Download or read book Dark Metamorphosis written by John Coon and published by Samak Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brutal abduction. A merciless interstellar plot. Can Calandra and Xttra fight deceit and assassins to reveal the dreadful truth? The scars that Calandra Menankar carries go well beyond her amputated arm. After surviving a disastrous first contact with Earth, she wants nothing more than to avoid space travel and enjoy a quiet life with her husband. But her dreams shatter when her soulmate disappears at the hands of unknown assailants. Master pilot Xttra Oogan is haunted by the deaths of his former crew. So he leaps at the chance to purge his guilt when the Stellar Guard dispatches him to capture a dangerous thief and saboteur. But when he discovers a diabolical frame-up while in pursuit of stolen top-secret technology, he’s abducted and dragged back to the nightmarish blue planet. With no idea what became of her beloved, Calandra’s determination to uncover hidden agendas puts her in an enemy’s crosshairs. And to find his way home and save his people, Xttra’s only hope of survival may be to forge new alliances with old foes. … Will they bring down a dark conspiracy before their lives are scattered to the stars? Dark Metamorphosis is the second book in the explosive Alien People Chronicles science fiction adventure series. If you like dogged alien heroes, deep-state plots, and ruthless enemies, then you’ll love John Coon’s latest thrill ride.

Download or read book Outcastia Campaign Setting Book II Player s Guidebook written by Nitehawk Interactive Games and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've journeyed through the land in Book I and learned what you need to about the realm, now dive head first into the meat of this Campaign Setting with newly designed gaming elements that will help you to make your mark in the "Land of Dragons". This book includes: Races both unique and familiar. Eight races to choose from with subraces for most for a total of 28 choices to add to your arsenal of races we've already given you in the AHB, classes to delight both the power player and the new gamer alike with 9 to choose from and even a new NPC class for your CM, three new magic domains for the spellcaster inside of you with loads of new spells, as well as new skills, feats, and equipment. With this book you will have everything you need to play in the realm of Outcastia (and beyond). Even CMs will have most everything they will need...for now. So what are you waiting for? Grab some paper and pencils. Bring out that dice. Rev up your imagination and travel to a land of magic and mayhem. Your journey awaits.

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Download or read book Five Bells written by Gail Jones and published by Picador. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Picador Paperback Original On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Crowds of tourists mix with the locals, enjoying the glorious surroundings and the play of light on water. But just as Circular Quay resonates with Australia's past, each of the four carries a complicated history from elsewhere. Each person is haunted by past secrets and guilt. Ellie is preoccupied by her sexual experiences as a girl, James by a tragedy for which he feels responsible, Catherine by the loss of her beloved brother in Dublin, and Pei Xing by her imprisonment during China's Cultural Revolution. Told over the course of a single Saturday, Five Bells describes four lives that come to share not only a place and a time but also mysterious patterns and ambiguous symbols, including a barely glimpsed fifth figure, a young child. By nightfall, when Sydney is drenched in a summer rainstorm, each life will have been transformed by the events of this day.

Download or read book Trilogy written by Jon Fosse and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trilogy is Jon Fosse’s critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice, resistance, crime, and redemption. Consisting of three novellas (Wakefulness, Olav’s Dreams, and Weariness), Trilogy is a haunting, mysterious, and poignant evocation of love, for which Fosse received The Nordic Council’s Prize for Literature in 2015.

Download or read book Of Saints and Shadows written by Christopher Golden and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combine a Boston P.I., the Vatican, and vampires, and what do you have? A novel-and a series-that will appeal to fans of Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, and Dan Brown.

Download or read book Hailing frequencies open written by Thomas D. Parham, III and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star Trek: The Next Generation blended speculative science fiction and space opera in its portrayal of communication. Multiple modes of communication used between characters are presented and the multilevel tapestry of communication in the series is critical in its appeal. This book proposes that these patterns of communication reveal a foundational philosophy of Star Trek (while enticing millions of viewers). These patterns serve both to cause strong empathetic connections with characters and to impel viewers to form relationships with the show, explaining their extreme devotion.

Download or read book Curse of the Shadowmage written by Mark Anthony and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unlikely pair of heroes matches wits against the revived legacy of the Shadowking in this classic Harpers novel Long ago, the shadow magic transformed an ancient wizard into a being of utter evil: the Shadowking. Now legendary Harper agent Caledan Caldorien—heir to the shadow magic—has mysteriously vanished. As the Realms whisper of his disappearance, the Harpers spring into action. Fearing that Caledan is transforming into the new Shadowking, they mount a mission to not only find him but to destroy him entirely. Renegade Harper Mari Al-maren and the mage Morhion must embark on a desperate quest to rescue Caledan—and to stop him before a Shadowking stalks the Realms once more. Curse of the Shadowmage is the eleventh book in a series of loosely-connected novels about the Harpers.

Download or read book Slay the Four Plagues written by John H. Cox and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a business leader with a track record of success, Cox stood against the political establishment to run for Governor of California. What he learned is that the system—consisting of both parties, as well as the media/big business axis that props up cronies of the political establishment—is fully rigged to prevent independent-minded candidates from gaining traction. Hear the People is the organization he’s launched to promote real electoral reform, that will empower regular people to have unprecedented influence on, and access to, the electoral process—all while working within the existing framework of the U.S. Constitution. There is general agreement among voters that our electoral system suffers from the Four Plagues: special interest influence; big media control; negative campaigning; and extreme partisan voices. The huge media driven campaigns required by today’s increasingly large population districts are the primary reason for the Four Plagues. Cox proposes a bold, far reaching, effective reform that would make all campaigns for the U.S. House of Representatives personal, not driven by media or money. This reform can be legally implemented and will empower the people, making the House of Representatives truly the People’s House as our Founders intended. As we celebrate the 250th birthday of America, a rebirth of our democracy is just what we need. This book is Cox’s manifesto for reform. Equal parts passion and remarkably practical, Hear the People will usher in a new phase of America’s political life, giving voice to the millions of citizens crying out for meaningful change.

