![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Alas, legendary heroes always attract worthy villains. The destruction of the mighty dreadnought and the escape from the legendary Skykeep have made the crew the stuff of legend. Ichor Well - Ever since Nita joined the Wind Breaker crew, the airship's reputation has been growing. Now a new plot could split the crew and ground the Wind Breaker once and for all. Their prior exploits have earned them quite a reputation among surface-dwellers and made them a perpetual target of the manipulative residents of the fug. Skykeep - Several months have passed since Nita Graus left her home in Caldera to soar with the crew of the Wind Breaker, and life is anything but easy. With the eccentric crew of an airship called The Wind Breaker, Nita Graus means to find that cure, whatever the price. Yet somewhere in that wretched land there is a cure for a dire disease. Those too ruthless or stubborn to die have crafted steam-powered mechanical wonders and taken to the sky. A terrible calamity has poisoned the land. ![]() Here’s what you get:įree-Wrench - Beyond the islands of Caldera the world is a vicious place. Join Nita, Lil, Coop, Cap’n Mack, and the rest of the Wind Breaker crew in a steampunk adventure that will leave you reeling.įree-Wrench Collection: Volume 1 combines the first three novels of this exciting steampunk series into one amazing anthology. Steam-powered airships rule the skies in a world blanketed by a toxic fug. ![]()
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![]() ![]() 150-odd years before the story opens there was a huge revolution – but instead of taking the more usual step of hanging their oppressors from lampposts, a large number of the revolutionaries fled to set up their own ideal society. The inequality on Urras has naturally provoked a great deal of anger. I'm talking about Ursula K Le Guin's 1975 Hugo award winner, The Dispossessed, and her vivid descriptions of the dystopian world of Urras. I'm not even talking about the future as envisaged by the Tea Party. No, I'm not talking about the next few years of Cameron and Clegg's reign of terror. Any protests are put down with brutal force. The health service has been destroyed and those who cannot afford private care are crammed into ancient filthy hospitals where they go simply to die. ![]() They loathe the poor and have ensured they cannot escape poverty and receive only the minimum of education and state support. ![]() The government contains only the sneering rich and serves only the sneering rich. ![]() ![]() ![]() No rescue would ever come since the few people who knew they existed did not care. Their step-father kept a loaded rifle by the door to make sure the young girls were too terrified to attempt escape. Misty and her sister were kept as slaves on a mountain ranch and subjected to almost complete isolation, sexual abuse, and physical violence. When Misty Griffin was six years old, her family started to live and dress like the Amish. ![]() #1 Best Seller in Cults & Demonism, Parenting & Relationships, Notable People, Religious, Survival, Sexual Assault, and Biographies & MemoirsĪ gripping story that takes you on the journey of a child abuse and sexual assault survivor turned activist. It is currently gaining momentum and national media attention. ![]() In May 2022 Misty Griffin released the Child Rights Act petition calling on Congress to take action and help abused children in religious communities. Surviving Severe Child Abuse, Sexual Assault and Leaving the Amish Church ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now a ghastly creature has stolen that power and enslaved the Fair Folk-and Jacky Rowan. Drink Down the Moon, once the realm of Faerie drew its power from the Moon herself. There, to her dismay, she is hailed as Jack of Kinrowan, a one-and-future trickster hero whose lot is to save the ElvenĬourts from unimaginable evil. On a Wild Hunt through the streets of present day Ottawa hurtles Young Jacky Rowan across the threshold into the perilous land ofįaerie. Jack the Giant-Killer, a faceless gang of bikers Jack of Kinrowan brings together in one volume Charles de Lint's rollicking saga of wild faerie magic on the streets of the city. Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon: The Valley of Thunder (1989) Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon: The Hidden City (1990) Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood (1992) Charles de Lint: Jack of Kinrowan (1997) Description ![]() ![]() ![]() Why?In a world where information refreshes endlessly and the workday feels like a race to react to other people's priorities faster, frazzled and distracted has become our default position. If you want to achieve more (without going nuts), read this book."-Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint, a simple 4-step system for improving focus, finding greater joy in your work, and getting more out of every day.Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, "The best way to spend this time is by cramming it full of meetings!" or got to work in the morning and thought, Today I'll spend hours on Facebook! Yet that's exactly what we do. ![]() "A charming manifesto-as well as an intrepid do-it-yourself guide to building smart habits that stick. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Comprei Crepúsculo para me deleitar sobre a arte incrível de José Luiz García-López que faz desenhos de super-heróis como nenhum outro. Devo ser burro e Chaykin teria a delicadeza de me chamar assim. Não consegui entender direito a história. Comprei Crepúsculo para me empolgar com mais uma tentativa da DC Comics de revitalizar seus personagens antigos, nesse caso, os heróis espaciais dos anos 1950, por um talento da época, Howard Chaykin. Comprei Crepúsculo para tentar entender porque a Panini Comics Brasil estava colocando no mercado uma minissérie tão mas tão obscura ao invés de trazer tantas e tantas outras publicações da DC Comics pedidas e imploradas pelos leitores. ![]() ![]() ![]() This involved several historical shifts: the weakening of the medieval worldview and the religiously-based communities of Europe, the demotion of Latin as a sacred and administrative language in favor of vernaculars, the decline of dynastic monarchies, and the emergence of a new, secularized conception of time. Anderson then analyzes the cultural roots that enabled the birth of national consciousness in the modern era. ![]() He defines a nation as an “imagined political community” that is limited and sovereign, in which members feel a “horizontal” comradeship with each other. In the Introduction, Anderson addresses the paradoxical qualities of nationalism that complicate its theorizing. An afterword, in which Anderson reflects on the history of the book’s reception, was appended to the 2006 release. ![]() ![]() Two chapters of supplementary material were added to the second edition, which appeared in 1991. The original edition of the book is divided into nine chapters, which analyze the cultural roots of the idea of the nation and provide a historical account of its political realization across the globe. ![]() ![]() Ainsi se trouvent rassemblés, dans un récit à la fois temporel et spatial, les images fragmentaires et éparpillées de la ville. Le roman accueille et même adopte l’impulsion des graffitis urbains tout en leur donnant certaines dimensions inaccessibles aux arts visuels. Son roman laisse entendre qu’à la fin du XXème siècle, le rôle de l’artiste est de répondre aux sollicitations visuelles et intellectuelles que les médias font subir au public, d’abord en plaçant les productions dominantes sous un jour ironique, et en transformant ensuite ces modes d’expression discrédités en de nouvelles formes culturelles. En explorant l’esthétique de ces artistes de fiction et du graphiste Ismael Muñoz en particulier, DeLillo nous livre son propre manifeste esthétique. ![]() Ils doivent se réapproprier les surfaces disponibles et y superposer leurs images et leurs couleurs. Les artistes représentés dans le roman doivent regagner l’attention du public et proposer leur propre forme de communication. ![]() ![]() Dans la métropole postmoderne l’espace public est saturé par les signes et les systèmes de l’activité mercantile. A travers les descriptions ekphrastiques de Underworld, Don DeLillo définit la place et la nature de l’art dans la société américaine postmoderne tout en affirmant son art du roman. ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. ![]() Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. ![]() If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. 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