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"Demons are feasting on your father."

Johnny stood at the threshold looking into the dim beer bar at a hooded man. His father was in the county hospital fighting an aggressive cancer. And now this menacing character proclaims a dire message. What, was he living in "the Lord of the Rings"? Johnny soon finds that in order to save his father, he must face creatures and beings from mythic realms he thought only existed in stories. But even more challenging, he must find a way to persuade his father to stay and fight when the man he's looked up to all his life has determined it's time to die.

"The Annunciation of Jack" is a story cycle that presents the interlinked tales of ordinary people in an ordinary Northern California town during the early 1970s. Gerald Blanden, broker for Alhambra Realty, owns a comfortable three bedroom, two bath home atop a hill overlooking the town, with his wife and two children. Violet Philpott is a wide, elderly widow and treasurer for the Nazarene Church, with a garden in the backyard, and irises lining the front picket fence. The Williams family is headed by Jack and Cheryl, owners of the Gondolier Pizza Parlor, and parents of a teenage boy, Johnny, and seven-year old twins. And Carrie Hill, a teenage girl from a divorced family, is Johnny Williams's childhood, and best, friend. The people of Windford live with the tragedies and triumphs we all experience--the destruction of a house through natural disaster, the loss of a spouse to illness, the mental illness of a mother, the flowering of love between young people, the struggle with work, faith, family.

But with our friends from Windford, other mythic realms bubble up from beneath the surface of their ordinary reality. A teenage boy finds solace and escape from his father's illness through the characters of "the Lord of the Rings," Clarence the angel in "It's a Wonderful Life" and the rituals of Christmas. A lonely horseback rider upon a snowy road rescues an accident victim with supernatural power and warmth. A real estate broker discovers his house rubble from the destructive presence of angelic beings, the Marasim--who desperately need his help. An injured cherub helps a grieving woman uncover a reason to live, to save a boy from drowning. A cancer-stricken father is ripped from a hospital bed and flown to Mt. Diablo aboard a black coach, and his son must unearth a way to rescue him. And a wife must track down her husband to stop him from traveling to the High Realms, enlisting the help of a 300-year old monk, the Spider Woman and Wolwoni Indians. Along the way, our friends encounter demons, dark Marasim, evil hags, beautiful and treacherous harpists, a maniacal evangelist, a bear god, the Raurjan, sea serpents, an amphibious 1954 Chevy Bel Air, ghosts upon Angel Island, the Undying Ones, Faerian Drama, mirrors, ancient stories, a wooden bark upon the sea, thuribles, tobacco, ocean and snow, all of which play a part in their struggle to make sense of life, death, love and purpose. Not to mention a little pizza and beer

Pa' Paw and Thomas are having a blast and want you to join in Based on the first book in the Pa' Paw tales series by William T. Holt the Brand New Shoes: Coloring and Activity Book stimulates the imagination with over 60 pages of illustrations, games and puzzles. This fun-filled coloring and activity book let's you write, color, create and even share the fun with others. Imaginations welcome

Women may hold up more than half the sky on earth, but it has been different in heaven: science fiction still is very much a preserve of male protagonists, mostly performing by-the-numbers quests. In The Other Half of the Sky, editor Athena Andreadis offers readers heroes who happen to be women, doing whatever they would do in universes where they're fully human. Contributors Melissa Scott, Alex Jablokov, Nisi Shawl, Sue Lange, Vandana Singh, Joan Slonczewski, Terry Boren, Aliette de Bodard, Ken Liu, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Martha Wells, Kelly Jennings, C. W. Johnson, Cat Rambo, Christine Lucas, Jack McDevitt

Urban Crow is a collection of short stories that sheds light on the people in the peripheral of our society. It does not always follow the accepted path of traditional linear story telling; goal, motivation and conflict are thrown away and replaced with contemplation. It's gritty, sometimes ugly and off of the well-worn path. No morals, resolution or happy endings. It's messy, uncertain, self conscious, existential and full of dissonance - just like an Ornette Coleman composition.

Jumping in and put of relationship attempting to escape the jagged edges of an adulterous and fornicating lifestyle, she continued to find love in wrong places. She thought she'd finally found the one that would be all she dreamed of in a mate, only to find, he wasn't one but many. How was she able to escape certain death as it on numerous occasions stared her in the face. Relying upon her daily soaps to cover the wounds of her broken and shattered heart, she found comfort in the words of a tee-shirt it read, When the world was Young and Restless and we worried about the Days of our Lives, God said, "You are All My Children, Let Jesus be your Guiding Light, and I'll take you to Another World." Roll with her, as she takes you to her world on an eotional rollercoaster. Experience one event after another as you enter into her dash. Journey with her as she strolls down memory lane offering you a peek although incomplete as she flips pages of her dash allowing you to glimpse visuals of her past. Making it plain, she states that, although her grave would look nice decorated with pretty flowers and all, their for your pleasure and Thanks you in advance for your concern. Her opinion, she could not smell them, arrange them or even admire their beauty. Not that she'd want to be cremated, it's just that She'd like her flowers now

Radio Free Europe was first published in 1958. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. What is radio Free Europe? Where does it broadcast? Who runs it? What are its purposes? Although thousands of Americans are familiar with Radio Free Europe (many have contributed to its support through the Crusade for Freedom campaigns), few know enough about its background to answer these and similar questions. In this book a political scientist with first-hand knowledge gives a detailed account of the organization and development of this unique propaganda enterprise. Radio Free Europe was established as a private broadcasting project in 1949 by the Free Europe Committee, headed by Joseph C. Grew, as part of the Committee's program of broad, long-range assistance to democratic exiles from totalitarian countries. The operational headquarters are located at Munich, and the broadcasts are directed to the people of five satellite countries: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Poland. Professor Holt tells how Radio Free Europe was established, outlines its basic policies and objectives, describes its organization, personnel, programming, and services, discusses transmission problems, and examines the effectiveness of the propaganda. He describes in detail the role of RFE in connection with the uprisings in Poland and Hungary and analyzes the charges that RFE stimulated the Hungarian revolt.