Dance Hall Of The Dead

Author : Tony Hillerman
Publisher : Harper
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061808385

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Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young ZuÑi. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig . . . and a steel hypodermic needle. And the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the ZuÑi people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn's already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice or, worse still, to kill again.

Author : Tony Hillerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0861046935

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Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman Pdf

Kriminalroman.

Author : Tony Hillerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Chee, Jim (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0752852825

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Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman Pdf

Two young boys suddenly disappear. One of them, a Zuni, leaves a pool of blood behind. Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo tribal Police tracks the brutal killer. Three things complicate the search: an archeological dig, a steel hypodermic needle, and the strange laws of the Zuni. Compelling, terrifying, and highly suspenseful, Dance Hall of the Dead never relents from first page till last.

Author : Hans Holbein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Dance of Death
ISBN : NYPL:33433082298138

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The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein Pdf

Author : Christopher T. Nelson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822390077

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Dancing with the Dead by Christopher T. Nelson Pdf

Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. Nelson explores the work of a circle of Okinawan storytellers, ethnographers, musicians, and dancers deeply engaged with the legacies of a brutal Japanese colonial era, the almost unimaginable devastation of the Pacific War, and a long American military occupation that still casts its shadow over the islands. The ethnographic research that Nelson conducted in Okinawa in the late 1990s—and his broader effort to understand Okinawans’ critical and creative struggles—was inspired by his first visit to the islands in 1985 as a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. Nelson analyzes the practices of specific performers, showing how memories are recalled, bodies remade, and actions rethought as Okinawans work through fragments of the past in order to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life. Artists such as the popular Okinawan actor and storyteller Fujiki Hayato weave together genres including Japanese stand-up comedy, Okinawan celebratory rituals, and ethnographic studies of war memory, encouraging their audiences to imagine other ways to live in the modern world. Nelson looks at the efforts of performers and activists to wrest the Okinawan past from romantic representations of idyllic rural life in the Japanese media and reactionary appropriations of traditional values by conservative politicians. In his consideration of eisā, the traditional dance for the dead, Nelson finds a practice that reaches beyond the expected boundaries of mourning and commemoration, as the living and the dead come together to create a moment in which a new world might be built from the ruins of the old.

Author : Robert R. McCammon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Good and evil
ISBN : 1596065370

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I Travel by Night by Robert R. McCammon Pdf

Civil War soldier and partial vampire Trevor Lawson travels by night, working to combat evil and hunting LaRouge, the vampire queen who turned him. If he can trap LaRouge and drink from her, he may be able to return to mortal life. In this adventure he may gain the help of an unexpected ally or find himself sinking deeper into darkness.

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180948388

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The Dead by James Joyce Pdf

One of the greatest short stories in world literature. »He single-handedly killed the 19th century.« T. S. Eliot »James Joyce revolutionized 20th-century literature.« Time Magazine After a visitation from the dead - through something as concrete as someone singing a particular Irish song - Gabriel Conroy is struck by the profound realization of how superficially he has always loved his wife, Gretta. The image of the falling snow around them, deepening into a cosmic metaphor for life and death as the story progresses, has been called the most beautiful snowfall in literary history. JAMES JOYCE [1882-1941], Irish author, is a key figure in modernist literature with works such as Dubliners [1914], A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [1916], and Ulysses [1922].

Author : Margaret Chittenden
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corporation
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1575661845

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Dead Men Don't Dance by Margaret Chittenden Pdf

For Charlie Plato, managing a country-western nightclub presents one adventure after another, especially when former TV heartthrob Zack Hunter runs for political office. When Zack's opponent turns up dead--in Zack's car trunk--Charlie does some sleuthing and finds a picture that's far from pretty.

Author : Kim Scott
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408829288

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That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott Pdf

Throughout Bobby Wabalanginy's young life the ships have been arriving, bringing European settlers to the south coast of Western Australia, where Bobby's people, the Noongar people, have always lived. Bobby, smart, resourceful and eager to please, has befriended the settlers, joining them as they hunt whales, till the land, and work to establish their new colony. He is welcomed into a prosperous white family and eventually finds himself falling in love with the daughter, Christine.But slowly - by design and by hazard - things begin to change. Not everyone is so pleased with the progress of the white colonists. Livestock mysteriously starts to disappear, crops are destroyed, there are 'accidents' and injuries on both sides. As the Europeans impose ever-stricter rules and regulations in order to keep the peace, Bobby's Elders decide they must respond in kind, and Bobby is forced to take sides, inexorably drawn into a series of events that will for ever change the future of his country.That Deadman Dance is haunted by tragedy, as most stories of first contact between European and native peoples are. But through Bobby's life, this novel exuberantly explores a moment in time when things might have been different, when black and white lived together in amazement rather than fear of the other, and when the world suddenly seemed twice as large and twice as promising.

Author : Tim O'Shei
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 142960090X

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Left for Dead! by Tim O'Shei Pdf

Describes the rescue of Lincoln Hall after he was stranded overnight near the top of Mount Everest.

Author : Ptolemy Tompkins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781451616538

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The Modern Book of the Dead by Ptolemy Tompkins Pdf

A modern, all-encompassing exploration of what happens after death combines spirituality with philosophy, history, and science, all of which guide readers toward the timeless truth that human consciousness lives on after death.

Author : Tony Hillerman
Publisher : HarperTorch
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061000019

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The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman Pdf

Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer. There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of a Wolf-Witch is leading him where even the bravest men fear, on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.

Author : Heather Gilion,Holly Snell
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Bereavement
ISBN : 9781607998716

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Dancing on My Ashes by Heather Gilion,Holly Snell Pdf

Holly and Heather share their story and help to walk the reader through the painful yet necessary healing process for when life deals us its harshest blows. Dancing on my ashes soothes and empathizes with the broken heart, while sharing the truth of scripture, and the hope that comes from the heart of God.

Author : Tony Hillerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2003040711

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Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman Pdf

Author : Jerry Kruz
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781771600248

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The Afterthought by Jerry Kruz Pdf

The Afterthought brings back into focus the psychedelic sixties in all of their purple-haze glory, as seen through the eyes of legendary west coast music promoter and entrepreneur Jerry Kruz. Using the historical posters as a timeline, Kruz's recollections are a celebration of the resiliency of Woodstock-era arts and culture and foundational musical acts like the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Steve Miller, The Collectors (Chilliwack), Tom Northcott Trio, Country Joe & the Fish and many more. Complete with selected discographies and band biographies for many of the musical acts included in the book, The Afterthought is illustrated throughout with selections from the folk-inspired and psychedelia-fuelled artwork of legendary artists Bob Masse and Frank Lewis.