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1000 tulosta hakusanalla David Drake

The Words and Wares of David Drake

The Words and Wares of David Drake

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS
2024
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David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, was born enslaved in Edgefield, South Carolina, at the turn of the nineteenth century. Despite laws prohibiting enslaved people from learning to read or write, Drake was literate and signed some of his pots, not only with his name and a date, but with verse—making a powerful statement of resistance.The Words and Wares of David Drake collects multifaceted scholarship about Drake and his craft. Building on the 1998 national traveling exhibit catalog, "I Made This Jar...": The Life and Works of Enslaved African American Potter, Dave, and featuring more than eighty beautiful images and seven new essays, it presents the diverse perspectives of African American and American Studies' scholars, archaeologists, artists, collectors, and historians. Drake's work is now so highly prized it will be the cornerstone of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's traveling exhibit of nineteenth century ceramic art from Edgefield that opens in September 2022.
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The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me

The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me

David Drake

Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
1994
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A series of vignettes documents a gay man's journey of self-discovery, touching upon his painful adolescence, the thrill of coming out, bodybuilding, antigay violence, pickup bars, and the impact of AIDS on the gay community. Original.
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Dogs Of War

Dogs Of War

David Drake

LITTLE, BROWN COMPANY
2002
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From David Weber to David Feintuch to David Drake, military writers have exploded into the science fiction scene and continue to leave their marks. Now, bestselling Hammer's Slammers creator David Drake pays homage to his own sub-genre by gathering 10 classic takes of men at arms by SF Greats, including Harry Harrison, Joe Haldeman, Richard C. Matheson, Gene Wolfe, Keith Laumer and David Drake himself.
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Paris at War

Paris at War

David Drake

The Belknap Press
2015
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Paris at War chronicles the lives of ordinary Parisians during World War II, from September 1939 when France went to war with Nazi Germany to liberation in August 1944. Readers will relive the fearful exodus from the city as the German army neared the capital, the relief and disgust felt when the armistice was signed, and the hardships and deprivations under Occupation. David Drake contrasts the plight of working-class Parisians with the comparative comfort of the rich, exposes the activities of collaborationists, and traces the growth of the Resistance from producing leaflets to gunning down German soldiers. He details the intrigues and brutality of the occupying forces, and life in the notorious transit camp at nearby Drancy, along with three other less well known Jewish work camps within the city.The book gains its vitality from the diaries and reminiscences of people who endured these tumultuous years. Drake’s cast of characters comes from all walks of life and represents a diversity of political views and social attitudes. We hear from a retired schoolteacher, a celebrated economist, a Catholic teenager who wears a yellow star in solidarity with Parisian Jews, as well as Resistance fighters, collaborators, and many other witnesses.Drake enriches his account with details from police records, newspapers, radio broadcasts, and newsreels. From his chronology emerge the broad rhythms and shifting moods of the city. Above all, he explores the contingent lives of the people of Paris, who, unlike us, co­uld not know how the story would end.
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Foreign Legions

Foreign Legions

David Drake

Baen Books
2002
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A collection of novellas by some of today's most acclaimed science fiction writers--including David Drake, David Weber, Eric Flint, S. M. Stirling, and Mark L. Van Name--chronicles the exploits and adventures of guilds of star-traveling merchants and their not-so-obedient human slaves and mercenaries.
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Master of the Cauldron

Master of the Cauldron

David Drake

Tor Books
2006
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Garric or-Reise was born the son of an innkeeper in Barca's Hamlet on the Isle of Haft, but through valor and determination became first a prince and then the Regent and successor to the feeble Valence III, King of the Isles. But the Kingdom is weak, its rule barely extending past the island of Ornifal.The Isles need a strong king to bring unity, because danger is coming. Magic is stronger now than at any time since the fall of the Old Kingdom in a cataclysm of uncontrolled magic. Evil is growing in the spaces beyond the world, waiting to complete the destruction begun a millennium before. Only if the Isles are united into a strong New Kingdom can humanity survive.Garric has sworn to become a true Lord of the Isles. Standing with him are his sister, Sharina; his friend and Sharina's lover, the shepherd Cashel; and Cashel's sister, the weaver-witch Ilsa. They have been to Hell and back together in their quest.The four friends and the armies of the Kingdom have undertaken a Royal Progress to renew the bonds of fealty among the Isles. Now they come to Sandrakkan, which fought a long and bloody war with Haft less than a generation ago. On Sandrakkan, Wilduf's Countess, Balila, schemes with her court wizard to destroy the boy king from the hated isle of Haft. Strange evils lurk on demon-haunted Volita, and she will wake them all if necessary to make her husband the new King of the Isles.Rich with action, guile, and heroism in the face of dangers both physical and moral, "Master of the Cauldron" stands alone or as part of a ground-breaking fantasy epic.
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Lord of the Isles

