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  • The Spark

    Noemie Strong

    language (Dead Magpie, Oct. 26, 2017)
    “My entire body froze as the bolt seared down my spine, swam through my veins, and prickled every nerve ending and cell in my body, from my split ends right down to the chipped blue nail polish on my toes…”Alex has enough problems. She seems to be the only one holding things together after the death of her Dad. Her Mum won’t stop wailing along to love songs and her older brother Jake would rather stay out playing football with his mates. Then there’s Mungo, the pampered pug and pizza thief who has a smelly sock fetish and an appetite to rival a small country. His idea of helping out is to make an enemy out of the grouchy next door neighbour, Mrs Smith. If it wasn’t for her best friends – the creative and clever Meera and sports mad Ro – keeping things real every day at school, then life would be a total disaster!When Alex gets struck by lightning strange things begin to happen. Suddenly she can outrun a Porsche and bench-press a rhino. She can hear people gossiping about her and manages to cause mysterious power surges at school when she sneezes. Things get even stranger when Mungo starts to talk! But managing these new and exciting powers brings a whole host of new problems, and soon Alex’s life both at school and at home spirals out of control as she struggles to keep her super secret. When a surge in crime threatens those closest to home, can Alex find her inner superhero and save the day?
  • Spark, The

    David Drake, James Patrick Cronin

    MP3 CD (Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, Feb. 13, 2018)
    In the time of the Ancients the universe was united - but that was so far in the past that not even memory remains, only the broken artifacts that a few Makers can reshape into their original uses. What survives is shattered into enclaves - some tiny, some ruined, some wild. Into the gaps between settlements, and onto the road that connects all human reality and the reality that is not human and may never have been human, have crept monsters. Some creatures are men, twisted into inhuman evil; some of them are alien to Mankind - and there are things which are hostile to all life, things which will raven and kill until they are stopped. A Leader has risen, welding the scattered human settlements together in peace and safety and smashing the enemies of order with an iron fist. In his capital, Dun Add, the Leader provides law and justice. In the universe beyond, his Champions advance - and enforce - the return of civilization. Pal, a youth from the sticks, has come to Dun Add to become a Champion. Pal is a bit of a Maker, and in his rural home he's been able to think of himself as a warrior because he can wield the weapons of the Ancient civilization. Pal has no idea of what he's really getting into in Dun Add. On the other hand, the Leader and Dun Add have no real idea of what might be inside this hayseed with high hopes. The Spark: A story of hope and violence and courage. And, especially, a story of determination. David Drake was attending Duke University Law School when he was drafted. He served the next two years in the Army, spending 1970 as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th Armored Cavalry in Vietnam and Cambodia. Upon return he completed his law degree at Duke and was for eight years Assistant Town Attorney for Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has been a full-time freelance writer since 1981. His books include the genre-defining and best-selling Hammer's Slammers series, the nationally best-selling RCN series including In the Stormy Red Sky, The Road of Danger, The Sea Without a Shore, and Death's Bright Day.
  • The Spark

    C.D Vitta

    eBook
    Let's assume that humanity has this force within it called The Spark. Let's say that when people write fiction, The Spark infuses itself with the story and creates a whole new universe that revolves around the story. Think of what this means: are we simply characters from a story? Where does evil come from? Do we have free will? And what would happen if The Spark began to die out? As Mico enters a world populated with friends, enemies, and impossible lands, he must struggle with holding the fate of all universes that were, are, and will be, in his hands.
  • The Spark

    Edith Wharton, E. C. Caswell

    (Appleton, June 6, 1924)
    None
  • The X-Files

    Stefan Petrucha, Charlie Adlard, Miran Kim

    Paperback (Topps Comics Inc, Feb. 1, 1997)
    Here are seven stories from the bestselling comic series plus an exclusive interview with Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files. "Real strong stories, real hot book, real good timing. Phenomenon is the right word for this market-rocking TV adaptation."--Wizard: The Guide To Comics. Graphic novel format.
  • The Spark

    Pablo Ramirez, C D Vitta

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, June 4, 2012)
    Let's assume that humanity has this force within it called The Spark. Let's say that when people write fiction, The Spark infuses itself with the story and creates a whole new universe that revolves around the story. Think of what this means: are we simply characters from a story? Where does evil come from? Do we have free will? And what would happen if The Spark began to die out? As Mico enters a world populated with friends, enemies, and impossible lands, he must struggle with holding the fate of all universes that were, are, and will be, in his hands.
  • The Spark

