Author: William Emmett
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483609979
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The cratered surface of the moon sped past in total silence. Menem absorbed in his instruments felt the first bump and looked up. Instantly he could see the rocky cloud of boulders crashing toward Explorer 2 at tremendous speed. With eyes full of terror he screamed out Stan, get to your seat! Stan dashed into the control room eyes wide and white faced. Menem felt the ship twist in the air violently as the room exploded in fire around him. Then a fearsome explosion sent him into oblivion. Pieces of the ship glowing from the heat of destruction blasted out into the void cascading into a huge firestorm as a single glowing object rocketed out and away from the path of the debris.
The Trouble with Destiny
Author: Lauren Morrill
Publisher:
ISBN: 0553497979
Category : Cruise ships
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A high school drum major must save her school band and navigate romantic disasters when their cruise ship gets stranded at sea.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0553497979
Category : Cruise ships
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A high school drum major must save her school band and navigate romantic disasters when their cruise ship gets stranded at sea.
The Trouble with Fate: Mystwalker 1
Author: Leigh Evans
Publisher: Tor UK
ISBN: 1743288271
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
SHE'S HALF FAE AND ALL TROUBLE WHAT SHE DOESN'T KNOW MIGHT KILL HER Hedi looks normal. Yet that's taken effort. Her fellow Starbucks baristas don't see her pointed ears, fae amulet or her dark past, and normal is hard for a half-fae, half-werewolf on the run. Hedi's life changed ten years ago, when her parents were murdered by unknown assassins. She's been in hiding with her loopy aunt Lou since, as whatever they wanted she's determined they won't get it. Things change when wolves capture Lou, forcing Hedi to steal to free her - for if she can offer up a fae amulet like her own they may trade. But it belongs to a rogue werewolf named Robson Trowbridge, who betrayed Hedi on the night of her greatest need. Over forty-eight hours, Hedi will face the weres of Creemore, discover the extent of her fae powers and possibly break her own heart in the process.
Publisher: Tor UK
ISBN: 1743288271
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
SHE'S HALF FAE AND ALL TROUBLE WHAT SHE DOESN'T KNOW MIGHT KILL HER Hedi looks normal. Yet that's taken effort. Her fellow Starbucks baristas don't see her pointed ears, fae amulet or her dark past, and normal is hard for a half-fae, half-werewolf on the run. Hedi's life changed ten years ago, when her parents were murdered by unknown assassins. She's been in hiding with her loopy aunt Lou since, as whatever they wanted she's determined they won't get it. Things change when wolves capture Lou, forcing Hedi to steal to free her - for if she can offer up a fae amulet like her own they may trade. But it belongs to a rogue werewolf named Robson Trowbridge, who betrayed Hedi on the night of her greatest need. Over forty-eight hours, Hedi will face the weres of Creemore, discover the extent of her fae powers and possibly break her own heart in the process.
