Bøker av Andy Reynolds

New Orleans: A city with one foot in the past and the other ankle-deep in chartreuse-flavored dreams. Creatures and spirits of every ilk saunter down the jazz-filled streets day and night, struggling to find purpose amidst the ivy-drenched balconies and colorful shotgun houses.The Axeboy's Blues follows a centuries-old agency tasked with protecting New Orleans from forces that would see her destroyed. Unfortunately, the agency was nearly wiped out and is virtually nonexistent. In a city where mosquitoes wear vests and spectacles, where the Mississippi is teeming with monstrous beasts, and where Wonder sprouts from peoples' heads like plants, can this agency fill its ranks once more to take on an adversary from its past - an adversary that has jumped through time?

--Warrior River Creatures--Thieving Ghosts--Reincarnating Gods-- This is New Orleans. Mere weeks after The Agents Of voyaged into the lands of the dead to face off with The Axeboy and save the city, a malevolent force explodes through New Orleans. The calliope on one of the steamboats docked along the Mississippi is ransacked, its pieces torn out and fashioned into a device capable of severely altering anyone hearing it. A mysterious, cloaked figure is able to appear out of thin air, playing the device and bewitching the innocent, his head covered in a giant animal skull coated in glowing symbols. A hoard of grotesque, mythological beasts follows in his wake, attacking citizens of the city. The Agents Of reach out to the mystical Nor, a group of warrior children who fly through fog and dreams, armed with swords and knives, and are far older than their appearance lets on. But how much help can the Nor, born of lies and dream, be in tracking down this madman? Who is this chaotic figure, what are the creatures that follow his command, and what does he want with New Orleans?

"Like walking through the most colorful of dreamscape you hope to remember upon waking." --Z.W. Mohr, Author of the Desdemona's Dreams SeriesFrom the author of The Axeboy's Blues and Spectacle of the Extension comes this wondrous collection of short stories and poetry centered around dreams and the subconscious. Travel through dreams, through time, talking to crotchety old frogs and majestic trees. Discard worlds and personalities only to don the next in a series of tales each possessing its own flavor of dream logic.--poem from the back cover--It was at the edge of the worldI found her-lavender twisted into her hair, sitting on an old dock. I joined her in the silence, gazing out over the edge.We watched the massive whirlpool, a churning cone of idea & dream, reverie & nightmare, as it twisted & spat pieces ofdream into the air-which we watched fly over our heads like airplanes or gulls, heading back towards the world whence they came, these visions from the dream gyre.

The life of a classic motorcycle racer, who was fortunate enough to ride the best classic machines of the time at the highest level, and on some of the best-known courses in the world. Told in his own words, this book recounts his successes, friendships, and hardships, and gives a great insight into the world of motorcycle racing.

From growing trees, through felling them, to selecting appropriate round wood and species for the tasks you have in mind, Andy Reynolds brings a lifetime of experience in forestry, carpentry and innovative thinking to timber for building. He explains how to efficiently convert your chosen wood to usable timber and get the best out of your equipment, before outlining different drying methods and taking you on to preparing the timber for your particular project. Extensively illustrated, timber for building provides a unique resource.

This second, expanded edition reflects improvements in wood-fuelled appliances, developments in the type and availability of wood-based fuels and the author's own recent experience of installing and using an automated biomass system. Also includes how to choose, size, install and/or build a wood stove, plus how to obtain, grow and store firewood, health and safety, chainsaws, water heating and cooking with wood.