A Study Of Action Adventure Fiction

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War Against the Mafia

Don Pendleton
War Against the Mafia Book PDF

Author : Don Pendleton
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497685543

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The first book in the classic vigilante action series from a “writer who spawned a genre” (The New York Times). Overseas, Mack Bolan was dubbed “Sgt. Mercy” for the compassion he showed the innocent. On the home front, they’re calling him the Executioner for what he’s doing to the guilty. In the jungles of Southeast Asia, American sniper Mack Bolan honed his skills. After twelve years, with ninety-five confirmed hits, he returns home to Massachusetts. But it’s not to reunite with his family, it’s to bury them—victims in a mass murder/suicide. Even though Bolan’s own father pulled the trigger, he knows the old man was no killer. He was driven to madness by Mafia thugs who have turned his idyllic hometown into a new kind of war zone. Duty calls . . . Introducing an action hero “who would make Jack Reacher think twice,” this is the first book in the iconic series of vigilante justice that has become a publishing phenomenon (Empireonline.com). With more than two hundred million Executioner books sold since its debut, the series continues to stimulate. Gerry Conway, cocreator of Marvel Comics’ The Punisher, credits the Executioner as “my inspiration . . . that’s what gave me the idea for the lone, slightly psychotic avenger.” The series is also now in development as a major motion picture. War Against the Mafia is the 1st book in the Executioner series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

A Study of Action-adventure Fiction

William Henry Young
A Study of Action adventure Fiction Book PDF

Author : William Henry Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Adventure stories, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018316971

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Employing hitherto closed access to the histories of several publishing houses, this is an investigation of the action-adventure novel, chronicling the rise and fall of small enterprises which first saw the potential in such an approach to fiction. It focuses first on the creations of Don Pendleton, tracing his 38-book series The Executioner, and examining the evolution of the series under a growing number of writers. The study also includes a commentary on the many Mack Bolan imitators.

Paramilitary Action-Adventure Fiction

Nader Elhefnawy
Paramilitary Action Adventure Fiction Book PDF

Author : Nader Elhefnawy
Publisher : Nader Elhefnawy
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798614537807

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Paramilitary Action-Adventure Fiction by Nader Elhefnawy Pdf

We are all familiar with the idea of the action hero as a latterday avenger with a gun—Dirty Harry, Chuck Norris' screen heroes, Rambo. Yet, how did the idea of such heroes emerge in the first place? Why did it explode as it did in the 1970s and, still more, the 1980s, defining the Hollywood action films of that decade? And why did it fall out of fashion? PARAMILITARY ACTION-ADVENTURE FICTION: A HISTORY examines all these questions, and much more, as it traces the rise of paramilitary action heroes in the tensions and fears underlying the civil image of the nineteenth century, through the stresses of the world wars and the Cold War, to the emergence by the 1960s of commandos fighting undeclared wars on the streets of urban America—and the evolution of that image in the half century since.

How to Write Action Adventure Novels

Michael Newton
How to Write Action Adventure Novels Book PDF

Author : Michael Newton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1618090054

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Fast-paced plots, white-knuckle moments, heart-stopping adventure. Learn how to pack your pages with action, from beginnings that grab to endings that leave your readers begging for more from the author of more than 180 novels. "A vital book for authors wishing to add impact to their fiction. ...a very good analysis of the genre markets, a deft guide to the craft of modern fiction writing, & a glimpse into the life of the best-selling novelist-not the gazillionaires like King or Koontz of Mailer or whoever, but the scrivener who just makes a nice living at cranking out entertainment for the rest of us. Newton shows you many passages that don't quite make the grade (but went to press anyway, because that's often how it works) & chunks that he feels are golden. He berates you to make it all larger-than-life-that's the market!-but also stops you short of falling to mawkish self-parody. This is certainly a vital book for the mystery writer & those who do war stories, but I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it as a tonic before writing Western, Gothic, space adventure, or quest fantasy. It's worth ten bucks, & certainly a fiver, even though the world has changed so much since 1989." -Anthony D. Ravenscroft, Amazon.com reviewer

The Action and Adventure Cinema

Yvonne Tasker
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Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134564934

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This exciting collection addresses action and adventure from the silent to the contemporary period exploring diverse questions of aesthetics, industry and ideology. Action has established itself as one of the leading commercial genres of the New Hollywood cinema, generating extensive debate in the process. Contributors consider how action might best be defined, how it has developed historically, and how it works formally. The critical reception and standing of action and adventure cinema is considered in relation to questions of national culture, violence and the 'art' of cinema. Themes explored include genre and definitions; early action, sensation and melodrama; authorship and action; national and transnational action-adventure traditions; action aesthetics; spectacle and narrative; stars and bodies; class; gender; race and ethnicity. Attempting to evaluate the significance of this type of filmmaking for both popular cinema and film studies, the book underlines the central place of action and adventure within film history.

