Download or read book The Lost Books of the Odyssey written by Zachary Mason and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITER Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's original that taken together open up this classic Greek myth to endless reverberating interpretations. The Lost Books of the Odyssey is punctuated with great wit, beauty, and playfulness; it is a daring literary page-turner that marks the emergence of an extraordinary new talent.

Download or read book Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor written by Xiran Jay Zhao and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Percy Jackson meets Tristan Strong in this hilarious middle grade “edge-of-your-seat adventure” (James Ponti, New York Times bestselling author of City Spies) that follows a young boy as he journeys across China to seal the underworld shut and save the mortal realm. Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, and his schools never taught anything except Western history and myths. So Zack is woefully unprepared when he discovers he was born to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China for a vital mission: sealing the leaking portal to the Chinese underworld before the upcoming Ghost Month blows it wide open. The mission takes an immediate wrong turn when the First Emperor botches his attempt to possess Zack’s body and binds to Zack’s AR gaming headset instead, leading to a battle where Zack’s mom’s soul gets taken by demons. Now, with one of history’s most infamous tyrants yapping in his headset, Zack must journey across China to heist magical artifacts and defeat figures from history and myth, all while learning to wield the emperor’s incredible water dragon powers. And if Zack can’t finish the mission in time, the spirits of the underworld will flood into the mortal realm, and he could lose his mom forever.

Download or read book Werewolves written by Zachary Graves and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The werewolf possesses human sensitivities that no other monster exhibits. In the pantheon of legendary creatures, the werewolf is the only one to e consumed by remorse for his actions. He wakes after a night of lunacy, covered in blood and gore, appalled at what he's done. Every one of us can empathize with the duality of the werewolf personality. Some more so than others... This hardcover volume complete with four-color illustrations and text decoration will make an excellent addition to any fantasy fan's library and a wonderful companion resource for any scholar of myths and legends. Werewolves explores the myths surrounding the fantastical creature and questions the probably realities behind the fantasies. This lycanthropic compendium traces the complex history of wolf men from their earliest origins in the founding of Rome, through the forests of medieval Europe and the plains of Arizona, to the dark streets of Jekyll and Hyde's Victorian London and beyond. This book examines the impact of werewolves on popular culture and explains why we can't get enough of howling at the moon.

Download or read book Cancer Only Sucks on Days That End in Y written by Scott D. Finestone and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Cancer Only Sucks on Days That End In Y is a combination of a memoir of our exploits battling this disease and a manual for friends and families who find themselves thrust into the wonderful (NOT) world of cancer. This touching and often hilarious story combines flashbacks from journal entries and advice on how to tackle The Monster. Whether you, a family member, friend or neighbor has a child who is facing a life-threatening illness, this book can serve as your insiders look into how one navigates those treacherous waters.

Download or read book The Hero s Guidebook Creating Your Own Hero s Journey written by Zachary Hamby and published by Creative English Teacher Press. This book was released on 2019-09-28 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the secret reason we find hero stories so exciting and inspirational. Humorously illustrated with over 40 cartoons, this book takes readers through the stages of Joseph Campbell's pattern of the Hero's Journey using examples from books, films, and even video games.

Download or read book The Neighborhood written by Matthew Betley and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Die Hard in a gated community.”—Chris Hauty, national bestselling author of Deep State and Storm Rising From the critically acclaimed author of Overwatch and other titles in the Logan West Thriller series, comes a can’t-miss, brand-new thriller that proves Matthew Betley is the modern master of the unputdownable page-turner. It was supposed to be just another ordinary night ... What happens when your neighborhood harbors a secret so destructive that dangerous men are willing to kill for it? Welcome to Hidden Refuge, a normal American subdivision full of normal American suburbanites. At least that’s what the citizens thought before men impersonating police officers show up on their doorsteps in the middle of the night. Once the entire community is under siege, so begins a long, dark night that will prove to be anything but ordinary. But Zack Chambers, suburban family man and programmer by trade, has his own secret. One he had dearly hoped that he’d never need to use again. The deadly ex–CIA agent and trained operative plots to take back the night, doing whatever it takes to protect his neighborhood. In the face of a small army of trained killers, he’s got his wits, his babysitter, his equally lethal brother, and a ragtag group of neighbors willing to help. Action-packed and relentless with twists and turns and old scores to be settled, this propulsive and brilliantly plotted can’t-miss thriller brings a shocking end you won’t see coming. Fans of Matthew Betley’s trademark blend of gritty realism and edge-of-your-seat action will be delighted.

Download or read book I Am Legend as American Myth written by Amy J. Ransom and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend has spawned a series of iconic horror and science fiction films, including The Last Man on Earth (1964), The Omega Man (1971) and I Am Legend (2007). The compelling narrative of the last man on earth, struggling to survive a pandemic that has transformed the rest of humanity into monsters, has become an American myth. While the core story remains intact, filmmakers have transformed the details over time, reflecting changing attitudes about race and masculinity. This reexamination of Matheson's novel situates the tale of one man's conflicted attitude about killing racialized "others" within its original post-World War II context, engaging the question of post-traumatic stress disorder. The author analyzes the several film adaptations, with a focus on the casting and interpretations of protagonist Robert Neville.

Download or read book Mythology for Teens written by Zachary Hamby and published by Mythology for Teens. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By looking at topics instrumental to both mythology and modern culture, teens are encouraged to question topics such as the repercussions of war, vanity and greed, the workings of fate, the nature of love, the roles of women in society, revenge and forgiveness, the meaning of life, and national identity.

