Download or read book Bad Island written by and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a family takes a boating trip, the last thing they expect is to be shipwrecked on an island-especially an island with weird, otherworldly plants and animals. Now, what started out as a bad vacation turns into a terrible one as Lyle, Karen, and their two kids, Janie and Reese, must find a way off the island while they dodge its strange and dangerous inhabitants. Is the island alive? Is it from another world? In this rousing, Swiss-Family-Robinson tale with a twist, the answers to these questions could save them... or spell their doom.

Download or read book King of the Dark World Returns to City written by Ling HangYuan and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the King of Assassins, the King of the Dark World. No one knew his real name and no one knew where he came from. Because of an accident, he had returned to Hidden City after being heavily injured. Furthermore, he wanted to see just how he would cause such a bloodbath in the city ...

Download or read book Islands of Goodness written by Bassey Ubong and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mira, a young woman from a middle-class family, lives a life of contrasts that pits dreams against reality and expectations against actuality. She meets a young man that could make her straighten out yet remains herself to a fatal level. Ken, the young man, is pragmatic, sometimes to a fatal level. His mentor and unwitting victim, High Chief Babington, sustains his fondness for him, apparently in line with his numerous philosophies of lifefrom organizational management to affairs of the heart. Mira loses her life; Ken dithers about an action that he needed to take, then spends his days after losing his job to confide to his diary the developments in his life, in spite of his fading sanity. Probably Ken may have a third chance or may end with up with a second chance that Mira never had.

Download or read book The Legendary Warrior written by Frank Total and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They use to lived peacefully among each others, they used to be one big empire, fighting side by side . . . until one of them betrayed them all, driving them out from their cities and territories, and ruling among the others. Rising from the weakest tribe, "The Legendary Warrior" also known as “Lun Ne” who will battle his violent rivals, who tried to destroyed his kingdom from generation to generation... Book Reviews: WOW! What a story. by Ironman23 Reader Rating: 5 Stars June 09, 2010: I have found out if this story would have turn into a movie . . . WOW! So I can ́t wait if this story would ́ve turn into a live action movie! There is nothing in this story is bored, everything in it is nonstop action, so I wish I had a movie studio so I can transform this epic story into a real live action movie! Great story! by miram1 Reader Rating: 5 Stars June 09, 2010: This story is the next Robin Hood, Troy, Kingdom of Heaven, and I have found out this is really a great epic story. I liked the characters and the actions with a thrilling story to share with friends and families. This is the next chapter of Troy, Kingdom of Heaven, and The Robin Hood story, so I do recommend this story to every readers who loved the story of Robin Hood, Troy, and even the Kingfom of Heaven. So if you and your loved ones love these stories and movies, then you will love this story, “The Legendary Warrior.”

Download or read book Belonging on an Island written by Daniel Lewis and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, rich natural history of Hawaiian birds that challenges existing ideas about what constitutes biocultural nativeness and belonging This natural history takes readers on a thousand-year journey as it explores the Hawaiian Islands' beautiful birds and a variety of topics including extinction, evolution, survival, conservationists and their work, and, most significantly, the concept of belonging. Author Daniel Lewis, an award-winning historian and globe-traveling amateur birder, builds this lively text around the stories of four species--the Stumbling Moa-Nalo, the Kaua'I 'O'o, the Palila, and the Japanese White-Eye. Lewis offers innovative ways to think about what it means to be native and proposes new definitions that apply to people as well as to birds. Being native, he argues, is a relative state influenced by factors including the passage of time, charisma, scarcity, utility to others, short-term evolutionary processes, and changing relationships with other organisms. This book also describes how bird conservation started in Hawai'i, and the naturalists and environmentalists who did extraordinary work.

Download or read book The Floating Islands of Kendryll written by Jason Thomassen and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A normal walk to school takes a fantastical turn when Damien, Landon, and Elena are drawn to a magical mirror in a local park! When a message in the glass transforms into a portal, they instantly find themselves in the world of Kendryll, where they discover that they are part of an ancient prophecy that foretold the restoration of the Floating Islands. Kendryll is a place with a deep history and exciting future, but to reach that future, the three kids need to defeat the Evil King and his army of magical creatures. To aid them, some special animals who believe in the ancient prophecy rise up, even at the risk of their lives. Guiding them all is the Great Creator, the White Wizard, who makes the ultimate sacrifice for his beloved creation. In this first book of a seven-part series, The Land Beyond the Mirror, Jason Thomassen has crafted an engaging story that will not only entertain readers but will challenge them to consider their own lives—in this world and the next.

Download or read book The Aborigines of Puerto Rico and Neighboring Islands written by Jesse Walter Fewkes and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable recounting of the first formal archaeological excavations in Puerto Rico Originally published as the Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1907, this book was praised in an article in American Anthropologist as doing “more than any other to give a comprehensive idea of the archaeology of the West Indies.” Until that time, for mainly political reasons, little scientific research had been conducted by Americans on any of the Caribbean islands. Dr. Fewkes' unique skills of observation and experience served him well in the quest to understand Caribbean prehistory and culture. This volume, the result of his careful fieldwork in Puerto Rico in 1902-04, is magnificently illustrated by 93 plates and 43 line drawings of specimens from both public and private collections of the islands. A 1907 article in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland described the volume as “a most valuable contribution to ethnographical science.”

