A long time ago at the Crossroads, the great bluesman Robert Johnson sang "Judgment Day" and judgment did rain down upon the world. Now, a little girl named Lisa is the only hope for humanity's redemption, but she and her mother Emma must face what happens when Lisa dies and comes back to life ... again. Little Lisa and the greatest bluesmen of all time, from Leadbelly to Stevie Ray Vaughan, and even Dead Elvis, confront angels, demons, and voodoo powers before the ultimate showdown in the ultimate city of music, heaven and hell: New Orleans. This is an apocalyptic, supernatural, Southern Gothic horror novel that some of our best horror writers say they wished they had written. If you enjoy shows like The Walking Dead and Z-Nation, you will love Bone Music. Reed Business Information - Publishers Weekly Through colloquial prose that's strong and perfectly pitched, Rodgers combines elements of horror (sometimes graphic), fantasy and magical realism into a unique novel that's not only an occult standout but a captivating memoir of an important slice of American culture.
NIGHT I started working on this book with the thought that God isn't dead, and it isn't that he doesn't love us, either. It's just that he wants to give us room enough to be ourselves, even if that means we screw up. If he didn't we'd be nothing but children, and it'd stunt us. I ended up telling a story that isn't that, exactly -- but that's where and what it comes from. That's what's this book -- the story of a man with a forbidding legacy and a destiny he can't imagine growing great enough to face -- means to be. -- Alan Rodgers
Two countries on the brink of nuclear war. The President is bent on avenging the greatest loss a man can endure: the First Lady. A dangerous religious organization vying to control the fate of the earth. A mysterious virus leading to the resurrection of the dead all over the planet. A bestial nightmare of a creature straight out of Revelation. These are the elements at play in FIRE, an epic novel of the world in what might be its final days. "Every so often, a truly seminal book is published in the horror field. Blatty's The Exorcist, King's The Stand, Barker's Books of Blood. Alan Rodgers' Fire is such a book. It is a tale of amazing sweep and scope, uniting Biblical prophecies and hightech, ancient horrors with new ones cobbled up from labs and shadows. After this book, everything changes." -- J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon Five "With Fire, Alan Rodgers shows that he can set the whole world of horror alight. Powerful, frightening, apocalyptic." -- Graham Masterton "This book's pages turn like a windmill in an F-5 tornado!" -- the Publisher FIRE characters facing the end of the world Luke Munson: scientist trying to figure out dinosaur DNA Ron Hawkins: college student and janitor . . . his graduation plans are interrupted by the apocalypse President Paul Green: loses his beloved First Lady on a trip to Russia and tries to start WWIII. Herman Bonner: Mad scientist and just plain whacked out ... His creation, the Beast from Revelation. And Tom, the dog who dies and comes back to life again. Along with a whole lot of other people and animals we usually eat.
From NY Times Bestseller, Bram Stoker Award Winner and World Fantasy Award nominee Alan Rodgers comes one of the most charming contemporary Christmas stories imaginable. If you loved The Velveteen Rabbit and enjoy A Christmas Carol, but live in our modern era, you will love The Bear Who Found Christmas. Joey Robins is nine years old and his dad Sam is transferred from Virginia to California. The family has to move cross-country, and Joey won't let the movers take his toy bear. He has to ride in the car with Joey, his dad, and mom Belinda. Joey is probably too old to love a Teddy Bear, but he does. Bear is his best friend and when you meet his parents, you'll see why. Joey loved the bear so hard and long and pure, so deeply and so truly and so powerfully, that Bear began to grow a heart. Nobody ever would have known about Bear at all, in fact, if Joey hadn’t lost him at the motel not far from the haunted shopping mall on Christmas Eve . . . And so begins a great quest, as Bear tries to find Christmas and Joey. A timeless classic for all seasons. From the Introduction by Mike Resnick: Some time back, I mentioned to Alan Rodgers that I was putting together an anthology called Christmas Ghosts, and asked him if he'd care to do a story for it. He replied that he had a story that, with very few changes, could fit the format, and asked if I'd care to see it. I said yes, a few days passed, and The Bear Who Found Christmas arrived. I don't think even Alan knew what he had accomplished, but I did, and I made out a contract that afternoon, because no one was going to buy that story out from under me. Alan Rodgers, who for most of his professional life eschewed short fiction and specialized in outstanding horror novels, had taken the fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm and the Rev. Dodson, polished its edges here and there, added a pinch of this and a tablespoon of that, and had produced the almost-perfect successor to these 19th Century fables just as the 20th Century was drawing to a close. Like its predecessors, it will appeal to children and like the very best of its predecessors, it will appeal even more to adults. The response to the anthology has been quite favorable, and the one story every critic singled out for praise was The Bear Who Found Christmas. So, from the Editor Who Found Christmas, to the Reader Who Is About To Find It: enjoy! – Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author and editor Bear reminds me of the Velveteen Rabbit, only more charming, if you'll believe that. It has its frights, but nothing too bad can happen in a story with a teddy bear as a major character...or can it? I recommend this one for all ages. – Maren Henry, author and reader
What is precipitation? Where does rain come from? How is snow measured? Find out in 'Precipitation', a fascinating introduction to our wet and wild weather!
