Crow Shine

Author : Christopher Gable
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781440831294

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The Words and Music of Sheryl Crow by Christopher Gable Pdf

Offering commentary, musical analysis, and detailed interpretation of her songs' lyrics, this book examines the qualities of Sheryl Crow's music that have served to establish the artist's success and popularity. Sheryl Crow continues to be celebrated for her legacy as a singer-songwriter and pop culture icon. This book provides an introduction to Sheryl Crow's entire music catalog. Organized into chronological periods of time, the author weaves biographical facts throughout a narrative rich with details about her songs: how they were created, recorded, distributed, and modified in live performance. Accompanying commentary features song analysis—including song structure, chord progression, and melody—and provides fascinating insights into the lyrical content of Crow's songwriting. The work begins with Crow's upbringing, her musical roots and influences, and how they manifested themselves in her later career. Subsequent sections delve into her road to success and eventual stardom, revealing how her rise to fame and widespread popularity was littered with broken friendships, acrimony, and suicide. The last several chapters follows her life after a diagnosis of breast cancer and the adoption of her sons. The work also includes a chapter on B-sides and rare songs by Crow.

Author : Alan Baxter
Publisher : Alan Baxter
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780645001921

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Shadow Bites by Alan Baxter Pdf

A SAMPLER OF ALAN BAXTER'S DARK FICTION Horror, crime, and dark fantasy. Four complete stories and the opening chapters of six longer books from Alan Baxter's extensive back catalogue. Featuring one full novella ("Out On A Rim" from The Gulp), three entire short stories ("Crow Shine" from Crow Shine, "Simulacrum of Hope" from Served Cold, and "The Normandy Curse"), plus the opening chapters of six longer books: Devouring Dark, Hidden City, Bound, Manifest Recall, Primordial, and Blood Codex. "Alan Baxter is Australia's master of literary darkness." – This Is Horror "Alan Baxter can take horror from gonzo to heartbreaking in an instant. Good stuff… Alan Baxter can write like a m***********." – Gail Simone, best-selling author of DC's Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman, and more "Alan Baxter is an accomplished storyteller who ably evokes magic and menace." – Laird Barron, author of Swift to Chase "Baxter delivers the horror goods." – Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World "Alan Baxter is one of the best horror writers in the business." – Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Turtle Boy, Kin, and Sour Candy "Step into the ring with Alan Baxter, I dare you. He writes with the grace, precision, and swift brutality of a prizefighter." – Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Ararat and The Pandora Room "Alan Baxter's thrillers have complete anatomy—muscles, brains, guts, and heart." – World Fantasy Award-nominated author, Anna Tambour "Alan Baxter delivers a heady mix of magic, monsters and bloody fights to the death. Nobody does kick-ass brutality like Baxter." – Greig Beck, Internationally bestselling author "Alan Baxter's fiction is dark, disturbing, hard-hitting and heart-breakingly honest. He reflects on worlds known and unknown with compassion, and demonstrates an almost second-sight into human behaviour." — Kaaron Warren, Shirley Jackson Award-winner and author of The Grief Hole "…fantastic storytelling in the vein of Neil Gaiman or Alan Moore, but with a merciless black streak…" – Spooktapes "…if Stephen King and Jim Butcher ever had a love child then it would be Alan Baxter." – Smash Dragons "Alan's work is reminiscent of that of Clive Barker and Jim C. Hines, but with a unique flavour all of its own.” – Angela Slatter, World Fantasy, British Fantasy and Aurealis Award winner “Baxter draws you along a knife’s edge of tension from the first page to the last, leaving your heart thumping and sweat on your brow.” – Midwest Book Review

Author : Alan Baxter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1925212408

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Crow Shine by Alan Baxter Pdf

The debut story collection by award-winning Australian dark fantasy writer Alan Baxter. 19 stories, 3 original to the collection. "A sweeping collection of horror and dark fantasy stories, packed with misfits and devils, repentant fathers and clockwork miracles." - Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters.

