than names, the plane crashes in a terrorist attack and everyone on board dies. Or do they? Samuel and Tasma abruptly find themselves at the airport terminal, having missed the flight, but with memories of having died in the flight. Gothan Jiswa is an alien on a far off world, and the practitioner of a secret, forbidden religion. He senses that reality has been altered. The source is pinpointed: Earth. An invasion force is quickly mounted. Because in a galaxy where select beings are able to alter the quantum flux of possibilities, a practice strictly controlled by the galactic emperor and his minions, someone on far off, backward Earth has just managed to alter reality in a way that shouldn't be possible. But it is possible, according to an ancient galactic prophecy. And the one with the ability to do it is prophecied to overthrow the galactic empire, end a million years of oppression and usher in a new golden age. Gothan and his forces converge on Earth, starting a chain of events that will lead Samuel and Tasma on a wild ride across the galaxy and into the midst of religious zealots who force them to confront the possibility that one of them may be an omnipotent god whose coming was foretold billions of years earlier.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1360 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : American literature
ISBN : OSU:32435020110649

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Cumulated Index to the Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kendall R. Phillips
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781477315538

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A Place of Darkness by Kendall R. Phillips Pdf

“An illuminating history . . . it’s clear that the right story can still terrify us; A Place of Darkness is a primer on how the movies learned to do it.” —NPR Horror is one of the most enduringly popular genres in cinema. The term “horror film” was coined in 1931 between the premiere of Dracula and the release of Frankenstein, but monsters, ghosts, demons, and supernatural and horrific themes have been popular with American audiences since the emergence of novelty cinematographic attractions in the late 1890s. A Place of Darkness illuminates the prehistory of the horror genre by tracing the way horrific elements and stories were portrayed in films prior to the introduction of the term “horror film.” Using a rhetorical approach that examines not only early films but also the promotional materials for them and critical responses to them, Kendall R. Phillips argues that the portrayal of horrific elements was enmeshed in broader social tensions around the emergence of American identity and, in turn, American cinema. He shows how early cinema linked monsters, ghosts, witches, and magicians with Old World superstitions and beliefs, in contrast to an American way of thinking that was pragmatic, reasonable, scientific, and progressive. Throughout the teens and twenties, Phillips finds, supernatural elements were almost always explained away as some hysterical mistake, humorous prank, or nefarious plot. The Great Depression of the 1930s, however, constituted a substantial upheaval in the system of American certainty and opened a space for the reemergence of Old-World gothic within American popular discourse in the form of the horror genre, which has terrified and thrilled fans ever since. “[A] fascinating read.” —Sublime Horror

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1454 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124489555

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