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The Apothecary's Poison (Glass and Steele #3)
by C. J. ArcherWhen a newspaper report of a medical miracle catches Matt’s eye, he and India go in search of Dr Hale in the hope he is more magical doctor than miracle worker and can lead them to Chronos. But Hale turns out to be an apothecary magician keen to educate the public about magic. Their disappointment at not finding Chronos is soon forgotten when Hale is murdered, and Matt becomes a suspect. With Matt’s nemesis Sheriff Payne influencing the investigating detective, India and Matt know they must find the real killer, or risk his freedom, and ultimately his life. Time is running out as they hunt for a killer capable of turning medicine into poison with a magic spell, as well as continue the search for Chronos. A search that must end in success before Matt’s malfunctioning watch stops altogether.
The Apothecary's Shop: Venice 1118 A.D.
by Roberto Tiraboschi Katherine GregorIn a medieval Venice ravaged by famine and orgiastic revelries, the protagonists of The Apothecary’s Shop explore the depths of the city and the paths to the supernatural in their search for a missing child. The young Costanza, of the noble Grimani family, has disappeared. Edgardo, the family scribe, vows to return the girl to her family, an ambitious enterprise considering his failing eyesight. Physical ailments and emotional torment hinder Edgardo’s search, for as he undertakes this perilous investigation, images of his own lost love—Kallis, a slave from the Far East who disappeared in a storm years ago—are resurrected. Help arrives in the form of Abella, the only female doctor in Venice. From her, Edgardo learns of occult medical practices and of Sabbatai’s Apothecary, where the city’s most desperate citizens seek heretical remedies and concoctions to sooth their suffering. It is here, however, where the secret of Constanza’s disappearance may lie. Venal physicians and legitimate healers, unscrupulous relatives, mystics and apothecaries, wealthy nobility and the wretched poor, undertakers, Eastern merchants, African slave traders, each plays a role this ingeniously constructed mystery set in the busy and licentious trade port of Venice. The Apothecary’s Shop is an erudite literary thriller in the vein of Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and takes readers on an astonishing voyage into a city both distant yet familiar.
The Apothecary's Widow
by Diane Scott LewisWho murdered Lady Pentreath? The year is 1781, and the war with the American colonies rages across the sea. In Truro, England Branek Pentreath, a local squire, has suffered for years in a miserable marriage. Now his wife has been poisoned with arsenic. Is this unhappy husband responsible? Or was it out of revenge? Branek owns the apothecary shop where Jenna Rosedew, two years a widow, delights in serving her clients. Branek might sell her building to absolve his debts caused by the war—and put her out on the street. Jenna prepared the tinctures for Lady Pentreath, which were later found to contain arsenic. The town’s corrupt constable has a grudge against Branek and Jenna. He threatens to send them both to the gallows. Can this feisty widow and brooding squire come together, believe in each other’s innocence— fight the attraction that grows between them—as they struggle to solve the crime before it’s too late?
Apotheosis. El Devorador de Almas 2 (El Devorador de Almas #2)
by Cesarino Bellini ArtioliLa odisea de Lord Samuel Kainz continúa Perseguido por la Muerte, maldecido por la vida, forjado por la ambición, no conocerá ni la rendición ni la derrota. No tendrá ningún remordimiento en aniquilar a cualquier persona o cosa que se interponga entre él y su objetivo. El destino que le esperaba era aniquilarse en el olvido de la otra vida, como todos los seres vivos de esta tierra, pero la misma voluntad que le salvó le llevará mucho más allá de las posibilidades humanas. Sacrificará su vida en pos de la ascensión, hacia ese poder que le permita desafiar a Dios y a sus Caballeros. Esta voluntad y esta fuerza le llevarán a la Apoteosis o a la más inmensa y ruinosa derrota. Se acabó el tiempo de huir y esconderse, ha llegado el momento de dar a conocer de lo que es capaz un hombre armado con una voluntad fuerte y una arrogancia sin límites.
