The Last Green Man

Author : Ian Pillinger
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781785893414

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The Last Green Man by Ian Pillinger Pdf

“What is the meaning of the hidden wall painting in the abandoned Church? Who is Seth? Only the Martyn twins can answer these questions...” Fantasy and magical young adult tale, The Last Green Man, follows the story of the fourteen-year-old Martyn twins, Jenny and Jake. They are sent to live with their grandparents in a deserted and failing Wiltshire valley, where they must adapt to a very different lifestyle. As they explore their new surroundings, their unexpected arrival is noticed by a mysterious creature emerging from materials ‘borrowed’ from the nearby landscape. At first, this chaotic assemblage of twigs, leaves and mud is childlike. However, watching and waiting out of sight, the furtive ancient being develops as the twins realise they must face a bewildering sequence of lost secrets... The truth behind rediscovered local stories encourages the elusive creature to become ‘Seth’, a vagrant who has unsuccessfully appeared in the valley many times previously. Seth reveals himself to the twins as ‘The Last Green Man’, and despairs believing an evil local family will never be overthrown without human intervention. Will Jenny and Jake agree to help or should they stay well away from this creature? The Last Green Man will appeal to children, aged nine and above, who enjoy reading fantasy and magical fiction. It will also interest those who enjoy adventure stories.

Author : Christopher Buckley
Publisher : Corsair
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780336770

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Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley Pdf

In 1994, Christopher Buckley published one of the most acclaimed and successful comic novels of the decade, Thank You for Smoking. Now Buckley returns to the strange land of Washington, D.C., in Little Green Men, a millennial comedy of manners about aliens and pundits . . . and how much they have in common. The reluctant hero of this hilarious novel is John Oliver Banion, a stuffy Washington talk-show host, whose privileged life is thrown into upheaval when aliens abduct him from his exclusive country-club golf course. But were his gray-skinned captors aliens . . . or something far more sinister? After Banion is abducted again--this time in Palm Springs--he believes he has been chosen by the extraterrestrials to champion the most important cause of the millennium, and he embarks on a crusade, appearing before a convention of UFO believers and demanding that Congress and the White House seriously investigate UFOs. His friends and family suspect that Banion is having some kind of manic-depressive midlife crisis and urge him to seek therapy before his credibility as a pillar of the punditocracy is ruined. So John Oliver Banion must choose: keep his establishment status or become the leader of millions of impassioned and somewhat scruffy new friends who want to expose the government's secret alien agenda. Little Green Men proves once and for all that the truth is out there. Way out there. And it reaffirms Christopher Buckley's status as the funniest humanoid writer in the universe.

Author : Michael Bedard
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781770495111

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The Green Man by Michael Bedard Pdf

When Ophelia's father heads off to Italy for the summer to finish work on his book on the poet Ezra Pound, O - as she prefers to be called - is sent by train to stay with her Aunt Emily, who runs a secondhand bookshop back east called The Green Man. Emily has recently suffered a heart attack. Part of the reason O is sent to stay with her is to see if she can help out with the shop. Part mystery, part fantasy, this compelling and beautifully written novel slips between the real world, and that of the creative imagination. Cloaked in the simple story of a young woman taking over a bookstore from her aged aunt, The Green Man is an eerie story about finding voice and courage, and about suspending disbelief!

Author : Carolyne Larrington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780857729347

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The Land of the Green Man by Carolyne Larrington Pdf

Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-frets: of wraith-like fog banks, druidic mistletoe and peculiar creatures that lurk, half-unseen, in the undergrowth, tantalising and teasing just at the periphery of human vision. How have the remarkably persistent folkloric traditions of the British Isles formed and been formed by the psyches of those who inhabit them? In this sparkling new history, Carolyne Larrington explores the diverse ways in which a myriad of fantastical beings has moulded the nation's cultural history. Fairies, elves and goblins here tread purposefully, sometimes malignly, over an eerie landscape that also conceals brownies, selkies, trows, knockers, boggarts, land-wights, Jack o'Lanterns, Barguests, the sinister Nuckleavee and Black Shuck: terrifying hell-hound of the Norfolk coast with eyes of burning coal. Ranging from Shetland to Jersey and from Ireland to East Anglia, while evoking the Wild Hunt, the ghostly bells of Lyonesse and the dread fenlands haunted by Grendel, this is a book that will captivate all those who long for the wild places: the mountains and chasms where giants lie in wait

Author : Reginald Haslett-marroquin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1601731388

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In the Shadow of Green Man by Reginald Haslett-marroquin Pdf

Author : Gary R. Varner
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780875864365

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The Mythic Forest, the Green Man and the Spirit of Nature by Gary R. Varner Pdf

In this world tour of folklore and ancient art, Varner examines the images we give to the spirit of nature and explores this important aspect of human perception.

