Revelation: A Kid Sensation Novel (Kid Sensation #4)
Revelation: A Kid Sensation Novel (Kid Sensation #4)

Author: Kevin Hardman

Publisher: I&H Recherche Publishing

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1937666255

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The pressure of being a super – especially a teen super – can get to anyone, as Jim (aka Kid Sensation) has witnessed firsthand. Now he wonders if he himself might be succumbing to the strain in some way, as he can’t shake the feeling that he is now being watched by some new stalker. Moreover, despite his wide slate of powers, he hasn’t been able to discover to a single clue to substantiate the existence of this potential new enemy, making him wonder if it’s all in his head. Looking forward to a few days of R&R and hanging out with his friends, Jim’s downtime is interrupted by the unsettling news that Alpha Prime, the world’s greatest superhero (and Jim’s father), is missing. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Jim finds his world rocked by an even more ominous revelation: his deranged half-brother, Paramount, has escaped from confinement in a maximum security installation. In the course of investigating these events and trying to ascertain what connection, if any, there is between them, Jim becomes privy to information concerning a potent alien device capable of laying waste to the entire planet. But he’s not the only one - an enigmatic villain wants the alien technology for his own purposes, and it’s up to Jim to find a way to stop him before the world pays the ultimate price. teen, young adult, science fiction, fantasy, coming of age, superhero, paranormal, magic

The Tempter's Voice
The Tempter's Voice

Author: Eric Jager

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1501721828

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Why was the story of Adam, Eve, and the Serpent so important to medieval literary culture? Eric Jager argues that during the Middle Ages the story of the Fall was incorporated into a comprehensive myth about language. Drawing on a wide range of texts, Jager shows how patristic and medieval authors used the Fall to confront practical and theoretical problems in many areas of life and thought—including education, hermeneutics, rhetoric, feudal politics, and gender relations. Jager explores the Fall's meaning for clergy and laity, nobles and commoners, men and women.Among the works Jager discusses are texts by Ambrose, Augustine, the early Christian poet Avitus, and scholastic authors; Old English biblical epics; Middle English spiritual writings; French courtesy books; and the poetry of Dante and Chaucer. Examples from the visual arts are included as well. Jager links medieval interpretations of the Fall to underlying cultural anxieties about the ambiguity of the sign, the instability of oral tradition, the pleasure of the text, and the many rhetorical guises of the tempter's voice. He also assesses the modern and postmodern legacy of the Fall, showing how this myth continues to embody central ideas concerning language.The Tempter's Voice will be essential reading for scholars and students in such fields as medieval studies, literary theory, gender theory, comparative literature, cultural history, and the history of religion.

The Meaning of the Revelation
The Meaning of the Revelation

Author: Philip Carrington

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2008-05-01

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1725220776

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The object of this book is to provide a running commentary on the Book of Revelation, elucidating its meaning. Other introductory and technical considerations are subordinated to this main quest. Though a scholarly work, it is written in a manner free from technicalities so as to make it useful to the general reader. It was written with the hope that a simple treatise on Revelation's meaning would help clergy and others who often have to deal with people who take it in a false and literal sense. When the Revelation was originally written it was naturally accepted as an account of current events and of events "shortly to come to pass"; that is how it describes itself (Rev 1:1, 3; 22:6, 10), and that is how it was naturally taken. Unfortunately, the key to its meaning was soon lost, and its mystical symbolism was taken as literal description. When it reflects events of history, it is current events that it reflects. The Revelation represents great principles working themselves out in actual history. The book is a literary unity stamped throughout by the mark of a great genius. It is one of the loftiest mystical poems the world has produced. Revelation insists that certain events of worldwide importance are coming immediately, following the same general lines as Christ's Olivet Discourse, which spoke to events of which the Lord himself declared: "Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place" (Matt 24:34).

Take the Shilling
Take the Shilling

Author: Raymund Eich

Publisher: CV-2 Books

Published:

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13:

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"Military science fiction [concentrating] on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict." ---Analog, on The Confederated Worlds series The Confederated Worlds implanted in his brain the skills to make him a soldier. He had to learn for himself how to survive interstellar war. Tomas Neumann seeks escape from his backwater planet and overbearing mother, and a mentor to replace his long-dead father. "Taking the shilling"---enlisting in the Confederated Worlds military---promises both. But despite the soldier's skills implanted in his brain, combat against fellow humans, especially ones who should have welcomed him as a liberator, threaten to destroy him, in body and in spirit. Grieving for lost comrades, demoralized by harrowing combat, can Tomas learn what he needs to survive? Because soon, with the fates of thousands of his fellow soldiers in the balance, he will face his war's ultimate challenge.

