The Minotaur

Author : Sheldon Oberman
Publisher : Tradewind Books
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781896580647

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The Island of the Minotaur by Sheldon Oberman Pdf

Illustrated by Blair Drawson. This chapter book of Greek myths presents the epic history of the Minoan civilisation. Connecting the great legends of Zeus and Rhea, Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur, Icarus and Daedalus, and Jason and Medea with the little known tales of the Bronze Giant, Phaedra and the Ash tree Spirits, this is the perfect introduction for young readers to the fascinating world of Greek mythology. Full-colour illustrations throughout.

Author : Benjamin Tammuz
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609459208

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Minotaur by Benjamin Tammuz Pdf

“With echoes of Kafka and Conrad,” the acclaimed Israeli author of Castle in Spain offers “a provocative, spare, slow-to-unfold mystery of character” (Kirkus Reviews). On the day of his forty-first birthday, Israeli secret agent Alexander Abramov encounters a beautiful young redhead on a city bus. He immediately recognizes her as the woman he has been searching for all his life, the one he has loved forever. Though they have never met, he is certain this young woman named Thea is an essential part of his life’s destiny. Using all the tricks of his trade and communicating through anonymous letters, Abramov takes control of Thea’s life without ever revealing his identity. Soon, Abramov’s desperate, dangerous love for a woman half his age consumes everything in its path: time, distance, and rival suitors. And for Thea, keeping her lover safe from the amorous “Mr. Anonymous” becomes an obsession of her own. Only Abramov’s own story, of a life conditioned by isolation, distrust, violence, and murder, can explain his devastating manipulation of the woman he professes to love. Hailed by Graham Greene as “the best novel of the year” upon its initial release in 1981, Minotaur is a highly inventive literary thriller.

Author : Richard Knaak
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786963126

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Kaz the Minotaur by Richard Knaak Pdf

Old friends become new foes in this follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Legend of Huma, starring renegade minotaur Kaz After the defeat of the Dark Queen and the death of Huma Dragonbane, Kaz the minotaur wanders throughout Krynn, telling the tale of the land’s most legendary hero. Already hunted by his own kinsmen, he discovers that he has also been declared an outlaw by the Knights of Solamnia, who once hailed him as a hero. But he has no idea why. With old comrades now chasing him as a dreaded enemy, Kaz searches for the truth. But when he hears rumors of evil incidents, he returns to warn the Knights of Solamnia—and is plunged into a dark waking nightmare. Magic and treachery assail him from every side, but it is the ghosts of the past that may prove the most dangerous threat.

Author : Anthony McGowan
Publisher : Oxford Children's
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1382055528

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I Am the Minotaur by Anthony McGowan Pdf

Super-Readable Rollercoasters: Super authors, super accessible, simply super-readable fiction Matthew wants to fit in, but it's hard when you're avoiding the bullies and trying to impress your dream girl, Ari. When Ari's bike is stolen, he tries to make a good impression by getting it back. Will it lead to trouble or will he learn that heroes are found in unlikely places? A gritty, touching story from Carnegie Medal Winner Anthony McGowan.

Author : Dorothy Dinnerstein
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781590514696

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The Mermaid and The Minotaur by Dorothy Dinnerstein Pdf

"A seminal text in the womenís movement." –Ethel S. Person, author of The Sexual Century "Still the most important work of feminist psychoanalytic exploration, its re-release is a celebratory occasion." –Eli Sagan, author of Freud, Women and Mortality "[The Mermaid and the Minotaur] continues to astonish us with the depth and wisdom of its psychoanalytic approach even as its major ideas have become as unobtrusively essential to psychoanalytic feminism as the atmosphere." –Jessica Benjamin, author of The Bonds of Love

Author : Alan Gibbons
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 0582848695

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Shadow of the Minotaur by Alan Gibbons Pdf

Phoenix is a death-defying hero of the Greek myths, battling the snake-haired Medusa and the invincible Minotaur...but only when he's not being bullied at the school that he hates. For Phoenix leads two lives - 'real life' and his adventures in side the virtual reality game The Legendeer.

Author : Kate Forsyth
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798200950263

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The Crimson Thread by Kate Forsyth Pdf

In Crete during World War II, Alenka, a young woman who fights with the resistance against the brutal Nazi occupation, finds herself caught between her traitor of a brother and the man she loves, an undercover agent working for the Allies. May 1941. German paratroopers launch a blitzkrieg from the air against Crete. They are met with fierce defiance, the Greeks fighting back with daggers, pitchforks, and kitchen knives. During the bloody eleven-day battle, Alenka, a young Greek woman, saves the lives of two Australian soldiers. Jack and Teddy are childhood friends who joined up together to see the world. Both men fall in love with Alenka. They are forced to retreat with the tattered remains of the Allied forces over the towering White Mountains. Both are among the seven thousand Allied soldiers left behind in the desperate evacuation from Crete’s storm-lashed southern coast. Alenka hides Jack and Teddy at great risk to herself. Her brother Axel is a Nazi sympathizer and collaborator and spies on her movements. As Crete suffers under the Nazi jackboot, Alenka is drawn into an intense triangle of conflicting emotions with Jack and Teddy. Their friendship suffers under the strain of months of hiding and their rivalry for her love. Together, they join the resistance and fight to free the island, but all three will find themselves tested to their limits. Alenka must choose whom to trust and whom to love and, in the end, whom to save.