Suspect

Robert Crais
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Author : Robert Crais
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101609163

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Elvis Cole and Joe Pike series comes a thrilling novel featuring LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie. Nine months ago, a shocking assault by unidentified men killed Scott James' partner, Stephanie, nearly killed him, and left him enraged, ashamed, and ready to explode. He is unfit for duty—until he meets his new partner. Maggie is not doing so well, either. A German shepherd who survived two tours in Afghanistan sniffing explosives before losing her handler, her PTSD is as bad as Scott’s. They are each other’s last chance. And they’re about to investigate the one case no one wants them to touch: identifying the men who murdered Stephanie. But what they find could ultimately break them both. One of Booklist's 10 Best Crime Fiction Books of the Year

Hero of Thera

Eric Nylund
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Author : Eric Nylund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0986296937

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BE A HERO OF THERADo you want to play a game?Think you're good? Really good?Then you might be ready to play The Game ... where clans are sponsored by actual Demon Lords, Gods and Goddesses, Lovecraftian nightmares, and every other demi-entities of power.Still with me?Not running back to your massively multiplayer on-line games, shooters, or table-top role-playing where you can re-roll or respawn after you've been blasted and buried?Cool.Then roll up your sleeves and enter Thera, a kingdom at the crossroads of many worlds. Don't worry, there are all the usual augmented-reality interfaces, level progression, and game mechanics that you love, but Thera is also real, so are its inhabitants ... as is your new custom-designed avatar.Oh, your previous body? We've disposed of that old thing so you won't be distracted trying to get back to your so called "real" life.Did we mention the stakes of The Game? Nothing less than all Creation--every world in every universe and reality.Thus, Death Row inmate, Hector Savage enters Thera, eager to use the gaming skills he's cultivated his entire life. Nothing has prepared him, though, for the schemes of Abyssal Lords, barbarian ghosts, evil wizards, and other bad guys who have plans for him--all before he advances to fifth level!Can he win?Can he survive the Free Trial?Find out in this latest entry of the LitRPG genre, Hero of Thera.

Studying the short-story

J. Berg Esenwein
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Author : J. Berg Esenwein
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783756832354

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Studying the short-story by J. Berg Esenwein Pdf

But the great majority of novels and plays represent human life in nothing more faithfully than in their insistence upon deeds. It is through action-tangible, visible action upon the stage, or, in the novel, action suggested by the medium of words-that the characters of the play and the novel are ordinarily revealed. In proportion as high art is attained in either medium of expression this action is marked by adequacy of motive, by conformity to the character, by progression and unity.

What Is Your Quest?

Anastasia Salter
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Author : Anastasia Salter
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781609382759

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What Is Your Quest? examines the future of electronic literature in a world where tablets and e-readers are becoming as common as printed books and where fans are blurring the distinction between reader and author. The construction of new ways of storytelling is already underway: it is happening on the edges of the mainstream gaming industry and in the spaces between media, on the foundations set by classic games. Along these margins, convergent storytelling allows for playful reading and reading becomes a strategy of play. One of the earliest models for this new way of telling stories was the adventure game, the kind of game centered on quests in which the characters must overcome obstacles and puzzles. After they fell out of fashion in the 1990s, fans made strenuous efforts to keep them alive and to create new games in the genre. Such activities highlight both the convergence of game and story and the collapsing distinction between reader and author. Continually defying the forces of obsolescence, fans return abandoned games to a playable state and treat stories as ever-evolving narratives. Similarly, players of massive multiplayer games become co-creators of the game experience, building characters and creating social networks that recombine a reading and gaming community. The interactions between storytellers and readers, between programmers and creators, and among fans turned world-builders are essential to the development of innovative ways of telling stories. And at the same time that fan activities foster the convergence of digital gaming and storytelling, new and increasingly accessible tools and models for interactive narrative empower a broadening range of storytellers. It is precisely this interactivity among a range of users surrounding these new platforms that is radically reshaping both e-books and games and those who read and play with them.