Download or read book Bern Book written by Vincent O. Carter and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bern Book is a travelogue, a memoir, a “diary of an isolated soul” (Darryl Pinckney), and a meditation on the myth and reality of race in midcentury Europe and America. In 1953, having left the US and settled in Bern, Switzerland, Vincent O. Carter, a struggling writer, set about composing a “record of a voyage of the mind.” The voyage begins with Carter’s furiously good-humored description of how, every time he leaves the house, he must face the possibility of being asked “the hated question” (namely, Why did you, a black man born in America, come to Bern?). It continues with stories of travel, war, financial struggle, the pleasure of walking, the pain of self-loathing, and, through it all, various experiments in what Carter calls “lacerating subjective sociology.” Now this long-neglected volume is back in print for the first time since 1973.

Download or read book Beauty Looks Down on Me written by Eun Heekyung and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty Looks Down On Me is a collection of by turns sad and funny stories about the thwarted expectations of the young as they grow older. HeeKyung’s characters are misfits who by virtue of their bodies or their lack of social status are left to dream of momentous changes that will never come. Unsatisfied with work, with family, with friends, they lose themselves in diets, books, and blogs. Heekyung’s collection humorously but humanely depicts the loneliness and monotony found in many modern lives.

Download or read book Mystic Invisible written by Ryder Hunte Clancy and published by Winter Goose Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Monte moves to the mystically jeopardized Highlands of Scotland and discovers that life as a Celtic wizard is anything but easy. Whisperings of abnormal enchantments and vicious cat siths grip the small town he now calls home. Fear is at the helm and the instigator is unknown. An indefinite moratorium on magic is enforced. In a race against darkness, Monte and his friends must choose who to trust before time runs out, even if it means breaking some rules and facing danger head on.

Download or read book Works written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Life of a Bishop s Assistant written by Viktor Shklovsky and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life of a Bishop's Assistant is a "rewritten" biography of the 18th century historical figure, Gavriil Dobrinin. The son of a priest, he became an assistant to a bishop before being fortunate to rise all the way to gubernia procurator. Despite the obscurity of Dobrinin, it is Shklovsky's narration of his story that takes center stage. Like Zoo, or Letters Not About Love, Life of a Bishop's Assistant is a notable example of experimentation with narrative form in the early twentieth century by one of its leading theorists.

Download or read book Teethmarks on My Tongue written by Eileen Battersby and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gunning down of her mother in a Richmond street sets young Helen Stockton Defoe on a journey of self-discovery. A physical feature she had first noticed when she was nine years old has made her feel apart and she has quietly capitalized on the privilege, never mind the aura, which surrounds her. She lives in her head and fills her thoughts – and days – with science, horses and art. The more intently she begins to observe her remote, detached father, the more she learns about her place within the rarefied world she inhabits. Just when it appears she is at last becoming closer to him, it all falls apart as he coldly undermines her abiding passions, which causes her to question the identity she has created. Her rebellion leads her to Europe on a disturbing path dominated by chance and an evolving self-realization. As a result of these experiences she gains an ability to feel deeply, something from which she had always felt somehow excluded. This most unusual coming-of-age novel with its impressive characterization, humor and vivid sense of place takes its clever, if barely street-wise and increasingly obsessive, teenaged narrator on a physical as well as psychological journey towards an astute, hard fought, and deserved, maturity.

Download or read book The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan written by Tanguy Viel and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tanguy Viel's parody/pastiche of the American novel is subtle and experimental; it tells a story at the same time as it implicitly poses questions about the narrative structure it is deploying." —The French Review In The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan, disappearance is both a theme and a stylistic device. Indeed, this publication narrates the disappearance of Dwayne Koster, who, fascinated by the story of Jim Sullivan, commits suicide in the New Mexico desert which was the setting of the rocker’s disappearance in 1975. But this novel is for the most part set in the metanarrative tale of its own genesis, and, as a result, is partially eclipsed: its -fictitious- author doesn’t relate it in its entirety and keeps adding bits and pieces of first drafts and preliminary sketches to his text, thus blurring its boundaries. Tanguy Viel’s work can therefore be perceived as a double response, existential and aesthetic, to the question of the end.

Download or read book The Way to Yesterday Shades of a Desperado written by Sharon Sala and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two favorite stories about love that never dies from New York Times bestselling author Sharon Sala THE WAY TO YESTERDAY What if you could turn back time? Suddenly, Mary O'Rourke can—and so her husband and baby girl are alive and well. Now she has to keep them that way. But is this new life—in which they are the family she'd always hoped they could be—a dream? Mary doesn't care. For six years she prayed for a second chance, and she isn't wasting a second of it! SHADES OF A DESPERADO Night after night, the visions kept Rachel Brant from sleep—a hard-eyed outlaw straight out of the old West claiming her as his woman. Though she knew it was madness, she longed for that dream to become reality... Then, in one stunning moment, it was—by a flesh-and-blood man who stirred her soul just as her dream lover had.