Author: Kathleen West
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483492591
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Greta Müller lives in a tiny house just outside her parents' home. One night Greta is awakened with a horrible feeling that something is wrong. After she finally falls back asleep, Greta has no idea of what is about to befall her and the rest of the world as a large, green tentacles climb up her house, spread its tendrils over her bed, and sample her flesh. An alien race called the Whatchamacallit? has just discovered that Greta and the human race are delicious to eat. After they kidnap Greta and take her to their planet, she is tested in their laboratory and presented to the queen in an extravagant banquet ceremony for consumption. Greta finds hope in her newfound alien friend, Love, a fellow captive gifted with amazing abilities that may help them avoid being someone else's dinner. But can they escape in time? In this science fiction adventure, a young woman held captive by hungry aliens must utilize creative ways to safely flee before they eat her.
Tales of the Multiverse Volume 1: The Tasty Girl
Author: Kathleen West
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483492591
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Greta Müller lives in a tiny house just outside her parents' home. One night Greta is awakened with a horrible feeling that something is wrong. After she finally falls back asleep, Greta has no idea of what is about to befall her and the rest of the world as a large, green tentacles climb up her house, spread its tendrils over her bed, and sample her flesh. An alien race called the Whatchamacallit? has just discovered that Greta and the human race are delicious to eat. After they kidnap Greta and take her to their planet, she is tested in their laboratory and presented to the queen in an extravagant banquet ceremony for consumption. Greta finds hope in her newfound alien friend, Love, a fellow captive gifted with amazing abilities that may help them avoid being someone else's dinner. But can they escape in time? In this science fiction adventure, a young woman held captive by hungry aliens must utilize creative ways to safely flee before they eat her.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483492591
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Greta Müller lives in a tiny house just outside her parents' home. One night Greta is awakened with a horrible feeling that something is wrong. After she finally falls back asleep, Greta has no idea of what is about to befall her and the rest of the world as a large, green tentacles climb up her house, spread its tendrils over her bed, and sample her flesh. An alien race called the Whatchamacallit? has just discovered that Greta and the human race are delicious to eat. After they kidnap Greta and take her to their planet, she is tested in their laboratory and presented to the queen in an extravagant banquet ceremony for consumption. Greta finds hope in her newfound alien friend, Love, a fellow captive gifted with amazing abilities that may help them avoid being someone else's dinner. But can they escape in time? In this science fiction adventure, a young woman held captive by hungry aliens must utilize creative ways to safely flee before they eat her.
Cinnamon and Gunpowder
Author: Eli Brown
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374123667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In 1819, kidnapped chef Owen Wedgwood transforms meager shipboard supplies into sumptuous meals at the behest of his kidnapper, pirate queen Mad Hannah Mabbot, while she pushes her exhausted crew to track down a deadly privateer.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374123667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In 1819, kidnapped chef Owen Wedgwood transforms meager shipboard supplies into sumptuous meals at the behest of his kidnapper, pirate queen Mad Hannah Mabbot, while she pushes her exhausted crew to track down a deadly privateer.
How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge
Author: K. Eason
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756415314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Space pirate Rory Thorne and her crew trace an abandoned ship to vicious advanced alien tech and a sentient floral plant designed to be a massive biological weapon.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756415314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Space pirate Rory Thorne and her crew trace an abandoned ship to vicious advanced alien tech and a sentient floral plant designed to be a massive biological weapon.
How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse
Author: K. Eason
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 0756415306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
First in a duology that reimagines fairy tale tropes within a space opera—The Princess Bride meets Princess Leia. Rory Thorne is a princess with thirteen fairy blessings, the most important of which is to see through flattery and platitudes. As the eldest daughter, she always imagined she’d inherit her father’s throne and govern the interplanetary Thorne Consortium. Then her father is assassinated, her mother gives birth to a son, and Rory is betrothed to the prince of a distant world. When Rory arrives in her new home, she uncovers a treacherous plot to unseat her newly betrothed and usurp his throne. An unscrupulous minister has conspired to name himself Regent to the minor (and somewhat foolish) prince. With only her wits and a small team of allies, Rory must outmaneuver the Regent and rescue the prince. How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse is a feminist reimagining of familiar fairytale tropes and a story of resistance and self-determination—how small acts of rebellion can lead a princess to not just save herself, but change the course of history.
