The Amish Spaceman

The Amish Spaceman

Author: Stephen Colegrove

Publisher: Stephen Colegrove

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13:

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A comical road trip across the U.S. with a cast of surreal characters including a failed motivational speaker, a Kamchatkan runaway bride, a sock-crazed mafia boss, and cross-dressing parents. Unsatisfied with the daily grind of a Silicon Valley “business coach and life consultant,” Dean Cook weasels his way into a once-in-a-lifetime chance for fame and fortune: a speaking slot at the National Motivational Speaker’s Conference in West Virginia. Three days before the conference, Dean’s girlfriend breaks up with him and destroys his passport and identification cards. Dean’s flight plans are now scrapped, and he’s forced to steal a second hand ambulance. On the high-speed drive across the country he meets a Russian girl on the run from her fiancé, a brutal and eccentric collector of women’s hosiery. Dean and the girl escape from a series of catastrophes including a shotgun wedding in Reno, Sea MonkeysTM in the Great Salt Lake, and parachuting from a B-25 bomber over Kentucky. Scrambling to catch up to Dean are his gender-bending parents, who see this as the last chance to throw their son a party that doesn’t end in complete disaster. Because, after all, it’s Dean’s birthday.


The Amish Spaceman

The Amish Spaceman

Author: Stephen Colegrove

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2014-02-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781495405389

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The classic tale of boy meets girl, although in this case the boy is Dean Cook, an unsuccessful motivational speaker desperately trying to cross the USA in three days for his speech at the National Motivational Speaker's Conference, and the girl is a Kamchatkan runaway bride named after a clock radio. This unlikely pair of lovebirds are pursued by the girl's murderous, sock-crazed Russian fiancé and Dean's parents, who see this as the last chance to throw their son a party that doesn't end in complete catastrophe. Because, after all, it's Dean's birthday.


Amish Vampires in Space

Amish Vampires in Space

Author: Kerry Nietz

Publisher: Freeheads

Published: 2014-01

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780983965558

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Jebediah has a secret that will change his world forever and send his people into space. The Amish world of Alabaster calls upon an ancient promise to escape destruction. They end up on a cargo ship bound for the stars. But they are not the only cargo on board. Some of it is alive... or used to be. Now, with vampires taking over and closing in on the Amish refugees, these simple believers must decide whether their faith depends upon their honored traditions or something even older.


Jetpack Dreams

Jetpack Dreams

Author: Mac Montandon

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2008-10-28

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0786726741

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Jetpack Dreams chronicles the colorful pop history and science of that most amazing and mysterious of machines, the jetpack. While exploring our collective fascination with flight, the tale takes readers from the first flimsy, shoulder-mounted wings to Bill Suitor's 1984 Olympic flight in front of billions of viewers around the world; from a gruesome jetpack-driven murder in Houston in the mid-1990s to the secret laboratories and government facilities of today. Journalist Mac Montandon also explores Hollywood's fascination with the subject, from the 1949 serial King of the Rocket Men to Lost in Space, The Jetsons and The Rocketeer to the cultural jetpack phenomenon represented by Buck Rogers, James Bond, and Boba Fett. He travels the world to meet jetpack enthusiasts who are readying their own personal flying machines for takeoff. Ultimately, it's the search for an answer to two simple questions: Where is the jetpack that was promised to him, and to all of us, years ago? And if it's out there, can he catch a ride?


The Long Tomorrow

The Long Tomorrow

Author: Leigh Brackett

Publisher: Gollancz

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780575131569

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Two generations after the nuclear holocaust, rumours persisted about a secret desert hideaway where scientists worked with dangerous machines and where men plotted to revive the cities. Almost a continent away, Len Coulter heard whisperings that fired his imagination. Then one day he found a strange wooden box ...


