Artesia: Adventures in the Known World

Artesia: Adventures in the Known World

The award-winning graphic novel Artesia comes to life in the Adventures in the Known World RPG, using a modified and easy-to-use Fuzion-based roleplaying system to plunge players into the strife-riven realms of the Known World, from the Warring Citadels of the Daragjan Highlands to the never-ending feud between the Sun Court of Illia and the Phoenix Court of the Empire of Thessid-Gola. Includes an expansive adaptation of R. Talsorian Games' LifePath character-generation system including birth omens, star signs and divine and heroic lineages, and rules for talents and abilities accessible to characters through the Arcana, the Tarot-like system representing the Known World's archetypal paths of power and the foundation of an unique system of experience, allowing game rewards for virtually all types of character actions.

ISBN: 1932386106

Author: Mark Smylie

Publisher: Archaia

Rating: 4.13

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A Changeling for All Seasons

A Changeling for All Seasons

"A Changeling for All Seasons" Ten unforgettable Erotic Tales to warm your nights and keep you in holiday spirits all year long!

Angela Knight - A Vampire Christmas
Sahara Kelly - A Christmas Pageant
Judy Mays - Jingle Balls
Marteeka Karland - Sealed with a Kiss
Kate Douglas - My Valentine
Shelby Morgen - Changeling
Willa Okati - Elven Enchantment
Kate Hill - Jolene's Pooka
Lacey Savage - Chemistry to Burn
Shelby Morgen - Troll under the Bridge

Filled with the unexpected, "A Changeling for All Seasons" offers something to savor for every palate. From humorous to magical, from Christmas to St. Patrick's Day to the 4th of July, these stories are alight with unbridled lust, sensuous passion, and hot, hot sex, guaranteed to entangle your senses and leave you breathless.

ISBN: 1595962808

Author: Angela Knight

Publisher: Changeling Press

Rating: 3.75

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Hatchet Jobs: Writings on Contemporary Fiction

Hatchet Jobs: Writings on Contemporary Fiction

Since the initial publication of Hatchet Jobs, the groves of literary criticism have echoed with the clatter of steel on wood. From heated panels at Book Expo in Chicago to contretemps at writers’ watering holes in New York, voices—even fists—have been raised.

Peck’s bracing philippic proposes that contemporary literature is at a dead end. Novelists have forfeited a wider audience, succumbing to identity politicking and self-reflexive postmodernism. In the torrent of responses to this fulguration, opinions were not so much divided as cleaved in two with, for example, Carlin Romano contending that “Peck’s judgments are worse than nasty—they are hysterical” and Benjamin Schwarz retorting that “in his meticulous attention to diction, his savage wit, his exact and rollicking prose and his disdain for pseudointellectual flatulence, Dale Peck is Mencken’s heir.”

Hatchet Jobs includes swinging critiques of the work of, among others, Sven Birkerts, Julian Barnes, Philip Roth, Colson Whitehead, Jim Crace, Stanley Crouch, and Rick Moody.

ISBN: 1595580271

Author: Dale Peck

Publisher: The New Press

Rating: 3.38

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The Ultimate Hitchhiker s Guide : Five Complete Novels and One Story (Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy, #1 5)

The Ultimate Hitchhiker s Guide : Five Complete Novels and One Story (Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy, #1 5)

This volume contains six zany, outrageous, out-of-this-world adventure stories by bestselling author Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; Young Zaphod; and Mostly Harmless.

ISBN: 0517226952

Author: Douglas Adams

Publisher:

Rating: 4.36

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The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy: Quandary Phase (Hitchhiker s Guide: Radio Play, #4)

The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy: Quandary Phase (Hitchhiker s Guide: Radio Play, #4)

Many are familiar with Douglas Adams's classic Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, but few know that these books started out as a multi-part series performed on BBC radio. This installment, part four, is a robust radio dramatization of So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. The Earth has miraculously reappeared and Arthur Dent is in love with the otherworldly Fenchurch, but Ford Prefect has an idea that might burst Arthur’s happy little bubble. What is really going on with Arthur’s dream girl, where have all the dolphins gone, and what was their departing message to mankind?

ISBN: 1572704888

Author: Douglas Adams

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks

Rating: 4.31

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The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1 3)

The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1 3)

A fantastic starter set for new Tolkien fans or readers interested in rediscovering the magic of Middle-earth, this three-volume box set features paperback editions of the complete trilogy -- The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King -- each with art from the New Line Productions feature film on the cover.
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a genuine masterpiece. The most widely read and influential fantasy epic of all time, it is also quite simply one of the most memorable and beloved tales ever told. Originally published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings set the framework upon which all epic/quest fantasy since has been built. Through the urgings of the enigmatic wizard Gandalf, young hobbit Frodo Baggins embarks on an urgent, incredibly treacherous journey to destroy the One Ring. This ring -- created and then lost by the Dark Lord, Sauron, centuries earlier -- is a weapon of evil, one that Sauron desperately wants returned to him. With the power of the ring once again his own, the Dark Lord will unleash his wrath upon all of Middle-earth. The only way to prevent this horrible fate from becoming reality is to return the Ring to Mordor, the only place it can be destroyed. Unfortunately for our heroes, Mordor is also Sauron's lair. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is essential reading not only for fans of fantasy but for lovers of classic literature as well...

Librarian's note: this edition shares an ISBN with the 2004 edition published by Houghton Mifflin Company

ISBN: 0618640150

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Rating: 4.45

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Untouchables: My Family s Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India

Untouchables: My Family s Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India

Every sixth human being in the world today is an Indian, and every sixth Indian is an untouchable. For thousands of years the untouchables, or Dalits, the people at the bottom of the Hindu caste system, have been treated as subhuman. Their story has rarely been told. This remarkable book achieves something altogether unprecedented: it gives voice to India's voiceless.
In Untouchables, Narendra Jadhav tells the awe-inspiring story of his family's struggle for equality and justice in India. While most Dalits had accepted their lowly position as fate, Jadhav's father rebelled against the oppressive caste system and fought against all odds to forge for his children a destiny that was never ordained.
Based on his father's diaries and family stories, Jadhav has written the triumphant story of his parents -- their great love, unwavering courage, and eventual victory in the struggle to free themselves and their children from the caste system. Jadhav vividly brings his parents' world to light and unflinchingly documents the life of untouchables -- the hunger, the cruel humiliations, the perpetual fear and brutal abuse.
Compelling and deeply compassionate, Untouchables is a son's tribute to his parents, an illuminating chronicle of one of the most important moments in Indian history, and an eye-opening work of nonfiction that gives readers access and insight into the lives of India's 165 million Dalits, whose struggle for equality continues even today.

ISBN: 0743270797

Author: Narendra Jadhav (डॉ. नरेंद्र जाधव )

Publisher: Scribner

Rating: 3.74

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