The Story Grid

Shawn Coyne
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Author : Shawn Coyne
Publisher : Black Irish Entertainment LLC
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781936891368

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WHAT IS THE STORY GRID? The Story Grid is a tool developed by editor Shawn Coyne to analyze stories and provide helpful editorial comments. It's like a CT Scan that takes a photo of the global story and tells the editor or writer what is working, what is not, and what must be done to make what works better and fix what's not. The Story Grid breaks down the component parts of stories to identify the problems. And finding the problems in a story is almost as difficult as the writing of the story itself (maybe even more difficult). The Story Grid is a tool with many applications: 1. It will tell a writer if a Story ?works? or ?doesn't work. 2. It pinpoints story problems but does not emotionally abuse the writer, revealing exactly where a Story (not the person creating the Story'the Story) has failed. 3. It will tell the writer the specific work necessary to fix that Story's problems. 4. It is a tool to re-envision and resuscitate a seemingly irredeemable pile of paper stuck in an attic drawer. 5. It is a tool that can inspire an original creation.

Alanna

Tamora Pierce
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Author : Tamora Pierce
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481439589

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Alanna by Tamora Pierce Pdf

Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure.

Big League

Jim Malner
Big League Book PDF

Author : Jim Malner
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1795857935

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David Stone always dreamed of playing in the NHL and after a summer of intense training in a small Saskatchewan town he was sitting nervously at the rookie orientation session of the Detroit Red Wings as an undrafted walk-on. Sitting ahead of him in both sightline and career path is Riley Sawyer, the league's number one draft pick from last June and the consensus favourite to lead the team to the Stanley Cup. David's unsure if he belongs while Riley believes everything belongs to him, an egotistical miscalculation in this world that makes him an outcast with his teammates and coaches. Yet, as they both battle to make the roster a much darker reality of professional sports will soon manifest itself and change the game they love forever. Who could have imagined one irresponsible night of partying in New York would hurl them into a deadly world of Russian mobsters, professional assassins, and almost certain death. From Detroit to New York and Nashville to Miami, the two young rookies discover what real team work means as they struggle to find their way in the unforgiving world of professional sports while surviving in the real world of organized crime.

Wrath of Poseidon

Clive Cussler,Robin Burcell
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Author : Clive Cussler,Robin Burcell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593087893

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Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo come up against an old enemy while searching for a treasure that has been lost for centuries in this exciting adventure in the bestselling series by the Clive Cussler, Grand Master of Adventure. Ten years ago, a chance meeting at the Lighthouse Café in Redondo Beach led Sam Fargo and Remi Longstreet on the adventure of a lifetime, hunting the legendary riches stolen from the Persian King Croesus in 546 B.C. But they weren't the only ones. Someone else is after the gold, and he's willing to kill anyone who gets in his way. When Sam and Remi run afoul of a criminal drug-running operation, their hopes of finding the treasure are dashed. But with Sam's ingenuity and Remi's determination, they survive their confrontation with the drug runners, and manage to send one of the key players to prison. Though the cache of gold is never found, life goes on. Sam and Remi marry--and years later return to Greece to find the one treasure that got away. Time becomes their enemy when the kingpin they helped send to prison over a decade ago is released--and he has two goals in mind. Find the legendary hoard of King Croesus, and kill Sam and Remi Fargo. The Fargos know that as long as this gold is out there, no one is safe. They return to Greece for a final showdown--and one last chance to find that elusive treasure.

Graceling

Kristin Cashore
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Author : Kristin Cashore
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 015206396X

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Graceling by Kristin Cashore Pdf

Discover the Graceling Realm in this unforgettable, award-winning novel from bestselling author Kristin Cashore A New York Times bestseller ALA Best Book for Young Adults Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature Winner Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist, and BCCB Best Book of the Year "Rageful, exhilarating, wistful in turns" (The New York Times Book Review) with "a knee weakening romance" (LA Times). Graceling is a thrilling, action-packed fantasy adventure that will resonate deeply with anyone trying to find their way in the world. Graceling tells the story of the vulnerable-yet-strong Katsa, who is smart and beautiful and lives in the Seven Kingdoms where selected people are born with a Grace, a special talent that can be anything at all. Katsa's Grace is killing. As the king's niece, she is forced to use her extreme skills as his brutal enforcer. Until the day she meets Prince Po, who is Graced with combat skills, and Katsa's life begins to change. She never expects to become Po's friend. She never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace--or about a terrible secret that lies hidden far away . . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone. And don't miss the sequel Fire and companion Bitterblue, both award-winning, New York Times bestsellers, and full of Kristin Cashore's elegant, evocative prose and unforgettable characters.

Adventure Therapy

Michael A. Gass,Lee Gillis,Keith C. Russell
Adventure Therapy Book PDF

Author : Michael A. Gass,Lee Gillis,Keith C. Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780415892902

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Adventure Therapy by Michael A. Gass,Lee Gillis,Keith C. Russell Pdf

Adventure therapy is a growing segment of working with mental health clients in a variety of settings. The theory, techniques, research, and case studies illustrated in 'Adventure Therapy' present the cutting edge of this particular field.