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When Sannah the Storyteller, a descendant of environmental refugees
from drowned Pacific islands, finds a White stranger on her
domestep, she presumes he's a political prisoner on the run seeking
safe passage to egalitarian Aotearoa. However, Kaire's unusual
appearance, bizarre behaviour, and insistence he's a pilgrim
suggest otherwise. Appalled by apartheid Australia, Kaire uses his
White privileges to procure vital information for Sannah and her
group of activists regarding new desert prisons that are to be
built to house all political prisoners. The group plans sabotage
but needs help, and Kaire is a willing accomplice. But when Sannah
turns Truthteller and threatens to reveal the country's true
history, even Kaire's White privilege and advanced technology
cannot save Sannah and her daughter from retribution.
A full-color graphic anthology of short stories by some of the
hottest creators in the field, "FLIGHT, Volume Four" is the newest
addition to a great success story in graphic novel publishing.
Since 2004, when the first Volume of "Flight" burst on the scene,
the publication of subsequent volumes has become a highly
anticipated annual event. Artists are constantly contacting
Kibuishi (the editor of the "Flight" volumes and himself a
contributor), asking to be included in the next volume of "Flight."
So it's no wonder "Flight" has ascended so rapidly in the graphic
novel universe, becoming a fan favorite and developing a rabid
following. Each contributor's story in the anthology represents a
labor of love, and that fact shines through in the overall quality
of the series.
"With truly stellar art from masters of the field, this fantasy
anthology is a must for comics connoisseurs and a delight to
readers who like pretty stories." "Publishers Weekly" on "Flight,
Volume Three" (Starred Review.)
Paasion, an anthology of the world's greatest stories is full of
invention, imagination, and originality The stories communicatean
idea which will engage the reader's attention fromt he first to the
last
In the late nineteenth century, Mexico and France laid claim to
Clipperton Island. In 1908 Mexico places a garrison of men and
their families on the island to reinforce their claim.
All goes well until 1914 when, because of the revolution that
tears Mexico apart, the garrison is no longer supplied. Scurvy
claims many of their lives and in a desperate attempt to save those
that are left, the Captain tries to row a boat for help. He
perishes along with three men he took with him.
The lone man, left on the island, goes crazy and declares himself
king. For twenty-two months he rapes, tortures and murders some of
the women and children of the garrison. Finally, two of the women
are successful in killing him.
A United States warship, looking for Germans, rescues the
survivors and returns them to Mexico and safety.
The long-awaited diary from Whitehall's most scandalous MP... From
Brexit to Covid, parties to pig culling, the Conservative
government has lurched from crisis to crisis. With a front-row seat
on the, erm, backbenches, the Secret Tory MP has picked up on all
the petty rivalries, bad decision-making and scandalous affairs
that Whitehall has to offer. And he's got no qualms about sharing
it. All. Join the mystery MP as he drunk-texts Liz Truss after a
crate of WKD, accompanies Jacob Rees-Mogg (and his kids) to picket
a foodbank, takes on the French in the 'Trawler Wars', and
euthanises Rishi Sunak's dog - and that's just October. The Diary
of a Secret Tory MP is an outrageous spoof of the classic political
journal that pulls back the Lulu Lytle curtains to expose
extraordinary goings-on at Westminster across a tumultuous twelve
months.
From the savage death pits of the Ortung Vandals, to the murderous
intrigues of the imbecile Emperor's court, to the perfumed cages of
the luscious willing slaves, the giant Otto is carving a legend
across the stars. When this gladiator and chieftain of the Wolfung
worlds seeks to form a frontier legion of space barbarians, the
nobles dare not refuse him; they have only the courage to try to
murder him. But can even an empire's might stop such a man?John
Norman, born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1931, is the creator of the
Gorean Saga, the longest running series of adventure novels in
science fiction history. Starting inDecember 1966 withTarnsman of
Gor, the series was put on hold after its twenty-fifth installment,
Magicians of Gor, in 1988, when DAW refused to publish its
successor, Witness of Gor. After several unsuccessful attempts to
find a trade publishing outlet, the series was brought back into
print in 2001. Norman has also produced a separate, three
installment science fiction series, the Telnarian Histories, plus
two other fiction works (Ghost DanceandTime Slave), a nonfiction
paperback (Imaginative Sex), and a collection of thirty short
stories, entitledNorman Invasions.The Totems of Abydoswas published
in spring 2012.All of Norman's work is available both in print and
as ebooks. The Internet has proven to be a fertile ground for the
imagination of Norman's ever-growing fan base, and at Gor
Chronicles(www.gorchronicles.com), a website specially created for
his tremendous fan following, onemay read everything there is to
knowabout this unique fictional culture.Norman is married and has
three children."
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