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Author: Matthew Cody Publisher: Yearling ISBN: 0375844899 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 290
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Superheroes soar in this promising debut—and they’re kids! Twelve-year-old Daniel, the new kid in town, soon learns the truth about his nice—but odd—new friends: one can fly, another can turn invisible, yet another controls electricity. Incredible. The superkids use their powers to secretly do good in the town, but they’re haunted by the fact that the moment they turn thirteen, their abilities will disappear—along with any memory that they ever had them. Is a memory-stealing supervillain sapping their powers? The answers lie in a long-ago meteor strike, a World War II–era comic book (Fantastic Futures, starring the first superhero, Johnny Noble), the green-flamed Witch Fire, a hidden Shroud cave, and—possibly, unbelievably—“powerless” regular-kid Daniel himself. Superhero kids meet comic book mystery in this action-filled debut about the true meaning of a hero.
Author: Chris Priestley Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd. ISBN: 1471405656 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 285
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'Deeply moving' The Financial Times David is sixteen. A pretty ordinary boy, in most ways - he just wants to hang out in his bedroom, reading his dad's old comics. Comics that are full of his heroes - those figures whose lives are charmed, special, unique. Life hasn't been easy recently for David, though. His father died just a couple of years ago, he has a fractious relationship with his mum, and he has fallen out with his best friend. But, David has a secret, which he hasn't told anyone. He has superpowers. He can soar through the air, he has superhearing, he feels and hears everything super-keenly. So life should be easier, then, shouldn't it? But somehow it's not - and when David gets involved with the girl next door, gorgeous Holly Harper, he begins to realise just how very complicated it can get. David's harbouring another secret, a deeper darker one, and on this journey from boyhood to manhood, will he have the courage to face up to it?
Author: Tera Lynn Childs Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN: 1492616583 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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In a world of superheroes, the line between good and evil is always clear. Right? Kenna is constantly surrounded by superheroes. Her best friend, her ex-boyfriend, practically everyone she knows has some talent or power. Kenna doesn't have a power. Sure, she's smart and independent, but surrounded by all the extraordinary, it's hard not feel very ordinary. And she's tired of it. So when three villains break into the lab where she interns, Kenna refuses to be a victim. She stands her ground. She's not about to let criminals steal the research that will make her extraordinary too. But in the heat of battle, secrets are spilled and one of the villains saves her life. Twice. Suddenly, everything Kenna thought she knew about good and evil, heroes and villains is upended. And to protect her life and those she loves, she must team up with her sworn enemies on a mission that will redefine what it means to be powerful and powerless... The Hero Agenda Series: Powerless (Book 1) Relentless (Book 2)
Author: Elizabeth Gannon Publisher: ISBN: 9780692228234 Category : Superheroes Languages : en Pages : 296
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Love is a literal battlefield as these couples find love while trying to save-or destroy-the world.Powerless Against You features ten larger than life romantic tales of superheroes or villains in love. Get immersed in the drama of keeping secret identities, battling against a secret love, the struggle of coming into superpowers after tragedy, and much more. These tales tackle a wide spectrum of couplings and characters that are sure to capture readers hearts.Introduction by Gail Simone. Authors include Elizabeth Gannon, K Orion Fray, Andrea R. Blackwell, Jacklyn Baker, Agustin Guerrero, Jade Black, Kara Costegan, Kim Strattford, ME McLaughlin and Alice Hare.
Author: Courtney Schafer Publisher: Start Publishing LLC ISBN: 1597803529 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 348
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Dev is a smuggler with the perfect cover. He's in high demand as a guide for the caravans that carry legitimate goods from the city of Ninavel into the country of Alathia. The route through the Whitefire Mountains is treacherous, and Dev is one of the few climbers who knows how to cross them safely. With his skill and connections, it's easy enough to slip contraband charms from Ninavel - where any magic is fair game, no matter how dark - into Alathia, where most magic is outlawed. But smuggling a few charms is one thing; smuggling a person through the warded Alathian border is near suicidal. Having made a promise to a dying friend, Dev is forced to take on a singularly dangerous cargo: Kiran. A young apprentice on the run from one of the most powerful mages in Ninavel, Kiran is desperate enough to pay a fortune to sneak into a country where discovery means certain execution - and he'll do whatever it takes to prevent Dev from finding out the terrible truth behind his getaway. Yet the young mage is not the only one harboring a deadly secret. Caught up in a web of subterfuge and dark magic, Dev and Kiran must find a way to trust each other - or face not only their own destruction, but that of the entire city of Ninavel.
