Download or read book The Wayward Eight written by Robert E. Waters and published by Winged Hussar Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ex-Confederate officer Captain Marcus Wayward and his infamous “Eight” are on a deadly mission. The Union has contracted them to find and kill the most notorious scientist in the world; Doctor Burson Carpathian, who resides somewhere in the forested interior of Arizona. Carpathian is protected by an undead horde of his own construction, and powered by the miracle fuel RJ-1027, they will defend him to the death. The chance for Wayward and his mercenaries to acquire fame, fortune, and immortality on such a mission is too great to refuse. The journey is fraught with perils and pitfalls – outlaws, Union troopers, thrill-seekers, Shifters of the Warrior Nation, and even other mercenaries hell-bent on finding and killing Carpathian first. When a shadowy force known as the Dark Council gets involved, the way becomes even deadlier. But the biggest challenge for Captain Wayward could very well be his own people, who begin to question the nature of the mission as it unravels.
Download or read book The Wayward Eight written by Robert Waters and published by Zmok Books. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steampunk in the old west Ex-Confederate officer Captain Marcus Wayward and his infamous “Eight” are on a deadly mission. The Union has contracted them to find and kill the most notorious scientist in the world; Doctor Burson Carpathian, who resides somewhere in the forested interior of Arizona. Carpathian is protected by an undead horde of his own construction, and powered by the miracle fuel RJ-1027, they will defend him to the death. The chance for Wayward and his mercenaries to acquire fame, fortune, and immortality on such a mission is too great to refuse. The journey is fraught with perils and pitfalls – outlaws, Union troopers, thrill-seekers, Shifters of the Warrior Nation, and even other mercenaries hell-bent on finding and killing Carpathian first. When a shadowy force known as the Dark Council gets involved, the way becomes even deadlier. But the biggest challenge for Captain Wayward could very well be his own people, who begin to question the nature of the mission as it unravels. Can he keep it all together? Can he keep his mercenaries intact long enough to finish the job, to ride them to glory, and into the history books? Time will tell…
Download or read book Wayward 8 written by Jim Zub and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ayane's strange feline origin is revealed in the most unlikely of places.
Download or read book Wayward written by Dana Spiotta and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “furious and addictive new novel” (The New York Times) about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning as she flees her suburban life. “Exhilarating ... reads like a burning fever dream. A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad.” —The New York Times Book Review Samantha Raymond's life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into "the Mids"—that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of a certain age suddenly find themselves contemplating motherhood, mortality, and, in this case, the state of our unraveling nation. When she falls in love with a beautiful, decrepit house in a hardscrabble neighborhood in Syracuse, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life—and her family—as she grapples with how to be a wife, a mother, and a daughter, in a country that is coming apart at the seams. Dana Spiotta's Wayward is a stunning novel about aging, about the female body, and about female complexity in contemporary America. Probing and provocative, brainy and sensual, it is a testament to our weird times, to reforms and resistance and utopian wishes, and to the beauty of ruins.
Download or read book The Wayward Muse written by Elizabeth Hickey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I apologize again for my boldness, but I must tell you that you're the most beautiful girl in Oxford. Maybe in all of England. I have to put you in my painting." With these words, the scandalous, wildly talented painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti changes seventeen-year-old Jane Burden's life forever. Jane's gaunt, awkward figure and grave expression have cemented her reputation as the ugliest girl in Oxford. Raised by a stableman on Holywell Street -- the town's most sordid and despicable slum -- Jane is nearly resigned to marry in-kind. But when she meets Rossetti at the theater, he sees beyond her worn, ill-fitting dress and unruly hair and is stirred by her unconventional beauty. The charismatic painter whisks Jane into Oxford's exclusive art scene as his muse, and during the long and intimate hours of modeling -- draping and tilting, gazing and posing -- Jane finds herself falling in love. When Rossetti abruptly leaves Oxford with no plans to return, brokenhearted Jane settles for a stable, if passionless, marriage to his soft-spoken protégé, William Morris -- the man who would go on to become the father of the British Arts and Crafts Movement. Jane resigns herself to life as a respectable wife and mother, exchanging the slop bucket for intricate needlepoint, willing away the memories of Rossetti and what could have been. But Rossetti and Jane are inextricably bound together by tragedy, art, and desire, and no amount of time or distance can separate them. Ultimately this complicated arrangement with which Jane, Morris, and Rossetti must learn to live threatens to undo them all. Richly textured and deftly portrayed, Elizabeth Hickey's latest is a compelling portrait of the ever-changing notions of both love and beauty.
