Author: David Littlewood
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Gary Gormley is the brightest boy in his school by far, but he's got two problems. The first is that he and his sick mother are very poor. The other is in the form of two school bullies called Nick and Dick, who are intent on giving Gary a hard time. However, help is at hand, both through a school friend called Emily Truss and a powerful ally sent from the future: humanoid robot prototype 100XL - The Granny-Bot. With the help of the amazing Granny-Bot, it's time for Gary to turn things around on the bullies. An action-packed adventure, 'Gary And The Granny-Bot' is a fun, fast read for children and young teens.
Gary And The Granny-Bot
Author: David Littlewood
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Gary Gormley is the brightest boy in his school by far, but he's got two problems. The first is that he and his sick mother are very poor. The other is in the form of two school bullies called Nick and Dick, who are intent on giving Gary a hard time. However, help is at hand, both through a school friend called Emily Truss and a powerful ally sent from the future: humanoid robot prototype 100XL - The Granny-Bot. With the help of the amazing Granny-Bot, it's time for Gary to turn things around on the bullies. An action-packed adventure, 'Gary And The Granny-Bot' is a fun, fast read for children and young teens.
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Gary Gormley is the brightest boy in his school by far, but he's got two problems. The first is that he and his sick mother are very poor. The other is in the form of two school bullies called Nick and Dick, who are intent on giving Gary a hard time. However, help is at hand, both through a school friend called Emily Truss and a powerful ally sent from the future: humanoid robot prototype 100XL - The Granny-Bot. With the help of the amazing Granny-Bot, it's time for Gary to turn things around on the bullies. An action-packed adventure, 'Gary And The Granny-Bot' is a fun, fast read for children and young teens.
Abigaila And The Wolf Prince
Author: David Littlewood
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Prince Zayden always wanted to be a hero and to use the magic sword, Neerwana, which is embedded in a tree near his father’s palace. Both things seemed out of reach, until one day a mysterious tame wolf turns up. When Zayden meets an ancient prophet, he learns that the wolf is linked to a princess who urgently needs saving from dark powers. What’s more, the prophet commissions him to pull out the sword and rescue the princess by way of a magic portal. Armed with the magic sword and accompanied only by the wolf and an old soldier, Zayden sets out on the adventure of his life to rescue the girl of his dreams. To do so, he has to face untold dangers on the way and then face an evil witch from the Dark Lands. A thrill-a-minute fantasy adventure, David Littlewood's 'Abigaila And The Wolf Prince' is a delightful adventure for both younger and older readers.
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Prince Zayden always wanted to be a hero and to use the magic sword, Neerwana, which is embedded in a tree near his father’s palace. Both things seemed out of reach, until one day a mysterious tame wolf turns up. When Zayden meets an ancient prophet, he learns that the wolf is linked to a princess who urgently needs saving from dark powers. What’s more, the prophet commissions him to pull out the sword and rescue the princess by way of a magic portal. Armed with the magic sword and accompanied only by the wolf and an old soldier, Zayden sets out on the adventure of his life to rescue the girl of his dreams. To do so, he has to face untold dangers on the way and then face an evil witch from the Dark Lands. A thrill-a-minute fantasy adventure, David Littlewood's 'Abigaila And The Wolf Prince' is a delightful adventure for both younger and older readers.
Ghastly Gob Gissimer
Author: David Littlewood
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Gissimer had the distinction of being the most disliked person in Trywalla. Not only was he tight-fisted and unpleasant; his breath smelt like a drain because he never cleaned his teeth. No one wanted to go near him. Yet the inhabitants just couldn't do without him, as he was the master of Murada. Then, one evening of the feast of Melaku, Gissimer had a visitor who changed his life forever. This tale about the legendary land of Trywalla will delight both children and parents.