Author : Kent Redeker
Publisher : Zonderkidz
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780310424321

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LarryBoy, The Good, the Bad, and the Eggly by Kent Redeker Pdf

LarryBoy and fellow superhero, Dark Crow, scramble to learn a lesson in sharing. But it doesn’t come over-easy when they discover Greta Von Gruesome and Awful Alvin are the terrible team of trouble that has struck Bumblyburg with their new invention—the Over-Easy-Egg ray! Everything turns into a hard-boiled mess as this deceptive duo zaps everything in sight. LarryBoy has to learn that sharing means working together as he and Dark Crow team up to share the responsibilities of fighting this crime. Will LarryBoy learn that sharing means working together? Will he learn it before he and Dark Crow become the world’s biggest superhero omelet? See what happens in this exciting Larryboy adventure!Big Idea Productions: Sunday morning values, Saturday morning fun!Through imaginative and innovative products, Zonderkidz is feeding young souls.

Author : Carlos Castaneda
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520256468

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The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda Pdf

Author : Tabor Evans
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0515145092

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Longarm Double #2 by Tabor Evans Pdf

Twice the Western adventure—two original Longarms in one volume! LONGARM AND THE AVENGING ANGELS The Avenging Angels cult has stolen her away. A young Mormon beauty who’d spurned their leader’s offer of “divine”—and multiple—marriage. Now, she’s hidden somewhere in the Great Salt Lake Desert—a captive of love. And Longarm is supposed to find her, in a cruel-faced land of merciless sun. Or forever hold his peace… LONGARM AND THE WENDIGO Wendigo, the Evil One, has climbed down from the sky to stalk the Montana reservation, leaving a trail of broken bodies in the prairie sun. Or so the Indians say. Federal Marshal Long has other ideas—about outlaws, crooked land schemes, and a fiery mixed-blood beauty named Two-Women who, Longarm discovers, is more than enough for one man to handle…

Author : Marc Naguib,John C. Mitani,Leigh W. Simmons,H. Jane Brockmann,Timothy J. Roper
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780123942883

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Advances in the Study of Behavior by Marc Naguib,John C. Mitani,Leigh W. Simmons,H. Jane Brockmann,Timothy J. Roper Pdf

Annotation Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior. That number is still expanding. This thematic volume makes another important "contribution to the development of the field" bybringing together material that aggregates studies conducted on the behavior of tropical animals. Advances in the Study of Behavior is now available online at ScienceDirect - full-text online from volume 30 onward

Author : American Education Publishing
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781609963323

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Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills, Grade 3 by American Education Publishing Pdf

Designed by experts in education, this best-selling workbook features vivid and full-color illustrations to guide children step-by-step through a variety of engaging and developmentally appropriate activities in phonics, reading, reading comprehension, language arts, writing, and math. Answer keys included. 544 pp.

Author : Philip S. Harrington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139493680

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Cosmic Challenge by Philip S. Harrington Pdf

Listing more than 500 sky targets, both near and far, in 187 challenges, this observing guide will test novice astronomers and advanced veterans alike. Its unique mix of Solar System and deep-sky targets will have observers hunting for the Apollo lunar landing sites, searching for satellites orbiting the outermost planets, and exploring hundreds of star clusters, nebulae, distant galaxies, and quasars. Each target object is accompanied by a rating indicating how difficult the object is to find, an in-depth visual description, an illustration showing how the object realistically looks, and a detailed finder chart to help you find each challenge quickly and effectively. The guide introduces objects often overlooked in other observing guides and features targets visible in a variety of conditions, from the inner city to the dark countryside. Challenges are provided for the naked eye, through binoculars and the largest backyard telescopes.

Author : William P. Murphy
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798886042887

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The Whisky Testament by William P. Murphy Pdf

The Whisky Testament: Bibles and Guns By: William P. Murphy About the Book This work of fiction spotlights the most dangerous historical clash between pioneers and their fledgling American government in 1794, post-Revolutionary War. Its characters tread through racial, religious and political obstacles as daunting as the wilderness itself, in the epic struggle of western Pennsylvania for its identity. Intermixing mystery, romance, warfare and political intrigue with independence and freedom under a brand-new Constitution, the adventure has elements relevant to our present day.

