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Dead Until Dark By:Charlaine Harris Published on 2010 by Penguin Click The Button Below To Download The Book Visit our Sookie Stackhouse series feature page. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

The A to Z of Fantasy Literature By:Brian Stableford Published on 2009-08-13 by Scarecrow Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary include...

Geronimo Stilton and the Kingdom of Fantasy #6: The Search for Treasure By:Geronimo Stilton Published on 2014-08-26 by Scholastic Inc. Click The Button Below To Download The Book Geronimo's sixth magical expedition! I, Geronimo Stilton, was shocked to find myself back in the Kingdom of Fantasy for a sixth time. I was needed to fulfill the Ancient Gemstone Prophecy! The evil empress of the witches was after the Royal Sapphire. If she united it with her Royal Ruby, it would give her immense power. The entire Kingdom of Fantasy was in danger! It was up to me to find the two gemstones first, with the help of new friends -- and this time, I had to travel in disguise. Cheese niblets! What an incredible journey! Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is true Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Fantasy and the Real World in British Children’s Literature By:Caroline Webb Published on 2014-09-15 by Routledge Click The Button Below To Download The Book This study examines the children’s books of three extraordinary British writers—J.K. Rowling, Diana Wynne Jones, and Terry Pratchett—and investigates their sophisticated use of narrative strategies not only to engage children in reading, but to educate them into becoming mature readers and indeed individuals. The book demonstrates how in quite different ways these writers establish reader expectations by drawing on conventions in existing genres only to subvert those expectations. Their strategies lead young readers to evaluate for themselves both the power of story to shape our understanding of the world and to develop a sense of identity and agency. Rowling, Jones, and Pratchett provide their readers with fantasies that are pleasurable and imaginative, but far from encouraging escape from reality, they convey important lessons a...

A Fantasy of Souls By:Mary Washington Smith McLaughlin Published on 1912 by Click The Button Below To Download The Book Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Northern Lights By:Philip Pullman Published on 2014-11-06 by Click The Button Below To Download The Book |Without this child, we shall all die.| Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of Jordan College, Oxford. The destiny that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight. Her extraordinary journey will have immeasurable consequences far beyond her own world... Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Spinning Silver By:Naomi Novik Published on 2018-07-10 by Del Rey Click The Button Below To Download The Book A fresh and imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale from the bestselling author of Uprooted, which was hailed as “a very enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic” by The New York Times Book Review. With the Nebula Award–winning Uprooted, Naomi Novik opened a brilliant new chapter in an already acclaimed career, delving into the magic of fairy tales to craft a love story that was both timeless and utterly of the now. Spinning Silver draws readers deeper into this glittering realm of fantasy, where the boundary between wonder and terror is thinner than a breath, and safety can be stolen as quickly as a kiss. Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge of poverty—until Miryem takes matters into her own hands. Hardening her heart, the young woman sets out to claim...

Fantasy Farm Amusement Park By:Scott E. Fowler Published on 2014-07-14 by Arcadia Publishing Click The Button Below To Download The Book Not many developers would build an amusement park next door to the successful LeSourdsville Lake amusement park, but Edgar Streifthau was a one-of-a-kind man in Butler County, Ohio. Streifthau, the original owner of LeSourdsville, was forced to sell his beloved park, but he still had the amusement-park bug, and in 1963 he built Fantasy Farm directly next to LeSourdsville. Fantasy Farm's audience was young children, and the concept was successful for decades. The two parks coexisted for 28 years despite periodically appearing in court opposite each other. In 1982, Streifthau sold Fantasy Farm to local carnival owner William Johnson, who ran the park for another decade before finally becoming a victim of the economy. Johnson closed Fantasy Farm in 1991 and sold off all of its assets. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is...

Academic Vocabulary Level 3--A Fantasy World By:Christine Dugan Published on 2014-02-01 by Teacher Created Materials Click The Button Below To Download The Book This lesson integrates academic vocabulary instruction into content-area lessons. Two easy-to-implement strategies for teaching academic vocabulary are integrated within the step-by-step, standards-based reading lesson. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

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The Thousand Names By:Django Wexler Published on 2014 by Penguin Click The Button Below To Download The Book Winter Ihernglass poses as a man to enlist in the Vordanai Colonials and must form an allegiance with a new colonel, appointed by the king to restore order, after she is promoted to a command post. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Three Moments of an Explosion By:China Miéville Published on 2015-08-04 by Del Rey Click The Button Below To Download The Book NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • The Guardian • Kirkus Reviews • The fiction of multiple award–winning author China Miéville is powered by intelligence and imagination. Like George Saunders, Karen Russell, and David Mitchell, he pulls from a variety of genres with equal facility, employing the fantastic not to escape from reality but instead to interrogate it in provocative, unexpected ways. London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corpse’s bones—designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what? Of such concepts and unforgettable images are made the twent...

The Nightmare, and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy By:Francis Stevens,Gary Hoppenstand Published on 2004 by U of Nebraska Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book Slithering from these pages are never-before-collected tales of suspense and wonder by the woman who invented modern-day dark fantasy: A man goes quietly to bed aboard the doomed Lusitania and awakens on a magical South Pacific Island just as the passenger liner is torpedoed. In a future where women rule the world, a sentient island becomes murderously jealous of a shipwrecked couple. Dire consequences await a human swept into the dark, magical world of elves. A deadly labyrinth coils around the dark heart of a picturesque landscape garden. Within an Egyptian sarcophagus lies the horrifying price of infidelity. Swirling unseen around us are loathsome creatures giving form to our basest desires and fears. A beautiful, veiled medium may hold the key to preventing unspeakable evil from slipping through the borderlands betwe...

Fabulous fantasy cars By:Marty Padgett Published on 2004 by Click The Button Below To Download The Book A collection of pinup photos of convertibles, coupes, roadsters, concepts, and luxury vehicles, with cutaway diagrams and brief information about each. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

The Power of Kings By:Paul Kléber Monod Published on 2001-08 by Yale University Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book In the sixteenth century, the kings of Europe were like gods to their subjects. Within 150 years, however, this view of monarchs had altered dramatically; a king was the human, visible sign of the rational state. How did such a momentous shift in political understanding come about? This book explores the changing cultural significance of the power of European kings from the assassination of France’s Henry III to the death of Louis XIV. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is true Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature By:R. Reginald,Douglas Menville,Mary A. Burgess Published on 2010-09 by Wildside Press LLC Click The Button Below To Download The Book Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology By:Nusselder, André Published on 2009-09-11 by MIT Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book Cyberspace is first and foremost a mental space. Therefore we need to take a psychological approach to understand our experiences in it. In Interface Fantasy, André Nusselder uses the core psychoanalytic notion of fantasy to examine our relationship to computers and digital technology. Lacanian psychoanalysis considers fantasy to be an indispensable |screen| for our interaction with the outside world; Nusselder argues that, at the mental level, computer screens and other human-computer interfaces incorporate this function of fantasy: they mediate the real and the virtual. Interface Fantasy illuminates our attachment to new media: why we love our devices; why we are fascinated by the images on their screens; and how it is possible that virtual images can provide physical pleasure. Nusselder puts such phenomena as avatars, role playing, cybers...