App of the Living Dead (Gamer Squad)
by Kim HarringtonPokémon Go meets The Goonies in this exciting new adventure series! Monsters. Aliens. What&’s next? Use your BRAINS and figure it out! In their third exciting adventure, Bex and Charlie battle the living dead—ZOMBIES. After all they&’ve gone through, Bex and Charlie have no intention of playing the new zombie game that Veratrum Games Corp just released. But everyone else in town is hooked, and when a flu sweeps the school, turning teachers and students into the undead, it turns out that only non-players are immune. Now, Charlie and Bex have to find a way to save their friends and neighbors—and stop the company from unleashing more of their deadly games.
Appalachia and Beyond: Conversations with Writers From the Mountain South
by John LangThe last quarter-century has seen a remarkable outpouring of fiction and poetry from southern Appalachia--a surge of creativity that has formed an integral part of a larger, and still growing, regional self-consciousness. This book charts the course of this literary renaissance through twenty-one interviews with contemporary Appalachian writers, conversations conducted between 1983 and 2003 at Emory & Henry College's annual literary festival and originally printed in the Iron Mountain Review. The authors interviewed range from nationally known figures such as Fred Chappell, Robert Morgan, Lee Smith, Mary Lee Settle, and Charles Wright to less prominent, though no less gifted, writers like George Ella Lyon, Jo Carson, and George Scarborough. Many of the interviewers are themselves creative writers or Appalachian studies scholars, as well as longtime friends of the interviewees. For example, Jim Wayne Miller interviews James Still; Loyal Jones interviews Jim Wayne Miller; Richard Marius interviews Wilma Dykeman; George Garrett interviews David Huddle; and Michael Chitwood interviews Michael McFee. These wide-ranging conversations address such topics as formative experiences in the author's childhood, major literary influences, the author's educational background and mentors, the writing process, the limitations imposed by such labels as "Appalachian writer," and the broadening scope of literature originating in the Appalachian region. Collectively, these interviews confirm the judgment of some observers that writers from the mountain South are now playing a much larger role in southern letters than in previous periods, thus constituting a "renaissance within a renaissance."
Appalachian Abduction: Kansas City Cop (Lavender Mountain #4)
by Debbie HerbertIn this tense romantic thriller, a rogue detective and a local cop join forces to bust a human trafficking ring deep in the Appalachian Mountains.Detective Charlotte Helms is on the trail of a human trafficking ring when her best friend’s daughter is abducted. Now it’s a personal mission, and nothing is going to get in her way—not even Officer James Tedder. Going undercover in the Appalachian Mountains, Charlotte and James cross paths under less-than-ideal circumstances.Trespassing, fleeing a peace officer . . . hell, she even aims a gun at his chest! Yet James can’t help but admire her fight. When they’re forced to become partners, James must trust Charlotte to have his back. But can he trust her with his heart?
Appalachian Daughter
by Mary SalyersMaggie Martin, teenage daughter of parents steeped in Appalachian mountain traditions ,struggles against the poverty and restrictive values cherished for generations by her Tennessee family. A deeply moving story of birth and death, triumph and tragedy, young love and broken hearts--peopled with unforgettable characters you'll rememberlong after you share Maggie's journey to independence.
Appalachian Fall: Dispatches from Coal Country on What's Ailing America
by Jeff Young The Ohio Valley ResourceA searing, on-the-ground examination of the collapsing coal industry—and the communities left behind—in the midst of economic and environmental crisis.Despite fueling a century of American progress, the people at the heart of coal country are being left behind, suffering from unemployment, the opioid epidemic, and environmental crises often at greater rates than anywhere else in the country. But what if Appalachia&’s troubles are just a taste of what the future holds for all of us? Appalachian Fall tells the captivating true story of coal communities on the leading edge of change. A group of local reporters known as the Ohio Valley ReSource shares the real-world impact these changes have had on what was once the heart and soul of America. Including stories like: -The miners&’ strike in Harlan County after their company suddenly went bankrupt, bouncing their paychecks -The farmers tilling former mining ground for new cash crops like hemp -The activists working to fight mountaintop removal and bring clean energy jobs to the region -And the mothers mourning the loss of their children to overdose and despair In the wake of the controversial bestseller Hillbilly Elegy, Appalachian Fall addresses what our country owes to a region that provided fuel for a century and what it risks if it stands by watching as the region, and its people, collapse.
