A band of brothers have been bestowed with an ancient and mysterious power. What is this power? Why have they been chosen to wield it? For Theodore Haven, better known as Dye to his friends and family, starting high school won't be an easy task. With the classic confrontations of high school bullies, trying to be on time for school and most of all, trying to impress girls, finding his place in this new world will be difficult. With the help of his brothers, Sam, Jason and Mack, this superpowered teen will discover that brotherhood is a powerful weapon. But what happens when a deadly evil from the past threatens their future and tears their brotherhood apart?
The tale of the Bechtel family dynasty is a classic American business story. It begins with Warren A. 'Dad' Bechtel, who led a consortium that constructed the Hoover Dam. From that auspicious start, the family and its eponymous company would go on to 'build the world,' from the construction of airports in Hong Kong and Doha, to pipelines and tunnels in Alaska and Europe, to mining and energy operations around the globe. Today Bechtel is one of the largest privately held corporations in the world, enriched and empowered by a long history of government contracts and the privatization of public works, made possible by an unprecedented revolving door between its San Francisco headquarters and Washingto
A portrait of the Broadway star and congresswoman covers her political achievements as a woman in male-dominated mid-20th-century arenas, her infamous rivalry with Richard Nixon, and her victimization by a McCarthyist smear campaign. By the award-winning author of Passion and Principle.
Aliens have been visiting Earth since the Time of the Beginning, interacting and influencing life here on our planet. Regrettably, not all lifeforms who travel the stars are friendly. A hostile group of alien werewolves have set their sights on Earth. What's worse, they have been in our orbit, undetected, for the last 30 years. The Coalts are a savage race of hostile aliens who travel the universe in search of power. They conquer and infect the people of any world the come across with their bacteria, turning them into vicious, mindless Coalts. King Cerberus, also known as The Three Heads of Terror, controls the Coalt Empire and sees weakness as unacceptable. He brings his army to Earth to find a weapon he failed to obtain on Oltima and will stop at nothing to acquire it. All the while, a new villain makes an unexpected appearance. The Darkness Formerly Known as Riley begins to cause havoc. To make matters worse he is targeting one Xenton in particular. Who is it? What are his plans and why is he so interested in this particular sibling? Zeta and Stro, two heroes from the planet Oltima, have been tracking the Coalts since their planet was attacked and left scarred. They have sworn to not let the Coalts attack another world and as a result, they have been marooned on Earth for 30 years trying to foil the invasion. When they discover that Xenton are on Earth, they set out to find the heroes. The Xenton siblings defeated Griflore and saved their planet of Earth. However, they soon discover that a plot to take over their world has been brewing for 30 years. They have taken down giant monsters and fought epic battles but nothing has prepared them for what is coming next: A worldwide invasion. The Xenton will have to team up with Zeta and Stro in order to stop what's coming. But when Riley makes his unexpected debut, the team will be torn between stopping him, and stopping King Cerberus' invasion plot. The darkness grows. It fills you to the brim until it becomes you and before you realize it, you're lost to it. This time around the Xenton have their hands full. Even with the help of the otherworldly heroes Zeta and Stro their chances of success are slim. This second installment of The Xenton Chronicles will change the way you believe in hope. The past will reveal new secrets and with the lost heir, Prince Ziehr, still unaccounted for, the Xenton will have to armor up and save the world a second time.
In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña and Sureña (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges that signal their gang affiliations and ideologies. Her engrossing ethnographic and sociolinguistic study reveals the connection of language behavior and other symbolic practices among Latina gang girls in California, and their connections to larger social processes of nationalism, racial/ethnic consciousness, and gender identity. An engrossing account of the Norte and Sur girl gangs - the largest Latino gangs in California Traces how elements of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges are used to signal social affiliation and come together to form youth gang styles Explores the relationship between language and the body: one of the most striking aspects of the tattoos, make-up, and clothing of the gang members Unlike other studies – which focus on violence, fighting and drugs – Mendoza-Denton delves into the commonly-overlooked cultural and linguistic aspects of youth gangs
Boats of Alaska: An Artist's Guide to Alaska's Commercial Fishing Boats is a book for all lovers of the sea, from the novice who wanders the docks and marinas of Alaska and are curious about the boats they see, to the experienced old seaman who's memory is renewed by looking at the paintings and sketches. By reading, and using, Boats of Alaska, you can gain a basic knowledge of fishing activities along Alaska's coast. Unlike most boat books, the paintings in this book show boats at work in their natural environment. Pedro's 29 paintings, over 40 sketches, and indexes, coupled with a sprinkling of sea stories, give a vivid glance at the romance of commercial fishing in Alaska.
Las Vegas—the name evokes images of divorce and dice, gangsters and glitz. But beneath it all is a sordid history that is much more insidious and far-reaching than ever imagined. The Money and the Power is the most comprehensive look yet at Las Vegas and its breadth of influence. Based on five years of intensive research and interviewing, Sally Denton and Roger Morris reveal the city’s historic network of links to Wall Street, international drug traffickers, and the CIA. In doing so, they expose the disturbing connections amongst politicians, businessmen, and the criminals that harness these illegal activities. Through this lucid and gripping indictment of Las Vegas, Morris and Denton uncover a national ethic of exploitation, violence, and greed, and provide a provocative reinterpretation of twentieth-century American history. Now this neon maelstrom of ruthlessness and greed stands to not as an aberrant “sin city,” but as a natural outgrowth of the corruption and worship of money that have come to permeate American life.
Humanity has been manipulated by shadowy, inhuman beings throughout history. Secret wars have been waged to settle vampires' disputes. Cultures have been created to advance mages' visions of Ascension. Enemies of the Earth have been defeated by werewolves as they prepare for their Apocalypse. This is the World of Darkness, a place where one's fears may become reality. Dark Destiny features short stories by Robert Bloch, Rick Hautala, Nancy A. Collins, Robert Weinberg and others.
Being a teen is never easy... Zombies, demons, vampires, shapeshifters-another day in the life of sixteen-year-old Nick Gautier-and those are just his friends. But now that he's accepted the demon that lives inside him, he must learn to control it and temper the very emotions that threaten the lives of everyone he cares for. Something that's hard to do while trying to stay off the menus of those who want his head on a platter. And no one wants him more than the dark gods who created his race. Now that they know where he is, they will stop at nothing to reclaim him. And without knowing it, Nick has just embraced the one person he should never have trusted. The one person who will hand him over to his enemies to get back the life they lost. Nick has finally accepted his fate, now he must learn to defy his destiny, and the dark, deadly forces that will stop at nothing to destroy everyone he loves so that they can again return to the world of man and own it, in the next Chronicles of Nick novel, Instinct, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon.
