Download or read book Fact Hunt written by Larry Bundy Jr and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bumper collection of facts about video games from YouTuber extraordinaire, Larry Bundy Jr, this book will debunk myths and urban legends, delve into developers' biggest successes and failures, explore the odd characters behind the games and unearth the obscure, the forgotten, the cancelled and the abandoned aspects of the gaming world. For the past decade, Larry has painstakingly trawled through countless old magazines, routinely harassed developers, and blackmailed journalists to uncover these amazing tidbits and anecdotes that would have fallen by the wayside of history. Now he has compiled them into a fun, full-colour book with sections on botched game launches, pointless peripherals, unreleased video game movies, weird guest fighters and much, much more. Along the way, he has invited a few famous gaming guests, including Stuart Ashen and Did You Know Gaming?, to provide their favourite quips for your personal perusal. So whatever your level of knowledge about video games, you’re guaranteed to learn a ton of entertaining new information.

Download or read book A Stranger in the Kingdom written by Howard Frank Mosher and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel of murder and its aftermath in a small Vermont town in the 1950s is “reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird . . . Absorbing” (The New York Times). In Kingdom County, Vermont, the town’s new Presbyterian minister is a black man, an unsettling fact for some of the locals. When a French-Canadian woman takes refuge in his parsonage—and is subsequently murdered—suspicion immediately falls on the clergyman. While his thirteen-year-old son struggles in the shadow of the town’s accusations, and his older son, a lawyer, fights to defend him, a father finds himself on trial more for who he is than for what he might have done. “Set in northern Vermont in 1952, Mosher’s tale of racism and murder is powerful, viscerally affecting and totally contemporary in its exposure of deep-seated prejudice and intolerance . . . [A] big, old-fashioned novel.” —Publishers Weekly “A real mystery in the best and truest sense.”—Lee Smith, The New York Times Book Review A Winner of the New England Book Award

Download or read book Before and After Alexander written by Richard A. Billows and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the arc of western history, Ancient Greece is at the apex, owing to its grandeur, its culture, and an intellectual renaissance to rival that of Europe. So important is Greece to history that figures such as Plato and Socrates are still household names, and the works of Homer are regularly adapted into movies. The most acclaimed hero of all, though, is Alexander the Great.While historians have studied Alexander’s achievements at length, author and professor Richard A. Billows delves deeper into the obscure periods of Alexander’s life before and after his reign. In the definitive Before and After Alexander, Billows explores the years preceding Alexander, who, Billows argues, without the foundation laid by his father, Philip II of Macedon. would not have had the resources or influence to develop one of the greatest empires in history. Alexander was groomed from a young age to succeed his father, and by the time Philip was assassinated in 336 BC, his great empire was already well underway.The years following Alexander's death were even more momentous. In this ambitious new work, Richard Billows robustly challenges the notion that the political strife that followed was for lack of a leader as competent as Alexander, pointing out instead that there were too many extremely capable leaders who exploited the power vacuum created by Alexander's death to carve out kingdoms for themselves.Above all, in Before and After Alexander, Billows eloquently and convincingly posits a complex view of one of the greatest empires in history, framing it not as the achievement of one man, but the culmination of several generations of aggressive expansion toward a unified purpose.

Download or read book Dare written by Abiola Abrams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-12-11 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Maya Hope. Double-dipped in cocoa with brick-house curves, she's a lover of jazz, a political poet, and a sociologist. Her best friend and roommate, Athena Jackson, is her opposite in every way -- a petite ex-cheerleader who's always blaring rap, grinding out rhymes, and ready to take the next man home. When Maya is forced to pinch-hit in an audition and bust Athena's rhymes, she finds herself on an undercover escapade in the wild world of hip-hop as the raw, sexy, roughneck Jezebel. After striking a deal with her own personal devil, Maya sets off on the tempting roller-coaster ride of a lifetime -- finding music, more fun than she's ever had, and even a man or two...but not without consequences. Brimming with electric sensuality, Dare is an unforgettable, envelope-pushing odyssey of two gutsy women playing by their own rules.

