Author: Stanley Garland, Jr. Publisher: ISBN: 9781955391047 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Desperately searching for a cure to save his poisoned wife Sodina, "Slash" journeys across the lands of Esteria to save her from death. Hero of a now fallen kingdom, a shamed man journeys with what remains of his people and the crown princess turned untimely queen. Determined to redeem himself.An epic tale of battle, mystery, love, and betrayal unravels across Esteria as multiple paths converge into one.
Author: Jonathan Solis Publisher: Novel Horizons ISBN: 9781955391078 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 298
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Radiants. Humans born with the potential to produce and manipulate the mysterious energy known as "Luvis". Enabling them to perform amazing physical feats and use fantastical abilities. One of these few Radiants is Daedalus Notos. A below-average Radiant, yet a determined one whose life has taken him to the front steps of Regulus University. One of the worlds greatest and most respected training establishments for Radiants. There, he will learn that the path toward success is often lined with failure and he must quickly accept that just tenacity and a positive attitude isn't enough when face to face with titans.
Author: João Cezar de Castro Rocha Publisher: Tagus Press ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 682
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An in-depth look at how Machado de Assis affirms his uniqueness through the role of a reflective reader who eventually becomes a self-reflective author, whose text is primarily the written memory of his private library
Author: David Gemmell Publisher: Del Rey ISBN: 0307797511 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 415
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Once the legendary knights of the Gabala defended the nine duchies. Their hearts were beautiful; their armor was beyond compare. They were greater than princes, more than men. But they were gone, disappeared through a demon-haunted gateway between worlds. Only one held back -- Manannan, whose every instinct told him to stay. Now he was the coward knight, and in torment. Murder and black magic beset the land. Rumors circulated that the king was enchanted, changed, that his soul was dead . . . and that a reign of terror was about to begin. Now Manannan realized he would have to face his darkest fears: he had no choice but to ride through that dreaded gate and seek out his vanished companions. And the secret he would learn there would tear his soul apart . . . . "A sharp, distinctive medieval fantasy. Dramatic, colorful, taut." -- Locus
Author: Dave Addey Publisher: Abrams ISBN: 168335334X Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 274
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A designer’s deep dive into seven science fiction films, filled with “gloriously esoteric nerdery [and] observations as witty as they are keen” (Wired). In Typeset in the Future, blogger and designer Dave Addey invites sci-fi movie fans on a journey through seven genre-defining classics, discovering how they create compelling visions of the future through typography and design. The book delves deep into 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Alien, Blade Runner, Total Recall, WALL·E, and Moon, studying the design tricks and inspirations that make each film transcend mere celluloid and become a believable reality. These studies are illustrated by film stills, concept art, type specimens, and ephemera, plus original interviews with Mike Okuda (Star Trek), Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall), and Ralph Eggleston and Craig Foster (Pixar). Typeset in the Future is an obsessively geeky study of how classic sci-fi movies draw us in to their imagined worlds.
Author: John Atkinson Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 006274786X Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 180
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John Atkinson has illustrated and summarized the books you don’t want to read but nevertheless feel you should. — the Paris Review Turns out you can summarize Proust’s In Search of Lost Time with two pictures. — Lithub This book will appeal to people that read the New Yorker for the cartoons, or enjoy Tom Gauld’s reading-themed cartoons. — ComicsDC “Very funny stuff…There is a lot going on in Atkinson’s deceptively simple cartoons…and the magic is in how he achieves the maximum impact with as little as possible. So, it makes total sense for Atkinson to tackle some of the most celebrated books–with hilarious results.” — Comics Grinder He compiles super-succinct summaries of literary classics in the light-hearted, humorous style that his blog readers have grown to love. — Wordpress John Atkinson, is giving all book lovers a chuckle with his condensed literary classic cartoons, which include abbreviations of famous works of literature. — Buzzfeed
Author: Jean Shepherd Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0307575365 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 352
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A bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana and the basis of the movie A Christmas Story. “Mr. Shepherd has the true satirist’s grip on his pen: he is humorous, sympathetic,and ironic all at once.”—Boston Globe Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant—and utterly hilarious—works of comic art. Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations. Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories is a universal (and achingly funny) orchestration of Midwestern puberty rites. From the gut-wrenching playground antics of one Delbert Bumpus and the almighty sacrifice of the Easter ham, to taffy-apple binges at the state fair and the supernatural glow surrounding unapproachable high school beauty Daphne Bigelow, to the memorable disaster that was Shepherd’s (and everyone else’s) junior prom—these are some of the archetypal legends of childhood that Shepherd evokes from his nostalgic Indiana muse. A timeless and enduring classic, Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories captures the sweet cacophonous roar of youth tempered with the wit and honesty of a grown boy
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