The Fire Eater

Author : David Almond
Publisher : Hachette Children's
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781444921083

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The Fire Eaters by David Almond Pdf

There he was, below the bridge, half-naked, eyes blazing. He had a pair of burning torches. He ran them back and forth across his skin. He sipped from a bottle, breathed across a torch, and fire and fumes leapt from his lips. The air was filled with the scent of paraffin. He breathed again, a great high spreading flag of fire. He glared. He roared like an animal. That summer, life had seemed perfect for Bobby Burns. But now it's autumn and the winds of change are blowing hard. Bobby's dad is mysteriously ill. His new school is a cold and cruel place. And worse: nuclear war may be about to start. But Bobby has a wonder-working friend called Ailsa Spink. And he's found the fire-eater, a devil called McNulty. What can they do together on Bobby's beach? Is it possible to work miracles? Will they be able to transform the world? A stunning novel from the author of the modern children's classic Skellig - winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award.

Author : Jose Hernandez Diaz
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781680032093

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The Fire Eater by Jose Hernandez Diaz Pdf

Surreal, playful, and always poignant, the prose poems in Jose Hernandez Diaz’s masterful debut chapbook introduce us to a mime, a skeleton, and the man in the Pink Floyd t-shirt, all of whom explore their inner selves in Hernandez Diaz’s startling and spare style. With nods to Russell Edson and the surrealists, Hernandez Diaz explores the ordinary and the not-so-ordinary occurrences of life, set against the backdrop of the moon, and the poet’s native Los Angeles. The TRP Chapbook Series

Author : Robert Barnwell Rhett
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 157003348X

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A Fire-eater Remembers by Robert Barnwell Rhett Pdf

Some people called Robert Barnwell Rhett the Father of Secession. This book illuminates Rhett's role in secession's time and passage. It tells of Rhett's interest in secession doctrine as early as 1828 and his outspoken support of disunion fully a quarter-century before 1861.

Author : William C. Davis
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570034397

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Rhett by William C. Davis Pdf

Rhett first raised the possibility of secession in 1826, well before Calhoun adopted the notion, and would ever after hold fast to his one great idea. In this examination of Rhett's personal and political endeavors, Davis draws upon many newly found sources to reveal the extremism that would make and mar Rhett's adult life."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Fire-eater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590370037

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The Fire-eater by Fire-eater Pdf

Author : Thom Britton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0368012808

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Kiss the Fire Eater! by Thom Britton Pdf

Thom Britton might be the world's ONLY classically trained Chef AND professional fire eater!10 fantastic, tested and delicious recipes (plus a BONUS hot sauce recipe to melt your tongue) are included with step-by-step instructions to help you set your mouth on FIRE with flavor!Get out of the frying pan into the fire eating.

Author : Robert Minhinnick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015029292359

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Watching the Fire Eater? by Robert Minhinnick Pdf

A collection of essays covering a variety of subjects and locations. It includes a vivid series of attempts to strip away the exhausted mythologies of the writer's own country. Reprint; first published in 1992.

Author : Chris McIlwain
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588384126

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The South's Forgotten Fire-Eater by Chris McIlwain Pdf

The story of the American Civil War is typically told with particular interest in the national players behind the war: Davis, Lincoln, Lee, Grant, and their peers. However, the truth is that countless Americans on both sides of the war worked in their own communities to sway public perception of abolition, secession, and government intervention. In north Alabama, David Hubbard was an ardent and influential voice for leaving the Union, spreading his increasingly radical view of states' rights and the need to rebel against what he viewed an overreaching federal government. You have likely never heard of Hubbard, the grandson of a Revolutionary War soldier who fought under Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812. He was much more than that stereotype of antebellum Alabama politicians, being an early speculator in lands coerced from Native Americans; a lawyer and cotton planter; a populist; an influential member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama; and a key promoter of the very first railroad built west of the Allegheny mountains. Alabama's Forgotten Fire Eater is the story of Hubbard's radicalization, describing his rise to becoming the most influential and prominent secessionist in north Alabama. Despite growing historical interest in the "fire eaters" who whipped the South into a frenzy, there has been little mention until now of Hubbard's integral involvement in Alabama's relationship with the Confederacy. Now historian Chris McIlwain offers Hubbard's story as a cautionary tale of radical politics and its consequences.

