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Shatterpoint: Star Wars Legends (Star Wars - Legends Ser.)
by Matthew Stover"The Jedi are keepers of the peace. We are not soldiers." --MACE WINDU Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones Mace Windu is a living legend: Jedi Master, senior member of the Jedi Council, skilled diplomat, devastating fighter. Some say he is the deadliest man alive. But he is a man of peace--and for the first time in a thousand years, the galaxy is at war. Now, following the momentous events climaxing in the Battle of Geonosis, Master Mace Windu must undertake a perilous homecoming to his native world--to defuse a potentially catastrophic crisis for the Republic . . . and to confront a terrifying mystery with dire personal consequences. The jungle planet of Haruun Kal, the homeworld Mace barely remembers, has become a battleground in the increasing hostilities between the Republic and the renegade Separatist movement. The Jedi Council has sent Depa Billaba--Mace's former Padawan and fellow Council member--to Haruun Kal to train the local tribesmen as a guerilla resistance force, to fight against the Separatists who control the planet and its strategic star system with their droid armies. But now the Separatists have pulled back, and Depa has not returned. The only clue to her disappearance is a cryptic recording left at the scene of a brutal massacre: a recording that hints of madness and murder, and the darkness in the jungle . . . a recording in Depa's own voice. Mace Windu trained her. Only he can find her. Only he can learn what has changed her. Only he can stop her. Jedi were never intended to be soldiers. But now they have no choice. Mace must journey alone into the most treacherous jungle in the galaxy--and into his own heritage. He will leave behind the Republic he serves, the civilization he believes in, everything but his passion for peace and his devotion to his former Padawan. And he will learn the terrible price that must be paid, when keepers of the peace are forced to make war. . . .Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!
Shawndirea: Libro Uno
by Naxielly Bañuelos Leonard D. Hilley IITraducción al español de Shawndirea: Las Crónicas de Aetheaon. Es el primer libro de la saga que cuenta las aventuras de Ben, quien por azares del destino, logra capturar un hada, enamorándose de ella, y prometiendole llevarla de regreso a su hogar, sin imaginar los enormes peligros que tendrá que enfrentar para ello, internándose en una dimensión de elfos, enanos, magos, brujas y demonios.
Shawndirea (Le Cronache di Aetheaon, Libro Primo #1)
by Leonard D. Hilley II Giuseppe RaccostaSpesso le più piccole sorprese inaspettate custodiscono i dilemmi più impegnativi, i quali dimostrano di essere il calvario che l'entomologo Ben Whytten affronta. Mentre sta raccogliendo farfalle col suo retino per aggiungere alla sua vasta collezione, cattura per sbaglio ciò che crede sia la farfalla più spettacolare che abbia mai visto. Esaminando la sua preda, Ben rimane inorridito nello scoprire che ha catturato una fata e ha ridotto le sue delicate ali in inutili nastrini. Devastato, Ben giura di riportare Shawndirea nel suo reame, Aetheaon; ma scopre che ciò metterà in serio pericolo le loro vite. Per arrivare ad Aetheaon devono passare attraverso un portale in una fenditura, nel profondo della caverna infestata, la 'Dimora del Diavolo'. Una volta attraversata la fenditura, Ben entra in un mondo dove i misteri, la magia, il tradimento e le lotte per il potere lo aspettano. Un mondo pieno di creature magiche e tante razze diverse, dove il caos spesso sottomette l'ordine. Un mondo in cui Ben è costretto a fidarsi di altri avventurieri, se vuole mantenere fede alla sua promessa.
Shawnee Bride
by Elizabeth LaneEnglish Heart, Shawnee SoulWolf Heart had long since accepted his path in life. Born of one world, raised in another, he'd known the pain and loneliness of being different for as long as he could remember. Until he discovered Clarissa Rogers fighting for survival in a savage land and claimed her for his bride.Torn from a life of comfort, Clarissa had braved the brutal gauntlet and won the right to live among her captors as an equal. But the future was up to her. Would she choose to return to a world of privilege or embrace the freedom of her new life-and accept the love of the warrior who had claimed her heart...?
