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The Mystery of the Black Hole Mine (D. J. Dillon Adventure #7)
by Lee RoddyD.J. gets a bad case of "gold fever" when he and Alfred accidentally discover an abandoned-- and mysteriously dangerous-- gold mine.
Mystery of the Island Jungle (Ladd Family Adventure #3)
by Lee RoddyTwelve-year-old Josh Ladd's discovery in the Kauai jungle of a Japanese World War II airplane and its pilot who doesn't realize the war is over leads him on a race against time with a conniving foe.
The Mystery of the Wild Surfer (Ladd Family Adventure #6)
by Lee RoddyJosh Ladd encounters a series of life-threatening situations when he befriends a mysterious young surfer named Duke.
Night of the Vanishing Lights (Ladd Family Adventure #10)
by Lee RoddyJosh and his friends investigate mysterious lights on Molokai and try to figure out how to get a valuable surfboard back from the neighborhood bully, Kong.
The Overland Escape (Bethany House's The American Adventure, Book #1)
by Lee RoddyThe Great Depression had seemed far away from their beloved Ozarks. But now it threatened to tear their family apart.
Peril at Pirate's Point (Ladd Family Adventure #7)
by Lee RoddyTwo boys learn more about trusting God when they are captured by the inhabitants of a tropical island.
Risking the Dream (Between Two Flags #6)
by Lee RoddyAs fifteen-year-old Gideon seeks work in the Confederate capital, tensions at home are inflamed by President Lincoln's ultimatum to the rebelling states.
Road to Freedom (Between Two Flags #4)
by Lee RoddyPreteens can experience the Civil War through the eyes of Gideon, a poor Virginia farm boy; Emily, an orphaned Northerner; and Nat, a young slave who hopes to escape. A series that makes learning history fun.
The Secret of Mad River (D. J. Dillon Adventure #9)
by Lee RoddyD.J. Dillon helps prove the hermit Zeke Zeering could be right about an impending mudslide. He also must deal with his own desire for revenge against the vicious dogs who attacked his hound, Hero.
The Secret of the Shark Pit (Ladd Family Adventure #1)
by Lee RoddySeveral acts of disobedience against his father's orders plunge twelve-year-old Josh into terrible trouble during a search for a long-lost Hawaiian treasure guarded by sharks.
The Secret of the Sunken Sub (Ladd Family Adventure #5)
by Lee RoddyWhen twelve-year-old Josh witnesses the sinking of a Soviet robot submarine off the coast of a Hawaiian island, he becomes the quarry of Russian spies racing to beat the United States Navy to the sub and its secrets.
Stranded on Terror Island (Ladd Family Adventure #14)
by Lee RoddyWildlife officers, along with Josh Ladd, are stranded on a remote island, where they must struggle to survive in the harsh Alaskan wilderness while avoiding the bear they were transporting when their plane went down.
Terror in the Sky (Bethany House's The American Adventure #6)
by Lee RoddyFrom the book: Hildy Corrigan felt like the first day of school would never come! Ever since their family had arrived in California, her hopes and dreams were all focused on the Lone River Grammar School. If Hildy proves herself to be an excellent student, her goal of attending college to become a teacher and to someday get her "forever home" has a chance of becoming a reality. Being the oldest child of poor parents in the Great Depression, it is Hildy's only chance. But the odds against her are very high. Good grades are one thing, but college also requires money and even with her part-time job after school, she'll never earn enough. When a cash prize is offered for the top academic and civic-minded seventh-grader, Hildy's determination to win it is met by a school administration firmly set against her. She's an unwelcomed outsider, an "Okie," and Hildy and her cousin Ruby are in for big problems at school. The rescue of a kidnapped child becomes an even greater problem. What difference can Hildy make? THE TERROR THEY FACE COULD END HILDY'S STORY!
Tracked by the Wolf Pack (Ladd Family Adventure #15)
by Lee RoddyAfter Josh and Tank crash their snowmobile in the Alaskan wilderness, they must try to make their way to safety while being stalked by wolves and wild dogs possibly infected with rabies.
A Catch in Time
by Dalia RoddyIn one moment a global blackout occurs, and six billion humans become unconscious. During a brief yet seemingly eternal three-minute sequence, a series of catastrophic events occurs, and minds collide with truths hidden beyond the physical realm. Original.
