Baleful Beasts and Eerie Creatures
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Published: 1976-01-01
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780528821714
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Published: 1976-01-01
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780528821714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roger Elwood
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Published: 1974-01-01
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9780528824715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Angela Carter
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2016-09-15
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1784871435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HELEN SIMPSON From familiar fairy tales and legends âe" Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves âe" Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
Author: Harry Adam Knight
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Published: 2022-09-06
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781954321724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt stood over six feet tall and was the color of dried blood. It was absurdly reminiscent of some giant plucked bird, like an ostrich-but it had the head of a reptile. The partly opened mouth revealed rows of curved, pointed teeth. It was a walking impossibility-a creature that had died out sixty-five million years ago-but it was alive. And it wasn't the only one. In a sleepy rural town, one man's dream had become everyone else's nightmare-and dinosaurs once more roamed the earth. First published in 1984, six years before Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park, Harry Adam Knight's Carnosaur is a gory dinosaur-filled romp sure to delight fans of '80s paperback horror fiction.
Author: Roger Elwood
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Published: 1973-01-01
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9780528825064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher McDougall
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2010-12-09
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 184765228X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times bestseller 'A sensation ... a rollicking tale well told' - The Times At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100-mile race wearing a toga and sandals. A small group of the world's top ultra-runners (and the awe-inspiring author) make the treacherous journey into the canyons to try to learn the tribe's secrets and then take them on over a course 50 miles long. With incredible energy and smart observation, McDougall tells this story while asking what the secrets are to being an incredible runner. Travelling to labs at Harvard, Nike, and elsewhere, he comes across an incredible cast of characters, including the woman who recently broke the world record for 100 miles and for her encore ran a 2:50 marathon in a bikini, pausing to down a beer at the 20 mile mark.
Author: Adrienne Mayor
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-04-21
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0691202265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.
Author: Gregory Maguire
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 0061792942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New York Times bestseller and basis for the Tony-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked is established not only as a commentary on our time but as a novel to revisit for years to come. Wicked relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film starring Margaret Hamilton (and Judy Garland). In this fast-paced, fantastically real, and supremely entertaining novel, Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination. Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens. But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas. Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name—one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel’s distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire’s Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch.
Author: Peter Cross
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 1990-06-01
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9780679803430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJust as the Trumpets, summer creatures who live in a world of warmth and sunshine, prepare to hibernate, the Grumpets, winter creatures who live in the dark, frozen mountains of the north prepare to take over their land.
Author: Ed Bonny
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780786928736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis indispensable supplement contains information on nearly 200 new monstersfor any D&D game. It provides descriptions for a vast array of new creatures, with an emphasis on higher-level creatures to provide experienced gamers withtougher foes to overcome. (Gamebooks)