Author : Emily Carr
Publisher : McSweeney's Poetry
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1940450500

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Whosoever Has Let a Minotaur Enter Them, Or a Sonnet-- by Emily Carr Pdf

How does a love poet fall out of her marriage and back in love with the world? What happens when you grow up to be the "kind of person who..."? These fairytales are for the heartbreakers as much as the heartbroken, for those smitten with wanderlust, for those who believe in loving this world through art. A singular flow of bewildered brilliance, Emily Carr's swiftly flowing sequence of love poems--divorce poems, really--engages the very real problem of falling out of love because (admit it!) you never think you will. No matter how many times it's happened before. Imagine it: not limiting love to the erotic but embracing endeavor, struggle, social change, and political action. Love as consciousness, inventiveness, and intention. In a world that hurts as much as it holds. Carr's swell of gorgeous psychedelia is presented in a lavish book-object befitting the work's interconnected, page-defying sweep of line upon line: between her thighs, the buffalo holding sky. saucers of mountain sway. deities spill, shining & suffering ... not forgetting we can't ever--whose fury sings like eagles-- skeletons unlean from fruit trees, falling like white gunsmoke, we want/ to be here. listen. the wind has blown all the birds from our hair.

Author : Russell Punter
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781409584995

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The Minotaur by Russell Punter Pdf

Brave Theseus takes on the challenge of defeating the terrifying Minotaur deep in a maze of tunnels below Crete. But will he return from the Labyrinth alive? An exciting retelling of the Greek myth, specially written for children who have just started reading alone. Includes links to recommended websites to find out more about Ancient Greece. "Crack reading and make confident and enthusiastic readers with this fantastic reading programme." - Julia Eccleshare

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Mythology, Classical
ISBN : MINN:31951000955099M

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A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pdf

Author : J. a. Rock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1626493138

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Minotaur by J. a. Rock Pdf

Know this: I am not a warrior. I am a disease. When I was six, my parents died. When I was sixteen, I was locked away in Rock Point Girls' Home. Nobody wants to deal with a liar. An addict. A thief. Nobody except Alle. She is pure, and she's my friend in spite of all the rotten things I am. There was once another girl like me-long ago. A cast-off daughter. A lying little beast who left a red stain across the land with her terrible magic. She's imprisoned now in a maze high up on the cliffs. They say she's half woman, half bull. They say she dines on human tributes and guards a vast treasure. They say she was born wicked. But I know her better than the history books or stories do. She and I dream together. Our destinies are twisted up like vines. Except I'm not going to turn out wicked like she is. I can save myself by destroying her. I'm going to break out of this place, and I'm going to enter the labyrinth and take her heart. And once I'm redeemed, maybe Alle will love me.

Author : Stephen Coonts
Publisher : Dell
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440207429

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The Minotaur by Stephen Coonts Pdf

“Move over Clancy! [Stephen] Coonts' power is his use of real and immediate crisis, and human failings, topics crying for discussion and worthy of high drama.”—John Lehman, former Secretary of the Navy After flying A-6 Intruders in Vietnam and commanding an air wing in the Mediterranean, Jake Grafton is grounded. He draws assignment to the Pentagon where he takes on development of the navy's new top-secret stealth attack plane—the A-12. At every turn, Jake encounters political and technical problems. Before long he learns of Minotaur, a mole hidden in the Pentagon who is funneling American defense secrets to the Russians. Who can he be? Jake sets out to find him.

Author : John Farris
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Minotaur by John Farris Pdf

Near-naked, flagrantly male, the Minotaur loomed out of the dark places of Greek mythology. Roaring, bull-headed, the creature advanced. The razor-sharp Cretan axe swung murderously, slicing through the air, through flesh, through bone. One by one its enemies died. Out of the past too came the plague – long-dormant seeds awakening to destroy. The victims would be legion, their deaths horrible. Yet behind the killing lay a plan, a purpose. A malign twentieth-century intelligence was calling up this hideous visitation.

Author : Marek Krajewski
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849166256

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The Minotaur's Head by Marek Krajewski Pdf

Breslau, 1939. When Abwehr Captain Eberhard Mock is called from his New Year's Eve revelries to attend a particularly grisly crime scene, even his famously strong stomach is turned. A young girl - and suspected spy - who arrived by train from France just days before, has been found dead in her hotel room, the flesh torn from her cheek by her assailant's teeth. Ill at ease with the increasingly open integration of S.S., Gestapo and police, Mock is relieved to be assigned to liaise with officers in Lvov, Poland, where a series of similar crimes - as yet unsolved - continue to cast a long shadow over the town. Once in Lvov he joins the ongoing investigation conducted by Commissioner Popieksi, a fellow classicist who relies on a highly unorthodox method of deduction.

Author : Sonia Elisabetta Corvaglia
Publisher : Starry Forest Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1951784014

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Theseus and the Minotaur by Sonia Elisabetta Corvaglia Pdf

Adventure into the epic and magical world of Greek myths with this brightly-illustrated introduction to the story of Theseus and the Minotaur for young readers. Colorful and easy to read, this retelling of Theseus' defeat of the Minotaur and the brings ancient myth to life--with a dash of adventure.