Manifest Destiny 2. 0
Author: Sara Humphreys
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496224787
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
At a time when print and film have shown the classic Western and noir genres to be racist, heteronormative, and neocolonial, Sara Humphreys's Manifest Destiny 2.0 asks why these genres endure so prolifically in the video game market. While video games provide a radically new and exciting medium for storytelling, most game narratives do not offer fresh ways of understanding the world. Video games with complex storylines are based on enduring American literary genres that disseminate problematic ideologies, quelling cultural anxieties over economic, racial, and gender inequality through the institutional acceptance and performance of Anglo cultural, racial, and economic superiority. Although game critics and scholars recognize how genres structure games and gameplay, the concept of genre continues to be viewed as a largely invisible power, subordinate to the computational processes of programming, graphics, and the making of a multimillion-dollar best seller. Investigating the social and cultural implications of the Western and noir genres in video games through two case studies--the best-selling games Red Dead Redemption (2010) and L.A. Noire (2011)--Humphreys demonstrates how the frontier myth continues to circulate exceptionalist versions of the United States. Video games spread the neoliberal and neocolonial ideologies of the genres even as they create a new form of performative literacy that intensifies the genres well beyond their originating historical contexts. Manifest Destiny 2.0 joins the growing body of scholarship dedicated to the historical, theoretical, critical, and cultural analysis of video games.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496224787
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
At a time when print and film have shown the classic Western and noir genres to be racist, heteronormative, and neocolonial, Sara Humphreys's Manifest Destiny 2.0 asks why these genres endure so prolifically in the video game market. While video games provide a radically new and exciting medium for storytelling, most game narratives do not offer fresh ways of understanding the world. Video games with complex storylines are based on enduring American literary genres that disseminate problematic ideologies, quelling cultural anxieties over economic, racial, and gender inequality through the institutional acceptance and performance of Anglo cultural, racial, and economic superiority. Although game critics and scholars recognize how genres structure games and gameplay, the concept of genre continues to be viewed as a largely invisible power, subordinate to the computational processes of programming, graphics, and the making of a multimillion-dollar best seller. Investigating the social and cultural implications of the Western and noir genres in video games through two case studies--the best-selling games Red Dead Redemption (2010) and L.A. Noire (2011)--Humphreys demonstrates how the frontier myth continues to circulate exceptionalist versions of the United States. Video games spread the neoliberal and neocolonial ideologies of the genres even as they create a new form of performative literacy that intensifies the genres well beyond their originating historical contexts. Manifest Destiny 2.0 joins the growing body of scholarship dedicated to the historical, theoretical, critical, and cultural analysis of video games.
Identity and Violence
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780141027807
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Amartya Sen argues that most of the conflicts in the contemporary world arise from individuals' notions of who they are, and which groups they belong to - local, national, religious - which define themselves in opposition to others.
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780141027807
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Amartya Sen argues that most of the conflicts in the contemporary world arise from individuals' notions of who they are, and which groups they belong to - local, national, religious - which define themselves in opposition to others.
Destiny
Author: Sharon Green
Publisher: Eos
ISBN: 9780380812950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In the epic conclusion of The Blending Enthroned trilogy, Lorand, Rion, Tamrissa, Vallant, Jovvi, and Naran must draw on their combined elemental powers--Earth, Fire, Air, Water, Spirit, and Sight--to battle the dark armies of a malevolent entity that threatens their borders, as well as the schemes of the fallen nobles who hope to seize control of the throne. Original.
Publisher: Eos
ISBN: 9780380812950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In the epic conclusion of The Blending Enthroned trilogy, Lorand, Rion, Tamrissa, Vallant, Jovvi, and Naran must draw on their combined elemental powers--Earth, Fire, Air, Water, Spirit, and Sight--to battle the dark armies of a malevolent entity that threatens their borders, as well as the schemes of the fallen nobles who hope to seize control of the throne. Original.
Destiny
Author: William Emmett
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483609979
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The cratered surface of the moon sped past in total silence. Menem absorbed in his instruments felt the first bump and looked up. Instantly he could see the rocky cloud of boulders crashing toward Explorer 2 at tremendous speed. With eyes full of terror he screamed out Stan, get to your seat! Stan dashed into the control room eyes wide and white faced. Menem felt the ship twist in the air violently as the room exploded in fire around him. Then a fearsome explosion sent him into oblivion. Pieces of the ship glowing from the heat of destruction blasted out into the void cascading into a huge firestorm as a single glowing object rocketed out and away from the path of the debris.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483609979
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The cratered surface of the moon sped past in total silence. Menem absorbed in his instruments felt the first bump and looked up. Instantly he could see the rocky cloud of boulders crashing toward Explorer 2 at tremendous speed. With eyes full of terror he screamed out Stan, get to your seat! Stan dashed into the control room eyes wide and white faced. Menem felt the ship twist in the air violently as the room exploded in fire around him. Then a fearsome explosion sent him into oblivion. Pieces of the ship glowing from the heat of destruction blasted out into the void cascading into a huge firestorm as a single glowing object rocketed out and away from the path of the debris.
