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Download or read book Roaming Gnomes written by Don Guthrie and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is all about exciting and fun adventures that along the way created many challenges from one extreme to the next. We step into the realm of the unknown not knowing from which direction it will come at you and will or can you survive on a journey through a forest of roads with no end. This book asks the reader as if you were there what and could you do if this was you. It challenges today's mind set and leaves a lot to your imagination as to the endless possibilities and outcomes. This book gives you first hand experiences to give you a clear vision on exactly what fits you and what you become by taking this head on and cause you to run with what is handed to you in this life.
Download or read book What Happens Next? written by Gail de Vos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book uncovers the history behind urban legends and explains how the contemporary iterations of familiar fictional tales provide a window into the modern concerns—and digital advancements—of our society. What do ghost hunting, legend tripping, and legendary monsters have in common with email hoaxes, chain letters, and horror movies? In this follow-up to Libraries Unlimited's Tales, Rumors, and Gossip: Exploring Contemporary Folk Literature in Grades 7–12, author Gail de Vos revisits popular urban legends, and examines the impact of media—online, social, and broadcast—on their current iterations. What Happens Next? Contemporary Urban Legends and Popular Culture traces the evolution of contemporary legends from the tradition of oral storytelling to the sharing of stories on the Internet and TV. The author examines if the popularity of contemporary legends in the media has changed the form, role, and integrity of familiar legends. In addition to revisiting some of the legends highlighted in her first book, de Vos shares new tales in circulation which she sees as a direct result of technological advancements.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Urban Legends [2 volumes] by : Jan Harold Brunvand
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Urban Legends [2 volumes] written by Jan Harold Brunvand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of the original reference standard for urban legends provides an updated anthology of common myths and stories, and presents expanded coverage of international legends and tales shared and popularized online. From roasted babies to vanishing hitchhikers to housewives in football helmets, this exhaustive and highly readable encyclopedia provides descriptions of hundreds of individual legends and their variations, examines legend themes, and explains scholarly approaches to the genre. Revised and expanded to include updated versions of the entries from the award-winning first edition, this work provides additional entries on a wide range of new topics that include terrorism, recent political events, and Hurricane Katrina. Entries in Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition discuss the presence of urban legends in comic books, literature, film, music, and many other areas of popular culture, as well as the existence of "too good to be true" stories in Argentina, China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and several other countries. Serving as both an anthology of stories as well as a reference work, this encyclopedia will serve as a valuable resource for students and a source book for journalists, professional folklorists, and others who are researching or interested in urban legends.
Book Synopsis Interviews From the Fairy Realm by : Natalie Hajjar
Download or read book Interviews From the Fairy Realm written by Natalie Hajjar and published by Wild Wisdom Media. This book was released on 2022-07-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★A BOOK THAT BRINGS YOU CLOSER TO THE REAL WORLD OF FAIRIES★ Since 2004, sisters Natalie and Susan Hajjar have had an extraordinary connection with a group of Elves known as the Elves of Fyn. Growing up, both sisters felt connected to other worlds, but neither gave the fairy realm or Elves much thought until they burst into their lives, making their presence known through a series of showy events and mischief. In this fascinating book, you will learn how the sisters went from not even thinking about fairies, to knowing about them in great detail. You will also get to know Mr. E, the kind and generous spokesperson for the Elves of Fyn, who is an important contributor to the book. After discovering how much misinformation existed about the fairy realm and those who live there, the sisters and Mr. E wanted to let the fae residents speak for themselves through Susan’s ability to channel. In this book, fourteen fae beings from beyond our world came forward to speak of their lives and their people. With the perfect combination of Susan’s channeling, Natalie’s interviews, and Mr. E’s insight, this book creates an amazingly accurate window into their world. It goes beyond all the mystique and falsehoods and offers a rare glimpse into the fascinating world of real fairies!
Book Synopsis Curses! Broiled Again! by : Jan Harold Brunvand
Download or read book Curses! Broiled Again! written by Jan Harold Brunvand and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1990-08-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the master folklorist and sly wit, Jan Brunvand, comes a collection of all-new urban legends. Did your cousin's wife's dentist's daughter go to the tanning parlor once too often and had her insides cooked? Has your husband's brother's nephew teacher try to make a dead rabbit look alive? If so, you've heard—or you yourself may have told—two of the seventy-plus legends in this collection. Urban legends are "those bizarre but believable stories about batter-fried rats, spiders in hairdos, Cabbage Patch dolls that get funerals, and the like that pass by word of mouth as being the gospel truth." But of course, though often told as having happened to a FOAF (friend of a friend), they aren't true. Included in this collection are legends about sex, horror, cars, business, and academia. Among them are "The Bible Student's Exam," "The Pregnant Shoplifter," "The Ice Cream Cone Caper," "Don't Mess with Texas," and "Mrs. Fields' Cookie Recipe."