Lord of the Isles

David Drake

Tor Books
1998
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In the "Lord of the Isles," Drake returns to fantasy with an adventure set in an extraordinary world where the elemental forces that empower magic are rising to a thousand-year peak. Into this world, survivors from the last magical peak intrude: Tenoctris, a quiet and scholarly sorceress swept out of the past at the moment of final catastrophe as her civilization sank beneath the sea; the ghost of the greatest ruler, King Carus of the Isles; and the great magician known only as The Hooded One, who actually caused that ancient catastrophe. In the days following an unusually severe storm in a tiny seaport town, life is disrupted. First, young Garric rescues the castaway Tenoctris; then, amazingly, a huge galley lands, bearing a court envoy searching for the lost heir to a dukedom - and finding her in Sharina, Garric's sister. Immediately after the galley departs with Sharina to seek out her destiny, another party arrives by coach, led by a merchant sorcerer eager to hire Garric. He sets out with this party, accompanied by Tenoctris and by the shepherd Cashel and his sister, Ilna, both of whom are discovered to have some magical power. Garric and Sharina, Cashel and Ilna, all travel toward romance, danger, and astonishing magic that will transform them and their world.
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Goddess of the Ice Realm

Goddess of the Ice Realm

David Drake

St Martin's Press
2004
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The fifth and best novel yet in David Drake's acclaimed epic fantasy series, Lord of the Isles Starting in Lord of the Isles and continuing in Queen of Demons, Servant of the Dragon, and Mistress of the Catacombs, David Drake has told the continuing, interlocking stories of Garric and Sharina, Cashel and Ilna, young brother and sister pairs who journey together from a small town to the capital. Their destiny is to reunite the island kingdoms of the Isles into one empire for the first time in a millennium. They seek to do this at a moment in history when the cosmic forces upon which magicians draw are at a thousand year peak. Wizards of even small learning are immensely powerful. Human greed and evil are reinforced by supernatural energies In Goddess of the Ice Realm, as Garric and his retinue reach the island city of Carcosa, the wizard Tenoctris perceives a powerful supernatural assault directed against them. Ilna and her beloved, Chalcus, are sent to investigate a magical threat to shipping in the north. Cashel is translated into another world by evil magic, and Sharina to yet another. All of them face deadly dangers and overcome them before they are again united during the terrifying and dramatic climax. Filled with action, startling revelations, romance and sorcery, Goddess of the Ice Realm is epic fantasy at its exciting best.
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DEATH'S BRIGHT DAY

DEATH'S BRIGHT DAY

DAVID DRAKE

Baen Books
2017
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IT'S JUST A REBELLION IN A DISTANT STAR CLUSTER. SO THEY SAID. Captain Daniel Leary thinks that his marriage will allow him to slip into the quiet role of a naval officer in peacetime. His friend, the spy and cybrarian Adele Mundy, is content to be collat
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Too Late!

Too Late!

David Drake

Independently Published
2017
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Three books for 10 to 15 year olds in one volume. In The Shadow Imp, a pair of twin boys find themselves investigating strange goings on in their city - a mysterious shadowy figure is seen lurking about and tries to make contact. Is it a wild creature? Is it dangerous? The Snow Twins will get it figured out. In Twix-Up, a chance meeting on the basketball court between two seventh graders in the all city tournament reveals they are identical in appearance - as if twins. What's up? They work together to solve the mystery. In Too Late?, a boy takes the family sailboat out into a raging storm and is ship wrecked on a small, out of the way, uninhabited tropical island. He has to survive on his wits using just what the island provides since there is nothing to be found of his boat. He has numerous dangerous encounters. Will he ever be rescued? A second, bonus novel - Twix Up - is included about two sets of identical twins that discover each other after having been mixed up a birth.
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Kidd's Grand Adventure

Kidd's Grand Adventure

David Drake

Independently Published
2017
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Kidd, almost thirteen, and his adoptive father, who everyone calls Gramps, a recently retired teacher, are pursued cross-country by a wealthy scoundrel named Nivins, who falsely claims Kidd as his biological grandson and has vowed to kidnap him if necessary. The pair travels from one small town to another in Walooma Watooka, their comfortable, big, remodeled, blue school bus. At every stop they find people in need of their assistance and gladly provide it. Kidd begins learning about the romantic side of life and Gramps adjusts to suddenly having a young man, rather than a little boy at his side.
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Tommy Powers and the Sage of the Calibrators

