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The Hell House Beckons

Author : Kiel Chenier

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 82 pages

File Size : 39,82 MB

Release : 2015-10-28

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 0994852908

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The ultimate haunted house adventure and toolkit for d20-based roleplaying games. ""In the middle of a barren dustbowl is a manor. Tall and grey, it juts out of the infertile earth like a tombstone, marking the grave of hundreds. This manor is a place of evil. A place where tortured ghosts stalk the halls, and beneath its floorboards are the remnants of atrocities committed in the name of the Devil. It is a place from Hell, and it must be cleansed"" The Hell House Beckons provides a tense and haunting adventure for d20-based roleplaying games, as well as all the random tables and tools for Game Masters to make their own haunted houses. It's inspired by films like The Frighteners, Hausu, The Legend of Hell House, The Conjuring, Insidious, and countless others. Features: -Procedurally generated content that makes the adventure different every time. -Over 16 random tables. -17+ unique ghosts and monsters. -Over 30 unique illustrations. -System and Level agnostic.



A Red & Pleasant Land

Author : Lamentations of the Flame Princess

Publisher : Lamentations of the Flame Princess

Page : 191 pages

File Size : 32,34 MB

Release : 2017-07

Category : Fantasy games

ISBN : 9789525904604

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A terrible Red King wars with an awful Queen, and together they battle into being a rigid, wrong world... and this book has everything you need to run it. (And any other place in your first, second, third, fourth or fifth edition game that might require intrigue, hidden gardens, inside-out-rooms, scheming monarchs, puzzles or beasts, liquid floors, labyrinths, growing, shrinking, duelling, broken time, Mome Raths, blasphemy, croquet, explanations for where players who missed sessions were, or the rotting arcades and parlors of a palace that was once the size of a nation.)



The Invited

Author : Jennifer McMahon

Publisher : Anchor

Page : 368 pages

File Size : 33,63 MB

Release : 2019-04-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0385541392

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A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house--they build one . . . In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on forty-four acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams. When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago. With her passion for artifacts, Helen finds special materials to incorporate into the house--a beam from an old schoolroom, bricks from a mill, a mantel from a farmhouse--objects that draw her deeper into the story of Hattie and her descendants, three generations of Breckenridge women, each of whom died suspiciously. As the building project progresses, the house will become a place of menace and unfinished business: a new home, now haunted, that beckons its owners and their neighbors toward unimaginable danger.



A Wrinkle in Time

Author : Madeleine L'Engle

Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 11,78 MB

Release : 2010-04-01

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1429915641

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NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER • TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM DISNEY Read the ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic that has delighted children for over 60 years! "A Wrinkle in Time is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart." —Meg Cabot Late one night, three otherworldly creatures appear and sweep Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe away on a mission to save Mr. Murray, who has gone missing while doing top-secret work for the government. They travel via tesseract--a wrinkle that transports one across space and time--to the planet Camazotz, where Mr. Murray is being held captive. There they discover a dark force that threatens not only Mr. Murray but the safety of the whole universe. A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet.



The Haunting of Sunshine Girl

Author : Paige McKenzie

Publisher : Hachette Books

Page : 305 pages

File Size : 31,92 MB

Release : 2015-03-24

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 1602862737

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A New York Times bestseller The Haunting of Sunshine Girl,in active development for television by The Weinstein Company, a hit paranomal YA series based on the wildly popular YouTube channel about an "adorkable" teenager living in a haunted house. Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from sunny Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched town of Ridgemont, Washington. Though Sunshine is adopted, she and her mother have always been close, sharing a special bond filled with laughter and inside jokes. But from the moment they arrive, Sunshine feels her world darken with an eeriness she cannot place. And even if Kat doesn't recognize it, Sunshine knows that something about their new house is just ... creepy. In the days that follow, things only get stranger. Sunshine is followed around the house by an icy breeze, phantom wind slams her bedroom door shut, and eventually, the laughter Sunshine hears on her first night evolves into sobs. She can hardly believe it, but as the spirits haunting her house become more frightening-and it becomes clear that Kat is in danger-Sunshine must accept what she is, pass the test before her, and save her mother from a fate worse than death.



Retribution

Author : Anthea Fraser

Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd

Page : 216 pages

File Size : 19,83 MB

Release : 2017-03-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1780108419

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Meet Rona Parish, a talented biographer who has a skill for writing about the past and encountering danger along the way, and her adorable golden retriever, Gus. A dark secret from the past brings danger to Rona Parish's door and those closest to her when she juggles two projects. Rona Parish is finishing her single mother series in perfect style with an article on the enigmatic and talented Nicole Summers, an expert on all things culinary. Can Rona persuade Nicole to open up about her life? Before she can try, events take an astonishingly dark turn. Appearances can be deceiving . . . Meanwhile, Rona has been asked to finish the biography of TV presenter Gideon Ward. Acclaimed biographer Russell Page died suddenly in a car crash weeks ago, leaving the project unfinished. Curiously, it seems that Nicole was the ex-wife of a man who works for a hotel chain owned by Bruce Sedgwick, a person who seemed to be of great interest to Russell Page before his death. But why? Is Rona too late to stop a killer in their tracks? As Rona investigates, she learns that people are not always what they seem, with devastating consequences. A page-turning cosy mystery set in the fictional English market town of Marsborough in the stunning Chiltern Hills. Fans of M.C. Beaton, Richard Osman, Reverend Richard Coles, G.M. Malliet, Margery Allingham, Betty Rowlands and Faith Martin will love this series. READERS ADORE RONA PARISH: "Reading this book is like visiting friends that you don't get to see very often" "Another great Rona Parish mystery" "The interlocking mysteries in this book are well plotted" "A very satisfying book with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing" "Always look forward to the latest instalment in the Rona Parish series and this didn't disappoint" Goodreads "Fraser showcases a delightful heroine" Kirkus Reviews The Rona Parish mysteries 1. Brought to Book 2. Jigsaw 3. Person or Persons Unknown 4. A Family Concern 5. Rogue in Porcelain 6. Next Door to Murder 7. Unfinished Portrait 8. A Question of Identity 9. Justice Postponed 10. Retribution



