The Running Of Beasts

Author : Bill Pronzini,Barry N. Malzberg
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612321219

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The Running of Beasts by Bill Pronzini,Barry N. Malzberg Pdf

THEY ARE DEAD. THEY ARE HIDEOUSLY DEAD. FIVE WOMEN ARE DEAD. A HOMICIDAL MANIAC HAS KILLED FIVE WOMEN. Three down when Ferrara, a psychiatrist, and Valerie Broome, New York feature writer, arrive in the Adirondacks to see when the local Jack the Ripper will kill again. Fatalities and failed assaults ensue. Is it Steven Hook, failed actor, alcoholic, track loser? Or Jack Cross, local newspaperman, with too much mother and a girl who's pregnant? They have their reasons to rage against women...

Author : Bill Pronzini,Barry N. Malzberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Serial murders
ISBN : 0449230619

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The Running of Beasts by Bill Pronzini,Barry N. Malzberg Pdf

Author : Audrée Wilhelmy
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487006112

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The Body of the Beasts by Audrée Wilhelmy Pdf

Disturbing and sensuous, Audrée Wilhelmy’s tale of a hermetic family minding a lighthouse in willed isolation is reminiscent of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The Body of Beasts is a startling, gorgeously written novel that tells the story of the Borya family living in isolation. Their lives are altered when young Osip, peering from the lighthouse gallery sees a woman, Noé, arrive — her dress scant, her skin curiously scarred, and her manner mysterious and wild. Noé bears a child, Mie, to the eldest son on whose hunter-gathering the Borya family depends. She lives in a cabin on her own and covers the walls with drawings that allude to her mysterious life. The family’s entrenchment in nature is enthrallingly conveyed in young Mie’s sensuous ability to borrow at will the body of mammals, birds, fish, and insects. Her shape-shifting allows her to know the ways of the natural world, though only to a point. When her own awakening body starts to intrigue her, she asks her uncle Osip to “teach me human sex.” The Body of the Beasts is an imaginative tour de force, a beautifully described portrait of a world that exists outside of words; an uninhibited and erotic novel that, in the singular tradition of Québécois Boreal Gothic, explores our humanity — and animal nature.

Author : Gervase Markham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1683
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022396566

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Cheap and good husbandry, for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowls ... The fourteenth impression. [The dedication leaf and “To the courteous reader” signed: G. M., i.e. Gervase Markham.] by Gervase Markham Pdf

Author : Ashley Poston
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062847386

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Among the Beasts & Briars by Ashley Poston Pdf

Ashley Poston, acclaimed author of Heart of Iron, returns with a dark, lush fairy tale–inspired fantasy for fans of Sara Raasch and Susan Dennard. Cerys is safe in the Kingdom of Aloriya. Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that borders the kingdom. But as Aloriya prospered, the woods grew dark, cursed, and forbidden. Cerys knows this all too well: When she was young, she barely escaped as the woods killed her friends and her mother. Now Cerys carries a small bit of the curse—the magic—in her blood, a reminder of the day she lost everything. As a new queen is crowned, however, things long hidden in the woods descend on the kingdom itself. Cerys is forced on the run, her only companions a small and irritating fox from the royal garden and the magic in her veins. It’s up to her to find the legendary Lady of the Wilds and beg for a way to save her home. But the road is darker and more dangerous than she knows, and as secrets from the past are uncovered amid the teeth and roots of the forest, it’s going to take everything she has just to survive.

Author : James Wade
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781665024068

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Beasts of the Earth by James Wade Pdf

James Wade, whose first two novels were praised as “rhapsodic” and “haunting,” delivers his most powerful work to date—a chilling parable about the impossible demands of hate and love, trauma and goodness, vividly set in the landscapes of Texas and Louisiana. Beasts of the Earth tells the story of Harlen LeBlanc, a dependable if quiet employee of the Carter Hills High School’s grounds department whose carefully maintained routine is overthrown by an act of violence. As the town searches for answers, LeBlanc strikes out on his own to exonerate a friend while drawing the eyes of the law to himself and fending off unwelcome voices that call for a sterner form of justice. Twenty years earlier, young Michael Fischer dreads the return of his father from prison. He spends his days stealing from trap lines in the Louisiana bayou to feed his fanatically religious mother and his cherished younger sister, Doreen. When his father eventually returns, an evil arrives in Michael’s life that sends him running from everything he has ever known. He is rescued by a dying poet and his lover, who extract from him a promise: to be a good man, whatever that may require. Beasts of the Earth deftly intertwines these stories, exploring themes of time, fate, and free will, to produce a revelatory conclusion that is both beautiful and heartbreaking.

Author : Varian Johnson
Publisher : Spirit Animals: Fall of the Be
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1338189824

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The Wildcat's Claw by Varian Johnson Pdf

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Author : Varian Johnson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338116687

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The Wildcat's Claw (Spirit Animals: Fall of the Beasts, Book 6) by Varian Johnson Pdf

The four heroes of Erdas are fugitives on the run in this new chapter of the New York Times bestselling series! The Heroes of Erdas are wanted fugitives. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have saved their world from countless threats. They are guardians from across the globe, united by their legendary spirit animals under one banner. But now the young heroes are running for their lives, framed for a crime they didn't commit.Branded as traitors, the four must uncover the plot against them, all while unraveling the mysteries of a set of powerful relics tied to an ancient secret.Their search brings Conor home to Trunswick, where there will be no hero's welcome. They find the city transformed: the castle burned to ground and the townsfolk poor and desperate. With a handsome reward offered for their capture, who can the heroes trust?

