Download or read book Fictional Character and Superhero Quiz written by Stella Palmer and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover New WorldsIn the age of easy access to diverse entertainment, fans of fictional characters are more powerful than ever before.The success of the MCU is a case in point. Fans of the comic book characters propelled the series to more than 10 billion dollars in gross revenue, and the fictional universe looks poised to capture even more eyeballs (and wallets) with its forays into streaming TV and further movie phases. The future is bright!And that's not the only Extended Universe that has captured the hearts of hundreds of millions of dedicated fans across the globe today. The Wizarding World, the DC Extended Universe, the LotR fandom, and multiple anime virtual worlds are just a few of the many franchises that bring joy to people in 200 different countries!It's not just movies, books, and TV shows any more: as games become more and more cinematic, they are starting to tell rich and multi-layered stories, and create characters that diverse audiences identify with like never before. A simple plumber (Mario) now shares his world with fully 3D people and animals and objects that are each more interesting than the other. Games like Red Dead Redemption feel like the experience of a book translated into an interactive movie.Mythology is also an important source of the fictional characters to whom this book pays loving tribute. From the Greek Gods whose adventures thrilled us when we were little, to the Norse Gods who have been popularized by Comics and the Thor movies, to gods from African and American mythology, the ancient deities feature heavily in these pages!The puzzles in this book are easy to understand, but difficult to master. I will ease you in - the first few chapters contain trivia snippets and puzzles that are relatively easy, but I will ratchet up the difficulty level steadily, till the last few chapters have you learning about many new characters whom you never knew existed!And let's not forget about books. Since the invention of printing several centuries ago, hundreds of millions of books have been written, and many of them have left behind characters that live on in our minds, hearts, and souls long after their creator left the mortal world. Books - and literature - are often the source of the richest portrayals of men, women, and animals, and become the nuclei of extended universes in other forms of media.There are also quirky characters from the worlds of advertising and sports and country mascots: everything fictional can be found in this book, and you will love them all!In this book, you can test whether you are the biggest Fictional Character fan in the world. Anyone who can score above 85% on the puzzle challenges in this book is a legend.You will be entertained!
Download or read book Fictional Characters of Literature written by James Magee and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handy reference book is a literary quiz game that examines 960 fictional literary characters from classical novels written during six periods of Literature.
Download or read book Fictional Characters Real Problems written by Garry Hagberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These new essays explore central aspects of the ethical content of literature: character, its formation, and its role in moral discernment; poetic vision in the context of ethical understanding; self-identity and self-understanding; literature's role in moral growth and change; and the historical background of the ethical dimension of literature.
Download or read book Get to the Point written by Joel Schwartzberg and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this indispensable guide for anyone who must communicate in speech or writing, Schwartzberg shows that most of us fail to convince because we don't have a point-a concrete contention that we can argue, defend, illustrate, and prove. He lays out, step-by-step, how to develop one. In Joel's Schwartzberg's ten-plus years as a strategic communications trainer, the biggest obstacle he's come across-one that connects directly to nervousness, stammering, rambling, and epic fail-is that most speakers and writers don't have a point. They typically have just a title, a theme, a topic, an idea, an assertion, a catchphrase, or even something much less. A point is something more. It's a contention you can propose, argue, defend, illustrate, and prove. A point offers a position of potential value. Global warming is real is not a point. Scientific evidence shows that global warming is a real, human-generated problem that will have a devastating environmental and financial impact is a point. When we have a point, our influence snaps into place. We communicate belief, conviction, and urgency. This book shows you how to identify your point, leverage it, stick to it, and sell it and how to train others to identify and successfully make their own points.
Download or read book Quiz on Fictional Charcters written by and published by Sura Books. This book was released on with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book HISTORICAL FICTION written by Narayan Changder and published by CHANGDER OUTLINE. This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a captivating journey through the annals of time with "Historical Fiction Chronicles." Tailored for enthusiasts and students, this comprehensive guide invites you to explore the rich tapestry of narratives that blend fact with fiction, bringing historical eras to life. Download now to immerse yourself in the works of Ken Follett, Hilary Mantel, and other masterful storytellers, as you navigate themes of love, betrayal, and resilience against historical backdrops. Elevate your understanding of bygone eras, gain insights into the human experience across centuries, and explore the enduring impact of historical fiction on the literary landscape. Whether you're a history buff or a lover of immersive tales, this essential resource is your key to unraveling the depth and brilliance of historical narratives. Download today and embark on a journey through the pages of time!
