Author: Thomas Wright
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781519373403
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
After a dishonorable discharge from the military on trumped-up charges, all Ben wanted to do was stay under the radar and be left alone. Someone with his talents and training is not soon forgotten or left alone. Ten months of peace and quiet are about to come to an end, starting with a bar fight and a visit from a special operations officer with orders to bring him back into the fold. He swore he would never go back but when the opportunity came knocking in the form of a beautiful commanding officer he didn't think twice about signing up. With a slight twist, this time he would do things his way. Friend or foe they are all the same to him.
The Chronicles of Benjamin Jamison: Call Sign Reaper
Author: Thomas Wright
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781519373403
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
After a dishonorable discharge from the military on trumped-up charges, all Ben wanted to do was stay under the radar and be left alone. Someone with his talents and training is not soon forgotten or left alone. Ten months of peace and quiet are about to come to an end, starting with a bar fight and a visit from a special operations officer with orders to bring him back into the fold. He swore he would never go back but when the opportunity came knocking in the form of a beautiful commanding officer he didn't think twice about signing up. With a slight twist, this time he would do things his way. Friend or foe they are all the same to him.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781519373403
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
After a dishonorable discharge from the military on trumped-up charges, all Ben wanted to do was stay under the radar and be left alone. Someone with his talents and training is not soon forgotten or left alone. Ten months of peace and quiet are about to come to an end, starting with a bar fight and a visit from a special operations officer with orders to bring him back into the fold. He swore he would never go back but when the opportunity came knocking in the form of a beautiful commanding officer he didn't think twice about signing up. With a slight twist, this time he would do things his way. Friend or foe they are all the same to him.
Man, True Man
Author: Mari Collier
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
After a spaceship crashes into the planet of Tonath, the lone occupant survives and fights his way to sunlit part of the planet. When a passing freighter finds him and takes him to the Western Starshift Institute of the Way, where the Teacher rules the sunlit part of the planet, Tonath is a planet being torn apart by the forces of nature, and only the Teacher can predict the movement of the stars and interpret the prophecies. Will the Teacher be able to recognize True Man and True Foe in time to save Tonath from a thousand years of burning?
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
After a spaceship crashes into the planet of Tonath, the lone occupant survives and fights his way to sunlit part of the planet. When a passing freighter finds him and takes him to the Western Starshift Institute of the Way, where the Teacher rules the sunlit part of the planet, Tonath is a planet being torn apart by the forces of nature, and only the Teacher can predict the movement of the stars and interpret the prophecies. Will the Teacher be able to recognize True Man and True Foe in time to save Tonath from a thousand years of burning?
Mavericks
Author: Craig Alanson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781717768186
Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
"The remnants of the Expeditionary Force stranded on the alien-controlled planet 'Paradise' get a chance to prove themselves, in a simple off-world training mission with a ship full of teenage alien cadets. When the mission goes horribly wrong and the survival of everyone on Paradise is at risk, the Merry Band of Pirates may have to come to the rescue. Unless they get killed first..." -- Page [4] of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781717768186
Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
"The remnants of the Expeditionary Force stranded on the alien-controlled planet 'Paradise' get a chance to prove themselves, in a simple off-world training mission with a ship full of teenage alien cadets. When the mission goes horribly wrong and the survival of everyone on Paradise is at risk, the Merry Band of Pirates may have to come to the rescue. Unless they get killed first..." -- Page [4] of cover.
