She was last reported living near Atlanta on a farm, and no longer writing.Īs an early contributor to the mass-market fantasy genre, Boyer's fate is similar to her contemporary Niel Hancock in that her books required the reader to be interested in a specialized area of study, in this case, Norse mythology, in order to fully appreciate the books, and thus she did not find the sort of wide acceptance which would have given her a more prominent place as a pioneer in the genre. Boyer's early books are dominated by the theme of the heroic quest.īoyer attended Brigham Young University where she studied English literature and Scandinavian mythology. Boyer tended to follow the Norse versions of these story elements closely without much deviation. 0552135682 - The Curse of Slagfid by Elizabeth H Boyer (17 results) You searched for: ISBN: 0552135682. Her stories are characterized by light and dark elves, dwarves, trolls, sorcerers, ley lines, burial mounds, wizards, and so forth. The Curse of Slagfid and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. While Norse mythology has been an influence on the fantasy genre, and many authors such as Tolkien and Lewis were influenced by these myths, Boyer's books followed them much more closely. Her stories were deeply influenced by Norse mythology, and are set in a fantasy world whose climate and geography resembles that of the Scandinavia of Norse myths. Elizabeth Boyer is an American fantasy author who produced a number of books in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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But can she laugh at inside jokes with my best friends? Convince my boyfriend she's the girl he fell in love with? Pretend to be a happy, carefree daughter when she hugs my parents good night? And can she keep up the charade, even after she realizes my murderer is watching her every move? From Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars books, comes a riveting new series about secrets, lies, and killer consequences. Ever since Sutton Mercers murderer tricked her long-lost twin, Emma, into coming to Tucson, Emma has been trying to solve the mystery of Suttons death. And the only way to figure it out is to be me - to slip into my old life and piece it all together. Now Emma's desperate to know what happened to me. But I'm about to get something no one else does - an encore performance, thanks to Emma, the long-lost twin sister I never even got to meet. It's enough to kill a girl all over again. The worst part of being dead is that there's nothing left to live for. She is described as pretty, but in a dangerous way, comparable to a black widow. Holly will defy the orders of superiors and disobey rules if she believes that she can be of more help that way, and has got into trouble multiple times for defying a direct command. In The Artemis Fowl Files, she notes that she eventually earns the respect of her male colleagues. Holly is the first and only female captain in the organisation LEPrecon. It is said that there is a dwarf over 2,000 years old in the book). According to Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident, Holly is about eighty years old (Elves and other magic species live much longer than humans. Like all elves, she is child-sized by human standards, but her bodily proportions are adult. She got her name because she is extremely short as she stands at one metre in height (said to be three feet in US editions), one centimetre shorter than the fairy average (an inch shorter in US editions), and has a gymnast-like stance. Holly Short is an unusual and spunky elf with an auburn crew cut (although she later grows a fringe) and 1 hazel and 1 blue eye, as well as the pointy ears typical of her species and nut-brown skin of a coffee complexion. Captain Holly Short is a character in the Artemis Fowl novel series by Eoin Colfer. The Scar is a sequel to Perdido Street Station only tangentially: the events take place in the same world and follow on chronologically but we have a completely different set of characters and setting. I had however skipped the other two books in Miéville’s Bas-Lag Trilogy: The Scar and Iron Council. Since I read Perdido Street Station, I have delved into Miéville’s more real-world novels, The Kraken, The City and The City as well as the sublimely gorgeous (allegedly) Young Adult Railsea. This entire melting pot of a city – which reminds me of the bastard child of Ankh-Morpork and William Blake’s London – is in the shadow of the towering ossified ribs of some unfathomable creature. It is a city populated by renegade scientists, scarab-headed khepri, eagle faced garuda, the amphibian vodyanoi, the cactacae and brutally Remade criminals. I discovered him through Perdido Street Station and adored the sprawling city of New Crobuzon: mercantile, rapacious, brutal but utterly compelling. Miéville is one of my favourite authors: acutely political, wildly imaginative and linguistically sparkling. "A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001." -Carl Sagan "Clarke deftly blends discovery, philosophy, and a newly acquired sense of play." - Time " 2010 is easily Clarke's best book in over a decade." - The San Diego TribuneĪbout the Author Arthur C. "Clarke deftly blends discovery, philosophy, and a newly acquired sense of play."