Download or read book Rise of the Alien Queen written by Ruth Anne Phillips and published by Ruth Anne L. Phillips. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rise of the Alien Queen is the story of Susan Allen, a foul mouthed, about to be divorced housewife, and mother of two grown children. She is suffering from depression and grappling with what to do next after the failure of her marriage. Her philandering husband has hidden all of their assets and she can't even get a job at the local DollarLand. While attempting to rescue the pilot of a crashed alien spacecraft, Susan inadvertently gets caught up in an off-world adventure filled with romance, politics, deceit and murder. Rise of the Alien Queen is a riff on the current crop of romance and paranormal literature with humorous and often biting commentary on our current politics, racism, and the mistreatment of women. Religion, misogyny, ageism, rape culture, fat shaming, and an evil ambassador are ever present as the heroine navigates her way through yet another hostile and unforgiving world. It's time for Susan to decide; will she give up on everything and wallow in her depression and self-pity? Or will she rise up and become the woman she was always meant to be?
Download or read book The Rise of the New Queen written by Ronnie Stich and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morgan Pierce awakens one morning to the news that alien spacecraft are hovering above the major cities of Earth. She is forced to leave the life she once knew and join up with a secret government that knows everything about her. She learns that the government is not what it appears to be, and finds it hard to trust anything she is told. Then, when a second group of aliens show up, chaos ensues. The two alien races have different plans in mind for the Earth. Morgan discovers that one of the groups of aliens wish to crown her queen in an attempt to help Earth gain entry into an inter-planetary organization called the Universal Order. Along the way she finds out that neither of the alien races are what they originally appeared to be and that there is a dark secret to be discovered about the Earth and its people.
Download or read book Rise from the Ashes written by C. S. Hale and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN ALIEN QUEEN Human Astrid Carbrev never expected to be queen of Bánalfar, much less be allowed to stay once her presence on Crenfor was discovered. When, against all odds, she and her Alfari husband Valemar conceive a child, instead of being imprisoned, Astrid finds herself appointed the Astrun Federation's new ambassador to Crenfor. Now she has a decision to make-allow trade between the technologically advanced Federation and her husband's enemies, the Cordair, or leave the problem for future generations.A GROWING RESISTANCEUnfortunately, Astrid doesn't have much time to decide. As animosity toward her and the child she carries spreads through the border keep of Aedenfal, rumors of a new peril from the south arise, pulling her husband away when she needs him the most. Although the threat of the Cordair looms, Astrid can no longer deny the hazard she faces from her own people.A RISING DANGERAstrid must determine her allies quickly, for treason is taking shape in the shadows, promising to unleash chaos across all of Bánalfar. Now no one is safe. To defend her family and her people, Astrid must become the queen the prophecy promised. To do otherwise could mean the end of Bánalfar itself.
Download or read book The History of Modern Europe pt I From the rise of the modern kingdoms to the peace of Westphalia in 1648 written by William Russell and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise and Growth of the English Nation written by William Hickman Smith Aubrey and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Red written by Ava Jae and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alien queen Kora has a problem as vast as the endless crimson deserts. She’s the first female ruler of her territory in generations, but her people are rioting and call for her violent younger twin brother to take the throne. Despite assassination attempts, a mounting uprising of nomadic human rebels, and pressure to find a mate to help her rule, she’s determined to protect her people from her brother’s would-be tyrannical rule. Eros is a rebel soldier hated by aliens and human alike for being a half-blood. Yet that doesn’t stop him from defending his people, at least until Kora’s soldiers raze his camp and take him captive. He’s given an ultimatum: be an enslaved bodyguard to Kora, or be executed for his true identity—a secret kept even from him. When Kora and Eros are framed for the attempted assassination of her betrothed, they flee. Their only chance of survival is to turn themselves in to the high court, where revealing Eros’s secret could mean a swift public execution. But when they uncover a violent plot to end the human insurgency, they must find a way to work together to prevent genocide.