    Edith Wharton

    (Appleton, July 6, 1924)
    None
  • The Spark

    Edith Wharton

    (Dodo Press, Dec. 12, 2008)
    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and short stories. Wharton was well-acquainted with many of her era's literary and public figures, including Henry James and Theodore Roosevelt. Besides her writing, she was a highly regarded landscape architect, interior designer, and taste-maker of her time. She wrote several influential books, including The Decoration of Houses (1897), her first published work, and Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904). The Age of Innocence (1920), perhaps her best known work, won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making her the first woman to win the award. Her other works include: The Greater Inclination (1899), The Touchstone (1900), Sanctuary (1903), The Descent of Man and Other Stories (1904), The House of Mirth (1905), Madame de Treymes (1907), The Fruit of the Tree (1907), The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories (1908), Ethan Frome (1912), In Morocco (1921), and The Glimpses of the Moon (1921).
  • The SSS Files

    Miss Heneghan's 4th and 5th graders

    Paperback (KidPub Press, )
    None
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  • The Spark

    Edith Wharton

    (Appleton, Jan. 1, 1924)
    hardback book, no jacket
  • The Spark:

    Edith Wharton

    (Library Of Alexandria, March 16, 2020)
    “YOU idiot!” said his wife, and threw down her cards. I turned my head away quickly, to avoid seeing Hayley Delane’s face; though why I wished to avoid it I could not have told you, much less why I should have imagined (if I did) that a man of his age and importance would notice what was happening to the wholly negligible features of a youth like myself. I turned away so that he should not see how it hurt me to hear him called an idiot, even in joke—well, at least half in joke; yet I often thought him an idiot myself, and bad as my own poker was, I knew enough of the game to judge that his—when he wasn’t attending—fully justified such an outburst from his wife. Why her sally disturbed me I couldn’t have said; nor why, when it was greeted by a shrill guffaw from her “latest,” young Bolton Byrne, I itched to cuff the little bounder; nor why, when Hayley Delane, on whom banter always dawned slowly but certainly, at length gave forth his low rich gurgle of appreciation—why then, most of all, I wanted to blot the whole scene from my memory. Why? There they sat, as I had so often seen them, in Jack Alstrop’s luxurious bookless library (I’m sure the rich rows behind the glass doors were hollow), while beyond the windows the pale twilight thickened to blue over Long Island lawns and woods and a moonlit streak of sea. No one ever looked out at that, except to conjecture what sort of weather there would be the next day for polo, or hunting, or racing, or whatever use the season required the face of nature to be put to; no one was aware of the twilight, the moon or the blue shadows—and Hayley Delane least of all. Day after day, night after night, he sat anchored at somebody’s poker-table, and fumbled absently with his cards.... Yes; that was the man. He didn’t even (as it was once said of a great authority on heraldry) know his own silly business; which was to hang about in his wife’s train, play poker with her friends, and giggle at her nonsense and theirs. No wonder Mrs. Delane was sometimes exasperated. As she said, she hadn’t asked him to marry her! Rather not: all their contemporaries could remember what a thunderbolt it had been on his side. The first time he had seen her—at the theater, I think: “Who’s that? Over there—with the heaps of hair?”—“Oh, Leila Gracy? Why, she’s not really pretty....” “Well, I’m going to marry her—” “Marry her? But her father’s that old scoundrel Bill Gracy ... the one....” “I’m going to marry her....” “The one who’s had to resign from all his clubs....” “I’m going to marry her....” And he did; and it was she, if you please, who kept him dangling, and who would and who wouldn’t, until some whipper-snapper of a youth, who was meanwhile making up his mind about her, had finally decided in the negative. Such had been Hayley Delane’s marriage; and such, I imagined, his way of conducting most of the transactions of his futile clumsy life.... Big bursts of impulse—storms he couldn’t control—then long periods of drowsing calm, during which, something made me feel, old regrets and remorses woke and stirred under the indolent surface of his nature. And yet, wasn’t I simply romanticizing a commonplace case? I turned back from the window to look at the group. The bringing of candles to the card-tables had scattered pools of illumination throughout the shadowy room; in their radiance Delane’s harsh head stood out like a cliff from a flowery plain.
  • The Spark /

    Edith Wharton

    (iOnlineShopping.com, Feb. 4, 2020)
    Note: Book 3 of "Old New York."Hayley Delane, a schoolboy when the Civil War started, was wounded at Bull Run, and spent a long time recovering in a hospital camp in Washington. There he met a mysterious stranger, whose memory has stayed with him all these years.In this novella, a young man is more or less obsessed with an older man (in a friendly slash mentorly kind of way). He is pained when the older man’s wife yells at his object of obsession, but he slowly starts to realize he doesn’t know as much about the man as he once thought. But this is comedic story, so it’s not a dark secret. Instead, he finds out that this older man had fought in the Civil War, a fact that shocks him because he never ever talks about ti. Indeed, he was wounded at Bull Run/Manassas, spent time in a Washington DC hospital, but now is mostly known to be a socialite and a polo player. That he never ever talks about his past alarms and intrigues the younger man.This is a kind of funny story about stories, and how the stories themselves can be kind of disappointing if the person who lived them isn’t that into them themselves.