First Timers and Old Timers

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Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574414712
Total Pages : 366 pages
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Book Synopsis First Timers and Old Timers by : Kenneth L. Untiedt

Download or read book First Timers and Old Timers written by Kenneth L. Untiedt and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Texas Folklore Society has been alive and kicking for over one hundred years now, and I don't really think there's any mystery as to what keeps the organization going strong. The secret to our longevity is simply the constant replenishment of our body of contributors. We are especially fortunate in recent years to have had papers given at our annual meetings by new members--young members, many of whom are college or even high school students. "These presentations are oftentimes given during sessions right alongside some of our oldest members. We've also had long-time members who've been around for years but had never yet given papers; thankfully, they finally took the opportunity to present their research, fulfilling the mission of the TFS: to collect, preserve, and present the lore of Texas and the Southwest. "You'll find in this book some of the best articles from those presentations. The first fruits of our youngest or newest members include Acayla Haile on the folklore of plants. Familiar and well-respected names like J. Rhett Rushing and Kenneth W. Davis discuss folklore about monsters and the classic 'widow's revenge' tale. These works--and the people who produced them--represent the secret behind the history of the Texas Folklore Society, as well as its future."--Kenneth L. Untiedt

The Werewolves of Willow Lake Collection, Volume 1 [Siren Box Set]

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Publisher : Siren-BookStrand
ISBN 13 : 1642431265
Total Pages : 348 pages
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Download or read book The Werewolves of Willow Lake Collection, Volume 1 [Siren Box Set] written by Marcy Jacks and published by Siren-BookStrand. This book was released on with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Siren Everlasting Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, werewolves, light spanking, HEA] RESCUING HIS PREGNANT MATE: Edward, one of four ancient wolves, has just discovered his mate, reincarnated after a gruesome murder, and in the hands of hunters. The man is also pregnant, so even though it means that he must have mated with someone else in this lifetime, Edward is willing to risk it all to set him free. CAPTURING THE WOLF GOD'S ATTENTION: Dillon Rafferty never thought he would meet Rowan, a gorgeous man, who is not only a fan of Dillon's writing, but has him so enthralled that he feels like a teenager again, especially after a bad breakup. The problem is that Rowan is an ancient werewolf, and Dillon's ex is a werewolf hunter. THE WEREWOLF'S KEEPER: After waking into the new world from a curse spanning thousands of years, Alistair feels anything but godlike, especially when he is captured and tortured by hunters. When he's ready to die, a miracle happens. His mate, long thought dead, arrives and fights off the hunters and tends to Alistair's wounds. Marcy Jacks is a Siren-exclusive author.

Fire and Hemlock

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110156699X
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Fire and Hemlock by : Diana Wynne Jones

Download or read book Fire and Hemlock written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantastic tale by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Garth Nix. Polly Whittacker has two sets of memories. In the first, things are boringly normal; in the second, her life is entangled with the mysterious, complicated cellist Thomas Lynn. One day, the second set of memories overpowers the first, and Polly knows something is very wrong. Someone has been trying to make her forget Tom - whose life, she realizes, is at supernatural risk. Fire and Hemlock is a fantasy filled with sorcery and intrigue, magic and mystery - and a most unusual and satisfying love story. Widely considered to be one of Diana Wynne Jones's best novels, the Firebird edition of Fire and Hemlock features an introduction by the acclaimed Garth Nix - and an essay about the writing of the book by Jones herself.

Death of a Hero

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101602937
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Death of a Hero by : Richard Aldington

Download or read book Death of a Hero written by Richard Aldington and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great World War I antiwar novels—honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. Our hero is George Winterbourne, who enlists in the British Expeditionary Army during the Great War and gets sent to France. After a rash of casualties leads to his promotion through the ranks, he grows increasingly cynical about the war and disillusioned by the hypocrisies of British society. Aldington's writing about Britain's ignorance of the tribulations of its soldiers is among the most biting ever published. Death of a Hero vividly evokes the morally degrading nature of combat as it rushes toward its astounding finish. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

A Dictionary of Fairies

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ISBN 13 : 9780415291576
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Fairies by : Katharine Mary Briggs

Download or read book A Dictionary of Fairies written by Katharine Mary Briggs and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

The Letters Of J.r.r. Tolkien

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544363795
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book The Letters Of J.r.r. Tolkien written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection will entertain all who appreciate the art of masterful letter writing. The Letters of J.R.R Tolkien sheds much light on Tolkien's creative genius and grand design for the creation of a whole new world: Middle-earth. Featuring a radically expanded index, this volume provides a valuable research tool for all fans wishing to trace the evolution of THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS.

The Perilous Gard

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618150731
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)

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Book Synopsis The Perilous Gard by : Elizabeth Marie Pope

Download or read book The Perilous Gard written by Elizabeth Marie Pope and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1974 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1558 while imprisoned in a remote castle, a young girl becomes involved in a series of events that leads to an underground labyrinth peopled by the last practitioners of druidic magic.