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590176160

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The Green Man by Kingsley Amis Pdf

The owner of a haunted country inn contends with death, fatherhood, romantic woes, and alcoholism in this humorous and “rattling good ghost story” from a Booker Prize–winning author (The New York Times) Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, “I honestly can’t see why everybody who isn’t a child, everybody who’s theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn’t spend all his time thinking about it. It’s a pretty arresting thought.” He also happens to own and run a country inn that is haunted. The Green Man opens as Maurice’s father drops dead (had he seen something in the room?) and continues as friends and family convene for the funeral. Maurice’s problems are many and increasing: How to deal with his own declining health? How to reach out to a teenage daughter who watches TV all the time? How to get his best friend’s wife in the sack? How to find another drink? (And another.) And then there is always death. The Green Man is a ghost story that hits a live nerve, a very black comedy with an uncannily happy ending: in other words, Kingsley Amis at his best.

Author : Greg Leitich Smith
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781626720954

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Little Green Men at the Mercury Inn by Greg Leitich Smith Pdf

Beach culture and UFOs collide in this lighthearted adventure story about an alien encounter at an aging Cocoa Beach motel.Twelve-year-old Aidan lives and works at his parents' motel on the Space Coast in Florida, so he's seen a lot of weird stuff. Even his best friend, Louis, is a little bit crazy—he's obsessed with UFOs and swears he saw one two years ago. But things at the Mercury Inn are about to get a whole lot weirder. When an actual unidentified flying object suddenly appears in the sky over the motel, Aidan begins to realize that some of the residents of the Mercury Inn may be much more unusual than he thought. And Louis might not be so crazy after all. Filled with quirky characters and atmosphere, this beachy alien caper, like the aging motel where it takes place, is anything but ordinary.

Author : Tim Ellison
Publisher : Tim Ellison
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Green Man by Tim Ellison Pdf

Nick Web carries something around inside him that is older than time. An ex- sniper, he lives in a world depopulated to the point of extinction. For seventeen years, he has survived alone, off the grid. Rowan belongs to a small tribe of hunter gatherers, subsisting on the residue of a long-dead civilization. They carry secrets with them. Marcus Gantt leads a growing army of religious fanatics. Heavily armed, their convoy roams the deserted countryside looking to forcibly swell their numbers. Gantt has been chosen for a great purpose, and needs defenseless civilians to complete his masterwork. In the rolling hills and meadows of England’s West Country, three fates are irrevocably entwined, and Nick starts to understand his true nature, his place in the world. As Midsummer’s Eve approaches, he must risk his life and sanity to release his dark burden upon the world and save the people he has come to love; the people who hold the key to his redemption. In The Green Man, the land is awake and the Old Gods are set free upon the world…...

Author : Janice Blaine,Adria Laycraft
Publisher : EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770530393

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Urban Green Man by Janice Blaine,Adria Laycraft Pdf

The stories in this anthology are ripe with magic of new beginnings and will change the way you look at life, forever. With an introduction by Charles deLint Urban Green Man is a large anthology of urban and contemporary short literature; from an international cast of authors. Every story follows the theme of renewal surrounding the mythology of the Green Man.

Author : A. L. O'Connor
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480883086

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The Eagle in Green Man’s Clearing by A. L. O'Connor Pdf

The Romans come to Britannia with one mission: settle their people and add Britannia to their ever-expanding empire. In first century AD, centurion Quintus Agricolanus travels to Gosbecks. Power-hungry Rome seeks to make Gosbecks a colonia for retiring soldiers but must first clear out its current occupants. To achieve this, they enter into treaties with local Celtic tribes, but these treaties are heavily slanted toward the Roman government and levy unrealistic taxes on the indigenous people. Beyond the Celts, the Romans must also deal with the Druids of Britannia: religious leaders that act in judicial roles. The Druids are a serious source of potential problems, so the Romans strive to stamp out this priestly class. However, they do not manage to kill all of them, as some Druids escape to spread word of these horrors. The Romans hope to establish their colony by changing the native people—but will they end up changed instead?

