[PDF] Old Gods New Tricks eBook

Author : Thiago de Moraes
Publisher : David Fickling Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1788453182

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Trixie dos Santos is always getting into trouble for her pranks. She loves tricks, magic and epic myths - so when the world is suddenly plunged into darkness, Trixie knows exactly what she has to do to bring back the light:STEP ONE: Summon the most mischievous trickster gods of all time.STEP TWO: Convince Maui, Loki and the rest of the gang to steal the electricity back from wherever it's gone.STEP THREE: Save humankind.No problem right? If Trixie can get the gods of trouble and mayhem to behave for once, it'll all be fine . . .

Author : Darragha Foster
Publisher : Victory Woman Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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A trio of tales regarding the Norse gods and their mortal friends and family. If you enjoyed Thor's troubles in Avengers: Endgame, you will enjoy this book. Includes "Devil King of the Sixth Heaven," "Death Warmed Over," and "Devil's Food Kate." Get it now!

Author : David J West
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2022-09-13
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True Grit meets Cthulhu, it ain't gonna be pretty... Deputy Marshal Porter Rockwell can't be harmed by a bullet or a blade. As long as he never cuts his hair, Rockwell is free to right wrongs and chase criminals without worrying about the mortal consequences. But in the Old West, there are far worse things waiting to kill you than just Indians and outlaws; the Old gods and hungry ghosts, skin-walkers and horrors undreamed of... Old Gods New Tricks is a collection of weird western stories in the vein of classic pulp fiction and Louis L'Amour yarns. If you like frontier justice, larger-than-life characters, and witty humor, then you will LOVE the next installment of the Cowboys & Cthulhu series. Buy Old Gods New Tricks to slap leather in a weird western adventure today!

Author : Julia Green
Publisher : David Fickling Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 MB
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1788452275

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Ettie has lived blissfully with just her grandma for company and the wild woods as her playground. Until she meets the mysterious Cora and she starts to crave more - now she wants to explore further, to discover secrets of her own. So, when Cora leads her to the hidden quarry pool - deep, cold, beautiful and dangerously inviting - Ettie is ready to jump straight in.But the quarry has secrets too, and Ettie will have to dive deep into the darkness to uncover them . . .

Author : Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
Publisher : David Fickling Books
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1788451945

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1992, Philadelphia, USA.Kamaria Kessy is 13, independent, confident and loving life.But BIG change is coming!She's fallen out with her best friend, Odie, and she has no idea how to talk to him about it.Plus her Tanzanian aunty is about to be her new roommate - NIGHTMARE!All Kam wants to do is focus on winning big with her relay team (and best girlfriends)! But to fly down the race track she's going to need to learn what truly makes her soar.

Author : Tanya Huff
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1940709393

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The old gods are still with us. The world is constantly changing, evolving, growing. In order to stay relevant, deities must change with the times as well. In this anthology, fifteen science fiction and fantasy authors tackle how gods and goddesses have adapted to the surge in technology and the mercurial beliefs of humanity. So sit back and watch Hera try her hand at marriage counseling, while Macuilxochitl conquers the world of online gaming. Buy a ticket to Anubis’ magic act or roam the back tents at the local carnival and catch Doc Saturday’s medicine show. Take a sip of wine at Dionysus’ winery or grab some potato pancakes at Baba Yaga’s café. Whatever your taste, here you will find interesting twists on how deities have found their way in our modern world from Crystal Sarakas, Juliet E. McKenna, Tanya Huff, Edward Willett, Daniel Roman, Jennifer Dunne, Jean Marie Ward, Mike Marcus, A.L. Tompkins, Daryl Marcus, Alma Alexander, Kari Sperring, A.J. Cunder, Irene Radford, and N.R. Lambert. And remember to beware. You never know who...or what...you will meet next. And don’t miss THE MODERN FAE’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING HUMANITY!

Author : Mike Davis
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1788732170

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Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene? Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis’s first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present as much as the past. In a series of searching, propulsive essays, Davis, the bestselling author of City of Quartz and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, explores Marx’s inquiries into two key questions of our time: Who can lead a revolutionary transformation of society? And what is the cause—and solution—of the planetary environmental crisis? Davis consults a vast archive of labor history to illuminate new aspects of Marx’s theoretical texts and political journalism. He offers a “lost Marx,” whose analyses of historical agency, nationalism, and the “middle landscape” of class struggle are crucial to the renewal of revolutionary thought in our darkening age. Davis presents a critique of the current fetishism of the “anthropocene,” which suppresses the links between the global employment crisis and capitalism’s failure to ensure human survival in a more extreme climate. In a finale, Old Gods, New Enigmas looks backward to the great forgotten debates on alternative socialist urbanism (1880–1934) to find the conceptual keys to a universal high quality of life in a sustainable environment.

Author : Ayala Fader
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0691234485

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"This book concerns a cohort of ultra-orthodox Jews based in the greater New York area who, while retaining membership and close familial and other ties with their strictly observant communities, seek out secular knowledge about the world on the down low (so to speak), both online and via in-person encounters. Ayala Fader conducted her ethnographic research in these rarified social circles for years, developing relationships of trust with the mostly young married men and women who have taken to clandestine methods to find alternative social spaces in which to question what it means to be ethical and what a life of self-fulfillment looks like. Fader's book reveals the stresses and strains that such "double-lifers" experience, including the difficulty these life choices inject into relationships with wives, husbands, and one's children. Not all of these "double-lifers" become atheists. Fader's interlocutors can be placed on a broad spectrum ranging from religiously observant but open-minded at one end to atheism on the other. The rabbinical leadership of these ultra-orthodox communities are well aware of this phenomenon and of how unfiltered internet access makes such alternative forms of seeking an ever-present temptation. (Some ultra-orthodox rabbis have been sounding the alarm for years, claiming that the internet represents more of a threat to community survival today than the Holocaust did in the last century.) Fader's book examines the institutional responses of ultra-orthodox communities to the double-lifers. These include what is typically referred to as a Torah-based type of "religious therapy" conducted by trained members of these communities who as therapists and "life coaches" blend elements of modern psychiatry with ultra-orthodoxy and "treat" troubling, potentially life-altering doubt and skepticism as symptoms of underlying emotional pathology"--

Author : Atlin Merrick
Publisher : Improbable Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0645289949

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For the lovers of things that go bump in the night Here be stories of South African grootslang and bayou grundylow, tales of elementals, jackelopes, and flying motels. Within you'll find tiny leviathans and rock whales, cambion and kelpie, a girl between time, and a man who saves a gun's life. These are stories of cryptids who sing or swim or save us, living side-by-side so often unseen ...and then seen. So very much seen. When we look.

Author : Michael S. Moore
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725289660

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Like the first two books in this series (WealthWatch and WealthWarn), this volume attempts to do two things: (a) examine the primary socioeconomic motifs in the Bible from a comparative intertextual perspective, and (b) trace the trajectory formed by these motifs through Tanak into early Jewish and Nazarene texts. Where WealthWatch focuses on Torah and WealthWarn focuses on the Prophets, WealthWise focuses on wisdom literature. The texts examined here include the Instructions of Shuruppak, Codex Hammurabi, the Poem of the Pious Sufferer (Ludlul bel nemeqi), the Babylonian Theodicy, the Shamash Hymn, the Dialogue of Pessimism, various Hittite texts, the Proverbs of Ahiqar, 4QInstruction, the Wisdom of Ben Sira, and the Wisdom of Solomon, plus Luke's "Sermon on the Plain" and the Epistle of James.