Charles Wagner: 13 books

Car-less headlights haunting a rural road, primeval ghosts cruising in a field of wheat, specters stopping traffic in Los Angeles - these are some of the images conjured by writer Charles Wagner. In this, his first collection, encounter these and other tales, some previously published, some appearing...

Leaving city life behind, Charles Scott returns to his rural hometown to farm the family land, only to discover that his field of waving wheat has become the nighttime abode of long-extinct dinosaurs. Prehistoric echoes collide with small-town despair, building up to a storm seventy million years...

Los Angeles has endured riots, earthquakes, fires, floods and gang infestation. But now a new scourge will rise, spreading like a plague from person to person, infecting them with evil malice and bizarre power, linking them together in the desire to absorb us all. The city will be menaced as never...

A Hollywood artisan made a mistake ... by which he was granted power.They came to punish him ... but punished his family instead.So he is on the run ... but ever on the attack.Severin's life can never be the same ... and all because he possessesThe Hilt!(cover by Elvin Tür)

The spirit of simplicity is a great magician. It softens asperities, bridges chasms, draws together hands and hearts. The forms which it takes in the world are infinite in number; but never does it seem to us more admirable than when it shows itself across the fatal barriers of position, interest, or...

A simpler life. In a shadow cast by the jarring beginning of the new millennium, simplicity has an undeniable appeal. Global conflicts, domestic security concerns, and a stalling economy can make keeping up with the Joneses feel like, at best, a misguided luxury. Now is not a time for excess; it is...

Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine, 8 mai 1903. Mon cher Directeur, Excusez-moi d’être si fort en retard avec vous, je veux dire avec votre journal. Dans ces derniers mois, Le Protestant m’a fait à plusieurs reprises l’honneur et l’amitié tantôt de me citer, tantôt de faire part...

Combien y a-t-il de gens qui se sont contentés de parler et ont cru que cela les dispensait d'agir? Et ceux qui les écoutent se contentent d'avoir entendu parler. Il se trouve ainsi qu'une vie peut bien ne se composer à la longue, que de quelques discours bien tournés, de quelques beaux livres,...

C’était en 1891. Je ne connaissais l’Amérique que très vaguement. Pendant une visite que je faisais à Madame Blaze de Bury, je fus présenté à une jeune Américaine, bien connue dans son pays par ses beaux livres : Grace King, de la Nouvelle Orléans. Elle savait le français. Son esprit...

Le Hollandais volant, en français Le Vaisseau fantôme — est un opéra allemand de Richard Wagner, créé en 1843.... Quatrième opéra de Richard Wagner, il marque encore une transition entre le style dominant de l’opéra de la première moitié du xixe siècle et la révolution formelle...

Showcases the wealth of new research on sacred imagery found in 12 states and 4 Canadian provinces. In archaeology, rock-art—any long-lasting marking made on a natural surface—is similar to material culture (pottery and tools) because it provides a record of human activity and ideology...

From our bestselling Everything® Kids’ series comes The Ultimate Everything® Kids’ Books. Featuring hundreds of puzzles, jokes, recipes, and activities, these books are sure to provide days of fun for any kid with some time—and a pencil! The Ultimate Everything® Kids’ Fairy Tale Book will...

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