Download or read book The Journey of the Nightisans written by Rebecca Linam and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucasse Koltz can't get a date thanks to his embarrassing family. His father, the village mad scientist, disappeared into another dimension after creating his own personal black hole. His blue-haired sister can show visions of things happening in other places. Naturally, no one takes Lucasse seriously either, but he is determined to win fame and fortune after setting out to save the world from its latest trouble, a future dictator. It turns out that the world is in no real danger, until Lucasse accidentally releases an ancient curse that sends the moon on a crash course with the planet. The only person capable of resealing the curse is the Guardian of the World, but he has been missing for years! Now Lucasse must embark on a quest to find the missing Guardian, or the world is doomed. Between Lucasses arrogance and his ragtag sidekicks, the chances of saving the world look slim. His sister insists on using a badminton racket as a weapon, and the magician Lucasse hires is allergic to magic. To top things off, someone out there wants to stop Lucasse from breaking the curse, and that person turns out to be a shadow from his past.
Download or read book Alex the Great written by Rebecca Linam and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Penfold refuses to be anything more than what she is - the world's biggest tomboy. Nothing has been the same since her older brother Jeremy died in an accident two years ago. Things are looking up at school for Alex when she makes a new friend. But when something terrible happens that makes Alex miss Jeremy more than ever, the struggling fifth grader must learn that the best gift in life is a freind who listens.
Download or read book The War on State Street written by Rebecca Linam and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of Alex the Great Eight-year-old Ester Sandbourne is fed up with her neighbors, the Thrashers. In the first few days of summer vacation, they steal her bicycle, smash her homemade teepee, and make life miserable for everyone on State Street. Just when it looks like the summer is ruined, Ester gets her best idea yet-declaring war on the Thrashers. Together with her friends Cecil, Sally, Bob, and Hector T, she plans the wackiest, messiest mud ball and rotten tomato fight ever against the Thrashers. Will Ester and her friends be able to defend State Street, or will the Thrashers terrorize State Street for the rest of the summer?
Download or read book Alex the Great written by Rebecca Linam and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexandra Penfold refuses to be anything more than what she isthe worlds biggest tomboy. She even tried out for the middle school football team. Alex knows she is different than all the other girls in her grade; they would rather sit around talking about boys, makeup, and the homecoming dance than play make-believe or jump on the trampoline. Known around school for not fitting in and for being a regular guest in the principals office, Alex just wants to spend her free time playing with her dog, Yippy, and her cat, Creamy, who happen to love her just the way she is. Her older brother, Jeremy, used to play with her as well, but nothing has been the same for Alex since Jeremy died in an accident two years ago. Still, things start to look up as Alex makes a new friend at school; everything seems to be going better. But then something terrible happens that makes Alex miss Jeremy more than ever. Now this fifth grader struggling to be herself must learn that the best gift in life is a friend who listens.
Download or read book Bards and Sages Quarterly October 2017 written by Milo James Fowler and published by Bards and Sages Publishing. This book was released on with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With each issue of the Bards and Sages Quarterly, we strive to bring fans of speculative fiction an engaging and entertaining variety of stories from new and established authors in the horror, fantasy, and science fiction genres. In this issue: stories by Tom Barlow, Jason Bougger, Milo James Fowler, Blake Gilmore, Rebecca Linam, Matthew C. Lucas, DC Mallery, Matthew McAyeal, Dennis Mombauer, Aisha Phoenix, Robin Reed, Daniel Ryan, Nicholas Stillman, Daniel Stride, Harold R. Thompson, and Sophie van Llewyn.
Download or read book The Light of Other Days written by Arthur C. Clarke and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantum wormhole technology brings about the end of human privacy in a novel “fizzing with ideas” by two of science fiction’s most acclaimed authors (Kirkus Reviews). From Arthur C. Clarke, the brilliant mind that brought us 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Stephen Baxter, the Philip K. Dick Award–winning author of The Time Ships, comes a novel of a day, not so far in the future, when the barriers of time and distance have suddenly turned to glass. When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses cutting-edge physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times—around every corner, through every wall—the result is the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy, forever. Then the same technology proves able to look backward in time as well. The Light of Other Days is a story that will change your view of what it is to be human.
