Download or read book The Blue Orchid the Black Rose and the Ayame written by Sallie Becker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Star have landed on one of the beautiful pink moons of Forest. Their arrival did not go unnoticed, as everyone in the village felt the ground shake and the windows in their homes shatter. As one of the Star arrived at the village, Sabre, Elli, and the other villagers began to flee because of the destruction taking place around them. The sage of the village challenges the Star to buy time for the villagers to leave the village. After the villagers took refuge in the woods, Sabre and Elli meet Ayami for the first time, and their journey truly begins. Join these characters as they battle horrific adversaries during their travels while attempting to change their imminent destiny.

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Download or read book The Poseidon Project written by Tracy Vetter and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SPECTER - The most technologically advanced machine on the planet, the USS Specter, sets sail. Its mission is to test the extremes and hope it survives. The worlds first stealth submarine, the little craft can go deeper, faster, and more invisible than anything under the water. On board is the arrogant engineer, who has spent the last three years of his life designing the submarine. The handpicked, best of the best crewmen are struggling to learn a vessel with an A.I. program smarter than they are. And at the helm is the First Female Submarine Captain battling her own internal demons. THE VOLGA - The aging Russian behemoth, the world’s largest submarine, has been taken over by North Korean-backed terrorists. And they have their finger on twenty-four Russian ICBMs aimed at anyone daring to get in their way. THE MEGALODON - A mining company is experimenting with methane retrieval and has accidently blown up 250 miles of the Kamchatka coast line and unleashed the remains of the largest predator the ocean has ever known. An eighty-seven-foot Megalodon has survived the explosions, freeze dried, and now burnt and bruised, it is looking for fresh meat and attacking anything in its way. In the deepest, darkest depths of the Pacific Ocean, the three will meet. About the Author Tracy Vetter currently lives on a small farm in North Dakota. He lives with his wife and two cats. Vetter loves nothing more than to play a game of “What if?”His hobbies include fishing, hiking, canoeing, and painting. He has made about 60 hikes into the Grand Canyon, of course to fish. He still catches some walleyes from his canoe.

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Download or read book Newt written by Mike Danford and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-07-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a murder mystery that begins with the noisy re-union of two very crusty, wise-cracking old-timers who won't accept a coroner's verdict of suicide for the death of one of their old friends. Their rowdy verbal treatment of each other, rough as it appears to others, seems to be simply the result of spending a lot of years together as they grew up, then through the rough and tumble world of construction during their working years when they had to rely on each other's judgement, ingenuity and people-handling skills as well as their physical prowess and craftsmanship. Now they've been presented with perhaps the greatest single challenge of their lives: solving a murder...and they revel in that too! Mike Danford is a retired corporate bureaucrate whose passion is writing unusual adventure/romance stories with a humorous approach and some real people and real incidents included.

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Download or read book Super Subs written by David Jefferis and published by New York ; St. Catharines, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our planet is 70% water, much of it unknown. Super Subs explores the latest machines and the people that help reveal the secrets of the oceans. Fascinating topics include submarines and rescue apparatus, scuba diving, wreck hunters, underwater construction, and living underwater.

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Download or read book Gunpowder Express written by Brett Cogburn and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TIME TO MEET THE WIDOWMAKER Vulture City is home to a prosperous gold mine and every bad man in the Arizona Territory knows it. Nearly every stagecoach attempting to deliver the gold to the railroad at Maricopa has been ambushed on the trail—a trail known as the Gunpowder Express for the bullet-riddled bodies along the way. With gold piling up and a lack of volunteers to transport it, the mine owner hires Newt “Widowmaker” Jones to ride shotgun on the next stage. Foolhardy and desperate for money, Newt joins three other guards—and a passenger, Jenny Silks, a stubborn firebrand with her own stake in seeing the delivery through. But waiting on the Gunpowder Express is Irish Jack O’Harrigan and his band of outlaws. There’s not a soul alive he wouldn’t think twice about putting six feet under. But he’s never traded lead with the man known as Widowmaker . . . Praise for Spur Award winner Brett Cogburn “Fans of frontier arcana will revel in Cogburn’s readable prose and lively characters.” —Publishers Weekly on Rooster “Cogburn amazes and astounds.” —Booklist

