Download or read book Star Darlings Stealing Starlight written by Disney Book Group and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl on Earth has made a terrible wish. And it's one that could hurt her best friend. Now Vivica, Starling Academy's mean girl, is on her way to help grant it. The Star Darlings must stop her--otherwise Rancora's evil power will be restored. But will they be able to change the wisher's bitter heart?

Download or read book Comic Book Encyclopedia written by Ron Goulart and published by It Books. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 4–colour, illustrated best–of–the–best of the comic book world – with writers/creators who launched an industry (Jack Kirby, Stan Lee), amazing graphic novels (Preacher, The Watcher), legendary artists (Jim Lee) and characters as wide–ranging as Archie, The Gay Ghost, Batman, Blue Devil and the Fantastic Four. Never before has there been a single volume of superheroes, graphic novels, strange comic icons, legendary writers and artists of the comic world. Comic Book Encyclopedia is the multiverse of comic legend and lore for every comic–book fan, and for everyone who wants to understand the characters, history, and universal appeal of this world. Collected into a single volume, this is the best–of–the–best of comics. From the 1930s to today, it includes everything a young, budding comic reader – or an experienced pro – needs to know and/or read.

Download or read book Watching the English written by Kate Fox and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated, with new research and over 100 revisions Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated and revised edition of Watching the English - which over the last decade has become the unofficial guidebook to the English national character - features new and fresh insights on the unwritten rules and foibles of "squaddies," bikers, horse-riders, and more. Fox revisits a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and bizarre codes of behavior. She demystifies the peculiar cultural rules that baffle us: the rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid pantomime rule. Class anxiety tests. The roots of English self-mockery and many more. An international bestseller, Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful and often hilarious look at the English and their society.

Download or read book The Real Vibranium of Africa written by Maurice Martinez and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true history of a material found in Africa that acts like vibranium from the movie Black Panther. In 2017 the rain poured down from the tears of ancestral gods upon the shoulders of an 8 year-old boy as he reached into the dirty pit which covered his feet with a layer of thick mud. That day, he was not in school. In fact, it had been two years since he had even considered spending a day in school. Now, he had to do other work. Shoveling mud into a bag, he threw it upon his back. The weight of the bag was heavier than 8 milk jugs, and buckled his legs as he made his way across the slimy brown pit. But he wasn''t allowed to move slowly. He had to sprint with the bag on his back as though time was running out, and his legs strained and back throbbed in pain from the herniated disc which had developed from carrying such heavy loads. After 12 hours of this backbreaking work, the 8 year-old boy took a moment to go and gather his younger sister and brother from the other side of the filthy pit. They were just five and six years old and had been spending an equally long 12 hour day methodically sifting through the mud in a tray to pluck out the black colored vibranium ore. It was not healthy to breathe or to expose one''s skin to vibranium, and was only safe when it was refined into a technologically advanced machine. In fact, they had already lost their father, who spent years in vibranium mines, to a vibranium induced cancerous tumor in his neck. Before they lost him, his neck had swollen to the size of a large melon. But their memories of him we''re far from the nightmares that shook them from their sleep every single night. They remembered him as one of their smiling ancestors who always had an infectious laugh regardless of the situation. However, today he had joined the other deities and he was shedding his tears, through the ancestral water mirror, onto the muddy pit where his children worked. It was as though he was trying to send them a message that this was a futile exercise and that they should stop. But there were no other options in Africa''s Democratic Republic of the Congo, they were forced to work, and all of this work collectively brought in three dollars for the day. Seven thousand miles away, a corporate executive landed in his private jet on a sun baked runway. Its modern vibranium clad engines omitted the commonly heard screaming sound which echoed against the pavement on the runway. It was reminiscent of the Congolese children''s screams when they awoke from their nightmares. However, this man had far bigger concerns than a few unknown children halfway across the globe. He was an honored man, one of the most notable alive. If one were to count the wealthiest men on one hand, he was one of the richest men on the planet, but he was also an environmentally conscience middle aged man who was excited to see the hundreds of thousands of gallons of vibranium induced fuel burned up in a few moments time by the launch of his new rocket into space. He made his way with his driver to one of his newly developed electric vehicles. Its vibranium infused electronics ranked it as the most advanced car on the planet. Allowing the self-driving computer system along with his driver to take charge of the ride, the fully electric vehicle meandered across Florida, and he pulled out his newly minted mobile phone and checked his email. The battery life remaining on the phone read 98% and to his surprise, since morning, he had lost much less battery life than he would''ve lost on his previous smartphone. Indeed, this was because the new phone battery was almost entirely made from vibranium. As he scrolled through his email, he was frustrated. Too many of his workers had been forced to seek medical treatment for accidents, and they were scanned at the hospital by vibranium infused MRI scanners. So what is the real vibranium of Africa?This history book tells the true story of the real vibranium of Africa in our technological devices.

