Download or read book The Nethers written by M. E. Parker and published by Diversion Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the jaw-dropping sequel to Jonesbridge, M. E. Parker takes readers on a furious ride through bedlam—perfect for fans of Mad Max and Hugh Howey’s Wool. The distance between your cell and freedom is a hell of a journey. As Jonesbridge descends into chaos, Myron seizes an opportunity as a member of a mobile recovery squad, sent to salvage metal. He wanders the Nethers, where he meets a nomad who seeks out people for delivery to a mysterious place called Mesa Gap in exchange for fresh water and supplies. On their journey, they encounter dangerous groups of cultists and fanatics, as well as refugees, as desperate as Myron for a way out. Myron’s love, Sindra, was banished for giving birth, and is now holed up in a village by the sea. Myron’s mission is to get Sindra and flee through the ancient highway that promises freedom. His journey will test every limit, and force Myron to make decisions that could ultimately alter the future of what is left of the human race. “Jonesbridge isn’t just a dystopia of geography, but that of the human condition, ravaged by history . . . M.E. Parker is a cartographer of the spirit, navigating us through his powerful prose that is unflinchingly honest.” —Peter Tieryas, author of United States of Japan

Download or read book The Nether written by Jennifer Haley and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nether, a daring examination of moral responsibility in virtual worlds, opens with a familiar interrogation scene given a technological twist. As Detective Morris, an online investigator, questions Mr. Sims about his activities in a role-playing realm so realistic it could be life, she finds herself on slippery ethical ground. Sims argues for the freedom to explore even the most deviant corners of our imagination. Morris holds that we cannot flesh out our malign fantasies without consequence. Their clash of wills leads to a consequence neither could have imagined. Suspenseful, ingeniously constructed, and fiercely intelligent, Haley’s play forces us to confront deeply disturbing questions about the boundaries of reality.

Download or read book Ninth Mind Volume One written by Jeffree Crabtree and published by Teflon Beast Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-24 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninth Mind is the debut short story collection from author Jeffree Crabtree. Volume One is a gathering of tales featuring the bizarre, the fantastical, the horrible, and the strange that lurks and lingers in all corners of the human experience.

Download or read book Heroines of Film and Television written by Norma Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As portrayals of heroic women gain ground in film, television, and other media, their depictions are breaking free of females as versions of male heroes or simple stereotypes of acutely weak or overly strong women. Although heroines continue to represent the traditional roles of mothers, goddesses, warriors, whores, witches, and priestesses, these women are no longer just damsels in distress or violent warriors. In Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture,award-winning authors from a variety of disciplines examine the changing roles of heroic women across time. In this volume, editors Norma Jones, Maja Bajac-Carter, and Bob Batchelor have assembled a collection of essays that broaden our understanding of how heroines are portrayed across media, offering readers new ways to understand, perceive, and think about women. Contributors bring fresh readings to popular films and television shows such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Kill Bill, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Weeds, Mad Men, and Star Trek. The representations and interpretations of these heroines are important reflections of popular culture that simultaneously empower and constrain real life women. These essays help readers gain a more complete understanding of female heroes, especially as related to race, gender, power, and culture. A companion volume to Heroines of Comic Books and Literature, this collection will appeal to academics and broader audiences that are interested in women in popular culture.

Download or read book an other written by Sharon Patricia Holland and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an other, Sharon Patricia Holland offers a new theorization of the human animal/divide by shifting focus from distinction toward relation in ways that acknowledge that humans are also animals. Holland centers ethical commitments over ontological concerns to spotlight those moments when Black people ethically relate with animals. Drawing on writers and thinkers ranging from Hortense Spillers, Sara Ahmed, Toni Morrison, and C. E. Morgan to Jane Bennett, Jacques Derrida, and Donna Haraway, Holland decenters the human in Black feminist thought to interrogate blackness, insurgence, flesh, and femaleness. She examines MOVE’s incarnation as an animal liberation group; uses sovereignty in Morrison’s A Mercy to understand blackness, indigeneity, and the animal; analyzes Charles Burnett’s films as commentaries on the place of animals in Black life; and shows how equestrian novels address Black and animal life in ways that rehearse the practices of the slavocracy. By focusing on doing rather than being, Holland demonstrates that Black life is not solely likened to animal life; it is relational and world-forming with animal lives.