Download or read book Mighty Peculiar Elections written by Randy Sanders and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970, four racially moderate Democrats won governors' seats in the American South -- Dale Bumpers in Arkansas, Reubin Askew in Florida, John West in South Carolina, and Jimmy Carter in Georgia. In Mighty Peculiar Elections, Randy Sanders explores these campaigns and shows that while each reflected aspects of its state's unique history and political idiosyncrasies, taken together, they signaled changes in attitudes and the politics of race in the South as well as the nation as a whole. Most southerners by 1970 had come to realize the futility of overt opposition to federal civil rights policies and no longer wanted to hear political candidates singing the refrains of white supremacy. Bumpers won Arkansas's Democratic primary over former Governor Orval Faubus, who had symbolized southern intransigence since 1957, when he ordered the state militia to prevent school integration at Central High School in Little Rock. Askew defeated Florida's Republican incumbent governor, Claude Kirk, who seized a school district during the campaign in order to thwart a court-ordered school desegregation plan. Similarly, West ran against Republican Albert Watson, who spewed fiery anti-integration rhetoric, and Carter succeeded Lester Maddox, who had established and maintained his hard-line segregationist reputation by autographing ax handles, mementos of the weapon he used years earlier to prevent blacks from entering his restaurant. None of the victors in 1970 talked much about civil rights during their campaigns; they all downplayed, evaded, or finessed racial issues when those topics arose.Sanders describes how the successful candidates carefully shaped their campaigns, rejecting the rhetoric of resistance without uttering strong words in favor of desegregation. A shared campaign strategy of "new populism" emerged among these candidates -- a strategy that promoted the interests of common folk, but relied primarily on image and style rather than issues to attract support. The candidates also perceived the diminishing power of party loyalty, political machines, and power brokers that controlled large groups of voters, and began to appeal directly to the electorate through television, employing effective strategies that emphasized their best qualities. The cool images of reasoned calm played well on television and prevailed over the hot pictures of frenzied defiance. Using archival materials, media records, personal papers, and interviews, Sanders shows that although these elections did not mark a total transformation of southern politics, they did suggest a subtle shift in the balance of power away from those who continued to roar the rhetoric of racism and resistance towards those who espoused a more moderate position. By focusing on one moment in a period of great political change, Mighty Peculiar Elections shines a spotlight on the evolving racial attitudes of the New South.

Download or read book The Day of the Scorpion written by Paul Scott and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second in the epic quartet capturing life at the end of British rule in India, “an achievement of unusual dimensions and power” (The Observer (UK)). In The Day of the Scorpion, Scott draws us deeper in to his epic of India at the close of World War II. With force and subtlety, he recreates both private ambition and perversity, and the politics of an entire subcontinent at a turning point in history. As the scorpion, encircled by a ring of fire, will sting itself to death, so does the British raj hasten its own destruction when threatened by the flames of Indian independence. Brutal repression and imprisonment of India’s leaders cannot still the cry for home rule. And during the chaos, the English Laytons withdraw from a world they no longer know to seek solace in denial, drink, and madness. Praise for The Day of the Scorpion “Classical and complex in structure, with a mystery at its center.” —P. Albert Duhamel, New York Times Book Review “[A] rich, elaborately terraced novel. . . . [Scott’s] view of the crippling illusionary quests of men and nations, his ability to recreate a culture and a time, continue to mark him as a novelist of importance.” —Kirkus Reviews “An even richer tapestry of Indian and British character than its predecessor, with greater wealth and variety of incident. . . . [A] ramifying and exciting but beautifully constructed novel.” —London Sunday Times (UK) “Outstanding. . . . [Mr. Scott is] a writer who has thoroughly mastered his material and who can . . . work through a maze of fascinating detail without for a moment losing sight of distant and considerable objectives.” —Times Literary Supplement (UK)

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Download or read book A Brand New World written by Egathentale and published by Podium Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenager becomes a romantic hero in an artificial-reality school full of supernatural secrets in the first book of a slice-of-life, urban-fantasy series. Leonard Dunning wakes up in a home he doesn't remember—and to a face in the mirror he doesn't recognize. He soon discovers he attends Blue Cherry High with his best friend, Josh Bernstein, who seems to be the most popular boy in school, with several girls competing for his attention. As the girls collide and clash over the oblivious Josh, Leo realizes each of them displays quirks of characters found in an anime harem comedy. So if Josh is the story's protagonist, what does that make Leo? To learn more about the simulation in which he's been cast, Leo enlists the help of background extra Judy Sennoma. Together, they observe and catalog what's going on around them to try to figure out how the story will unfold. But as Leo interacts with Josh's love interests and inadvertently confronts stereotypical villains, he disrupts the flow of the narrative. Now, two girls have set their romantic sights on him, and he's made some very powerful enemies. As the designated secondary protagonist, Leo has become a hero in an adventure that's no longer following the tropes of the genre—and placed himself and his friends in grave danger. Caught in the crosshairs, Leo must develop his newfound superhuman abilities before he gets dragged into the hidden conflicts between otherworldly factions. But he's not afraid to push back against the plot, and the narrative's shadowy controllers are in for a rude awakening. The first volume of the hit slice-of-life romantic-comedy series—with more than two million views on Royal Road—now available on Audible and wherever ebooks are sold!

Download or read book This Side of Hell written by Brett Cogburn and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WIDOWMAKER MEETS POKER ALICE. The most famous lady gambler of the Old West teams up with Widowmaker Jones in a doomed search for lost treasure, a deadly trek through the desert—and a dangerous alliance with the greatest gunslingers in history . . . IT’S A MATCH MADE IN HELL. Card player extraordinaire Poker Alice knows when to hold ’em, when to fold ’em, and when to team up with master gunman Newt “Widowmaker” Jones. She’s betting on Jones to protect her—and her money—on a treasure hunt in the California desert. Legend has it that a shipwreck is buried in the Salton sands. Some say it’s a Spanish galleon that got stuck when the sea ran dry. Other says it’s a Chinese junk full of pearls or a Viking ship filled with Aztec treasure. Either way, a lot of very mean and dangerously violent folks would kill to find it. Which is why Poker Alice needs the Widowmaker. In this game, it’s winner takes all. Losers die . . . Praise for Spur Award winner Brett Cogburn “Fans of frontier arcana will revel in Cogburn’s readable prose and lively characters.” —Publishers Weekly on Rooster “Cogburn amazes and astounds.” —Booklist