Showing results for "Calamity" in Literature & Fiction

When Zara awoke to find Valerius, leader of the legendary Gilded Knights, towering over her, she thought she'd gone mad. She was the Fury, mistress of claw and flame—armies trembled at her name! Now she lay chained and broken, a prisoner in her own home. But that wasn't why she thought herself mad. Only yesterday, she remembered a different life. She remembered her nephew in the local arcade, struggling to beat the villainous Zara the Fury in Knights of Eternity. She remembered her uncle and his big booming laugh.

Calamity Jane guides a theatre troupe across hostile lands while fleeing the ghosts of her past. (Western/Full-cast audio drama)

Calvin Amadeus James, aka Calamity, isn't an outlaw like his notorious brothers Jesse and Frank. He's worse—due to the bad luck that follows him everywhere he goes. Every job he takes—from army scout to gambler to cowboy and rail worker—ends in catastrophe. No matter what he does, Calamity James always seems to be on the wrong side of history.

Entertainment journalist Dawn Roberts has a lot to work through: a widow’s grief, betrayals of family and friends, and scandals that almost tanked her reputation. Not that Dawn dwells on the past. Well, hardly. When she returns to Baltimore with her husband’s ashes, she can’t avoid it. In fact, she’s diving into decades of backstabbing and treachery for her first trip home in years. She’s looking at you, Joe Perkins. Her former mentor, whose explosive exposé about big-city corruption is being turned into a slanderous movie, is also back in town.

Winifred is blunt, opinionated, and outrageously colorful. In a community that demands domesticity, she simply doesn’t fit. When her wealthy husband suddenly dies, Winifred’s fellow society housewives no longer have a reason to play nice. Cast out entirely, Winifred throws roaring parties for the clerks and waiters that serve the town, finding the connections she’s been craving—and upsetting the gentle balance of her elite neighborhood in the process.

Lulled by the conclusion of the Primal Games, a few of the Prime leaders have taken to luxury or complacency. Others, however, have sharpened their claws and garnered strength. An attack will come from the shadows, one few expect, and in the aftermath, true chaos will unfold. Victor and his girls deepen ties with House Ghadeer, aiding it as a new Prime rises to lead them. Such a task might not prove difficult if it weren't for the enemy hidden in the grass.

Kove, a teenage mercenary, and Arius, a deceptively powerful politician, form an uneasy alliance to bring down the leader of an authoritarian theocracy.

Powerful necromancers are on the move, and the dungeon has become a battleground. Without his faithful Wisp, Cal's mind slips—he begins creating traps and monsters that go against his already loose morals. A direct threat from an unexpected force causes Cal's mind to stabilize, but he doesn’t know for how long. Using every resource at his disposal, he works to keep his mind clear while he funds a search for his lost companion. When others fail him again and again, Cal takes matters into his own hands.

Victoria Adler's plunge into midlife proves to be quite the rollercoaster. As a successful psychotherapist, she expected stability, but life had other plans. Abandoned by her faithless husband for a fling and overwhelmed by her increasingly neurotic patients, Victoria finds solace in the company of Athos, her late father's intelligent sled dog.

Calamity Jane (1853-1903). Qualité : aventurière. Fonctions : éclaireuse, convoyeuse de bétail, joueuse de poker... Pseudonyme : la femme folle. Détail : s'habille en homme. Fait marquant : première femme blanche à pénétrer les territoires contrôlés par les Sioux. Séparée de sa fille qu'elle a confiée à l'âge d'un an à un couple d'aristocrates, Calamity lui écrit en lui contant sa vie de tous les jours, ses rencontres, sa solitude, son espérance de la voir bientôt, ses remords aussi.

A supervillain's workplace comedy.

We delve into the mysteries of the Cthulhu mythos with an eclectic cast of player characters and a mad cultist Keeper. Will they keep their wits about them when faced with the horrors from beyond the stars and classic monsters of yore?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/call-of-calamity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Detective Glenn Graves moved to the town for a fresh start. Hoping that this could be a new beginning for his daughter. But the town of Crater has other plans for him.A botched ritual entangled Glenn's mind with an entity from the realm beyond. Due to the incomplete nature of the rite, the creature lost all but one memory. Something lies beyond the veil. One who seeks to enter this world. Whatever it was, being trapped within a mortal is still preferable to being caught by it.Which poses the question. What sort of being can terrify an eldritch monster? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy ...

Il diario epistolare (1877-1902) della più famosa eroina del selvaggio West americano, indirizzato alla figlia Janey, letto dalla calda e appassionata voce dell'attrice Lucia Schierano...