Appalachian Overthrow
by E. E. KnightE.E. Knight has proven "a master of his craft. His prose is controlled but interesting, and his characters are fully formed and come to life."* In his latest Vampire Earth novel, the national bestselling author tells a tale about David Valentine's fellow freedom fighter Ahn-Kha when he was imprisoned and forced into hard labor by the Kurians--and the rebellion he led against them... Captured and sold to the Kurian-allied Maynes Conglomerate, to work as a slave in the coal mines of Appalachia, Ahn-Kha is angered and appalled by the dangerous working conditions, and the brutal treatment inflicted upon his fellow miners. When a protest against shortages is deliberately and bloodily suppressed, Ahn-Kha sets himself against the ruling Maynes family and sets out on a trail of vengeance through the Coal Country. Finally, the people of the Coal Country are driven to the breaking point--and they now have a leader, a powerful and battle-hardened leader, determined to forge them into an army that will wage guerrilla warfare against the Maynes family and their Kurian masters--and free the Appalachians from their tyranny... *Science Fiction Weekly
Appalachian Peril: Appalachian Peril / Colton's Amnesia Target (the Coltons Of Kansas) (Lavender Mountain #3)
by Debbie HerbertWith her life under attack…she must join forces with the lawman from her past.An unseen enemy has tracked Beth Wynngate to Lavender Mountain, leaving her no choice but to seek the help of Sammy Armstrong. They share a fraught history, but the Falling Rock deputy sheriff is her best hope of survival. As Sammy teaches her the art of self-defense, Beth fights for a future that could be gone tomorrow.USA TODAY Bestselling Author
Appalachian Prey: Secured By The Seal (red, White And Built, Book 5) / Ranger Defender (texas Brothers Of Company B, Book 2) (Lavender Mountain #1)
by Debbie HerbertIn this romantic thriller, a cop must protect a moonshiner’s daughter—and her unborn baby—from a mysterious killer in the Appalachian foothills.After her father is murdered, Lilah Tedder dreads facing deputy Harlan Sampson. Not only did the handsome lawman leave her heartbroken, but she’s also carrying his secret child. Though she still wants him, Lilah knows his professional ambition won’t let him associate with the daughter of a notorious outlaw. But when a killer targets Lilah, Harlan becomes more than her protector. Now they must uncover old family secrets or pay the ultimate price.
Appaloosa (A Cole and Hitch Novel #1)
by Robert B. ParkerWhen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a town suffering at the hands of a renegade rancher who’s already left the city marshal and one of his deputies dead. Cole and Hitch are used to cleaning up after scavengers, but this one raises the stakes by playing not with the rules—but with emotion.Watch a QuickTime trailer for this book.
Apparatus
by Don Mckay“There’s a place / between desire and memory, some back porch / we can neither wish for nor recall,” writes Don McKay inApparatus. The poems in this collection home in on that place – those keenly desired places – where language will not reach. Apparatusis Don McKay’s first collection of new poems since his 1991 award-winningNight Field. It is a passionate engagement with nature and a powerful critique of human assaults on wilderness which, for McKay, is more than unsubdued nature; it is whatever eludes the mind’s categories – the insoluble secret of life itself. To read McKay’s poems is to be in touch with the significant concerns of our time and all time. McKay is a poet of unmatched linguistic playfulness, with virtuoso flexibility of voice and an ability to shape-shift through forms, tones, and styles.
Apparition
by Gail GallantThe last time seventeen-year-old Amelia Mackenzie saw her best friend Matthew alive, he broke her heart. When he is found the next day in an abandoned barn at the edge of town, an apparent suicide, Amelia's whole world comes crashing down. And then she sees him again. Because Amelia has a secret that even Matthew didn't know: sometimes, she sees ghosts. When a local history columnist named Morris Dyson contacts Amelia after the funeral and tells her that he thinks the barn Matthew died in is haunted, and that Matthew wasn't its first victim, an unlikely partnership is born. With Amelia's gift for seeing ghosts, Morris's radical theories on the supernatural, and a bit of help from Morris's sexy but skeptical son, Kip, a mystery unfolds. One by one, the barn's other ghostly residents are revealed: all innocent, love-struck young men who've died horrific deaths, seemingly by their own hands. Life and death couldn't get more complicated as Amelia is torn between her devotion to the ghostly Matthew and her growing attraction to Kip, who may not believe in ghosts but can't help believing in Amelia. When she's confronted with a rivalry between the living and the dead, which side of the great divide will Amelia choose? Apparition is a fast-paced supernatural mystery about memory and obsession, bodies and spirits, love and loss.