Download or read book Not My Father s Son written by Alan Cumming and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Equal parts memoir, whodunit, and manual for living . . . a beautifully written, honest look at the forces of blood and bone that make us who we are, and how we make ourselves.” --Neil Gaiman In his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career. A beloved star of stage, television, and film—“one of the most fun people in show business” (Time magazine)—Alan Cumming is a successful artist whose diversity and fearlessness is unparalleled. His success masks a painful childhood growing up under the heavy rule of an emotionally and physically abusive father—a relationship that tormented him long into adulthood. When television producers in the UK approached him to appear on a popular celebrity genealogy show in 2010, Alan enthusiastically agreed. He hoped the show would solve a family mystery involving his maternal grandfather, a celebrated WWII hero who disappeared in the Far East. But as the truth of his family ancestors revealed itself, Alan learned far more than he bargained for about himself, his past, and his own father. With ribald humor, wit, and incredible insight, Alan seamlessly moves back and forth in time, integrating stories from his childhood in Scotland and his experiences today as a film, television, and theater star. At times suspenseful, deeply moving, and wickedly funny, Not My Father’s Son will make readers laugh even as it breaks their hearts.

Download or read book Film Remakes written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide a comprehensive and systematic account of the phenomenon of cinematic remaking. Drawing upon recent theories of genre and intertextuality, Film Remakes describes remaking as both an elastic concept and a complex situation, one enabled and limited by the interrelated roles and practices of industry, critics, and audiences. This approach to remaking is developed across three broad sections: the first deals with issues of production, including commerce and authors; the second considers genre, plots, and structures; and the third investigates issues of reception, including audiences and institutions.

Download or read book Civil Resistance in Kosovo written by Howard Clark and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively account of how people power has shaped British history -- from Peterloo to the Poll tax and beyond.

Download or read book The Cupcake Ball written by Cyndy Kirkham and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon and Milo are twins. Milo is very outgoing, and Simon tends to be shy. They found common ground and comradery when they took Petie Bird's advice and invited their friends to their cupcake ball. Simon and Milo experienced the fun of party planning, getting together with friends for music, dancing, and cupcakes, and lots of crazy kitty antics. Simon found out he had quite a few friends after all. At the end of the day, Simon said it best, "Just like grapes, good friends come in bunches. We certainly have a bunch!"

Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel written by Jan Baetens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 1315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and twenty-first century. It includes original discussion on the current state of the graphic novel and analyzes how American, European, Middle Eastern, and Japanese renditions have shaped the field. Thirty-five leading scholars and historians unpack both forgotten trajectories as well as the famous key episodes, and explain how comics transitioned from being marketed as children's entertainment. Essays address the masters of the form, including Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore, and Marjane Satrapi, and reflect on their publishing history as well as their social and political effects. This ambitious history offers an extensive, detailed and expansive scholarly account of the graphic novel, and will be a key resource for scholars and students.

