Download or read book Hybrid Bastards written by Tom Pinchuk and published by Archaia. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zeus is a god with a reputation for lechery, and it's been driving his wife Hera nuts for years. Reaching her limit one night, she puts together an epic practical joke: she places a spell on Zeus that makes him fall in lust with every inanimate object in sight! It was a night Zeus doesn't remember, but his godly seed took root nevertheless. Now, eighteen years later, his unnatural hybrid bastards wander the world. And because Zeus has a reputation to protect, these embarrassing freaks have got to go! But this motley crew refuses to go quietly. Through schemes both ingenious and idiotic — Cotton, a smarmy cloth patchwork; Carmine, a timid automobile; Corey, a self-loathing apple; Walter, a belligerent stack of bricks; and Panos, their gallant would-be leader — will force their negligent father to acknowledge them — that is, if their own squabbling doesn't defeat them first! Collecting the mini-series that takes Greek mythology in a decidedly different direction, the Hybrid Bastards! hardcover includes a bonus story and pin-ups by talented guests.
Download or read book Hybrid written by Christopher Brown and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-01-19 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has been infected by a body altering virus created by the E.P.A. It takes place many years into the future and the world has become over populated. The virus was created to turn human's into plant like creatures and restore the earths oxygen level. Not everything goes according to plan and chaos and death are all most people know.
Download or read book Magic Trial written by Kate Gellar and published by Kate Gellar Books. This book was released on 2024-09-19 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancients are coming. And they’re after everyone Abby loves. After causing magical mayhem, the ancients are eager to make an example of Abby Brennan. White and dark magic users have abandoned her. Now she and one guardian are facing trial. The emergence of a new fivefold power hints at a way for Abby and her guardians to fight back. But the elemental energy is volatile. On the eve of her trial, an unlikely ally and a person from Abby’s past offer their help. A plan soon unfolds to stop the ancients from using the fivefold power as a weapon. But a shock ruling by the magical trio pushes the elemental power further out of reach. With the ancients’ ruling yet to be delivered, all Abby has left is the power of the elements. Can she and her guardians wield its unruly energy and stop the ancients from controlling all magic? Magic Trial is book 5 in the Magical Mate series.
Download or read book Son of Classics and Comics written by George Kovacs and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Son of Classics and Comics presents thirteen original studies of representations of the ancient world in the medium of comics. Building on the foundation established by their groundbreaking Classics and Comics, Kovacs and Marshall have gathered a wide range of studies with a new, global perspective.
Download or read book New Remedies written by Frederick Albert Castle and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An illustrated monthly trade journal of materia medica, pharmacy and therapeutics" (varies).
Download or read book Bachelors Bastards and Nomadic Masculinity written by Robert Fagley and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelors, Bastards, and Nomadic Masculinity is, firstly, a thematic exploration of bachelor figures and male bastards in literary works by Guy de Maupassant and André Gide. The coupling of Maupassant and Gide is appropriate for such an analysis, not only because of their mutual treatment of illegitimacy, but also because each writer represents varieties of bachelors and bastards from disparate social classes and subcultures, each writing during contiguous moments of socio-legal changes particularly related to divorce law and women’s rights, which consequently have great influence on the legal destiny of illegitimate or “natural” children. Napoleon’s Civil Code of 1804 provides the legal (patriarchal) framework for the period of this study of illegitimacy, from about 1870 to 1925. The Civil Code saw numerous changes during this period. The Naquet Law of 1884, which reestablished limited legal divorce, represents the central socio-legal event of the turn of the century in matters of legitimacy, whereas the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the First World War furnish chronological bookends for this book. Besides through history, law, and sociology, this book treats illegitimacy through the lens of various branches of gender and sexual theory, particularly the study of masculinities, and a handful of other important critical theories, most importantly those of Michel Foucault, Eve Sedgwick, Todd Reeser, Charles Stivale, and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Bachelors and bastards are two principal players in the representation of illegitimacy in Maupassant and Gide, but this study considers the theme of illegitimacy as extended beyond simple questions of legitimate versus illegitimate children. The male bastard is only one of the "Counterfeit" characters examined in these authors' fictional texts. This book is divided into three parts which consider specific thematic elements of their "bastard narratives". Part One frames the representation in fiction of bachelor figures and how they contribute to, or the roles they play in, instances of illegitimacy. Part Two springs from and develops the metaphor of the "counterfeit coin," whether represented by a bastard son, an affected schoolboy, a false priest, or a pretentious littérateur. Part Three explains the concept of "nomadic masculine" practices; such practices include nomadic styles of masculinity development as well as the bastard's nomadism.
