The floors are shaking, and the windows are cracking . . . something big and heavy is stomping around Corman Towers. Furry and Flo are awoken by the ruckus and discover an enormous stone golem wreaking havoc in the alley behind their building. It's up to them to get the gravel goliath back to Furry's world where he belongs . . . but making it back to their own world in time is easier said than done.
Furry and Flo tackle their newest foe, a vampire bounty hunter named Vane, in this fur vs. fangs showdown. Vane is determined to take Furry back to his own world where he belongs, and he'll stop at nothing to complete his mission.It's up to the two friends to outsmart the vampire villain before they bite the dust.
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A traveling Jewish theatrical troup encounters a government emissary when they perform their original play based on the classic story of the golem in a small town in Czarist Russian. Is the play subversive? It's performed in Yiddish though the audience hears English, so the Russian official must rely on an actor to translated for him. He is fed a humorously softened version of the witty allegory about government interference with the arts. Eventually dissension breaks out between those actors who want to give the defiant play as it is written and those who want to do an inoffensive comedy.
When a Vane, a vampire who is also a top bounty hunter in Furry's world, captures the boy werewolf, it is up to Flo to find a way to rescue him and send Vane back to the other world.
The second adventure in the Bartimaeus trilogy finds our young apprentice magician Nathaniel working his way up the ranks of the government, when crisis hits. A seemingly invulnerable clay golem is making random attacks on London. Nathaniel and the all-powerful, totally irreverent djinni, Bartimaeus, must travel to Prague to discover the source of the golem's power. In the ensuing chaos, readers will chase a dancing skeleton across London's skyline, encounter the horror of the dreaded Night Police, witness a daring kidnapping, and enter the Machiavellian world of the magician's government. Eventually, Nathaniel and Bartimaeus have to go head to head with the fearsome golem before the surprise identity of his master is finally revealed.
The story... Crazy penny, Fantasy. JASON 31, passionate gambling journalist money crashes until a know-all-coin character hacks casino machines moving attractive jackpots withdrawing the frenetic corrupted management team into a city pursuit. Away from this crazy story, currency is slowly dying starting its smallest nomination. Each one can invoke a powerful invisible value to save the next economic recession or crash. This story embraces three brief examples such as the cashier remote donation, a gambling machine and a gas pump station’s powerful invisible penny. The goal is: To have everyone saving the world with little pieces.
