The Audacious Adventures of Drippy the Dragon

The Audacious Adventures of Drippy the Dragon
Author: E. Michael Lunsford
Publisher: Pen It! Publications, LLC
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781639842001
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Drippy just flunked Flame Throwing 101. Now he's running away from home. He's had enough with the teasing and bullying-all because he can't shoot fire like the other dragons, only water. Gallons and gallons of it. Frantically galloping through the woods to avoid the Flying Dragon Search & Rescue team, Drippy stumbles across Leena the Lionhearted, a spunky young knight hanging precariously off the face of a cliff. By dangling his tail over the edge, Drippy saves her life-so she offers to join him in his quest to solve the mystery of his strange water affliction. Desperate to find a cure and win the acceptance of his fellow dragons, Drippy's wild adventures take him to two quirky doctors, a crusty old vulture, three batty witches and a slightly alcoholic alchemist. But then he and Leena learn that marauding villagers, complete with torches and pitchforks, have attacked his family's caves and stolen all the dragon eggs-for an omelet. Now his dragon clan is off to wreak revenge on the village, and Drippy realizes he must use his unique water-spewing talents to prevent all-out war-or start planning his parents' funeral.

Derek Hyde's Spooky Scavenger Hunt

Derek Hyde's Spooky Scavenger Hunt
Author: E. Michael Lunsford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-09-06
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781639844654
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Spookaphobic Derek Hyde has a problem: He has to live in the haunted Hyde Funeral Home & Body Parts shop with his foster sister Prudence and his adoptive mortician parents, Jack and Formalda. What's worse, Derek really misses his birth parents-who supposedly died. Turns out, they're not so dead. Formalda's psychic Aunt, Claire Voyent, tells Derek that his birth parents are alive, but kidnapped-and in great danger. Against Jack and Formalda's wishes, she helps Derek and Prudence run off to an airstrip to find an eccentric pilot named Up-Chuck Charlie. Charlie agrees to fly the kids to a swampy bayou where Derek's parents are being kept as zombies, drugged by a voodoo witch doctor. After surviving a plane crash in the swamp, the kids rush to save Derek's parents from the evil witch doctor. Too late, they discover his parents were whisked away to a pirate ghost ship by the evil villain D. K. Rotzalot. Derek is desperate to rescue his parents, but first he has to find his inner hero-and somehow match Prudence's courage and spunky attitude. It's either that, or live a wretched life of regret and woulda-coulda-shoulda.

More Brilliant than the Sun

More Brilliant than the Sun
Author: Kodwo Eshun
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1784786748
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The classic work on the music of Afrofuturism, from jazz to jungle More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction is one of the most extraordinary books on music ever written. Part manifesto for a militant posthumanism, part journey through the unacknowledged traditions of diasporic science fiction, this book finds the future shock in Afrofuturist sounds from jazz, dub and techno to funk, hip hop and jungle. By exploring the music of such musical luminaries as Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Lee Perry, Dr Octagon, Parliament and Underground Resistance, theorist and artist Kodwo Eshun mobilises their concepts in order to open the possibilities of sonic fiction: the hitherto unexplored intersections between science fiction and organised sound. Situated between electronic music history, media theory, science fiction and Afrodiasporic studies, More Brilliant than the Sun is one of the key works to stake a claim for the generative possibilities of Afrofuturism. Much referenced since its original publication in 1998, but long unavailable, this new edition includes an introduction by Kodwo Eshun as well as texts by filmmaker John Akomfrah and producer Steve Goodman aka kode9.

Move Under Ground

Move Under Ground
Author: Nick Mamatas
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2020-06-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0486841863
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"Readers will be enthralled, chilled, and astonished." -- Tom Piccirilli, author of A Choir of Ill Children. In the first of many references to H. P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu," this thoroughly unique novel begins with the rise of the lost city of R'lyeh, portending certain doom for human existence. The witness to this deadly harbinger is Jack Kerouac, who recruits fellow beats Neal Cassady and William S. Burroughs for a cross-country road trip that will climax in a confrontation with a murderous cult.

