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Author: Kaitlin Tremblay Publisher: ECW Press ISBN: 177305077X Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 119
Book Description
A deep dive into the groundbreaking and bestselling video game series The critically acclaimed first-person shooter franchise Borderlands knows it's ridiculous. It's a badge of pride. After all, Borderlands 2 was promoted with the tagline "87 bazillion guns just got bazillionder." These space-western games encourage you to shoot a lot of enemies and monsters, loot their corpses, and have a few chuckles while chasing down those bazillion guns. As Kaitlin Tremblay explores in Ain't No Place for a Hero, the Borderlands video game series satirizes its own genre, exposing and addressing the ways first-person shooter video games have tended to exclude women, queer people, and people of colour, as well as contribute to a hostile playing environment. Tremblay also digs in to the way the Borderlands game franchise Ñ which has sold more than 26 million copies Ñ disrupts traditional notions of heroism, creating nuanced and compelling storytelling that highlights the strengths and possibilities of this relatively new narrative medium. The latest entry in the acclaimed Pop Classics series, Ain-t No Place for a Hero is a fascinating read for Borderlands devotees as well as the uninitiated.
Author: Kaitlin Tremblay Publisher: ECW Press ISBN: 177305077X Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 119
Book Description
A deep dive into the groundbreaking and bestselling video game series The critically acclaimed first-person shooter franchise Borderlands knows it's ridiculous. It's a badge of pride. After all, Borderlands 2 was promoted with the tagline "87 bazillion guns just got bazillionder." These space-western games encourage you to shoot a lot of enemies and monsters, loot their corpses, and have a few chuckles while chasing down those bazillion guns. As Kaitlin Tremblay explores in Ain't No Place for a Hero, the Borderlands video game series satirizes its own genre, exposing and addressing the ways first-person shooter video games have tended to exclude women, queer people, and people of colour, as well as contribute to a hostile playing environment. Tremblay also digs in to the way the Borderlands game franchise Ñ which has sold more than 26 million copies Ñ disrupts traditional notions of heroism, creating nuanced and compelling storytelling that highlights the strengths and possibilities of this relatively new narrative medium. The latest entry in the acclaimed Pop Classics series, Ain-t No Place for a Hero is a fascinating read for Borderlands devotees as well as the uninitiated.
Author: Alice Childress Publisher: Turtleback ISBN: 9780881032543 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 126
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The life of a 13-year-old Harlem black boy, on his way to becoming a confirmed heroin addict, is seen from his viewpoint and from that of several people around him.
Author: Billy Joe Shaver Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 9780292706132 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 220
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Willie Nelson says, "Billy Joe Shaver may be the best songwriter alive today." And legions of fans agree. "Honky Tonk Hero" is the story of a man who not only walked on the wild side and lived to tell about it, but also got it all down in songs that many people consider to be some of the finest country songs ever written.
Author: Charlie Plumb Publisher: ISBN: 9781881886013 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 292
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'I'm No Hero' is the story of Charlie Plumb, but it is also the story of all POWs who faced an isolated world of degradation, loneliness, tedium, hunger, and pain. It is no pretty story. It tells of the torture room with walls built to muffle human screams, of the 'rope trick' and 'fanbelt' techniques designed to make a man talk, of illness, of insanity. But it also tells of the ingenuity and creativity which allowed the men to outsmart their guards and to set up communication systems, classes, escape plans, and to maintain their chain of command. It is a revealing story. It pictures men who are reduced to the basics physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. It shows how these situations can be survived with individual integrity and pride intact. It tells of growing relationships with God which came as a result of desperate need. It outlines a closed society's methods of developing rules which allow members to live together in harmony. It is a story of hope, for it suggests that the techniques used by POWs to survive their conditions can be used by others to overcome similar situations faced in day-to-day living.
Author: Ben Galley Publisher: Terrible Ten ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 612
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“What do you think a hero is? It’s just the right person in the right place making the right choice at the right time. Heroes aren’t born. They’re made.” A demonic assassin. A half-orc boxer. A ratman necromancer. Though they take many different shapes and forms, there are heroes all around us. Bravery can be found in the most unexpected places: a subterranean dwarven city; the sands of a temple courtyard in Ancient Egypt; a besieged castle, a Victorian brothel, a goblin warren, the post-apocalyptic ruins of a demon-infested village. Heroes dwell in the shadows as well as the light; you just have to look a little harder to find them. Who do they fight? Some heroes challenge injustice in all its numerous guises, while others hunt monsters both human and bestial. Others battle inner demons, the ghosts of their past, their deepest nightmares – or even the gods themselves. Why do they fight? For glory? Sometimes. For honor? Perhaps. There are those who instinctively strive to protect those weaker than themselves, and there are others emboldened only by a sense of obligation, or the promise of wealth. Whether by the blade or other means, they endeavor to take down all who threaten what is good and right in their world. By hook or by crook, through cunning or combat, with tooth and claw or iron and steel, they are all united in one goal, willingly or not: to live – and die, if necessary – a hero. Choose your weapon. Fight for what you believe in. Never give up. Nineteen fantasy writers gather to bring nineteen tales to life, each one a unique glimpse into a wholly original world.
Author: Paul Tillman Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1524685720 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 274
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Minnie McCormack is a fast-paced, action packed, adventure story for women. It is set in the Panhandle of Florida in the late 1960s. The heroine, Minnie, is an oystermans daughter who lives a simple life on the bayou near of Apalachicola Bay. She is a highly intelligent, courageous and determined girl who does not accept the established role for southern women and strikes out on her own to make her place in the world. The story begins when Minnie, a newly released prison inmate, incarcerated for accidentally killing a man at her graduation party, is sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Upon her release, she seeks to find a new career. She has a romantic interlude with a Navy flight instructor who introduces her to the world of flying. She takes flying lessons at a small flight school in rural Alabama. Upon completion of her training, the unscrupulous operator of the flight school offers her a job flying counterfeit Levis into Cuba. She accepts and unwittingly becomes part of a scheme to fly smuggle drug money to Cuba and cocaine back into the US. Trouble begins when she is discovered by the US Coast Guard as she leaves Cuba. She escapes capture by trusting a member of the smuggling cartel who is positioned in the Florida Keys to keep her from being caught until she fulfills the needs of the cartel. She is taken to a luxurious yacht in the mangroves where she learns the is an unwitting pawn in the repayment of six million dollars of drug money and the smuggling of cocaine back to the US. During the night, men drug her and rape her. She escapes the next morning but not before she kills the two men who violated her. Having discovered the truth about her flying job, and the six million dollars stashed in the flight school, she constructs a plan to have her revenge on the rest of the men who used her and keep the money for her own purposes. With the help of a high school friend, a retuned Viet Nam veteran, and a strong determined spirit, she succeeds. Her character demonstrates, compassion and sensitivity and an iron-willed determination fashioned in the mores of old school justice of her Scottish heritage. She faces her fears and dangerwith courage and determination. Her character can be compared to other heroines such as Katness Everdeen, The Hunger Games and Lisbeth Salander, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
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