Stranger Than Fantasy

Author : George J. Mauro
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781438918730

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Stranger Than Fantasy by George J. Mauro Pdf

Fantasy is a phenomenon that affects all of us more than we consciously recognize. Are we not constantly daydreaming or dreaming of the future pondering our wishes and desires? Or, do too many people accept things as they are-readily to concede all appearances as gospel? Stranger Than Fantasy is a collection of forty fantasy short stories. Each story should be taken for what it is-for the most part, an entertaining excursion of fiction that challenges one's thoughts, one's acceptance of reality. Hopefully, after reading my stories, the readers will look at their lives, their life situations a little differently and finally stand up and exclaim, "That which is, is not and that which is not , is! And if that happens, then I think the world will be a little bit better off today than it was yesterday. George Mauro

Author : George J. Mauro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1438918747

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Stranger Than Fantasy by George J. Mauro Pdf

This is a true story~ A very personal, candid, and insightful collection of one's memories. Rape, fear, and abuse hurt. Anxiety, anger, and addiction hurt. Divorce, death, and depression hurt. Loneliness and betrayal hurt. For way too many years, she pushed everything deep down inside of her, while all along the way, she was allowing people: To take~ To have~ To break~ another little piece of her heart. She was hurting and needed to heal that hurt. She was broken and needed to be mended. With no one to help her, she had to find a way to help herself. Writing this book was a "Risk." But, by not taking the risk to write this book, she felt would be more painful than the risk itself. This book is a must read for anyone who has ever hurt.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Australia
ISBN : UOM:39015031723276

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Following the Equator by Mark Twain Pdf

Author : Susanna Clarke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608195350

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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Pdf

In the Hugo-award winning, epic New York Times Bestseller and basis for the BBC miniseries, two men change England's history when they bring magic back into the world. In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England - until the reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals his powers and becomes an overnight celebrity. Another practicing magician then emerges: the young and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's pupil, and the two join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wild, most perilous forms of magic, and he soon risks sacrificing his partnership with Norrell and everything else he holds dear. Susanna Clarke's brilliant first novel is an utterly compelling epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two magicians who, first as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its history.

Author : Sofia Samatar
Publisher : Small Beer Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618731159

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The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar Pdf

Four women — a soldier, a scholar, a poet, and a socialite — are caught up on opposing sides of a violent rebellion. As war erupts and their loyalties and agendas and ideologies come into conflict, the four fear their lives may pass unrecorded. Using the sword and the pen, the body and the voice, they struggle not just to survive, but to make history. Here is the much-anticipated companion novel to Sofia Samatar’s World Fantasy Award-winning debut, A Stranger in Olondria. The Winged Histories is the saga of an empire — and a family: their friendships, their enduring love, their arcane and deadly secrets. Samatar asks who makes history, who endures it, and how the turbulence of historical change sweeps over every aspect of a life and over everyone, no matter whether or not they choose to seek it out. Sofia Samatar is the author of the Crawford, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy award-winning novel A Stranger in Olondria. She also received the John W. Campbell Award. She has written for the Guardian, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and many other publications. She is working on a collection of stories. Her website is sofiasamatar.com.

Author : Robert Jackson Bennett
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316214513

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American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett Pdf

From one of our most talented and original new literary voices comes the next great American supernatural novel: a work that explores the dark dimensions of the hometowns and the neighbors we thought we knew. Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map: Wink, New Mexico. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different . . . "Perfect for fans of Stephen King and Neil Gaiman." -- Library Journal

Author : Sofia Samatar
Publisher : Small Beer Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781931520775

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A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar Pdf

Jevik travels to the city of Olondria where he is overtaken by a ghost from his past.

Author : Gilles Deleuze
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015082648166

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Desert Islands by Gilles Deleuze Pdf

An anthology of 40 texts and interviews written over 20 years by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, of which the early texts belong to literary criticism. Philosophy clearly dominates the rest of the book with a surprise admission by Deleuze that Sartre was his master.

