Red Hourglass

Author : Gordon Grice
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 0307568148
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Hourglass written by Gordon Grice and published by Delta. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snake venom that digests human flesh. A building cleared of every living thing by a band of tiny spiders. An infant insect eating its living prey from within, saving the vital organs for last. These are among the deadly feats of natural engineering you'll witness in The Red Hourglass, prize-winning author Gordon Grice's masterful, poetic, often dryly funny exploration of predators he has encountered around his rural Oklahoma home. Grice is a witty and intrepid guide through a world where mating ends in cannibalism, where killers possess toxins so lethal as to defy our ideas of a benevolent God, where spider remains, scattered like "the cast-off coats of untidy children," tell a quiet story of violent self-extermination. It's a world you'll recognize despite its exotic strangeness--the world in which we live. Unabashedly stepping into the mix, Grice abandons his role as objective observer with beguiling dark humor--collecting spiders and other vermin, decorating a tarantula's terrarium with dollhouse furniture, or forcing a battle between captive insects because he deems one "too stupid to live." Kill. Eat. Mate. Die. Charting the simple brutality of the lives of these predators, Grice's starkly graceful essays guide us toward startling truths about our own predatory nature. The Red Hourglass brings us face to fanged face with the inadequacy of our distinctions between normal and abnormal, dead and alive, innocent and evil.

Author : Ashley Capes
Publisher : Close-Up Books
ISBN 13 : 0648770567
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Hourglass written by Ashley Capes and published by Close-Up Books. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape isn’t the hardest challenge for a slave – it’s staying free afterwards. Siblings Thomas and Mia find themselves fleeing across a desolate land, hounded by the monstrous sand-hog, a steam-powered war machine bent on recapturing them at all costs. Thomas fears the worst. He knows the tyrannical King Williams seeks Mia and her mysterious powers of foresight, but it seems even her gift cannot save the day when the sand-hog corners them. It isn’t until they cross paths with a group of rebels and stumble across rumours of a lost airship that Thomas begins to wonder if there isn’t hope of escape after all... A steampunk adventure set in a slowly dying land where magic clashes with steam and alchemy.

Author : Scarlet Risque
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781523469635
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Hourglass written by Scarlet Risque and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A POWERFUL, MYSTERIOUS woman finds a homeless girl in a New York subway and adopts her. Janet swears loyalty to the White family and they train her at their Academy as a secret agent. Before long, her transformation into the Red Hourglass-an assassin-is complete. She is ready to start her missions in service of the White Queen. In order to learn the whereabouts of her real mother from the White Queen, the Red Hourglass must stop the planned expansion of Wilmar Enterprises. She goes undercover to infiltrate Wilmar, and she is hired as the executive secretary to the Chief of Security, Conan Casey. Janet works diligently to uncover all Wilmar's secrets. She soon learns that Conan Casey, her target, is heir to the billion dollar Wilmar organization. She falls prey to his dark seductions and twisted secrets ... and they leave her gasping for more. She unwittingly bets her stakes on a dangerous game of love. Where do her loyalties lie? Will she betray Conan for the White Queen, or fall in love with him and give up all hope of finding her real mother? And will they get out alive? ..... The first in the Hourglass series - a dark coming of age romance thriller novel about finding one's identity with dominance and submission romance scenes against the backdrop of capitalism, undercover agents, poker and tango.

Author : Dani Shapiro
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0451494482
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hourglass written by Dani Shapiro and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time--abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning--a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become."

Author : Ashley Capes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780987623195
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Hourglass written by Ashley Capes and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape isn't the hardest challenge for a slave - it's staying free afterwards. Siblings Thomas and Mia find themselves fleeing across a desolate land, hounded by the monstrous sand-hog, a steam-powered war machine bent on recapturing them at all costs. Thomas fears the worst. He knows the tyrannical King Williams seeks Mia and her mysterious powers of foresight, but it seems even her gift cannot save the day when the sand-hog corners them. It isn't until they cross paths with a group of rebels and stumble across rumours of a lost airship that Thomas begins to wonder if there isn't hope of escape after all... A steampunk adventure set in a slowly dying land where magic clashes with steam and alchemy.

