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Just Cause

Autor: Ian Thomas Healy

Número de Páginas: 354

UN NUEVO HÉROE PARA UNA NUEVA ERA Mustang Sally tiene algunos zapatos rápidos para llenar. Esta joven superhéroe ha esperado toda su vida para unirse a Just Cause - el equipo premiere de héroes estadounidenses. Ahora espera que su super velocidad gane un lugar en el mismo equipo al que pertenecían sus padres y abuelos. UN VIEJO RESENTIMIENTO DE UN ANTIGUO ENEMIGO Un encuentro fortuito con el villano que mató a su padre lo cambia todo. Aunque ella es sólo una interna, Sally se dedica a encontrar al hombre conocido como Destructor. Con la ayuda de sus alas de águila y mejor amiga Sondra y su super-fuerte interés amoroso en Jason, sus investigaciones descubren un complot siniestro que se extiende hasta el tiempo de abuelos. Sally y Just Cause deben arriesgar todo para detener los planes de Destroyer y salvar al mundo entero. CARACTERISTICAS ADICIONALES Más allá del texto original revisado, este volumen contiene tres nuevas historias nuevas que se extienden sobre la historia de la línea familiar de Mustang Sally en el contexto del universo de Just Cause. También contiene un resumen de los equipos históricos y contemporáneos de superhéroes que han sido parte de la...

Arena

Autor: Ian Healy

Número de Páginas: 348

"THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY . . ." Humanity has spent decades calling into the stars, seeking assurances that we are not alone in the galaxy. After many years of silence, someone has answered. The Hind came from afar, not to extend the hand of friendship, but the axe of conquest. The Hind drop an impenetrable force field over New York City, creating a cage where their shock troops will battle a handful of superheroes. They intend to conquer, but threaten annihilation if humanity doesn't surrender. In their desperate bid to save first their city and then the rest of the world, the heroes of Just Cause must do the unthinkable and ally with the greatest supervillain the world has ever seen: Harlan Washington, the Destroyer.

The Neighborhood Watch

Autor: Ian Healy

Número de Páginas: 268

Seventh-grade Superheroes!It's not easy being a twelve-year-old superhero, but the five kids of the Neighborhood Watch are doing the best they can. La Capitána: super-strong flier. Wheels: brilliant inventor. Hothead: catches on fire. Breezy: controls wind. Rascal: super-skateboarding. From their headquarters built into a repurposed Winnebago, they patrol the streets and alleys of their small hometown and dream of being Big Time Heroes like Mustang Sally and the rest of Just Cause. Instead, they're stuck rescuing cats stuck in trees . . . or they would be if their rivals didn't get there first.Three identical superpowered triplets, the Culture Club, are the darlings of local media. They never miss a photo opportunity or interview. They always seem to be in the right place at the right time. It just isn't fair.When La Capitána manages to stop a real supervillain, it changes everything for the Neighborhood Watch, and sets in motion a chain of events that will mean only one team can come out on top. Will the Culture Club win the day once more, or will the Neighborhood Watch prevail?

El Archimago

Autor: Ian Thomas Healy

Número de Páginas: 298

El aspirante a Archimago a matado a casi todos los usuarios de magia en el mundo, tomando su poder para sí mismo. Si logra matar al propio mago Stratocaster de los LUCKY SEVEN, el poder del Archimago se volverá absoluto y hundirá al mundo en oscuridad bajo su cruel reinado. Pero no si Mustang Sally y el resto de los superhéroes de JUST CAUSE tienen algo que decir al respecto. Solo el tiempo dirá si Sally puede correr lo suficientemente rápido para escapar de las garras del Archimago, lo suficientemente rápido como para burlar su malvado plan, lo suficientemente rápido para salvar al mundo.

Muddy Creek Tales

Autor: Ian Healy

Número de Páginas: 110

This collection includes both previously-published and all-new stories: THE MIGHTY PECULIAR INCIDENT AT MUDDY CREEK-What starts out as something simple as a train failing to stop winds up as something mighty peculiar indeed. CLOCKWORK CHLOE-Bert Tillory can get any woman to say yes, but who is he really looking for? POSSE-Sometimes when riding down a fugitive, it's hard to tell who's the hunter and who's being hunted. HANGING THE MAGICIAN-It's one thing to capture the most notorious horse thief in the West, but quite another to carry out his sentence. ALL IN-How high can the stakes truly get for a single hand of poker? SPRING LOADED-Love and revenge, clockwork-style. All this, plus an original cowboy poem and a preview of the novel PARIAH'S MOON!