Exhaustion
Author: Anna K. Schaffner
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231538855
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Today our fatigue feels chronic; our anxieties, amplified. Proliferating technologies command our attention. Many people complain of burnout, and economic instability and the threat of ecological catastrophe fill us with dread. We look to the past, imagining life to have once been simpler and slower, but extreme mental and physical stress is not a modern syndrome. Beginning in classical antiquity, this book demonstrates how exhaustion has always been with us and helps us evaluate more critically the narratives we tell ourselves about the phenomenon. Medical, cultural, literary, and biographical sources have cast exhaustion as a biochemical imbalance, a somatic ailment, a viral disease, and a spiritual failing. It has been linked to loss, the alignment of the planets, a perverse desire for death, and social and economic disruption. Pathologized, demonized, sexualized, and even weaponized, exhaustion unites the mind with the body and society in such a way that we attach larger questions of agency, willpower, and well-being to its symptoms. Mapping these political, ideological, and creative currents across centuries of human development, Exhaustion finds in our struggle to overcome weariness a more significant effort to master ourselves.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231538855
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Today our fatigue feels chronic; our anxieties, amplified. Proliferating technologies command our attention. Many people complain of burnout, and economic instability and the threat of ecological catastrophe fill us with dread. We look to the past, imagining life to have once been simpler and slower, but extreme mental and physical stress is not a modern syndrome. Beginning in classical antiquity, this book demonstrates how exhaustion has always been with us and helps us evaluate more critically the narratives we tell ourselves about the phenomenon. Medical, cultural, literary, and biographical sources have cast exhaustion as a biochemical imbalance, a somatic ailment, a viral disease, and a spiritual failing. It has been linked to loss, the alignment of the planets, a perverse desire for death, and social and economic disruption. Pathologized, demonized, sexualized, and even weaponized, exhaustion unites the mind with the body and society in such a way that we attach larger questions of agency, willpower, and well-being to its symptoms. Mapping these political, ideological, and creative currents across centuries of human development, Exhaustion finds in our struggle to overcome weariness a more significant effort to master ourselves.
Sleight
Author: Kirsten Kaschock
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566892937
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Sisters Lark and Clef have spent their lives honing their bodies for sleight, an interdisciplinary art form that combines elements of dance, architecture, acrobatics, and spoken word. After being estranged for several years, the sisters are reunited by a deceptive and ambitious sleight troupe director named West who needs the sisters' opposing approaches to the form--Lark is tormented and fragile, but a prodigy; Clef is driven to excel, but lacks the spark of artistic genius. When a disturbing mass murder makes national headlines, West seizes on the event as inspiration for his new performance, one that threatens to destroy the very artists performing it. In language that is at once unsettling and hypnotic, Sleight explores ideas of performance, gender, and family to ask the question: what is the role of art in the face of unthinkable tragedy? Kirsten Kaschock has earned degrees from Yale University, the University of Iowa, Syracuse University, and the University of Georgia. The author of two collections of poetry, Unfathoms and A Beautiful Name for a Girl, she resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she is currently a doctoral fellow in dance at Temple University.
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566892937
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Sisters Lark and Clef have spent their lives honing their bodies for sleight, an interdisciplinary art form that combines elements of dance, architecture, acrobatics, and spoken word. After being estranged for several years, the sisters are reunited by a deceptive and ambitious sleight troupe director named West who needs the sisters' opposing approaches to the form--Lark is tormented and fragile, but a prodigy; Clef is driven to excel, but lacks the spark of artistic genius. When a disturbing mass murder makes national headlines, West seizes on the event as inspiration for his new performance, one that threatens to destroy the very artists performing it. In language that is at once unsettling and hypnotic, Sleight explores ideas of performance, gender, and family to ask the question: what is the role of art in the face of unthinkable tragedy? Kirsten Kaschock has earned degrees from Yale University, the University of Iowa, Syracuse University, and the University of Georgia. The author of two collections of poetry, Unfathoms and A Beautiful Name for a Girl, she resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she is currently a doctoral fellow in dance at Temple University.
Marion County in the Making
Author: Fairmont High School (Fairmont, W. Va.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marion County (W. Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marion County (W. Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Crossed Fingers
Author: Gary North
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
A Topical History of Cedar County, Iowa
Author: Clarence Ray Aurner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cedar County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cedar County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
History of Atchison County, Kansas
Author: Sheffield Ingalls
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atchison County (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atchison County (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
History of Harrison County, Missouri
Author: George W. Wanamaker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harrison County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
History of Harrison County, Missouri containing personal sketches of many who have been identified with the development the county.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harrison County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
History of Harrison County, Missouri containing personal sketches of many who have been identified with the development the county.