Shazam!: The Junior Novel (Shazam!)
by Calliope GlassShazam! is coming to theaters in Spring 2019 from Warner Bros. Pictures, starring Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Mark Strong, Jack Dylan Grazer, and more. <P><P>Shazam: The Junior Novel is based on the upcoming New Line Cinema major motion picture. This edition contains exclusive scenes and a section of full-color images. <P><P>We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out… <P><P>By shouting just one word—SHAZAM!—Billy Batson, the street-wise fourteen-year-old foster kid from Philadelphia, can magically transform into the adult super hero Shazam, courtesy of an ancient wizard. <P><P>Will Billy and his new foster brother, Freddy, learn to harness Billy’s newfound superpowers like flight and bullet immunity in time to fight the dangerous forces of evil controlled by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana?
She: Large Print (Ayesha)
by H. Rider HaggardH. Rider Haggard&’s classic tale of fantasy and adventure set in a lost world ruled by a two-thousand-year-old queen On the occasion of his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the locked iron box that is his birthright and finds an ancient potsherd. Following clues engraved on the relic, Vincey and the man who raised him, Cambridge professor Horace Holly, embark on a remarkable adventure that will take them from Victorian England to an uncharted region in East Africa. Surviving shipwreck, disease, and hostile natives, they discover a lost civilization no European has ever encountered—or lived to describe. They have entered the realm of the cruel and beautiful Ayesha, known to those who worship her as &“She-who-must-be-obeyed.&” For two thousand years, the white queen has been waiting—for what, Vincey and Holly are about to find out. One of the bestselling novels of all time, She has held readers in its thrall for more than a century. Alongside Haggard&’s other classic, King Solomon&’s Mines, it established the conventions of the lost world fantasy genre, and has inspired some of our greatest thinkers and writers, from Sigmund Freud to J. R. R. Tolkien to Margaret Atwood. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
She: Fiction
by Michelle Latiolais“Latiolais is as close to Alice Munro as a writer can get, but with a more modern edge.”—Los Angeles TimesA nameless fifteen-year-old runs away to Los Angeles, seeking life beyond the harsh constraints of her evangelical upbringing. She is the narrative of her passage, from her escape on a bus through her quiet, determined progress across the city’s unforgiving terrain. The journey takes her into and around the lives of Angelinos from all walks: a dancer whose hyperactive sense of smell makes her fiance’s presence insufferable; a penniless botanist who earns her keep creating sugar-icing flowers to decorate glamorous wedding cakes she can never afford; a dentist lamenting the abuses done to the teeth of a patient for whom he has cared dutifully. Her odd encounters, set against the backdrop of Los Angeles’s flagrant wealth, cast into relief its eccentricities and the everyday trials faced by its collection of lost souls. Together these stories reflect and refract one another, illuminating a poignant, unflinching portrait of loss and the search for identity in its wake.
She and Allan
by H. Rider HaggardIn Haggard's canon, this book was inevitable. It was destiny that his two greatest characters, both located in the Dark Continent, should meet.
She and Her Cat: Stories
by Makoto Shinkai Naruki NagakawaFor fans of Mieko Kawakami&’s Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka&’s Earthlings, this Japanese bestseller from renowned anime director Makoto Shinkai features four inspirational and heartwarming vignettes following women and their cats in their quests for love and connection.Lying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a nameless narrator contemplates the indifferent world around him. With his mother long gone, his only company is the sound of the nearby train. Just as he fears that the end is near, a young woman peers down at him, this fateful encounter changing their lives forever. So begins the first story in She and Her Cat, a collection of four interrelated, stream-of-conscious short stories in which four women and their feline companions explore the frailty of life, the pain of isolation, and the limits of communication. With clever narration alternating between the cats and their owners, She and Her Cat offers a unique and sly commentary on human foibles and our desire for connection. A whimsical short story anthology unlike any other, it effortlessly demonstrates that even in our darkest, most lonesome moments, we are still united to this wonderous world—often in ways we could never have expected.
