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Locations and characters described in the book can be used as foundations on which proper Dalelands scenarios can be built. [14] This is the fifth installment of Volo's guides to the Forgotten Realms. [14] Trenton Webb reviewed Volo's Guide to the Dalelands for Arcane magazine, rating it a 6 out of 10 overall. [14]
The series consists of Steelheart (2013), Firefight (2015), Calamity (2016) and Lux (2021). The series depicts a post-apocalyptic world in which the appearance of an orbiting cosmic phenomenon known as Calamity has given random people superhuman powers in apparent defiance of known physical laws, turning them into "Epics". These Epics prey upon ...
Calamity James, a British comic book character from The Beano; Calamity Jane, a 1953 film based on the person; Calamity Town, a 1942 novel by Ellery Queen; The Calamity, a central plot point for the 2011 video game Bastion; Calamity, a mod for the 2011 video game Terraria "Calamity", a song by Zayn from his 2021 album Nobody Is Listening
The book received many positive reviews and was named one of "The 10 Best Books of 2006" by The New York Times. Veronique de Turenne, reporting for NPR, said that Pessl had "a thrilling and fearless voice. A writing career is launched, like it or not, at warp speed." [3]
Buffalo Bill, Jr. is a half-hour Western television series that aired in syndication [1] starting in March 1955. [2] The last new episode was broadcast in September 1956. [3] The series was produced by Gene Autry's Flying A Productions, and distributed by CBS Television Film Sales. [4]
While working on her first novel, The Walsh Girls, she met and married Eliot Janeway, a much-quoted economist, who was to enjoy some influence with Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson (he was known as "Calamity Janeway" for his pessimistic economic forecasts). Elizabeth described Eliot as "the most intelligent man I had ...
Buffalo Girls is a 1990 novel written by American author Larry McMurtry about Calamity Jane. It is written in the novel prose style mixed with a series of letters from Calamity Jane to her daughter. In her letters, Calamity describes herself as being a drunken hellraiser but never an outlaw. Her letters also describe her larger-than-life ...
In 1928, she married Harold T. Friermood, author of The YMCA Guide to Adult Fitness. She and her husband collaborated on an autobiography, Frier and Elisabeth , which was published in 1979. Friermood's experience as a children's librarian (in the Marion Public Library and the Dayton Public Library) inspired several of her characters.