Curse of the Ruins
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Author | : Gary Paulsen |
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Author | : Gary Paulsen |
Publisher | : Yearling |
Total Pages | : 67 |
Release | : 2011-10-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307804097 |
“A few hundred yards ahead there is a long wooden bridge that the donkeys will be afraid to cross. But do not worry. After you cross the bridge, the ruins will not be far away.” Cousins Kate, Sam, and Shala quickly see why the donkeys are so afraid to cross the bridge— it’s old and rickety and spans a deep rocky canyon. But they have to get across it. They have to find Katie and Sam’s dad, an anthropologist who’s studying the ancient cliff dwellers at El Debajo. Dr. Crockett was supposed to meet the cousins at the airport in San Marcos, New Mexico, but he never showed up. They don’t know whether he has enemies who might have kidnapped him or whether there really is a curse on the ruins of El Debajo. But they’re about to find out.
Author | : J. W. Ocker |
Publisher | : Quirk Books |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2020-09-15 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1683692373 |
Beware...this book is cursed! These strange but true stories of the world’s most infamous items will appeal to true believers as well as history buffs, horror fans, and anyone who loves a good spine-tingling tale. They’re lurking in museums, graveyards, and private homes. Their often tragic and always bizarre stories have inspired countless horror movies, reality TV shows, novels, and campfire tales. They’re cursed objects, and all they need to unleash a wave of misfortune is . . . you. Many of these unfortunate items have intersected with some of the most notable events and people in history, leaving death and destruction in their wake. But never before have the true stories of these eerie oddities been compiled into a fascinating and chilling volume. Inside, readers will learn about: • Annabelle the Doll, a Raggedy Ann doll that featured in the horror franchise The Conjuring • The Unlucky Mummy, which is rumored to have sunk the Titanic and kick-started World War I • The Dybbuk box, which was sold on eBay and spawned the horror film The Possession • The Conjured Chest, which has been blamed for fifteen deaths within a single family • The Ring of Silvianus, a Roman artifact believed to have inspired J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit • And many more!
Author | : Matthew Dixon |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2013-03-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1291361170 |
On the island of Santorini, a team of archaeologists uncover a find that could change the world's understanding of history. Across the globe in Australia, two detectives struggle to solve a mysterious murder only to find that it is part of a far darker conspiracy. The sunshine of the Gold Coast is darkened by a fierce storm as a group of teenagers fight to survive an attack by strange mythical creatures. In France, a Napoleonic historian uncovers clues to a mystery over three thousand years old. As they each seek the truth they are all drawn together to fight a common enemy. After three thousand years, the race of Rataal has returned to earth to reclaim their king.
Author | : Alicia Puglionesi |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2022-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1982116773 |
In this examination of landscape and memory, four sites of American history are revealed as places where historical truth was written over by oppressive fiction—with profound repercussions for politics past and present. Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal. They present a national identity based on harvesting the treasures that lay in wait for European colonization. In Whose Ruins tells another story: winding through the US landscape, from Native American earthworks in West Virginia to the Manhattan Project in New Mexico, this history is a tour of sites that were mined for an empire’s power. Showing the hidden costs of ruthless economic growth, particularly to Indigenous people and ways of understanding, this book illuminates the myth-making intimately tied to place. From the ground up, the project of settlement, expansion, and extraction became entwined with the spiritual values of those who hoped to gain from it. Every nation tells some stories and suppresses others, and In Whose Ruins illustrates the way American myths have been inscribed on the earth itself, overwriting Indigenous histories and binding us into an unsustainable future. In these pages, historian Alicia Puglionesiilluminates the story of the Grave Creek Stone, “discovered” in an ancient Indigenous burial mound, and used to promote the theory that a lost white race predated Native people in North America—part of a wider effort to justify European conquest with alternative histories. When oil was discovered in the corner of western Pennsylvania soon known as Petrolia, prospectors framed that treasure, too, as a birthright passed to them, through Native guides, from a lost race. Puglionesi traces the fate of ancient petroglyphs that once adorned rock faces on the Susquehanna River, dynamited into pieces to make way for a hydroelectric dam. This act foreshadowed the flooding of Native lands around the country; over the course of the 20th century, almost every major river was dammed for economic purposes. And she explores the effects of the US nuclear program in the Southwest, which contaminated vast regions in the name of eternal wealth and security through atomic power. This promise rang hollow for the surrounding Native, Hispanic, and white communities that were harmed, and even for some scientists. It also inspired nationwide resistance, uniting diverse groups behind a different vision of the future—one not driven by greed and haunted by ruin. This deeply researched work of narrative history traces the roots of American fantasies and fears in a national tradition of selective forgetting. Connecting the power of myths with the extraction of power from the land itself reveals the truths that have been left out and is an invaluable torch in the search for a way forward.
Author | : Richard Twigg |
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Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1882 |
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Author | : Craig A. Wright |
Publisher | : Outskirts Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2013-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781478710684 |
The world has become a cold, hard place to livea place where freedom is found only in the departure from living. Its people are enslaved by fear, suffering, and chaos, and even Mother Nature is at war with herself. Earth has become a giant graveyard of destruction, all thanks to an unspeakably evil curse. The beginning of the new world order started the moment Professor Goldsmith pushed off the gold marbled lid from a sarcophagus in a tomb hidden deep within the Sahara desert. An ancient curse was released upon mankind and all life on Earth, causing reality to crumble into chaos. Only the strong survive in this new world. But one man holds the key to free the future from the past, and his journey becomes a test of free will. Ruins of the Mind is his storya sweeping saga of courage, love, loss, and pain.
Author | : Jane Shand |
Publisher | : Jane Shand |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2024-08-27 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
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A deadly Curse from the past threatens all Afshaneh loves Dark magic is transforming animals into ferocious, twisted creatures. What happens if it infects a person? Afshaneh and her friends must embark on a mission to discover the source and end it before disaster strikes. No one is surprised when the trail leads them back to the Fallen mages’ fortress. But the cure is unexpected and potentially deadly. Along the way Afshaneh discovers a disturbing truth from her past and she is distracted by the handsome and charismatic mage, Mikos, who Shahmir hopes can help train Afshaneh. Can she resist his charms? Does she even wish to? The plans of the Fallen are slowly revealed as Afshaneh and her friends battle magic and the Cursed beasts on this second adventure. Will Afshaneh and her friends once again be able to thwart the Fallen’s plans? Or will their power continue to grow?