She Caught the Sheriff (Home on the Ranch)
by Anne Marie DuquetteThe Silver Dollar Ranch, near Tombstone, ArizonaRancher Wyatt Earp Bodine is a third-generation rancher here-and he's also the local sheriff. But he's never had a case like this before!Someone's left a skeleton in Boot Hill, Tombstone's famous graveyard. An old skeleton. The person who happens to find it is forensic investigator Caro Hartlan-which seems more than a coincidence. Needless to say, she offers to help the handsome sheriff figure out who done it-and why.Their search uncovers a trail of betrayal and deceit, a trail that leads them to an old crime buried deep in Tombstone's past. A trail that leads to kisses as well as clues-and to love as well as lies.HOME ON THE RANCH
She Could Fly
by Christopher CantwellIn this graphic novel from the co-creator/showrunner of AMC's acclaimed show Halt and Catch Fire, a disturbed 15-year-old girl obsessively searches for the truth behind a mysterious flying woman who explodes in the sky one day.Over the course of 51 days in Chicago, an unknown woman appears publicly 11 times, flying at speeds of 120 miles per hour and at heights reaching 2,000 feet. Then she suddenly dies in a fiery explosion mid-air. No one knows who she was, how she flew, or why. A disturbed 15-year-old girl named Luna becomes obsessed with learning everything about her, even as rumors and conspiracy theories roil. As Luna comes closer to the truth--all while defense contractors, government investigators, and foreign sources creep around the fringes--she hopes that cracking the secrets of the Flying Woman's inner life will somehow lead to liberation from her own troubled mind."...a frightening yet commanding series that you can't help but be transfixed over."-Geek.com"Devastating and wonderful."--Bleeding Cool"Full of unexpected pleasures...masterful, joyful, poignant... A must-read"-G. Willow Wilson (Wonder Woman, Ms. Marvel) "She Could Fly is a modern-day masterpiece...It's heartbreakingly beautiful and honest to its core."-Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) "She Could Fly is one of the best comic book debuts I've ever read. It's everything I want from a comic."-Gerry Duggan (Deadpool, Analog)
She Could Fly Volume 2: The Lost Pilot
by Christopher CantwellLuna has crash-landed back into her life after spending a year in a mental institution...but that might just mean she's closer to the edge than she's ever been before.After discovering clues about the Flying Woman's missing family, Luna's obsession reignites, threatening to again unravel her fragile mind. Meanwhile, a mysterious guru appears in the sewers of Chicago and a Russian mercenary seeks old secret technology, and the specter of violence begins to loom over everyone once more. Luna begins to wonder...will she even survive long enough to go insane? Collects She Could Fly: The Lost Pilot #1-#5.Acclaim for She Could Fly Volume 1:"Full of unexpected pleasures...masterful, joyful, poignant...A must-read" -G. Willow Wilson (Wonder Woman, Ms. Marvel)"She Could Fly is a modern-day masterpiece...It's heartbreakingly beautiful and honest to its core." - Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad)"She Could Fly is one of the best comic book debuts I've ever read. It's everything I want from a comic." - Gerry Duggan (Deadpool, Analog)"An intriguing premise, great dialogue and very tasty art combine to make She Could Fly something special." - Garth Ennis (Preacher)
She Could Fly Volume 3: Fight or Flight
by Christopher CantwellThe astonishing finale of the acclaimed series!After an intense brain surgery, Luna&’s mental imbalances are more manageable, but still problematic. Now 18, she&’s estranged from her parents and forging a life on her own. But Luna soon discovers that there&’s a new Flying Woman in town… one that&’s hellbent on causing havoc and terror. After witnessing this new Flying Villain, Luna's purpose finally become clear. She must be the one to fly—for the good of Chicago, for the sake of her family, for the memory of Mayura, and for herself. And this battle will all take place above the Chicago skyline…
She-Hulk goes to Murderworld: A Marvel: Multiverse Missions Adventure Gamebook (Marvel)
by Tim DedopulosEmbark on an adventure with She-Hulk to uncover a sinister plot from destroying the world where your choices – and chance – drive the storyWhen She-Hulk decides to represent old foe Ruby Thursday, who swears she is being framed for murder, she must overcome her bias to prove Ruby&’s innocence. Her investigation leads her into a conspiracy involving tech companies wielding insurmountable powers… and yet who are all mysteriously dying like flies. While trying to get Ruby out on bail, She-Hulk discovers a mysterious Expo being held in L.A., but a swarm of zany villains have been sent to slow her down. But for She-Hulk, nothing will stand in the way of true justice – even if it means facing an insane villain who believes mazes and games should only end one way: in Murderworld.
