The Dragon Man

Author: Garry Disher
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781865082530
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
Meet Hal Challis, Detective for the Mornington Peninsula police force in Southeast Australia, in the first investigation in this prize-winning crime series A serial killer is on the loose in a small coastal town near Melbourne, Australia. Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his team must apprehend him before he strikes again. But first, Challis has to contend with the editor of a local newspaper who undermines his investigation at every turn, and with his wife, who attempts to resurrect their marriage through long-distance phone calls from a sanitarium, where she has been committed for the past eight years for attempted murder--"his."

The Dragon Men

Author: Steven Harper
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504096851
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
In this steampunk sequel to The Impossible Cube, two adventurers must find a way inside a kingdom on the brink of war to save themselves and the world. As Gavin Ennock pilots his airship, the Lady of Liberty, to China, his fiancée, Lady Alice Michaels prays they make it in time. The Clockwork Plague consumes Gavin’s body and mind, driving him increasingly mad—and driving a wedge between him and Alice. Their only hope lies in China with the Dragon Men. But a power-hungry general has seized the Chinese throne, intending to conquer Asia, Britain, and the world. He has also closed the country’s borders to foreigners. Meanwhile, the former ruling dynasty is plotting to return the throne’s rightful heir to power. Seeing their opportunity, the two travelers dive into a political power struggle where one false move could spell doom for Gavin and the entire world. “[The Dragon Men] continues to demonstrate its original premise and to showcase the inventive pair who strive to save a world.” —Library Journal “My favorite book in the series yet. I’m not sure whether that’s because I’ve become so enamored with the world of the Clockwork Empire as a whole, or that the action sequences are nearly relentless, which a definite plus in this case.” —That’s What I’m Talking About

Kittyhawk Down

Author: Garry Disher
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1921145455
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
An unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an anchor strapped to his waist. This sparks the beginning of a chilling series of shotgun killings. Challis finds some aerial possesion in the possession of his friend, Kitty, that link her to the murders.

Facing the Dragon

Author: David Parnell
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
ISBN: 0757315232
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
After more than 23 years addicted to methamphetamine and other drugs, Parnell put an SKS assault rifle under his chin and pulled the trigger. Here he chronicles how that desperate act pulled him out of his personal hell.

Return to Dragon Mountain

Author: Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 144062027X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
“Splendid . . . One could not imagine a better subject than Zhan Dai for Spence.” (The New Republic) Celebrated China scholar Jonathan Spence vividly brings to life seventeenth-century China through this biography of Zhang Dai, recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of the Ming dynasty. Born in 1597, Zhang Dai was forty-seven when the Ming dynasty, after more than two hundred years of rule, was overthrown by the Manchu invasion of 1644. Having lost his fortune and way of life, Zhang Dai fled to the countryside and spent his final forty years recounting the time of creativity and renaissance during Ming rule before the violent upheaval of its collapse. This absorbing tale of Zhang Dai’s life illuminates the transformation of a culture and reveals how China’s history affects its place in the world today.

The Eagle and the Dragon

Author: Chris Duffin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781544501949
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
"The world may know Chris Duffin as 'The Mad Scientist of Strength,' but you wouldn't have ever guessed that if you saw the scrawny kid skinning rattlesnakes and chasing dragonflies in the early '80s. The story of his unconventional life will take you from ... tales of murder, trauma, heartbreak, and survival deep in the Pacific Northwest wilderness all the way to an idealization of the self-made man--still flawed, but never broken"--Dust jacket fla

Dragonman

Author: Ted Lazaris
Publisher: Booklocker.com
ISBN: 9781626466654
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496

Book Description
A series of savage and brutal murders is taking place by a killer that might not be human. A secret brotherhood first discovered this baffling mix of man and God in 1970. Now, this Son of God, or Satan, is about to proclaim its divinity, through a ritualistic series of slayings. Can Luke Starr, aka DragonMan, a new superhero for our times, stop its relentless threat to mankind? Only time will tell...

Paper Mache Dragons

Author: Dan Reeder
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781501037092
Category : Dragons in art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
People will tell you that dragons are imaginary, that they don't exist. Yet it seems that dragon lore appears in every culture in every part of the world. There's just something about these flying, flame throwing, fantastical animals that runs deep in the human psyche. We love them. We want them. And we shall have them?

The Dragon and the Crow

Author: T. B. McKenzie
Publisher: Satalyte Publishing
ISBN: 9780994340887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
Magick is the birthright of every child in Arkadia. Power defines a person's name, their skill, their destiny. Brin Menderson is different. Even the simplest spells do nothing for him and he is starting to fear that he might not have magick at all.Little does he know that there are those in the kingdom who would see an end to peace and order; an end to the golden age of magick. They believe in a prophecy, an ancient rhyme about a child foretold to end the kings rule and bring dragons back to the starless sky. Brin is about to learn that having no magick might just make him the most important person in all the land. Heralds the coming of a strong new voice in Australian fantasy. A compellingly readable tale. His hero may not have magick but McKenzie does. - Justin Woolley, author of A Town Called Dust

To Tame a Dragon

Author: Tiffany Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Claiming a dragon is as easy as a single touch, but claiming his heart is another matter entirely. The tribes have been dying beneath the desert sun for as long as they can remember. With fewer and fewer males birthed, there is little hope of survival. Humanity is doomed. The yearly blooming is a season of fertility and new life-and the time when the males choose new brides. But Elliya has no desire to become another wife amongst many to a spoiled man. She longs for more. She longs for love. When the Red Star appears in the sky on the night she is to be chosen, Elliya knows it is her chance to make her own choice. She ventures out beneath the blood moon to prove the old legends true-to claim a dragon as her mate. But even if she can forge the legendary bond with her dragon, can she win the most important prize of all? Can she conquer the dragon's heart? ----- VENYS NEEDS MEN To Touch a Dragon by Naomi Lucas To Desire a Dragon by Amanda Milo To Tame a Dragon by Tiffany Roberts To Seduce a Dragon by Poppy Rhys