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 0756415306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
First in a duology that reimagines fairy tale tropes within a space opera—The Princess Bride meets Princess Leia. Rory Thorne is a princess with thirteen fairy blessings, the most important of which is to see through flattery and platitudes. As the eldest daughter, she always imagined she’d inherit her father’s throne and govern the interplanetary Thorne Consortium. Then her father is assassinated, her mother gives birth to a son, and Rory is betrothed to the prince of a distant world. When Rory arrives in her new home, she uncovers a treacherous plot to unseat her newly betrothed and usurp his throne. An unscrupulous minister has conspired to name himself Regent to the minor (and somewhat foolish) prince. With only her wits and a small team of allies, Rory must outmaneuver the Regent and rescue the prince. How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse is a feminist reimagining of familiar fairytale tropes and a story of resistance and self-determination—how small acts of rebellion can lead a princess to not just save herself, but change the course of history.
Binging with Babish
Author: Andrew Rea
Publisher: Harvest
ISBN: 1328589897
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
"Recipes recreated from beloved movies and TV shows by the host of one of the most popular food programs on the Internet."--
Publisher: Harvest
ISBN: 1328589897
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
"Recipes recreated from beloved movies and TV shows by the host of one of the most popular food programs on the Internet."--
The Sixteen Pleasures
Author: Robert Hellenga
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616955805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Art, poetry, and desire collide in a sensual, "elegantly moving" (The New Yorker) literary romance set in the cobbled streets and painted halls of Florence, Italy. Margot Harrington, an American volunteer in Florence, is an expert at book conservancy. While struggling to save a waterlogged convent library, she comes across a fabulous volume of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio Romano, accompanying sixteen steamy sonnets by Pietro Aretino. When first published over four centuries ago, the Vatican ordered all copies destroyed. This one—now unique—volume has survived. The abbess prevails upon Margot to save the order’s finances by selling the magnificently illustrated erotica discreetly—meaning without the bishop’s knowledge. Margot’s other clandestine project is a middle-aged Italian who is boldly attempting radical measures to save endangered frescoes. She is 29 and available; he, older and married. He shares her sense of mission and soon her bed in this daring story of spiritual longing and earthly desire.
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616955805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Art, poetry, and desire collide in a sensual, "elegantly moving" (The New Yorker) literary romance set in the cobbled streets and painted halls of Florence, Italy. Margot Harrington, an American volunteer in Florence, is an expert at book conservancy. While struggling to save a waterlogged convent library, she comes across a fabulous volume of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio Romano, accompanying sixteen steamy sonnets by Pietro Aretino. When first published over four centuries ago, the Vatican ordered all copies destroyed. This one—now unique—volume has survived. The abbess prevails upon Margot to save the order’s finances by selling the magnificently illustrated erotica discreetly—meaning without the bishop’s knowledge. Margot’s other clandestine project is a middle-aged Italian who is boldly attempting radical measures to save endangered frescoes. She is 29 and available; he, older and married. He shares her sense of mission and soon her bed in this daring story of spiritual longing and earthly desire.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Author: Julian Jaynes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547527543
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547527543
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Sinless
Author: Sarah Tarkoff
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062456393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
