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Oz of ozma5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But Ozma, Scarecrow, The Tin Woodman, The Cowardly Lion, and a small army arrive in Ev, free Dorothy, and decide to rescue the Royal Family of Ev from the Nome King - who lives in caverns under the mountains where the Nomes make gold, silver, and precious gems which they hide under the earth. The king sold his wife and ten children into slavery with the Nome King, then drowned himself in sorrow currently, Ev is "overseen" by Princess Langwidere, a niece who has 30 different heads that she trades off wearing. They are in Ev, to the east of the great desert that surrounds Oz. When the strange craft makes landfall, the hen inside can talk, so Dorothy knows she's in a magic land and names her companion Billina. She survives by climbing into a chicken coop that is also washed into the sea. ![]() In Baum's third Oz book (1907), Dorothy is traveling with her Uncle Henry by sea to visit relatives in Australia when she is swept overboard in a storm. ![]()
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Martin fierro by jose hernandez5/29/2023 ![]() This paper analyzes the epic nature of the poem (its glamour of adventure, courage and destiny), its nature as a national epic (depecting the values and aspirations of a developing society) and especially its character as a mythical prototype (referring to origins, to destiny and to a "primitive crime"). Most especially, he gives vivid and pathetic shape to the myth of the gaucho in his context: the rural community in its early stages. Hernández re-creates not only their rustic speech, but also the natural prosody peculiar to the peasant. ![]() It is the one that best represents the mentality and the individual and social attitudes and customs of the common people. ![]() The Gaucho Martín Fierro, written by José Hernández in 18, is today considered the most beautiful of the original productions of the River Plate literature. ![]()
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The starless crown review5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() On the run, hunted by enemies old and new, they must learn to trust each other in order to survive in a world evolved in strange, beautiful, and deadly ways, and uncover ancient secrets that hold the key to their salvation.īut with each passing moment, doom draws closer. Her reward is a sentence of death.įleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts:Ī broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he’s forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home.Ī drunken prince, who steps out from his beloved brother's shadow and claims a purpose of his own.Īn imprisoned thief, who escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artifact - one that will ignite a power struggle across the globe. 752 reviews An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from 1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins. ![]() ![]() It feels like a novel that wants to be read in one sitting, even though the total page count approaches 600. There is much to savor in The Starless Crown. An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins.Ī gifted student foretells an apocalypse. The Starless Crown (Moonfall 1) by James Rollins (Goodreads Author) 3.82 Rollins shows off his limitless imagination with so many juicy and amazing people, places and things that it would be a crime to spoil any of it. ![]()
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American queen sierra simone summary5/29/2023 ![]() Soon, I find myself caught between past and present, pleasure and pain-and the two men who long for each other as much as they long for me. He doesn’t know about the secrets we also keep. But the country knows him as the leader of the free world, all that stands between us and war.ĭesperate to have me, Ash sends his best friend Embry to bring me to him. I haven’t forgotten his broken promises and forbidden desires. ![]() I knew him as Ash, the soldier I once kissed in a circle of broken glass. Instead, I swore off love forever.īut President Colchester hasn't sworn me off-not by a long shot. I didn’t need to learn my lesson a third time. Twice I ignored it, and twice my heart was utterly, miserably broken. ![]() When I was a girl, I received a warning: Keep your kisses to yourself. ![]() My name is Greer Galloway, and I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States. ![]()
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Hellboy by Mike Mignola5/29/2023 ![]() This 368-page volume covers Hellboy's adventures published from 1994 to 1997, reprinting Seed of Destruction, Wake the Devil, and "Wolves of St August," "The Chained Coffin," and "Almost Colossus," from The Chained Coffin and The Right Hand of Doom. Avoiding his supposed fate as the herald of the end of the world, Hellboy continues with the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, fighting alongside Abe Sapien, Liz Sherman, and drafting Roger Homunculus into his own ill-fated service with the B.P.R.D. The story jumps from Hellboy's mysterious World War II origin to his 1994 confrontation with the man who summoned him to earth, and the earliest signs of the plague of frogs. ![]() ![]() CBR has the exclusive reveal that Mignola is working with co-writer Chris Roberson on two brand-new titles set within the world of Hellboy. The Hellboy saga begins-with over 300 pages drawn by Mignola! For the first time, Hellboy's complete story is presented in chronological order for the ultimate reading experience. Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1: Seed of Destruction (English Edition) eBook : Mignola, Mike, Byrne, John, Mignola, Mike, Chiarello, Mark: : Kindle Store. Mike Mignola is expanding Dark Horses Hellboy universe with two brand-new titles. ![]() Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1: Seed of Destruction Mike Mignola | John Byrne | Mike Mignola € 26.99 This item arrived at our Amsterdam store within the past 8 weeks If not in stock, the expected delivery time for this item will be 3 - 5 weeks. ![]()