Download or read book The Young Authoress written by afterwards TEMPLE HENDRIKS (Rose Ellen) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gardens of the Moon written by Steven Erikson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vast legions of gods, mages, humans, dragons and all manner of creatures play out the fate of the Malazan Empire in this first book in a major epic fantasy series from Steven Erikson. The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with the formidable Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, ancient and implacable sorcerers. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet Empress Laseen's rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, surviving cadre mage of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the many dead. But Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities of Genabackis, yet holds out. It is to this ancient citadel that Laseen turns her predatory gaze. However, it would appear that the Empire is not alone in this great game. Sinister, shadowbound forces are gathering as the gods themselves prepare to play their hand... Conceived and written on a panoramic scale, Gardens of the Moon is epic fantasy of the highest order--an enthralling adventure by an outstanding new voice. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Terminal World written by Alastair Reynolds and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last surviving human city, an ex-spy gets sucked into a dangerous quest that will take him beyond the city walls when a winged man turns up dead in his morgue in this innovative and original dystopian space adventure. Spearpoint, the last human city, is an enormous atmosphere-piercing spire. Clinging to its skin are the zones, a series of semi-autonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different—and rigidly enforced—level of technology. Following an infiltration mission that went tragically wrong, Quillon has been living incognito, working as a pathologist in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, Quillon's world is wrenched apart one more time, for the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint's Celestial Levels—and with the dying body comes bad news. If Quillon is to save his life, he must leave his home and journey into the cold and hostile lands beyond Spearpoint's base, starting an exile that will take him further than he could ever imagine. But there is far more at stake than just Quillon's own survival, for the limiting technologies of the zones are determined not by governments or police, but by the very nature of reality—and reality itself is showing worrying signs of instability . . .
Download or read book Halo Evolutions written by Karen Traviss and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection dives into the Halo universe from the perspective of those who fought and died to save humanity—and those who vowed to wipe it out.
Download or read book Goddesses of the Sea written by Jetse de Vries and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sea is a dark and mysterious place. What lurks within the deepest caverns, unseen by those above? A haunting melody drifts across the waves, a beautiful figure floats in the shallows. Do you follow? Do you answer the sea's hypnotic call? An anthology featuring 18 stories about mermaids, sea goddesses, sirens, and other mysterious creatures of the deep.
Download or read book Galileo s Dream written by Kim Stanley Robinson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the Mars trilogy brings us the story of the incredible life of Galileo. But there's a twist. He is contacted by people from the year 3020 who bring him to their time to help them deal with a mysterious intelligence living on Jupiter's moon, Europa.
Download or read book Bone and Jewel Creatures written by Elizabeth Bear and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark magic is afoot in the City of Jackals... Eighty years Bijou the Artificer has been a Wizard of Messaline, building her servants from precious scraps, living with the memory of a great love that betrayed her. She is ready to rest. But now her former apprentice, Brazen the Enchanter, has brought her a speechless feral child poisoned by a sorcerous infection. Now, Messaline is swept by a mysterious plague. Now the seeping corpses of the dead stalk the streets. Now, finally, Bijou's old nemesis--Bijou's old love--Kaulas the Necromancer is unleashing a reeking half-death on Bijou's people. And only Bijou and her creatures wrought of bone and jewels can save the City of Jackals from his final revenge.
Download or read book Retromancer written by Robert Rankin and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is big and evil magic abroad upon the face of the Earth. History has been changed. The Germans have won WWII. America is a nuclear wasteland. And worst of all, the breakfast menu at The Wife's Legs Café in Brentford is serving Bratwurst rather than the proper big boys' British banger. Something is Not Right. And when the world's all wrong and it needs setting right, who're you gonna call? Hugo Rune, that's who. A man who offers the world his genius, and asks only, in return, that the world cover his expenses. And so, with the aid of his faithful acolyte and companion Rizla, the guru's guru, also known as the hokus bloke, the Lad Himself and the Retromancer*, sets out to rewrite history the way it should be. Together they return to war-torn London, to solve the twelve cosmic conundra based on Hugo Rune's personal tarot deck, each one leading them closer to a final terrifying confrontation. They must match their wits against beautiful spies, advanced alien technology, killer robots and death rays, do battle with an ancient god, and come face to face once more with Hugo Rune's arch-enemy, the sinister Count Otto Black, all the while finding time to drink ale, talk the toot and dine out in some of London's swankiest eateries. Without ever paying the bill.
