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Maplecroft
by Cherie PriestLizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks; and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.... The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of my father and his second wife despite the verdict of innocence at my trial. With our inheritance, my sister, Emma, and I have taken up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea and far from gossip and scrutiny. But it is not far enough from the affliction that possessed my parents. Their characters, their very souls, were consumed from within by something that left malevolent entities in their place. It originates from the ocean's depths, plaguing the populace with tides of nightmares and madness. This evil cannot hide from me. No matter what guise it assumes, I will be waiting for it. With an axe.
Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches
by Cherie PriestLizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks; and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.... The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of my father and his second wife despite the verdict of innocence at my trial. With our inheritance, my sister, Emma, and I have taken up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea and far from gossip and scrutiny. But it is not far enough from the affliction that possessed my parents. Their characters, their very souls, were consumed from within by something that left malevolent entities in their place. It originates from the ocean's depths, plaguing the populace with tides of nightmares and madness. This evil cannot hide from me. No matter what guise it assumes, I will be waiting for it. With an axe.
Mapleshade's Vengeance (Warriors)
by Erin HunterIn this novella from the world of Erin Hunter's #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series, discover the sinister past of one of the most treacherous cats in the Dark Forest.Long before she troubled the dreams of Crookedstar or Tigerclaw, Mapleshade was a warrior of ThunderClan. But then the Clans cast her out as a traitor--and she vowed to seek her revenge....Warriors: Mapleshade's Vengeance also includes a teaser to Warriors Super Edition: Crookedstar's Promise.
Mapmakers and the Enchanted Mountain: (A Graphic Novel) (Mapmakers #2)
by Amanda Castillo Cameron ChittockAfter saving the Valley from the Night Coats, is the newest Mapmaker ready to take the next step and save the rest of the world?Being a Mapmaker is just as adventurous and magical as Alidade thought it would be. With the help of Lewis and Blue, they&’re ready to restore magic to the rest of the world outside the Valley and find out what happened to the Memris, the guardians that disappeared when the Night Coats took over.When the trio comes across Cado, a young boy who brings them to his hidden Mountain village, they soon learn that not everyone is as happy to meet a Mapmaker or a Memri as they thought they would be. Things go from bad to worse when the Night Coats show up nearby, and Alidade realizes she is running out of time.Alidade is determined to prove her worth as a Mapmaker and bring balance to the Mountain . . . but at what price?
Mapmakers and the Flickering Fortress: (A Graphic Novel) (Mapmakers #3)
by Amanda Castillo Cameron ChittockAlidade and her friends face their ultimate challenge in the final installment of the graphic fantasy trilogy that's perfect for fans of Avatar the Last Airbender and 5 Worlds.With our heroes divided, they must find a way to stop the Night Coats and to reunite before it's all too late. With their freedom and the magic of the Memris on the line, each Mapmaker will have to decide — what is the future they want for their world? And what are they willing to pay to make it happen? This epic conclusion comes to an end as Alidade, Lewis, Blue, and their new friends and Mapmakers, finally take on the Night Coats who ruin any chance of hope for their homes and family. With dark magic and plenty of action, will Alidade be able to free everyone of the Night Coats?The Mapmakers series: #1: Mapmakers and the Lost Magic, #2: Mapmakers and the Enchanted Mountain, #3: Mapmakers and the Flickering Fortress
Mapmakers and the Lost Magic: (A Graphic Novel) (Mapmakers #1)
by Amanda Castillo Cameron ChittockA young girl finds herself faced with an impossible choice—run away from her beloved valley, or unleash a hidden magic and become a Mapmaker to save her home from its new overlords.For centuries, the Mapmakers kept peace in the Valley, but they&’ve long since disappeared. Now the Night Coats hold power with an iron grip—there are only rules, punishments, and consequences. Until one night, on the run from the Night Coats (again), after breaking another rule (again), Alidade stumbles upon a secret door leading to a magical hideaway that belongs to the Mapmakers. There, she finds a map of her home and accidentally brings to life Blue, a magical creature called a memri who is meant to protect the Valley. Blue needs Alidade&’s help to find the Mapmakers and save the Valley from the Night Coats! But the Mapmakers are long gone. Alidade has a choice: leave the Valley like she&’s always wanted...or become a Mapmaker and save the only home she&’s ever known. This is the first book in a thrilling series of adventures where Alidade discovers the world around her as she goes on a fantastical journey.