Author: Lauren Cooper Publisher: Austin Macauley ISBN: 9781528919388 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 214
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""More. I needed more. I never anticipated how much that need would change my life. I'd pushed my law firm into this merger to get more. My entire life, I'd battled the odds stacked against me, never once letting anyone tell me I couldn't do something, and I wouldn't start now. I didn't need anything, but I wanted it. I craved it, and in the end, I craved him. I make my money from defending people in a court room. I make a living from other people's crimes. So why can't I bring the one person accountable for crimes against me to justice? The truth? I'm powerless."" Mia Bellucci is a head-strong business woman. Her company is at a standstill and her only solution is in the hands of Liam Hadleigh. What she doesn't realise is that a lot more than her company is at stake. After throwing caution to the wind, and giving this new merger her all, Mia finds herself handing over more than just her business. Her attention is completely on him and making the money she so desperately craves for peace of mind. So much so that she doesn't see her past slithering through the cracks.
Author: Steven Moore Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1628926465 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 242
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In 1989, Steven Moore published the first scholarly study of all three of William Gaddis's novels and since then it has been generally regarded as the best book on this difficult but major writer's work. This revised and expanded edition includes new chapters on the novels Gaddis published after 1989, the National Book Award-winning A Frolic of His Own and the posthumous novella Agape Agape, along with updated introductory and concluding chapters. This introduction offers a clear discussion of all five of Gaddis's novels, providing essential biographical information, two chapters each on his most significant novels, The Recognitions and J R, and a chapter each devoted to his later three novels. A concluding chapter locates his place in American literature and notes his influence on younger writers. Each chapter focuses on the main themes of each novel and discusses the literary techniques Gaddis deployed to dramatize those themes. Since Gaddis is an erudite, allusive novelist, Moore clarifies his references and explains how they enhance his themes.
Author: Katherine Stanton Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135492433 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 111
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Participating in the reframing of literary studies, Cosmopolitan Fictions identifies, as "cosmopolitan fiction", a genre of global literature that investigates the ethics and politics of complex and multiple belonging. The fictions studied by Katherine Stanton represent and revise the global histories of the past and present, including the "indigenous or native" narratives that are, in Homi Bhabha's words, "internal to" national identity itself. The works take as their subjects: * European unification * the human rights movement * the AIDS epidemic * the new South Africa. And they test the infinite demands for justice against the shifting borders of the nation, rethinking habits of feeling, modes of belonging and practices of citizenship for the global future. Scholars, teachers and students of global literary and cultural studies, Cosmopolitan Fictions is a book to want on your reading list.
Author: Megan Cole Paustian Publisher: Fordham Univ Press ISBN: 1531505503 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 289
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Humanitarianism has a narrative problem. Far too often, aid to Africa is envisioned through a tale of Western heroes saving African sufferers. While labeling white savior narratives has become a familiar gesture, it doesn’t tell us much about the story as story. Humanitarian Fictions aims to understand the workings of humanitarian literature, as they engage with and critique narratives of Africa. Overlapping with but distinct from human rights, humanitarianism centers on a relationship of assistance, focusing less on rights than on needs, less on legal frameworks than moral ones, less on the problem than on the nonstate solution. Tracing the white savior narrative back to religious missionaries of the nineteenth century, Humanitarian Fiction reveals the influence of religious thought on seemingly secular institutions and uncovers a spiritual, collectivist streak in the discourse of humanity. Because the humanitarian model of care transcends the boundaries of the state, and its networks touch much of the globe, Humanitarian Fictions redraws the boundaries of literary classification based on a shared problem space rather than a shared national space. The book maps a transnational vein of Anglophone literature about Africa that features missionaries, humanitarians, and their so-called beneficiaries. Putting humanitarian thought in conversation with postcolonial critique, this book brings together African, British, and U.S. writers typically read within separate traditions. Paustian shows how the novel—with its profound sensitivity to narrative—can enrich the critique of white saviorism while also imagining alternatives that give African agency its due.
Author: Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso
Author: Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso
Author: Matthew Cody
Author: Chris Priestley
Author: Tera Lynn Childs
Author: Elizabeth Gannon
Author: Courtney Schafer
Author: Lauren Cooper
Author: Steven Moore
Author: Katherine Stanton
Author: Megan Cole Paustian