Visit exotic, historic Morocco--on the trail of the deadly Assassins. From the old quarter through the souk and Sultan's palace, one stubborn young wiVisit exotic, historic Morocco--on the trail of the deadly Assassins. From the old quarter through the souk and Sultan's palace, one stubborn young widow finds her life under threat and her world about to explode....more
Brief but deeply insightful look at the spark which ignited the Arab Spring/Jasmine Revolution that began in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia. Thoughtfully translBrief but deeply insightful look at the spark which ignited the Arab Spring/Jasmine Revolution that began in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia. Thoughtfully translated with copious background material....more
An over-the-top televangelist who believes he is the right hand of God is in hot pursuit of hidden prophesies dating to a lost pre-Mayan society, and An over-the-top televangelist who believes he is the right hand of God is in hot pursuit of hidden prophesies dating to a lost pre-Mayan society, and he will do anything to get his hands on them. His dirty money supports both a remnant Mayan village and an anthropology expedition in Central America. This is where two worlds collide.
Touchstones like the sleeping prophet Edgar Cayce, sacrificial altars, Mormon missionaries, and a native shaman heighten this adventure into the companion worlds of theology, spiritualism and ancient mysticism. Breathtaking scenery and authentic characters, both academic and indigenous, will spirit you away from your humdrum existence and hold you captive until the final pages which will both reveal the unexpected, and leave you anticipating the second book in the series.
Wilbur Smith couldn't have written it better himself.
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Peculiar, in the best sense of the word. Also crazy, funny and just over the edge into Fairyland.
And that's just the author, DC Farmer, who also happPeculiar, in the best sense of the word. Also crazy, funny and just over the edge into Fairyland.
And that's just the author, DC Farmer, who also happens to be the company scribe for Hipposync Enterprises, a bookstore for the discerning reader. The only bookstore in Oxford, England, or perhaps, in all of England, with a passageway to New Thameswick, and which operates as a covert headquarters for the Department of Fimmigration, the regulatory agency for interspecies relations.
The Bewilderment is a case for the Fae Human Intelligence & Felonious Activities Agency--there has been a rash of Munchers. "Weird deaths, specially those where the deceased's expression was 'unusually grotesque'" a la "the famous painting known as The Scream, by Edvard Munch."
Hipposync Archives novels can be read any which way, though best begun with the novella Every Little Evil (free at Amazon and the author's website). Recommended for, well, everyone with a taste for speculative fiction, sarcasm, and dreadful puns. Oh, and Dr. Who fans.
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Ever wonder how Amazon, er, Omnia delivers stuff right to your door overnight? How they manage to stock over a gazillion items and still get your ordeEver wonder how Amazon, er, Omnia delivers stuff right to your door overnight? How they manage to stock over a gazillion items and still get your order packed and shipped with nary a mistake?
It's a secret.
This funny, quirky little holiday for your brain reveals all. Perfectly translated from Spanish, Omnia follows Nico on his desperate mission inside the mega-store to track down one particular item, a bedraggled bunny, lost somewhere in the shelves of the infinite, yes infinite, warehouse located on an isolated, top secret island.
Only curmudgeons will fail to love this story of brotherly love, robots and aliens--and the comforts of home and family.
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