Download or read book Vicious written by V. E. Schwab and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. E. Schwab's New York Times bestseller Vicious is a masterful tale of ambition, jealousy, desire, and superpowers. Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong. Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course for revenge—but who will be left alive at the end? In Vicious, V. E. Schwab brings to life a gritty comic-book-style world in vivid prose: a world where gaining superpowers doesn't automatically lead to heroism, and a time when allegiances are called into question. "A dynamic and original twist on what it means to be a hero and a villain. A killer from page one...highly recommended!" —Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Marvel Universe vs The Avengers and Patient Zero One of Publishers Weekly's Best Fantasy Books of 2013 At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Sound Mind written by Tricia Sullivan and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cassidy Walker stumbles into the middle of the highway, bloodied and bruised, Bard college in flames behind her, and manages to flag down a ride, she thinks the worst is over. Arriving in the nearby town of Red Hook, Cassidy tries to call her parents but the phone lines are down - no radio or television signals are being received either. The town, it seems, is cut off from the rest of the world. But that's not the strangest thing. Not by a long shot. Nobody in Red Hook has even heard of Bard College. Furthermore, they claim that Cassidy is not a music student, but a hand at the local stable. And she has lived in a house she can't remember, with people she barely knows, for over a year. The world is fracturing. Cassidy just knows it - just as she knows that she is responsible. As Cassidy undertakes the ultimate road trip, through bubbles of reality, she will find that everything she thinks she knows about herself is wrong. Is she losing her mind or is the world a far more complex place than she thought?

Download or read book Mastering the Craft of Diverse and Inclusive Screenwriting written by Karla Rae Fuller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-12-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and informative textbook provides a guide to the craft of screenwriting with an emphasis on diverse perspectives, underrepresented groups and their screen stories. Readers will learn to master writing a feature-length screenplay in a framework that focuses on diversity, equity and inclusion. With case studies to aid understanding, the book explores the screenwriting process in stages, explaining how to create a logline, as well as character bios, writing and choosing a genre, differentiating between writing a treatment, a synopsis, composing an outline, incorporating the formatting process and finally creating a scene and sequence. The techniques specific to screenwriting will also be covered in the text such as writing dialogue and action, establishing setting and time period and most importantly mastering the craft of visual storytelling. At the same time, the textbook introduces concepts of content choices that are diverse and inclusive, such as stereotypes vs. archetypes, intersectional characters, underrepresented groups and themes such as social justice, systemic racism, class conflict, gender inequity and climate change. Due to its subject matter and inclusive approach, this textbook will be an essential guide for all aspiring and current screenwriters who want to successfully navigate and complement today’s developing industry.

Download or read book Living Your Dreams written by Mark Victor Hansen and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have extraordinary possibilities hidden inside you! Let each of them excite you at the fiber of your being. Those possibilities, ideas, hunches, inklings, and inner nudges are called dreams... All types of dreams: To create wealth, health, happiness and outstanding relationships For yourself, your family and others Falling in love, marrying and living happily ever after Creating your own company Pursuing a superior education Being a visionary leader Gaining respect, fame, and fortune And more! In this powerful, life-changing book from Mark Victor Hansen, discover the proven concepts, powerful skills, easy-to-use techniques and step-by-step action items needed to define your dreams and live them—whatever they are! With a guidebook and a personal goal planner, readers will learn: Believe It to Achieve It Positive Self-Talk How to Turn Problems into Opportunities The Fundamental Secrets of Prosperity How to Gain Financial Freedom To Create a Dream Team Achieve Total Well-Being Develop a Winning Spirit 10 Instant Steps to Success No one knows more about how to live their dream than Mark Victor Hansen. Mark achieved his success when he was well into his 40s—knowing that dreams don’t have deadlines. After reading this inspiring book, you’ll know it too! Now a sought-after dynamic keynote speaker and entrepreneurial marketing maven, Mark has spoken to over 6,000 audiences worldwide and is best known as the co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and brand setting world records with over 500 million books sold.

Download or read book Acceptance is My Superpower written by Alicia Ortego and published by Alicia Ortego. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want your children to honor, celebrate, and see the beauty in our differences? We are all different. And whilst children are often wonderful at accepting differences easily, there are times when a lack of understanding can result in hurtful words or actions. As adults, it is our responsibility to teach children that differences are not flaws but are, in fact, our super powers. Lisa, a primary school student with a love of singing, learns just that in 'Acceptance is my Superpower' when a cruel comment from someone she regards as a friend leads her down a path of discovery of the true meaning of diversity and how it can be applied to everyone. Laid out as a charming poem with colourful illustrations, children will delight in learning: - How to love themselves - How to accept others - How to control negative emotions - How to share their newfound knowledge Learning by example The examples in this story are there to teach children that their differences are not to be ridiculed but instead, celebrated. When Lisa learns this valuable lesson in the book and then shares that knowledge with the person who upset her, we realise the importance of helping children understand the world would be a very boring place indeed if we were all the same. --- "Just like all the petals on all these different flowers, Diversity is beautiful and gives us superpowers!" Please join me and Lucas spread the word to all you know, Acceptance is our superpower and together we will grow. --- From the bestselling author of Kindness is my Superpower Join Lisa and Lucas, as together, they learn the most valuable lesson of all - they have a superpower - their acceptance. Get your copy now!

