[PDF] Mccracken And The Lost Oasis eBook

Author : Mark Adderley
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 2020-03-16
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Autumn, 1919. At last, the Great War is over. McCracken and his family are safe to take a vacation on the Nile, hoping to see their friend Cristofero Campo di Serpenti the archaeologist. But the calm waters of the Nile seem more and more deceptive, as the McCrackens encounter Egyptian revolutionaries, find themselves trapped in an underwater tomb, captured by Bedouin tribesmen, chasing international jewel thieves, and facing the dangers of the Sahara Desert. In this latest McCracken adventure, you will find yourself catapulted into a world of ancient and mysterious ruins, singing sand dunes, mythological creatures and, above all, the elusive lost oasis, land of wonder and riches beyond imagining . . .

Author : Antony Barone Kolenc
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 11,85 MB
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0829448136

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An ill-fated journey, a long-lost uncle, and a mysterious cathedral mark the next chapter in the life of Xan, an orphan in search of his destiny. For a year, he has lived in the care of Benedictine monks at Harwood Abbey. Now he learns that he has an uncle, said to live in the far-off city of Lincoln. Will Xan survive the trip alongside the prisoner Carlo and his cruel guards? Will he find Uncle William? And why is Xan drawn to the spirit that haunts Lincoln Cathedral—could a ghost reconnect Xan with his dead parents? Join Xan and his friends to solve the mystery of The Haunted Cathedral.

Author : Kim Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 15,12 MB
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135879214

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Do you remember these great pop stars and their hits? Deerhoof's The Man, The King, The Girl Butch Hancock's West Texas Waltzes and Dust Blown Tractor Tunes, Swamp Dogg's Cuffed, Collared and Tagged, Michael Head's The Magical World Of The Strands, John Trubee's The Communists Are Coming to Kill Us, John Phillips's Wolf King of L.A., and Michel Magne's Moshe Mouse Crucifiction? You will when you read Lost in the Grooves, a fascinating guide to the back alleys off the pop music superhighway. Pop music history is full of little-known musicians, whose work stands defiantly alone, too quirky, distinctive, or demented to appeal to a mass audience. This book explores the nooks and crannies of the pop music world, unearthing lost gems from should-have-been major artists (Sugarpie DeSanto, Judee Sill), revisiting lesser known works by established icons (Marvin Gaye's post-divorce kissoff album, Here My Dear; The Ramones' Subterranean Jungle), and spotlighting musicians who simply don't fit into neat categories (k. mccarty, Exuma). The book's encyclopedic alphabetical structure throws off strange sparks as disparate genres and eras rub against each other: folk-psych iconoclasts face louche pop crooners; outsider artists set their odd masterpieces down next to obscurities from the stars; lo-fi garage rock cuddles up with the French avant-garde; and roots rock weirdoes trip over bubblegum. This book will delight any jukebox junkie or pop culture fan.

Author : Barbara Willard
Publisher : Bethlehem Books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 1997-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1883937302

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The year is A.D. 781. King Charles of the Franks is crossing the Alps with his family and court on a journey to meet with Pope Hadrian. One frosty night he speaks to his young son Carl: When we come to Rome you will know that I am naming you my heir. One day you will rule over all my lands. . . . But the King already had an heir, Pepin the Hunchback, mockingly called Gobbo. Was he to be dispossessed? Yet Carl sees that Charlemagne is determined to do what he feels is best to serve God and Europe.

Author : Robyn Annear
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,47 MB
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 192223141X

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“Old landmarks fall in nearly every block ... and the face of the city is changing so rapidly that the time is not too far distant when a search for a building 50 years old will be in vain.” — Herald, 1925. The demolition firm of Whelan the Wrecker was a Melbourne institution for a hundred years (1892-1992). Its famous sign – ‘Whelan the Wrecker is Here’ on a pile of shifting rubble – was a laconic masterpiece and served as a vital sign of the city’s progress. It’s no stretch to say that over three generations, the Whelan family changed the face of Melbourne, demolishing hundreds of buildings in the central city alone. In A City Lost and Found, Robyn Annear uses Whelan’s demolition sites as portals to explore layers of the city laid bare by their pick-axes and iron balls. Peering beneath the rubble, she brings to light fantastic stories about Melbourne’s building sites and their many incarnations. This is a book about the making – and remaking – of a city.

Author : Victoria Schurz Randlett
Publisher :
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 44,94 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Las Vegas (Nev.)
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In the 1950s, Las Vegas, Nevada materialized in the desert, seemingly all at once, as the center of both gambling and atomic weapons testing in the United States. As it did, Las Vegas also became a hyperbolic representation of the peculiarly obsessive dialectic of sin and redemption in American culture. During what has been called its Golden Age, from approximately 1946 to 1958, Las Vegas was consciously constructed, as place and as image, in a remarkably short time in a remarkably unpromising place. The story of Las Vegas is that of a noplace in the middle of nowhere that became a very important and quintessentially American place in the second half of the twentieth century. Las Vegas in the 1950s embodied several critical strains of United States cultural, political, and economic life, represented here by the Mob, the Bomb, and the Chamber of Commerce. The interweaving of those strains with each other and with their physical environment, the Southern Nevada desert, speaks eloquently of the ways in which time and place, history and geography, Constitute each other. This dissertation examines the necessarily contested process by which this place was made, connecting the political economy of the built landscape with the moral and discursive economy of the iconic landscape Las Vegas became.

Author : Naomi Klein
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 11,86 MB
Release : 2000-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780312203436

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"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.

Author : Brent Nongbri
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0300154178

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Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as ancient religion. Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures.

Author : Tom W. Blackburn
Publisher : Leisure Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780843943047

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Mike McGann was born tough and grew up tough in the Irish slums of the Boston waterfront. When he jumped ship at Monterey, the Spanish capital of California, he had only poker winnings, a brass nerve, and an appetite for gold and power. It wasn't long before he ran head-on into the proud Spanish aristocrats who held the land in feudal domain. But before he was through, Mike McGann would carve himself a reputation as the Sierra Baron.

Author : Mark Adderley
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 18,45 MB
Release : 2013-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781492181989

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September, 1914: McCracken's worst fear has been realized, for war has broken out in Europe. In the turmoil that follows the outbreak of hostilities, the French Minister of War visits McCracken with a strange artifact: a piece of fabric that cannot burn, and cannot be pierced by bullets. Where can the Allies find more of this fabric? Can they find it before the Germans and Turks? Only McCracken and his allies, Ariadne, Sikorsky, Fr. Jamie Erickson, and, of course, Fritz can hope to unravel the clues that will lead them to the fabled Land of Prester John.