Like Letters in Running Water

Author : Mary Aswell Doll

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 515 pages

File Size : 43,21 MB

Release : 2000-07-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 1135677611

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Like Letters in Running Water explores ways in which fiction (prose, drama, poetry, myth, fairytale) yields transformative insights for educational theory and practice. Through a series of intensely original, powerful essays drawing on curriculum theory, literary analysis, psychology, and feminist theory and practice, Doll seeks to confront a commonly held bias that reading literary fictions is "mere" entertainment (not a learning experience). She suggests that fiction has immense teaching power because it connects readers with their alliances within themselves and this connection attends to social, outer issues addressed by traditional pedagogies with greater, deeper awareness. Her elaboration in this book of the concept of currere--the lived experience of curriculum--through literature, drama, and myth is a major contribution to the field of curriculum theory.



Preaching to Convert

Author : John Fletcher

Publisher : University of Michigan Press

Page : 413 pages

File Size : 16,18 MB

Release : 2013-11-13

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 047211915X

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Preaching to Convert offers an intriguing new perspective on the outreach strategies of U.S. evangelicals. Author John Fletcher frames these activities, from door-to-door proselytizing to the spirited sermons of superstar televangelists, as examples of activist performance, broadly defined here as acts performed before an audience in the hopes of changing hearts and minds. Most writing about activist performance has focused on left-progressive causes, events, and actors, and if evangelicals have appeared at all, they often appear as one-dimensional forces of ignorance or bigotry against which brave (left-leaning) activists must fight. Preaching to Convert argues against such a constricted view of activism and for a more nuanced understanding of U.S. evangelicalism as a movement defined by its desire to win converts and spread the gospel. In other words, evangelicals are activist performers par excellence. The book positions evangelicals as a diverse, complicated group confronting the loss of conservative Christianity’s default status in twenty-first–century U.S. culture. In the face of an increasingly secular age, evangelicals have been reassessing models of outreach. In acts like handing out Bible tracts to strangers on the street or going door-to-door with a Bible in hand, in elaborately staged horror-themed morality plays or multi-million-dollar creationist discovery centers, in megachurch services beamed to dozens of satellite campuses, and in controversial “ex-gay” ministries striving to return gays and lesbians to the straight and narrow, evangelicals are redefining what it means to be deeply committed in a pluralist world. The book’s engaging style and careful argumentation make it accessible and appealing to scholars and students across a range of fields.



Return

Author : Kamal Al-Solaylee

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 11,86 MB

Release : 2021-09-07

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1443456160

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A Globe and Mail, Hill Times and CBC Best Book of the Year Have you ever wondered what it would be like to return to your roots? Drawing on astute political analysis and extensive reporting from around the world, Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From illuminates a personal quest. Kamal Al-Solaylee, author of the bestselling and award-winning Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes and Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone), yearns to return to his homeland of Yemen, now wracked by war, starvation and daily violence, to reconnect with his family. Yemen, as well as Egypt, another childhood home, call to him, even though he ran away from them in his youth and found peace and prosperity in Canada. In Return, Al-Solaylee interviews dozens of people who have chosen to or long to return to their homelands, from Basques to Irish to Taiwanese. He does make a return of sorts himself, to the Middle East, visiting Israel and the West Bank, as well as Egypt. A chronicle of love and loss, of global reach and personal desires, Return is a book for anyone who has ever wondered what it would be like to return to their roots.



Southernmost

Author : Silas House

Publisher : Algonquin Books

Page : 369 pages

File Size : 42,54 MB

Release : 2019-06-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1616209364

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“A novel for our time, a courageous and necessary book.” —Jennifer Haigh, author of Heat and Light In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles with the limits of belief and the infinite ways to love. In the aftermath of a flood that washes away much of a small Tennessee town, evangelical preacher Asher Sharp offers shelter to two gay men. In doing so, he starts to see his life anew—and risks losing everything: his wife, locked into her religious prejudices; his congregation, which shuns Asher after he delivers a passionate sermon in defense of tolerance; and his young son, Justin, caught in the middle of what turns into a bitter custody battle. With no way out but ahead, Asher takes Justin and flees to Key West, where he hopes to find his brother, Luke, whom he’d turned against years ago after Luke came out. And it is there, at the southernmost point of the country, that Asher and Justin discover a new way of thinking about the world, and a new way of understanding love. Southernmost is a tender and affecting book, a meditation on love and its consequences.