Author : Gordon Grice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140283853
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators written by Gordon Grice and published by . This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0307815625
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bearing an Hourglass written by Piers Anthony and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like On a Pale Horse, this second, complete-in-itself novel of the Incarnations of Immortality is a richly imagined and always fascinating story. And again, Piers Anthony adds to his gripping plot a serious, though-provoking study of good and evil. When life seemed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living backward from present to past. The other seemily all-powerful Incarnates of Immortality—Death, Fate, War, and Nature—made him welcome. Even Satan greeted him with gifts. But he soon discovered that the gifts were cunning traps. While he had been distracted, he had become enmeshed in a complex scheme of the Evil One to destroy all that was good. In the end, armed with only the Hourglass, Norton was forced to confront the immense power of Satan directly. And though Satan banished him to Hell, he was resolved to fight on.

Author : Sandy Bonsib
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1607051052
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patchwork Party written by Sandy Bonsib and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11 mouth-watering new pieced quilts with matching dessert recipes create luscious color effects from basic blocks every quilter knows.

Author : Susan E. Little
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0323496903
Total Pages : 1968 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE CAT - Inkling E-Book written by Susan E. Little and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 1968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive in scope and exclusively devoted to feline medical care, Dr. Susan Little's The Cat: Clinical Medicine and Management, 2nd Edition, is an essential resource for providing complete, state-of-the-art care to cats. Authoritative, clinically focused information is enhanced by full-color images, tables, boxes, algorithms, key points, and more — all in an easy-to-understand, quick-reference format. Dr. Little and her expert contributors address the unique concerns and challenges facing any practitioner providing care for cats, including the latest advances in feline medical diagnosis and management and the clinical applications to everyday practice. An eBook version, included with print purchase, provides access to all the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. The eBook also offers convenient video lessons and client handouts. Covers the latest advances in feline medicine from a systemic and adjunctive care perspective, making it the most comprehensive feline medical reference available with a strong clinical focus. Addresses key topics unique to feline medicine and not currently covered in other books, including: insights and clinical advances attributable to the mapping of the feline genome; medical conditions associated with behavioral problems; managing the feline patient with co-existing and chronic diseases; special medical problems and care considerations for the geriatric cat; environmental enrichment for the indoor cat; feline zoonotic agents and implications for human health; and humane solutions for shelter medicine and overpopulation challenges. Helps meet the increasing demand for state-of-the-art medical care by cat owners, including advanced diagnostic services and treatments designed to extend and improve quality of life for feline companions. Features a full-color design with hundreds of schematic drawings, tables, boxes, key points, algorithms, and photographs for quick and easy access to information. Provides in-depth information on indoor cats and senior cats, including timely guidance on meeting owners' expectations for longer, healthier lives for their cats. Addresses the challenges of cat overpopulation, particularly humane approaches to improve quality of life for millions of feral and community cats and minimize their impact on public health and endangered species of animals. Presents information written in the manner of expanded conference proceedings, delivering the latest insights and most current approaches to management of feline medical disorders. Includes contributions from approximately 80 contributors, including many from outside the US, to provide a global perspective and valuable expertise from those most knowledgeable in the field of feline medical care.

Author : Richard A. Bradley
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520315316
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Spiders of North America written by Richard A. Bradley and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiders are among the most diverse groups of terrestrial invertebrates, yet they are among the least studied and understood. This first comprehensive guide to all 68 spider families in North America beautifully illustrates 469 of the most commonly encountered species. Group keys enable identification by web type and other observable details, and species descriptions include identification tips, typical habitat, geographic distribution, and behavioral notes. A concise illustrated introduction to spider biology and anatomy explains spider relationships. This book is a critical resource for curious naturalists who want to understand this ubiquitous and ecologically critical component of our biosphere.