Author : Eric H. Walther
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0807141518

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The Fire-Eaters by Eric H. Walther Pdf

Author : Kim Edwards
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101201770

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The Secrets of a Fire King by Kim Edwards Pdf

The first story collection from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Memory Keeper's Daughter With The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards touched hearts across the nation. In this, her first collection of stories-now with three new stories added-she explores the lives of those who exist on the fringes of society: a fire-eater, an American and his Korean war bride, Madame Curie's maid, and others. Though their tales vary dramatically, each comes up against the barriers of place and circumstance in the most universal of experiences: the quest to discover and understand the elusive mysteries of love. Transporting readers to exotic locations, this beautiful collection reinforces Edwards's presence as an extraordinarily gifted writer.

Author : Patricia Young
Publisher : Quattro Books
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781927443019

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Night-eater by Patricia Young Pdf

Sharp and strong as steel blades, the poems in Night-Eater fuse eerie beauty with gleaming wit, and strangeness with tenderness. In showing the intersection of the mundane and the domestic with the uncouth and uncanny, the author again lives up to such praises as "an artist ... whose sensitivity to language is characteristic of the truly great in poetry" (R. W. Stedingh) and "Young moves in and out of time and worlds, never flagging or faltering and takes the reader with her" (Susan Musgrave). These are "poems to understand life by" (Rick Gibbs).

Author : Megan Campisi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982124120

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Sin Eater by Megan Campisi Pdf

“For fans of The Handmaid’s Tale...a debut novel with a dark setting and an unforgettable heroine...is a riveting depiction of hard-won female empowerment” (The Washington Post). The Sin Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers Following Her to the grave, unseen, unheard The Sin Eater Walks Among Us. For the crime of stealing bread, fourteen-year-old May receives a life sentence: she must become a Sin Eater—a shunned woman, brutally marked, whose fate is to hear the final confessions of the dying, eat ritual foods symbolizing their sins as a funeral rite, and thereby shoulder their transgressions to grant their souls access to heaven. Orphaned and friendless, apprenticed to an older Sin Eater who cannot speak to her, May must make her way in a dangerous and cruel world she barely understands. When a deer heart appears on the coffin of a royal governess who did not confess to the dreadful sin it represents, the older Sin Eater refuses to eat it. She is taken to prison, tortured, and killed. To avenge her death, May must find out who placed the deer heart on the coffin and why. “Very much reminiscent of The Handmaid’s Tale…it transcends its historical roots to give us a modern heroine” (Kirkus Reviews). “A novel as strange as it is captivating” (BuzzFeed), The Sin Eater “is a treat for fans of feminist speculative fiction” (Publishers Weekly) and “exactly what historical fiction lovers have unknowingly craved” (New York Journal of Books).

Author : Sunyi Dean
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250810199

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The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean Pdf

"I devoured this."—V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue An International Bestseller An NPR Best Sci Fi, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction Book of 2022 A Book Riot Best Book of 2022 A Vulture Best Fantasy Novel of 2022 A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee A Library Journal Best Book of 2022 Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries. Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon—like all other book eater women—is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairy tales and cautionary stories. But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger—not for books, but for human minds. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : James Wilson (advocate.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021489276

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The Fire-eater by James Wilson (advocate.) Pdf

Author : Harry Houdini
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781602060777

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Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini Pdf

Magicians debunking charlatans and revealing secrets of the trade: it's not something that Penn and Teller or James "The Amazing" Randi invented. The legendary Harry Houdini was doing the same thing a century ago, to popular acclaim. In this 1920 book, the master showman-and surprisingly entertaining writer-uncovers the mysteries behind such extraordinary feats as fire-eating, sword-swallowing, snake-charmers, and strong men. More a simple expose of stage trickery, though, this is a brisk history of such oddities throughout history and around the world, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, from the culture of the Native Americans to that of Japan. This is a fascinating work of the strange and seemingly inexplicable made plain and understandable. Hungarian-American magician and professional skeptic EHRICH WEISS (1874-1926)-aka Harry Houdini, "Handcuff King and Jail Breaker"-also wrote Magical Rope Ties and Escapes (1920) and A Magician Among the Spirits (1924).