[PDF] First Whispers An American Oracle eBook

Author : Ben Aaronovitch
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345524624

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A WHOLE NEW REASON TO MIND THE GAP It begins with a dead body at the far end of Baker Street tube station, all that remains of American exchange student James Gallagher—and the victim’s wealthy, politically powerful family is understandably eager to get to the bottom of the gruesome murder. The trouble is, the bottom—if it exists at all—is deeper and more unnatural than anyone suspects . . . except, that is, for London constable and sorcerer’s apprentice Peter Grant. With Inspector Nightingale, the last registered wizard in England, tied up in the hunt for the rogue magician known as “the Faceless Man,” it’s up to Peter to plumb the haunted depths of the oldest, largest, and—as of now—deadliest subway system in the world. At least he won’t be alone. No, the FBI has sent over a crack agent to help. She’s young, ambitious, beautiful . . . and a born-again Christian apt to view any magic as the work of the devil. Oh yeah—that’s going to go well.

Author : Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 33,86 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765378809

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"Originally published as Hex in 2013 by Luitingh-Sijthoff in Amsterdam"--Colophon.

Author : Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521301084

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This is the first complete narrative history of nineteenth-century American poetry. Barbara Packer explores the neoclassical and satiric forms mastered by the early Federalist poets; the creative reaches of once-celebrated, and still compelling, poets like Longfellow and Whittier; the distinctive lyric forms developed by Emerson and the Transcendentalists. Shira Wolosky provides a new perspective on the achievement of female poets of the period, as well as a close appreciation of African-American poets, including the collective folk authors of the Negro spirituals. She also illuminates the major works of the period, from Poe through Melville and Crane, to Whitman and Dickinson. The authors of this volume discuss this extraordinary literary achievement both in formal terms and in its sustained engagement with changing social and cultural conditions. In doing so they recover and elucidate American poetry of the nineteenth century for our twenty-first century pleasure, profit, and renewed study.

Author : Beverly Lewis
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 1995-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781556614767

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Merry Hanson doesn't know which is worse: harboring a runaway or being interrogated by the police. But when her friend Lissa shows up at the Hanson house bruised and beaten, Merry knows she has to help.