Destiny's Role 0

Destiny's Role 0
Author: Mark Lain
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2018-04-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781987702743

Destiny's Role are books with a difference, books where YOU get to play the part of the hero, books that are both novels and games. The four short books that form this collection are designed as an introduction to some of the concepts of Destiny's Role: - Pit yourself against the greatest jousters in the region to win the right to be named MASTER OF THE TILTYARD - Assume the role of a hard-boiled film noir detective in your deadliest case yet as you try to unlock the secret of FRAGILE BEAUTY - Be faced with more than you had reckoned for as you head deep into the inner sanctum of THE CULT OF THE BLACK FEATHER - And step into the waking nightmare of CELTIC FROST To play the adventures in this book you will need two six-sided dice, a pencil, an eraser, and, most importantly, an imagination!

Nobody's Magic

Nobody's Magic
Author: Destiny O. Birdsong
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2022-02-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1538721414

“The magic here is not the supernatural kind, but rather an attention to the grace of the ordinary. It is the magic of watching these women come into their power.”—New York Times A GMA Buzz Pick! A Most Anticipated Book by Essence · The Millions · Atlantic Journal Constitution · Glamour · Teen Vogue · Bustle · BookPage · Nashville Scene · Ms. Magazine · Parnassus Musing A Best Book of February by Washington Post · Nylon · BookRiot In this glittering triptych novel, Suzette, Maple and Agnes, three Black women with albinism, call Shreveport, Louisiana home. At the bustling crossroads of the American South and Southwest, these three women find themselves at the crossroads of their own lives. Suzette, a pampered twenty-year‑old, has been sheltered from the outside world since a dangerous childhood encounter. Now, a budding romance with a sweet mechanic allows Suzette to seek independence, which unleashes dark reactions in those closest to her. In discovering her autonomy, Suzette is forced to decide what she is willing to sacrifice in order to make her own way in the world. Maple is reeling from the unsolved murder of her free‑spirited mother. She flees the media circus and her judgmental grandmother by shutting herself off from the world in a spare room of the motel where she works. One night, at a party, Maple connects with Chad, someone who may understand her pain more than she realizes, and she discovers that the key to her mother's death may be within her reach. Agnes is far from home, working yet another mind‑numbing job. She attracts the interest of a lonely security guard and army veteran who’s looking for a traditional life for himself and his young son. He’s convinced that she wields a certain “magic,” but Agnes soon unleashes a power within herself that will shock them both and send her on a trip to confront not only her family and her past, but also herself. This novel, told in three parts, is a searing meditation on grief, female strength, and self‑discovery set against a backdrop of complicated social and racial histories. Nobody's Magic is a testament to the power of family—the ones you're born in and the ones you choose. And in these three narratives, among the yearning and loss, each of these women may find a seed of hope for the future.

Destiny's Role 2

Destiny's Role 2
Author: Mark Lain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre:
ISBN:

Destiny's Role are books with a difference, books where YOU get to play the part of the hero, books that are both novels and games. Vortan - the Snake LordVortan - the MurdererVortan - the TargetYOU seek vengeance for your father's death. YOU have located his hidden underground kingdom. YOU are near to closure.YOU have only one chance... Will Vortan claim another victim?

Destiny's Role 1

Destiny's Role 1
Author: Mark Lain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-03-16
Genre:
ISBN:

Destiny's Role are books with a difference, books where YOU get to play the part of the hero, books that are both novels and games.An ancient evil is rumoured to have returned to Silvastria. Penelope Redcap, the Mistress of Sorrows, a witch of terrible power who is believed to have been destroyed centuries ago, is said to be back and bent on vengeance. Her followers are regrouping in preparation for the day when the Hexa will finally control the region....But, could a great hero finally destroy her forever? To play the adventure in this book you will need two six-sided dice, a pencil, an eraser, and, most importantly, an imagination!

Destiny's Role

Destiny's Role
Author: Mark Lain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2021-01-27
Genre:
ISBN:

The first book in the companion series to the acclaimed Destiny's Role gamebooks. Adventures, lore, short stories, etc etc... broadening the Destiny's Role universe for those who want a bit more.

Spirals of Destiny

Spirals of Destiny
Author: Jim Bernheimer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2010-04-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780982508763

Forget everything you thought you knew about unicorns and maidens... A unicorn is not supposed to survive the death of its rider, but Majherri did. Now he is a pariah, mistrusted by the Greater Herd. To reclaim his lost honor and status, he will entrust the remnants of his life to a new human female while unraveling the mystery of his continued existence. Kayleigh Reese is not Battle Maiden material. She's three years older than any other recruit and has enjoyed a peaceful, nomadic life working with her artist mother. The rigors of joining the High-King's elite unicorn cavalry are clearly not for her. Now, with a bond to Majherri, she must overcome her mother's disapproval, the ire of her commanding officer and fellow trainees, and, most importantly, the secrets of her unicorn's past if she is to become a legendary warrior. To prevail, they must quickly come together as a team and unlock the powerful and dangerous magic inside them.

Negotiations

Negotiations
Author: Destiny O. Birdsong
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1951142136

"Full of wonder." —Elizabeth Acevedo A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Refinery29, and Entropy Magazine What makes a self? In her remarkable debut collection of poems, Destiny O. Birdsong writes fearlessly towards this question. Laced with ratchetry, yet hungering for its own respectability, Negotiations is about what it means to live in this America, about Cardi B and top-tier journal publications, about autoimmune disease and the speaker’s intense hunger for her own body—a surprise of self-love in the aftermath of both assault and diagnosis. It’s a series of love letters to black women, who are often singled out for abuse and assault, silencing and tokenism, fetishization and cultural appropriation in ways that throw the rock, then hide the hand. It is a book about tenderness and an indictment of people and systems that attempt to narrow black women’s lives, their power. But it is also an examination of complicity—both a narrative and a black box warning for a particular kind of self-healing that requires recognizing culpability when and where it exists.

Destiny Interrupted

Destiny Interrupted
Author: Erica N. Martin
Publisher: Second Time Media
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780981516202

Written from two different perspectives, this tale shows how one relationship can take on two different skins. Erin Lynch and Oricho Hamilton are a match made in heaven, but both of their pasts threaten the connection. When tragedy strikes, their love is tested in ways that they would never imagine.

Manifest Destiny 2. 0

Manifest Destiny 2. 0
Author: Sara Humphreys
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2021-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1496224787

At a time when print and film have shown the classic Western and noir genres to be racist, heteronormative, and neocolonial, Sara Humphreys's Manifest Destiny 2.0 asks why these genres endure so prolifically in the video game market. While video games provide a radically new and exciting medium for storytelling, most game narratives do not offer fresh ways of understanding the world. Video games with complex storylines are based on enduring American literary genres that disseminate problematic ideologies, quelling cultural anxieties over economic, racial, and gender inequality through the institutional acceptance and performance of Anglo cultural, racial, and economic superiority. Although game critics and scholars recognize how genres structure games and gameplay, the concept of genre continues to be viewed as a largely invisible power, subordinate to the computational processes of programming, graphics, and the making of a multimillion-dollar best seller. Investigating the social and cultural implications of the Western and noir genres in video games through two case studies--the best-selling games Red Dead Redemption (2010) and L.A. Noire (2011)--Humphreys demonstrates how the frontier myth continues to circulate exceptionalist versions of the United States. Video games spread the neoliberal and neocolonial ideologies of the genres even as they create a new form of performative literacy that intensifies the genres well beyond their originating historical contexts. Manifest Destiny 2.0 joins the growing body of scholarship dedicated to the historical, theoretical, critical, and cultural analysis of video games.