A Good Day to Die: Star Trek: IKS Gorkon (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
by Gene Roddenberry Keith R. A. DecandidoBEGINNING AN ALL-NEW SERIES OF KLINGON ADVENTURES!These are the voyages of the Klingon Defense Force vesselI. K. S. Gorkon,part of the mighty new Chancellor class. Its mission: to explore strange new worlds. . . to seek out new life and new civilizations. . . . . . and to conquer them for the greater glory of the Klingon Empire!Newly inducted into the prestigious Order of theBat'leth,Captain Klag, son of M'Raq, leads the crew of theGorkoninto the unexplored Kavrot Sector to find new planets on which to plant the Klingon flag. There, they discover the Children of San-Tarah, a species with a warrior culture that rivals -- and perhaps exceeds -- the Klingons' own, living on a planet that would be a great addition to the Empire. Klag could call in General Talak's fleet to bring the world under the Klingons' heel -- but the San-Tarah offer Klag a challenge he cannot refuse. TheGorkoncrew and the San-Tarah will engage in several martial contests. If the Klingons lose, they will go and never trouble the planet again -- but if they are victorious, the San-Tarah will cede themselves to the Empire, and Klag will have singlehandedly conquered an entire world!The first tale in a glorious adventure that will be remembered in song and story throughout the Empire!
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
by Gene RoddenberryThe historic 5-year mission of the U.S.S. Enterprise is over. But when three Klingon starships are destroyed by a massive machine/organism called the V'Ger, the Enterprise is refitted and the crew is asked to investigate.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Star Trek #1)
by Gene RoddenberryA novel by Star Trek's creator Gene Roddenberry—based on the screenplay by Harold Livingston and story by Alan Dean Foster—the human adventure is just beginning.The writer-producer who created Mr. Spock and all the other Star Trek characters— who invented the Starship Enterprise, who gave the show its look, its ideals— puts it all together again here in his first Star Trek novel! Their historic five-year mission is over. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty all the crew have scattered to other jobs or other lives. Now, they are back together again on a fabulously refitted USS Enterprise as an incredibly destructive power threatens earth and the human race.
Monsters Among Us
by Monica RoddenFans of Sadie and You will be riveted by this compulsively readable new thriller about a survivor of dating violence who uses her newfound awareness of everyday evil to hunt for a killer.When Catherine Ellers returns home after her first semester at college, she is seeking refuge from a night she can barely piece together, dreads remembering, and refuses to talk about. She tries to get back to normal, but just days later the murder of someone close to her tears away any illusion of safety. Catherine feels driven to face both violent events head on in hopes of finding the perpetrators and bringing them to justice with the help of her childhood friend, Henry. Then a stranger from college arrives with her lost coat, missing driver's license--and details to help fill in the gaps in her memory that could be the key to solving both mysteries. But who is Andrew Worthington and why is he offering to help her? And what other dangerous obsessions is her sleepy town hiding? Surrounded by secrets and lies, Catherine must unravel the truth--before this wolf in sheep's clothing strikes again.
The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell
by John Rodden John RossiArguably the most influential political writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains a crucial voice for our times. Known world-wide for his two best-selling masterpieces Nineteen Eighty-Four, a gripping portrait of a dystopian future, and Animal Farm, a brilliant satire on the Russian Revolution, Orwell has been revered as an essayist, journalist and literary-political intellectual, and his works have exerted a powerful international impact on the post-World War Two era. This Introduction examines Orwell's life, work and legacy, addressing his towering achievement and his ongoing appeal. Combining important biographical detail with close analysis of his writings, the book considers the various genres in which Orwell wrote: the realistic novel, the essay, journalism and the anti-utopia. Ideally suited for readers approaching Orwell's work for the first time, the book concludes with an extended reflection on why George Orwell has enjoyed a literary afterlife unprecedented among modern authors in any language.
Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy
by John RoddenThe remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden’s provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was the most distinguished man of letters of the last century, nor even the leading novelist of his generation, let alone the greatest imaginative writer of English prose fiction. Yet his influence since his death at midcentury is incomparable. No other writer has aroused so much controversy or contributed so many incessantly quoted words and phrases to our cultural lexicon, from “Big Brother” and “doublethink” to “thoughtcrime” and “Newspeak.” Becoming George Orwell is a pathbreaking tour de force that charts the astonishing passage of a litterateur into a legend.Rodden presents the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four in a new light, exploring how the man and writer Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair, came to be overshadowed by the spectral figure associated with nightmare visions of our possible futures. Rodden opens with a discussion of the life and letters, chronicling Orwell’s eccentricities and emotional struggles, followed by an assessment of his chief literary achievements. The second half of the book examines the legend and legacy of Orwell, whom Rodden calls “England’s Prose Laureate,” looking at everything from cyberwarfare to “fake news.” The closing chapters address both Orwell’s enduring relevance to burning contemporary issues and the multiple ironies of his popular reputation, showing how he and his work have become confused with the very dreads and diseases that he fought against throughout his life.
