Author: Mark Lain
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781987702743
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Destiny's Role are books with a difference, books where YOU get to play the part of the hero, books that are both novels and games. The four short books that form this collection are designed as an introduction to some of the concepts of Destiny's Role: - Pit yourself against the greatest jousters in the region to win the right to be named MASTER OF THE TILTYARD - Assume the role of a hard-boiled film noir detective in your deadliest case yet as you try to unlock the secret of FRAGILE BEAUTY - Be faced with more than you had reckoned for as you head deep into the inner sanctum of THE CULT OF THE BLACK FEATHER - And step into the waking nightmare of CELTIC FROST To play the adventures in this book you will need two six-sided dice, a pencil, an eraser, and, most importantly, an imagination!

Author: Destiny O. Birdsong
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538721414
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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“The magic here is not the supernatural kind, but rather an attention to the grace of the ordinary. It is the magic of watching these women come into their power.”—New York Times A GMA Buzz Pick! A Most Anticipated Book by Essence · The Millions · Atlantic Journal Constitution · Glamour · Teen Vogue · Bustle · BookPage · Nashville Scene · Ms. Magazine · Parnassus Musing A Best Book of February by Washington Post · Nylon · BookRiot In this glittering triptych novel, Suzette, Maple and Agnes, three Black women with albinism, call Shreveport, Louisiana home. At the bustling crossroads of the American South and Southwest, these three women find themselves at the crossroads of their own lives. Suzette, a pampered twenty-year‑old, has been sheltered from the outside world since a dangerous childhood encounter. Now, a budding romance with a sweet mechanic allows Suzette to seek independence, which unleashes dark reactions in those closest to her. In discovering her autonomy, Suzette is forced to decide what she is willing to sacrifice in order to make her own way in the world. Maple is reeling from the unsolved murder of her free‑spirited mother. She flees the media circus and her judgmental grandmother by shutting herself off from the world in a spare room of the motel where she works. One night, at a party, Maple connects with Chad, someone who may understand her pain more than she realizes, and she discovers that the key to her mother's death may be within her reach. Agnes is far from home, working yet another mind‑numbing job. She attracts the interest of a lonely security guard and army veteran who’s looking for a traditional life for himself and his young son. He’s convinced that she wields a certain “magic,” but Agnes soon unleashes a power within herself that will shock them both and send her on a trip to confront not only her family and her past, but also herself. This novel, told in three parts, is a searing meditation on grief, female strength, and self‑discovery set against a backdrop of complicated social and racial histories. Nobody's Magic is a testament to the power of family—the ones you're born in and the ones you choose. And in these three narratives, among the yearning and loss, each of these women may find a seed of hope for the future.

Author: Mark Lain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Destiny's Role are books with a difference, books where YOU get to play the part of the hero, books that are both novels and games.An ancient evil is rumoured to have returned to Silvastria. Penelope Redcap, the Mistress of Sorrows, a witch of terrible power who is believed to have been destroyed centuries ago, is said to be back and bent on vengeance. Her followers are regrouping in preparation for the day when the Hexa will finally control the region....But, could a great hero finally destroy her forever? To play the adventure in this book you will need two six-sided dice, a pencil, an eraser, and, most importantly, an imagination!

Author: Melissa Mayhue
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439156018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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JESSE CORYELL, a descendant of the Fae, is a man in search of his destiny. He's tried to lose himself in his work, taking on the worst mankind has to offer, but what he really needs to find is his true love. When he sets out to help a mysterious woman find her sister, what he gets is much more than he bargained for: battling an undeniable attraction to his sexy new client while fighting an ancient evil to keep her safe. DESTINY NOBLE, abandoned by everyone she's ever loved, will stop at nothing in her desperate quest to find her sister. Authorities have declared Leah a runaway, but Destiny knows better. Her dream visions have shown her the frightening truth. They've also shown her Jesse. But finding her Soulmate could result in the most painful loss of all, when she's forced to choose between loving Jesse and saving Leah. Jesse and Destiny race against time to save an innocent girl from a powerful ancient evil. Is true love their best weapon...or will they be required to sacrifice their own destiny?

Author: Mark Lain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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The first book in the companion series to the acclaimed Destiny's Role gamebooks. Adventures, lore, short stories, etc etc... broadening the Destiny's Role universe for those who want a bit more.

Author: Mark Lain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Destiny's Role are books with a difference, books where YOU get to play the part of the hero, books that are both novels and games. Vortan - the Snake LordVortan - the MurdererVortan - the TargetYOU seek vengeance for your father's death. YOU have located his hidden underground kingdom. YOU are near to closure.YOU have only one chance... Will Vortan claim another victim?

Author: D Levesque
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Jason Morgan hates his life.Three years ago, a car accident landed him in a wheelchair. After two experimental surgeries, he still can't walk. Now, broke, and living as a ward of the State, Jason wants nothing more than to walk again and to get out of this hellhole of a hospital.Enter Games For Life, a gaming company that runs a massive VRMMORPG system. They invite Jason to test their groundbreaking pod technology. In their gaming World Destiny, time and reality are not what they seem. There, Jason can even walk again! What could possibly go wrong?Maybe Jason should have read the fine print on the contract a little more closely...Adventure waits for no one. Join the newest LitRPG by new author D. Levesque.

Author: Destiny O. Birdsong
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1951142136
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Full of wonder." —Elizabeth Acevedo A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Refinery29, and Entropy Magazine What makes a self? In her remarkable debut collection of poems, Destiny O. Birdsong writes fearlessly towards this question. Laced with ratchetry, yet hungering for its own respectability, Negotiations is about what it means to live in this America, about Cardi B and top-tier journal publications, about autoimmune disease and the speaker’s intense hunger for her own body—a surprise of self-love in the aftermath of both assault and diagnosis. It’s a series of love letters to black women, who are often singled out for abuse and assault, silencing and tokenism, fetishization and cultural appropriation in ways that throw the rock, then hide the hand. It is a book about tenderness and an indictment of people and systems that attempt to narrow black women’s lives, their power. But it is also an examination of complicity—both a narrative and a black box warning for a particular kind of self-healing that requires recognizing culpability when and where it exists.

Author:
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 758

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Author: Antonio Valero Capilla
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814602493
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 670

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Is Gaia becoming Thanatia, a resource exhausted planet? For how long can our high-tech society be sustained in the light of declining mineral ore grades, heavy dependence on un-recycled critical metals and accelerated material dispersion? These are all root causes of future disruptions that need to be addressed today.This book presents a cradle-to-cradle view of the Earth's abiotic resources through a novel and rigorous approach based on the Second Law of Thermodynamics: heat dissipates and materials deteriorate and disperse. Quality is irreversibly lost. This allows for the assessment of such depletion and can be used to estimate the year where production of the main mineral commodities could reach its zenith. By postulating Thanatia, one acquires a sense of destiny and a concern for a unified global management of the planet's abiotic resource endowment.The book covers the core aspects of geology, geochemistry, mining, metallurgy, economics, the environment, thermodynamics and thermochemistry. It is supported by comprehensive databases related to mineral resources, including detailed compositions of the Earth's layers, thermochemical properties of over 300 substances, historical energy and mineral resource inventories, energy consumption and environmental impacts in the mining and metallurgical sector and world recycling rates of commodities.