Rise of a Guardian
Title | Rise of a Guardian PDF eBook |
Author | L. J. Andrews |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2016-08-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781535314626 |
Abandoned by his family as a young child, Killian Thomas is suddenly given one chance to find answers to his past in a strange realm. A mysterious community, bound to protect the realms, promises to help him on his quest if he aids in a desperate search for the lost relics of the realms. Each magical relic is bestowed with the mysteries of all realms, giving their owner unimaginable power. Strange abilities soon manifest within Killian, that catch the deadly attention of a dangerous secret-society also seeking the relics, but only to destroy his home realm they view as an abomination. Killian must find the relics before the society or countless innocent lives will be lost. He soon learns sometimes the closest allies are the most devious enemies. The Lost Relic Series is an epic fantasy adventure full of alternate realms, powerful magic, inspiring lessons of love and trust, and wrenching betrayal. The series will take fantasy fans on an unforgettable journey they will read again and again.
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Title | To Rise Again at a Decent Hour PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua Ferris |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2014-05-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316329134 |
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel by National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris explores the absurdities of modern life and one man's search for meaning. Paul O'Rourke is a man made of contradictions: he loves the world, but doesn't know how to live in it. He's a Luddite addicted to his iPhone, a dentist with a nicotine habit, a rabid Red Sox fan devastated by their victories, and an atheist not quite willing to let go of God. Then someone begins to impersonate Paul online, and he watches in horror as a website, a Facebook page, and a Twitter account are created in his name. What begins as an outrageous violation of his privacy soon becomes something more soul-frightening: the possibility that the online "Paul" might be a better version of the real thing. As Paul's quest to learn why his identity has been stolen deepens, he is forced to confront his troubled past and his uncertain future in a life disturbingly split between the real and the virtual. At once laugh-out-loud funny about the absurdities of the modern world, and indelibly profound about the eternal questions of the meaning of life, love and truth, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour is a deeply moving and constantly surprising tour de force.
Rise of the Guardians Movie Novelization
Title | Rise of the Guardians Movie Novelization PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 2012-10-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1442430753 |
Join forces with the Guardians to defeat Pitch in this retelling of the DreamWorks animated feature "Rise of the Guardians, " opening in theaters on November 21.
Uncommon People
Title | Uncommon People PDF eBook |
Author | David Hepworth |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2017-11-21 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1250124131 |
Named one of the best music books of 2017 by The Wall Street Journal An elegy to the age of the Rock Star, featuring Chuck Berry, Elvis, Madonna, Bowie, Prince, and more, uncommon people whose lives were transformed by rock and who, in turn, shaped our culture Recklessness, thy name is rock. The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations. What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting shoes. Talent we wished we had. What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us. To live out their songs. To stay young forever. No wonder many didn’t stay the course. In Uncommon People, David Hepworth zeroes in on defining moments and turning points in the lives of forty rock stars from 1955 to 1995, taking us on a journey to burst a hundred myths and create a hundred more. As this tribe of uniquely motivated nobodies went about turning themselves into the ultimate somebodies, they also shaped us, our real lives and our fantasies. Uncommon People isn’t just their story. It’s ours as well.
The Story of Jack Frost
Title | The Story of Jack Frost PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2012-10-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1442453060 |
Get to know Jack Frost, the unassuming hero of the Rise of the Guardians movie! The Guardians are in trouble—Pitch wants to take over the world, and they need help to stop him. Jack Frost is not a Guardian, but he does have incredible powers. He can ride the wind like a champion snowboarder and create a massive blizzard anytime he wants. Could Jack be the hero the Guardians have been searching for? Find out in this eBook with audio based on the Rise of the Guardians movie.
Take Up Space
Title | Take Up Space PDF eBook |
Author | The Editors of New York Magazine |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2022-02-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1501166980 |
A stunning four-color biography of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the bestselling tradition of Notorious RBG and Pelosi that explores her explosive rise and impact on the future of American culture and politics. The candidate was young—twenty-eight years old, a child of Puerto Rico, the Bronx, and Yorktown Heights. She was working as a waitress and bartender. She was completely unknown, and taking on a ten-term incumbent in a city famous for protecting its political institutions. “Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in a video launching her campaign, the camera following her as she hastily pulled her hair into a bun. But she did. And in perhaps the most stunning upset in recent memory, she won. At twenty-nine, she was sworn in as the youngest member of the 116th Congress and became the youngest woman to serve as a representative in United States history. Before long, Ocasio-Cortez had earned her own shorthand title—AOC—and was one of the most talked-about public figures (loved and loathed) in the world. Her natural ability to connect with everyday people through the social media feeds grew her following into the multimillions. Every statement she made, every tweet and Instagram Live, went viral, and her term had barely begun before people were speculating that she could one day be president. The question seemed to be on everyone’s mind: How did this woman come from nowhere to acquire such influence, and so fast? Now, in Take Up Space, that question is answered through a kaleidoscopic biography by the editors of New York magazine that features the riveting account of her rise by Lisa Miller, an essay by Rebecca Traister that explains why she is an unprecedented figure in American politics, and multiform explorations (reportage, comic, history, analysis, photography) of AOC’s outsize impact on American culture and politics. Throughout, AOC is revealed in all her power and vulnerability, and understood in the context of the fast-changing America that made her possible—and perhaps even inevitable.
Plutocrats
Title | Plutocrats PDF eBook |
Author | Chrystia Freeland |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2012-10-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1101595949 |
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but recently what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Forget the 1 percent—Plutocrats proves that it is the wealthiest 0.1 percent who are outpacing the rest of us at breakneck speed. Most of these new fortunes are not inherited, amassed instead by perceptive businesspeople who see themselves as deserving victors in a cutthroat international competition. With empathy and intelligence, Plutocrats reveals the consequences of concentrating the world’s wealth into fewer and fewer hands. Propelled by fascinating original interviews with the plutocrats themselves, Plutocrats is a tour de force of social and economic history, the definitive examination of inequality in our time.