Tales from the Beaver Lodge

Author: C. B. James
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524646520
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
Little Berry, born in the savage Maine wilderness, watches as her father is swept away by a flood wave and her mother is carried off by savage wolves, never to be seen again. Orphaned and alone, she is discovered by the kindly Ms. Parks, who operates a trading store in the remote valley not far from Bar Harbor known as the Valley of the Four Ponds. Mentored by Ms. Parks, Little Berry stuns her when she begins to speak and soon can read books. Not only can Little Berry speak English, she can speak numerous languages. It was if she had been alive for many years and even perhaps had existed as many beings and maybe had once been human. Surrounded by savage wolves and bears, Little Berry rallies a small band of young beavers to her side. Realizing Little Berrys great abilities, the beavers elect her as their queen. Her cousins, the twins, better known as Chunk and Crunch, become her bodyguards. Soon the Queen is winning over some of the bears, such as Sleepy Pete, with great kindness while fighting the wolves led by such fierce leaders as One-Eyed Jack and the Devils Breath. Along the way, Toasty, a tall lean bull beaver, learns to start fires and fly a plane. The Queen, with the help of the twins, finds a giant egg in a cave, which reveals the greatest surprise of all. Added to the mix of tales is Catalina Cougar, who kidnaps the Queen, but in the end, she is saved by a small kit beaver known as Little Ace. There are beaver baseball games and many other tales of adventure as the Queen and her furry friends meet the wolves in the climatic battle. Within these pages are many tales of fun and adventure as told by the Queen and her bucktoothed friends.

STORY OF A STOLEN GIRL

Author: Pat Spencer
Publisher: Pat Spencer, Author
ISBN: 1721897178
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345

Book Description
Story of a Stolen Girl is a fictional accounting of a mother’s love and how far she will go to rescue her only daughter. At the invitation of her psychology professor, Darby Richards and her college roommate attend a private gambling club. Darby is drugged, kidnapped, and sold through an international human trafficking cartel serving world leaders, corporate CEO’s, and even the President’s Cabinet. A puff of the Columbian drug, the Devil’s Breath, renders Darby utterly compliant, controlled by suggestion, and responsive to verbal commands. While held in Ankara, Turkey, she is befriended by other stolen women whose stories, compilations of actual victims, weave throughout the plot. When the FBI, LAPD, and an executive kidnapping insurance company fail to bring her daughter home, Darby’s widowed mother, Nina Richards, concludes she must wait no longer for someone else to rescue her daughter. But what can she do? What would you do to rescue your only child?

The Devil's Wind

Author: Patricia Wentworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description

A Tale of Sorcery...

Author: Chris Colfer
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 031605593X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
The thrilling third book in Chris Colfer's #1 New York Times bestselling A Tale of Magic... series Brystal Evergreen is running out of time. It’s almost been a year since she made a deal with Death to find and destroy the Immortal in exchange for her life and she still hasn’t found a single clue about who or where the Immortal is. To make matters worse, something dark and malignant has risen from deep within the earth that threatens life as we know it. To stop this new evil, the fairies and witches must work with all the kingdoms and territories, including the Righteous Brotherhood and their Army of the Dead. But is the threat more familiar than they expected? And why are a secretive group of Sorcerers convinced Xanthous Hayfield is connected to it?

Satan's Rhetoric

Author: Armando Maggi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226501329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Reading innumerable treatises on demonology written during the Renaissance, including Thesaurus exorcismorum, the most important record of early modern exorcisms, Maggi finds repeated attempts to define the language exchanged between the fallen progeny of Adam, and the most notorious fallen angel of them all, Satan. Using points of departure taken from de Certeau and Lacan, Maggi shows that Satan articulates his language first and foremost in the mind. More than speaking, the devil tries to make human beings understand his language and speak it themselves.