Download or read book The Aborigines of Porto Rico and Neighboring Islands written by Jesse Walter Fewkes and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Connell and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanger Rainsford is a big-game hunter, who finds himself washed up on an island owned by the eccentric General Zaroff. Zaroff, a big-game hunter himself, has heard of Rainsford’s abilities with a gun and organises a hunt. However, they’re not after animals – they’re after people. When he protests, Rainsford the hunter becomes Rainsford the hunted. Sharing similarities with "The Hunger Games", starring Jennifer Lawrence, this is the story that created the template for pitting man against man. Born in New York, Richard Connell (1893 – 1949) went on to become an acclaimed author, screenwriter, and journalist. He is best remembered for the gripping novel "The Most Dangerous Game" and for receiving an Oscar nomination for the screenplay "Meet John Doe".

Download or read book Super Sneering System written by Yong Heng and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Wang Xiaoshan had crossed worlds and obtained the King's Glory System. As long as he had enough points, he could exchange them for all his heroes and skills. Joe: Hope and miracles exist! Li Bai: One poem, one drink, one song, one sword. Wang Zhaojun: Those guys who covet my beauty, they all calmly reflect under the ice plains. A-Ke: I don't know your name, but I know when you're going to die! Ruban: I tested the other person's IQ, so I can't use my full strength. Zhuge Liang: Bow to your heart's content so that you can die. — — The whole army will attack!

Download or read book Logs of the Dead Pirates Society written by Randall S. Peffer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000-05-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tale of exploration and adventure is a warm account of the people and places around the waters of Southern Massachusetts.

Download or read book Prince Eric and the Island of Despair written by Brandy House and published by Brandy House. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince Eric finds he has been left alone on a deserted island to perish. He soon learns that he is surrounded by other royalty, not in their proper form, and that they have all been left to a fate worse than death.

Download or read book Specter Files A Novella written by Jaydeep Shah and published by Jaydeep Shah. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While attacking a monster in a dark, evil night, super-commandos reach the Arizona jungles where they find a Specter Files box that contains fifteen files of horror cases. After studying all the files, the super-commandos continue to visit various incredible, terrifying, and life-threatening strange worlds to destroy those worlds and the hair-raising creatures, specters, and demons ... to protect Earth. While the super-commandos are busy destroying the mysterious horror worlds, some evils enter Earth to become rulers of the world. Many vampires that died thousands of years ago awake through the energy of the dark, evil night. During this destructive and horrifying period, many innocent people die, and countries collapse. The most horrifying concern for our planet is ... Will the super-commandos succeed in destroying terrorizing worlds and their terrifying evils? Or will they die outside Earth somewhere in a horror world? Specter Files is a horror, dark fantasy novella about five super-commandos who risk their lives to protect humanity by solving fifteen horror cases.

Download or read book Haunted Europe written by Evert Jan Van Leeuwen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to mainland Europe. By focusing on the development of the relationship between Britain and Ireland and continental Europe over more than two-hundred years, this collection marks an important departure from standard literary critical narratives, which have tended to focus on a narrow time-period and have missed continuities and discontinuities in our ongoing relationship with the mainland.

Download or read book Island Genres Genre Islands written by Ralph Crane and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Island Genres, Genre Islands' moves the debate about literature and place onto new ground by exploring the island settings of bestsellers. Through a focus on four key genres—crime fiction, thrillers, popular romance fiction, and fantasy fiction—Crane and Fletcher show that genre is fundamental to both the textual representation of real and imagined islands and to actual knowledges and experiences of islands. The book offers broad, comparative readings of the significance of islandness in each of the four genres as well as detailed case studies of major authors and texts. These include chapters on Agatha’s Christie’s islands, the role of the island in ‘Bondspace,’ the romantic islophilia of Nora Roberts’s Three Sisters Island series, and the archipelagic geography of Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea. Crane and Fletcher’s book will appeal to specialists in literary studies and cultural geography, as well as in island studies.

Download or read book A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945 2000 written by Brian W. Shaffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie Provides readings of key novels, including Graham Greene’s ‘Heart of the Matter’, Jean Rhys’s ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ and Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’ Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel Discusses overarching cultural, political and literary trends, such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon Gives readers a sense of the richness and diversity of the novel during this period and of the vitality with which it continues to be discussed

Download or read book Jews of the Channel Islands and the Rule of Law 1940 1945 written by David Fraser and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1940 to 1945 the Channel Islands were the only part of Britain to fall under German occupation. This is an examination of the ways in which officials co-operated in the implementation of legal measures against the islands' Jewish community and their property.