Apparition
by Iyana JennaTwo college students, Drew and Zach, have had a long distance relationship for quite some time, as they go to different schools. It isn't really a problem as they always connect through video calls or online.One night, however, Drew can sense Zach's presence, as if his boyfriend is really there with him. The sensation soon disappears, though. Has something bad happened to Zach?
Apparition Lake: O Espectro do Lago
by Doug Lamoreux Cilmara de Lelis Dias Daniel D. LamoreuxAlguma coisa está terrivelmente errada no mais antigo parque nacional dos Estados Unidos. Depois que algumas mortes terríveis ocorreram em Yellowstone, todos acreditam que um urso-pardo monstruoso é o responsável pela violência, mas evidências científicas sugerem outra conclusão aterrorizante. Para o chefe da guarda-florestal, Glenn Merrill, pôr um fim nestas mortes misteriosas é mais do que apenas seu trabalho, é uma missão que o levará à beira da morte e despedaçará os fundamentos de suas crenças. Apparition Lake: O Espectro do Lago lançará Glenn, seu amigo shoshone, Johnny Two Ravens e Jennifer Davies, uma jovem bióloga agressiva, dentro de um mundo de misticismo indígena onde a humanidade e a natureza lutam pelo controle da Mãe Terra. Com uma história paranormal fascinante, Apparition Lake: O Espectro do Lago nos leva através de um conto sobrenatural em um ambiente que já “teve o bastante”, onde um espírito nativo americano é usado para perpetrar sua vingança.
Apparition Lake
by Elisabetta De Martino Doug Lamoreux Daniel D. LamoreuxNel parco nazionale più antico del paese sta accadendo qualcosa di terribilmente inquietante. Sembra infatti che un mostruoso quanto inafferrabile grizzly stia mietendo vittime in tutto il territorio di Yellowstone. Per il ranger capo Glenn Merrill mettere fine a queste misteriose uccisioni è più di un incarico professionale, è una missione che lo porterà sull'orlo dell’abisso e distruggerà il fondamento di tutte le sue certezze. Glenn, il suo amico Shoshone Johnny Due Corvi e Jennifer Davies, una giovane e risoluta biologa, si addentreranno nel mondo delle leggende indiane, dove l'umanità e la natura lottano per il predominio sulla Madre Terra. Apparition Lake è un avvincente thriller paranormale che tiene inchiodato il lettore dalla prima all'ultima pagina, risucchiandolo in una storia soprannaturale incentrata su una natura che “ne ha avuto abbastanza” e uno spirito indiano che cerca vendetta.
Apparition & Late Fictions: A Novella and Stories
by Thomas Lynch"Lynch has added another chapter to one of the most memorable records in American letters."—William Giraldi, New York Times Book Review These stories are linked by the gone and not forgotten: former spouses, dead parents, missing children. Lynch creates a world in which people searching for connection and old comforts find them both near at hand and oddly out of reach.
