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Sorcerer of Yorre
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Sorcerer of Yorre

The Yorre Chronicles is a fantasy-humor series of novels. Presented in the form of episodes and various tales and legends, they form an entertaining ensemble while being a true work of fantasy that will please all fans of the genre. Sorcerer of Yorre is the first volume of the collection and exposes the general geography as well as the social structures and magic system. The novel begins in a world without witchcraft, but which will eventually return in The Scepter of Time, the cycle’s pivotal chapter. The adventure continues in Rush to Mount Regal, then in The Silent Kingdom where we will meet the Unspeakables. Finally, much is revealed about the nature of the Levandi Modo in the last episode, The Forges of Valdor. Meanwhile, amid tales, legends, and scrolls of the dead seal, we learn more about The Guilds of Yorre, Concerning Trolls, and the founding of New Sinisteros.

The Simplicity of Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

The Simplicity of Life

The SIMPLICITY OF LIFE is a novel in four parts exploring openness, its consequences and its advantages. 1. A SIMPLE VILLAGE presents a society where everyone has been taught to say what they think frankly and quickly defuse any conflict. 2. A WORM IN THE APPLE is about a man slowly taking advantage of the above societal situation, twenty years later, and how the aberration spreads, starting with those closest to him. 3. THE MIRROR follows a scenario much like A Simple Village but, this time it is thirty years later than A Worm in the Apple, and we see the consequences of the social changes that began therein. 4. MAN’S ONLY FRIEND is about an honest man, such as might be raised in A Simple Village, dropped into contemporary society. We see his interactions with neighbors, friends, colleagues, and his dog—the only truly honest presence in his life..

Wild Worlds' Web
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Wild Worlds' Web

The Alas League is an entertaining humorous series made up of episodes ranging from 80 to 140 pages each. Brief “interlude” short stories are inserted between instalments exploring new facets of life among the stars!. Episode 5: Crossroads Slowly, but surely, the events shaking up the Universe are catching up with our villagers. Now part of the Wild Worlds’s Web, they try as well as they can to fulfill the various missions they are given. Obviously, small side-track stories are aplenty. Who will win the first intergalactic elections of Verminus? Will the surprising resemblance between Xybef and Big Arlene lead Alberic on an extra-marital path? Episode 6: Twice upon a time… As feared ...

Paul III of Montreal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Paul III of Montreal

Humans have always needed a way to measure themselves against their peers. First, physical strength and the ability to fight determined the leaders.Then a small but powerful group took over and decided they were the bosses and their descendants would follow them; birthright and education gave us the aristocracy. Revolutions finally removed them from power and they used charismatic leaders. After that, the media dominated everyone’s lives. The popularity of actors and singers decided who was in and who was out. Humanity longed for an objective way to rank individuals and establishwho would be in charge. Then came the Game. Based on a three-dimensional version of chess, the Game developed in...

Short Novels and Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 371

Short Novels and Stories

This anthological collection contains two novellas and five short stories: The Maid’s Dress (1991) – First short story and represents a breakthrough Caroline (1995) – Romanticand semi-autobiographical novella Classified Ads (2001) – Short story celebrating the 10thanniversaryof The Maid’s Dress The Crossbow (2001) – Creationof a new detective. He is expected to be further developed in the future. George (2001) – Science-fiction The Pilgrim (1995) – Exploratory images Saint-Jolivet of Pendleton (1992) – First novella Those works were previously published separately under Caroline, Saint-Jolivet of Pendleton and The Universe and Other Stories

The Alas League
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

The Alas League

The Alas League is an entertaining humorous series made up of episodes ranging from 80 to 140 pages each. Brief “interlude” short stories are inserted between instalments, adding increasingly funny new angles to the new Worlds they live in. Episode 1: Purgatory In the small village of Verminus lives Mayor Monica Boisse, her son Peter, Father Ferdinand Paradise, the owner of the only bar Sylvia Thomac, the garbage man Mario Sax, the police officer Mable Hudgeon and the computer scientist Sophia Ware. With them are the rich Reginald Verrywiz, his secretary Alice, an old couple Alberic and Adelaide with their grand-daughter Julia and the trade unionist Andrew Bank. We must not forget Gerard...

The Lost Ark
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

The Lost Ark

The Alas League is an entertaining humorous series made up of episodes ranging from 80 to 140 pages each. Brief “interlude” short stories are inserted between instalments exploring new facets of life among the stars!. At last, here comes the eagerly awaited sequel to The Alas League Our dear villagers are on a quest to find their peers from the “A” ark. Through their adventures, a new Universe reveals itself as they get mixed up in events that pass right over their heads. This volume contains the third and fourth episodes and five intermissions. Episode 3: In Search of the Lost Ark Having at last found a quest to undertake, the inhabitants of the small village of Verminus begin their...

Transgression in Anglo-American Cinema
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

Transgression in Anglo-American Cinema

Sexuality within mainstream Hollywood cinema features primarily in comedy or rom-com genres, where lightness of tone permits audience engagement with what would otherwise be difficult affective terrain. Focusing on marginal productions in Anglo-American contexts, this collection explores the gendered dynamics of sex and the body, particularly embodied deviations from normative cultural scripts. It explores transgressions acted through and written on the body, and the ways in which corporeality inscribes gender discourse and reflects cultural and institutional power. Films analyzed include Mysterious Skin (2004), Shame (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013), and Dallas Buyers Club (2013). Navigating queer politics, taboo fantasy, body modification, fetishism, sex addiction, and underage sex, essays problematize understandings of adult agency, childhood innocence, and healthy desire, locating sex and gender as sites of oppression, liberation, and resistance.

An Incomplete History of the Art of Funerary Violin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

An Incomplete History of the Art of Funerary Violin

From its origins in the Elizabethan Protestant Reformation, to its final extinction amidst the guns of the First World War, the art of Funerary Violin was characterised by many unique and frequently misunderstood qualities that set it apart from all other forms of music. Despite its enormous influence on classical music generally and on the Romantic Movement in particular, this music has almost entirely vanished. In a series of 'funerary purges', the art of funerary violin was condemned as 'the music of the devil' and the Guild of Funerary Violinists driven into silence or clandestine activity. This is the music that, despite all attempts at suppression, has haunted Europe's collective unconscious for more than a century. Now Rohan Kriwaczek reveals its incredible history. Painstakingly pieced together from a handful of fragments and unsubstantiated and often unspoken rumours, and making use of a number of extraordinary recent discoveries, An Incomplete History of the Art of Funerary Violin celebrates a unique musical tradition that refuses to die.

Cinema as History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Cinema as History

With a career spanning more than five decades, director and cinematographer Michel Brault is one of the most influential figures in Québécois cinema. Cinema as History: Michel Brault and Modern Quebec is André Loiselle’s study of his life and his work. Brault’s early works, including Les Raquetteurs (co-directed with Gilles Groulx) and Pour la Suite du Monde (co-directed with Pierre Perrault) reflected a hitherto unacknowledged and unfulfilled need on the part of Québécois society to see their own culture reflected onscreen—and helped spark a cultural renaissance in Quebec. His 1974 fiction feature Les Ordres, which deals with the FLQ crisis and the invocation of the War Measures ...