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Bound by Honor by S.E. Jakes5/28/2023 ![]() We’ll sell, then figure out what to do next,” LC said. “I thought maybe I could do it with the club, LC. And Damon had felt there was no way to escape-partially because he’d still loved Jesse…and partly because he felt completely responsible for his charge. “Look, I loved the guy too, but he was damned selfish when it came to his needs.” “He didn’t want to.” LC’s voice was hard now. ![]() “Then why didn’t Jesse do anything? How could he not have?” LC waited a beat before he spoke and then, “I’ve known that for a long time too-probably before you did.” It was the first time he was saying the words out loud-and he felt as if he were betraying Jesse, but he had to spill all of this out or it would break him. The problem was, he never did anything about it. ![]() “Jesse knew you wanted to sell the club.” Damn you, Jesse.” He buried his hands in his hair, felt LC sit next to him and sling an arm across his shoulder. ![]() “He had to do something he wasn’t ready for. “What happened between you two at the club?” ![]()
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Jordan belfort book way of the wolf5/28/2023 ![]() Every technique, every strategy, and every tip has been tested and proven to work in real-life situations. ![]() Now in WAY OF THE WOLF, Belfort is ready to unleash the power of persuasion to a whole new generation of readers, revealing how anyone can bounce back from devastating setbacks, master the art of persuasion, and build wealth. Until now this revolutionary program was only available through Jordan's $1,997 online training. For the first time ever, Jordan Belfort opens his playbook and gives readers access to his exclusive step-by-step system-the same system he used to create massive wealth for himself, his clients, and his sales teams. ![]() LEARN FROM THE MASTER OF SALES AND PERSUASION Jordan Belfort - immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in the hit movie The Wolf of Wall Street - reveals the step-by-step sales and persuasion system proven to turn anyone into a sales-closing, money-earning rock star. ![]()
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Formosan Odyssey by John Grant Ross5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() It finishes with the story of Taiwan’s economic miracle, the political transition from police state to vibrant democracy, and its continuing stand-off with China. Formosan Odyssey captures the rich sweep of history through the eyes of Westerners who visited and lived on the island - from missionaries, adventurers, lighthouse keepers, and Second World War PoWs, to students coming to study martial arts. Its coastline was known as a mariners’ graveyard, the mountainous interior was the domain of headhunting tribes, while the lowlands were a frontier area where banditry, feuding, and revolts were a way of life. ![]() Until the early twentieth century, Taiwan was one of the wildest places in Asia. ![]()
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Lovecraft country novel review5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() And he held some pretty vicious views on the inferiority of the black races to the upper echelons of the white.Īll of that feeds into the heady brew that is Lovecraft Country. He developed a mythos in which humanity was haunted by a dark past, sometimes ancestral in origin, sometimes alien. Many of Lovecraft's stories were set in a fictionalised version of his native New England, referred to by scholars as Lovecraft Country. It is based on a 2016 novel by Matt Ruff that references the writings of HP Lovecraft, the legendary (though largely unknown before his death in 1937) writer whose "weird fiction" influenced Stephen King and Clive Barker, among others. Written by Misha Green, creator of Underground, the series is produced by Jordan Peele, writer-director of Get Out and Us, and like those forebears it uses historical drama and genre conventions to probe the nature of race relations in the US. ![]()
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Louis riel comic book5/28/2023 ![]() The first Vortex issue of Yummy Fur sold well, and Brown quit his day job and began working full-time as a cartoonist. These pamphlets attracted attention in comic book industry publications, and in 1986 the Toronto-based comic book publisher Vortex Comics approached Brown. In 1983, he began to self-publish his work in photocopied �mini comics� under the title Yummy Fur. ![]() ![]() Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.Īt 19, he moved to Toronto and got a day job while he worked on his skills as a cartoonist at night and on weekends. Lawrence Sun, published one of his comic strips. His career path was set at the age of 12 when the local newspaper, The St. Chester Brown was born in Montreal, Canada on and grew up in the nearby suburb of Chateauquay. ![]() |