Book Synopsis Reincarnation Of The Strongest Sword God by : Lucky Old Cat
Download or read book Reincarnation Of The Strongest Sword God written by Lucky Old Cat and published by Cloudary Holdings Limited (webnovel). This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Webnovel provides the latest update of Reincarnation Of The Strongest Sword God] Starting over once more, he has entered this “living game” again in order to control his own fate. This time, he will not be controlled by others. Previously the Level 200 Sword King, he will rise to a higher peak in this life. Methods to earn money! Dungeon conquering strategies! Legendary Quests! Equipment drop locations! Undiscovered battle techniques! Even the secrets Beta Testers were unknowledgeable of, he knows of them all. Massive wars, life advancement, entering Godhood, sword reaching to the peak; a legend of a man becoming a Sword God has begun.
Book Synopsis Gnome Home Papers by : S. Louis King
Download or read book Gnome Home Papers written by S. Louis King and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen my friends, to your heart. What is it telling you? Go ahead and dream a little dream, see where it takes you. YouÊll be surprised at the turn of events with every page, each new friend or what happens to that nasty evil guy. Take that chance and let your heart take the lead, I dare you. Say those things that burn in your heart, that have on occasion been blurted out. Be that hero and go to places where you fear to tread. Need someone to go with you, thereÊs your buddy right beside you, sometime through thick and thin.
Book Synopsis Tales, Rumors, and Gossip by : Gail de Vos
Download or read book Tales, Rumors, and Gossip written by Gail de Vos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the stories and themes that capture the imagination of young people today. A sampling of tales is organized into broad subject areas, such as contaminated food, threats to children, and satanic legends, and the tales are analyzed according to function, structure, and international variants. De Vos also discusses film and literary adaptions and offers suggestions for adapting tales for the junior high and high school curriculum. Explore the stories and themes that capture the imagination of young people today. After a fascinating overview and discussion of contemporary legends (commonly referred to as modern urban legends and often told as true), de Vos examines them in their relationship to rumors and gossip, ostension (acting out the legends), the role of the media in formulation and dissemination, and related tales (e.g., literary horror tales). A sampling of tales is organized into broad subject areas, such as contaminated food, threats to children, and satanic legends, and the legends are analyzed according to function, structure, and international variants. De Vos discusses some of the literary and visual adaptations in popular culture and offers suggestions for adapting tales for the junior high and high school curriculum. A fascinating professional book, this is a great resource to use with young adults.
Book Synopsis Folklore Rules by : Lynne S. McNeill
Download or read book Folklore Rules written by Lynne S. McNeill and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folklore Rules is a brief introduction to the foundational concepts in folklore studies for beginning students. Designed to give essential background on the current study of folklore and some of the basic concepts and questions used when analyzing folklore, this short, coherent, and approachable handbook is divided into five chapters: What Is Folklore?; What Do Folklorists Do?; Types of Folklore; Types of Folk Groups; and, finally, What Do I Do Now? Through these chapters students are guided toward a working understanding of the field, learn basic terms and techniques, and learn to perceive the knowledge base and discourse frame for materials used in folklore courses. Folklore Rules will appeal to instructors and students for a variety of courses, including introductory folklore and comparative studies as well as literature, anthropology, and composition classes that include a folklore component.
Book Synopsis Circumnavigating the Globe by : Jr. Perkins
Download or read book Circumnavigating the Globe written by Jr. Perkins and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Circumnavigating the Globe" highlights international travel in a reality television show competition. This book covers what happened in Amazing Race (AR) 10 to 14 and Amazing Race Asia (ARA) 1 to 3. Many of the analysis chapters also cover AR1 to 9. Included are an Amazing Race Vocabulary and listing of all countries and major cities visited by all amazing races(ARs plus ARAs). There is an analysis chapter on Animals. The author rates the Saddest Elimination of every AR or ARA and Weakest Teams in each AR or ARA. Analyses shows why his Favorite Teams for each AR and ARA merit that distinction and one is selected as the most favorite of all time. The most interesting chapter in this book could be the Most Amazing Moments of each AR and ARA. Following that, every FAST FORWARD ever taken is listed with type of task, the geography and the competition if known. There is a separate classification of all AR teams into categories Female/Female, Male/Male, Couple and Family Relationships with the major reason for elimination listed if that team did not win. There are transportation chapters on travel by air, self-driving, taxis, boats, trains and buses. This book finishes with multiple indexes on Races, Racers, and the most cited Places. If you are a fan of the Amazing Race, this book will help you become a superfan.
