Strange Angel

Author : George Pendle
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547545363
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Angel written by George Pendle and published by HMH. This book was released on 2006-02-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a CBS All Access series: “A riveting tale of rocketry, the occult, and boom-and-bust 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles” (Booklist). The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSION. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of the city’s occult scene. Fueled by childhood dreams of space flight, Parsons was a leader of the motley band of enthusiastic young men who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a cornerstone of the American space program. But Parsons’s wild imagination also led him into a world of incantations and orgiastic rituals—if he could make rocketry a reality, why not black magic? George Pendle re-creates the world of John Parsons in this dazzling portrait of prewar superstition, cold war paranoia, and futuristic possibility. Peopled with such formidable real-life figures as Howard Hughes, Aleister Crowley, L. Ron Hubbard, and Robert Heinlein, Strange Angel explores the unruly consequences of genius. The basis for a new miniseries created by Mark Heyman and produced by Ridley Scott, this biography “vividly tells the story of a mysterious and forgotten man who embodied the contradictions of his time . . . when science fiction crashed into science fact. . . . [It] would make a compelling work of fiction if it weren’t so astonishingly true” (Publishers Weekly).

Author : Lili St. Crow
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781595142511
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Angels written by Lili St. Crow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dru Anderson has what her grandmother called the touch. When her dad turns up dead--but still walking--Dru knows she's next. Will Dru discover just how special she really is before coming face-to-fang with whatever is hunting her?

Author : Lili St. Crow
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101152419
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Betrayals written by Lili St. Crow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She?s no angel . . . Poor Dru Anderson. Her parents are long gone, her best friend is a werewolf, and she?s just learned that the blood flowing through her veins isn?t entirely human. (So what else is new?) Now Dru is stuck at a secret New England Schola for other teens like her, and there?s a big problem? she?s the only girl in the place. A school full of cute boys wouldn?t be so bad, but Dru?s killer instinct says that one of them wants her dead. And with all eyes on her, discovering a traitor within the Order could mean a lot more than social suicide. . . Can Dru survive long enough to find out who has betrayed her trust?and maybe even her heart?

Author : Kathe Koja
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 9780440214984
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Angels written by Kathe Koja and published by Dell. This book was released on 1995 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Pendle
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156031790
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Angel written by George Pendle and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life story of the rocket scientist whose work was dismissed after his accidental death revealed his occult beliefs, discussing his contributions to rocketry and his participation in the occult community of 1930s Los Angeles.

Author : Lili St. Crow
Publisher : Razorbill
ISBN 13 : 9781595144928
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Angels and Betrayals written by Lili St. Crow and published by Razorbill. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dru, a psychic sixteen-year-old aided by a "werwulf"--Bitten friend, and a half-human vampire hunter, faces danger and death while searching for her parents' killers. Bind up of books 1 & 2, Strange Angels and Betrayals.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520270002
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-02-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Berkeley, Calif; London: University of California Press, 1969.

Author : Asale Angel-Ajani
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1580053793
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Trade written by Asale Angel-Ajani and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange Trade tells the compelling stories of Mary, a Liberian drug courier with a college education, and Pauline, a Ugandan wife, mother, and drug cartel boss. A leading expert on women and organized crime, Asale Angel-Ajani spent years interviewing these women in Italy's notorious Rebibbia Prison—and gained unprecedented access into the narcotics trade. Herself the daughter of a drug trafficker, Angel-Ajani brings a wrenching, deeply personal perspective to the account of these women's lives, and offers a nuanced understanding of the global context within which African women are entering the drug trade in ever-increasing numbers. Strange Trade follows Pauline and Mary as they traverse three continents, survive wars, poverty, and shattered families, secure drug shipments, and commit murder. Angel-Ajani paints rich, intimate, and profoundly surprising portraits without glamorizing, sanitizing, or offering judgment. The result is an unvarnished journey into a world that, until now, has remained hidden; and a glimpse into the motives that led these women to risk—and ultimately lose—everything.

Author : Lili St. Crow
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101531924
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defiance written by Lili St. Crow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that sixteen-year-old Dru's worst fears have come true and Sergej has kidnapped her best friend Graves, she'll have to go on a suicidal rescue mission to bring him back in one piece. That is, if she can put all of Christophe's training to good use, defeat her mother's traitor, Anna, once and for all, and manage to survive another day...

Author : Leslye Walton
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763670340
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender written by Leslye Walton and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2015 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist Magical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga. Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava — in all other ways a normal girl — is born with the wings of a bird. In a quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a growing desire to fit in with her peers, sixteen-year old Ava ventures into the wider world, ill-prepared for what she might discover and naive to the twisted motives of others. Others like the pious Nathaniel Sorrows, who mistakes Ava for an angel and whose obsession with her grows until the night of the summer solstice celebration. That night, the skies open up, rain and feathers fill the air, and Ava’s quest and her family’s saga build to a devastating crescendo. First-time author Leslye Walton has constructed a layered and unforgettable mythology of what it means to be born with hearts that are tragically, exquisitely human.