Download or read book Hunted Athena the Fighter written by Q. Zayne and published by Hughes Empire. This book was released on 2017-02-19 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’m Gabe, one of the wealthiest men on earth, and I’m a monster. I use my psychic gifts to offer young women their hearts' desires. For a price. I divine more about people than they know they’re showing. Some girls think I’m an angel, because I see what they need and solve their problems. The price: they come to my island and entertain me. I’m named for the angel Gabriel, and I own The Billionaires Club. Extreme erotic shows get through my armor so I can feel. The girls come willingly. But I put them through hell. It’s all I live for anymore. Until I go to a fight club in San Francisco. Athena steps into the ring, and I have to take her to my island. I want the stunning fighter for my next hunt. But she’s like me, she connects to an unseen world. I see who she is, and she sees right through me. I may have met my match. Hunted is a Dark Fantasy erotica novella. It’s rated adult 18+ due to language, sexual content and mature themes, including BDSM and nonlethal hunting for erotic sport. After she signs a contract, of course. Hunted is the sixth episode in The Billionaires Club Interracial BDSM series. Although the earlier episodes are standalones, reading Captured before this one will add to your enjoyment. Please spare yourself if you aren’t up for interracial relationships, an intense, damaged paranormal alpha with psychic powers, an untouched virgin fighter from the inner city, scary-hot intimate and rough sex, mentions of violence, and/or emotional tough stuff. BTW, there’s no name-calling or disrespect, just raw life and eroticism. Contents may be triggering for some readers. All characters are over 19. This is a complete book. The main action of this episode resolves. Adventurous readers, enjoy! Q

Download or read book Eve of the Festival written by Olga Levaniouk and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eve of the Festival is a study of Homeric myth-making in the first and longest dialogue between Penelope and Odysseus (Odyssey 19). The author makes a case for seeing virtuoso myth-making as an essential part of this conversation, a register of communication which provides the speakers with a coded way of exchanging their thoughts. At the core of the book is a detailed examination of several myths in the dialogue to understand what is being said and to what effect. The dialogue is interpreted as an exchange of performances which have for their occasion the eve of Apollo's festival and which amount to activating, and even enacting, the myth corresponding within the Odyssey to this ritual event. --Book Jacket.

Download or read book Tales of Dionysus written by William Levitan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English verse translation of the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis

Download or read book A History of Celibacy written by Elizabeth Abbott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What causes people to give up sex? Abbott's provocative and entertaining exploration of celibacy through the ages debunks traditional notions about celibacy--a practice that reveals much about human sexual desires and drives.

Download or read book Hunt the Devil written by Robert L. Ivie and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunt the Devil explains the origins and processes of the repetitive American reflex to demonize and then wage war against perceived opponents as well as ways to break the cycle.

Download or read book Zagi written by Derek Long and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "472 A.D. Britain's greatest king Arthur Pendragon is dead, killed by his evil nephew, Modred, and Mer'zail, the son of the wizard Merlin, prays in desperation for help. His kind, the wizards who served Arthur loyally and protected Britain during his reign, have been declared heretics by the leaders of the emerging faith, Christianity, and are being hunted down and killed by their armies. His prayer is answered by the Lady of the Lake, the keeper of the sword Excalibur. She gives him the sword and commands him to lead his people in a new world to which she will send them. In their new home, they take a new name for themselves: Zagi. After ruling an empire spanning a galaxy for 3,000 years, the Zagi are overthrown by a demon called Armeggon, and their salvation rests with Dra'Kain, the leader of an army of elite warriors, whose massive starship the Thermopylae is the one weapon that can defeat their enemy. His quest to destroy Armeggon will lead him to discover vast magical power within himself and his birthright as the true emperor of the Zagi"--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book Hunted written by Kevin Hearne and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixth novel in the New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles, two-thousand-year-old Druid Atticus O’Sullivan finds himself the target of two goddesses of the hunt and a trickster god determined to unleash the apocalypse. “[Kevin] Hearne is a terrific storyteller with a great snarky wit. . . . Neil Gaiman’s American Gods meets Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden.”—SFFWorld For someone who’s been alive for two thousand years, Atticus O’Sullivan is a pretty fast runner. Good thing, because he’s being chased by not one but two goddesses of the hunt—Artemis and Diana—for messing with one of their own. Dodging their slings and arrows, Atticus, Granuaile, and his wolfhound, Oberon, are making a mad dash across modern-day Europe to seek help from a friend of the Tuatha Dé Danann. His usual magical option of shifting planes is blocked, so instead of playing hide-and-seek, the game plan is . . . run like hell. Crashing the pantheon marathon is the Norse god Loki. Killing Atticus is the only loose end he needs to tie up before unleashing Ragnarok—AKA the Apocalypse. Atticus and Granuaile have to outfox the Olympians and contain the god of mischief if they want to go on living—and still have a world to live in. Don’t miss any of The Iron Druid Chronicles: HOUNDED | HEXED | HAMMERED | TRICKED | TRAPPED | HUNTED | SHATTERED | STAKED | SCOURGED | BESIEGED

Download or read book The Hunters of Artemis written by Giorgio Groom and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Honour gets you killed, cunning keeps you alive" Hypnos, God of Sleep Following the events of The Legions of Athena, Maximus and his friends soon find themselves in the lush green forests of 'Diana' the country ruled by Artemis the Olympian goddess of the Hunt. But for reasons unknown to them, they are greeted by a less than warm welcome by the famed Hunters of Artemis. The forests of Diana not only hosts a variety of dangerous monsters but has also acted as the well tested hunting grounds for Artemis over the centuries. Soon Artemis and her Hunters begin a new hunt with Max and his friends as their prey.

