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The Imperial Court has moved to Rozari, to the villa by the Pink Sea, while the Imperial Palace undergoes renovations and reconstruction. Steve and Rent have been confined to the villa by the Mad Emperor, prisoners under house arrest while living in paradise. Rent is fine with this, as he has taken a fancy to Eva, the new Imperial Finance Minister, who resides in the villa's annex. Steve, however, is anxious to escape from both his childhood bedroom and his indifferent wife, Joanne. In the meantime, Anne Black has arrived on Earth in a stolen Spaceforce shuttle. Preferring solitude and reclusiveness, she spends her days blasting crows with her laser, or assassinating the flowers in the garden of her rented doublewide. One afternoon, while shopping in the local Big Box store, Anne collides with a man whose voice sends shivers down her spine. Although he reminds her of someone, he is clearly someone else, someone intent on taking her to places she doesn't want to go, including jail.
Lydia Kalila, the Princess Royal of Mishnah, is forced into marriage with the son of her country's mortal enemy for the sole purpose of producing an heir. Duty comes before personal choice for a princess, especially when her country has been at war for more than a thousand years. Lydia's pregnancy removes her brother and new husband from their respective lines of succession, placing her yet unborn infant at the head of both queues. No one is happy about this, especially Lydia who dies during childbirth from wounds caused by the talon-like toenails of her very strange newborn son. Grief stricken at the loss of his daughter, the Mishnese King hastily sends Senya, his infant grandson off to a d...
Katie is in the midst of a midlife crisis. She's bored with her husband of thirty years, worried about her still unmarried son, and her best friend is dying of cancer. Caroline's last request sends her friends to Earth to retrieve a package left there twenty-four years ago. The package is nothing like they expect and an adventure that takes them to a distant galaxy ensues. Metamorphosis is about change in the seasons, over the years, in our lives and in our love.
Examining Afro-German artists’ use of Afrofuturist tropes to critique German racial history The term Afrofuturism was first coined in the 1990s to describe African diasporic artists’ use of science fiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy to reimagine the diaspora’s pasts and to counter not only Eurocentric prejudices but also pessimistic narratives. Out of This World: Afro-German Afrofuturism focuses on contemporary Black German Afrofuturist literature and performance that critiques Eurocentrism and, specifically, German racism and colonial history. This young generation has, Priscilla Layne argues, engaged with Afrofuturism to disrupt linear time and imagine alternative worlds, to i...
"Studies of the multilingual practices of Turkish speaking adolescents in North Western Europe. The speakers use their different languages for a wide range of purposes: getting their way, creating a comfortable atmosphere, saving face, being polite, showing respect, showing disrespect, scolding, and in many other ways to administer their social relations. The skills demonstrated by the young speakers are almost never taken into account by the majority societies."
Now in one box set! Three complete novels from The Two Moons of Rehnor series, including The Boy who Lit up the Sky, My Enemy's Son and Of Blood and Angels. Embark on an epic fantasy adventure of galactic proportions! Escaping the nuclear destruction they had caused on the mother planet Rozari, the Mishnese and Karupatani both chose to resettle on the same planet and continue their fighting. Thus the planet Rehnor has been plagued by wars for more than 1,000 years. The wars will come to an end when the Karupta Crown Prince is wed to the Mishnese Princess Royal, removing both from the throne, and creating instead an heir to both kingdoms and the entire planet. Unfortunately, the princess dies...
Saffet Turns World To Its Lesson Our hero, Saffet, who believes that he has superpowers, reveals the emotions, social behaviors, reactions, objections, wishes, dreams and expectations that almost all of us experienced in childhood, student and youth, in an entertaining style. It develops a perspective on life from the eyes of both a child and an adult at the same time. He makes mistakes like every child, after an elephant falls on his head, he slowly starts to realize his mistakes, and above all, he is able to learn from his mistakes. In this respect, Saffet appeals to teachers and all parents as well as children. Saffet's interesting, funny and gripping adventures await you, the readers.
Our dependence on Internet connectivity literally comes back to haunt us in this gripping thriller in the Life Online series.to prevent the greatest technology threat ever seen from starting a world war in this gripping thriller in the Life Online series. What if your last text triggered the next world war? In the near future, the dead live on as virtual holograms interacting with humans through an omnipresent cyber Network. In Washington, DC, heartbroken U.S. President Arturo Solar is recklessly communicating with an illegal copy of his dead daughter's digital conscience. But his mourning is shattered when terrifying, undetectable drones appear all over the world, and in outer space. Gl...
Overnight, it seems, the Rossorians have taken over Rehnor. The Mishnese can either join them or be ostracized, while the Karuptas are told to get out. Despite the worst snow storm in the planet’s recorded history, Steve and Rent must return to the decrepit remains of the Palace, summoned by someone who had been loyal up until now. In the meantime, Katie and Dave have crashed on a tidally locked planet near a dying red dwarf star in the distant Black Eye Galaxy. With no means of escape and no sign of rescue, Katie attempts to kill one of the planet’s armadillo-like creatures in hopes of eating it. Unfortunately, she discovers the creatures would rather eat her.
Book 5 of The Two Moons of Rehnor series opens with Senya intent upon conquering the Mother Planet Rozari and forcing them into the Empire whether they want to or not. His faithful companions, Taner and Berkan, wonder if he has truly gone mad and turned into the Evil Emperor after all. In the meantime, Katie makes a final journey to Earth after a ten year detour. Old friends reappear and issues are resolved, including the question that has been asked throughout the series. Or is it?