Author : R. A. Lawson
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807146439

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Jim Crow's Counterculture by R. A. Lawson Pdf

In the late nineteenth century, black musicians in the lower Mississippi Valley, chafing under the social, legal, and economic restrictions of Jim Crow, responded with a new musical form -- the blues. In Jim Crow's Counterculture, R. A. Lawson offers a cultural history of blues musicians in the segregation era, explaining how by both accommodating and resisting Jim Crow life, blues musicians created a counterculture to incubate and nurture ideas of black individuality and citizenship. These individuals, Lawson shows, collectively demonstrate the African American struggle during the early twentieth century. Derived from the music of the black working class and popularized by commercially successful songwriter W. C. Handy, early blues provided a counterpoint to white supremacy by focusing on an anti-work ethic that promoted a culture of individual escapism -- even hedonism -- and by celebrating the very culture of sex, drugs, and violence that whites feared. According to Lawson, blues musicians such as Charley Patton and Muddy Waters drew on traditions of southern black music, including call and response forms, but they didn't merely sing of a folk past. Instead, musicians saw blues as a way out of economic subservience. Lawson chronicles the major historical developments that changed the Jim Crow South and thus the attitudes of the working-class blacks who labored in that society. The Great Migration, the Great Depression and New Deal, and two World Wars, he explains, shaped a new consciousness among southern blacks as they moved north, fought overseas, and gained better-paid employment. The "me"-centered mentality of the early blues musicians increasingly became "we"-centered as these musicians sought to enter mainstream American life by promoting hard work and patriotism. Originally drawing the attention of only a few folklorists and music promoters, popular black musicians in the 1940s such as Huddie Ledbetter and Big Bill Broonzy played music that increasingly reached across racial lines, and in the process gained what segregationists had attempted to deny them: the identity of American citizenship. By uncovering the stories of artists who expressed much in their music but left little record in traditional historical sources, Jim Crow's Counterculture offers a fresh perspective on the historical experiences of black Americans and provides a new understanding of the blues: a shared music that offered a message of personal freedom to repressed citizens.

Author : Ruth Wykes,Kylie Fox
Publisher : Clan Destine Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780995439429

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And Then... Vol 1 by Ruth Wykes,Kylie Fox Pdf

Adventure ~ Action Danger ~ Derring-do Rip-snorting action adventures of the What If... What Next... and, most importantly, the And Then... kind. A cohort of Australia's best genre fictioneers, and one bold Kiwi, present a fabulous and strange collection of action-packed adventure stories - each featuring two heroes. The two-volume And Then... anthology features page-turning and genre-bending stories by 32 award-winning, established and emerging Australian writers of crime and speculative fiction. The settings are historical, futuristic and contemporary; the heroes are human, animal, alien and mythical; and their adventures are real-world, far-out, speculative, horror, mystery, science fiction and fantasy. Welcome to And Then... Volume One in which 15 authors travel in time and space from Australia of the Gold Rush to an all-too possible dystopian future, from the Outback to Europe in the 1950s and the 21st Century, and from an apocalyptic New Zealand to worlds of steampunk fantastic and outer space exotic. Their heroes are flawed and fabulous, brave and humble; and their tales are enriched with panthers and budgies and demons and dragons - all manner of creatures real and endangered, ridiculous and heroic. And Then... the Great Big Book of Awesome Adventure Tales Volume 1 features: an introduction by Janeen Webb and stories by: Sulari Gentill, Jason Nahrung, Alan Baxter, Jason Franks, Lucy Sussex, Amanda Wrangles, Evelyn Tsitas, Peter M Ball, Narrelle M Harris, Dan Rabarts, Kat Clay, Sophie Masson, Tor Roxburgh, Emilie Collyer Tansy Rayner Roberts.

