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Over the past decade, an audacious programme called Football Dreams has held trials for millions of 13-year-old boys across Africa looking for football's next superstars. Led by the Spanish scout who helped launch Lionel Messi's career at Barcelona and funded by the desert kingdom of Qatar, the programme has chosen a handful of boys each year to train to become professionals – a process over a thousand times more selective than getting into Harvard. In The Away Game, reporter Sebastian Abbot follows a small group of the boys as they are discovered on dirt fields across Africa, join the glittering academy in Doha where they train, and compete for the chance to gain fame and fortune at Europ...
"THE ART OF THE EVIL WITHIN is a comprehensive look at the newest horror video game by the legendary Shinji Mikami--the father of survival horror! Go behind the scenes with never-before-seen concept art and captions by the developers detailing their creative process and revealing what went into making this terrifying psychological thriller."--Page 4 of cover.
Incontestably, Future Narratives are most conspicuous in video games: they combine narrative with the major element of all games: agency. The persons who perceive these narratives are not simply readers or spectators but active agents with a range of choices at their disposal that will influence the very narrative they are experiencing: they are players. The narratives thus created are realizations of the multiple possibilities contained in the present of any given gameplay situation. Surveying the latest trends in the field, the volume discusses the complex relationship of narrative and gameplay.
Terra the magical half-human. Shadow the mysterious assassin. Celes the tough, tender general. Kefka the fool who would be god. Each of the many unforgettable characters in Final Fantasy VI has made a huge impression on a generation of players, but why do we feel such affection for these 16-bit heroes and villains as so many others fade? The credit goes to the game’s score, composed by the legendary Nobuo Uematsu. Armed with newly translated interviews and an expert ear for sound, writer and musician Sebastian Deken conducts a critical analysis of the musical structures of FF6, the game that pushed the Super Nintendo’s sound capabilities to their absolute limits and launched Uematsu’s reputation as the “Beethoven of video game music.” Deken ventures deep into the game’s lush soundscape—from its expertly crafted leitmotifs to its unforgettable opera sequence—exploring the soundtrack’s lasting influence and how it helped clear space for game music on classical stages around the world.
Is he playing the Game, or being played?After a late-night dinner party gets a group of thirty-something friends chatting about adultery, Oscar MacDonald discovers that he harbors a dark fantasy about his wife's infidelity. When wife Izzie forces his secret into the open, Oscar says his only real condition for her to sleep with other people would be for her to share all the details with him.Izzie says she wouldn't feel comfortable sleeping with someone then spilling the details, even to her husband. But what if she left him clues, to hint at what she did when enjoying herself with other men? Maybe, just maybe, she would be tempted to turn fantasy into reality.They could even make a game of it.A full-length, 90,000-word wife-sharing adventure from the author of She's a Star.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns to the Cynsters’ next generation with an evocative tale of two people striving to overcome unusual hurdles in order to claim true love. A nobleman wedded to the lady he loves strives to overwrite five years of masterful pretence and open his wife’s eyes to the fact that he loves her as much as she loves him. Lord Devlin Cader, Earl of Alverton, married Therese Cynster five years ago. What he didn’t tell her then and has assiduously hidden ever since—for what seemed excellent reasons at the time—is that he loves her every bit as much as she loves him. For her own misguided reasons, Therese had decided that the adage that...
From the author of the Caldecott Medal-winning "A Sick Day for Amos McGee" comes a whimsical story about a hot air balloon, a boy, and a magical adventure. Full color.
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A teen programmer at a school for geniuses must join forces with a boy she can't remember to stop a hacker from deleting their memories in Shana Silver’s action-packed YA debut, Mind Games. Arden sells memories. Whether it’s becoming homecoming queen or studying for that all important test, Arden can hack into a classmate’s memories and upload the experience for you just as if you’d lived it yourself. Business is great, right up until the day Arden whites out, losing fifteen minutes of her life and all her memories of the boy across the school yard. The boy her friends assure her she’s had a crush on for years. Arden realizes that her own memories have been hacked, but they haven’t just been stolen and shared... they’ve been removed. And she’s not the only one: her mysterious crush, Sebastian, has lost ALL of his memories. But how can they find someone who has the power to make them forget everything they’ve learned? Praise from the Swoon Reads community: “An absolute roller coaster ride.... I loved it. I absolutely loved it!” —Pamela Delupio “An awesome concept and a gripping mystery... a wild ride from beginning to end.” —T. K. Yeager
Knox Draxler is used to taking what he wants, on good or bad terms, nothing is denied to him. Corrupt, perverse, and sadistic, he is a beast who was educated in sin, an intelligent man who designs weapons and is an accountant. He leads an illicit empire that hides under the foundations of Eros: the place where he was born. Also the place where he meets his obsession: Dove Sinclair. A dancer who managed to seduce him and who refuses to fall into his clutches. However, Knox is not willing to accept a no, even knowing that she has a boyfriend and that he is Sebastian Knight, his best friend. Loyalty disappears when those gray eyes look at him. Passion ignites when his dominion is exerted over her. Betrayal triggers a war where a broken heart will be the least painful thing. Book 1 of The Viper's Crown Series