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Gissimer had the distinction of being the most disliked person in Trywalla. Not only was he tight-fisted and unpleasant; his breath smelt like a drain because he never cleaned his teeth. No one wanted to go near him. Yet the inhabitants just couldn't do without him, as he was the master of Murada. Then, one evening of the feast of Melaku, Gissimer had a visitor who changed his life forever. This tale about the legendary land of Trywalla will delight both children and parents.
Jedrek And The Pirate Princess
Author: David Littlewood
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
After a blacksmith and his wife find a baby hidden in the bushes near their smithy, they decide to take him in and raise him as their own. According to a mysterious old man, he is to become a dragon slayer. Jedrek grows up completely unaware of this, until one day when he rescues a stranger from a group of bandits. Plunged into a world of magic swords and derring-do, he sets out to rescue his sister from the clutches of an evil magician. On the way, he meets pirates, dragons, unearthly creatures and a beautiful princess, who isn't quite what she seems to be.
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
After a blacksmith and his wife find a baby hidden in the bushes near their smithy, they decide to take him in and raise him as their own. According to a mysterious old man, he is to become a dragon slayer. Jedrek grows up completely unaware of this, until one day when he rescues a stranger from a group of bandits. Plunged into a world of magic swords and derring-do, he sets out to rescue his sister from the clutches of an evil magician. On the way, he meets pirates, dragons, unearthly creatures and a beautiful princess, who isn't quite what she seems to be.
The Wild Robot
Author: Peter Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781536435078
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781536435078
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
A Dugout to Peace
Author: Gary Morgenstein
Publisher: BHC Press
ISBN: 164397369X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
“Morgenstein has blended baseball and science fiction, and created a complex, nightmarish future that grabs the reader and doesn’t let go until the final pitch. This series is a home run!” —Geekstronomy.com “A classic of modern speculative fiction that also examines today’s real-world socio-political environment. Plus, baseball!!” —Fenway Nation Winter 2099 Finally cleared of treason charges, Puppy Nedick is now the Commissioner of Baseball. Vowing to return the game to its previous national glory, he becomes alarmed when there is little interest in the sport. Troubled by flagging attendance, excessively polite fans, and the poor quality of play, Puppy makes a radical decision: return the dying sport to the game of old. Attendance soars and suddenly gamegoers are rooting for the home team, participating in bobblehead giveaways, waving banners, and vying for autographs of the celebrity players. Baseball is becoming the national pastime again. And those who are in power are watching. The revival of the sport unleashes dormant passions and new fears, creating questions about America’s revised history and challenging the very foundation and the basic laws of the controlling Family. Once again a scapegoat, baseball becomes the rallying point of resistance as ordinary heroes try to bring the world together against the terrifying specter of impending nuclear annihilation, in the explosive conclusion to the Dark Depths trilogy.
Publisher: BHC Press
ISBN: 164397369X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
“Morgenstein has blended baseball and science fiction, and created a complex, nightmarish future that grabs the reader and doesn’t let go until the final pitch. This series is a home run!” —Geekstronomy.com “A classic of modern speculative fiction that also examines today’s real-world socio-political environment. Plus, baseball!!” —Fenway Nation Winter 2099 Finally cleared of treason charges, Puppy Nedick is now the Commissioner of Baseball. Vowing to return the game to its previous national glory, he becomes alarmed when there is little interest in the sport. Troubled by flagging attendance, excessively polite fans, and the poor quality of play, Puppy makes a radical decision: return the dying sport to the game of old. Attendance soars and suddenly gamegoers are rooting for the home team, participating in bobblehead giveaways, waving banners, and vying for autographs of the celebrity players. Baseball is becoming the national pastime again. And those who are in power are watching. The revival of the sport unleashes dormant passions and new fears, creating questions about America’s revised history and challenging the very foundation and the basic laws of the controlling Family. Once again a scapegoat, baseball becomes the rallying point of resistance as ordinary heroes try to bring the world together against the terrifying specter of impending nuclear annihilation, in the explosive conclusion to the Dark Depths trilogy.