With shades of Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies and Ally Condie’s Matched, this cinematic dystopian novel—the first in the thrilling Eye of the Beholder series—is set in a near future society in which "right" and "wrong" are manifested by beauty and ugliness. In Grace Luther’s world, morality is physically enforced. Those who are "good" are blessed with beauty, while those who are not suffer horrifying consequences—disfigurement or even death. The daughter of a cleric, Grace has always had faith in the higher power that governs her world. But when she stumbles onto information that leaves her questioning whether there are more complicated—and dangerous—forces manipulating the people around her, she finds herself at the center of an epic battle, where good and evil are not easily distinguished. Despite all her efforts to live a normal teenage life, Grace is faced with a series of decisions that will risk the lives of everyone she loves—and, ultimately, her own. With each page in this electrifying debut novel, Sarah Tarkoff masterfully plunges us into a nightmarish vision of the future. Full of high drama and pulsating tension, Sinless explores the essential questions teenagers wrestle with every day—What is beauty? What is faith? Do we take our surroundings at face value and accept all that we have been taught, or do we question the mores of the society into which we are born?—and places them in the context of a dark, dystopian world where appearances are most definitely deceiving.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062456393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
With shades of Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies and Ally Condie’s Matched, this cinematic dystopian novel—the first in the thrilling Eye of the Beholder series—is set in a near future society in which "right" and "wrong" are manifested by beauty and ugliness. In Grace Luther’s world, morality is physically enforced. Those who are "good" are blessed with beauty, while those who are not suffer horrifying consequences—disfigurement or even death. The daughter of a cleric, Grace has always had faith in the higher power that governs her world. But when she stumbles onto information that leaves her questioning whether there are more complicated—and dangerous—forces manipulating the people around her, she finds herself at the center of an epic battle, where good and evil are not easily distinguished. Despite all her efforts to live a normal teenage life, Grace is faced with a series of decisions that will risk the lives of everyone she loves—and, ultimately, her own. With each page in this electrifying debut novel, Sarah Tarkoff masterfully plunges us into a nightmarish vision of the future. Full of high drama and pulsating tension, Sinless explores the essential questions teenagers wrestle with every day—What is beauty? What is faith? Do we take our surroundings at face value and accept all that we have been taught, or do we question the mores of the society into which we are born?—and places them in the context of a dark, dystopian world where appearances are most definitely deceiving.
Nightwing (2016-) #43
Author: Michael Moreci
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
ÒTHE BRAVE, THE OBNOXIOUS AND THE INEPTÓ! All Dick Grayson wants is a night to himself. But when Robin and Arsenal come calling in need of his help, Dick has to throw on his Nightwing costume and get to work. Before he knows it, heÕs neck-deep in League of Assassin ninjas and trying to stop ArsenalÕs sometime-girlfriend from killing them allÑassuming Robin and Arsenal donÕt kill each other first!
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
ÒTHE BRAVE, THE OBNOXIOUS AND THE INEPTÓ! All Dick Grayson wants is a night to himself. But when Robin and Arsenal come calling in need of his help, Dick has to throw on his Nightwing costume and get to work. Before he knows it, heÕs neck-deep in League of Assassin ninjas and trying to stop ArsenalÕs sometime-girlfriend from killing them allÑassuming Robin and Arsenal donÕt kill each other first!
What Stars Are Made Of
Author: Sarah Allen
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241427975
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
An astonishingly bold and moving middle-grade debut about family, friendship and how it's OK to be different. "I loved this book . . . A female 'Wonder'." - reader review "This is a brilliant book. I don't think I've ever read anything like it." - reader review "A celebration of difference, a masterclass of empathy - just a massive warm hug of a book!" - reader review Libby wants to be a scientist when she grows up, just like her hero, the underrated astronomer Cecilia Payne. She'd also do anything for her family - and when her beloved big sister Nonny is in trouble, Libby comes up with the perfect plan to help her, and at the same time remind the world what stars are made of.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241427975
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
An astonishingly bold and moving middle-grade debut about family, friendship and how it's OK to be different. "I loved this book . . . A female 'Wonder'." - reader review "This is a brilliant book. I don't think I've ever read anything like it." - reader review "A celebration of difference, a masterclass of empathy - just a massive warm hug of a book!" - reader review Libby wants to be a scientist when she grows up, just like her hero, the underrated astronomer Cecilia Payne. She'd also do anything for her family - and when her beloved big sister Nonny is in trouble, Libby comes up with the perfect plan to help her, and at the same time remind the world what stars are made of.