Our Common Future
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780195531916
Birdman of Alcatraz
Author : Thomas E. Gaddis
Publisher : Comstock Book Distributors
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Ornithology
ISBN : 9780891740551
Book Description
Serials and Series
Author : Buck Rainey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786447028
Book Description
While many fans remember The Lone Ranger, Ace Drummond and others, fewer focus on the facts that serials had their roots in silent film and that many foreign studios also produced serials, though few made it to the United States. The 471 serials and 100 series (continuing productions without the cliffhanger endings) from the United States and 136 serials and 37 series from other countries are included in this comprehensive reference work. Each entry includes title, country of origin, year, studio, number of episodes, running time or number of reels, episode titles, cast, production credits, and a plot synopsis.
The Whalestoe Letters
Author : Mark Z. Danielewski
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 2000-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0375714413
Book Description
Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lièvre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric facility in Ohio where she spent the final years of her life. Beautiful, heartfelt, and tragic, this correspondence reveals the powerful and deeply moving relationship between a brilliant though mentally ill mother and the precocious, gifted young son she never ceases to love. Originally contained within the monumental House of Leaves, this collection stands alone as a stunning portrait of mother and child. It is presented here along with a foreword by Walden D. Wyhrta and eleven previously unavailable letters.
The Once & Future King
Author : T. H. White
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 49,71 MB
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551999145
Book Description
The definitive modern take on the timeless tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round table. The legends of King Arthur date back to medieval Europe, and have become some of the dominant myths of Western culture. In The Once & Future King, T. H. White reinvents the story for a modern audience. The novel starts by introducing the reader to a young Arthur – just a child, and far from the King he will become – as he is raised by the wizard Merlyn, and moves on to chronicle his rise to Kingship, the affair between Guinevere and Lancelot, and the eventual destruction of the round table. The first section, released independently as The Sword in the Stone, was adapted into an animated film by Walt Disney Pictures. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
Pastures of the Blue Crane
Author : Hesba Brinsmead
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780702234620
Book Description
Now back in print - One of Australia's most loved children's booksBrought up in the solitary environment of exclusive boarding schools, Ryl has learned to be independent, but when her mysterious father dies, her whole world changes. Part of her inheritance is a half-share in a dilapidated farm which she shares with a scruffy grandfather she meets for the first time. Pastures of the Blue Crane won the CBCA Book of the Year award in 1965, and has been loved by generations of Australian readers since. Set in the lush subtropics of Northern New South Wales, this classic story is both a moving portrait of family life, and a remarkable insight into a different Australia.
The Lost Continent
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0385674562
Book Description
"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.
Silver Surfer
Author : Jim Starlin
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0785180184
Book Description
Collects Silver Surfer #34-38 & Thanos Quest #1-2. The quest that led to INFINITY GAUNTLET begins here! Back from the dead, Thanos is after the power to bring the rest of the universe with him on a return trip! Can the Silver Surfer, Drax the Destroyer and others stop the cosmic iconoclast before he uses reality as a token of his affection for Death?
Where'd You Get Those?
Author :
Publisher : Testify Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780972592079
Book Description
Documenting more than 400 pairs of sneakers in a highly illustrated, chronological format, this expanded edition includes new sneakers, as well as a new foreword, introduction, and afterword.
Brothers, We are Not Professionals
Author : John Piper
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1433678829
Book Description
John Piper pleads with fellow pastors to abandon the professionalization of the pastorate and pursue the prophetic call of the Bible for radical ministry.
