Heroes Don't Travel
Heroes Don't Travel

Author: Roo I MacLeod

Publisher: Roo I MacLeod

Published: 2019-07-09

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13:

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Heroes Don’t Travel-#2 Dystopian Thriller Heroes Series is a fast paced dystopian science fiction thriller from the author Roo I MacLeod The feral town of Henwell is in turmoil. Guns have been fired and bodies litter the streets. A girl has crossed the Gypsies and they want blood Anyone’s blood! Ben Jackman, aka Street Boy, is hired to bring her back home, but this is no click and collect mission as there is a child involved. The girl’s child, a child the Gypsies have claimed as their blood: And they don’t want to give it back Ben must capture the child, reunite the girl with her father and prevent the Gypsies enacting Armageddon on his sorry arse Alas, two out of three is all he can hope for. Hit the BUY IT NOW button! And enter this fast, fetid and ferocious dystopian fiction world. Hang onto your hat, sit tight, as you are going to need a drink to survive this journey!

Heroes Don't Run
Heroes Don't Run

Author: Harry Mazer

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-10-27

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1442407034

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"I WANTED TO SERVE, TO BE PART OF THIS THING MY FATHER HAD GIVEN HIS LIFE FOR. I DIDN'T WANT THE WAR TO END, AND ALL I'D BE ABLE TO SAY WAS, NO I DIDN'T SERVE, I WAS RIGHT HERE THE WHOLE WAR, SAFE IN BAKERSFIELD." Adam Pelko witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that killed his father, a lieutenant on the USS Arizona. Even though Adam is underage, he defies his mother's wishes and enlists in the Marines. Sent first to boot camp, then to Okinawa, he experiences the stark reality of war firsthand -- the camaraderie and the glory as well as the grueling regimen, the paralyzing fear, and death. And at every turn, Adam must confront memories of his father. In the concluding volume of his World War II trilogy, Harry Mazer masterfully illustrates Adam's journey as he navigates brutal circumstances that no boy should know.

Travelling Heroes
Travelling Heroes

Author: Robin Lane Fox

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2008-09-04

Total Pages: 611

ISBN-13: 0141889861

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This remarkable and daringly original book proposes a new way of thinking about the Greeks and their myths in the age of the great Homeric hymns. It combines a lifetime's familiarity with Greek literature and history with the latest archeological discoveries and the author's own journeys to the main sites in the story to describe how particular Greeks of the eighth century BC travelled east and west around the Mediterranean, and how their extraordinary journeys shaped their ideas of their gods and heroes. It gathers together stories and echoes from many different ancient cultures, not just the Greek - Assyria, Egypt, the Phoenician traders - and ranges from Mesopotamia to the Rio Tinto at Huelva in modern Portugal. Its central point is the Jebel Aqra, the great mountain on the north Syrian coast which Robin Lane Fox dubs 'the southern Olympus', and around which much of the action of the book turns. Robin Lane Fox rejects the fashionable view of Homer and his near-contemporary Hesiod as poets who owed a direct debt to texts and poems from the near East, and by following the trail of the Greek travellers shows that they were, rather, in debt to their own countrymen. With characteristic flair he reveals how these travellers, progenitors of tales which have inspired writers and historians for thousands of years, understood the world before the beginnings of philosophy and western thought.

The Traveling Feast
The Traveling Feast

Author: Rick Bass

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0316381195

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Acclaimed author Rick Bass decided to thank all of his writing heroes in person, one meal at a time, in this "rich smorgasbord of a memoir . . . a soul-nourishing, road-burning act of tribute" (New York Times Book Review). From his bid to become Eudora Welty's lawn boy to the time George Plimpton offered to punch him in the nose, lineage has always been important to Rick Bass. Now at a turning point -- in his midfifties, with his long marriage dissolved and his grown daughters out of the house -- Bass strikes out on a journey of thanksgiving. His aim: to make a memorable meal for each of his mentors, to express his gratitude for the way they have shaped not only his writing but his life. The result, an odyssey to some of America's most iconic writers, is also a record of self-transformation as Bass seeks to recapture the fire that drove him as a young man. Along the way we join in escapades involving smuggled contraband, an exploding grill, a trail of blood through Heathrow airport, an episode of dog-watching with Amy Hempel in Central Park, and a near run-in with plague-ridden prairie dogs on the way to see Lorrie Moore, as well as heartwarming and bittersweet final meals with the late Peter Matthiessen, John Berger, and Denis Johnson. Poignant, funny, and wistful, The Traveling Feast is a guide to living well and an unforgettable adventure that nourishes and renews the spirit.

Starman
Starman

Author: James Robinson

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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After the death of his father, young Jack Knight is forced to take over his role as legendary superhero Starman.

The Virgin's Promise
The Virgin's Promise

Author: Kim Hudson

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781932907728

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The Virgin's Promise demystifies the complexities of archetypes and clearly outlines the steps of a Virgin's Journey to realize her dream. Audiences need to see more than brave, self-sacrificing Heroes. They need to see Virgins who bring their talents and self-fulfilling joys to life. The Virgin's Promise describes this journey with beats that feel incredibly familiar but have not been illustrated in any other screenwriting book. It explores the yin and yang of the Virgin and Hero journeys to take up their power as individuals, and includes a practical guide to putting this new theory into action.

Hulk
Hulk

Author: Peter David

Publisher: Del Rey

Published: 2003-04-29

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0345466500

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From acclaimed filmmaker Ang Lee, a dark vision of the beast that lives inside the man . . . In a Berkeley lab, Bruce Banner, a young man haunted by his murky past and the parents he never knew, works intensely day and night. A bright scientist with repressed emotions and few social skills, Bruce and his colleague, the sharp and beautiful Betty Ross, experiment with the body’s ability to repair itself and fight disease. But their research draws unwanted attention. For the power of regeneration catches the eye of the military, which sees its potential on the battlefields of the future. But when Bruce is exposed to radiation in an accident that should have killed him, a ferocious truth about his past begins to emerge—along with something else, something deep inside his own body that is triggered when he is provoked . . . when he is pushed beyond reason . . . when anger takes over and he transforms into . . . THE HULK From the Paperback edition.

Dragonhaven
Dragonhaven

Author: Robin McKinley

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780399246753

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When Jake Mendoza, who lives in the Smokehill National Park where his father runs the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies, goes on his first solo overnight in the park, he finds an infant dragon whose mother has been killed by a poacher.

Superman Is Jewish?
Superman Is Jewish?

Author: Harry Brod

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-01-12

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1416595317

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"Harry Brod situates superheroes within the course of Jewish-American history: they are aliens in a foreign land, like Superman; figures plagued by guilt for abandoning their families, like Spider-Man; and outsiders persecuted for being different, like the X-Men. Brod blends humor and sharp observation as he considers the overt and discreet Jewish characteristics of these well-known figures and explores how their creators integrated their Jewish identities and their creativity."--From publisher description.

Don't Call Me a Hero
Don't Call Me a Hero

Author: R. Ernest Olson

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2003-04-30

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 155369824X

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Danger and intrigue of the US Army Bomb Disposal teams in the European Theatre of Operations, as young Eric Pedersen from Little Falls, Minnesota, enlists in the Army at the outbreak of World War 2, and volunteers for the newly established Bomb Disposal program. He is quickly shipped to North Africa with his squad, takes part in the victory of the desert campaign, then moves on to Sicily and Italy, and finally becomes embroiled in the landing at Normandy and the march through France, culminating with the final victory in Germany. As Eric moves through the combat arenas, he befriends men of the famous Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team and forges a lasting relationship with his new friend from the 3rd Infantry Division, Audie Murphy.