Manawydan

Author: LaErtes Muldrow
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1463444524
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
An ancient prophecy made by Nubian Queen Hatshepsut, takes generations to fulfill and in the process we follow events through time, space, and disappearances, finally converging in the 21st century where the prophecy continues fulfilling itself. Oba, an African male-child from the Buganda tribe, was destined to join with Iloree, a female-child from the Yoruba tribe. Their joining was prophesized generations before by the once powerful Nubian Pharaoh of Egypt. But something unholy befalls them before their sacred joining can take place, prompting vengeful curses to be placed on all involved. Joshua Lobett, a young man distraught over the death of his beloved mother, vows to change the laws of life and death. During the course of his medical studies and experiments, his life spirals into a world of derangement and he creates a hideous inhuman life form. MANAWYDAN was a specially designed clipper ship for crossing the Middle Passage with its belly full of Black Gold. While on her maiden voyage, MANAWYDAN experienced mutiny, revolt, and a horrific supernatural storm. Then it suddenly vanished dead center of The Devils Triangle, only to reappear generations later in the 21st Century. Greedily turned into a tourist attraction, the netherworld vessel MANAWYDAN had its own demonic agenda, ruthlessly awaiting the innocent, unsuspecting partiers who board in celebration of her Grand Opening during the Queens Ball on Halloween night in San Francisco.

Pete's Devils

Author: Charles Abel Adams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description

Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature

Author: Blanka Grzegorczyk
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317962621
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
This book considers how contemporary British children’s books engage with some of the major cultural debates of recent years, and how they resonate with the current preoccupations and tastes of the white mainstream British reading public. A central assumption of this volume is that Britain’s imperial past continues to play a key role in its representations of race, identity, and history. The insistent inclusion of questions relating to colonialism and power structures in recent children’s novels exposes the complexities and contradictions surrounding the fictional treatment of race relations and ethnicity. Postcolonial children’s literature in Britain has been inherently ambivalent since its cautious beginnings: it is both transgressive and authorizing, both undercutting and excluding. Grzegorczyk considers the ways in which children’s fictions have worked with and against particular ideologies of race. The texts analyzed in this collection portray ethnic minorities as complex, hybrid products of colonialism, global migrations, and the ideology of multiculturalism. By examining the ideological content of these novels, Grzegorczyk demonstrates the centrality of the colonial past to contemporary British writing for the young.

The Missing Hours

Author: Emma Kavanagh
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 1496713737
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
A woman’s disappearance in western England draw a pair of sibling detectives into a baffling murder case in “this intricately plotted crime novel” (Publishers Weekly). In the sleepy borderland between England and Wales, serious crimes are rare. But now Det. Constable Leah Mackay and her brother, Det. Sergeant Finn Hale, are fielding two disturbing calls on the same day. Psychologist Selena Cole had been at a playground with her children when she disappeared. Then the body of attorney Dominic Newell was found on a remote mountain road. Soon enough, the sibling detectives find their respective investigations inextricably linked. Then the mystery deepens when Selena reappears alive and unhurt twenty hours later. Selena’s work consulting on kidnap and ransom cases has brought her into close contact with ruthless criminals and international drug lords. But now, as she walks back into her life, blood-spattered, claiming no memory of the preceding hours, Leah can’t be sure if she is a victim, a liar, or a suspect. As Leah and Finn delve into each case, untangling a web of secrets and betrayals, they are entirely unprepared for the dangers they are about to uncover.

Metabyte

Author: Cat Connor
Publisher: 9mm Press
ISBN: 1944077243
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
Prepare for an adrenaline-fueled race against time in the heart-pounding thriller "Metabyte" by the masterful Cat Connor! SSA Ellie Iverson finds herself thrust into a nightmare as her world collapses around her. Her niece is snatched away, her husband’s brother vanishes without a trace, and deceased agents inexplicably resurface in strange places across the city, only to meet their demise once again. With every alarm bell ringing in her head, Iverson's internal alert system goes off the scale. Enigmatic clues and cryptic codes left behind by a missing colleague and her own brother-in-law paint a chilling picture of a massive breach in sensitive FBI data. The sudden death of a team member leaves Delta A reeling, pushing Iverson to the edge. Two extraordinary new agents, possessing talents akin to her own, join the team, raising the stakes and amplifying the urgency of their mission. As Iverson delves into her niece's digital footprint, a horrifying network begins to emerge, its sinister activities lurking in the shadows of the dark corners of the internet. Under the watchful directive of the FBI Director and armed with the formidable Wayward Son Protocol, Iverson and Delta A embark on a relentless pursuit to untangle the leads that weave through the treacherous realm of the darknet. Their objective: stem the relentless flow of death and bring her family back from the clutches of evil. In the ninth installment of the electrifying "-byte" series, Cat Connor once again delivers a mind-bending thriller that will leave you breathless. Prepare to be immersed in a world where danger lurks at every turn, secrets are unveiled in heart-stopping twists, and the race to save loved ones becomes a battle for survival. Brace yourself for a rollercoaster ride of suspense that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final, pulse-pounding climax.