Hidden In Xanadu

Author : Jacqueline Hand
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462835538
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden in Xanadu written by Jacqueline Hand and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-07-27 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIDDEN IN XANADU is the story of suspended rules, the outward serenity and inner chaos of two ordinary people who are thrust into the world of crime witnesses and how they devise an imaginative way to live through it. Colleagues, GRACE DANVERS and MAX JOSEFS, witness a horrible crime and are whisked into protective custody by the FBI to contain the contamination of their testimony before trial. So abruptly has their world changed that Max and Grace feel as if they are in another reality; the constant companionship of the agents seems more like an invasion of privacy than protection; their custody more like captivity. To gain some control over their lives and blot out the ever-present, gruesome crime, they devise a game with their own rules and title the rules file Xanadu. Max and Grace have made several documentaries together and are attracted to each other. In their fifties, both are embarrassed about making love with each other, know it will change their friendship irrevocably. They devise a game to become other couples in fiction and history to get past this sticking point. Neither is aware the agents listen to every word and action. Grace, close to the breaking point, discovers the agents' listening, their complete violation. Max falls back on their game to save her and Grace finds the strength to rise above the betrayal. Their captivity and the game not only change their lives but the lives of the agents and enable Grace to testify at trial.

Author : Matt Wagner
Publisher : Vertigo
ISBN 13 : 9781401222918
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Xanadu written by Matt Wagner and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Matt Wagner Art by Amy Reeder Hadley & Richard Friend Cover by Amy Reeder Hadley "The fast pace [is] instantly immersive, as is Amy Reeder Hadley's finely detailed, complicated art, which is almost shockingly pretty. B+"- The Onion "This features lots of the fairies, magicians and medieval-style witchcraft in a style that evokes at least a little bit the classic Midsummer Night's Dream issue of THE SANDMAN. The book looks lovely and reads well." - Variety The first ten issues of the hit series from writer Matt Wagner and rising star artist Amy Reeder Hadley are collected in this new trade paperback! Madame Xanadu's powers of sight can change the course of human history, but her vision is clouded when she looks into herself. Thrown into worlds of war and men, she encounters a dark stranger who knows both her past and future. This debut volume reveals Madame Xanadu's centuries spanning origin from Camelot to the court of Kubla Khan to 1940s New York City and beyond... Featuring an introduction by James Robinson (STARMAN). Advance-solicited; on sale July 15 - 240 pg, FC, 12.99 US MATURE READERS

Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143031079
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Xanadu written by William Dalrymple and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1989 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Xanadu is, without doubt, one of the best travel books produced in the last 20 years. It is witty and intelligent, brilliantly observed, deftly constructed and extremely entertaining& Dalrymple s gift for transforming ordinary humdrum experience into something extraordinary and timeless suggests that he will go from strength to strength Alexander Maitland, Scotland on Sunday

Author : David Mitchell
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588362159
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Number9Dream written by David Mitchell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize “A novel as accomplished as anything being written.”—Newsweek Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy—an intoxicating ride through Tokyo’s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams. David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work that is in its way even more ambitious. In outward form, Number9Dream is a Dickensian coming-of-age journey: Young dreamer Eiji Miyake, from remote rural Japan, thrust out on his own by his sister’s death and his mother’s breakdown, comes to Tokyo in pursuit of the father who abandoned him. Stumbling around this strange, awesome city, he trips over and crosses—through a hidden destiny or just monstrously bad luck—a number of its secret power centers. Suddenly, the riddle of his father’s identity becomes just one of the increasingly urgent questions Eiji must answer. Why is the line between the world of his experiences and the world of his dreams so blurry? Why do so many horrible things keep happening to him? What is it about the number 9? To answer these questions, and ultimately to come to terms with his inheritance, Eiji must somehow acquire an insight into the workings of history and fate that would be rare in anyone, much less in a boy from out of town with a price on his head and less than the cost of a Beatles disc to his name. Praise for Number9Dream “Delirious—a grand blur of overwhelming sensation.”—Entertainment Weekly “To call Mitchell’s book a simple quest novel . . is like calling Don DeLillo’s Underworld the story of a missing baseball.”—The New York Times Book Review “Number9Dream, with its propulsive energy, its Joycean eruption of language and playfulness, represents further confirmation that David Mitchell should be counted among the top young novelists working today.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Mitchell’s new novel has been described as a cross between Don DeLillo and William Gibson, and although that’s a perfectly serviceable cocktail-party formula, it doesn’t do justice to this odd, fitfully compelling work.”—The New Yorker “Leaping with ease from surrealist fables to a teenage coming-of-age story and then spinning back to Yakuza gangster battles and World War II–era kamikaze diaries, Mitchell is an aerial freestyle ski-jumper of fiction. Somehow, after performing feats of literary gymnastics, he manages to stick the landing.”—The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Author : Michael Ray Taylor
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826501036
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Nature written by Michael Ray Taylor and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist, Southern Environmental Law Center, 2021 More than ten thousand known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalogs and maps them. Thousands more riddle surrounding states. In Hidden Nature, Michael Ray Taylor tells the story of this vast underground wilderness. In addition to describing the sheer physical majesty of the region’s wild caverns and the concurrent joys and dangers of exploring them, he examines their rich natural history and scientific import, their relationship to clean water and a healthy surface environment, and their uncertain future. As a longtime caver and the author of three popular books related to caving—Cave Passages, Dark Life, and Caves—Taylor enjoys (for a journalist) unusual access to this secretive world. He is personally acquainted with many of the region’s most accomplished cave explorers and scientists, and they in turn are familiar with his popular writing on caves in books; in magazines such as Audubon, Outside, and Sports Illustrated; and on websites such as those of the Discovery Channel and the PBS science series Nova. Hidden Nature is structured as a comprehensive work of well-researched fact that reads like a personal narrative of the author’s long attraction to these caves and the people who dare enter their hidden chambers.

