In a world where the Empire of Magic is dominated by the enigmatic Silver Coven, the emperor merely serves as a puppet under the control of five powerful wizards. These mages dictate every facet of life in the empire, wielding their magic for purposes both noble and sinister.Meet Grady, a common thief wrongfully accused of murder, now languishing in a cell and awaiting execution. His fate takes a dramatic turn when a mysterious nobleman visits him with an audacious proposal: to ann...

Mel Taylor is a freelance corporate spy. She is the person people in lofty offices call when they need someone to go and well spy on the other guys. Mel might be the best in the game due to her small size, cuteness, and being very good at breaking and entering.When she is tasked with stealing a thumb drive from an engineer, she things everything went smoothly. She got the got the drive and she got paid too. However when she comes home on afternoon to the police standing outside her...

Grady continues his journey to Vienna to end the Silver Coven. His plan to take out the coven will rock the city to it's core. He has already taken out one wizard, he just has our more to go. Meanwhile in the city Albert and Pavel make their plans to protect their city from the Black Wizard.

A compendium of fascinating and evocative new writing on railway travel and history. Telling of little known journeys and uncovered histories on railway routes around the world - from the UK, Europe and Africa to North America, the Middle East and Asia.From Myanmar's highlands to the British Pennines, from slow travel between coffee plantations in Borneo to a cross-continent odyssey on African railways, from the pioneers of the American West to European trains in war, this is a new...

Composing for Silent Film offers insight, information, and techniques for contemporary composition, arrangement, and live score performance for period silent film. A specialized music composition guide, this book complements existing film scoring and contemporary music composition texts. This book helps today’s composers better understand and correctly interpret period silent film, and to create and perform live scores that align with films’ original intentions, so that a...

Composers, arrangers, conductors, session musicians, and executives worked in easy listening and scoring, complicating an academic focus that lionizes film music while ignoring or deriding easy listening. This book documents easy listening’s connections with film music, an aspect overlooked in academic and popular literature.Fueled by the rise of the LP and home entertainment, easy listening became the largest midcentury commercial music market, generating more actual inco...

A compendium of fascinating and evocative new writing on railway travel and history. Telling of little known journeys and uncovered histories on railway routes around the world - from the UK, Europe and Africa to North America, the Middle East and Asia.From Myanmar's highlands to the British Pennines, from slow travel between coffee plantations in Borneo to a cross-continent odyssey on African railways, from the pioneers of the American West to European trains in war, this is a new...

Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness uses musicology and queer theory to uncover meaning and message in canonical American cinema. This study considers how queer readings are reinforced or nuanced through analysis of musical score. Taking a broad approach to queerness that questions heteronormative and homonormative patriarchal structures, binary relationships, gender assumptions and anxieties, this book challenges existing interpretations of what is progressive and what is retrogressiv...

As a heavy mist rolls into the hinterland of Surfers Paradise, a dog digs up a small bone in the rainforest. His owner, a local doctor, immediately recognises it as the humerus of a child and calls the police.When Jack Curtis and his partner, Samantha Neil, arrive at the crime scene, Jack's instincts tell him something isn't right and this may just be the tip of the iceberg. One day later, four more small bodies are found and the shocking violence shakes the small community of Tamb...

"Breaks new ground in its examination of the role of newspaper reporting during the police hunt for the first notorious serial killer."— Reviews in HistoryPress coverage of the 1888 mutilation murders attributed to Jack the Ripper was of necessity filled with gaps and silences, for the killer remained unknown and Victorian journalists had little experience reporting serial murders and sex crimes. This engrossing book examines how fourteen London newspapers...

Their bags are packed, the tents are ready and the pages of Alba's notebook are waiting to be filled.Alba and his friends hop with kangaroos, hang upside down with sloths, skate with penguins and discover other incredible animals.Every night Alba gets out his notebook.But what does he write inside?Join Alba, who has albinism, and his friends on their animal adventure.

This volume is a continuation of our series exploring Saint Augustine’s influence on later thought, this time bringing the fifth century bishop into dialogue with 19th century philosopher, theologian, social critic, and originator of Existentialism, Soren Kierkegaard. The connections, contrasts, and sometimes surprising similarities of their thought are uncovered and analyzed in topics such as exile and pilgrimage, time and restlessness, inwardness and the church, as well as suffering, evi...