Mappa Mundi
by Justina RobsonA novel of hard SF exploring the nature of identity both inherited and engineered, from one of Britain's most acclaimed new talents. In the near future, when medical nanotechnology has made it possible to map a model of the living human brain, radical psychologist Natalie Armstrong sees her work suddenly become crucial to a cutting-edge military project for creating comprehensive mind-control. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Jude Westhorpe, FBI specialist, is tracking a cold war defector long involved in everything from gene sequencing to mind-mapping. But his investigation has begun to affect matters of national security--throwing Jude and Natalie together as partners in trouble--deep trouble from every direction. This fascinating novel explores the nature of humanity in the near future, when the power and potential of developing technologies demand that we adapt ourselves to their existence--whatever the price.
Mappa Mundi
by Justina RobsonWhat if you were a mindless zombie that could be programmed by anyone holding the remote control?Science says you already are. Your culture, your identity - a patchwork of chance, a storm of ideas; you're no more real than a voice on the wind. But so far only the winds of chance have controlled you.That's about to change. They've made a remote control that can take out and add whatever they want. You won't have free will, but it's OK, it will feel the same, you can't miss what you've never had. Let's hope whoever gets that controller wants good things for you. But what are the odds?Mappa Mundi is a Science Fiction thriller that examines the development of a comprehensive mind control technology. A new world order hangs in the balance and everyone who knows of its existence has a stake.
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales (Series in Fairy-Tale Studies)
by Prof. Christy WilliamsMapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales by Christy Williams uses the metaphor of mapping to examine the narrative strategies employed in popular twenty-first-century fairy tales. It analyzes the television shows Once Upon a Time and Secret Garden (a Korean drama), the young-adult novel series The Lunar Chronicles, the Indexing serial novels, and three experimental short works of fiction by Kelly Link. Some of these texts reconfigure well-known fairy tales by combining individual tales into a single storyworld; others self-referentially turn to fairy tales for guidance. These contemporary tales have at their center a crisis about the relevance and sustainability of fairy tales, and Williams argues that they both engage the fairy tale as a relevant genre and remake it to create a new kind of fairy tale. Mapping Fairy-Tale Space is divided into two parts. Part 1 analyzes fairy-tale texts that collapse multiple distinct fairy tales so they inhabit the same storyworld, transforming the fairy-tale genre into a fictional geography of borderless tales. Williams examines the complex narrative restructuring enabled by this form of mash-up and expands postmodern arguments to suggest that fairy-tale pastiche is a critical mode of retelling that celebrates the fairy-tale genre while it critiques outdated ideological constructs. Part 2 analyzes the metaphoric use of fairy tales as maps, or guides, for lived experience. In these texts, characters use fairy tales both to navigate and to circumvent their own situations, but the tales are ineffectual maps until the characters chart different paths and endings for themselves or reject the tales as maps altogether. Williams focuses on how inventive narrative and visual storytelling techniques enable metafictional commentary on fairy tales in the texts themselves. Mapping Fairy-Tale Space argues that in remaking the fairy-tale genre, these texts do not so much chart unexplored territory as they approach existing fairy-tale space from new directions, remapping the genre as our collective use of fairy tales changes. Students and scholars of fairy-tale and media studies will welcome this fresh approach.