Starf*cker

Autor: Ian Healy

Número de Páginas: 322

Once, John Irish was a legend in the porn industry, partying with the likes of John Holmes, Peter North, Nina Hartley, and Seka, but now he's on the far side of fifty, and Ron Jeremy won't even return his phone calls. Desperate for any kind of paying work, he's sunk to the level of bit roles in grade-Z porn and is even considering applying to work at Wal-Mart, when hot-blooded starlet Mindy Copperhead comes into his life. He quickly discovers she's far more than a simple blowjob artist, but is in fact an advance scout for a distant alien race, sent to Earth to find...him. Her race is embroiled in an interstellar war and losing badly. Her Queen became enamored with a movie in which John appeared, called Starfucker, and sent her scout to find him and bring him back to her, ostensibly to help her repopulate their dying planet. Thus John finds himself mixed up in a crazy, sexy adventure which makes even the most gonzo porn seem tame by comparison. In a civilization where skills can be learned via injections, danger lurks around every corner, and intrigue is as common as breakfast, John must get to the bottom of the mystery behind the war, as long as it doesn't kill him first, or at...

The Good Fight

Autor: Scott Bachmann , Frank Byrns , Marion G. Harmon , Warren Hately , Drew Hayes , Hydrargentium , Michael Ivan Lowell , T. Mike Mccurley , Landon Porter , R. J. Ross , Cheyanne Young , Jim Zoetewey

Número de Páginas: 164

The Pen & Cape Society, in conjunction with Local Hero Press, is proud to present The Good Fight, an anthology of superhero fiction from some of the best authors working in the genre. Collected within this volume are stories by Scott Bachmann, Frank Byrns, Marion Harmon, Warren Hately, Drew Hayes, Ian Thomas Healy, Hydrargentium, Michael Ivan Lowell, T. Mike McCurley, Landon Porter, R. J. Ross, Cheyanne Young, and Jim Zoetewey. After enjoying the stories in The Good Fight, please be sure to check out the works of the individual authors, because they're just super!

Jackrabbit

Autor: Ian Healy

Número de Páginas: 228

Oh, Japan... All Jackrabbit, Herald of the Rabbit God Leporidus, wanted to do was give his best friend Bunny a nice pre-wedding gift in the form of a trip to Japan. Naturally, Bunny is kidnapped by ninjas shortly after their arrival, forcing Jackrabbit to play superhero, detective, martial artist, video game enthusiast, street preacher, and more in his quest to rescue his friend. Along the way, he'll need help from Frog God Herald Kaeru no Uta, talking chimpanzee Chimp Braddock, the Bareknucks Brawler, a Buddhist monk teleporter, and a whole lot of charm and luck. All the while, he's in a country where he doesn't speak the language, doesn't know the customs, but he knows one thing is sure . . . Ninjas are real.

Assassin

Autor: Ian Healy

Número de Páginas: 310

In the distant future, in our own galactic backyard... With the Confederation on the brink of war, the Watchtower organization struggles to maintain peace despite the ongoing threat of the Secessionists. A killer is picking off Watchmen one by one. Following the philosophy of "Set a thief to catch a thief," Watchman Wisconsin Lockerbie hires cyborg assassin Jersey Jackson to track down the killer. While embroiled in the criminal underworld, they uncover a plot to build a superweapon that will tilt the upcoming conflict in favor of the Secessionists. Lockerbie, Jackson, and a motley crew of misfit aliens must set aside their differences to save the Confederation.

Troubleshooters

Autor: Ian Healy

Número de Páginas: 358

LIVE FAST, DIE YOUNG, LEAVE A GOOD-LOOKING CORPSE. Such is the credo of the modern mercenary in the economic downturn of the late 2040s. Three such antiheroes are brought together by a billionaire for a unique search-and-retrieval mission. If they succeed, they'll walk away free and clear with a big fat payday. But if they fail . . . well, things will go badly for them. Their quest will take them to the far corners of the Earth, from central Australia to Brazil to the Eastern European miconation of Borlovia, all in search of one of the world's rarest treasures: the elusive and collectible TIS bottle. Three bottles, three chances to succeed . . . or fail. What could possibly go wrong?