She-Hulk Little Golden Book (Little Golden Book)
by Jeneanne DeBoisThe Incredible Hulk&’s cousin SHE-HULK stars in her first ever Little Golden Book!The mighty the green-skinned She-Hulk takes on super villains with brains and brawn while her alter-ego lawyer Jennifer Walters defends Super Heroes in courts of law. Boys and girls ages 2 to 5 will love learning about She-Hulk's super strength and amazing abilities as well as her friends and foes in this Little Golden Book. Little Golden Books enjoy nearly 100% consumer recognition. They feature beloved classics, hot licenses, and new original stories . . . the classics of tomorrow.
She is the Darkness (The Seventh Chronicle of the Black Company)
by Glen CookThe wind whines and howls with bitter breath. Lightning snarls and barks. Rage is an animate force upon the plain of glittering stone. Even shadows are afraid.At the heart of the plain stands a vast grey stronghold, unknown, older than any written memory. One ancient tower has collapsed across the fissure. From the heart of the fastness comes a great deep slow breath like that of a slumbering world-heart, cracking the olden silence.Death is eternity. Eternity is stone. Stone is silence.Stone cannot speak but stone remembers.So begins the next movement of Glittering Stone....The tale again comes to us from the pen of Murgen, Annalist and Standard Bearer of the Black Company, whose developing powers of travel through space and time give him a perspective like no other.Led by the wily commander, Croaker, and the Lady, the Company is working for the Taglian government, but neither the Company nor the Taglians are overflowing with trust for each other. Arrayed against both is a similarly tenuous alliance of sorcerers, including the diabolical Soulcatcher, the psychotic Howler, and a four-year-old child who may be the most powerful of all.
She Knew He Was Coming
by Kris NevilleMary might have learned a more ladylike trade, but one thing is certain: she had a shining faith in that space guy from Earth. Now, about that cake she baked . . .
She Murdered Me with Science
by David BoopIt&’s 1953 and I&’m a shamus working the streets of Industry City. I don&’t rely on instinct; science is my game. The cases I get, and the booze I drink, keep oblivion just a step away. That is, until some rich recluse walks in and tells me that accident from all this years ago was a set-up, a frame job, and I was meant to take the fall.Now I have to clear my name… like that&’s easy. Everyone&’s keeping secrets. Who can I trust? My neighbor, the mysteriously connected Wan Lee? Or the songbird Merlot Sterling? Her lies are almost as beautiful as her voice. Even the muscle-bound bodyguard I inherited can&’t keep the hit men, spies — or my own government — from trying to put me six-feet under.You see, this secret organization believes I know something and wants to keep me quiet. All I do know is they&’re aiming to remake the world into their own twisted image using a device I created. They&’ve already axed one world leader, and Ike could be next.God, I could use a shot of bourbon and some answers, but neither comes cheap these days.It&’s 1953 and scientist-turned P.I. Noel Glass is tortured with the guilt of an early experiment gone awry. When a rich recluse offers proof that the accident was a set-up, Glass swears to clear his name. However, a clandestine organization is trying to conquer the world using his &“failed&” invention, but Glass stands in their way. Who can he trust when everyone has secrets? The songbird with a mean right hook? His Asian mobster best friend? Can Noel ignite his lost soul and face the ghost he swore he laid to rest?
She Of Strangeness
by J. Sheldon JonesKarel has been kidnapped into an unwanted marriage. Worse yet, she finds herself in a society where brutality toward captive women is the accepted norm. This puts a severe strain on Karel's belief that it is her duty to remain objective, abide by any and all local customs, learn as much as she can and never pass judgment. It is small comfort when Mari, her co-wife and co-captive, tells her that Sang, the husband they now share, is less cruel than most. Mari also lets slip that some of the captive women try to run away, and Karel happily accepts that as another custom she's entitled to follow. Karel's first attempt at escape ends in recapture, and her punishment is very severe and very public. Can she regain the courage to try again? If she does, can she succeed?
