THE FIREMAN - HILL JOE - Harper USA

Named a 'modern masterpiece' by The A.V. Club, the crticially-acclaimed series Locke & Key takes on new life in a reformatted hardcover collection. The end is here! The Locke & Key Master Edition, Vol. 3 features the fifth and sixth L&K arcs, 'Clockworks' and 'Alpha & Omega,' with all-new cover art and design by co-creator Gabriel Rodriguez.

Reorganized for ease of use, The Musician’s Guide to Aural Skills features chapters that correspond with The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis; within each chapter, activities are carefully sequenced for an ideal pedagogical progression. Throughout, the text emphasizes connections to written theory, so that both sides of the theory curriculum are mutually reinforcing.

Reorganized for ease of use, The Musician’s Guide to Aural Skills features chapters that correspond with The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis; within each chapter, activities are carefully sequenced for an ideal pedagogical progression. Throughout, the text emphasizes connections to written theory, so that both sides of the theory curriculum are mutually reinforcing.

For lower-level undergraduate music majors, Phillips (Westminster Choir College, Rider U.) et al. provide a textbook that focuses on the aural skills of sight-singing, rhythm-reading, keyboard skills, and improvisation and provides hundreds of sight-singing melodies such as exercises, etudes, and tunes from the literature in two, three, and four parts; solo, duet, and trio rhythms; 25 lessons for guided individual and group improvisation; and 21 progressive keyboard exercises. Chapters are organized from simple to advanced harmony, from the basic elements of music, to diatonic harmony, to chromatic harmony and form, to the twentieth century and beyond, which correspond to The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis. The second volume in the set addresses ear-training and composition skills. This edition has been revised and updated. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box comes an unnerving novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes

Stay cool . . .

No one knows exactly when or where it began. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco incendia trychophyton. To everyone else it’s Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that tattoos its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks—before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe.

Harper Grayson, a compassionate, dedicated nurse as pragmatic as Mary Poppins, treated hundreds of infected patients before her hospital burned to the ground. Now she’s discovered the telltale gold-flecked marks on her skin. When the outbreak first began, she and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact: they would take matters into their own hands if they became infected. To Jakob’s dismay, Harper now wants to live—at least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term. At the hospital, she witnessed infected mothers give birth to healthy babies and believes hers will be fine too . . . if she can stay alive long enough to deliver the child.

Convinced that his do-gooding wife has made him sick, Jakob becomes unhinged, and eventually abandons her as their once-placid New England community collapses in terror. The chaos gives rise to ruthless Cremation Squads—armed, self-appointed posses roaming the streets and woods to exterminate anyone they believe carries the spore. But Harper isn’t as alone as she fears: a mysterious and compelling stranger, a man wearing a dirty yellow firefighter’s jacket and carrying a hooked iron bar, straddles the abyss between insanity and death. Known simply as The Fireman, he strolls the ruins of New Hampshire, a madman afflicted with Dragonscale who has learned to control the fire within himself, using it as a shield to protect the hunted . . . and as a weapon to avenge the wronged.

In his biggest, most ambitious and powerful novel to date, acclaimed, award-winning novelist Joe Hill paints an indelible portrait of a world burning out of control, and explores the combustible effect of fear and the desperate choices we make to survive.

. . . The Fireman is coming.

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 andHeart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman.

The fireman is coming. Stay cool.

No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it’s Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies—before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe.

Harper Grayson, a compassionate, dedicated nurse as pragmatic as Mary Poppins, treated hundreds of infected patients before her hospital burned to the ground. Now she’s discovered the telltale gold-flecked marks on her skin. When the outbreak first began, she and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact: they would take matters into their own hands if they became infected. To Jakob’s dismay, Harper wants to live—at least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term. At the hospital, she witnessed infected mothers give birth to healthy babies and believes hers will be fine too. . . if she can live long enough to deliver the child.

