Travis Taylor And The Dragon Quest

Author : K. B. Kendricks
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781450202596

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Travis Taylor and the Dragon Quest by K. B. Kendricks Pdf

There is nothing extraordinary about Travis Taylor, a thirteen-year-old who has a knack for telling a good adventure story. But Travis' ordinary life is about to change forever when he and his two best friends, Abigail and Joshua, witness a peculiar looking bird that hovers above them and then quickly disappears into thin air-right before their very eyes. Just when Travis starts to believe that what he saw was just his imagination, the orange and red feathered bird reappears, eventually drawing him to a large portal that suddenly opens in front of him, revealing a seven-foot horseman wearing a suit of armor. When the bird unexpectedly digs his claws into Travis' back and carries him into the portal, it seems that Travis is lost forever. Led by his enigmatic protector Raven Phoenix, a brave elf named Syd, and a spirited pixie named Labyrinth, Travis embarks on a quest to find his way back home, only to discover the magic world he has entered holds many secrets from his past. Join Travis as he embarks on an adventure filled with knights, a princess in distress, a tyrant emperor, an evil sorceress, and of course, a mighty dragon!

Author : Gerald A. Voorhees,Joshua Call,Katie Whitlock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441141088

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Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens by Gerald A. Voorhees,Joshua Call,Katie Whitlock Pdf

Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens is a collection of scholarly essays that seeks to represent the far-reaching scope and implications of digital role-playing games as both cultural and academic artifacts. As a genre, digital role playing games have undergone constant and radical revision, pushing not only multiple boundaries of game development, but also the playing strategies and experiences of players. Divided into three distinct sections, this premiere volume captures the distinctiveness of different game types, the forms of play they engender and their social and cultural implications. Contributors examine a range of games, from classics like Final Fantasy to blockbusters like World of Warcraft to obscure genre bending titles like Lux Pain. Working from a broad range of disciplines such as ecocritism, rhetoric, performance, gender, and communication, these essays yield insights that enrich the field of game studies and further illuminate the cultural, psychological and philosophical implications of a society that increasingly produces, plays and discourses about role playing games.

Author : Travis S. Taylor,Les Johnson
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625795151

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On to the Asteroid by Travis S. Taylor,Les Johnson Pdf

LOOMING DESTRUCTION FROM SPACE! It's the beginning of a new golden age of space exploration. Finally, humanity is taking the commercialization of space to the next level—mining asteroids. The new gold rush of the commercial space era has begun. Another commercial venture, an attempt to put a hotel on the Moon, is seeking the space tourism gold of the ultra wealthy. And it seems as if the dream of finally sending people to Mars is finally going to happen using a ship propelled by a powerful nuclear rocket. But space travel isn’t cut and dry, and there is nothing routine about it. In order to mine an asteroid the goal is to bring it closer to Earth, but orbital mechanics are tricky and close to Earth proves to be far too close for comfort—with looming destruction from space about to become a grim reality. Now astronauts, scientists, engineers, and people in all the burgeoning space businesses must team together to stop the asteroid before it is too late for humanity and the planet it calls home. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Travis S. Taylor: “[E]xplodes with inventive action.”—Publishers Weekly on Travis S. Taylor’s The Quantum Connection. “[Warp Speed] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum. . .You won’t want to put it down.”—John Ringo About Rescue Mode by Ben Bova and Les Johnson: "... a suspenseful and compelling narrative of the first human spaceflight to Mars."—Booklist

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Computer games
ISBN : PSU:000055092357

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Nintendo Power by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : UOM:39015038798172

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AB Bookman's Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chris Van Allsburg
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547608402

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Queen of the Falls by Chris Van Allsburg Pdf

She could remember standing in a park near the falls, hypnotized by the sight and sound, and holding her father’s hand as they took a walk that would lead them closer. That’s what everyone wonders when they see Niagara . . . How close will their courage let them get to it? At the turn of the nineteenth century, a retired sixty-two-year-old charm school instructor named Annie Edson Taylor, seeking fame and fortune, decided to do something that no one in the world had ever done before—she would go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. Come meet the Queen of the Falls and witness with your own eyes her daring ride!