Mapping the Interior
by Stephen Graham JonesThe New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones, brings readers a spine-tingling journey through a young boy's haunted home. Winner of the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Long Fiction!"A triumph. So emotionally raw, disturbing, creepy, and brilliant."—Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror MovieWalking through his own house at night, a young boy thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. The figure reminds him of his long-dead father, who drowned mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows, it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he ever knew. The house is the kind of wrong place where you can lose yourself and find things you'd rather not have. Over the course of a few nights, the boy tries to map out his house in an effort that puts his younger brother in the worst danger, and puts him in the position to save them . . . at a terrible cost."Brilliant." —The New York TimesAlso by Stephen Graham Jones:Night of the MannequinsAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Mapping the Posthuman (Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture)
by Grant Hamilton and Carolyn LauThis book works to delineate some of the major routes by which science and art intersect. Structured according to the origin myths of the posthuman that continue to shape the idea of the human in our technological modernity, this volume gives space to narratives of alter-modernity that resonate with Ursula K. Le Guin’s call for a new kind of story which exposes the violence and exploitation driven by a sustained belief in human exceptionalism, anthropocentrism, and cultural superiority. In this context, the posthuman myths of multispecies flourishing given in this collection, which are situated across a range of historical times and locations, and media and modalities, are to be thought of as kernels of possible futures that can only be realized through collective endeavour.
Mapping the Shadows
by Becky BlackAsh Bowman is lost. Two years ago, he and his cop partner, Evelyn, walked in on a murder in progress that left her dead and him maimed. He left the force and became a private investigator, but Evelyn’s ghost still haunts him when he prowls the dark corridors of the Core of the space station Fraxin Yari. Ash is making a map. If there’s a map, then he won’t be so lost ...Journalist Gabe Whitfield is on a mission to learn the truth behind that same murder. He doesn’t expect to stay on Frax after he finishes the job. But meeting Ash Bowman changes his plans. He came to the station a man without ties. He isn’t going to leave the same way.Despite initially mistrusting him, Ash can’t resist his attraction to the fiery Gabe. Gabe responds, though knows he shouldn’t, when Ash is one of the subjects of his investigation. But they come to trust each other and join forces to find the answers Ash had almost forgotten he was still seeking. If they are to have any chance of happiness, Gabe must help Ash lay the ghosts calling him back again and again to the deep darkness of the Core.
Mapping the World of the Sorcerer's Apprentice: An Unauthorized Exploration of the Harry Potter Series
by Mercedes Lackey and Leah WilsonFrom the Dursleys as social commentary to a look at Snape's role in less than child-friendly fanfiction . . . from the parallels between Azkaban and Abu Ghraib to the role of religion at Hogwarts . . . from why Dumbledore had to die to why killing Harry never should have been part of Voldemort's plan to begin with . . . Mapping the World of the Sorcerer's Apprentice offers a comprehensive look at the Harry Potter series through the eyes of leading science fiction and fantasy writers and religion, psychology, and science experts. This book has not been authorized by J. K. Rowling, Warner Bros. or anyone associated with the Harry Potter books or films.
Maps
by John SladekMaps is the definitive collection of John Sladek's uncollected work put together by his friend, fellow writer and critic David Langford who also provides an introduction. It includes all the solo stories - science fiction, detective puzzles, mainstream, "non-fact" pieces - as well as poems, playlets, pseudonymous fiction, all the short collaborations with Thomas M. Disch (including three never previously published) and some witty autobiographical essays. Sladek, was as good a writer of satire as Vonnegut, and without the Vonnegut mannerisms. Unfortunately he never received the appropriate credit, except from a small following of devoted readers.
Maps
by John SladekMaps is the definitive collection of John Sladek's uncollected work put together by his friend, fellow writer and critic David Langford who also provides an introduction. It includes all the solo stories - science fiction, detective puzzles, mainstream, "non-fact" pieces - as well as poems, playlets, pseudonymous fiction, all the short collaborations with Thomas M. Disch (including three never previously published) and some witty autobiographical essays. Sladek, was as good a writer of satire as Vonnegut, and without the Vonnegut mannerisms. Unfortunately he never received the appropriate credit, except from a small following of devoted readers.
Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card (Maps in a Mirror #1)
by Orson Scott CardMaps in a Mirror brings together nearly all of Orson Scott Card's short fiction written between 1977 and 1990. For those readers who have followed this remarkable talent since the beginning, here are all those amazing stories gathered together in one place, with some extra surprises as well.For the hundreds of thousands who are newly come to Card, here is chance to experience the wonder of a writer so versatile that he can handle everything from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction with equal ease and grace. The brilliant story-telling of the Alvin Maker books is no accident; the breathless excitement evoked by the Ender books is not a once-in-a-lifetime experience.In this enormous volume are forty-six stories, plus ten long, intensely personal essays, unique to this volume. In them the author reveals some of his reasons and motivations for writing, with a good deal of autobiography into the bargain."One of the genre's most convincing storytellers. An important volume."--Library JournalAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Maquesta Kar-Thon (Dragonlance: Warriors #2)
by Tina DaniellAt eighteen, Maquesta Kar-Thon has just volunteered to captain the Perechon for a quest with a high stake--her father's life. The minotaur lord Attat has given her father a slow-acting poison, and is withholding the antidote until Maq captures the deadly sea monster Morkoth for his private zoo. To accompany her on this voyage, Attat sends along the renegade minotaur Bas Ohn-Koraf and a shadow-person warrior, Ilyatha. As the Perechon races to complete its quest, it is beset by pirates, attacked by Blood Sea imps, and tangles with kuotoa. Maq must not only fight these enemies but prove herself to the Perechon crew. Through it all, the image of her dying father bears down on her.
Maquirra
by Verónica Lozada-Maldonado M. A. Gardner L. FergusDespués de descubrir que es la reencarnación de un rey antiguo, Abraham debe viajar a bordo del barco pesquero Zebedeo para enfrentar a un antiguo mal que planea esclavizar a la humanidad y rehacer el planeta a su antojo. Abraham no estará solo en su travesía ya que las personas, lugares y cosas no son lo que parecen ser.
Mar de acero: Serie Mar de fuego - Nº2 (Mar de fuego #Volumen 2)
by Natalie C. ParkerSigue las aventuras de la capitana Caledonia Styx en esta trepidante aventura épica. Caledonia ha perdido a su tripulación, pero no se da por vencida. A punto de morir a manos de un poderoso enemigo, es rescatada del mar y salvada por un grupo de antiguos Balas que se hacen llamar Espadas. Los Espadas escaparon de las garras de Aric Athair, y ahora viven una existencia nómada, listos para desaparecer en cualquier momento si se presenta algún peligro. Pero Caledonia no pretende solo esconderse. Quiere encontrar la Mors Navis y a sus queridas hermanas. Quiere seguir enfrentándose a la flota de Aric y arrebatarle el control de los mares Bala, por lo que tendrá que hacer lo posible para convencer a los Espadas de que luchar es su única opción. Tiene que haber una vida mejor, lejos de los dominios de Aric Athair, y encontrar a las chicas de la Mors Navis sería... EL PRIMER PASO HACIA LA REVOLUCIÓN.
Mar de foc
by Chufo LlorénsMar de foc recrea una època tèrbola de la Barcelona medieval, sotmesa a les tensions de la cort, on es forja la sagnant successió del comte Ramon Berenguer I. Mentrestant, Martí Barbany, linsigne navilier i posseïdor duna de les fortunes més grans del comtat, senfronta als amors de les seva jove filla, fatalment marcats per la diferència de classes, i a una venjança ordida en el submón de la ciutat medieval i que amenaça la seva vida.Chufo Lloréns torna a seduir el lector, com ja va fer a Et donaré la terra, la seva exitosa novel·la anterior, amb la recreació duna ciutat on conviuen tractants desclaus, prostitutes, cortesanes, servents, musulmans, cristians, nobles i plebeus; i, de nou, aconsegueix plasmar magistralment lapassionant retrat duns anys foscos que van marcar el destí duna ciutat.