Author : Alan Baxter
Publisher : Gryphonwood Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hidden City by Alan Baxter Pdf

When the city suffers, everyone suffers. Steven Hines listened to the city and the city spoke. Cleveport told him she was sick. With his unnatural connection to her, that meant Hines was sick too. But when his friend, Detective Abby Jones, comes to him for help investigating a series of deaths with no discernible cause, Hines can’t say no. Then strange fungal growths begin to appear in the streets, affecting anyone who gets too close, turning them into violent lunatics. As the mayhem escalates and officials start to seal Cleveport off from the rest of the world, Hines knows the trouble has only just begun. Praise for Alan Baxter and Hidden City “Hidden City is a delicious supernatural noir, the song of a city of the lost with both Chandleresque and Lovecraftian undernotes and distant echoes of Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden. But it is very much its own thing, razor sharp, dark, compelling, cosmic and strangely touching all at once. Highly recommended.” – William Meikle, author of The Ghost Club “Poisonous fungi? Check. Murderous transformations? Check. Deep-down, bad-to-the bone evil? Check. Good old-fashioned horror? Check. Enter Hidden City at your peril.” - Angela Slatter, World Fantasy award-winning author of The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings. “Creepy. Visionary. Catastrophic. Apocalyptic. These are words occurring frequently in discussions of horror. But Alan Baxter’s Hidden City encapsulates them all to an unusually high degree.” – Michael R. Collings

Author : David Wood,Alan Baxter
Publisher : Adrenaline Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Primordial by David Wood,Alan Baxter Pdf

"Bone-cracking terror from the stygian depths!" Sometimes, the legends are true. When eccentric billionaire Ellis Holloway hires renegade marine biologist Sam Aston to investigate the legend of a monster in a remote Finnish lake, Aston envisions an easy paycheck and a chance to clear his gambling debts. But he gets much more. There is something terrible living beneath the dark waters of Lake Kaarme and it is hungry. As the death toll mounts, Aston faces superstitious locals, a power-hungry police chief, and a benefactor's descent into madness as he races to find the legendary beast of the lake. Adventure, Science Fiction, and Horror converge in the Sam Aston Investigations series by the USA Today Bestselling author of the Dane Maddock Adventures and the Australian Shadows Award winning author of The Roo! Praise for the Sam Aston Investigations! "Everything you'd want from a monster story – great characters, a remote location and a creature with bite! Mixing history and lore with science and action, David Wood and Alan Baxter have penned a thriller that is hard to put down." Jeremy Robinson, author of Island 731 "Bone-cracking terror from the stygian depths! A creature thriller that is both intelligent and visceral. I could hear the Jaws soundtrack playing on repeat, although that might have been my heart pounding." Lee Murray, author of Into the Mist "One of the best, the most thoroughly delightful and satisfying, books that I've read in quite some time. A serious out-of-the-park type of home run hit!" Christine Morgan, The Horror Fiction Review "As Adventure Thrillers go, you can't go wrong with Wood and Baxter!" The Grim Reader "The team who took aquatic terror to new depths are turning their talented attentions to caves deep below the Antarctic ice, where ancient carvings and strange symbols have been found, as well as a potentially invaluable crystalline energy source... it's is part At the Mountains of Madness, part The Thing, part Aliens… it's another summer blockbuster waiting to happen, full speed ahead and damn the special effects budget. Also, no sheep were harmed in the making of this book (that I know of)." Christine Morgan, The Horror Fiction Review "A great adventure story mixed with a creature feature! A book that grabbed my attention early and held on!" Brian's Book Blog "Renegade marine biologist Sam Aston is back for a second outing in what is shaping up to be a must-read aquatic adventure series! Danger and intrigue lurk both above and below in this action-filled, white-knuckle romp with a breathtaking conclusion!" Rick Chesler, author of Sawfish

Author : Alan Baxter
Publisher : Alan Baxter
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781393527176

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The Gulp by Alan Baxter Pdf

The Gulp (Tales From The Gulp #1) Strange things happen in The Gulp. The residents have grown used to it. The isolated Australian harbour town of Gulpepper is not like other places. Some maps don’t even show it. And only outsiders use the full name. Everyone who lives there calls it The Gulp. The place has a habit of swallowing people. A truck driver thinks the stories about The Gulp are made up to scare him. Until he gets there. Teenage siblings try to cover up the death of their mother, but their plans go drastically awry. A rock band invite four backpackers to a party at their house, where things get dangerously out of hand. A young man loses a drug shipment and his boss gives him 48 hours to make good on his mistake. Under the blinking eye of the old lighthouse, a rock fisher makes the strangest catch of his life. Five novellas. Five descents into darkness. Welcome to The Gulp, where nothing is as it seems.