Download or read book Fairy Lore written by D. L. Ashliman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-12-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy lore concerns beliefs about elves, dwarfs, gnomes, trolls, mermaids, brownies, pixies, leprechauns, and many other beings found in world folklore. Written for students and general readers, this book is an introduction to fairy lore from around the world. The handbook defines and classifies types of fairies, provides numerous examples and texts, overviews scholarship, and discusses the role of fairies in art, film, and popular culture. It closes with a glossary and a bibliography of print and electronic resources.
Download or read book Giving Him Hell written by Patricia Rice and published by Book View Cafe. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In which Justine learns the meaning of “blue Christmas” has nothing to do with melancholy As a justice-meting daughter of Saturn and newly-minted lawyer, Tina Clancy is looking forward to a peaceful holiday in the Zone, her chemically-enhanced neighborhood in Baltimore's industrial area. She knows to expect a healthy dose of crazy. Sparkling holiday lights that spontaneously combust—check. Garden gnomes swimming in sauna-like snow melt—check. But when a blue blob crawls out of the red-hot sewer—that's a bridge too far. Tina is suddenly immersed in exorcising a malevolent ghost, stopping the chemical plant from bulldozing her neighbors, and banishing endangered tourists from her increasingly peculiar home. At the same time, she's trying to figure out whether her drop-dead sexy client, Andre Legrande, is a gift-wrapped present or a stocking full of coal. Oh— and Tina just may have accidentally opened a gateway to Hell. Saturn’s Daughters series in order: Boyfriend From Hell Damn Him to Hell Giving Him Hell
Book Synopsis My Ox Is Broken! by : Adam-Troy Castro
Download or read book My Ox Is Broken! written by Adam-Troy Castro and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amazing Race is a reality show like no other and it has the best set around. Best-selling novelist, Adam-Troy Castro, explores The Amazing Race in My Ox is Broken! one of the first books ever published about one of the best reality television programs around. From Thailand to Greenland, this show has consistently gone where no other show has gone before, and Castro continues the excitement of the Race in a book that is funny, entertaining, and unique—just like the show itself. The Amazing Race has hooked viewers for all the right reasons and it doesn't show any signs of stopping. My Ox is Broken! is the best reading companion for any fan of this hit show or for any fan of reality television at its best.
Book Synopsis End-Time Finance by : Apostle Steve Lyston
Download or read book End-Time Finance written by Apostle Steve Lyston and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: End Time Finance is a fascinating synergy of divine revelation from God through the power of the Holy Spirit, the Word of God, and the life experiences of a man determined to answer the Call of God on his life and do his part in helping to build the Kingdom of God! End Time Finance addresses issues such as the value of diligence in investment, different levels of seed, how to execute your God-given vision, how to avoid bankruptcy, business and politics, gambling, Leviathan and our finances, why nations are under a financial curse, the Solomonic principle, and the importance and power of vows!
Book Synopsis Crusade of the Restless Nights by : S. Louis King
Download or read book Crusade of the Restless Nights written by S. Louis King and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sos over the Atlantic by : Patti Akams
Download or read book Sos over the Atlantic written by Patti Akams and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children from all over the world recognize the story of a jolly man who brings presents to those who have been good throughout the year. Though they may come from different cultures and celebrate the time of year very differently from one another, they have a lot in common. SOS Over the Atlantic tells a story of love and generosity as it seeks a way to begin making things better for the world’s children. Dedicated to those who have died in wars or accidents, it describes a new Santa Claus, one that children everywhere can relate to and understand. During his magical one-day journey, Santa visits a wide range of places, crossing time zones and encountering various cultures and traditions that help all of us understand what we share regardless of our differences. He offers a new perspective for children about the world they share with so many others. This children’s tale explores the story of Santa Claus from a global perspective, a figure known to children around the world by many names.
Book Synopsis From The Garden by : Ricardo Jaurequi
Download or read book From The Garden written by Ricardo Jaurequi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ricardo Jaurequi was born in Peru and moved to the United States in 1996. This book is a collection of his views and musings through out the years. Ranging from love to societal issues, there is a poem for every mood. Beginning in 2004 he continues to write. “From The Garden” is Jauregui’s second book after “Titles In The Yard”.
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