Download or read book The Bixby Series written by Michelle Bryan and published by Harris Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They arrived without warning. Killed without remorse. Decimated us almost to the point of extinction. It's time we take back our world. Join the resistance. One set, three full-length books. Get the entire, action-packed series at once. Book One (Strain of Resistance) I was twelve years old when the world ended. For eight years I've survived in this hell once known as earth. Fighting the alien parasite that mutated most of the population into blood-thirsty freaks, while the rest of us became the lunch special on their alien menu. Now things are changing and not for the better. The parasite is evolving. Becoming smarter, stronger, and deadlier. They've already stolen everything from me. My childhood. My family. Even the man I loved. No more. It's time for this to end once and for all. My name is Bixby, and I'm the resistance. **************************************************** Book Two (Strain of Defiance) My name is Bixby. I'm a survivor. After eight years of fighting the alien invaders and gangs of ravagers that destroyed our world, we thought we had lived through the worst of it. We were wrong. The invaders have evolved, creating a human-leech hybrid. There may be a way for us to eradicate this new threat. But that entails a perilous journey over three hundred miles of infested territory. Three hundred miles of leeches, ravagers, and hybrids all on the hunt for blood. What could possibly go wrong? *************************************************** Book Three (Strain of Vengeance) We had one assignment-destroy the new alien threat. We thought we had done just that. What should have been a joyous return home after a grueling mission has now turned into a race against time to save those we love. Our safe haven has been invaded. Our people either dead or taken. Left heartbroken, our nightmare never seems to end. But I refuse to let the invaders win. None of us are willing to give up until we have everyone we love back safe. But can our people trust us to come to their rescue when we can't even trust each other? Luke and Sam. Sam and Luke. So many lies. So many cover ups. So much pain. One will be my salvation. The other my downfall. Warning: Recommended for mature young adults
Download or read book Strain of Resistance written by Michelle Bryan and published by Harris Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-12 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was twelve years old when the world ended. For eight years I’ve survived this hellhole of a planet, fighting the parasites that mutated most of earth’s population into blood-thirsty freaks, while the rest of us became the lunch special on their human-filled menu. And that’s only one of our problems as we try to survive everyday life in this new reality. Enough food and water? If we’re lucky. Leaving the safety of our high walls? Only if we want to face the vicious cannibals and leeches haunting the streets searching for prey. Living any sort of normalcy? Yeah, right. If it wasn’t for my fellow hunters and Luke, I would have given up long ago. Luke. My friend. My leader. My rock. The man whose arms held me as my world shattered when the invaders took everything I had left. And he wants more. More time. More... commitment. But these walls I’ve built up are the only thing keeping me together. If I let him in, if I let myself love him, it’ll only hurt worse when the inevitable happens. Because in our world, no one is safe, since the only end to this suffering is death. And our war is just beginning. They’ve already stolen so much from me. It’s time for things to change. My name is Bixby and I’m the resistance. Mature themes and explicit language. 17+ Rating.
Download or read book Too Hot to Touch written by Lora Leigh and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lora Leigh presents three novellas from the world of the Breeds--collected here for the first time. In A Christmas Kiss, Jessica Raines would never willingly betray the people she believes in. But she did expose Breed secrets, and now someone wants her dead. Her protection is Wolf Breed Hawke Esteban--and he's got the mating urge for a woman onthe run. In Christmas heat, Jaguar Breed Noble Chavin's new role: bodyguard to Haley McQuire, a woman at risk after discovering a conspiracy against the Breed community. For Noble, being this close to Haley has brought out the mating heat, and she's more than willing to stoke it. In Primal kiss, betrayed Kita Engalls, drawn into shady activities involving the Breeds, can trust only Lion Breed Creed Raines to help. But their mating passion reveals Kita's fear that Creed may be guilty of the greatest betrayal of all"--
Download or read book The Solid Stone written by L.P. McCleod and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stone doesn't bend; it doesn't feel pain or pity. It maintains its crashing course; forever changing the land in its path. Rhea Stone HAD to be the Stone that started rolling, didn't she? In her defense, it wasn't exactly like she had a whole heck of a lot of choice in the matter. The secrets and sins of her missing Father could claim that blame. It certainly wasn't her fault that events had been set in motion before she was born that sealed her fate. Just like it certainly wasn't her fault that she suddenly had monsters literally crawling out of her woodwork...and out of her bloodline. If Rhea hoped to emerge from a war that had been sparked by betrayal and fueled by hate, she would have to dig deep inside of herself and discover a heritage she never knew she had...and could be the death of her.
Download or read book Prey written by Ken Goddard and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-08-15 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Lightstone - undercover cop - fish and wildlife - meets a bloody band of industrialists, financiers, bent on destroying the environment.
Download or read book Bastards and Foundlings written by Lisa Zunshine and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling interdisciplinary study of what has been called the "century of illegitimacy," Lisa Zunshine seeks to uncover the multiplicity of cultural meanings of illegitimacy in the English Enlightenment. Bastards and Foundlings pits the official legal views on illegitimacy against the actual everyday practices that frequently circumvented the law; it reconstructs the history of social institutions called upon to regulate illegitimacy, such as the London Foundling Hospital; and it examines a wide array of novels and plays written in response to the same concerns that informed the emergence and functioning of such institutions. By recreating the context of the national preoccupation with bastardy, with a special emphasis on the gender of the fictional bastard/foundling, Zunshine offers new readings of "canonical" texts, such as Steele's The Conscious Lovers, Defoe's Moll Flanders, Fielding's Tom Jones, Moore's The Foundling, Colman's The English Merchant, Richardson's Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison, Burney's Evelina, Smith's Emmeline, Edgewort's Belinda, and Austen's Emma, as well as of less well-known works, such as Haywood's The Fortunate Foundlings, Shebbeare's The Marriage Act, Bennett's The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors, and Robinson's The Natural Daughter.