Tommy Powers and the Sage of the Calibrators

David Drake

Independently Published
2017
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Tommy Powers (an almost 13 year old orphan) has never really been what you would call a typical kid, but when he meets the ancient Sage who helps him discover his awesome super powers there can be no doubt about it. He learns that he belongs to a race of special beings known as the Calibrators - whose secret mission in life is to keep the World safe from evil forces.In Book One, of the four-book series of teen detective mysteries, the wise old sage (and his 13-year-old alter ego, Gus) help Tommy learn to control and use his magical abilities. In the process, he comes face to face with Antipathy, an evil being, also with super powers, who is intent on destroying mankind. With no help at hand, inexperienced Tommy has to try to hand the villain all by himself.Tommy has lots of adventures and numerous, interesting, discussions with his friends - also young teens - about growing up and what it really means to be happy and to live a good life. (There is even a little romance to interest the older readers, but not enough to spoil it for the younger ones.) This series represents a set of teen mystery books and action thriller books sure to offer good reads for nine to fourteen-year-old readers.
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Jericho and Red Eagle: Beginnings

Jericho and Red Eagle: Beginnings

David Drake

Independently Published
2017
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Unique among twin boy novels, here, twelve-year-old twin boys were separated at birth, one being raised as a Cherokee and the other as a white boy. In 1870, Kansas, these young teens discover each other while on separate journeys to Red Bend, hoping to discover who they are. Because of their uncanny resemblance, they soon accept that they are identical twins, begin having dangerous and exciting adventures together, and find the blending of their backgrounds makes for a remarkable life together. Jericho, the boy raised as white, comes to understand and appreciate Native Americans, and Red Eagle, learns new and important things about the White Man, as he calls them. This is the first in a five book, action packed, old west adventure series chuck full of 'good reads' for the ten to fourteen-year-old reader. (This series uses the same setting and some of the same adult characters, ten years earlier, as found in the five-book series, The Doc and Johnny Old West Mysteries.)
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The Shadow Imp

The Shadow Imp

David Drake

Independently Published
2017
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For 9 to 14 year olds. Matt and Michael Snow are twins whose lives are filled with mysteries that just have to be solved. As thirteen year olds go they are really excellent detectives. They live at the edge of a small city. In Book One of this series, The Shadow Imp, the boys are on the trail of a shadowy figure that takes small things like food and clothing and leaves pebbles as payment. Their search takes them high atop tall buildings and into dark, abandoned basements. They have to search the water runoff culverts that run beneath the city and risk being caught in a major explosion from leaking diesel fuel. Matt nearly drowns. Angie, the owner of a small newspaper, and Zeke, their very odd, old inventor friend assist them in the case. And there is Emily, the boys' best friend who usually works her way into
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The Haunted House on Hawthorn Hill

The Haunted House on Hawthorn Hill

David Drake

Independently Published
2017
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For 9 to 14 year olds. Matt and Michael Snow are twins whose lives are filled with mysteries that just have to be solved. As thirteen year olds go they are really excellent detectives. They live at the edge of a small city. In BOOK TWO of this series, The Haunted House on Hawthorn Hill, the boys get caught up in searching for an old friend who they suspect has been kidnapped and is being held in the Hunted House. The story takes them on a thorough search of the eerie old mansion from the prison cell in the basement with the skeleton, through secret passageways and a secret room. There is a strange code they must crack, which, they believe will take them to a long lost treasure there in the house. The bad guys chase them every step of the way.
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Johnny's Secret

Johnny's Secret

David Drake

Independently Published
2017
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The first of a series of six western novels for young teens. Think, teen detective mysteries set in 1880 Kansas where the old west is still very much alive. In this first book in the series, Johnny, a 13-year-old orphan, and Doc, a frontier doctor, meet when the boy is severely wounded during a stagecoach robbery by ruthless bandits. They put their heads together with the Marshal to solve several, baffling mysteries involving stolen gold and threats against the local Newspaper editor who is out to expose a corrupt Rancher. From the action packed, guns blazing, opening paragraph to the final page, adventure, mystery, good guys and bad guys abound. The six main recurring characters in the series are introduced as is the positive value system upon which all of David Drake's stories are based. This represents one of several series of family life fiction published by the Family of Man Press.
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