Baguazhang - Forms and Martial Applications

Baguazhang - Forms and Martial Applications

Author: Wang Zhang Yuan

Publisher: Igor Dudukchan

Published:

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13:

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The book, offered to your attention, is devoted to describing the basic and applied technique of one of classic internal styles of Chinese Wushu – Baguazhang school. The work presents methods and forms of training alone and with a partner, successively, step by step. The large material is accompanied with detail illustrations accenting attention on important aspects of martial application of the technique of this style. CONTENTS: Introduction - Baguazhang history Name and origin Jibengong – basic exercises Jiben Ba Zhang – eight main palms San Ti Shi – a stance of three bodies Bu Xing – stances Bu Fa – Movements Exercises with a movements along a circle Circle conception “Palm of eight trigrams” form Wuji – infinity form Taiji – “Great Limit” form. The beginning of movement Liang Yi – the form of double order. The Single Changing Palm Yongfa – martial application Si Siang – four elements. Double changing palm Yongfa – martial application Qian trigram - The lion form Yongfa – martial application Kun tragram - The unicorn form Yongfa – martial application Kan trigram - The Snake form Yongfa – martial application Li trigram - The Hawk form Yongfa – martial application Zhen trigram - The Dragon form Yongfa – martial application Gen trigram - The Bear form Yongfa – martial application Xun trigram - The Phoenix form Yongfa – martial application Dui trigram - The Monkey form Yongfa – martial application Pair training Attack methods Methods of defense and counterattack Continuous attack Methods of defense from grips Conclusion


A Girl Called Badger

A Girl Called Badger

Author: S. Colegrove

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2012-12-14

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9781481184458

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When strange seizures threaten the life of the girl he loves, a young man leaves a protective enclave of ancient machinery and searches the ruins of civilization for a cure. Three centuries after a global pandemic and nuclear war, the mountains and plains of Colorado flourish with wildlife. The survivors avoid the blasted zones of "ghost-sickness," hunt mule deer in the pine forests, and cultivate new strains of crops. Scattered tribes fight short, brutal wars and trade slaves for rifles made by a rising power in the south. High in the Rockies a collective thrives in the still-functioning remains of a research facility. With each passing generation the true nature of the founding ancestors has become fantastical myth to most villagers, who spend their time hunting outside the valley or farming corn and hemp. Carefully selected priests serve as caretakers of the ancient machinery, doctors, and librarians of the past. One of the hunters, a tough and resourceful teenage girl nicknamed Badger, falls unconscious with momentary, uncontrollable shaking. Wilson, a bookish apprentice priest, searches the library and the old databases for a cause to the mysterious illness. Together he and Badger crawl through abandoned tunnels deep within the mountain. What they discover about the past forces them to choose between love for each other and the strict rules of the village.


The Girl Who Stole a Planet

The Girl Who Stole a Planet

Author: Stephen Colegrove

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-07-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781535422260

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Amy Armstrong is having a perfectly normal life as a perfectly normal fourteen-year-old thief and proprietor of stolen goods in 1995 California, until a talking cat interrupts her latest break-in and transports her a thousand years into the future to a buglary operation that crosses space and time. She explores the inside of an asteroid belonging to a mysterious creature called The Lady, makes friends with the crew of intelligent cats and dogs, and meets a teenage boy from 1889. The search for a way home takes Amy through Victorian London, to an orbiting prison run by artificial lizards, and to the ultimate realization of who she really is.


Empire of the Space Cats

Empire of the Space Cats

Author: Stephen Colegrove

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-09-02

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9781537427645

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Amy and her friends explore the inside of the strange spacecraft given to them by the mysterious Lady. Discovering damage to the ship, Amy travels to Tau Ceti Epsilon, the center of cat civilization in the year 3317.


The Tools of Screenwriting

The Tools of Screenwriting

Author: David Howard

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780312119089

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In The Tools of screenwriting, the authors illuminate the essential elements of cinematic storytelling. These elements are guideposts for the aspiring screenwriter, and they can be used in different ways to accomplish a variety of ends. Questions of dramatic structure, plot, dialogue, character development, setting, imagery, and other crucial topics are discussed as they apply to the special art of filmmaking.