Author: Andrew Vu
Publisher: Recoil Books
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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In the twenty fourth century, a scientific experiment gave a few species the gift of intelligence, and after much struggle, they've carved out a place in society. By the thirtieth century, humans find themselves co-existing, negotiating, and residing on Earth with these animals as equals. Maya Lawton is a lonely prostitute living in this world. She gives birth to the first halfkinds, creatures who are half animal-kind, and half mankind. Since interspecies breeding is illegal, she is forced into seclusion and raises them alone. Then one day, without warning, she dies, and her death leads to their discovery. Abandoned and lost, this family of halfkinds plan to escape to a terraformed moon. But the law is after them. The order is to kill, sent by the highest authority, the United Species Alliance. What separates the Halfkinds series from the rest isn't only its unique premise, but also its structure. Chapters shift between the first person POV's of key characters and are presented in a non-linear fashion in order to create a mounting suspense that will keep the reader riveted until the end. Various plot twists occur within the story, and the different character viewpoints help alter the tone as you go along to give an unbiased presentation of their motives and actions. The setting allows a diverse cast of characters, some human, many not, to send a message that intelligence is a power that we take for granted, and when given to other species, the world becomes a dangerous place. The Halfkinds Series Halfkinds Volume 1: Contact (Available Now) Halfkinds Volume 2: Horus (Available Now) Halfkinds Volume 3: Alphas (Available Now) Halfkinds Volume 4: North - Coming APRIL 2014 Didn't read the previous volumes or just need to get some info? For summaries, character descriptions, and other fun facts about The Halfkind Series check out: halfkinds.wikia.com
Author: Andrew Vu
Publisher: Recoil Books
ISBN: 9780988520615
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Lionel Changer is a true revolutionary. With his company, Implantus, he fused technology and biology with the sole goal of helping mankind. He's also a human supremacist. He creates the Human Organization Reestablishing Untainted Society, or HORUS. Their goal is to bring humanity to the next echelon, above their animal peers. However, to the United Species Alliance, Changer is a genetic criminal and HORUS is the group that created the halfkind monstrosities. The Alliance has sent an elite team to exterminate Changer's rogue faction. The mission won't end until everything is burned to the ground. Meanwhile, the survivors of Operation Halfkinds live peacefully in the North American wilderness. Yet, through a series of unfortunate circumstances, they find themselves sucked in to this madness once more. What separates the Halfkinds series from the rest isn't only its unique premise, but also its structure. Chapters shift between the first person POV's of key characters and are presented in a non-linear fashion in order to create a mounting suspense that will keep the reader riveted until the end. Various plot twists occur within the story, and the different character viewpoints help alter the tone as you go along to give an unbiased presentation of their motives and actions. The setting allows a diverse cast of characters, some human, many not, to send a message that intelligence is a power that we take for granted, and when given to other species, the world becomes a dangerous place. Now available: Halfkinds Volume 1: Contact Halfkinds Volume 2: Horus
Author: Densuke Densuke
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1642732494
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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After Hiroto Amamiya dies on a school trip, the god of reincarnation, Rodocolte, sends the unfortunate student into a second life. There he obtains death attribute magic, but after more than a decade of torment, his second life also ends in tragedy, after which Rodocolte reincarnates Hiroto once more for a third life—again without any special powers. Adamantly swearing that there definitely won’t be a fourth time around, Hiroto uses his vast reserves of magical power and the special death attribute magic from his previous life to live as a dhampir called Vandal.
Author: Mindee Arnett
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466800674
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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The Nightmare Affair is the first in a gripping new urban fantasy trilogy by Mindee Arnett. Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she's a criminal. No, she's a Nightmare. Literally. Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother's infamy, is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker's house, things get a whole lot more complicated. He's hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his dreams couldn't get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a murder. Then Eli's dream comes true. Now Dusty has to follow the clues—both within Eli's dreams and out of them—to stop the killer before more people turn up dead. And before the killer learns what she's up to and marks her as the next target. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Tom Fischbach
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ISBN: 9780615266749
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 942
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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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Author: Junzo Watada
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642299776
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 533
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The Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT) International Conference encourages an interchange of research on intelligent systems and intelligent technologies that enhance or improve decision making. The focus of IDT is interdisciplinary and includes research on all aspects of intelligent decision technologies, from fundamental development to real applications. IDT has the potential to expand their support of decision making in such areas as finance, accounting, marketing, healthcare, medical and diagnostic systems, military decisions, production and operation, networks, traffic management, crisis response, human-machine interfaces, financial and stock market monitoring and prediction, and robotics. Intelligent decision systems implement advances in intelligent agents, fuzzy logic, multi-agent systems, artificial neural networks, and genetic algorithms, among others. Emerging areas of active research include virtual decision environments, social networking, 3D human-machine interfaces, cognitive interfaces, collaborative systems, intelligent web mining, e-commerce, e-learning, e-business, bioinformatics, evolvable systems, virtual humans, and designer drugs. This volume contains papers from the Fourth KES International Symposium on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES IDT’12), hosted by researchers in Nagoya University and other institutions in Japan. This book contains chapters based on papers selected from a large number of submissions for consideration for the conference from the international community. The volume represents the current leading thought in intelligent decision technologies.
Author: Charles Godfrey Leland
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1891. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV.' A GYPSY MAGIC SPELL. HOKKANI BASO LELLIN DUDIKABIN, OR THE GREAT SECRET CHILDREN'S RHYMES AND INCANTATIONS TEN LITTLE INDIAN BOYS AND TEN LITTLE ACORN GIRLS OF MARCELLUS BURDI- GALENSIS. HERE is a meaningless rhyme very common among children. It is repeated while "counting off" --or "out" --those who are taking part in a game, and allotting to each a place. There are many versions of it, but the following is exactly word for word what I learned when a boy in Philadelphia: -- Ekkeri (or ickery), akkery, u-kcry an, Fillisi', follasy, Nicholas John, Queebee - quabee -- Irishman (or, Irish Mary), Stingle 'em--stangle 'em--buck! With a very little alteration This chapter is reproduced, but with much addition, from one in my work entitled "The Gypsies," published in Boston, 1881, by Houghton and Mifflin. London: Trubner Sc Co. The addition will be the most interesting portion to the folk-lorist. in sounds, and not more than children make of these verses in different places, this may be read as follows: -- Ek-keri (yekori) akairi, you kair an, Fillissin, follasy, Nakelas jan Kivi, kavi--Irishman, Stini, stani--buck! This is, of course, nonsense, but it is Romany or gypsy nonsense, and it may be thus translated very accurately: -- First--here--you begin! Castle, gloves. You don't play! Go on! Kivi--a kettle. How are you? Stdni, buck. The common version of the rhyme begins with-- "One--ery--two--ery, ickery an." But one-ery is an exact translation of ek-keri; ek, or yek, meaning one in gypsy. (Ek-orus, or yek-korus, means once). And it is remarkable that in-- "Hickory dickory dock, The rat ran up the clock, The clock struck one, And down he run, Hickory dickory dock." We have hickory, or ek-keri, again followed by a significant one. It may be observed that while my firs...
Author: Thomas Fischbach
Publisher: Keenspot
ISBN: 9781932775778
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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The popular long-running fantasy webcomic collected into beautiful books! Battle for the island! Trace has been captured, and the magic tower on the island is slowly driving the Basitin generals insane. It's now up to Keith and the remaining heroes to rescue Trace and save the Basitins from themselves, before it's too late!