Bloodline
Bloodline

Author: Natashia S. King-Tyes

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1499032374

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Bloodline, One Drop Rules the World, is the fi rst book in a powerful series which tells the story of the Denson sisters, four sisters growing up in the South who are abandoned by their parents and left in the hands of a God-fearing grandmother they never knew existed. This novel, a powerful drama, will make you cry, laugh, grieve, yearn, learn and feel the redeeming power of forgiveness as you follow the lives of all four sisters, who endure the perils of betrayal, abandonment and hardship when they are forced to learn of their true heritage. This novel is phenomenal. You will not be able to put it down. You will never be the same after embarking upon a journey which will introduce you to the powerful grace of God! Bloodline is a remarkable story and a breath of fresh air for a generation of younger people who have chosen to walk a path of forgiveness and redemption.

A Thesaurus of English Word Roots
A Thesaurus of English Word Roots

Author: Horace Gerald Danner

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2014-03-27

Total Pages: 1007

ISBN-13: 1442233265

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Horace G. Danner’s A Thesaurus of English Word Roots is a compendium of the most-used word roots of the English language. As Timothy B. Noone notes in his foreword: “Dr. Danner’s book allows you not only to build up your passive English vocabulary, resulting in word recognition knowledge, but also gives you the rudiments for developing your active English vocabulary, making it possible to infer the meaning of words with which you are not yet acquainted. Your knowledge can now expand and will do so exponentially as your awareness of the roots in English words and your corresponding ability to decode unfamiliar words grows apace. This is the beginning of a fine mental linguistic library: so enjoy!” In A Thesaurus of English Word Roots, all word roots are listed alphabetically, along with the Greek or Latin words from which they derive, together with the roots’ original meanings. If the current meaning of an individual root differs from the original meaning, that is listed in a separate column. In the examples column, the words which contain the root are then listed, starting with their prefixes, for example, dysacousia, hyperacousia. These root-starting terms then are followed by terms where the root falls behind the word, e.g., acouesthesia and acoumeter. These words are followed by words where the root falls in the middle or the end, as in such terms as bradyacusia and odynacusis.. In this manner, A Thesaurus of English Word Roots places the word in as many word families as there are elements in the word. This work will interest linguists and philologists and anyone interested in the etymological aspects of English language.

Related Lives
Related Lives

Author: Jodi Bilinkoff

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1501721003

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In early modern Catholic Europe and its colonies priests frequently developed close relationships with pious women, serving as their spiritual directors during their lives, and their biographers after their deaths. In this richly illustrated book, Jodi Bilinkoff explores the ways in which clerics related to those female penitents whom they determined were spiritually gifted, and how they conveyed the live stories of these women to readers. The resulting popular literatures of hagiography and spiritual autobiography produced hundreds of texts designed to establish models of behavior for the Catholic faithful in the period between the advent of printing and the beginning of the modern age. Bilinkoff finds that confessional relations and the texts that document them reveal much about gender and social values. She uses life narratives, primarily from Spain, but also from France, Italy, Portugal, Spanish America, and French Canada, to examine the ways in which clerics presented female penitents as exemplary, and how they constructed their own identities around their interactions with exceptional women. These multilayered texts, she suggests, offer compelling accounts of individuals caught up in the pursuit of holiness, and provide a key to understanding the resilience of Catholic culture in an age of religious change and conflict.

Escape from Conatus
Escape from Conatus

Author: Raymund Eich

Publisher: CV-2 Books

Published:

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13:

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A survivor turned assassin questions her loyalties. Now she's the target… The entire galaxy knows about the Incepti Cataclysm. The occupation force from Vela destroyed a planet with nanotechnology. Only a few Inceptis fled the wave of death in time to join their brethren scattered across the Democracy. Anara Orden. Daughter of survivors. Recruited by fellow Inceptis to join Democracy intelligence. Though young and good of heart, she kills without qualms. She knows her employers only order her to terminate Velan agents threatening the Democracy. Her new assignment sends her through interstellar jump points to the planet Conatus Prime. She knows where and when to encounter her target. She knows how to use a vial of a mysterious new poison. Then she sees her target. A middle-aged man. A college professor. A fellow Incepti… Feel the thrills and chills of epic space opera in Escape from Conatus, book one of The Incepti Cataclysm trilogy.

Victory for Carina
Victory for Carina

Author: Raymund Eich

Publisher: CV-2 Books

Published:

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13:

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War has come to the galaxy. What's more important? Victory or truth? The entire galaxy knows about the Incepti Cataclysm. The occupation force from Vela destroyed a planet with nanotechnology. Only a few Inceptis fled the wave of death in time to join their brethren scattered across the Democracy. Anara Orden. Daughter of survivors. Recruited by fellow Inceptis to join Democracy intelligence. A loyal assassin, until she learned the truth and vowed to protect those who know it at all costs. Desperate to silence the truth forever, Democracy intelligence demands the Velans surrender Anara and her closest ally. While fleets prepare to attack through interstellar jump points, the outmanned Velans debate strategies. A massive warship battle. Guerrilla resistance behind enemy lines. With millions of lives at stake, Anara proposes a bold alternative. Sometimes, the best resistance… …is no resistance at all. Feel the thrills and chills of epic space opera Victory for Carina, book three of The Incepti Cataclysm trilogy.