Author : Daniel O'Malley
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316193276

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The Rook by Daniel O'Malley Pdf

Myfanwy Thomas awakens in a London park surrounded by dead bodies. With her memory gone, she must trust the instructions left by her former in order to survive. She quickly learns that she is a Rook, a high-level operative in a secret agency that protects the world from supernatural threats. But there is a mole inside the organization, and this person wants her dead. Battling to save herself, Myfanwy will encounter a person with four bodies, a woman who can enter her dreams, children transformed into deadly fighters, and terrifyingly vast conspiracy. Suspenseful and hilarious, The Rook is an outrageously imaginative thriller for readers who like their espionage with a dollop of purple slime. "Utterly convincing and engrossing -- -totally thought-through and frequently hilarious....Even this aging, jaded, attention-deficit-disordered critic was blown away."-Lev Grossman, Time

Author : Mark Lawrence
Publisher : 47North
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Dungeons and Dragons (Game)
ISBN : 1503903265

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One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence Pdf

Ready Player One meets Stranger Things in this new novel by the bestselling author who George RR Martin describes as "an excellent writer." In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he's dying. And it isn't even the strangest thing to happen to him that week. Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy world they visit in their weekly games, none of them are prepared for what comes next. A strange--yet curiously familiar--man is following Nick, with abilities that just shouldn't exist. And this man bears a cryptic message: Mia's in grave danger, though she doesn't know it yet. She needs Nick's help--now. He finds himself in a race against time to unravel an impossible mystery and save the girl. And all that stands in his way is a probably terminal disease, a knife-wielding maniac and the laws of physics. Challenge accepted.

Author : Aaron Starmer
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780374363109

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The Riverman by Aaron Starmer Pdf

Alistair Cleary is the kid who everyone trusts. Fiona Loomis is not the typical girl next door. Alistair hasn't really thought of her since they were little kids until she shows up at his doorstep with a proposition: she wants him to write her biography. What begins as an odd vanity project gradually turns into a frightening glimpse into the mind of a potentially troubled girl. Fiona says that in her basement, there's a portal that leads to a magical world where a creature called the Riverman is stealing the souls of children. And Fiona's soul could be next. If Fiona really believes what she's saying, Alistair fears she may be crazy. But if it's true, her life could be at risk. In this novel from Aaron Starmer, it's up to Alistair to separate fact from fiction, fantasy from reality.

Author : Renée Carlino
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501105784

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Before We Were Strangers by Renée Carlino Pdf

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M

Author : Zach Helm
Publisher : Newmarket Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : PSU:000067146116

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Stranger Than Fiction by Zach Helm Pdf

In this strange and delightful tale, an IRS agent named Harold Crick suddenly finds himself the subject of a narration only he can hear—narration that soon affects everything from his work to his love life to his death. Starring Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, and Emma Thompson, Stranger Than Fiction is a heartfelt film, perhaps a comedy, perhaps a tragedy, about love and literature and death and taxes.

Author : Steve McHugh
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781105714214

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Crimes Against Magic by Steve McHugh Pdf

Author : Max Frei
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590200605

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The Stranger by Max Frei Pdf

The Russian author’s international-bestselling series begins with this “well-written, well-paced grown-up fantasy with a strong dose of reality” (Kirkus Reviews). Fandomania.com’s #1 Book of 2009 To put it bluntly, Max Frei is a loser. He spends his day sleeping and at night he smokes, eats, and loafs around because he can’t catch a wink. But then he gets lucky. Through his dreams, he begins to contact a parallel world where magic is a daily practice—and, strangely, Max seems to fit right in. Once a social outcast, he’s now known in this new world of Echo as the “unequalled Sir Max.” He’s a member of the Department of Absolute Order, formed by a species of enchanted secret agents; his job is to solve cases involving illegal magic. And he’s about to embark on a journey down the winding paths of this strange and unhinged universe. “Fans of Jasper Fforde and Susanna Clark will happily jump into Frei’s world.” —USA Today “If Harry Potter smoked cigarettes and took a certain matter-of-fact pleasure in administering tough justice, he might like Max Frei, the protagonist of this fantasy novel.” —Kirkus Reviews