The Lion and the Five Deadly Serpents

Autor: Ian Thomas Healy

Número de Páginas: 284

Man. Lion. Warrior. Enigmatic superhero Lionheart was always cut from a different cloth than his teammates on Just Cause, so when he learns his old kung fu teacher, Master Chou, is dying, he doesn't hesitate to travel halfway around the world to pay his final respects to the man who saved his life and set him off upon his heroic journey. Upon arrival, he discovers his old master has been murdered, and quickly becomes embroiled in a battle for the honor of his master's Cherrywood School against one of the most dangerous heroin cartels in Hong Kong: the Five Deadly Serpents. His only allies are Master Chou's two children: Qiao, the seething warrior determined to avenge his father's death, and Lihua, the lovely and dangerous fighter who steals the lion's heart. They're outnumbered, outgunned, and the Five Deadly Serpents have numerous parahumans within their ranks. Lionheart, Qiao, and Lihua only have their training, their wits, and each other. Only time and blood will tell if the three warriors can save the Cherrywood School from the many-headed serpent of the Triad.

Action!

Autor: Ian Thomas Healy

Número de Páginas: 60

This book gives writers pointers and guidelines on how to improve their action scenes by implementing some of the same kinds of techniques used in film-making. Loaded with new terminology and definitions, an introduction to the basic concepts of an Action Scene, and application of the concepts, this book gives writers the tools to write their own expert-level action scenes! KAPOW! BANG! ZOOM!

Space Sharks

Autor: Ian Healy

Número de Páginas: 116

You've seen Sharknado. You've watched Ghost Shark. Now killer sharks take to their highest altitude ever in the book that absolutely no one asked for, but everybody wants to read: Space Sharks. That's right. Sharks. In space. What more do you want?

JCU Omnibus Volume 2

Autor: Ian Healy

Número de Páginas: 96

The second anthology of Just Cause Universe stories is here to add more depth and breadth to this world of superheroes and supervillains! Blacklisted is the tale of how Just Cause was created from the ashes of the first American superhero team, American Justice. Winternight is the origin tale of the villain Winternight, leader of the Malice Group that plagued hero teams Just Cause and Children of the Atom in the Sixties. Summer of Love is the long-awaited origin tale of Pony Girl and Audio, set during the Woodstock music festival. The Steel Soldier's Gambit is a jaunty story about the Just Cause heroes enjoying some downtime. Archenemy is a prequel tale to the novel Castles, released in April 2015.

Blood on the Ice

Autor: Ian Healy

Número de Páginas: 306

When a talented new player joins the perennially-losing sub-minor-league hockey team, the Fighting Aardvarks, it marks the beginning of a winning tradition. But things aren't as they seem, and players begin to change. First line center Hammie learns the truth: the Aardvarks are becoming vampires, and it's up to him to stop them before the infestation spreads beyond just the team. "Healy's snickering, boyish humor is a highlight of this novel-from the characters' postmodern comments on vampiric pop culture to the hockey teammates' constant good-natured trash talking to the wry snarkiness of the "narrator" (a lovely twist as to the identity of the narrator I won't spoil for you, but wait for the delightful punchline) pull us through this story with tight action and a keen series of cliffhanger chapter endings."--Jenn Zuko, Nerds in Babeland

The Scene Stealers

Autor: Ian Thomas Healy

Número de Páginas: 272

Steal Big. The Crew: Olivia, the Director; Anjanae, the Artist; Pancho, the Techie; Kennedy, the Actress; Jerome, the Money Man; Vajra, the Thug. The Target: A painting of Anjanae's deceased mother, stolen from her and presented for sale by a professional artist. The Job: Steal it back and don't get caught, because high school is hard enough without facing hard time.