Apparition of Splendor: Marianne Moore Performing Democracy through Celebrity, 1952–1970
by Elizabeth GregoryWhile the later work of the great Modernist poet Marianne Moore was hugely popular during her final two decades, since her death critics have condemned it as trivial. This book challenges that assessment: with fresh readings of many of the late poems and of the iconic, cross-dressing public persona Moore developed to deliver them, Apparition of Splendor demonstrates that Moore used her late-life celebrity to activate egalitarian principles that had long animated her poetry, in daring and innovative ways. Dressed as George Washington in cape and tricorn and writing about accessible topics, she reached a wide cross-section of Americans, engaging them in consideration of what democracy means in their daily lives, around issues of gender, sexuality, racial integration, class, age, immigration, and species-ism. Her work resonates with that of her younger contemporaries, including poets like John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, and Elizabeth Bishop, and artists like Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, and Ray Johnson. Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
The Apparition Phase: Shortlisted for the 2021 McKitterick Prize
by Will MacleanSome ghosts never leave us.SHORTLISTED FOR THE MCKITTERICK PRIZE 2021'A wild rural gothic with some slick plotting . . . the perfect novel for our phantom present' Guardian 'Outstanding . . . ideal for fans of Andrew Michael Hurley' Metro _________________Twins Tim and Abi have always been different from their peers, spending their evenings in the attic of their parents' suburban house, poring over reports of the unexplained. Obsessed with photographs of ghostly apparitions, they decide to fake their own, and use it to frighten a girl at school.But what was only supposed to be a harmless prank sets in motion a deadly and terrifying chain of events that neither of them could have predicted..._________________'Clear your diary, switch off your phone, and get lost in this atmospheric and madly gripping ghost story' Daily Mirror'A nostalgic delight' Irish Independent'Intriguing, atmospheric and utterly terrifying in parts' My Weekly
Apparitions (1953)
by G. N. M. TyrrellTHE CLASSIC STUDY OF ESP AND GHOSTLY APPEARANCESWhat are ghostly apparitions?In this classic of psychical research, George N. M. Tyrrell submits that “ghosts” are subjective and telepathic, created in the regions of the personality outside the field of normal consciousness. Basing his theories on a vast collection of psychical data, and substantiating his arguments with more than sixty dramatic, well-documented case histories, he establishes a clear relationship between the phenomena of sensory hallucinations and modern psychology.His is a logical, impartial exploration of a subject long obscured by fear and too often dismissed as belonging to the realm of the “supernatural.” As past president of England’s famed Society of Psychical Research, Mr. Tyrrell demonstrates with authority that the scientific investigation of apparitions can make a significant contribution to our understanding of the human mind and personality.“Recommended to the scientific student of extra-sensory perception.”—Waldo Frank“Likely to be regarded as a classic of its kind…an admirable survey of the whole subject.”—The Times (London) Literary Supplement
Apparitions, Daemons, and Emanations: Poetry and Painting in the Work of Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, and Henri Michaux (SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory)
by Charles FreelandThis book presents a new study of the visual arts and poetry in the work of three well-known French writers and artists from the mid-twentieth century—Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, and Henri Michaux. Each was fiercely independent, belonging to no school, academy, or political persuasion. What do they have in common? While the book's three central essays do not initially set out to establish comparisons between these writers, common ground emerges: a shared combat against culture, a shared non-representational artistic practice. Their writing, poetry, and painting offer not a portrayal of things or ideas but rather an emanation or apparition of the unknown and the infinite, one charged with deepening art's relation to life.
Appassionata
by Eva HoffmanSelected as one of Oprah.com's 20 Tantalizing Beach ReadsSelected as a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice <P> Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist, whose performances are marked by a rare responsiveness to the complexities of her art, and its intensities of feeling. At the height of her career, she feels increasingly torn between the compelling musical realm she deeply inhabits, and her fragmented itinerant artist's life, with its frequent flights, anonymous hotels, and brief, arbitrary encounters. Away from her New York home on a European tour, Isabel meets a political exile from a war-torn country, a man driven by a rankling sense of injustice and a powerful desire to vindicate his cause and avenge his people. As their paths cross in several cities, they are drawn to each other both by their differences and their seemingly parallel passions-until a menacing incident throws her into a creative crisis, and forces her to reevaluate his actions, and her own motives. In this story of contemporary love and conflict, Hoffman illuminates the currents and undercurrents of our time, as she explores the luminous and dark faces of romanticism, and those perennial human yearnings, frustrations, and moral choices that can lead to destructiveness, or the richest art.
Appavin Snehidar (My Father's Friend and Other Stories)
by Ashokamitran Lakshmi HolmströmMy Father's Friend and Other Stories. English translation by Lakshmi Holmström of the Sahitya Akademi Award-winning Tamil short story collection of Ashokamitran's Appavin Snehidar.