She was alien but not very alien. From that first moment Walt saw her as she looked up as she walked past the construction site, he knew she was alien but thought of her the way he thought about human women. That was a mistake--a really, really bad mistake.
Where does our weather come from? How is weather measured? What do weather symbols mean? Find out in 'Forecasting the Weather', a fascinating introduction to how weather data is used to make accurate weather forecasts!
This is the tale of the man sailed the river of our destiny. It starts in the barrios of an alien city with a name no man can pronounce, where they sell a drug called Life, that will kill you if you take it. It leads through the events that underpin our lives like the struts of some great superstructure: in the end it will take Walt Fulton to the verge of the veil of time itself. No one knows what lies beyond that. None who have gone there ever have returned.
How should you read a thermometer? Why do we measure soil temperature? What is the 'greenhouse effect'? Find out in 'Temperature', a fascinating introduction to our hot and freezing weather!
Where does the wind come from? What is an anemometer? Who invented the Beaufort scale? Find out in 'Wind and Air Pressure', a fascinating introduction to our breezy and stormy weather!
This Jack London is not the author of Call of the Wild, but a young woman telepath-warrior who has taken his name as her own, and lives by his principles of survival. And her survival is no ordinary task: she lives on an earth haunted by monsters from the stars. The Shabba.
Orders are orders The creature had to be killed. But just how does one destroy the indestructible? Three months ago, as crew of the General Practice Patrol Ship "Lancet," my colleague Green Doctor Wallace Stone and myself began investigating certain peculiar conditions existing on the fourth planet of Mauki, Vorochislov Sector. The entire population of that planet was found to be suffering from a mass psychotic delusion of rather spectacular proportions: namely, that they and their entire planet were in imminent danger of being devoured, in toto, by an indestructible non-humanoid creature which they called a "hlorg" . . .
Rejuvenation for the millions -- or rejuvenation for the five hundred lucky ones, the select ones, that can be treated each year? Tough, independent Senator Dan Fowler fights a one-man battle against the clique that seeks perpetual power and perpetual youth, in this hard-hitting novel. Why did it have to be his personal fight? The others fumble it -- they'd foul it up, Fowler protested? But why was he in the fight and what was to happen to Senator Fowler's fight against this fantastic conspiracy? Who would win?
This is the ultimate quiz book on Tyrone GAA. An ideal gift for fans of all ages, this is your chance to interact with the counties’ long and eventful history in Gaelic football, hurling and camogie from early successes and classic matches to more recent glory and cult heroes. Informative and fun, it is the perfect companion for those long match-day trips up, down and across the country or for simply testing you and your mates’ knowledge of our illustrious club. From the obscure to the frivolous, the book is packed with 35 themed rounds of questions designed to entertain and amuse all Tyone supporters. So get your thinking caps on – it’s quiz time!
This book invites you to investigate the different environments of Scotland and how they lead to differing ways of life. It looks at making a living, methods of transport, and environmental issues of particular concern in Scotland.
This book reveals what drives decisions and introduces you to the key formula for developing the invaluable attribute of persuasion--a powerful combination of factors proven to speed agreement. In a nutshell, business boils down to whether or not you can persuade others around you. Whether it is a customer, contractor, board of directors, or your loyal staff, your ability to persuade others toward your point of view is essential to finding success. Merging research and real-world application, discover the surprising reasons people say yes, and learn how to: Radiate an aura of expertise Win trust and leverage credibility Build a business case that appeals to both heart and mind Adapt for personality, gender, and generational differences Perfect the five-step persuasion process Generate group buy-in Whether you’re trying to secure a promotion, make a sale, or rally support for a new idea, Persuasion Equation holds the key to unlocking within you the power of persuasion.