Author : Edward Topsell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136956577

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The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects by Edward Topsell Pdf

First Published in 1967. This is volume one of three of The History of Four- footed Beasts taken principally from the ‘ Historite Animalium’ of Conrad Gesner. During the first decade of the seventeenth century, when Topsell prepared his translation, zoology had just become a science. It has a unique place: It was the first major book on animals printed in Great Britain in English; and it appeared at the last moment in history when all zoological knowledge since antiquity could be summarized sympathetically, before it was rendered a curiosity by the many new discoveries soon to come.

Author : Diane Magras
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780735229334

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Secret of the Shadow Beasts by Diane Magras Pdf

For fans of Dragon Pearl and the Lockwood & Co. series comes a swift-moving contemporary fantasy about a young girl tasked with destroying deadly shadow creatures. In Brannland, terrifying beasts called Umbrae roam freely once the sun sets, so venomous that a single bite will kill a full-grown adult—and lately, with each day that passes, their population seems to double. The only people who can destroy them are immune children like Nora, who are recruited at the age of seven to leave their families behind and begin training at a retrofitted castle called Noye’s Hill. But despite her immunity, Nora’s father refused to let her go. Now, years after his death by Umbra attack, Nora is twelve, and sees her mother almost killed by the monsters too. That’s when Nora decides it’s time for her to join the battle. Once she arrives at Noye’s Hill, though, she and her new friends are left with more questions than answers: Where are the Umbrae coming from? Could the government be covering up the true reason their population has whirled out of control? And was Nora’s father, the peaceful, big-hearted man who refused to let Nora fight, in on the treacherous secret?

Author : Beth Brower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 099806369X

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The Beast of Ten by Beth Brower Pdf

THE DEATH BLEAK: For centuries he has haunted the nations, taking the blood gain further than any before him. THE PYRE: His storied stronghold deep in the Forest of Naeethe. AND I, EMBER: Sent by the Lights to stop him from becoming the one thing that all nations fear the most.

Author : Eliot Schrefer
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545830010

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Immortal Guardians (Spirit Animals: Fall of the Beasts, Book 1) by Eliot Schrefer Pdf

A dark threat faces the world of Erdas in this riveting new saga from the New York Times bestselling series. A heart-pounding new adventure from the New York Times bestselling series.In the world of Erdas, every child must discover if they will summon a spirit animal, a rare and incredible gift. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan were rare even among those few. They summoned legendary animals--brave guardians who were reborn to protect their world. Now more of these legends are appearing across Erdas, bonded to special children. But a dark force has emerged. Older than memory, it has slept for centuries beneath the surface of the world. With the power to tear away spirit animals, it begins a rampage that will be felt in every corner of Erdas. If the young heroes can't stop it, the darkness will first consume the spirit animals . . . and then the world.

Author : Various Artists
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Animals, Mythical
ISBN : 9781560977681

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Beasts! by Various Artists Pdf

Beasts! is a classic mythological menagerie, comprised only of creatures that were thought at one time to actually exist, depicted by about a hundred of the most acclaimed artists and cartoonists coming from the most avant-garde ambits of the art world. The Beasts project has fired the imaginations of luminaries such as Craig Thompson, Souther Salazar, Jeff Soto, Glenn Barr, Dave Cooper, Tim Biskup, Seonna Hong, Jeremy Fish and Jay Ryan, who will present never-before-seen art completely original to this book, superbly laid out in breathtaking, full-color two-page spreads. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.9px Arial; color: #424242}

Author : Kirkland Hamill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982122775

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Filthy Beasts by Kirkland Hamill Pdf

Running with Scissors meets Grey Gardens in this “vivid tragicomedy” (People), a riveting riches-to-rags tale of a wealthy family who lost it all and the unforgettable journey of a man coming to terms with his family’s deep flaws and his own hidden secrets. “Wake up, you filthy beasts!” Wendy Hamill would shout to her children in the mornings before school. Startled from their dreams, Kirk and his two brothers couldn’t help but wonder—would they find enough food in the house for breakfast? Following a hostile exit from New York’s upper-class society, newly divorced Wendy and her three sons are exiled from the East Coast elite circle. Wendy’s middle son, Kirk, is eight when she moves the family to her native Bermuda, leaving the three young boys to fend for themselves as she chases after the highs of her old life: alcohol, a wealthy new suitor, and other indulgences. After eventually leaving his mother’s dysfunctional orbit for college in New Orleans, Kirk begins to realize how different his family and upbringing is from that of his friends and peers. Split between rich privilege—early years living in luxury on his family’s private compound—and bare survival—rationing food and water during the height of his mother’s alcoholism—Kirk is used to keeping up appearances and burying his inconvenient truths from the world, until he’s eighteen and falls in love for the first time. A keenly observed, fascinating window into the life of extreme privilege and a powerful story of self-acceptance, Filthy Beasts is “a stunning, deeply satisfying story about how we outlive our upbringings” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Author : Uzodinma Iweala
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061844546

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Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala Pdf

“Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice. . . . He captures the horror of ethnic violence in all its brutality and the vulnerability of youth in all its innocence.” —Entertainment Weekly (A) The harrowing, utterly original debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about the life of a child soldier in a war-torn African country As civil war rages in an unnamed West-African nation, Agu, the school-aged protagonist of this stunning novel, is recruited into a unit of guerilla fighters. Haunted by his father’s own death at the hands of militants, which he fled just before witnessing, Agu is vulnerable to the dangerous yet paternal nature of his new commander. While the war rages on, Agu becomes increasingly divorced from the life he had known before the conflict started—a life of school friends, church services, and time with his family, still intact. As he vividly recalls these sunnier times, his daily reality continues to spin further downward into inexplicable brutality, primal fear, and loss of selfhood. In a powerful, strikingly original voice, Uzodinma Iweala leads the reader through the random travels, betrayals, and violence that mark Agu’s new community. Electrifying and engrossing, Beasts of No Nation announces the arrival of an extraordinary writer.