The Machine Dynasty Omnibus
Author: Madeline Ashby
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 0857669060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 939
Book Description
An omnibus edition consisting of all three volumes of Madeline Ashby's epic sci-fi masterwork, The Machine Dynasty. Collects vN, iD and ReV. vN Amy Peterson is a von Neumann machine, a self-replicating humanoid robot. For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother’s past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, little Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive. Now she carries her malfunctioning granny as a partition on her memory drive, and she’s learning impossible things about her clade’s history – like the fact that the failsafe that stops all robots from harming humans has failed… Which means that everyone wants a piece of her, some to use her as a weapon, others to destroy her. iD Javier is a self-replicating humanoid on a journey of redemption. Javier's quest takes him from Amy's island, where his actions have devastating consequences for his friend, toward Mecha where he will find either salvation... or death. ReV The Rapture, which vN were engineered for, finally comes to pass. Now that the failsafe that once kept vN from harming humans has been hacked, all are discovering the promise – and the peril – of free will. With her consciousness unleashed across computer systems all across the world, the vicious vN Portia stands poised to finally achieve her lifelong dream of bringing humanity to its knees. The old battle between her and her granddaughter Amy comes to an epic conclusion in the war for the very systems that keeps the planet running. Can Amy get her family to the stars before Portia destroys every opportunity for escape and freedom? File Under: Science Fiction [ Von Neumann Sisters | Fail Safe Fail | Robot Nation | Internet Ex-Portia ]
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 0857669060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 939
Book Description
An omnibus edition consisting of all three volumes of Madeline Ashby's epic sci-fi masterwork, The Machine Dynasty. Collects vN, iD and ReV. vN Amy Peterson is a von Neumann machine, a self-replicating humanoid robot. For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother’s past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, little Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive. Now she carries her malfunctioning granny as a partition on her memory drive, and she’s learning impossible things about her clade’s history – like the fact that the failsafe that stops all robots from harming humans has failed… Which means that everyone wants a piece of her, some to use her as a weapon, others to destroy her. iD Javier is a self-replicating humanoid on a journey of redemption. Javier's quest takes him from Amy's island, where his actions have devastating consequences for his friend, toward Mecha where he will find either salvation... or death. ReV The Rapture, which vN were engineered for, finally comes to pass. Now that the failsafe that once kept vN from harming humans has been hacked, all are discovering the promise – and the peril – of free will. With her consciousness unleashed across computer systems all across the world, the vicious vN Portia stands poised to finally achieve her lifelong dream of bringing humanity to its knees. The old battle between her and her granddaughter Amy comes to an epic conclusion in the war for the very systems that keeps the planet running. Can Amy get her family to the stars before Portia destroys every opportunity for escape and freedom? File Under: Science Fiction [ Von Neumann Sisters | Fail Safe Fail | Robot Nation | Internet Ex-Portia ]
Battle Bunny
Author: Jon Scieszka
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442446730
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Alex, whose birthday it is, hijacks a story about Birthday Bunny on his special day and turns it into a battle between a supervillain and his enemies in the forest--who, in the original story, are simply planning a surprise party.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442446730
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Alex, whose birthday it is, hijacks a story about Birthday Bunny on his special day and turns it into a battle between a supervillain and his enemies in the forest--who, in the original story, are simply planning a surprise party.
