Bøger af James Farrell

Far away on the opposite side of the world are a cluster of islands known as the Philippines. Into this tropical, crowded, steaming place enters an eccentric farmer from the backwoods of New England, and not only does this technophobic homebody succeed in both going there and returning by winged dragon, narrowly escaping Godzilla and various Philippine monsters, he even wins a bride.This travel book, narrated in humerous and frequently philosophical format by the adventurer himself, is a tale of my expedition to the Philippines in 2016, and my observations of the culture and condition of the island of Mindanao.

He seized my hand, and despite a shriek of "Wait! I'm not ready!" from me, he hurled us both into the leaf-dappled water. It was cold but a nice kind of cold. I enjoyed the feel of it until I realized we were still going down. Panic came over me, and I tried to swim up, but Stevie held me like a vise. That was when we fell out of the water. Tarah and Stevie have fallen into Wildermere, a world with as many changing moods and colors as hours in the day. While Stevie introduces Tarah to the wonders of his world, they soon realize that even Wildermere is not free from the sinister presence of Jayhaya, their archenemy. When Tarah inadvertently releases Jayhaya into Wildermere, she is thrust into Limbo and Jayhaya is freed into the living. There he forces his way past the spiritual weapons of the mighty Men of Old Street, and proceeds by necromancy to call up 666 damned Mathers. Nor is this his only help: the creation of Wildermere also causes the transformation of costumes into monsters, and a host like the sand of the sea surrounds the last fortress of the village: the consecrated cemetery. Without some aid from Above, the embattled prayer-armed farmers must soon fall before the Triumph of Jayhaya.

The superheros have been employees of the federal gov. for nearly 70 years. Public opinion has grown hostile, and the remaining active ones ae given less duty, or shunted overseas. Spearhead, who can shift shape to war machine, is drinking with Tailspin when the evening is interrupted by paramilitary assassins. At first the team is inclined to attribute it to one of their old enemies, but the trails lead too far, and too high up, and the forces that keep surging against them are too well-equipped.... In fact, are as well-equipped as the US military. Which is what they are. The superheros are now on the federal hit list.

LIVE, THE HOLLOWBOLDA! King Nicholas, the child-king of Nordomba who wields his country's Heart and so has power over his land, has many peculiar problems. Green knights in sky-armour have to have judgement passed on them, and visits of state must be paid to the neighboring kingdom when its' King dies....even though the new King is his old enemy Prince Fred. Fred has not forgotten their emnity. He ambushes Nicholas on the way home, and both foes find themselves in Fairyland. Captive, King Nicholas is dragged through the enchanted country, until the Hollowbolda free him: but as he wanders in the perilous realm, he inadvertantly unleashes an Ancient Evil bound into a tree. A spirit of eternal winter.

In this classic fairy tale, the Prince Nicholas finds that the stories his bodyguard Sir Frielhem tells are only too real. Weird tales of dragons and stone-giants and hearts of lands....and now Frielhem is dead at the hand of that very dragon, and an army of Stone-men is advancing out of Dark Mountain to invade Nordomba and find the gem that commands the entire country. Nicholas, fleeing from the Witch-Queen, descends beneath the earth with the newly freed Stone-king, a Cyclopean stone-giant twelve feet high, to find the Crossbow at the Heart of the Earth that alone can slay the Witch-Queen.

Drawn from differing backgrounds, from every facet of society, nine gather to oppose God. In a society very much like ours, the Church and State however are one, and heretics are punished; and failure to show up for service gets you fined. The priests know everything, for interior locutions tell them of all crimes: but ignore the private sins. From this, Gilbert the seminarian deduces that the spirit behind the locutions is not good. At the top of the world, with weapons of power from the bound Titans, the Nine make war against the Usurper that infects all society, only to find that he is actually God. And so they have no choice but to make war against God Himself, for God has become unjust. They descend through beautiful underrealms to free the primeval spirit of iniquity that is bound there, uniting all the forces of Hell against the Authority.

The farm is going deeper and deeper into debt. Joan Oakly tells us how, amid all this, she met a strange old man deep in her swamp, who offered her a loan. She does not use the loan wisely, buying ever newer machines, and the debt mounts to such a pitch that King steps in and declares the debt absolved....if title is transferred to him. Then she kills him. The old man, Jonas King, has a son, Josue King. He has given over to him everything he has, and yet King does not seem to be dead. Or is this only Joan's guilty imagination?

The Order of Witch Hunters is the sole force of civilization in The Land, it's Hunters often serving on road crews for lack of work in their proper business. And they wish such was always the case.....but in every age, those who serve the devil arise, and when they do, the Order must hunt them. In a country of harsh winters and blue rivers and dark pines, protected by healing colds from the poisonous breath of the witch-land to the south, blasted into poison by some unknown musical disaster when the musical scientists sang the wrong way, I, Solomon Pendar, am facing an irruption of witch activity unparalleled in our history. All the covens are led by the Witch Queen, who plans to find the Axis of the crystal spheres of the heavens and play upon it, and the tremendous music this causes will enforce her will upon the world.So I am commanded by the Grand Master....to find it first. And find it I will, even if I have to enter the spiritual poison of the witch-land and face the Queen herself.