Download or read book Pioneer Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wayward and the Seeking written by Jean Toomer and published by Washington : Howard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Collections written by Michigan State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sorcerous Stabber Orphen The Wayward Journey Volume 18 written by Yoshinobu Akita and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite an invitation from Almagest, the lord of the Imminent Domain, Orphen arrives to discover the man is deadâonly to rediscover him walking his manor alive and well the next morning with a seemingly brainwashed Claiomh and Majic in tow. Though Orphen wants nothing more than to escape, a pack of Deep Dragons approaches from their sanctuary. The walls are starting to feel like theyâre closing in...
Download or read book Wayward Lives Beautiful Experiments written by Saidiya Hartman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage. Hartman narrates the story of this radical social transformation against the grain of the prevailing century-old argument about the crisis of the black family. In wrestling with the question of what a free life is, many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship that were indifferent to the dictates of respectability and outside the bounds of law. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist, and revised the meaning of marriage. Longing and desire fueled their experiments in how to live. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work. Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives recreates the experience of young urban black women who desired an existence qualitatively different than the one that had been scripted for them—domestic service, second-class citizenship, and respectable poverty—and whose intimate revolution was apprehended as crime and pathology. For the first time, young black women are credited with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives recovers their radical aspirations and insurgent desires.
Download or read book The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Eight written by Jonathan Strahan and published by Solaris. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FEATURING GREG EGAN * YOON HA LEE * NEIL GAIMAN * E LILY YU * K J PARKER * GEOFF RYMAN * M BENNARDO * RAMEZ NAAM * TED CHIANG * PRIYA SHARMA * RICHARD PARKS * LAVIE TIDHAR * THOMAS OLDE HEUVELT * BENJANUN SRIDUANGKAEW * ELEANOR ARNASON * IAN R MACLEOD * SOFIA SAMATAR * AN OWOMOYELA * KARIN TIDBECK * MADELINE ASHBY * CAITLÍN R KIERNAN * ROBERT REED * IAN MCDONALD * VAL NOLAN From the inner realms of humanity to the far reaches of space, these are the science fiction and fantasy tales that are shaping the genre and the way we think about the future. Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan continues to shine a light on the very best writing, featuring both established authors and exciting new talents. Within you will find twenty-eight incredible tales, showing the ever growing depth and diversity that science fiction and fantasy continues to enjoy. These are the brightest stars in our firmament, lighting the way to a future filled with astonishing stories about the way we are, and the way we could be.
Download or read book The Wayward Comet written by Martin Beech and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comets have not only blazed across the celestial vault throughout human history, they have embellished the night sky since the Earth itself formed some 4.5 billion years ago. Comets were among the first-born solid bodies in the solar system, and their frozen nuclei tell of the primordial chemistry and chaos that ultimately resulted in the formation of the planets, the evolution of life and us. For all this, however, comets have long been celestial oddities: they baffled our distant ancestors, and human society continues to marvel and speculate wildly at their appearance even to the present day. Cutting against the perceived constancy of the stars, comets seemingly present themselves at random times and they are often interpreted as harbingers of terrestrial change - both good and ill. How then are we to tame the comet: where do they form, how do they move, and can their appearances be predicted? Such questions have preoccupied astronomers for centuries but comets have only gradually allowed the secrets of their wayward flight to be revealed. In this book I explore the historical struggle to understand not only the place of comets within a societal context, but also the scientific quest to make their paths amenable to mathematical certitude. The latter narrative is the more technical in content, but it took tactile form with the invention, in 1732, of the cometarium, a mechanical device to demonstrate the first two of Kepler's planetary laws. And, this development was later paralleled, in the mid to late 19th century, by the development of various mechanical devices (analog computers) to help obtain solutions to Kepler's Problem - the problem which asks, exactly where in its orbit is a given comet at some specific set time. The telling of the wayward comets story covers the past two millennia of human history, and it takes us from the phenomenological musings of Aristotle, through the exactitude of Newton's gravitational theory and calculus, to the truly incredible study of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, in the modern era.
Download or read book Beyond the Gates of Antares written by Tim Bancroft and published by Winged Hussar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the universe of the Seventh Age of Humanity and the setting for the game called Beyond the Gates of Antares. Travel through Antarean dimensional gateways to the galaxy spanning empires of the PanHuman Concord and Isorian Senatex, and to the myriad worlds of the Determinate and beyond. Board the glittering space borne cities of the Vardari, the great mercantile powers of Antarean space, and confront foes as implacable as the Ghar and as merciless as the Renegade NuHu Shards.
