Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/paranormal/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0003 408536 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/paranormal/engine/rss.php:0 Douglas Smith - Free Library Land Online - Paranormal https://paranormal.library.land/ ru Douglas Smith - Free Library Land Online - Paranormal DataLife Engine Out of the Light https://paranormal.library.land/douglas-smith/196270-out_of_the_light.html https://paranormal.library.land/douglas-smith/196270-out_of_the_light.html Out of the Light
Jan Mirocek used to be a hunter. A very special hunter. Once, he had hunted the things that haunt the forests of the night in every culture of the world. The kallikantzari of Greece. The loup-garou of France. The kitsune of Japan. Were-beasts. Shape-shifters. Until one night, Jan made a mistake, and the woman he loved died. Now he shuns the dark and his own past, hiding in a big city. For the were-beasts never come here. Or do they? People are dying in Toronto, and all signs point to a shifter. But can Jan conquer his own fears to track down the killer? And what kind of shape shifter would be at home in a modern city? "A creature-hunter tale that kept me guessing until the very last paragraphs. I was on edge throughout the whole story!" —Melissa Minners, Global Pop Culture reviews "A police officer skilled in hunting supernatural entities encounters a new breed of shape-shifter specifically adapted to the urban environment." — Innsmouth Free Press]]> Tue, 15 Nov 2016 13:54:59 +0200 A Bird in the Hand https://paranormal.library.land/douglas-smith/73811-a_bird_in_the_hand.html https://paranormal.library.land/douglas-smith/73811-a_bird_in_the_hand.html A Bird in the Hand
A Heroka story Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. Lilith Hoyl awakes to find herself a prisoner in a top-secret government laboratory. To win her freedom, all she needs to do...is prove that she's human. If you enjoy shape-shifter and conspiracy stories, you'll enjoy this tale. “It's a very interesting turn-around story, in which our expectations are upended at the last minute. ...a good read, and sadly, far too relevant to our own present world.” —The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf “...great fun to read” —Dreams and Speculations “...has a woman fed chemicals to prove whether she’s human or a shape-shifter ... well worth reading.” —SF Crowsnest Reviews]]> Tue, 08 Nov 2016 10:54:07 +0200 Spirit Dance https://paranormal.library.land/douglas-smith/196268-spirit_dance.html https://paranormal.library.land/douglas-smith/196268-spirit_dance.html Spirit Dance
AURORA AWARD WINNER A Heroka story The Heroka are an ancient race of shape shifters, drawing vitality from their animal totems. Gwyn Blaidd, a Heroka of the wolf totem, has been a recluse ever since a deadly battle with the Tainchel, the covert government agency that hunts his kind—a battle that cost him the woman he loved. But to save an old friend, Gwyn must again face the Tainchel—and his own dark past. “A vivid and wonderfully written tale about Native Canadian spirits, in the vein of Thomas King.” —Challenging Destiny “Draws on North American Indian myths, particularly the idea of shapeshifters... Smith once more creates a credible and sympathetic protagonist, Gwyn Blaidd, [who] returns to his old stomping ground to help out some fellow shapeshifters who have become embroiled in a conflict with a large logging concern.” —The Fix]]> Tue, 15 Nov 2016 13:54:59 +0200 Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy https://paranormal.library.land/douglas-smith/196269-former_people_the_final_days_of_the_russian_aristocracy.html https://paranormal.library.land/douglas-smith/196269-former_people_the_final_days_of_the_russian_aristocracy.html Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
Epic in scope, precise in detail, and heart-breaking in its human drama, Former People is the first book to recount the history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin’s Russia. Filled with chilling tales of looted palaces and burning estates, of desperate flights in the night from marauding peasants and Red Army soldiers, of imprisonment, exile, and execution, it is the story of how a centuries’-old elite, famous for its glittering wealth, its service to the Tsar and Empire, and its promotion of the arts and culture, was dispossessed and destroyed along with the rest of old Russia.
Yet Former People is also a story of survival and accommodation, of how many of the tsarist ruling class—so-called “former people” and “class enemies”—overcame the psychological wounds inflicted by the loss of their world and decades of repression as they struggled to find a place for themselves and their families in the new, hostile order of the Soviet Union. Chronicling the fate of two great aristocratic families—the Sheremetevs and the Golitsyns—it reveals how even in the darkest depths of the terror, daily life went on.
Told with sensitivity and nuance by acclaimed historian Douglas Smith, Former People is the dramatic portrait of two of Russia’s most powerful aristocratic families, and a sweeping account of their homeland in violent transition.]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:54:59 +0200