Resources in Education

Número de Páginas: 1100

The Navy List

Autor: Great Britain. Admiralty

Número de Páginas: 1972

A New Companion to Renaissance Drama

Autor: Arthur F. Kinney , Thomas Warren Hopper

Número de Páginas: 660

A New Companion to Renaissance Drama provides an invaluable summary of past and present scholarship surrounding the most popular and influential literary form of its time. Original interpretations from leading scholars set the scene for important paths of future inquiry. A colorful, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the material conditions of Renaissance plays, England's most important dramatic period Contributors are both established and emerging scholars, with many leading international figures in the discipline Offers a unique approach by organizing the chapters by cultural context, theatre history, genre studies, theoretical applications, and material studies Chapters address newest departures and future directions for Renaissance drama scholarship Arthur Kinney is a world-renowned figure in the field

Wherever Green Is Worn

Autor: Tim Pat Coogan

Número de Páginas: 788

A sweeping history of all the places the Irish went when they left Ireland by one of the best known Irish historians in the world.

Unperfect Histories

Autor: Harriet Archer

Número de Páginas: 216

A detailed exploration of a significant work of Tudor literature, The Mirror for Magistrates. The volume shows how the text is more than a moralistic collection of poems and how it is concerned with the transmission of national history, and the ways in which the past can be distorted, misremembered, misinterpreted, or lost.

Lying in Early Modern English Culture

Autor: Andrew Hadfield

Número de Páginas: 372

Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. The period is characterised by panic and chaos when few had any idea how religious, cultural, and social life would develop after the traumatic division of Christendom. While many saw the need for a secular power to define the truth others declared that their allegiances belonged elsewhere. Accordingly there was a constant battle between competing authorities for the right to declare what was the truth and so label opponents as liars. Issues of truth and lying were, therefore, a constant feature of everyday life and determined ideas of individual identity, politics, speech, sex, marriage, and social behaviour, as well as philosophy and religion. This book is a cultural history of truth and lying from the 1530s to the 1610s, showing how lying needs to be understood in action as well as in theory. Unlike most histories of lying, it concentrates on a series of particular events reading them in terms of academic theories and more popular notions of lying. The book covers a wide range of material ...

Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition

Autor: Aleida Auld

Número de Páginas: 188

This volume adds a new dimension to authorship studies by linking the editorial tradition to the transformative reception of early modern authors and their works across time. Aleida Auld argues that the editorial tradition provides privileged access to the reception of early modern literature, informing our understanding of certain reconfigurations and sometimes helping to produce them between their time and our own. At stake are reconfigurations of oeuvre and authorship, the relationship between the author and work, the relationship between authors, and the author’s own role in establishing an editorial tradition. Ultimately, this study recognizes that the editorial tradition is a stabilizing force while asserting that it may also be a source of strange and provocative reconceptions of early modern authors and their works in the present day. Scholars and students of early modern literature will benefit from this approach to editing as a form of reception that encompasses all the editorial decisions that are necessary to ‘put forth’ a text.

Voices and Books in the English Renaissance

Autor: Jennifer Richards

Número de Páginas: 477

Voices and Books in the English Renaissance offers a new history of reading that focuses on the oral reader and the voice- or performance-aware silent reader, rather than the historical reader, who is invariably male, silent, and alone. It recovers the vocality of education for boys and girls in Renaissance England, and the importance of training in pronuntiatio (delivery) for oral-aural literary culture. It offers the first attempt to recover the voice--and tones of voice especially--from textual sources. It explores what happens when we bring voice to text, how vocal tone realizes or changes textual meaning, and how the literary writers of the past tried to represent their own and others' voices, as well as manage and exploit their readers' voices. The volume offers fresh readings of key Tudor authors who anticipated oral readers including Anne Askew, William Baldwin, and Thomas Nashe. It rethinks what a printed book can be by searching the printed page for vocal cues and exploring the neglected role of the voice in the printing process. Renaissance printed books have often been misheard and a preoccupation with their materiality has led to a focus on them as objects. However,...

The Fight for Free Speech

Autor: Ian Rosenberg

Número de Páginas: 311

"Media lawyer Ian Rosenberg distills the spectrum of free speech law down to ten critical issues. Each chapter in this book focuses on a contemporary free speech question--from student walkouts for gun safety to Samantha Bee's expletives, from neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville to the muting of adult film star Stormy Daniels-- and then identifies, unpacks, and explains the key Supreme Court case that provides the answers"--Provided by the publisher.

Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and Reserve Officers on Active Duty

Número de Páginas: 1566

Shakespeare and National Culture

Autor: John J. Joughin

Número de Páginas: 374

Shakespeare continues to feature in the construction and refashioning of national cultures and identities in a variety of forms. Often co-opted to serve nationalism, Shakespeare has also served to contest it in complex and contradictory ways.

Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and Reserve Officers on Active Duty

Autor: United States. Navy

Número de Páginas: 1484

Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and Reserve Officers on Active Duty

Número de Páginas: 1490

Graceful Blur

Autor: Ian Thomas Healy

Número de Páginas: 28

The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe

Autor: Patrick Cheney

Número de Páginas: 543

The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe, first published in 2004, provides a full introduction to one of the great pioneers of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. It recalls that Marlowe was an inventor of the English history play (Edward II) and of Ovidian narrative verse (Hero and Leander), as well as being author of such masterpieces of tragedy and lyric as Doctor Faustus and 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love'. Sixteen leading scholars provide accessible and authoritative chapters on Marlowe's life, texts, style, politics, religion, and classicism. The volume also considers his literary and patronage relationships and his representations of sexuality and gender and of geography and identity; his presence in modern film and theatre; and finally his influence on subsequent writers. The Companion includes a chronology of Marlowe's life, a note on reference works, and a reading list for each chapter.

Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane

Autor: Derek Hirst , Steven N. Zwicker

Número de Páginas: 214

This text studies the poetry and polemics of early modern writer Andrew Marvell. It situates Marvell and his writings within the patronage networks and political upheavals of mid-17th century England.

Angela Carter

Autor: Lorna Sage

Número de Páginas: 97

Lorna Sage provides a fascinating study of the works of Angela Carter - the most inventive British novelist of her generation. All of Carter's novels and short stories are covered, as well as some non-fiction.

Stages of Loss

Autor: George Oppitz-trotman

Número de Páginas: 479

Stages of Loss supplies an original and deeply researched account of travel and festivity in early modern Europe, complicating, revising, and sometimes entirely rewriting received accounts of the emergence and development of professional theatre. It offers a history of English actors travelling and performing abroad in early modern Europe, and Germany in particular, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These players, known as English Comedians, were among the first professional actors to perform in central and northern European courts and cities. The vital contributions made by them to the development of a European theatre institution have long been neglected owing to the pre-eminence of national theatre histories and the difficulty of researching an inherently evanescent phenomenon across large distances. These contributions are here introduced in their proper contexts for the first time. Stages of Loss explores connections real and perceived between diminishments of national value and the material wealth transported by itinerant players; representations of loss, waste, and profligacy within the drama they performed; and the extent to which theatrical practice and the...

A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies

Autor: John Lee

Número de Páginas: 462

Provides a detailed map of contemporary critical theory in Renaissance and Early Modern English literary studies beyond Shakespeare A Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies is a groundbreaking guide to the contemporary engagement with critical theory within the larger disciplinary area of Renaissance and Early Modern studies. Comprising commissioned contributions from leading international scholars, it provides an overview of literary theory, beyond Shakespeare, focusing on most major figures, as well as some lesser-known writers of the period. This book represents an important first step in bridging the divide between the abundance of titles which explore applications of theory in Shakespeare studies, and the relative lack of such texts concerning English Literary Renaissance studies as a whole, which includes major figures such as Marlowe, Jonson, Donne, and Milton. The tripartite structure offers a map of the critical landscape so that students can appreciate the breadth of the work being done, along with an exploration of the ways in which the treatments of or approaches to key issues have changed over time. Handbook of English Renaissance Literary Studies is...

Graham Swift

Autor: Peter Widdowson

Número de Páginas: 145

This study offers a close reading of each of Swift's novels, exploring the innovative formal strategies and identifying such recurrent themes as the presence of the past in the present, the blurring of distinctions between 'history' and 'story', fact and fiction, and the possibilities of redemption in a contemporary social and emotional wasteland.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Autor: David Kennedy , John Schad

Número de Páginas: 129

This study celebrates the work of Clough and his literature of continental thought and anti-poetry.

Carol Ann Duffy

Autor: Deryn Rees-jones

Número de Páginas: 81

This study looks at Duffy's work from her early development and involvement with the Liverpool poets in the 1970s, through to her most recent collection.