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Download or read book Storms written by Adam Williams and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My name is Arianna. Beware the storms. When you hear thunder, I hear battle cries. When you see rain, I see blood. My kind has warred with each other for ages. I fight on one side and my love on the other." Shuddering, she continued. "We thought we would bring peace, but in the end it would not be so. My biggest regret is also my greatest joy. We had a child. He is neither Light nor Dark, but balanced evenly. His name is Alexander. Both sides fear him and call him tainted. In their haste of ignorance they ordered him to be executed, but we could not stand by and let our son be destroyed. My love drew their attention away by challenging them to fight buying me time to hide our child with his freedom and possibly his life as well. Please take him. Protect him where I could not." But when Alexander is found he must learn to embrace his destiny and become who he really is. The storms are brewing and he must stand against his race if he is to save earth and the family he loves. The storms are coming.

Download or read book What the Village Gave Me written by Denise Davis-Maye and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In What the Village Gave Me, the contributors—all women of color—present their varied experiences regarding the conceptualizations of womanhood, beauty, and gender roles. The goal of this book is to illuminate how these issues intersect with the transmission of cultural norms, marriage rates, and the development of professional self-efficacy. What the Village Gave Me illuminates topics relevant to women of color and touches upon careers, relationships, gender role understanding and subscription, ethnic identity, and cultural representation. This collection addresses how women who self-identify as “women of color” see themselves and manage their location in their work-life, families, and communities. By giving voice to the contributors, readers are afforded glimpses into the lives of these women and are provided with a valuable tool in the broader discourse on womanhood. This collection will help them see how race, class, and ethnicity work to divide or unite women.

Download or read book Another 365 Days of Flash Fiction written by C.M. Simpson and published by C.M. Simpson. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 6-words to 1,000, and from werewolves to wizards, these pieces of flash range from an imagined past to an imagined future, exploring new heroes and old, and trying to understand where some of the traditions of today, might fit in a time when mankind explores other worlds among the stars.

Download or read book Unreap my Heart written by Kate Evangelista and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only a villain can save the day. During his thousand year banishment in the Nethers, Balthazar thought of nothing but taking over the Crossroads from Death. On the day he puts his plans into action, Balthazar finds the Crossroads on lockdown. Death has been stabbed by Brianne's Bitterness, a blade that slowly leaches him of his powers. In order to challenge Death for his seat and prevent utter chaos, Balthazar is forced into a mission to find the Redeemer, the only being capable of pulling out the blade from Death's chest. The only person who can identify the Redeemer is a human girl in the Crossroads whose soul is still attached to her body. Meeting Arianne Wilson pushes Balthazar's patience to the limit. In a deal he makes with Death, he must protect Arianne during their journey through the Underverse using all the resources available to him. He soon realizes the one he needs to protect is himself. For as much harm as it inflicts on Balthazar's body, trekking through the Underverse with Arianne is proving more dangerous for his heart and soul. Can the villain remain a villain when love gets in the way?

Download or read book Adrian S World written by RAFFA and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a setting of an era long past, called the Ancient World, is a group of nations and kingdoms on the brink of a devastating war. Amidst this is a struggle of good and evil, and a select group called the Gathering that is charged with a mission to rescue a princess and destroy a mysterious pendant only one of them can carry in secret. With changing allegiances, tales of love and revenge, and the unmasked traitors first appearance, Saetoria is the first book in the Adrians World trilogy.

