Everything turned around for the kid who took one hundred years to be born. When he started feeling everybody's feelings, after he gave up his hope and love for humanity to keep existing, the Crow-Man leaves his own sky with its millions of universes to travel to the second sky where he discovers who he is, the aesir will that lives in him, and the restless agony that haunts him. ODin, the Crow-Man gains his knowledge and wisdome through the forbidden knowledge path, through feeling people, he discovers what the aesir Odin did not and with the restless agony which haunts his head, Odin loses control and makes everyone go insane. Across Odin's journey between hope and love, he makes a choice that either ends the world's misery, or become its misery. This is the Backstory of the Crow-Man the man with fortune and curses.
Five houses, haunted by shadows from the past. Unsuspecting victims, battling with events that have no rational explanation. A race against time to unravel dark secrets and confront vengeful spirits… In these five stories of haunted houses and restless ghosts, everyday heroes dig deep to find the strength and courage to face the past, for the sake of a better future. THE HAUNTING OF TRUSCOTT HOUSE A house with a dark secret. A grieving daughter determined to carry out her parents’ last wishes. A grandmother with something to hide… Chloe Thomas brushes aside her grandmother’s pleas that she stay away from Truscott House, and moves in with her friend Emily to finish the project her parents had begun before their death—the renovation of a property that had been in the family for a century. It isn’t long before Chloe has to admit that something doesn’t seem want them there—but who? Or what? And why? THE HAUNTING OF ARMITAGE HOUSE Little Isabella Burnside is fading away, and no matter how many specialists her mother takes her to, they can’t pinpoint the problem. Her twin brother, Jack—once open and gregarious—can now barely communicate. Isabella’s father, desperate to help his children, calls in Lincoln Sweeney and his partner Katie Dyer, paranormal investigators, to see if there is any basis to his children’s nightmares. Then Lincoln disappears, and his twin, Tara, knows immediately that something unspeakable has happened to him. Where is Lincoln? Is he on this plane, or the next? Has a vengeful ghost condemned him to a fate worse than death? THE HAUNTING OF WYATT HOUSE Jodie Wyatt is missing. Nick, her husband and a police detective, is convinced that her disappearance is payback from a criminal he’s put away. His son Josh knows differently. He has always been able to see and hear those on the other side, and he is certain that a malevolent spirit inhabits Wyatt House. But how can he convince his father? THE HAUNTING OF KNOTT COTTAGE A picturesque but dilapidated cottage. Centuries of ownership by a family of doctors with a chequered past A little girl who is too scared to come to lessons in a converted stable… What secrets does Knott Cottage hold? Carla Sinclair jumps at the chance to sell her soulless modern home and buy Knott cottage. But Carla is not in the cottage for more than a day when things start going wrong. Someone—or something—seems to be averse to her delving into the past. When one of her students is too terrified to return to her lessons, Carla knows something must be done. But what? How can she stop the interference in her life from a force she can’t see? THE HAUNTING OF MORETON MANOR It started as a joke: a couple of backpackers upload a YouTube video about their stay in a supposedly haunted house… But then, someone spots a strange column of light that has been picked up by the camera, and things quickly go from bad to worse. Amy’s and Dylan’s friends share the video… and it goes viral. As the days go on, and the ghost becomes more vengeful, Amy’s fear grows. She wants to leave, but with millions of eyes on his nightly YouTube updates, Dylan is certain that this will make his career. He’s staying, no matter what….
It started as a joke: a couple of backpackers upload a YouTube video about their stay in a supposedly haunted house… But then, things turn bad. Dylan Lee, with a major in film, is documenting his backpacking holiday with his friend Amy in a series of YouTube videos. Their trip is fairly uneventful, and only a handful of friends are following their adventures… until their car breaks down and they accept an offer of a few week’s accommodation in an old gamekeeper’s cottage in the grounds of Moreton Manor. Dylan suggests that they do a tour of the decrepit old cottage and ham up the suspense for YouTube. They upload it and go to sleep…only to be woken in the night by an unearthly scream. It’s probably a fox, Amy tells viewers. But when someone spots a strange column of light picked up by the camera, their friends share the video… and it goes viral. Warnings to leave pepper the comments from locals, but others gleefully urge them to stay. As the days go on, and the ghost becomes more vengeful, Amy’s fear grows. She wants to leave, but with millions of eyes on his nightly YouTube updates, Dylan is certain that this will make his career. He’s staying, no matter what.
Jodie Wyatt is missing. Nick, her husband and a police detective, is convinced that her disappearance is payback from a criminal he’s put away. His son Josh knows differently. He has always been able to see and hear those on the other side, and he is certain that a malevolent spirit inhabits Wyatt House. But how can he convince his father? Josh finds an ally in his grandfather, Richard, and the two of them seek help from Katie Dyer, a paranormal investigator. Bit by bit, Katie and Josh work to put together the pieces of the puzzle—while Jodie’s husband Nick stubbornly follows police procedure. Meanwhile, at Wyatt House, the threat increases hour by hour. It’s a race against time to find Jodie, battling an invisible enemy all the way.
