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By John Bellairs, Edward Gorey. 1983
Johnny Dixon and his friend Professor Childermass search for the hidden will left by an eccentric cereal tycoon who wanted…
to make life difficult for his heirs. A chilling sequel to 'The Curse of the Blue Figurine.' For grades 5-8By Lorna Jackson. 2007
Cold-cocked is the first book to explore a woman's way of watching the game poet Al Purdy called a "combination…
of ballet and murder." Written by author and born-again hockey aficionado Lorna Jackson, Cold-cocked looks at hockey through a woman's eyes and heart but is written with a sportswriter's energy and rigor and a hip cultural critic's cynicism and wit.By Alex Mitchell. 2012
Iraq 2004 The war on terror rages on and as lawlessness escalates in Iraq looters are hitting…
the museums Mina Osman a spirited young American archaeologist of Iraqi descent appalled at the loss of her parents heritage heads to the University of Mosul to help source Iraq s antiquities While reprimanding one of her students for conspiring with the looters a cuneiform tablet dating back three thousand years is handed over for restitution The tablet holds within it a profound secret about the primordial flood described in the Gilgamesh epic What begins as a straightforward translation of an ancient text triggers a series of disruptive and life-threatening events A chase without limits ensues which takes the savvy and adventurous Mina and Jack a handsome ex-US Army Major from Mosul to Safed and from Cambridge to Phuket in the midst of the tsunami cataclysm Alex Mitchell is an honorary researcher at the Institute of Archaeology Oxford University Alex is working on two sequels to The Thirteenth Tablet which will take Mina Osman to China India and Greece with a climax in North AmericaBy D. Felton. 1999
Stories of ghostly spirits who return to this world to warn of danger, to prophesy, to take revenge, to request…
proper burial, or to comfort the living fascinated people in ancient times just as they do today. In this innovative, interdisciplinary study, the author combines a modern folkloric perspective with literary analysis of ghost stories from classical antiquity to shed new light on the stories' folk roots. The author begins by examining ancient Greek and Roman beliefs about death and the departed and the various kinds of ghost stories which arose from these beliefs. She then focuses on the longer stories of Plautus, Pliny, and Lucian, which concern haunted houses. Her analysis illuminates the oral and literary transmission and adaptation of folkloric motifs and the development of the ghost story as a literary form. In her concluding chapter, the author also traces the influence of ancient ghost stories on modern ghost story writers, a topic that will interest all readers and scholars of tales of hauntings.