This is a young adult fiction book about a young performer Amber Young and those she becomes friends with. It is 1999 and she is going to become a pop star. She originally considered being part of a group, until she met Gwen. Gwen decides she wants a solo career and Amber follows in ...
R.L. Stine is re-releasing e-books of his horror fiction but has taken out ‘plump’, ‘crazy’ and a character’s African American heritage. Z-library is Back27 February 2023 (The Gazelle)After getting shut down by US authorities, the well-known e-book piracy website has returned to...
then he later escaped to the north by dressing as a sailor. In hisNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass(1845), he described how for many enslaved people in the nineteenth century the vision of the sailing ship offered freedom
According to a synopsis first reported in The Bookseller, "it's much more than the usual emperor-by-emperor collection of biographies...For most Romans, one ruler was much like another and she takes a thematic approach instead – looking at the fact and fiction of these rulers, asking what...
Science fiction is a form of fiction that deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals. The term ‘science fiction’ was popularized, if not invented, in the 1920s by one of the genre’s principal advocates,
Sailing Alone Around the WorldJoshua Slocum The Diary of a NobodyGeorge Grossmith The Call of the WildJack London Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeaJules Verne Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea DisastersLo...
A work of science fiction covering a range of characters at McMurdo Station, the largest settlement in Antarctica, at a time when the international treaty which protects the continent is about to dissolve. As politicians and scientists wrangle over its fate, major corporations begin probing to plu...
Nicholas had quickly discovered that alcohol and sailing were not a good mix. He was constantly helping to patch up injured seamen who had over-indulged. Other injuries resulted from fighting, which was all too often another side-effect of excessive drinking. ...
Smooth Sailing by Kristen Ashley When the Chaos Motorcycle Club came to call, Harlan "Hugger" McCain wasn't ready to be welcomed into the fold. They said he was a legacy. He felt like an outcast. But he patched in anyway. And he was all in to be a part of their not-quite-outlaw...
s essay offers another way of making sense of this experience into which the viewer is prodded. If a personal library is a kind of self portrait you can detect from the clues that its usual groupings into fiction, biographies, history, science, etc., give us about the owner, then here ...