Author : John C. Dann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0226136248

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The Revolution Remembered by John C. Dann Pdf

A classic oral history of the American Revolution, The Revolution Remembered uses 79 first-hand accounts from veterans of the war to provide the reader with the feel of what it must have been like to fight and live through America's bloody battle for independence. "In a book fairly bursting with feats of daring, perhaps the most spectacular accomplishment of them all is this volume's transformation of its readers into the grandchildren of Revolutionary War soldiers. . . . An amazing gathering of 79 surrogate Yankee grandparents who tell us in their own words what they saw with their own eyes."—Elaine F. Weiss, Christian Science Monitor "Fascinating. . . . [The soldiers'] details fill in significant shadows of history."—Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times "It's still good fun two centuries later, overhearing these experiences of the tumult of everyday life and seeing a front-lines view of one of the most unusual armies ever to fight, let alone win."—Richard Martin, Wall Street Journal "One of the most important primary source discoveries from the era. A unique and fresh perspective."—Paul G. Levine, Los Angeles Times

Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129107996

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Merchant Vessels of the United States by United States. Coast Guard Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : WISC:89055746150

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Supplement to Merchant Vessels of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christina Rice
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813181097

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Mean...Moody...Magnificent! by Christina Rice Pdf

By the early 1950s, Jane Russell (1921–2011) should have been forgotten. Her career was launched on what is arguably the most notorious advertising campaign in cinema history, which invited filmgoers to see Howard Hughes's The Outlaw (1943) and to "tussle with Russell." Throughout the 1940s, she was nicknamed the "motionless picture actress" and had only three films in theaters. With such a slow, inauspicious start, most aspiring actresses would have given up or faded away. Instead, Russell carved out a place for herself in Hollywood and became a memorable and enduring star. Christina Rice offers the first biography of the actress and activist perhaps most well-known for her role in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). Despite the fact that her movie career was stalled for nearly a decade, Russell's filmography is respectable. She worked with some of Hollywood's most talented directors—including Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, Nicholas Ray, and Josef von Sternberg—and held her own alongside costars such as Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum, Clark Gable, Vincent Price, and Bob Hope. She also learned how to fight back against Howard Hughes, her boss for more than thirty-five years, and his marketing campaigns that exploited her physical appearance. Beyond the screen, Rice reveals Russell as a complex and confident woman. She explores the star's years as a spokeswoman for Playtex as well as her deep faith and work as a Christian vocalist. Rice also discusses Russell's leadership and patronage of the WAIF foundation, which for many years served as the fundraising arm of the International Social Service (ISS) agency. WAIF raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, successfully lobbied Congress to change laws, and resulted in the adoption of tens of thousands of orphaned children. For Russell, the work she did to help unite families overshadowed any of her onscreen achievements. On the surface, Jane Russell seemed to live a charmed life, but Rice illuminates her darker moments and her personal struggles, including her empowered reactions to the controversies surrounding her films and her feelings about being portrayed as a sex symbol. This stunning first biography offers a fresh perspective on a star whose legacy endures not simply because she forged a notable film career, but also because she effectively used her celebrity to benefit others.

Author : Yvette Nolan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1770911324

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The Unplugging by Yvette Nolan Pdf

In this tale of survival, two women are exiled from their post-apocalyptic village because they have passed their child-bearing years.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822036083608

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jim Dodge
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847677242

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Stone Junction by Jim Dodge Pdf

When Daniel's mother dies, he is brought under the protection of the AMO: the Alliance of Magicians and Outlaws. It is an introduction to a world of revenge, revolution and mind-bending chemicals, where anarchists, alchemists and high-stake gamblers co-exist. It is a place in which magic and murder are the norm. So begins an extraordinary quest for knowledge and understanding in this unforgettable outlaw classic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1490 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:B3418422

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British Paperbacks in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Theodora Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798644265961

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Her Dragon Captor (Her Dragon King Duet Book 1) by Theodora Taylor Pdf

Dearest Reader, I beg of you, do not one-click HER DRAGON CAPTOR! This passionate paranormal romance will only upset you.Yes, it is the first book in the long-anticipated HER DRAGON KING duet. Yes, it contains one ridiculously sexy, extremely evil dragon and a fierce she-wolf who won't let him kidnap her without a fight. Yes, it is on sale for a limited time (only until the second book releases on the 15th of May!).BUT BE WARNED, Dearest Reader, it also contains a jaw-dropping cliffhanger. Early readers have already started lodging complaints: They cannot sleep, they cannot homeschool, they cannot take several masked walks around the block a day without wondering... whatever will happen next in this enemies-to-lovers story? They are nearly as obsessed with it as Damianos Drákon is with Ola Greenwolf. So, Dearest Reader, I'm warning you now to turn your clicks away from this extraordinary tale of kidnap and revenge. Stare longingly out the window for the delivery van with your order of toilet paper. Or arrange a Zoom happy hour to speak of another less maddening book. Or binge eat those snacks you promised to save for your kids while re-watching Tiger King. Divert yourself with anything else but this book. For reading it will only end in the gnashing of teeth and cries of "Why, Theodora, why?!?!"But if you're curious, courageous, and cool with an itty-bitty wait, buckle in, Dearest Reader. The second to last book in the Alpha Kings saga is the first half of one epic ride.