Destiny and Deception
Author: Shannon Delany
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312624468
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In the fourth novel of Delany's acclaimed series, Jessica and Rusakovas are fighting to overcome one of their biggest challenges yet--the possibility of a cure for lycanthropy.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312624468
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In the fourth novel of Delany's acclaimed series, Jessica and Rusakovas are fighting to overcome one of their biggest challenges yet--the possibility of a cure for lycanthropy.
Sons of Destiny
Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316146623
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
As Darren faces the final showdown with his archenemy, Steve Leopard, he seeks a way to trick destiny and avoid the requirement that one of them die and the other become Lord of the Shadows, fated to destroy the world.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316146623
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
As Darren faces the final showdown with his archenemy, Steve Leopard, he seeks a way to trick destiny and avoid the requirement that one of them die and the other become Lord of the Shadows, fated to destroy the world.
Kill Me Lovingly
Author: Alycia Linwood
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781545410448
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Destiny has only one thing on her mind: to find out who wanted her dead and why. But before she can do anything about that, she has to accompany Enrique to a vampire gathering in another city. Their hosts are anything but pleasant, and when bodies start dropping, no one seems to care, since the local hunters chalk it all up to accidental drug overdose. Certain that a major cover-up is going on, Destiny decides to investigate. But if she wants to uncover the truth, she'll have to risk getting in trouble with the local vampires and her maker while secretly working with Nataniel. The second book in the Deadly Destiny series. Reading order: LOVE ME DEADLY (Book 1) KILL ME LOVINGLY (Book 2)
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781545410448
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Destiny has only one thing on her mind: to find out who wanted her dead and why. But before she can do anything about that, she has to accompany Enrique to a vampire gathering in another city. Their hosts are anything but pleasant, and when bodies start dropping, no one seems to care, since the local hunters chalk it all up to accidental drug overdose. Certain that a major cover-up is going on, Destiny decides to investigate. But if she wants to uncover the truth, she'll have to risk getting in trouble with the local vampires and her maker while secretly working with Nataniel. The second book in the Deadly Destiny series. Reading order: LOVE ME DEADLY (Book 1) KILL ME LOVINGLY (Book 2)
Secretive Numbers, Mysterious Destiny
Author: Varun L. Rupani
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1639574492
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Every relationship goes through ups and downs and no matter how much ever you try to be happy together, there will be times when two individuals will stand opposite each other because of different views on the same point. At this point, how you handle the situation and understand each other shows maturity and strength in the relationship. This numerology book based on relationship compatibility will not tell you who will win or lose the discussions and fights. It will not tell you whether the relationship between two numbers is a thumbs-up or thumbs-down because no number is good or bad, right or wrong and so judging someone on the basis of just numbers is incorrect. What this book can rightfully do is to help you find the hurdles or differences that can probably occur in the relationship. Knowing the potential differences and personality traits in advance can guide you in taking the correct steps before getting into a relationship. This book allows you to see the potential troubles in a relationship along with its possible outcomes. This book also helps give you key advice and suggestions for each relationship that you can apply and refer to in daily life.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1639574492
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Every relationship goes through ups and downs and no matter how much ever you try to be happy together, there will be times when two individuals will stand opposite each other because of different views on the same point. At this point, how you handle the situation and understand each other shows maturity and strength in the relationship. This numerology book based on relationship compatibility will not tell you who will win or lose the discussions and fights. It will not tell you whether the relationship between two numbers is a thumbs-up or thumbs-down because no number is good or bad, right or wrong and so judging someone on the basis of just numbers is incorrect. What this book can rightfully do is to help you find the hurdles or differences that can probably occur in the relationship. Knowing the potential differences and personality traits in advance can guide you in taking the correct steps before getting into a relationship. This book allows you to see the potential troubles in a relationship along with its possible outcomes. This book also helps give you key advice and suggestions for each relationship that you can apply and refer to in daily life.