She-Ra: Song of the Sea Witch (She-Ra #3)
by Tracey WestWhen a friend is in danger, She-Ra is ready to fight.Just after the most recent Rebellion victory, a messenger from Salineas arrives in Bright Moon. He says he's there on behalf of someone named Queen Calypsa. But Salineas is Mermista's kingdom! What happened to her?The messenger won't say, but Adora, Glimmer, and Bow are determined to find out. And when they arrive in Salineas, they find it in the clutches of an evil sorceress-with the Horde on the way. Can She-Ra defeat Calpysa and save Mermista before it's too late?Fans of the Princess of Power will be thrilled with this original story set in the world of the She-Ra series from Dreamworks on Netflix! With illustrations throughout, and packed full of humor, magic, and friendship, these chapter books are the perfect way for a whole new generation of She-Ra fans to get to know the Princess of Power and her band of heroic friends.
She Returns From War
by Lee CollinsFour years after the horrific events in Leadville, a young woman from England, Victoria Dawes, sets into motion a series of events that will lead Cora and herself out into the New Mexico desert in pursuit of Anaba, a Navajo witch bent on taking revenge for the atrocities committed against her people.File Under: Dark Fantasy [ The Wilder West | Unseen Forces | A Conspiracy | Fight For Life ]From the Paperback edition.
She Returns From War
by Lee CollinsFour years after the horrific events in Leadville, a young woman from England, Victoria Dawes, sets into motion a series of events that will lead Cora and herself out into the New Mexico desert in pursuit of Anaba, a Navajo witch bent on taking revenge for the atrocities committed against her people.File Under: Dark Fantasy [ The Wilder West | Unseen Forces | A Conspiracy | Fight For Life ]From the Paperback edition.
She Returns From War
by Lee CollinsFour years after the horrific events in Leadville, a young woman from England, Victoria Dawes, sets into motion a series of events that will lead Cora and herself out into the New Mexico desert in pursuit of Anaba, a Navajo witch bent on taking revenge for the atrocities committed against her people.File Under: Dark Fantasy [ The Wilder West | Unseen Forces | A Conspiracy | Fight For Life ]
She That Lay Silent-Like Upon Our Shore: 'An act of pure imagination' ANNE ENRIGHT
by Brendan Casey* IRISH TIMES BEST BOOKS TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2023 *'An act of pure imagination: this is one of those stories that arrive fully formed in the writer's head, asking to be written first and understood later. The result is a kind of vision, told with great attention to language, voice and tone' ANNE ENRIGHT'Strange and darkly wondrous . . . like a wild and witty outtake from a folkloric Moby-Dick' PHILIP HOAREA creature from another world had collided with ours - a reckonin she might properwise be knowt, a great reckonin had washed upon our shores, and I ran twort it.On a remote island in the northern seas an unnamed boy is exiled from his community and cast into the Wastelands. In his struggle to survive he breaks away from the strictures of his upbringing and aligns himself with the beauty and brutality of the natural world. The Leviathan, a colossal beast that strands itself upon the shore, is the embodiment of everything the boy has yearned for and he vows to protect it with his life. The community's religious leader, the Prelate, proclaims the creature to be the devil incarnate, triggering a physical and philosophical battle that will propel life on the island towards a bloody and inevitable end.Told in a remarkable narrative voice, She That Lay Silent-like Upon Our Shore is a powerful fable about loyalty, isolation and humanity's complex relationship with nature.
She That Lay Silent-Like Upon Our Shore: 'An act of pure imagination' ANNE ENRIGHT
by Brendan Casey* IRISH TIMES BEST BOOKS TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2023 *'An act of pure imagination: this is one of those stories that arrive fully formed in the writer's head, asking to be written first and understood later. The result is a kind of vision, told with great attention to language, voice and tone' ANNE ENRIGHT'Strange and darkly wondrous . . . like a wild and witty outtake from a folkloric Moby-Dick' PHILIP HOAREA creature from another world had collided with ours - a reckonin she might properwise be knowt, a great reckonin had washed upon our shores, and I ran twort it.On a remote island in the northern seas an unnamed boy is exiled from his community and cast into the Wastelands. In his struggle to survive he breaks away from the strictures of his upbringing and aligns himself with the beauty and brutality of the natural world. The Leviathan, a colossal beast that strands itself upon the shore, is the embodiment of everything the boy has yearned for and he vows to protect it with his life. The community's religious leader, the Prelate, proclaims the creature to be the devil incarnate, triggering a physical and philosophical battle that will propel life on the island towards a bloody and inevitable end.Told in a remarkable narrative voice, She That Lay Silent-like Upon Our Shore is a powerful fable about loyalty, isolation and humanity's complex relationship with nature.