The Curse Of The Masks

Book based on the Halka teaching "In order that true evil may not be persecuted, it is necessary to create another evil to be persecuted" A prisoner has been cursed by the Curse Of The Masks which covers his face with wood and only in the face of the truth can this curse be undone. According to those responsible for this curse, this prisoner knows the true reason of the war and only he can stop the killing that has happened in the whole Halka Lands, but he refuses to speak. However, he leaves an encrypted letter which, according to whoever cursed him, would reveal the secret about the war which persecutes all those who belong to his magical form, the Ubanâi. What everyone believes is that Amlaah, a man descending from the magical form that needs death to survive, begins a war to become more powerful, because the more people are killed, the stronger he will become and thus be able to recreate its own magic, to benefit him and the likewise magic, and then they may become immortal and reign over all. However, is this the real reason for the war? In a plot without heroes and no villains, you decide who to trust and you can still have the encrypted letter in hand to try to decipher and then find out who is telling the truth and who is lying. A story with many mysteries and without an end, because it is up to you to discover what is hidden, and judge the actions of each character according to what you think is right or wrong.

Solve It With Saxby, a new series aimed at unraveling the mystery of getting boys excited about reading. Saxby Smart is no ordinary ten-year-old. He's the best detective in the world, or at least the best one who also happens to be in elementary school. In this brand new series--with three cases in each book--the reader solves the mystery alongside Saxby, getting peeks at pages of his casebook as the crimes unfold, and searching for clues rather than letting the main character do all the work and have all the fun.

As sea creatures gang up on the landlubbers of Skylands and the mermaids of Last Chance Cove abandon their underwater kingdom, Gill Grunt embarks on an incredible adventure. From the pen of Onk Beakman, based on the smash hit Skylanders video game, Gill Grunt versus the Fish Master is the second novel in the hilarious, enthralling Mask of Power series.

As sea creatures gang up on the landlubbers of Skylands, and the mermaids of Last Chance Cove abandon their underwater kingdom, Gill Grunt embarks on an incredible adventure. Based on the characters from the smash-hit video game, Gill Grunt and the Curse of the Fish Master is the second novel in the hilarious, enthralling Mask of Power series.

Saxby Smart is no ordinary ten-year-old. He's the best detective in the world, or at least the best one who also happens to be in elementary school.

Peytra Sike is a gifted, but frustrated sculptor. After the masked duke, Jors Ameros, is taken with her and her artwork, he commissions Peytra to carve the mantels in his castle. There, Peytra discovers a world of artistry and friendship that cloaks the secrets of the Duke. Despite his unwillingness to be seen, their difference in status, and some castle meddling, their love for each other grows each passing day. But can their love overcome her dangerous curiosity? In the vein of East of the Sun, West of the Moon, Mask Of The Nobleman is a story of fiery passion and long-kept secrets.

Turn off your lights, get ready for frights! When the clock strikes midnight and the moon's full and bright, it's time for dread and fear. For Mr Midnight is here with two stories, double the danger and twice the terror! STORY ONE: Why did somebody make a mask that looks exatly like Megan Ng? And who is the mysterious man called The Face? Get set for more terror on every page because MY CURSED MASK hides the most hideous secrets. STORY TWO: Imagine a school where strange things happen. A school full of ghosts and horrors. Join Rayson Ling in WELCOME TO THE WEIRD SCHOOL where he's plunged into fright after fright.

"What matters about a play is not the extent to which it is like any other play, but the way in which it is different," writes Thomas G. Rosenmeyer. "This is, I suggest, how the ancient audiences received the performances.... My purpose, then, in writing these essays is twofold: ... to devote enough space to the discussion of each play to allow its special tone and texture to emerge without hindrance and at leisure ... and to include in one collection analyses of plays so different from one another that the accent will come to rest on the variety of the tragic experience rather than on any one narrowly defined norm." Greek tragedy is a vehicle for many different ideas and many different intentions. From the wealth of material that has come down to us the author has chosen six plays for analysis. He reminds us that the plays were written to be seen and heard, and only secondarily to be studied. The listeners expected each play to have a specific objective, and to exhibit its own mood. These the author attempts to recover for us, by listening to what each play, in its own right, has to say. His principal concern is with the tragic diction and the tragic ideas, designed to release certain massive responses in the large theater-going group of ancient Athens. In exploring the characters and the situations of the plays he has chosen, the author transports his reader to the world of fifth-century B.C. Greece, and establishes the relevance of that world to our own experience. The essays are not introductory in nature. No space is given, for instance, to basic information about the playwrights, the history of Greek drama, or the special features of the Attic stage. Yet the book addresses itself to classicists and nonclassicists alike. The outgrowth of a series of lectures to nonspecialists, its particular appeal is to students of literature and the history of Western thought. Parallels are drawn between the writings of the philosophers and the tragedies, and attention is paid to certain popular Greek beliefs that colored the tragic formulations. Ultimately, however, the approach is not historical but critical; it is the author's intention to demonstrate the beauty and the craftsmanship of the plays under discussion.