Download or read book Servant of the Lost Power written by Kay Kenyon and published by Winterset Books. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of war and sorcery, Yevliesza faces the ultimate test. One that may lead to deliverance—or the loss of all that she loves. As war threatens her adopted land, Yevliesza has found a refuge. But it won’t last. Her enemies are closing in and mean to exploit her apparently accidental and rare power. It is a lost magic. But in the wrong hands, the worlds of the Mythos may not survive. In the fight against the brutal Volkish, Yevliesza is called upon to use this lost power. But first she must learn how. To find her true strength, she turns to an ancient wisdom hidden in the wilderness. There she will be invited to enter a mysterious realm to seek answers and pass its tests. If she accepts the challenge, she may return with new skills in her fight against the twisted realm. But the price for using her power may be exile from her new-found homeland and from the man she has grown to love. Can she bear to lose everything? When Yevliesza emerges from the secret kingdom, she will have the answer. A high fantasy from acclaimed fantasy and science fiction world-builder Kay Kenyon. Don't miss books one and two in The Arisen Worlds quartet, The Girl Who Fell Into Myth and Stranger in the Twisted Realm. Watch for book four, Keeper of the Mythos Gate, the conclusion of the series, coming February 20, 2024. KEYWORDS: high fantasy, portal fiction, coming of age, women's fantasy, chosen one, royal destiny, slow burn romance, forbidden love, fantasy romance action adventure, myths and legends, saga, sorcery, myth world, dark magic

Download or read book Dark Rising written by Sheldon Perkins and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Caitlyn O'Herlihy. I have had many names over the centuries, but this one is close to the original. I rather like it. This was to have been a time of quiet...a decade or two of peace before returning to the of being the last of my race in a world that knows I exist, and fears that existence. It was supposed to have been quiet, but someone is using black magic to summon demons. Some...THING has murdered innocent tourists...slain simple people going about their lives...killed my FRIEND! But, with the help of Sledge, a biker ‘club' of humans, orks, elves, and a troll; the assistance of a frightened little girl who lost her family, and perhaps the touch of an angel, I plan to stop it. I plan to kill it. It is what I do. It is what I am good at. I am Caitlyn O'Herlihy, and I am Dark Elf.

Download or read book Damsels Overcome written by Bobbie Kinkead and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains folk, cautionary tales, myths and legends which inspired damsels to overcome challenges in their environment: predators, hunger, oppression, or aggression, and traditional male norms and standards.

Download or read book The Girl Who Fell Into Myth written by Kay Kenyon and published by Winterset Books. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall into the magic land of the Mythos along with its brave and forgotten daughter. Yevliesza has been caring for her ailing father when she is summoned home to a world she has never seen. Using a hidden portal, she enters the realm of Numinat, a myth world arisen from legend. Although she is the daughter of witches, she was raised in the modern age with little knowledge of their arisen world and none of their magic. For the the last leg of her journey, she flies on the back of a dragon. When a storm splits open the sky, Yevliesza is caught in its blinding light. She arrives at the medieval city-palace severely damaged, indelibly marked as an outsider. In this kingdom of deep powers, she is devoid of magic. Determined to find her power and claim her place, she must counter dangerous court intrigues and a sorceress who intends to see this foreigner cast from the great Tower. Yevliesza may find protection with a powerful lord if her heart can bear the penalty of his conditions. In the end, however, she must find her own path if she is to survive. But what she discovers is an alarming magic that, once revealed, may make her a permanent outcast. A high fantasy from acclaimed fantasy and science fiction world-builder Kay Kenyon. Watch for Stranger in the Twisted Realm, Book 2 of The Arisen Worlds quartet. Coming Fall 2023. “The Girl Who Fell Into Myth is a marvel of beautiful language, elegant worldbuilding, and a story of powers and magic on a grand scale. This will be a series to treasure.” —Louisa Morgan, author of The Great Witch of Brittany The Girl Who Fell Into Myth is set in a richly imagined world of entangled mythologies, elusive magic, and bitter treachery, perfect for fans of complex, dark-edged fantasy. —Rachel Neumeier, author of the Tujo Series “Kay Kenyon excels at creating strong women who must navigate chaotic, perilous situations as they slowly learn the extent of their own abilities. I was hooked on The Girl Who Fell Into Myth and am impatiently waiting for the next installment in this series!” —Sharon Shinn, author of The Shuddering City KEYWORDS: high fantasy, portal fiction, coming of age, women's fantasy, chosen one, royal destiny, slow burn romance, forbidden love, fantasy romance action adventure. Will appeal to fans of Naomi Novik, Erika Johansen, and Katherine Arden's Winternight books.