Download or read book The Wayward Welfare State written by Roger A. Freeman and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enl. and updated ed. of: The growth of American government. 1975. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Download or read book A Bibliography of History Historical Biography Being the Sections Relating to Those Subjects in The Best Books and The Reader s Guide written by William Swan Stallybrass (formerly Sonnenschein.) and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Greatest Fiction Volume 8 written by Sir John Alexander Hammerton and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SIR WALTER SCOTT Quentin Durward I.--The Wanderer Meets Louis XI. II.--The Scottish Archer III.--A Prize for Honour IV.--The Winning of the Prize Rob Roy I.--I Meet Diana Vernon II.--Rashleigh's Villainy III.--In the Highlands IV.--Rob Roy to the Rescue The Talisman I.--The Knight of the Leopard II.--Richard Coeur-de-Lion III.--Richard and Sir Kenneth IV.--The Victory of Sir Kenneth MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Frankenstein I.--Robert Walton's Letter II.--Frankenstein's Story III.--Frankenstein's Creation IV.--The Doom of Frankenstein V.--Walton's Letter, continued SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Arcadia I.--Lost and Found II.--The Lovers' Quest III.--Through Perils to Peace TOBIAS SMOLLETT The Adventures of Roderick Random I.--My Birth, Parentage, and Childhood II.--I Arrive in London III.--I Recover My Father IV.--I Am Married Peregrine Pickle I.--Peregrine's Parentage II.--The Commodore Takes Peregrine Under His Own Care III.--First Acquaintance with Miss Emilia Gauntlet IV.--Peregrine is Left an Orphan and Marries MADAME DE STAËL Corinne I.--The Roman Poetess II.--The Living and the Dead III.--Corinne's Story IV.--Parting and Pursuit V.--The Clouded Moon STENDHAL (HENRI BEYLE) The Chartreuse of Parma I. Fabrice del Dongo II.--Giletti III.--The Citadel IV.--The Escape V.--Clelia's Vow LAURENCE STERNE Tristram Shandy I II III IV V VI VII.--The Story of Le Fevre VIII.--The Story of Le Fevre (continued) IX.--The Story of Le Fevre (concluded) HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Uncle Tom's Cabin I.--Humane Dealing II.--Eliza's Escape III.--The Property Is Carried Off IV.--Freedom EUGÈNE SUE Mysteries of Paris I II III IV JONATHAN SWIFT Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World I.--A Voyage to Lilliput II. I Depart from Blefusco III.--A Voyage to Brobdingnag IV.--At the Court of Brobdingnag WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY The Newcomes I.--The "Cave of Harmony" II.--Clive Newman in Love III.--Clive is Married IV.--The Colonel Says "Adsum" When His Name is Called The Virginians I.--Harry Warrington Comes Home II.--Samaritans III.--Harry Warrington is Disinherited IV.--From the Warrington MSS. Vanity Fair I.--Miss Sharp Opens Her Campaign II.--Two Marriages III.--After Waterloo IV.--Colonel Dobbin Leaves the Army COUNT LYOF N. TOLSTOY Anna Karenina I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X ANTHONY TROLLOPE The Warden I.--Hiram's Hospital II.--The Barchester Reformer III.--Iphigenia IV.--The Warden Resigns Barchester Towers I.--The New Bishop II.--The Bishop's Chaplain III.--Mrs. Proudie Gets a Fall IV.--Mr. Slope Bids Farewell IVAN TURGENEV Fathers and Sons I.--The Old and the New II--Bazaroff's Home-Coming III.--The Duel IV.--The Passing of Bazaroff A Nest of Nobles I.--A Student's Marriage II.--Separation III.--A New Friendship IV.--Love and Duty Smoke I.--A Broken Idyll II--Temptation III--A Ruined Life IV.--Love's Reward JULES VERNE Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea I.--I Join a Strange Expedition II.--The Attack and After III.--Our Life on the Nautilus IV.--Captain Nemo and the Avenger V.--The Doom of the Oppressor VI.--Our Escape from the Nautilus HORACE WALPOLE Castle of Otranto I.--The Helmet II.--Father Jerome III.--The Knight of the Sword IV.--The Prophecy Fulfilled ÉMILE ZOLA Drink I.--The Lodgers of the Hôtel Boncoeur II.--Gervaise and Coupeau III.--Starting on the Down Road IV.--Lantier's Return V.--The Beginning of the End VI.--The Final Ruin