Download or read book Perfect Strangers written by J. T. Geissinger and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Amazon Top 50 Bestseller "These kisses of his...they're demanding and possessive. They're hungry and deep. They're the kisses of a man who wants more of a woman-who wants everything-and isn't going to stop until he gets it." Author Olivia Rossi hasn't been able to write a word since tragedy struck two years ago and ripped her world apart. Heartbroken and still haunted by the past, she accepts an offer to spend the summer at a friend's apartment in Paris in search of healing and her lost muse. What she finds instead is James, an enigmatic stranger who ignites in her an unexpected and all-consuming passion. Agreeing to tell each other nothing more than their first names, Olivia and James embark on a torrid affair. But the more time they spend together, the more Olivia begins to realize her summer fling is turning into a powerful connection...and that the magnetic man she's falling in love with might not be what he seems at all.

Download or read book The Carry On Films written by Steven Gerrard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saucy, rude and vulgar—the 31 Carry On films remain an important part of the history of British cinematic and low brow comedy. In this book, Gerrard discusses the Carry On roots in the music halls of the Victorians and the saucy seaside postcards of Donald McGill. Made in post-war Britain, these films reflect a remarkable period of social change as the British Empire faded and a nation learned to laugh at itself. Nothing was sacred to the Carry On team. James Bond and Cleopatra were mercilessly lampooned, Miss World competitions and toilet factories came in for a cinematic pasting, while Sid James’ laugh, Barbara Windsor’s wiggle, Kenneth Williams’ flared nostrils and Charles Hawtrey’s “Oh, hello!” became synonymous with laughter, merriment and fun. Gerrard’s work examines the Carry On films as part of a wider canvas linking both their heritage and tradition to the contextual world they mirrored. The Carry On Films is an essential read for Carry On fans the country through.“div>Ding dong! Carry On!/div

Download or read book Carnal Urges written by J.T. Geissinger and published by Bramble. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark, sexy mafia romance where the fast-paced tension of John Wick meets the high stakes love of Romeo and Juliet. Carnal (adjective): 1) Relating to the pleasures of the body 2) Given to sensual indulgence 3) The man who kidnapped me The devil has blue eyes, an Irish accent, and a hatred for me that runs deep. He blames me for starting a war. Consorting with his enemies. Getting his men killed. Though I’m innocent on all charges, he wants his pound of flesh. With an eye on revenge, he makes me his captive. But as we'll both soon discover, there are more powerful urges than that for revenge. When the devil meets his match but she’s his sworn enemy, that’s when the real war begins. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Savage Hearts written by J.T. Geissinger and published by Bramble. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark, sexy mafia romance where the fast-paced tension of John Wick meets the high stakes love of Romeo and Juliet. Savage (adjective): 1) Not domesticated; wild and untamed 2) A brutal or vicious person 3) Malek Antonov He’s a myth. A ghost. A legend. A Bratva assassin so feared, some won’t even dare to speak his name. He comes in search of vengeance for the death of his brother, but what he finds instead is me. A girl he thinks is someone else. Someone unrelated to the man who killed his brother. Except I am. And when he finds out my true identity, he decides to take me as repayment for what he lost. Now, I’m a little bird trapped in a cage, and the only way to survive is to make friends with the monster who captured me. But friendship isn’t what the monster has in mind. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Physics written by John D. Cutnell and published by Wiley Global Education. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 1007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physics, 11th Edition provides students with the skills that they need to succeed in this course, by focusing on conceptual understanding; problem solving; and providing real-world applications and relevance. Conceptual Examples, Concepts and Calculations problems, and Check Your Understanding questions help students to understand physics principles. Math Skills boxes, multi-concept problems, and Examples with reasoning steps help students to improve their reasoning skills while solving problems. "The Physics Of" boxes show students how physics principles are relevant to their everyday lives.

Download or read book Tinker Bell and Friends written by Cameron House and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOARD BOOK. Music module plays a favourite melody Deluxe padded cover with foil and embossing Sturdy board pages 1 trigger.

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