Download or read book pt I From the rise of the modern kingdoms to the peace of Westphalia in 1648 written by William Russell and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Warriors of Ultramar written by Graham McNeill and published by Games Workshop. This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the cold dakness of space, the voracious alian tyranids travel from world to world, consuming all in a futile attempt to slake their hunger for bio-matter. Lying directly in theirpath is the industrial planet Tarsis Ultra, where Captain Uriel Ventris and the Ultramarines of Fourth Company stand shoulder to shoulder with their battle-brothers from the Mortifactors Chapter. As war rages and the situation looks bleak, Uriel must accept the barbaric traditions of his allies and act against the ancient tactics laid down in the holy Codex Astartes if there is to be any chance of destroying the alien menace. Previous Titles: Nightbringer - 9781849708609 Dark Hunters: Umbra Sumus - 9781849708449
Download or read book Gothicka written by Victoria Nelson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic, Romanticism's gritty older sibling, has flourished in myriad permutations since the eighteenth century. In Gothicka, Victoria Nelson identifies the revolutionary turn it has taken in the twenty-first. Today's Gothic has fashioned its monsters into heroes and its devils into angels. It is actively reviving supernaturalism in popular culture, not as an evil dimension divorced from ordinary human existence but as part of our daily lives. To explain this millennial shift away from the traditionally dark Protestant post-Enlightenment Gothic, Nelson studies the complex arena of contemporary Gothic subgenres that take the form of novels, films, and graphic novels. She considers the work of Dan Brown and Stephenie Meyer, graphic novelists Mike Mignola and Garth Ennis, Christian writer William P. Young (author of The Shack), and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. She considers twentieth-century Gothic masters H. P. Lovecraft, Anne Rice, and Stephen King in light of both their immediate ancestors in the eighteenth century and the original Gothic-the late medieval period from which Horace Walpole and his successors drew their inspiration. Fictions such as the Twilight and Left Behind series do more than follow the conventions of the classic Gothic novel. They are radically reviving and reinventing the transcendental worldview that informed the West's premodern era. As Jesus becomes mortal in The Da Vinci Code and the child Ofelia becomes a goddess in Pan's Labyrinth, Nelson argues that this unprecedented mainstreaming of a spiritually driven supernaturalism is a harbinger of what a post-Christian religion in America might look like.
Download or read book Aliens Phalanx written by Scott Sigler and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Infected delivers medieval carnage as a pre-industrial society fights extinction at the hands of a massive infestation of Xenomorphs. Ataegina was an isolated world of medieval castles, varied cultures, and conquests, vibrant until the demons rose and spread relentless destruction. Swarms of lethal creatures with black husks, murderous claws, barbed tails and dreaded "tooth-tongues" raged through the lowlands, killing ninety percent of the planet's population. Terrified survivors fled to hidden mountain keeps where they eke out a meager existence. When a trio of young warriors discovers a new weapon, they see a chance to end this curse. To save humanity, the trio must fight their way to the tunnels of Black Smoke Mountain--the lair of the mythical Demon Mother. Alien: Phalanx TM & © 2019 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.
Download or read book The Rise and Growth of the English Nation written by W. H. S. Aubrey and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Queen s Resistance written by Rebecca Ross and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Red Queen and Grave Mercy comes the captivating sequel to the Renaissance France-inspired epic fantasy The Queen’s Rising. Brienna is a mistress of knowledge and is beginning to settle into her role as the daughter of the once disgraced lord, Davin MacQuinn. Though she’d just survived a revolution that will return a queen to the throne, she faces yet another challenge: acceptance by the MacQuinns. But as Queen Isolde Kavanagh’s closest confidant, she’ll have to balance serving her father’s House as well as her country. Then there’s Aodhan Morgan, formerly known as Cartier Évariste, who is adjusting to the stark contrast between his pre-rebellion life in Valenia and his current one as lord of a fallen House. As he attempts to restore the Morgane name, he let his mind wander—what if he doesn’t have to raise his House alone? What if Brienna could stand by his side? But Brienna and Cartier must put their feelings aside, as there are more vital tasks at hand—the Lannons' trial, forging alliances, and ensuring that no one halts the queen’s coronation. Resistance is rumbling among the old regime’s supporters, who are desperate to find a weakness in the rebels’ forces. And what makes one more vulnerable than love?