- Time " 2010 is easily Clarke's best book in over a decade."- The San Diego Tribune Meanwhile, the being that was once Dave Bowman-the only human to unlock the mystery of the monolith-streaks toward Earth on a vital mission of its own. Without warning, a Chinese expedition targets the same objective, turning the recovery mission into a frenzied race for the precious information Discovery may hold about the enigmatic monolith that orbits Jupiter. Captain Chandler investigates the lapse in Hal's sanity and the disappearance of Dave Bowman.īook Synopsis "A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001."-Carl Sagan Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft-to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong.and what became of Commander Dave Bowman. About the Book This sequel to 2001: a space odyssey answers the questions left by its predecessor. The movie seems to be a horrible mish-mash of ill-advised Factory style art-house, with Herschel Lewis style gore. The movie is frankly barely watchable, with a scratchy print of badly shot material and echoey audio, often out of synch with the action. They describe the release programme as `A slew of must-have releases for the depraved and the corrupted…` and, although I`m prepared to accept that that description might include me, this release just left me plain cold. This is issued by `Tartan Grindhouse` and is the first release to carry this sub-brand logo. It even starts with a warning about the quality of this release (`Viewers are advised that the quality varies throughout…") and it must have been painful for some at Tartan, who generally issue excellent editions, to have been persuaded to put this out. Sadly it doesn`t look much better here, and it certainly doesn`t live up to its notoriety. Gore aficionados have long talked of this film in the same breath as the original `Texas Chainsaw Massacre` and `I Spit on Your Grave`, having viewed it on twentieth generation, barely visible VHS pirates. This `notorious cult classic` has never enjoyed an official release in the UK on any format. Introduction This release from Tartan carries with it a lot of cultish promise.
0 reviews Lucky Man: A Life Lived One Shot at a Time is a memoir by Captain Stephen Luckey, an expert marksman, Marine fighter pilot, commercial airline pioneer, and aviation security expert.Urn:oclc:864766010 Scandate 20100929211721 Scanner scribe3.la.archive. Lucky Man: A Life Lived One Shot at a Time by Stephen A Luckey 4.57 OL5745510W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.50 Pages 284 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1401397808 Urn:lcp:luckymanmemoir00foxm:epub:71ef1f6f-57e8-4045-bc05-eb0f7c235ceb Extramarc NYU Bobcat Foldoutcount 0 Identifier luckymanmemoir00foxm Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3mw36m2t Isbn 0786867647Ġ2010038 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:40:23 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA120603 Boxid_2 CH106801 Camera Canon 5D City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 1. Related texts in the Popular Patristics Series include St Basil the Great's on Social Justice (PPS 38) and several other works by St John Chrysostom: Six Books on the Priesthood (PPS 1), On Marriage and Family Life (PPS 7), The Cult of the Saints (PPS 31), and Letters to Olympia (PPS 56). and trans., John Chrysostom: On Wealth and Poverty (Crestwood, NY: St. The message of the story of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) is brought home to every person in these six sermons of Chrysostom with clarity, insight into the human dilemma, compassion, and judgment. issues of poverty that modern Christians confront. And yet, as the modern reader is confronted with his words, it becomes apparent that he, too, is being addressed Chrysostom's words are words proclaiming the truth of the Gospel to all people of all times. On Wealth and Poverty John Chrysostom, Hank Hanegraaff 4.49 361 ratings46 reviews Want to read Kindle 12.99 Rate this book The sermons of St John Chrysostom are noted as classical commentaries on the Christian life. On Wealth and Poverty by St John Chrysostom - Spiritual Instruction - Christian Life - Book. Knowing well the realities of life in the world, the temptation of rich and poor alike, this great orator-"the golden-mouthed"-addresses the questions of wealth and poverty in the lives of the people of his day. The sermons of St John Chrysostom are some of the richest classical commentaries on the Christian life. This is the second edition of this Popular Patristics volume, enhanced with freshly edited text, an updated cover, and a new foreword by Hank Hanegraaff. |