Download or read book Hero Living written by Rudy Reyes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The star of HBO's Generation Kill and the real-life warrior from the New York Times bestseller presents his empowering philosophy. In his publishing debut, Rudy Reyes introduces his warrior philosophy of "Hero Living": part Homer, part Joseph Campbell, part Bruce Lee, and part Spider-Man. He outlines the various stages in the journey to bring forth the hero within: recognizing the hero's call, following the hero's path, and returning from the battlefield with the hero's hard- earned wisdom. Taking readers step-by-step through his program, Reyes draws from his own heroic story of how he triumphed over his harrowing childhood experiences of poverty and abandonment. Rather than giving up hope, he heeded the hero's call to live up to his full potential-first as a martial-arts champion, then as an elite warrior in the mountains of Afghanistan and sands of Iraq, and finally in his post-Marines life as a personal trainer, actor, and motivational speaker.

Download or read book Kingdom in Dream written by P.T.More and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young and learned man gets up this day late than usual. He is getting everything innovative and different! After the lunch, he walks towards a cattle house. He wends to a hotel to read a newspaper, and it is aside of the street. Thousand billions corruption in River Joint Project, he gets shock. This news is against his moral thinking! On the other hand, his parents hold him responsible for every incident. A family clash causes to his hungry sleep. He gets a dream-he gets a birth as a son of the social reformer. He being a naughtiest boy, his parents plan to keep him in a boarding school. He enjoys the boarding life playing the football on exam days also. When he acknowledges the nations delicate status, he has a dream to make it a superpower. He enters politics, and establishes the new political party to become the prime minister. He arranges a lot assemblies, rallies and wins the general election. He begins to take an oath It is a time of the rising morning so his mama calls him constant. She disturbs it in vain. He feels nothing is with the poor people, their dreams also!

Download or read book The Power of YOU written by Scott Zarcinas and published by DoctorZed Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-Belief, Courage & Conviction! Featuring 4 Power Habits of Success. For every 20 babies that are born, only one of them will be deemed ‘successful’ at the age of 65—only 5% of the population. But those in The 5% Club are no different from anyone else. They have just learned the secret of success, which you can too. The secret is this: Success is merely a habit. A habit of right thinking. A habit of right being. A habit of right doing. When you get your habits right, your membership to The 5% Club is guaranteed. This book is your go-to manual if: • You need to get off the hamster wheel and start living. • You want to thrive, not just survive. • You seek the know-how to manifest the life you want. “Let life happen for you, not to you!” With over two decades of experience as a doctor, mentor and author, Dr. Scott Zarcinas has helped thousands of people get unstuck and back on track. Scott’s experiences, tips and strategies will help you find direction, maximise your potential, and create the life you deserve.

Download or read book Valiente written by A.G. Castillo and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes, heroes must sacrifice the present for the future. After transitioning into his ancestral spiritual life, Chente Jimenez is at a crossroad yet again. His newfound supernatural gifts have distanced him from his boyfriend, Aaron Doss, and, worse yet, unleashed the diabolical revenge of a demonic spirit from hell on the Jimenez family, leaving one close to death. To further complicate matters, Chente’s best friend, Jimmy Davis, is found barely alive at a gay conversion camp in Kentucky, one run by the Ku Klux Klan. His condition is the direct result of the harsh brutality he endured at the hands of cult leader, the Reverend. Jimmy’s return to Avalon disrupts the small town’s social order as his unhinged and erratic behavior drives a deeper wedge between Chente and Aaron. As Chente searches his heart for answers, he faces lingering doubts about his destiny, angry ghosts seeking retribution, and a hooded figure that threatens the happiness of his family and friends. His poignant journey will force him to surrender to the past, embrace the present and safeguard the future.

Download or read book The Other Side of the Sun written by Vincent Tipre and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jin Chang was born to do great things, but is being the founder of the first colony on Mars an accomplishment or a mistake? While many jump at the opportunity to live on the Red Planet, others think that humanity is grasping far beyond its reach. Now, with the weight of two worlds pressing down on the Martian colonists, their lives take an unexpected turn, and the future of mankind lies in the balance. Vincent Tipre was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, where he still lives today. He attended the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign where he received his Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education, which he now uses as a middle school language arts teacher and coach for Chicago Public Schools. While working as a teacher, he published two memoirs about growing up in Chicago, Six Summers and The Tennis Baseball League, before receiving his Master's degree from National University in Creative Writing. This is his first work of fiction. Please visit vincetipre.com to find out more information, to purchase his other books, and to stay up to date on his new writings.

