6:the Stone of Badda

6:the Stone of Badda
Author: Allen Sharp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1982-03-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780521285032

The reader, by deciding what happens next in a number of places in the story, takes part in an adventure journey to the Otherworld, the place of the dead, with the purpose of defeating the deadly guardians of a magic stone.

The Stone of Badda

The Stone of Badda
Author: Allen Sharp
Publisher:
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1984
Genre: Literary recreations, Juvenile
ISBN: 9780516089058

The reader, by deciding what happens next in a number of places in the story, takes part in an adventure journey to the Otherworld, the place of the dead, with the purpose of defeating the deadly guardians of a magic stone.

Badda Moon Rising

Badda Moon Rising
Author: Ian Jarvis
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1787056139

A modern-day Sherlock Holmes, Bernie Quist operates as a consultant detective from Baker Avenue in York. His assistant is Watson, although this Watson is a streetwise youth from the Grimpen housing estate and he's definitely no doctor. The mismatched duo take on bizarre cases which invariably lead into the realms of the supernatural, a shadowy world that, thanks to his dark secret, Quist is all too familiar with. A new exhibition is on display in the York Museum highlighting the infamous Badda sect and an obscure period in local history. Hidden away in North Africa’s Atlas Mountains, this secretive cult performed mystical rites and sacrifices to their god, a sinister deity in the form of a huge wolf. Two-thousand years ago, the Romans brought this clandestine religion to Yorkshire, but sickened by their obscene practises, the Emperor Hadrian crushed the sect before it could become established. Quist and Watson suspect the exhibition is connected to the grisly murders which are currently baffling the York police. It can’t be a coincidence that these magical artefacts arrived in time for a unique date at the full moon, and how is the glib clairvoyant Kyle Tarot involved in this? The detective’s terrified assistant soon wishes the Roman Emperor had been a little more thorough in his effort to stamp out the Badda cult. A dark and very peculiar game is afoot…

A Medieval Book of Magical Stones: The Peterborough Lapidary

A Medieval Book of Magical Stones: The Peterborough Lapidary
Author: Francis Young
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2016
Genre: Design
ISBN: 099264044X

A Medieval Book of Magical Stones is the first translation of the longest and most comprehensive medieval English treatise on the occult powers of stones and gems, the Peterborough Lapidary. Lapidaries (encyclopaedias of the 'virtues' of stones and minerals) were an essential resource for practitioners of natural and ritual magic as well as medicine. This late fifteenth-century manuscript from the library of Peterborough Cathedral describes 145 stones, portraying them as living beings whose properties range from giving the bearer the power to command spirits and foretell the future to healing numerous illnesses and communicating with spirits and the dead, along with instructions on how to release latent occult power from within stones. Many of the proposed uses of stones resemble the concerns of medieval necromancers, such as invisibility, love magic, power over animals and the creation of magical mirrors. pp. xliii+106; 2 column text; introduction; bibliography; analytical index; 8 b/w illustrations

The Stone Tide

The Stone Tide
Author: Gareth E. Rees
Publisher: Influx Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2018-03-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1910312088

When Gareth E. Rees moves to a dilapidated Victorian house in Hastings he begins to piece together an occult puzzle connecting Aleister Crowley, John Logie Baird and the Piltdown Man hoaxer. As freak storms and tidal surges ravage the coast, Rees is beset by memories of his best friend's tragic death in St Andrews twenty years earlier. Convinced that apocalypse approaches and his past is out to get him, Rees embarks on a journey away from his family, deep into history and to the very edge of the imagination. Tormented by possessed seagulls, mutant eels and unresolved guilt, how much of reality can he trust? The Stone Tide is a novel about grief, loss, history and the imagination. It is about how people make the place and the place makes the person. Above all it is about the stories we tell to make sense of the world.

Invitation to Murder

Invitation to Murder
Author: Allen Sharp
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1982
Genre: Mystery and detective stories
ISBN: 9780516089034

A murder mystery set in an Austrian ski lodge. The reader is invited to try his own skill as a detective and unmask the murderer, or, if he fails, become the next victim.

The Bible 2.0

The Bible 2.0
Author: Nathan Smithe
Publisher: Nathan Smithe
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1969-04-20
Genre:
ISBN: 1448682789

Join God and Jebus and The Holy Toaster and Gilberto McCheasyfries the Sheep and a slew of others in The Bible 2.0, a magical tale of drama, intrigue, fantasy, murder, magic, drugs, thermonuclear physics, sex, prison life, basket weaving, and unicorns.. each spine tingling word more exiting than the previous! Word!

Stone Tools in Transition: From Hunter-Gatherers to Farming Societies in the Near East

Stone Tools in Transition: From Hunter-Gatherers to Farming Societies in the Near East
Author: Borrell, Ferran
Publisher: Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2013
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 8449044863

This volume compiles the papers presented at the seventh edition of the Conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Fertile Crescent, held in Barcelona from 14 to 17 February 2012. This series of conferences/workshops started nineteen years ago - the first meeting was organised in Berlin in 1993 - and is devoted to the study of the lithic record in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Near East and neighbouring regions. The seventh of these conferences was organised by the Institució Milà i Fontanals (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) and the Prehistory Department (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). This volume includes a total number of 36 articles, covering a wide range of topics and disciplines related to lithic studies in the Levant over a long chronological time span (from the final stages of the Epipalaeolithic/Natufian to the Halaf period). The publication of the conference proceedings is thus an interesting synthesis of the current state of lithic studies on the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Near East, and consolidates this specific series of conferences as a key tool to maintain and stimulate the vitality of high quality research into the Near Eastern lithic record.

Superworld: Save Noah

Superworld: Save Noah
Author: Yarrow Cheney
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2024-05-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593375408

In a world where everyone is extraordinary, it takes a totally normal kid to save the day. This new series breaks the mold with gorgeous black-and-white art on every page, and a cinematic, blockbuster feel. Every 12-year-old kid feels like they don't fit in sometimes -- but Noah takes it to a whole new level. When a meteor crashed to Earth on his seventh birthday, the whole planet got superpowers.....except for Noah. Thanks to his tin foil superhero costume, Noah's powers got deflected -- onto his little sister. He's literally the only normal person in all of Superworld. He can't fly. He can't scale tall buildings. He can't turn broccoli into candy. (And of course his little sister got double powers. Of course.) And still...when the biggest, baddest villian in town plots to take over Superworld forever, normal Noah and his supercharged best friends are the ones who just might save the day. Seriously.