THE MEDALLIONS OF THE SEASONS BOOK 3 The Library is where all the works of man are kept in remembrance. It has 12 floors, but no mortal can mount to the 12th. Yet there the holders of the Medallions go, to consult the Librarian as to how they must reach the Halls of Doom to restore the Medallions. His instructions lead them to the Lands of the Seasons, mysterious laurel hills haunted by dogs, with an eternal mountain in the distance, and their steps are dogged by the power that once ruled the Seasons, but which is now known only as the Ancient Evil.

A man in a grey cloak with a huge sword washes up on the shores of ancient Ireland. He wanders from place to place, and every time he speaks his words are filled with omen and gloom. And yet every word comes true. Soon he is known as the Wandering Man, or simply the Grey Prophet. He witnesses the sorrows of Deirdre, and the wars of Cuchulainn, and at last his death.

"A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State...." Somehow one always assumes this means that citizens should be free to own their own guns. But the new law puts an entirely different spin on this. It regulates gun owners, by making them affiliates of the police....and subject to strict control. The Greystone Hunters do not agree. They take to the woods, guns and all, in a futile publicity stunt, eluding manhunts and foreign terrorist cells, and when they succeed, they find themselves besieged by gangsters....while the feds sit by and look on. In an increasingly dystopian world, the Hunters simply cannot realize that the world they fought for has ended.

This is the fourth in the Mythologies Reforged series. The previous books are "The Ballad of the Grey Prophet", dealing with Ireland; "Vainamoin's Kalevala" dealing with Finland; "The Death of Arthur" which includes both Arthurian and Norse retellings, and finally the GLOOSAPPO. Lost for nearly two hundred years and preserved only fragmentarily in a collection of legends gathered by Charles Leland, the ancient mythology of the Algonquins is a bedrock of vivid and powerful tales. Now Farrell has reforged them into a veritable Edda of New England, in which the greatest of the Native American mythologies can at last be glimpsed in something approaching its' original majesty. Called the GLOOSKAPPO because of its' focus upon the weird, faylike, magnificent being who dominates the haunted country around the White Mountains, it is arranged in a series of songs and poems, gathered into five cycles, and includes as well the first known poetry of the Gardun-Houldu from the "Eldarendar" series. It takes place within the context of the last three books of the ARHELED series, "World's End", being in fact the mysterious book kept by Larry Fay in the old church in Vermont.

Two boys moving into an old house in the rural village of Southford, buried deep amid ancient woods, learn from local characters of the history of the house's builder, the fiery Mark Horton, and of his secret passage. Southford Historian James Farrell runs afoul of the local bigwig Thomas Perkins, his old enemy, and false charges result in a manhunt. Chased through the hills around Southford along with the boys' father, the Historian is given a mysterious deal by an enigmatic federal agent: avoid arrest, and he will give them an even chance, so that when Perkins is burned out from pursuit, he can find out the truth. The agent is named Jude Chester.

In this First Volume of the Complete Prophet series are presented the first two books: The Prophet and The Men of the Prophet. The first book chronicles the arising of the Catholic priest with telepathic and prophetic powers, and his clash with the ex-superhero/terrorist Doomsman, using an army of superpowered students he shelters. The second book takes place two years later, when the Prophet's underground opposition of the federal government's persecutory measures toward supers escalates with the return of Doomsman, who occupies Meriden and terrorizes it, running circles around the police and Army. Forced to oppose Doomsman by his callous disregard of human life, the Prophet battles him to a draw.

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On Saint Patrick's Day 2016, Jim Farrell received a surprising email: an M-1 rifle engraved with the name M. Teahanhad been discovered in Normandy 72 years after its owner, Martin (Matty) Teahan, Jim's uncle, had been killed in the June 1944 D-Day invasion of France. A young private in the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Matty had been laid to rest beside his fellow heroes in the Normandy American Cemetery, but now French Army General Patrick Collet was writing to inform the family that Matty's rifle had been recovered and was safe in his possession. Luck of the Irish!Thus began Jim Farrell's adventure of discovery and self-discovery, as he and his family embarked on the successful quest to bring his uncle home in spirit by repatriating his historic rifle. A saga spanning four generations and multiple countries, the rifle's extraordinary journey and recovery is also the story of Matty Teahan, a humble private made of the stuff that made so many of his generation greatthe strength of character, courage, and will-power to prevail against great odds, and the guts, determination, and sheer daring-do to jump out of a perfectly good airplane over enemy territory.Martin Teahan's emblematic M-1 rifle currently hangs in office of the Chief of Staff of the US Army, awaiting donation to the new US Army Museum at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Similarly, the Farrell family's quest represents something larger than itself: the intensifying search by the children of the Greatest Generation to understand the facts and meaning of their fathers' and grandfathers' war, and their intense desire to come to terms with the often tragic, yet seldom discussed, repercussions of the death and violence their elders experienced in World War II.

Challenges the leading radical literary critics of the 1930s, reconsidering issues including the relative autonomy of literature from society and economics; the role of tradition in literary creation; the relation of literature to propaganda; and the nature of aesthetic value.