Download or read book My Dad written by Susan Quinn and published by Words & Pictures. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful and lyrical celebration of fatherhood, My Dad reveals all the little things that one child’s dad does that make him the best dad in the world.

Download or read book Showstopper written by G. Pascal Zachary and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “inside account captures the energy—and the madness—of the software giant’s race to develop a critical new program. . . . Gripping” (Fortune Magazine). Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary David Cutler, a picked band of software engineers sacrifices almost everything in their lives to build a new, stable, operating system aimed at giving Microsoft a platform for growth through the next decade of development in the computing business. Comparable in many ways to the Pulitzer Prize–winning book The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, Showstopper gets deep inside the process of software development, the lives and motivations of coders and the pressure to succeed coupled with the drive for originality and perfection that can pull a diverse team together to create a program consisting of many hundreds of thousands of lines of code.

Download or read book Legend of Badger Claw written by Harry Simpson and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1830's it was told that a Great White Spirit came to the Arapaho people and slew their enemy. Whether true, exaggeration or a myth to scare children, it spread from tribe to tribe, like a plague. Among the Plains Indians of the Kansas Territory, the Legend of Badger Claw was born.

Download or read book HPI In Search Of written by Paul Dale Roberts & Deanna Jaxine Stinson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book At the Pleasure of the President written by Shayla Black and published by Black Oak Books LLC. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling conclusion of the twisting, page-turning Perfect Gentlemen series… Decades ago, ambitious Zack Hayes set his sights on the White House. He’s worked his whole life to become the leader of the free world—attending the right schools, marrying the perfect bride—all to aid his campaign. He didn’t realize someone behind the scenes has been pulling the strings to manipulate Zack and the country he loves into a dangerous position—one he will risk his life to wrench free from. The one thing he can’t risk is Elizabeth Matthews. From the moment she met Zack Hayes, Liz felt the connection. Serving as his campaign manager and then his press secretary, she accepted that her love for him would remain unrequited. Still, she’d thought they were friends, so when he pushed her aside, she felt the stab in her heart. And when she realizes he’s done it to protect her, nothing will stop Liz from standing by his side—not even the men who would use her as a weapon against him. As shocking secrets are revealed, Zack and Liz find succor and passion in each other’s arms. When the ultimate villain shows his face, Zack may have to choose between his country and the woman he loves…

Download or read book The Loch written by Steve Alten and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marine biologist Zachary Wallace once suffered a near-drowning experience in legendary Loch Ness, and now, long-forgotten memories of that experience have begun haunting him. The truth surrounding these memories lies with Zachary's estranged father, Angus Wallace, a wily Highlander on trial for murder. Together the two plunge into a world where the legend of Loch Ness shows its true face. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book God Hates Astronauts The Omnimegabus written by Ryan Browne and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2022-03-09 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen years in the making, RYAN BROWNE’s (CURSE WORDS, Quantum & Woody) absurdist, cult-sensation goof book is available in one remastered tome! GHA is the gonzo “story” of a group of NASA-funded, superpowered egomaniacs who are paid a living wage to stop unregistered agrarian space travel. Remember that movie The Astronaut Farmer? No?! Well, it’s like that, but with superpowers, goofs, and wild punching. BUT! Our wonderful main characters are very bad at their jobs and waste time focusing on extramarital affairs, big gross heads, and 3D cowboys, causing an intergalactic incident that leads to an all-out space crab invasion of Earth! Bring on da jokes! “I don’t want to oversell what RYAN BROWNE has accomplished here, but I gave GOD HATES ASTRONAUTS to a blind man and he regained his sight.” —JONATHAN HICKMAN (EAST OF WEST, THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS, The Avengers) Collects GOD HATES ASTRONAUTS, VOL. 1-3 TP, 3D COWBOY’S 2D SPECTACULAR, GOATS EAT CASTANETS #-1: THE GARBAGE EDITION, GRENADE HORSE APOCALYPSE #0, and THE HEAD THAT WOULDN’T DIE #4

Download or read book The Starless Sea written by Erin Morgenstern and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea. Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues—a bee, a key, and a sword—that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library hidden far below the surface of the earth. What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians—it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also of those who are intent on its destruction. Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose—in both the mysterious book and in his own life.

Download or read book Sparkling Wine for Modern Times written by Zachary Sussman and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive guide to sparkling wine today, complete with profiles of exemplary producers, bottle recommendations, colorful infographics, and illustrated guides. Sparkling Wine for Modern Times considers sparkling wine traditions and offerings from around the world. This approachable book explores our perpetual fascination with sparkling wine and places each regional expression within the wider wine zeitgeist—from the radical grower revolution reshaping the highly conservative area of Champagne to Prosecco's overnight transformation into a multi-million-dollar brand to the retro appeal of natural wine's cult-hit pétillant naturel to the next generation of "real wines" from Lambrusco, and beyond. The book covers the essential information for each growing region and highlights up-and-coming areas such as Jura in France, as well as can't-miss trends including traditional-method Sicilian sparklers and Califorinian pét-nat. For each region, renowned wine writer Zachary Sussman gives expert bottle recommendations to seek out—wines that truly capture the style and spirit of the place. Fun and informative illustrated timelines, color charts, and production-method breakdowns from illustrator Nick Hensley appear throughout for quick learning. For anyone who's ever wondered why bubbles are confined to birthdays and holidays, Sparkling Wine for Modern Times is your go-to guide to enjoying sparkling wine all year long.