Mar es la tierra
by Héctor Celis"¿Qué restará de la breve era de la gravidez? [...] Millones de años luz y la extinción del aire." Un hombre que vaga por los desiertos con una parva de cuervos y un puñado de niños buscando un oasis; dos mujeres que hacen un pacto para tejerse juntas una hamaca y morirse acunadas en una pensión; un niño que espera con su familia el advenimiento de la marea negra; un artista que vende sus ideas de "obras de arte" a cambio de comida y techo en un hotel abandonado; voces de comunidades fragmentadas que trazan la geografíade lugares que siguen operando en las ruinas. " Mar es la Tierra recorre intensos escenarios una vez que se ha desencadenado la debacle. Una destrucción con rasgos apocalípticos que se extiende y destruye, como la lava ardiente de un volcán, la unidad de la naturaleza. Ese pleno desastre muestra cómo opera la inhumanidad de lo humano. Los diversos poderes emergen y se manifiestan para controlar los restos. Lo hacen mediante prácticas letales que se desencadenan destruyendo cuerpos, espacios, en medio de territorios terminales incapaces de contener a los cuerpos. La novela muestra una imaginación desbordante, audaz, plena, con una escritura impecable que ubica a su autor en el centro del escenario narrativo actual. Un excelente narrador que no renuncia a internarse en los dilemas que atraviesan a toda prisa la complejidad de un presente que porta toda la extensión de su futuro." Diamela Eltit
Mara the Meerkat Fairy: The Baby Animal Rescue Fairies Book 3 (Rainbow Magic #3)
by Daisy MeadowsGet ready for an exciting fairy adventure with the no. 1 bestselling series for girls aged 5 and up. Kirsty Tate and Rachel Walker are helping out at the Wild Woods Nature Reserve. They're having a great time meeting cute animals and making friends with the Animal Rescue Fairies. But when Jack Frost decides he wants baby animals for his own personal zoo, he steals the fairies' magical key rings. Can the girls help the fairies get their key rings back before the baby animals are trapped inside the Ice Lord's zoo for ever? 'These stories are magic; they turn children into readers!' ReadingZone.com Read all seven fairy adventures in the Baby Animal Rescue Fairies set! Mae the Panda Fairy; Kitty the Tiger Fairy; Mara the Meerkat Fairy; Savannah the Zebra Fairy; Kimberley the Koala Fairy; Rosie the Honey Bear Fairy; Anna the Arctic Fox Fairy. If you like Rainbow Magic, check out Daisy Meadows' other series: Magic Animal Friends and Unicorn Magic!
Marabel and the Book of Fate (A Marabel Novel)
by Tracy BarrettFree-spirited Marabel must defy expectations to rescue her brother--and their kingdom--in this charming, action-packed, and magical story perfect for fans of Ella Enchanted and Dealing with Dragons.In Magikos, life is dictated by the Book of Fate's ancient predictions, including the birth of a royal Chosen One who will save the realm. Princess Marabel has grown up in the shadow of her twin brother, Marco, who everyone assumes is the true Chosen One. While Marco is adored and given every opportunity, Marabel is overlooked and has to practice her sword fighting in secret.But on the night of their thirteenth birthday, Marco is kidnapped by an evil queen, and Marabel runs to his rescue. Outside the castle walls for the first time, accompanied by her best friend and a very smug unicorn, Marabel embarks on a daring mission that brings her face-to-face with fairies, trolls, giants--and the possibility that all is not as it seems in Magikos.
Marabou Stork Nightmares
by Irvine Welsh"For anyone who gets high on language, this book is a fantastic trip...a real tour de force."—Madison Smartt Bell, Spin The acclaimed author of the cult classics Trainspotting and The Acid House, Irvine Welsh has been hailed as "the best thing that has happened to British writing in a decade" (London Sunday Times). This audacious novel is a brilliant (and literal) head trip of a book that brings us into the wildly active, albeit coma-beset, mind of Roy Strang, whose hallucinatory quest to eradicate the evil predator/scavenger marabou stork keeps being interrupted by grisly memories of the social and family dysfunction that brought him to this state. It is the sort of lethally funny cocktail of pathos, violence, and outrageous hilarity that only Irvine Welsh can pull off.
Marauder - Os Invasores Do Norte
by D. W. RoachO jovem Audan parte em uma jornada épica pelo antigo mundo nórdico. Logo, ele descobre que há mais mitos e lendas de seus ancestrais viking do que ele acreditava. Junto com seus irmãos de batalha, Audan enfrenta clãs rivais, monstros aterrorizantes e um ataque de mortos-vivos. Os deuses outrora reverenciados estão planejando e se intrometendo na vida dos mortais, cuja luxúria e sede de poder deixam o mundo viking em caos. Até que ponto Audan está disposto a ir para salvar sua terra e seu povo?