Download or read book Since I Broke into the Heavenly Affairs Office by Mistake written by Sunny Young and published by Sunny Young. This book was released on with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy Watson is a seemingly ordinary middle school pupil, perplexed by the expectations of society and an uncertain future. Her life takes an extraordinary turn following an unforeseen incident that shakes the very foundation of her existence. Is her path illuminated by a benevolent angel or manipulated by a malevolent devil? Where will life takes her to? Since she broke into the Heavenly Affairs Office by mistake, a journey filled with wonder begins...

Download or read book My Cold CEO Fiancee written by Ke LeJiaBing and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Divine level expert in the Hidden Dragon City, on the first day he went to work at the Ice Mountain Fiancée Company, he had actually been arranged to clean the toilet! Just do it, but why is it a ladies' room?

Download or read book Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the US Press 1855 1901 written by Ayendy Bonifacio and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing examples from over 200 English-language and Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals published between January 1855 and October 1901, Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the US Press, 1855-1901 argues that nineteenth-century newspaper poems are inherently paratextual. The paratextual situation of many newspaper poems (their links to surrounding textual items and discourses), their editorialisation through circulation (the way poems were altered from newspaper to newspaper) and their association and disassociation with certain celebrity bylines, editors and newspaper titles enabled contemporaneous poetic value and taste that, in the mid- to late-nineteenth century, were not only sentimental, Romantic and/or genteel. In addition to these important categories for determining a good and bad poem, poetic taste and value were determined, Bonifacio argues, via arbitrary consequences of circulation, paratextualisation, typesetter error and editorial convenience.

Download or read book How to Be a Supervillain written by Michael Fry and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rollicking middle-grade adventure and national bestseller, Michael Fry's witty text and hysterical artwork combines superhero action with classic fish-out-of-water humor. Victor Spoil comes from a long line of famous supervillains and he's fully expected to join their ranks one day. But to his family's utter disappointment, Victor doesn't have a single bad-guy bone in his body. He won't run with scissors, he always finishes his peas, and he can't stand to be messy. Hopeless! As a last-ditch effort before they give up and let him be a -- gasp! -- civilian, Victor's exasperated parents send him to apprentice under a disgraced supervillain called The Smear. This matchup starts off as a complete disaster, but Victor and The Smear eventually find that they have a lot to learn from each other. When the stakes get high as Victor is forced to choose between his mentor and his family morals (or lack thereof) . . . what will the world's nicest bad guy do?

Download or read book Out of Nihility written by Wu ZiQi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 933 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the birth of the Yinyang Continent, the two races of Yin and Yang had been born and bred. The Yang Race possessed the attribute of 'goodness', and possessed all sorts of superpowers to defend their 'goodness'. The attribute of the Yin Clan was' evil '. Demons, demons, ghosts, and other creatures belonged to it. They wanted to enslave the Yang Clan and control the entire continent. A youth who had comprehended 'creating from nothing' from the 'Classic of Virtue' was not tolerated by the current Heavenly Dao and had his body destroyed. His soul, by chance and coincidence, was taken in by the Yinyang Continent and reborn into the body of an ordinary Yang Clan youth. None: "The Yang race is good, forsaken by the Evil God; the Yin race is evil, born of the Good God. Tell me what is evil and what is good? " Close]

Download or read book Balkan Cyberia written by Victor Petrov and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Bulgaria transformed the computer industry behind the Iron Curtain—and the consequences of that transformation for a society that dreamt of a brighter future. Bulgaria in 1963 was a communist country led by a centralized party trying to navigate a multinational Cold War. The state needed money, and it sought prestige. By cultivating a burgeoning computer industry, Bulgaria achieved both but at great cost to the established order. In Balkan Cyberia, Victor Petrov elevates a deeply researched, local story of ambition into an essential history of global innovation, ideological conflict, and exchange. Granted tremendous freedom by the Politburo and backed by a concerted state secret intelligence effort, a new, privileged class of technical intellectuals and managers rose to prominence in Bulgaria in the 1960s. Plugged in to transnational business and professional networks, they strove to realize the party’s radical dreams of utopian automation, and Bulgaria would come to manufacture up to half of the Eastern Bloc’s electronics. Yet, as Petrov shows, the export-oriented nature of the industry also led to the disruption of party rule. Technicians, now thinking with and through computers, began to recast the dominant intellectual discourse within a framework of reform, while technocratic managers translated their newfound political clout into economic power that served them well before and after the revolutions of 1989. Balkan Cyberia reveals the extension of economic and political networks of influence far past the reputed fall of communism, along with the pivotal role small countries played in geopolitical games at the time. Through the prism of the Bulgarian computer industry, the true nature of the socialist international economy, and indeed the links between capitalism and communism, emerge.

Download or read book McCreed written by D. A. Nelson and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ashton struggles with university. He doesn’t have many friends but fills his time with coaching and training, looking to become a professional fighter. One day, his twin sister reminds him of an expensive event that their parents are hosting. Loads of rich and significant guests will be joining the family for food and business conversation. Gorgeous women and suited men littering their mansion. The security business is booming. A person can change forever in a single moment, their whole world in a series of them. At this high-profile and heavily-guarded event, Ashton and his family’s lives are turned upside down.