Narrative Mechanics

Narrative Mechanics
Author: Beat Suter
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2021-05-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3839453453
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What do stories in games have in common with political narratives? This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games and real life. It shows that the narrative mechanics so clearly identifiable in games are increasingly used (and abused) in politics and social life. They have »many faces«, displays and interfaces. They occur as texts, recipes, stories, dramas in three acts, movies, videos, tweets, journeys of heroes, but also as rewarding stories in games and as narratives in society - such as a career from rags to riches, the concept of modernity or market economy. Below their surface, however, narrative mechanics are a particular type of motivational design - of game mechanics.

The Thesaurus of Slang

The Thesaurus of Slang
Author: Esther Lewin
Publisher: Checkmark Books
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1997
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780816036615
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Includes jargon, sports slang, and ethnic and regional expressions

The Only Thing Worse Than Witches

The Only Thing Worse Than Witches
Author: Lauren Magaziner
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2015-08-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0142424420
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Roald Dahl meets Eva Ibbotson in this hilarious middle grade debut * "Fifth-grader Rupert Campbell lives in a world that combines Roald Dahl’s Witches and Louis Sachar’s Wayside School. Readers will banish themselves from the ordinary world to finish this book in a flash." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review Rupert Campbell is fascinated by the witches who live nearby. He dreams of broomstick tours and souvenir potions, but the closest he can get to a witchy experience is sitting in class with his awful teacher Mrs. Frabbleknacker, who smells like bellybutton lint and forbids Rupert’s classmates from talking to each other before, during, and after class. So when he sees an ad to become a witch’s apprentice, Rupert simply can’t resist applying. But Witchling Two isn’t exactly what Rupert expected. With a hankering for lollipops and the magical aptitude of a toad, she needs all the help she can get to pass her exams and become a full-fledged witch. She’s determined to help Rupert stand up to dreadful Mrs. Frabbleknacker too, but the witchling's magic will be as useful as a clump of seaweed unless Rupert can figure out a way to help her improve her spellcasting—and fast!

Where the Heart Beats

Where the Heart Beats
Author: Kay Larson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2013-07-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0143123475
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A “heroic” biography of John Cage and his “awakening through Zen Buddhism”—“a kind of love story” about a brilliant American pioneer of the creative arts who transformed himself and his culture (The New York Times) Composer John Cage sought the silence of a mind at peace with itself—and found it in Zen Buddhism, a spiritual path that changed both his music and his view of the universe. “Remarkably researched, exquisitely written,” Where the Heart Beats weaves together “a great many threads of cultural history” (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings) to illuminate Cage’s struggle to accept himself and his relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Freed to be his own man, Cage originated exciting experiments that set him at the epicenter of a new avant-garde forming in the 1950s. Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Allan Kaprow, Morton Feldman, and Leo Castelli were among those influenced by his ‘teaching’ and ‘preaching.’ Where the Heart Beats shows the blossoming of Zen in the very heart of American culture.

Valley of the Brain Collectors

Valley of the Brain Collectors
Author: Mike Shel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-12-23
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781601257048
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The heroes of Numeria must brave a remote canyonland known as the Scar of the Spider. Clues found in the Choking Tower revealed that a mysterious prophet left her legacy behind in this valley long ago... a legacy that could reveal methods to defeat the Iron God of the Silver Mount. But the heroes are neither the only, nor the first visitors to the Scar of the Spider, and as they explore, they realize that alien monstrosities have colonized the canyon and have horrific agendas of their own. Can the heroes escape with their brains intact, or will they become merely the latest addition to an otherworldly collection? A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 10th-level characters, Valley of the Brain Collectors continues the Iron Gods Adventure Path, an exploration of the lands of Numeria, where savage barbarism clashes with the wonders and horrors of superscience. Several new monsters, an exploration of the mysterious alien empire known as the Dominion of the Black, rules for several strange types of alien technology, and Amber E. Scott's Pathfinder Journal round out this volume of the Pathfinder Adventure Path.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton

The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Author: Thomas Wright
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1465550135
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