A picturesque but dilapidated cottage. Centuries of ownership by a family of doctors with a chequered past A little girl who is too scared to come to lessons in a converted stable… What secrets does Knott Cottage hold? Carla Sinclair, a divorcee and keen historian, jumps at the chance to sell her soulless modern home and buy Knott cottage. It will be perfect, she thinks, for someone like her with a fascination for the past—and the converted stable is just right for her music studio. But Carla is not in the cottage for more than a day when things start going wrong. Someone—or something—seems to be averse to her delving into the past. Or is it someone trying to get her attention? Carla changes the locks and confides in her friend Diana, but things just continue to get worse. When one of her students is too terrified to return to her lessons, Carla knows something must be done. But what? How can she stop the interference in her life from a force she can’t see? Determined not to give in, Carla keeps digging…
Tara Buckley is not happy when her husband tells her that they’ve been invited to a weekend at Ireland Cottage for a pre-Christmas celebration. She doesn’t like Jason’s boss, Patrick Ireland. She doesn’t like his timid, boring wife, Bridget. And she and their kids, Ryan and Holly, have plenty of other things they want to do! But the weekend is important to Jason, seeking to buy into Patrick Ireland’s lucrative business model. Jason knows that Patrick needs his intellectual property, and he’s hoping to use this weekend to land himself a well-heeled future. However, Patrick Ireland has his own plans. He wants Jason’s expertise, yes—but he doesn’t want him. He plans to land his fish this weekend, and his wife Bridget and scrawny little daughter Erin had better toe the line. When the Buckleys arrive at Ireland Cottage, they discover with shock that there’s a tragedy in Patrick Ireland’s past that they knew nothing about. Tara grits her teeth and plays the game, while her two children go exploring. What Ryan and Holly discover will make the weekend one of ultimate horror—and reveal the dark past that Patrick Ireland is trying to hide.
To what extent did the Irish disappear from English politics, life and consciousness following the Anglo-Irish War? Mo Moulton offers a new perspective on this question through an analysis of the process by which Ireland and the Irish were redefined in English culture as a feature of personal life and civil society rather than a political threat. Considering the Irish as the first postcolonial minority, she argues that the Irish case demonstrates an English solution to the larger problem of the collapse of multi-ethnic empires in the twentieth century. Drawing on an array of new archival evidence, Moulton discusses the many varieties of Irishness present in England during the 1920s and 1930s, including working-class republicans, relocated southern loyalists, and Irish enthusiasts. The Irish connection was sometimes repressed, but it was never truly forgotten; this book recovers it in settings as diverse as literary societies, sabotage campaigns, drinking clubs, and demonstrations.
Xue Mo's novel Curses of the Kingdom of Xixia presents a rich tapestry of the history, religion, lore, and customs of a region in present-day northwestern China. During its heyday, the Sino-Tibetan kingdom of Xixia (pronounced see-sia; 1038–1227), also known as the Tanguts, rivaled the Song dynasty (960–1279) of China and boasted a cavalry so formidable that the Chinese paid tribute to it to maintain peace. Using the discovery of "lost" manuscripts as a frame, the novel presents historical events and tales of semifictional characters, including the avatar of a local Tantric Buddhist goddess, a Dakini/Vajrayogini named Snow Feather. Taking the readers through different historical times and the various geographical and cultural spaces of the region, Xue Mo reveals truths by blurring the distinction between good and evil, beauty and hideousness, reality and fiction, permanence and impermanence. Magical realism and mimesis coexist. Reality merges with illusion, the mundane with the supernatural.
After her pregnancy test comes back positive, Natasha wonders how she's going to take care of a baby alone, after her baby's father has been killed. Hiding her pregnancy from her family for as long as she can, she realizes they're her only support until someone else steps up to the plate. Chris and his long-term girlfriend, Mia, are dealing with the loss of their first child. When Mia refuses to let Chris in and allow him to help her through the pain, their relationship becomes strained. Chris, knowing Natasha is pregnant, offers to be there for her as a friend through her pregnancy, but what happens when feelings run deeper?
On the day of her wedding, the Princess became a widow. In order to investigate the suspicious case, she had accidentally barged into a certain masked man's courtyard. She had fallen into his medicinal pond, and he had teased her ... The childhood sweethearts, the domineering Emperor, the foreign princes, the life and death blue beauties all swarmed over ...