Economic Woman
Author: Frances Raday
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317281314
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
The author introduces the concept of economic woman and makes her visible in duality with and opposition to the exclusive model of economic man. Economic man has epitomized neo-liberal capitalism, which embraces competition and maximization of profit, resulting in a steep increase in economic inequality. The book demonstrates that women’s inequality is a crucial factor in economic inequality, which cannot be fully understood without relating to women’s situation, and that economic woman cannot thrive in the conditions of economic inequality created under global neo-liberalism. Emphasising the international human rights guarantees of women’s right to equality in all fields of life, the author documents woman’s increased participation in political, public, financial and corporate institutions, employment and entrepreneurship, with some women reaching high profile positions. Nevertheless, using global data, she reveals that economic woman lags behind, with a severe economic power deficit, an unfulfilled promise of equal employment opportunity, a gendered impact of poverty and barriers to gender equality in the family. The book analyses the trap of women’s increased burden of breadwinning in the context of discriminatory laws and practices, infrastructural failures and policy gaps, which preempt achievement of gender equality in economic life. The book is intended for the general reader, academics, students, policy makers and NGOs. It shows economic woman at a global crossroads between a universal paradigm of gender equality and pervasive barriers to equal economic opportunity. The author demonstrates that tackling gender inequality, restoring welfare priorities and reducing economic inequality are inextricably linked. Human rights and governments have a vital role to play in addressing them all, to create a sustainable economic infrastructure for the lives of women and men.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317281314
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
The author introduces the concept of economic woman and makes her visible in duality with and opposition to the exclusive model of economic man. Economic man has epitomized neo-liberal capitalism, which embraces competition and maximization of profit, resulting in a steep increase in economic inequality. The book demonstrates that women’s inequality is a crucial factor in economic inequality, which cannot be fully understood without relating to women’s situation, and that economic woman cannot thrive in the conditions of economic inequality created under global neo-liberalism. Emphasising the international human rights guarantees of women’s right to equality in all fields of life, the author documents woman’s increased participation in political, public, financial and corporate institutions, employment and entrepreneurship, with some women reaching high profile positions. Nevertheless, using global data, she reveals that economic woman lags behind, with a severe economic power deficit, an unfulfilled promise of equal employment opportunity, a gendered impact of poverty and barriers to gender equality in the family. The book analyses the trap of women’s increased burden of breadwinning in the context of discriminatory laws and practices, infrastructural failures and policy gaps, which preempt achievement of gender equality in economic life. The book is intended for the general reader, academics, students, policy makers and NGOs. It shows economic woman at a global crossroads between a universal paradigm of gender equality and pervasive barriers to equal economic opportunity. The author demonstrates that tackling gender inequality, restoring welfare priorities and reducing economic inequality are inextricably linked. Human rights and governments have a vital role to play in addressing them all, to create a sustainable economic infrastructure for the lives of women and men.
A Mound Over Hell
Author: Gary Morgenstein
Publisher: BHC Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
It’s 2098 and the last season of baseball—forever. After the ravages of WWIII, the once all-American sport is now synonymous with terrorism and treason. Holograms run the bases for out-of-shape players and attendance averages fifteen spectators per game. The only ballpark left is the former Yankee Stadium. America, nearly wiped out by radical Islam, has established a society based on love. Religion, social media, and the entertainment industry have been outlawed. All acts of patriotism are illegal, and the country is led by Grandma. Heading up the Family in her home base in the Bronx, she works tirelessly to build a lasting legacy for the future. As baseball historian Puppy Nedick prepares for opening day, a chance encounter lands him face-to-face with former baseball greats. Determined not to go down without a fight, the players band together to revitalize the game for one last hurrah. But not everyone wants peace. Will baseball become the catalyst for WWIV, or will it save America?
Publisher: BHC Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
It’s 2098 and the last season of baseball—forever. After the ravages of WWIII, the once all-American sport is now synonymous with terrorism and treason. Holograms run the bases for out-of-shape players and attendance averages fifteen spectators per game. The only ballpark left is the former Yankee Stadium. America, nearly wiped out by radical Islam, has established a society based on love. Religion, social media, and the entertainment industry have been outlawed. All acts of patriotism are illegal, and the country is led by Grandma. Heading up the Family in her home base in the Bronx, she works tirelessly to build a lasting legacy for the future. As baseball historian Puppy Nedick prepares for opening day, a chance encounter lands him face-to-face with former baseball greats. Determined not to go down without a fight, the players band together to revitalize the game for one last hurrah. But not everyone wants peace. Will baseball become the catalyst for WWIV, or will it save America?