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Author : Felice Holman
Release : 1986-05-31
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 666/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Slake's Limbo by : Felice Holman
Download or read book Slake's Limbo written by Felice Holman. This book was released on 1986-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Artemis Slake, at the age of thirteen, took his fear and misfortune and hid them underground. The thing is, he had to go with them".
Author : David J. Skal
Release : 2004-10-18
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 458/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hollywood Gothic by : David J. Skal
Download or read book Hollywood Gothic written by David J. Skal. This book was released on 2004-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully updated edition of David J. Skal's Hollywood Gothic, "The ultimate book on Dracula" (Newsweek). The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight. In this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David J. Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commodity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all. includes black-and-white Illustrations throughout, plus a new Introduction.
Author : Miranda Lee
Release : 2011-07-15
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 345/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Bride in Blue by : Miranda Lee
Download or read book The Bride in Blue written by Miranda Lee. This book was released on 2011-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wedlocked! Brotherly love…? It was Sophia's wedding day, but she wasn't a happy and radiant bride. How could she feel anything but blue when she wasn't marrying Godfrey, the man she'd loved and the father of the baby she was expecting? Instead she was to wed Godfrey's younger brother. Jonathon Parnell was coldly handsome, and ruthless about carrying out the deathbed promise he'd made to Godfrey: to marry Sophia and give their baby legitimacy and financial security. Jonathon had assured Sophia that this would be a marriage in name only, but now she was beginning to realize that he expected her to act the role of his wife—in every sense…. "Another display of superb storytelling."—Romantic Times
Author : Felice Holman
Release : 1974
Genre : Fear
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Book Synopsis Slake's Limbo by : Felice Holman
Download or read book Slake's Limbo written by Felice Holman. This book was released on 1974. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen year-old Aremis Slake, hounded by his fears and misfortunes, flees them into New York City's subway tunnels, never again--he believes--to emerge.
Author : Winthrop Sargent
Release : 1856
Genre : Braddock's Campaign, 1755
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Book Synopsis The History of an Expedition Against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755 Under Major-General Edward Braddock by : Winthrop Sargent
Download or read book The History of an Expedition Against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755 Under Major-General Edward Braddock written by Winthrop Sargent. This book was released on 1856. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a history of Braddock's Campaign in 1755 against Fort Duquesne.