Download or read book Krymsin Nocturnes written by Joseph Armstead and published by By Light Unseen Media. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montgomery Quinn, an ancient metahuman, wars with a power-mad cabal of vampires, mages and rogue government mercenaries in Borrego Bay. Quinn and his allies are pitted against two magic-workers seeking a source of ultimate power, which Quinn has been secretly entrusted to protect. Their deadly conflict is complicated by other players, few of whom are what they appear to be on the surface.
Download or read book Exile written by Bradford Morrow and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New writings on defectors and deportees, migrants and refugees, and the feeling of being far from home. From the moment homes and homelands came into being, exile ensued. While narratives of exile share themes of banishment, loss and longing, they are as diverse as the human experience itself. Writers as different as Homer and Heinlein, Aeschylus and Camus addressed this subject. In The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie conceives of exile as “a dream of glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back.” Its permutations know no bounds. The political dissident deported, or jailed, under house arrest; the defected spy; the classic prince banished by his royal father from the city gates; the communal exile of the diaspora. Through cutting-edge fiction, poetry and essays by emerging voices and contemporary masters, Conjunctions: 62, Exile explores the ramifications of expulsion and ostracism. Contributors include Edie Meidav, Peter Straub, Can Xue, H.G. Carrillo, Ales Steger, Maxine Chernoff and others.
Download or read book Gleanings in Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fugitive Race written by Stephen P. Knadler and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denying its formative dialogues with minorities, the white race, Stephen P. Knadler contends, has been a fugitive race. While the "white question," like the "Negro question," and the "woman question" a century earlier, has garnered considerable critical attention among scholars looking to find new anti-race strategies, these investigations need to highlight not just the exclusion of people of color, but also examine minority writers' resistance to and disruption of this privileged racial category. "Highly original, wonderfully detailed, and thought provoking," says Professor Candace Waid of Knadler's intellectually challenging book. Although excluded, people of color looked back in anger, laughter, and wisdom to challenge the unexamined lie of a self-evident whiteness. Looking at fictional and nonfictional texts written between 1850 and 1984, The Fugitive Race traces a long cultural and literary history of the ways African Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, Chicanos, gays, and lesbians have challenged the shape and meaning of so-called white identities. From the antebellum period to the 1980s, the belief in a white racial superiority, or simply a white difference, has denied that people of color might and do have an influence on the supposedly pure or protected character of whiteness. In contrast, this book attempts to define a new way of analyzing minority literature that questions this segregated color line. In addition to creating a new racial awareness, many writers of color tried to interfere in the historical formulation of whiteness. They created unsettling moments when white readers had to see themselves for the first time from the outside-in, or from the critical perspective of non-white writers. These writers--including William Wells Brown, Pauline Hopkins, Abraham Cahan, Young-hill Kang, Zora Neale Hurston, and Arturo Islas--did not simply resist assimilation. They sought to dismantle the white identities that lay as the foundation of the master's house. Stephen P. Knadler, an assistant professor of English at Spelman College, has been published in American Literature, American Literary History, American Quarterly, Minnesota Review, and Modern Fiction Studies.
Download or read book This England That Shakespeare written by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Shakespeare English, British, neither or both? Addressing from various angles the relation of the figure of the national poet/dramatist to constructions of England and Englishness this collection of essays probes the complex issues raised by this question, first through explorations of his plays, principally though not exclusively the histories (Part One), then through discussion of a range of subsequent appropriations and reorientations of Shakespeare and 'his' England (Part Two). If Shakespeare has been taken to stand for Britain as well as England, as if the two were interchangeable, this double identity has come under increasing strain with the break-up - or shake-up - of Britain through devolution and the end of Empire. Essays in Part One examine how the fissure between English and British identities is probed in Shakespeare's own work, which straddles a vital juncture when an England newly independent from Rome was negotiating its place as part of an emerging British state and empire. Essays in Part Two then explore the vexed relations of 'Shakespeare' to constructions of authorial identity as well as national, class, gender and ethnic identities. At this crucial historical moment, between the restless interrogations of the tercentenary celebrations of the Union of Scotland and England in 2007 and the quatercentenary celebrations of the death of the bard in 2016, amid an increasing clamour for a separate English parliament, when the end of Britain is being foretold and when flags and feelings are running high, this collection has a topicality that makes it of interest not only to students and scholars of Shakespeare studies and Renaissance literature, but to readers inside and outside the academy interested in the drama of national identities in a time of transition.