Convinced that his do-gooding wife has made him sick, Jakob becomes unhinged, and eventually abandons her as their placid New England community collapses in terror. The chaos gives rise to ruthless Cremation Squads—armed, self-appointed posses roaming the streets and woods to exterminate those who they believe carry the spore. But Harper isn’t as alone as she fears: a mysterious and compelling stranger she briefly met at the hospital, a man in a dirty yellow fire fighter’s jacket, carrying a hooked iron bar, straddles the abyss between insanity and death. Known as The Fireman, he strolls the ruins of New Hampshire, a madman afflicted with Dragonscale who has learned to control the fire within himself, using it as a shield to protect the hunted . . . and as a weapon to avenge the wronged.

In the desperate season to come, as the world burns out of control, Harper must learn the Fireman’s secrets before her life—and that of her unborn child—goes up in smoke.

Named a "modern masterpiece" by The A.V. Club, the crticially-acclaimed series Locke & Key takes on new life in a reformatted hardcover collection. The Locke & Key Master Edition, Vol. 2 features the third and fourth L&K arcs, "Crown of Shadows" and "Keys to the Kingdom," with all-new cover art and design by co-creator Gabriel Rodriguez.

Ci sono volute due intere esistenze e numerose vittime, ma Lucas 'Dodge' Caravaggio alla fine ha ottenuto ciò che voleva: la chiave che è in grado di aprire la Porta Nera. Sta per disvelarsi un tragico finale? Integrità morale e odio smisurato saranno posti uno di fronte all'altro nelle caverne che corrono sotto Keyhouse. Il male è alle porte nell'ultimo volume delle pluripremiata serie di Hill e Rodriguez!

La Scaglia di Drago, la terribile peste incendiaria del nuovo secolo, sta decimando la popolazione e solo pochi scampano alla prima ondata dell'epidemia. Tra loro Harper, la generosa infermiera che si è messa in cammino verso l'ignoto per salvare il bambino che porta in grembo. Sulla sua strada ha trovato il Pompiere, un misterioso eroe solitario il cui vero nome, scoprirà poi, è John Rookwood. A tenergli lontani i nemici sono una sbarra uncinata e una pesante giacca gialla da vigile del fuoco che gli fa da scudo. A tenere lontana la morte, invece, sembra essere soltanto la sua lucida follia: John ha imparato a controllare le fiamme e protegge così i superstiti in fuga affrontando pericoli mortali. Decisi a sopravvivere, Harper e John viaggeranno in un paese impazzito, abitato da comunità apparentemente ideali e sotterraneamente letali, da bande di orfani senza meta e da cacciatori assetati di sangue. Un diario segreto, pieno di rivelazioni sul morbo, e gli straordinari poteri sviluppati dal Pompiere sono la loro unica difesa durante la lunga odissea che dovrebbe portarli all'isola della leggendaria Martha Quinn. L'isola della salvezza?

Nessuno sa dove e quando sia iniziata. Tutti hanno imparato a loro spese che la nuova epidemia si diffonde più velocemente di qualsiasi altra malattia, e che ha già decimato la popolazione di grandi città come Boston, Detroit, Seattle. Per i medici il suo nome è Trichophyton draco incendiarius, per la gente si chiama Scaglia di Drago, perché il suo primo sintomo è un marchio d'oro e nero sulla pelle e l'ultimo è la morte. Per autocombustione. Milioni di persone sono infette; gli incendi scoppiano dappertutto. Non esiste antidoto. Nessuno è al sicuro. Harper Grayson, bravissima infermiera che non si lascia abbattere da niente e nessuno, ha curato migliaia di malati prima che il suo ospedale fosse ridotto in cenere. Lei e il marito Jakob si erano promessi di farla finita, in caso d'infezione, ma ora che anche lei porta i segni terribili del Drago, Harper vuole vivere. Almeno fino al termine della sua gravidanza. Incinta, abbandonata dal marito terrorizzato, perseguitata dalle feroci Squadre di Cremazione a caccia di infetti, Harper sembra destinata a soccombere. Se non fosse per il misterioso straniero vestito da pompiere che arriva in suo soccorso. L'unico uomo che sappia controllare il fuoco. Anche quello malato che cova dentro il suo corpo.