Download or read book Advice to Writers written by Jon Winokur and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2000-05-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Advice to Writers, Jon Winokur, author of the bestselling The Portable Curmudgeon, gathers the counsel of more than four hundred celebrated authors in a treasury on the world of writing. Here are literary lions on everything from the passive voice to promotion and publicity: James Baldwin on the practiced illusion of effortless prose, Isaac Asimov on the despotic tendencies of editors, John Cheever on the perils of drink, Ivan Turgenev on matrimony and the Muse. Here, too, are the secrets behind the sleight-of-hand practiced by artists from Aristotle to Rita Mae Brown. Sagacious, inspiring, and entertaining, Advice to Writers is an essential volume for the writer in every reader.
Download or read book Fantasy and Science Fiction Heaven 3000 Trivia Questions about Superheroes Mythical Beings and Book and Game Characters written by Stella Palmer and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagination is SpecialIn the age of easy access to diverse entertainment, fans of fictional characters are more powerful than ever before.The success of the MCU is a case in point. Fans of the comic book characters propelled the series to more than 10 billion dollars in gross revenue, and the fictional universe looks poised to capture even more eyeballs (and wallets) with its forays into streaming TV and further movie phases. The future is bright!And that's not the only Extended Universe that has captured the hearts of hundreds of millions of dedicated fans across the globe today. The Wizarding World, the DC Extended Universe, the LotR fandom, and multiple anime virtual worlds are just a few of the many franchises that bring joy to people in 200 different countries!It's not just movies, books, and TV shows any more: as games become more and more cinematic, they are starting to tell rich and multi-layered stories, and create characters that diverse audiences identify with like never before. A simple plumber (Mario) now shares his world with fully 3D people and animals and objects that are each more interesting than the other. Games like Red Dead Redemption feel like the experience of a book translated into an interactive movie.Mythology is also an important source of the fictional characters to whom this book pays loving tribute. From the Greek Gods whose adventures thrilled us when we were little, to the Norse Gods who have been popularized by Comics and the Thor movies, to gods from African and American mythology, the ancient deities feature heavily in these pages!The puzzles in this book are easy to understand, but difficult to master. I will ease you in - the first few chapters contain trivia snippets and puzzles that are relatively easy, but I will ratchet up the difficulty level steadily, till the last few chapters have you learning about many new characters whom you never knew existed!And let's not forget about books. Since the invention of printing several centuries ago, hundreds of millions of books have been written, and many of them have left behind characters that live on in our minds, hearts, and souls long after their creator left the mortal world. Books - and literature - are often the source of the richest portrayals of men, women, and animals, and become the nuclei of extended universes in other forms of media.There are also quirky characters from the worlds of advertising and sports and country mascots: everything fictional can be found in this book, and you will love them all!In this book, you can test whether you are the biggest Fictional Character fan in the world. Anyone who can score above 85% on the puzzle challenges in this book is a legend.You will be entertained!
Download or read book Novel Characters of Literature written by James Magee and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a literary quiz game that examines 300 well-known fictional characters from the Classics witten during six period of Literature.
Download or read book Watchers written by Dean Koontz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “superior thriller”(Oakland Press) about a man, a dog, and a terrifying threat that could only have come from the imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods. That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a dog of alarming intelligence that soon leads him into a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation...
Download or read book Yinka Where Is Your Huzband written by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn and published by Thorndike Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is "Yinka, where is your huzband?" Yinka's Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her work friends think she's too traditional (she's saving herself for marriage!), her girlfriends think she needs to get over her ex already, and the men in her life...well, that's a whole other story. But Yinka herself has always believed that true love will find her when the time is right. Still, when her cousin gets engaged, Yinka commences Operation Find-A-Date for Rachel's Wedding. Aided by a spreadsheet and her best friend, Yinka is determined to succeed. Will Yinka find herself a huzband? And what if the thing she really needs to find is herself? Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? brilliantly subverts the traditional romantic comedy with an unconventional heroine who bravely asks the questions we all have about love. Wry, acerbic, moving, this is a love story that makes you smile but also makes you think--and explores what it means to find your way between two cultures, both of which are yours"--
Download or read book Coming Apart written by Charles Murray and published by Forum Books. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fascinating explanation for why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class, from the acclaimed author of Human Diversity. “I’ll be shocked if there’s another book that so compellingly describes the most important trends in American society.”—David Brooks, New York Times In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity. Drawing on five decades of statistics and research, Coming Apart demonstrates that a new upper class and a new lower class have diverged so far in core behaviors and values that they barely recognize their underlying American kinship—divergence that has nothing to do with income inequality and that has grown during good economic times and bad. The top and bottom of white America increasingly live in different cultures, Murray argues, with the powerful upper class living in enclaves surrounded by their own kind, ignorant about life in mainstream America, and the lower class suffering from erosions of family and community life that strike at the heart of the pursuit of happiness. That divergence puts the success of the American project at risk. The evidence in Coming Apart is about white America. Its message is about all of America.
