The Devil's Treasure
Title | The Devil's Treasure PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Gaitskill |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2023-08-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1946022829 |
"In this searching biography of the writer’s imagination, Mary Gaitskill excavates her own novels, revealing their origins and obsessions, the personal and societal pressures that formed them, and the life story hidden between their pages. Using the techniques of collage, The Devil's Treasure splices fiction together with commentary and personal history, and with the fairy tale that gives the book its title, about a little girl who ventures into Hell through a suburban trapdoor." -- Publisher's website.
The Devil's Treasure
Title | The Devil's Treasure PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Gaitskill |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2023-08-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1946022837 |
A rare work of criticism, memoir, and mythography from an author “aware of all the hidden chambers of the heart.” (Greil Marcus, New York Times Magazine) Mary Gaitskill is unique among American novelists in “her ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen, the life we don’t even know we are living.”* In this searching biography of the writer’s imagination, Gaitskill excavates her own novels, revealing their origins and obsessions, the personal and societal pressures that formed them, and the life story hidden between their pages. Using the techniques of collage, The Devil's Treasure splices fiction together with commentary and personal history, and with the fairy tale that gives the book its title, about a little girl who ventures into Hell through a suburban cellar door. The result is an answer to Gaitskill’s critics and, simultaneously, the best book we have about contemporary fiction, the forces ranged against it, and the forces that bring it into being. “Even among other artists attracted to weakness as a theme, [Gaitskill] is rare in being able to look at it on its own terms. She doesn’t treat it like a curiosity, like Diane Arbus, or a chink in the armor that might let in faith, like Flannery O’Connor. She isn’t afraid of it, like Muriel Spark; nor does she insist its depictions rouse us to action, like Sontag. She looks—just looks—and sees everything.” —Parul Seghal, New York Times Magazine*
Cayman Gold
Title | Cayman Gold PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Trout |
Publisher | Pelican Publishing |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2011-01-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781455601967 |
This first novel in the MacGregor Family Adventure Series involves sinister pirate forces, strange sea creatures, hospitable native Caribbean people, and issues of environmental management and endangered species. Suddenly faced with the task of saving a lost Spanish treasure embedded in protected coral reef, four enterprising teenagers rely on their courage and scuba-diving skills as they explore and investigate the exotic waters and beaches of the Cayman Islands. Dr. Jack MacGregor is a zoologist who works to save the environment, his wife Mavis is a working paleontologist, and their teenage children—Chris, Heather, and Ryan—though bright, dutiful kids, find themselves making common teenage decisions and mistakes. Consistently entangled in dangerous adventures in exotic locales, they must rely on their common sense, diverse skills, and daring strategies to survive. The fast-paced narrative of each book in the MacGregor Family Adventure Series includes authentic historical and scientific details and shows the developing character, morality, and discipline of the MacGregor teens as they progress through each exhilarating escapade.
The Devil's Treasure
Title | The Devil's Treasure PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Knight |
Publisher | Knight Writing Press |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2020-01-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781628690347 |
Silver lying around on the ground, left behind by the Spanish, just waiting to be picked up... At least, that's what Chaddock and the others were told. Never mind the curse of El Tesoro del Diablo-the reason why it was left behind.
The Devil's Treasure
Title | The Devil's Treasure PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia Chandler |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2014-04-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781497520288 |
The Devil's Treasure saga continues as Samuel Wragg eagerly pursues his dreams of finding vast treasure, and Edward Teach follows his own path to wealth while becoming the infamous pirate, Blackbeard!
Hunt for the Devil's Dragon
Title | Hunt for the Devil's Dragon PDF eBook |
Author | Marianne Hering |
Publisher | Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 2013-04-19 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1624051111 |
Over 1 million sold in series! If you’re brave, follow cousins Beth and Patrick to Libya in the 13th century. The town of Silene is being terrorized by a vicious animal that is eating livestock. The townspeople believe it’s a dragon sent by the devil. In order to appease the beast, the people believe they must offer a human sacrifice—a young girl named Sabra. When Beth tries to help Sabra escape, she too is tied up as an offering for the dragon. Meanwhile, Patrick and a new friend named Hazi join Georgius, a Roman knight who is serving in Africa to keep peace. Georgius decides to find the dragon and kill it. Georgius’s plans go awry when Beth and Sabra beg him not to kill the dragon. The girls know the true secret of Silene—the dragon isn’t its worst enemy.
The Devil's Feather
Title | The Devil's Feather PDF eBook |
Author | Minette Walters |
Publisher | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2006-08-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307266052 |
A blistering new thriller about the horrors of war and the struggle to survive in the face of pure evil. Foreign correspondent Connie Burns is hunting a British mercenary that she believes is responsible for the rape and murder of five women in Sierra Leone in 2002. Two years later she finds him training Iraqi police in Baghdad. Connie is determined to expose his crimes, but then she is kidnapped and released after three days of unspeakable torture. Silently, she returns to England and attempts to isolate herself, but it soon becomes apparent that the horrors of the world and her own nightmarish past aren’t so easy to escape from.