Provides a thorough history of British and North American children's literature from the 17th century to the present dayNow fully revised and updated, this new edition includes: nbsp;a new chapter on illustrated and picture books (and includes 8 illustrations);nbsp;an expanded glossary; an updated further reading section.Children's Literature traces the development of the main genres of children's books one by one, including fables, fantasy, adventure stories, moral tales, family stories, school stories, children's poetry and illustrated and picture books. Grenby shows how these forms have evolved over 300 years and asks why most children's books, even today, continue to fall into one or other of these generic categories.Combining detailed analysis of particular key texts and a broad survey of hundreds of books written and illustrated for children, this volume considers both long forgotten and still famous titles, as well as the new classics of the genre all of them loved by children and adults alike, but also fascinating and challenging for the critic and cultural historian. Key Featuresnbsp;Broad historical rangenbsp;Coverage of neglected as well as well-known textsnbsp;Focus on the main genres of children's literaturenbsp;Thoroughly up-to-date in terms of primary texts and critical material
A powerhouse that had been subjected to the unwritten rules, a fate that was not under his control, and he who had intertwined with the fate of the spirit pearl, could he break through the shackles of fate and reach the realm where the heavens and earth could be carefree and unfettered? If you want to know more, just look at the Primordius Soul-Pearl ...
The French Revolution sparked an ideological debate which also brought Britain to the brink of revolution in the 1790s. Just as radicals wrote 'Jacobin' fiction, so the fear of rebellion prompted conservatives to respond with novels of their own; indeed, these soon outnumbered the Jacobin novels. This was the first survey of the full range of conservative novels produced in Britain during the 1790s and early 1800s. M. O. Grenby examines the strategies used by conservatives in their fiction, thus shedding new light on how the anti-Jacobin campaign was understood and organised in Britain. Chapters cover the representation of revolution and rebellion, the attack on the 'new philosophy' of radicals such as Godwin and Wollstonecraft, and the way in which hierarchy is defended in these novels. Grenby's book offers an insight into the society which produced and consumed anti-Jacobin novels, and presents a case for reexamining these neglected texts.
Qin Jing just crossed the time into a strange world and became the second noble daughter of the big family. She found that the nable daughter turned out to be a weakness who can casually bully. Not only was she sent to marry a ghost, but also suffered humiliation by others. Qin Jing decided to help her revenge and recapture everything that belongs to her. In the meantime, Qin Jing met her love and lived happily with him.☆About the Author☆Mo Mo, a new online novelist, with her excellent writing ability, she gets everyone's attention. Her work Nether King's Genius Wife has gained wide popularity with its rich imagination and beautiful language which readers like .
Between A and Zis a collection of poems that begins in Tehran, Iran, and ends in San Antonio, Texas, with plenty of stops along the way to observe people, places and nature, and to gather stories. Saidi is a great storyteller, and his poems are rich with the lives of people he has met around the globe. Politically liberal, intellectually astute, and emotionally powerful, and full of compassion, these are poems that resonate with a wide range of readers.
Ghosts are converging on the cursed Mount Tonglu for a massive battle royale, the sole survivor of which may become a Ghost King, a being of unimaginable power. Xie Lian is sent to secretly infiltrate and try to prevent this--by destroying any ghosts strong enough to stand a chance. His heavenly powers are weakened near the cursed mountain, but he has one trump card on his side--Hua Cheng, who has survived Mount Tonglu before. As they struggle against murderous ghosts and the mountain's strange defenses, Hua Cheng's knowledge of the area may prove invaluable. But can they even begin to unravel the cursed peak's secrets?
She said, "If people don't offend me, then I won't offend them. If they offend me, then I'll pay them three points. If they offend me, then I'll kill them all!" She said, I want to earn a lot of silver, and then walk all over the five kingdoms, the short paper slant, drunk the sky! Her red clothes were rippling, and she had peerless grace and grace. Her exquisite makeup was something that no one could match, and her awe-inspiring presence was incomparable. Her name was Shui Qingyan. She had put on her wedding dress three times, but had left the wedding hall three times in her wedding dress. He was forced into a dead end again and again, and then he was saved again and again. With a flip of his hand, he turned the entire world into a chessboard, trapping her at the same time. At the same time, he also tricked her into hiding himself within the eighteen strongholds, his red clothes rippling like a red lotus, planning on taking the entire world into his arms for fifteen years, but he lost himself because of her. He was an assistant of the National Medical Bureau for eight years. He was a talented young man, handsome, arrogant and unruly. He hid his thoughts in his heart and devoted his life to her without any regrets. In matters of love, who was in the right and who was in the wrong? Who could be sure? The maelstrom of power, to put it bluntly, was neither victorious nor victorious.
A political humorist investigates the important influence of presidential pets on Washington's domestic policy-making and international diplomacy, drawing on never-before-seen pet diaries to reveal what goes on behind closed doors in the White House. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
That night, Mu Qiqi had lost her most precious treasure after being tricked by her vicious stepsister ... After leaving the airport four years ago, she was called Mommy by the little shota as soon as she returned. Mu Qiqi had a stupefied look on her face. She had just graduated and hadn't gotten married yet, where did these kids come from? Kindly sending the child home, but did not want to put himself into a wolf's den, first work and then give the room and car, finally ...
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