The Morris family, and their friend Clay out on a day trip, attempt to find Zoo Gardens amusement park, but fail as they forgot the map, so instead they stumble upon HorrorLand. The family car inexplicably explodes in the parking lot and the monstrous ticket-taker promises it will be 'taken care of'. When the various attractions the family explores at the park all threaten to kill them, they attempt to escape HorrorLand and save their lives.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 13 November 2010
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Idylls of the King
Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892; Poet Laureate from 1850) which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, following the rise and fall of Arthur and his kingdom. The whole work recounts Arthur's attempt and failure to lift up mankind and create a perfect kingdom, from his coming to power to his death at the hands of the traitor Mordred.
Isolated in the biting cold of the Andes, after their plane has been hijacked and forced to crash-land, Tim O'Hara's passengers are fighting for their lives. While one group of survivors, lead by O'Hara, attempt to cross the peaks along a deadly, snow-covered pass, the other is working to stall the armed group of soldiers who plan to kill them all once they have managed to cross a torrential river. Ingenious ideas are put into action in a dramatic attempt to prolong their survival until help arrives.
The Last Light of the Sun is a 2004 fantasy novel by Guy Gavriel Kay. Like many of his books, it is set in a world that draws heavily upon real times, events, places and people. In this particular book, the period is the Vikings invasions of Saxon England. The story concerns a young Erling's attempt to prove himself as a warrior, his father's attempts to make amends for his mistakes, a young prince searching for revenge and a King's attempt to transform his realm into a more civilized one that will resist attacks from the Erlings forever.
Working with case studies of actual practice, Jean McNiff argues that educational knowledge is created by individual teachers as they attempt to express their own values in their professional lives.