Download or read book The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory written by George Saintsbury and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1897, "The Flourishing Of Romance And The Rise Of Allegory" is a fascinating treatise by English writer George Saintsbury on Romance. Contents include: "The function of Latin", "Chansons De Geste", "The Matter of Britain", "Antiquity in Romance", "The making of English and the settlement of European Prosody", "Middle High German Poetry", "The 'Fox'", "The 'Rose'", etc. George Edward Bateman Saintsbury (23 October 1845 - 28 January 1933) was an English writer, scholar, literary historian, critic and wine connoisseur. Other notable works by this author include: "A Primer of French Literature" (1880), "Short History of French Literature" (1882), and "History of Elizabethan Literature" (1887). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Download or read book The Queen s Dumbshows written by Claire Sponsler and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No medieval writer reveals more about early English drama than John Lydgate, Claire Sponsler contends. Best known for his enormously long narrative poems The Fall of Princes and The Troy Book, Lydgate also wrote numerous verses related to theatrical performances and ceremonies. This rich yet understudied body of material includes mummings for London guildsmen and sheriffs, texts for wall hangings that combined pictures and poetry, a Corpus Christi procession, and entertainments for the young Henry VI and his mother. In The Queen's Dumbshows, Sponsler reclaims these writings to reveal what they have to tell us about performance practices in the late Middle Ages. Placing theatricality at the hub of fifteenth-century British culture, she rethinks what constituted drama in the period and explores the relationship between private forms of entertainment, such as household banquets, and more overtly public forms of political theater, such as royal entries and processions. She delineates the intersection of performance with other forms of representation such as feasts, pictorial displays, and tableaux, and parses the connections between the primarily visual and aural modes of performance and the reading of literary texts written on paper or parchment. In doing so, she has written a book of signal importance to scholars of medieval literature and culture, theater history, and visual studies.
Download or read book Aliens vs Predators Rift War written by Weston Ochse and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Predators choose LV-363 for a hunt and seed it with Xenomorph eggs, the result is bizarre alien hybrids and humans trapped between the Predators and their prey. The planet LV-363 teems with exotic life, including a plant growing in the shadows of its deep rifts. The plant’s flower yields a valuable narcotic, and people are forced by the cartels to harvest it. When a Yautja (Predator) ship arrives for a hunting ritual, the Predators seed the rifts with Xenomorph eggs. The aliens emerge and the result is bizarre and deadly hybrids, with humans trapped between the Predators and their prey. These deadly Xenomorph hybrids—some of which possess the ability to fly—swarm out of control and may prove more than either the Yautja or the humans can defeat. © 2021 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS
Download or read book Aliens Artbook written by Printed in Blood and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stunning brand-new exclusive original art collated with Printed in Blood to celebrate the classic film Aliens. A lavish coffee table book bursting with brand new and exclusive art. The book includes over 100 pieces by professional artists, illustrators, concept artists, comics artists and graphic designers. From character portraits, faux book covers and poster concepts, to iconic scenes, recruitment posters and renderings of the iconic Xenomorph and Alien Queen, each artist puts their own stamp on the Alien universe.
Download or read book The Snow Queen written by Joan D. Vinge and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the slaughter of the sea mers. But soon the galactic stargate will close, isolating Tiamat, and the 150-year reign of the Summer primitives will begin. All is not lost if Arienrhod, the ageless, corrupt Snow Queen, can destroy destiny with an act of genocide. Arienrhod is not without competition as Moon, a young Summer-tribe sibyl, and the nemesis of the Snow Queen, battles to break a conspiracy that spans space.