Author : R. M. Brandon
Publisher : Gypsy Shadow Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781619500808

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The Green Man's Curse by R. M. Brandon Pdf

Rein's summer of dreams will soon become a season of nightmares. What begins as a farewell trip for a group of eight lifelong suburban friends becomes far more permanent than they had planned. When a four-wheeler accident in an ancient forest awakens a centuries-old curse, new friends are made and old friends die. Wrapped in a world unlike anything she ever imagined, Rein is forced to confront the demons of her family's past. As she denies the love she feels for her best friend's twin brother, Conley, they fight an array of magical beasts whose sole intention is to kill anything human and reclaim the earth for their own.

Author : Dean Wesley Smith,Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743418362

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Little Green Men by Dean Wesley Smith,Kristine Kathryn Rusch Pdf

After the citizens of Roswell begin to turn a greenish color, Liz searches for a scientific explanation and a cure before the alien heritage of Max, Michael, and Isabel is revealed.

Author : James Coulter
Publisher : Author House
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467014885

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The Green Man Unmasked by James Coulter Pdf

A relic from our pagan past; a fertility symbol; the spirit of vegetation; Jack-in-the-Green, Herne the Hunter or Robin Hoodall of these descriptions and many more have been advanced to explain the identity of the strange and often outlandish image which glares so balefully from rood screen and roof boss in so many places of Christian worship throughout Western Europe. Invariably depicting a male human head, it is by any reckoning a most unusual image and while exhibiting countless variations, the predominant feature common to all is the vegetation issuing in luxuriant profusion from the mouth and coiling around the head in fantastic shapes and patterns; a feature which has no known counterpart in nature. It is the Green Man so-called by generations of environmentalists and folklore enthusiasts. But such interpretations beg the questionwhy does the image occur predominantly within a Christian context with a frequency second only to that of Christ Himself. . Who is the Green Man and what does his widespread presence signify? The author believes that the answer to this age-old riddle may be found in a number of medieval works such as the apocryphal gospels, the Bestiary and the Legend of the Rood all of which would have been familiar to scholars and teachers of the period. Although never part of the official canon, these nevertheless had a considerable influence on the teaching of the medieval Church and the imagery which it employed to illustrate it for the benefit of illiterate or semi-literate congregations. The present study represents a radical departure from the previously received wisdom on the subject and advances the hypothesis that far from being a pagan fertility symbol, the Green Man is a lead player in the great scriptural drama of the Creation, the Fall of Man and his ultimate redemption.

Author : Bob Curran
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781601639301

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Walking With the Green Man by Bob Curran Pdf

Almost since the dawn of time, the image of the Green Man—the carven enigmatic head surrounded by leaves and foliage—has both intrigued and mystified viewers and folklorists alike. Appearing in churches, taverns, and even on stately buildings, the carving seems shrouded in supernatural obscurity. Is it merely a fertility symbol, or is it something much deeper, which calls for a response from us all? Though it seems a predominantly Celtic icon, does the concept of the Green Man also appear in other places and in other cultures? What is its relevance for the world today? In an absorbing new book, Dr. Bob Curran traces the many strands that make up this enigmatic image. Tracing its origins from prehistoric times, he explores its significance in the medieval world and discusses its development in the modern world. He also investigates the image’s psychological appeal, which has allowed it to continue down through the ages, and, pulling from a variety of sources, its impact upon other cultures in various parts of the world. From heroic archetypes such as Robin Hood to Demigods such as Herne the Hunter; from the King of the Woods to the Jack in the Green, Walking With the Green Man examines the interconnection of man and Nature throughout history. Whether as a man amongst the trees, a man of the trees, or a symbol of Nature used to express secrets and solidarity, the Green Man’s visage is traced throughout lands and cultures. Walking With the Green Man will appeal to all those who are interested in the image of the Green Man as an example of symbolic art, as well as to those who are interested in folklore and the interplay between folklore and culture. It is a fascinating study, which not only examines the history of the icon but also its development within human perception.