Author : Kenneth R. Johnston
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393321593
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Wordsworth written by Kenneth R. Johnston and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a Wordsworth we have never quite seen before."--Hermione Lee, The New York Times

Author : Lady Xanadu
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0983972907
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Xanadu's Novella Series: To be...[Human] written by Lady Xanadu and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Humans. Earth. It exists in the Milky Way Galaxy. Seemingly, one planet amidst innumerable others in its own galaxy and surrounding galaxies. Earth seems to be the only apparent planet that is hospitable to human & Earth like life forms. What sense is it to have a multitude of universes & planets and only one that bears life? What if Earths’ Milky way Galaxy was just a tiny galaxy on the outskirts of the universe, the boondocks, so to speak. What if closer to the centre of the Universe, we’ll call it the Megaverse, there were hundreds of thousands of planets with hundreds of thousands of life forms and humanoid life forms. Thinking, speaking, living, breathing life forms that are technologically light years ahead of modern day humans. What if…these “Advanced humanoids”, we’ll call them “Neo-Humans”, unlocked the door for creating life? Now what if one of these “Neo-Humans”, even more advanced than the others, decided to go to the “backyard” of the Megaverse, the hidden village, the outskirts of the universe, our little milky way galaxy, and saw what might be a fertile planet, “Earth”, and planted some cells on this planet to observe the evolution of life, maybe in hopes of finding the answer to that timeless question: “Where did we come from?” Maybe , by understanding us, it could understand itself. Maybe this Neo-Human planted a few cells on Earth and watched as those few cells evolved into the billions of different life forms that we know today. Maybe humans are the result of…a science experiment…[Now even if this is true, it doesn’t lessen ones own value or meaning. All of us have value and meaning, life and purpose.] It’s just something I was thinking about one day…Which thus takes us to our new story…[Human]. Please enjoy. -Xanadu

Author : Sir Joshua L-x
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0983972915
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Xanadu's Novella Series written by Sir Joshua L-x and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would happen if a group of people sought to rid the world of Aids by...destroying all of the samples, both living and non living...in the lab and in people? What if this group sought to "Cleanse" the world of anyone that was morally deficient in some way...such as litter bugs?In this next installment of Xanadu's Novella Series, we bring to ponder the Question "What would happen if...I cleansed the world?"

Author : Sir Joshua L-x
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0983972923
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Xanadu's Novells Series written by Sir Joshua L-x and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sheri Eleese
Publisher : Sheri Dwyer
ISBN 13 : 177752332X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Bonds written by Sheri Eleese and published by Sheri Dwyer. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Two Forbidden Souls Unite, Balance is Restored Bryan Galway, leader of the powerful Galway Clan, is an honorable magic-user who has spent his life protecting and caring for his younger brother and his clan. His heightened sense of responsibility drives him to put everyone else’s needs before his own, a propensity that is his greatest strength…and his greatest weakness. In a moment of panic, Bryan breaks what shouldn’t be broken and alters his predestined path. He must earn trust and learn forgiveness if he’s going to fulfill his destiny and stop the evil that’s intent on destroying everyone he loves. Fate doesn’t like anyone messing up her plans. Max Fraser has spent the last five hundred years protecting and supporting his Prince. His sense of responsibility, logical thinking, and no-nonsense attitude have served him well as Second in command of the North American covens. His life is complete…except, in the deepest recesses of his soul, he longs to find and join with his fated Bloodmate. When that momentous day finally arrives, the one destined to be his breaks the most sacred of vampire bonds…and his trust. The fate of the world now hangs on his willingness to forgive. But how does one forgive when trust has been lost? Fate believes in second chances, but you have to work for it. That which is broken must be mended, the unforgivable must be forgiven, and lost faith must be restored, before the malevolent shadow that threatens their world consumes them all. This book is not a standalone and is best read as part of a series. Tags: MM Paranormal Romance, Vampire & Magic-user, Heat Level One, Fated Mates, Demon, Final Battle, HEA