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Author: Peter Locke
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 1728384338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBilly wins a competition to visit a TV studio, where an episode of Space Quest is being filmed. Jilly meets her heartthrob. Billy gets to pilot a spaceship. Mikkee saves the production by using his special powers. The twins get an award, and Mikkee makes a promise.
Author: Peter Locke
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 1728387051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrue to his promise, Mikkee takes the twins, Billy and Jilly, for a trip to Mars. The planet holds many surprises, including how it really looks. The twins learn all about the Martian life and how there are many secrets about a life on Mars, including the pastimes and recreations of its inhabitants.
Author: Peter Locke
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 31
ISBN-13: 1728382815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt’s the weekend, and Mr. Watson has arranged for Mikkee the Martian and the twins to visit an ancient castle. Billy is not amused. On arriving, they are escorted by a pompous guide through a tour of the castle. Mikkee sees the ghost of the king leaning against the entrance. He gives the twins the power to see him too. The king acts the clown and makes fun of the guide. The twins find this all very funny and are told off by their father, who, of course, cannot see the ghost. The king shows Mikkee a secret room upstairs and a secret passage in the kitchen. The three follow this to a smugglers’ cave, and Jilly finds some treasure.
Author: Peter Locke
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 1728382785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMikkee the Martian and the twins are watching a TV program about ghost hunting. Billy does not believe in ghosts, but Mikkee knows otherwise. He invites the twins to visit a haunted house. There they meet the ghost and hear an evil story of how he was left to roam the earth. Mikkee summons a higher authority, finds a solution to the ghost’s problems, and solves a murder mystery over a hundred years old.
Author: Peter Locke
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 27
ISBN-13: 1728387086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMikkee and the twins go to a pantomime and then meet a real genie. The trio visit Santa’s grotto and then his real workshop. Jilly pets the reindeer, and the twins go on a sleigh ride in the sky. Billy and Jilly receive some surprise Christmas presents.
Author: Nicholas Barnett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-07-30
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1786723735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe cultural history of the Cold War has been characterized as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence. Both the US and Soviet administrations have since remarked how far off the mark their predictions of the other's strengths and aims were. Yet so much of the cultural output of the period – in television, film, and literature – was concerned with the end of the world. Here, Nicholas Barnett looks at art and design, opinion polls, the Mass Observation movement, popular fiction and newspapers to show how exactly British people felt about the Soviet Union and the Cold War. In uncovering new primary source material, Barnett shows exactly how this seeped in to the art, literature, music and design of the period.
Author: Daniel E. Harlov
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-01-30
Total Pages: 1029
ISBN-13: 3319616676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book summarizes the knowledge and experiences concerning the role of halogens during various geochemical processes, such as diagenesis, ore-formation, magma evolution, metasomatism, mineralization, and metamorphism in the crust and mantle of the Earth. It comprises the role of halogens in other terrestrial worlds like volatile-rich asteroids, Mars, and the ice moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Review chapters outline and expand upon the basis of our current understanding regarding how halogens contribute to the geochemical/geophysical evolution and stability of terrestrial worlds overall.
Author: Pierce Brown
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 2014-01-28
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 0345539796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pierce Brown’s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. “Red Rising ascends above a crowded dystopian field.”—USA Today ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness “I live for the dream that my children will be born free,” she says. “That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.” “I live for you,” I say sadly. Eo kisses my cheek. “Then you must live for more.” Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity’s overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society’s ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies . . . even if it means he has to become one of them to do so. Praise for Red Rising “[A] spectacular adventure . . . one heart-pounding ride . . . Pierce Brown’s dizzyingly good debut novel evokes The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies, and Ender’s Game. . . . [Red Rising] has everything it needs to become meteoric.”—Entertainment Weekly “Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow.”—Scott Sigler “Red Rising is a sophisticated vision. . . . Brown will find a devoted audience.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga: RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER
Author: Kia Corthron
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 700
ISBN-13: 1644211041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of NYC and America in the burgeoning moments before the start of the Civil War through the eyes of a young, biracial girl—the highly anticipated new novel from the winner of the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. "Corthron, a true heir to James Baldwin, presents a startlingly original exposure of the complex roots of American racism." —Naomi Wallace, MacArthur "Genius" Playwriting Fellow and author of One Flea Spare In Moon and the Mars, set in the impoverished Five Points district of New York City in the years 1857-1863, we experience neighborhood life through the eyes of Theo from childhood to adolescence, an orphan living between the homes of her Black and Irish grandmothers. Throughout her formative years, Theo witnesses everything from the creation of tap dance to P.T. Barnum's sensationalist museum to the draft riots that tear NYC asunder, amidst the daily maelstrom of Five Points work, hardship, and camaraderie. Meanwhile, white America's attitudes towards people of color and slavery are shifting—painfully, transformationally—as the nation divides and marches to war. As with her first novel, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, which was praised by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Angela Y. Davis, among many others, Corthron's use of dialogue brings her characters to life in a way that only an award-winning playwright and scriptwriter can do. As Theo grows and attends school, her language and grammar change, as does her own vocabulary when she's with her Black or Irish families. It's an extraordinary feat and a revelation for the reader. "Moon and the Mars, [Corthron's] latest masterpiece, is an absorbing story of family and community, of Africans and Irish, of settler and native, of slavery and abolition, of a city and a nation wracked by Civil War and racist violence, of love won and lost." —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