Download or read book To Best the Boys written by Mary Weber and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The task is simple: Don a disguise. Survive the labyrinth . . . Best the boys. Every year for the past fifty-four years, the residents of Pinsbury Port have received a mysterious letter inviting all eligible-aged boys to compete for an esteemed scholarship to the all-male Stemwick University. The poorer residents look to see if their names are on the list. The wealthier look to see how likely their sons are to survive. And Rhen Tellur opens it to see if she can derive which substances the ink and parchment are created from, using her father’s microscope. In the province of Caldon, where women train in wifely duties and men pursue collegiate education, sixteen-year-old Rhen Tellur wants nothing more than to become a scientist. As the poor of her seaside town fall prey to a deadly disease, she and her father work desperately to find a cure. But when her mum succumbs to it as well? Rhen decides to take the future into her own hands—through the annual all-male scholarship competition. With her cousin, Seleni, by her side, the girls don disguises and enter Mr. Holm’s labyrinth, to best the boys and claim the scholarship prize. Except not everyone is ready for a girl who doesn’t know her place. And not everyone survives the deadly maze. Welcome to the labyrinth. Praise for To Best the Boys: “Atmospheric, romantic, inspiring.” —KRISTEN CICCARELLI, internationally bestselling author of The Last Namsara "Smart, determined, and ready to take on the world: Rhen Tellur is an outstanding heroine with every reason to win a competition historically intended for boys." —Jodi Meadows, New York Times bestselling author of The Incarnate Trilogy and coauthor of My Lady Jane A “Hunger Games/Handmaid’s Tale mash-up.” —BN Teen Blog
Download or read book Mr Murder written by Dean Koontz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-07-05 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a gripping novel of a man accused of stealing not just someone’s identity, but his entire life... A big house. A beautiful wife. Two happy and healthy children. It’s a nice life that writer Martin Stillwater has made for himself. But he can’t shake this feeling of impending disaster. One bad moment on an otherwise fine day has put Marty on a collision course with a killer—a man with a mere shadow of an identity who is desperately searching for something more... Martin’s home. Martin’s family. Martin’s life.
Download or read book Phantoms written by Dean Koontz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Phantoms is gruesome and unrelenting…It’s well realized, intelligent, and humane.”—Stephen King They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body, strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California. At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease. But then they found the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined...
Download or read book The Partner written by John Grisham and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Once he was a well-liked, well-paid young partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm. Then Patrick Lanigan stole ninety million dollars from his own firm—and ran for his life. For four years, he evaded men who were rich and powerful, and who would stop at nothing to find him. Then, inevitably, on the edge of the Brazilian jungle, they finally tracked him down. Now Patrick is coming home. And in the Mississippi city where it all began, an extraordinary trial is about to begin. As prosecutors circle like sharks, as Patrick’s lawyer prepares his defense, as Patrick’s lover prays for his deliverance and his former partners wait for their revenge, another story is about to emerge. Because Patrick Lanigan, the most reviled white-collar criminal of his time, knows something that no one else in the world knows. He knows the truth. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
Download or read book Keeper of the Lost Cities written by Shannon Messenger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestselling series A USA TODAY bestselling series A California Young Reader Medal–winning series In this riveting series opener, a telepathic girl must figure out why she is the key to her brand-new world before the wrong person finds the answer first. Twelve-year-old Sophie has never quite fit into her life. She’s skipped multiple grades and doesn’t really connect with the older kids at school, but she’s not comfortable with her family, either. The reason? Sophie’s a Telepath, someone who can read minds. No one knows her secret—at least, that’s what she thinks… But the day Sophie meets Fitz, a mysterious (and adorable) boy, she learns she’s not alone. He’s a Telepath too, and it turns out the reason she has never felt at home is that, well…she isn’t. Fitz opens Sophie’s eyes to a shocking truth, and she is forced to leave behind her family for a new life in a place that is vastly different from what she has ever known. But Sophie still has secrets, and they’re buried deep in her memory for good reason: The answers are dangerous and in high-demand. What is her true identity, and why was she hidden among humans? The truth could mean life or death—and time is running out.
