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The Navajo word that means mole, the underground hunting animal, if literally translated, also means the people of darkness. The amulet used for the church started by Dillon Charley was a mole, a gift made by the character Vines in honor of his own money being made by mining uranium below the soil, and the earlier escape from the 1948 oil field ...
Michael Magras of the Star Tribune noted, . What makes The White Darkness so compelling is Grann’s gift for memorable detail. When, in 2004, Worsley joins an expedition to the South Pole to mark the 100th anniversary of Shackleton’s first attempt, he and his fellow explorers train by tying tractor tires around their waist and dragging them through fields to emulate pulling a heavy sled.
Only the Animals is a 2014 short story collection by Ceridwen Dovey. It is her second book after Blood Kin (2008). It is a collection of ten interrelated short stories about the souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century and tells their stories of life and death.
Creatures of Light and Darkness is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Roger Zelazny. Long out of print, it was reissued in April 2010. The novel is set in the far future, with humans on many worlds. Some have god-like powers, or perhaps are gods—the names and aspects of various Egyptian gods are used.
The supplement was created due to the World of Darkness series' popularity in France, [4] and was one of the first World of Darkness books to not be developed by White Wolf Publishing; [1] the earlier Vampire: The Masquerade book Blood Nativity (1991) had been published by Atlas Games, but was still developed by White Wolf Publishing staff, [9 ...
On March 21, during the Christian Book Expo in Dallas, Texas, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness was announced as a nominee for the 2009 Christy Award in the Young Adult category. It lost to I Have Seen Him in the Watchfires by Cathy Gohlke (Moody Publishers). The Christy Award recognizes novelists and novels of excellence in several ...
Book cover. The Human Zoo is a book written by the British zoologist Desmond Morris, published in 1969. [1] It is a follow-up to his earlier book The Naked Ape; both books examine how the biological nature of the human species has shaped the character of the cultures of the contemporary world.
The book then moves back in time to the reign of Edward VI, as lovely young Celia de Bohun and her guardian aunt take up residence with the noble Catholic family of Anthony Browne as "poor relations." Celia is a fascinating and believable character, full of contradictions and human failings.