Legendary Ladies of Texas

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Publisher : Publications of the Texas Folk
ISBN 13 : 9780929398754
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis Legendary Ladies of Texas by : Francis Edward Abernethy

Download or read book Legendary Ladies of Texas written by Francis Edward Abernethy and published by Publications of the Texas Folk. This book was released on 1994 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gift of the Friends of the PPL 2001.

Hollywood Highbrow

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691187282
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis Hollywood Highbrow by : Shyon Baumann

Download or read book Hollywood Highbrow written by Shyon Baumann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.

A Long Long Way

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101075767
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A Long Long Way written by Sebastian Barry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war from “master storyteller” (Wall Street Journal) Sebastian Barry, author of Old God's Time In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family, and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. Once there, he encounters a horror of violence and gore he could not have imagined and sustains his spirit with only the words on the pages from home and the camaraderie of the mud-covered Irish boys who fight and die by his side. Dimly aware of the political tensions that have grown in Ireland in his absence, Willie returns on leave to find a world split and ravaged by forces closer to home. Despite the comfort he finds with his family, he knows he must rejoin his regiment and fight until the end. With grace and power, Sebastian Barry vividly renders Willie’s personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences of war.

Master Georgie

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Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780349111698
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (116 download)

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Book Synopsis Master Georgie by : Beryl Bainbridge

Download or read book Master Georgie written by Beryl Bainbridge and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1998 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE WH SMITH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers; Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer's assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones, all of them driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by a shared and mysterious guilt. Combining a breathtaking eye for beauty with a visceral understanding of mortality, Beryl Bainbridge exposes her enigmatic hero as tenderly and unsparingly as she reveals the filth and misery of war, and creates a novel of luminous depth and extraordinary intensity.

Winter Rose

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101662182
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Winter Rose by : Patricia A. McKillip

Download or read book Winter Rose written by Patricia A. McKillip and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-06-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorrow and trouble and bitterness will hound you and yours and the children of yours… Some said the dying words of Nial Lynn, murdered by his own son, were a wicked curse. To others, it was a winter’s tale spun by firelight on cold, dark nights. But when Corbet Lynn came to rebuild his family estate, memories of his grandfather’s curse were rekindled by young and old--and rumors filled the heavy air of summer. In the woods that border Lynn Hall, free-spirited Rois Melior roams wild and barefooted. And as autumn gold fades, she is consumed with Corbet Lynn, obsessed with his secret past…

Regeneration

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110104201X
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Book Synopsis Regeneration by : Pat Barker

Download or read book Regeneration written by Pat Barker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Calls to mind such early moderns as Hemingway and Fitzgerald...Some of the most powerful antiwar literature in modern English fiction.”—The Boston Globe The first book of the Regeneration Trilogy—a Booker Prize nominee and one of Entertainment Weekly’s 100 All-Time Greatest Novels. In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His reason: the war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially classified "mentally unsound" and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital. There a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. William Rivers, set about restoring Sassoon’s “sanity” and sending him back to the trenches. This novel tells what happened as only a novel can. It is a war saga in which not a shot is fired. It is a story of a battle for a man's mind in which only the reader can decide who is the victor, who the vanquished, and who the victim. One of the most amazing feats of fiction of our time, Regeneration has been hailed by critics across the globe. More than one hundred years since World War I, this book is as timely and relevant as ever.

The Mythology of Middle-earth

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Mythology of Middle-earth written by Ruth S. Noel and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the relationship of Tolkien's Middle-earth mythology to the legends and myths of many cultures.

Summerland

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062418092
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Book Synopsis Summerland by : Michael Chabon

Download or read book Summerland written by Michael Chabon and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize winning Michael Chabon comes this bestselling novel for readers of all ages that blends fantasy and folklore with that most American coming-of-age ritual: baseball—now in a new edition, with an original introduction by the author. Ethan Feld is having a terrible summer: his father has moved them to Clam Island, Washington, where Ethan has quickly established himself as the least gifted baseball player the island has ever seen. Ethan’s luck begins to change, however, when a mysterious baseball scout named Ringfinger Brown and a seven-hundred-and-sixty-five-year-old werefox enter his life, dragging Ethan into another world called the Summerlands. But this beautiful, winter-less place is facing destruction at the hands of the villainous Coyote, and it has been prophesized that only Ethan can save it. In this cherished modern classic, the New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize winning author brings his masterful storytelling, dexterous plotting, and singularly envisioned characters to a coming-of-age novel for readers of all ages.

Master of Middle-earth

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ISBN 13 : 9789120084411
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (844 download)

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Book Synopsis Master of Middle-earth by : Paul Harold Kocher

Download or read book Master of Middle-earth written by Paul Harold Kocher and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle-earth: an imaginary world - The Hobbit - Cosmic order - Sauon and the nature of evil - The Free Peoples - Aragorn - Seven Leaves.

Frugal Luxuries

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Publisher : GuildAmerica Books
ISBN 13 : 9781568654928
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (549 download)

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Book Synopsis Frugal Luxuries by : Tracey McBride

Download or read book Frugal Luxuries written by Tracey McBride and published by GuildAmerica Books. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple pleasures to enchance your life and comfort your soul.