Download or read book Hunting Winter written by Ivy Thorn and published by PNK Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They left me for dead. Now I’m pretty sure I’d have been better off… I used to be the princess of Blackmoor. Rich, beautiful, engaged to be married to the heir. Dean Blackmoor was supposed to win the game, accept my hand in marriage, and rule this town with me. I was supposed to be the closest thing there is to a queen these days. Pampered. Adored. Untouchable. Instead Dean picked his pet over me. Threw me out and left me for dead. But I don’t remember any of that. Now, someone else says he’s had his eye on me. He says he’s been watching me. Following me. Wanting me. He says his name is Gabriel Martinez, but he’s no angel. He’s the lowest of the low, a man that the princess of Blackmoor would never have looked at, let alone touched. He’s a savage, a killer. And my stalker. He says he’s not going to let me go. And if I try to run away? He says he’ll hunt me down until I’m his again. Hunting Winter is the first in the Blackmoor Revenge trilogy, featuring Winter and Gabriel. This is a dark romance, and sensitive readers should be aware that there are no heroes or heroines in this story. This book contains material which may be difficult for some readers, and features characters that are damaged, and morally grey at best.

Download or read book The Twenty second Book of the Iliad written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lore written by Alexandra Bracken and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLER “Epic from start to finish.” —Marie Lu, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Warcross “A brilliant and breathless twist on classic mythology!” —Marissa Meyer, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lunar Chronicles Every seven years, the Agon begins. As punishment for a past rebellion, nine Greek gods are forced to walk the earth as mortals. They are hunted by the descendants of ancient bloodlines, all eager to kill a god and seize their divine power and immortality. Long ago, Lore Perseous fled that brutal world, turning her back on the hunt’s promises of eternal glory after her family was murdered by a rival line. For years she’s pushed away any thought of revenge against the man—now a god—responsible for their deaths. Yet as the next hunt dawns over New York City, two participants seek her out: Castor, a childhood friend Lore believed to be dead, and Athena, one of the last of the original gods, now gravely wounded. The goddess offers an alliance against their mutual enemy and a way to leave the Agon behind forever. But Lore's decision to rejoin the hunt, binding her fate to Athena's, will come at a deadly cost—and it may not be enough to stop the rise of a new god with the power to bring humanity to its knees. From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Darkest Minds comes a sweepingly ambitious, high-octane tale of power, destiny, love, and redemption.

Download or read book Cursed by Athena written by Sherry Cerrano and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the run, concealing her identity, Colors feels responsible for murders committed to get to her. She must act alone, think alone, and avoid surveillance. A hard run pushes away the dread that she'll become a lab rat. She turns to Colonel Sam Hennessey, a security specialist, to help her stop those who hunt her. Like the ancient Greeks who felt they were at the mercy of their gods, Colors feels cursed. Even she doesn't know the whole story behind the secret she keeps and its association to the Athena Project. With forces aligned against her, Colors fights to keep her secret and stop the insanity now connected to her life.

Download or read book Homer s Iliad The Real Story written by John D. Martin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the nearly three millennia since its creation, the Iliad's Real Story has gone undiscovered. Homer, a blind poet as antiquity believed him to be, created a powerful war story which must have enthralled his listening audiences. But this story concealed another one, far grander in design, and immensely more clever in execution, which can be discovered only by careful examination of the written text. Living in an age where literacy was minimal, Homer created this story for the gods, and undoubtedly never expected any mortal to understand it. Homer's imaginative fantasy radically undermines traditional Trojan War mythology, and exposes the speciousness of war's glory, the folly of the warriors who (supposedly) fight for it, and the amorality of the gods who help them do so. Homer's great war poem, great indeed, war poem indeed, is in its depths antiwar. In piecing together the Iliad's web of secret plans, deeply hidden motives, and subtle lies and deceptions, and in the process identifying and discarding post-Homeric corruptions to the text, we will find an Iliad which is not a prelude to Achilles' glorious early death and the Fall of Troy, but the opposite. In a concealed ending, towards which the entire story has been leading, Homer's own words will tell us how Achilles, as supplicated by Priam, chooses a long life without renown, and goes home. The Greek army, unwilling to fight without its greatest warrior, leaves also, sparing peaceful, holy Troy, Zeus’ favorite city and best hope for mankind. Homer tells this story with a brilliance that is almost unimaginable, until one actually encounters it. The Real Iliad is an immense intellectual challenge and an inexhaustible source of surprises. Far from a formalistically "heroic" epic, as has long been thought, it is an imaginative expression of the full creative powers of Western antiquity's greatest author.