Psi-high Amy Ballantine has a talent . . . and sometimes it lets her know more than she needs to know. Guess I must be good enough looking. I can read it from almost every fellow that comes near me. I wonder why? I mean, why me -- and not Marjorie over in the Main Office? She's a sweet girl, but she never gets a second look from the guys. There must be some fine differential point I'm missing somewhere, but I don't think I'll ever understand it But now the interest being expressed is not just the usual appraising and yearning -- for someone out there is talking about how her talents might be used -- and she's not at all sure she likes how things are shaping up. Alan Nourse (1928-92) was one of the most beloved of practitioners of science fiction during the form's Golden Age. This volume includes a double-handful of his stories from the period, including An Ounce of Cure, Meeting of the Board, The Dark Door, Circus, The Link, My Friend Bobby, Image of the Gods, Second Sight, The Native Soil, Letter of the Law, The Coffin Cure, and PRoblem.
This handbook demonstrates how computers can effectively contribute to the teaching of geography. It also offers general advice on generic software, key processes and skills in ICT, the role of the co-ordinator, and making the most of the Internet.
Picture it this way: " said Morrel, staring gloomily at the curved window. "From any point in time, the possible future occurrences could be seen as vectors, an infinite number of possible vectors. Every activity that makes an alteration, or has any broad effect on the future is a high-order variable, but many activities have no grave implications for future time, and could be considered unimportant, or low-order variables. If a man turns a corner and sees something that stimulates him into writing a world-shaking manifesto, the high-order variable would have started when he decided to turn the corner instead of going the other way. But if he took one way home instead of another, and nothing of importance occurred as a result of the decision, a low-order variable would be set up.
They saw Tam's shabby clothing and the small, weather-beaten bag he carried, and they ordered him aside from the flow of passengers, and checked his packet of passports and visas with extreme care. Then they ordered him to wait. Tam waited, a chilly apprehension rising in his throat. For fifteen minutes he watched them, helplessly. . . .
Shows readers the importance of weather in everybody's lives, how they can measure conditions for themselves, and how to read weather data in newspapers and on the television. Introduces measuring equipment, how it is used and who uses the data. Explains the relationships between particular weather conditions and wider weather patterns. Looks at use of weather data to predict local and national weather and climate change
Alan E. Nourse was both a science fiction writer and a physician, publishing many works of fiction and non-fiction in his lifetime. Star Surgeon is the story of Dal Timgar, a very tall, very thin, humanoid Garvian, his body covered with fine gray hair and his only companion a small lump of sentient pink fur named Fuzzy. But as long as Dal could remember, he had wanted to be a doctor. From the first time he had seen a General Practice Patrol ship landing in his home city to fight the plague that was killing his people by the thousands, he had known that this was what he wanted more than anything else: to be a physician of Hospital Earth . . .
The rock in space was not quite a sphere, being far too tiny a bit of cosmic debris to have sufficient gravity to round off its ragged corners. One side was rough -- like a ragged mountain top that was broken off at the peak and hurled into space by an all-powerful hand. Slowly the Scout Ship edged closer, braking with forward jets. Was this it, at last -- the missing asteroid? Alan Nourse (1928-92) won a widespread and devoted readership for his optimistic novels of space travel, medicine, and alien beings. Gold in the Sky, featuring young space adventurer Gregory Hunter, made its first appearance in Amazing Science Fiction Stories in 1958.
This new series shows readers the importance of weather to everybody's lives, how they can measure weather conditions themselves, and hwo to read the weather data in the newspapers and on television. Features include: - introduction to measuring equipment and how it is used - the relationship between particular weather conditions and wider weather patterns, using examples from around the world - looks at how professionals use weather data to predict local and national weather and climate change, as well as the use of ICT in measuring the weather - includes project ideas
Matilda Gray is an expert on antiquities, especially the Roman and Celtic artifacts found in Great Britain. But Matilda has learned that such relics of time past are not valued only by museums but by unscrupulous collectors. Looking too closely into the illegal trade in these treasures can be dangerous, even deadly.Gareth March is a Scotland Yard detective who must work with Matilda to solve the murder of a woman who knew too much about stolen antiquities. Solving the murder will earn him a promotion. And more ?
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