The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell
by John RoddenGeorge Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. The massive critical literature on Orwell has not only become extremely specialized, and therefore somewhat inaccessible to the nonscholar, but it has also attributed to and even created misconceptions about the man, the writer and his literary legacy. For these reasons, an overview of Orwell's writing and influence is an indispensable resource. Accordingly, this Companion serves as both an introduction to Orwell's work and furnishes numerous innovative interpretations and fresh critical perspectives on it. Throughout the Companion, Orwell's work is also placed within the context of political and social climate of the time. His response to the Depression, British imperialism, Stalinism, World War II, and the politics of the British Left are all examined. Chapters also discuss Orwell's status among intellectuals and in the literary academy.
Every Intellectual's Big Brother: George Orwell's Literary Siblings
by John RoddenBy examining the politics of literary reception as a dimension of cultural history, John Rodden gives us a better understanding of Orwell's unique and enduring role in Anglo-American intellectual life.
George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation
by John RoddenThe making of literary reputations is as much a reflection of a writer's surrounding culture and politics as it is of the intrinsic quality and importance of his work. The current stature of George Orwell, commonly recognized as the foremost political journalist and essayist of the century, provides a notable instance of a writer whose legacy has been claimed from a host of contending political interests. The exemplary clarity and force of his style, the rectitude of his political judgment along with his personal integrity have made him, as he famously noted of Dickens, a writer well worth stealing. Thus, the intellectual battles over Orwell's posthumous career point up ambiguities in Orwell's own work as they do in the motives of his would-be heirs. John Rodden's George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation, breaks new ground in bringing Orwell's work into proper focus while providing much original insight into the phenomenon of literary fame.Rodden's intent is to clarify who Orwell was as a writer during his lifetime and who he became after his death. He explores the dichotomies between the novelist and the essayist, the socialist and the anti-communist and the contrast between his day-to-day activities as a journalist and his latter-day elevation to political prophet and secular saint. Rodden's approach is both contextual and textual, analyzing available reception materials on Orwell along with audiences and publications decisive for shaping his reputation. He then offers a detailed historical and biographical interpretation of the reception scene analyzing how and why did individuals and audiences cast Orwell in their own images and how these projected images served their own political needs and aspirations. Examined here are the views of Orwell as quixotic moralist, socialist renegade, anarchist, English patriot, neo-conservative, forerunner of cultural studies, and even media and commercial star. Rodden concludes with a consideration of the meaning of Or
The Unexamined Orwell (Literary Modernism)
by John RoddenThe year 1984 is just a memory, but the catchwords of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four still routinely pepper public discussions of topics ranging from government surveillance and privacy invasion to language corruption and bureaucratese. Orwell’s work pervades the cultural imagination, while others of his literary generation are long forgotten. Exploring this astonishing afterlife has become the scholarly vocation of John Rodden, who is now the leading authority on the reception, impact, and reinvention of George Orwell—the man and writer—as well as of “Orwell” the cultural icon and historical talisman. In The Unexamined Orwell, Rodden delves into dimensions of Orwell’s life and legacy that have escaped the critical glare. Rodden discusses how several leading American intellectuals have earned the title of Orwell’s “successor,” including Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, Irving Howe, Christopher Hitchens, and John Lukacs. He then turns to Germany and focuses on the role and relevance of Nineteen Eighty-Four in the now-defunct communist nation of East Germany. Rodden also addresses myths that have grown up around Orwell’s life, including his “more than half-legendary” encounter with Ernest Hemingway in liberated Paris in March 1945, and analyzes literary issues such as his utopian sensibility and his prose style. Finally, Rodden poses the endlessly debated question, “What Would George Orwell Do?,” and speculates about how the prophet of Nineteen Eighty-Four would have reacted to world events. In so doing, Rodden shows how our responses to this question reveal much about our culture’s ongoing need to reappropriate “Orwell. ”