The Incredible Life of Tonto Kowalski

The Incredible Life of Tonto Kowalski
Author: Thomas Muser
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-05-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781502814050

Who is Tonto Kowalski? He's the guy everyone wants to be. He's successful, healthy, and happy. He lives life to the fullest every day and truly enjoys what he does. Tonto has a plan for improving your life, and he wants to share it with you! Sound great? It is, but there's a disclaimer. Tonto isn't a real person. What? How can you follow Tonto's plan if he doesn't exist? The answer is simple: create your own Tonto. In his innovative self-help book, The Incredible Life of Tonto Kowalski, professional trainer and life coach Thomas Edward Muser introduces you to his inner voice, the part of his conscience he named Tonto Kowalski. In a humorous and earnest manner, Muser provides a guide to positive living based on years of experience with clients, customers, friends, family, and colleagues. He wants to help you find your own inner voice and follow its advice. Muser starts with the basics: eat right, exercise, and sleep well. He then discusses the value of positive thinking, self-discipline, goal setting, frugality, and time management. Muser is confident that if you follow Tonto's lead, you'll see drastic improvements in your own success and happiness.

The Fifth Ward: First Watch

The Fifth Ward: First Watch
Author: Dale Lucas
Publisher: Orbit
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2017-07-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316469041

The grit of grimdark meets a police procedural in this rollicking debut fantasy series where two watchmen protect the streets of one of fantasy's most dangerous cities. A member of the Yenara City guard has gone missing. The culprit could be any of the usual suspects: drug-dealing orcs, mind-controlling elves, uncooperative mages, or humans being typical humans. It's up to two reluctant partners -- Rem, a miscreant who joins the Watch to pay off his bail, and Torval, a maul-wielding dwarf who's highly unimpressed with the untrained Rem -- to uncover the truth and catch the murderer loose in their fair city. "A brilliant premise, wonderfully told. A city that breathes, and heroes you can't help but root for." -- Nicholas Eames, author of Kings of the Wyld "A glorious tour through fantasy's seamier side. A wilder ride than Middle Earth, and you'll love every minute of it!" -- Jon Hollins, author of the Dragon Lords series

A Bride's Story, Vol. 3

A Bride's Story, Vol. 3
Author: Kaoru Mori
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1975356381

(Volume 1) Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori (Emma, Shirley) brings the nineteenth-century Silk Road to lavish life, chronicling the story of Amir Halgal, a young woman from a nomadic tribe betrothed to a twelve-year-old boy eight years her junior. Coping with cultural differences, blossoming feelings for her new husband, and expectations from both her adoptive and birth families, Amir strives to find her role as she settles into a new life and a new home in a society quick to define that role for her.

The House of Shattered Wings

The House of Shattered Wings
Author: Aliette de Bodard
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2015-08-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0698409906

Multi-award winning author Aliette de Bodard, brings her story of the War in Heaven to Paris, igniting the City of Light in a fantasy of divine power and deep conspiracy… In the late twentieth century, the streets of Paris are lined with haunted ruins, the aftermath of a Great War between arcane powers. The Grand Magasins have been reduced to piles of debris, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine has turned black with ashes and rubble and the remnants of the spells that tore the city apart. But those that survived still retain their irrepressible appetite for novelty and distraction, and The Great Houses still vie for dominion over France’s once grand capital. Once the most powerful and formidable, House Silverspires now lies in disarray. Its magic is ailing; its founder, Morningstar, has been missing for decades; and now something from the shadows stalks its people inside their very own walls. Within the House, three very different people must come together: a naive but powerful Fallen angel; an alchemist with a self-destructive addiction; and a resentful young man wielding spells of unknown origin. They may be Silverspires’ salvation—or the architects of its last, irreversible fall. And if Silverspires falls, so may the city itself.

Iron Truth

Iron Truth
Author: S. A. Tholin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 589
Release: 2018-05-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781982920043

A bold and uncompromising science fiction epic. When miners on a remote colony dig too deep, the golden age of space exploration comes to a bloody end. An alien corruption springs from the soil, possessing every mind it touches. Aboard one of the last colony ships, junior botanist Joy Somerset slumbers in cryostasis, unaware of the spreading chaos. She awakes stranded on Cato - a planet whose menacing sands seem to share a hunger with the crazed locals. Commander Cassimer, a Primaterre veteran dedicated to fighting the corruption, leads his elite strike team to Cato to recover a clandestine starship. On this storm-lashed world, surrounded by shadow and ruin, Cassimer faces not only failure, but the loss of what little sanity he has. Joy and Cassimer must trust each other long enough to uncover Cato's dark secret and work together to survive deranged cultists, terrorist rebels, and the IRON TRUTH.

Transactions with the World

Transactions with the World
Author: Adam O’Brien
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2016-02-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1785330012

In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the “New Hollywood” films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized movies such as The Wild Bunch, Chinatown, and Nashville. This brisk and engaging study explores how many hallmarks of New Hollywood filmmaking, such as the increased reliance on location shooting and the rejection of American self-mythologizing, made the era such a vividly “grounded” cinematic moment. Synthesizing a range of narrative, aesthetic, and ecocritical theories, it offers a genuinely fresh perspective on one of the most studied periods in film history.

Killer of Kings

Killer of Kings
Author: Matthew Harffy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 178497885X

AD 636. Anglo-Saxon Britain. Beobrand has land, men and riches. He should be content. And yet he cannot find peace until his enemies are food for the ravens. But before Beobrand can embark on his bloodfeud, King Oswald orders him southward, to escort holy men bearing sacred relics. When Penda of Mercia marches a warhost into the southern kingdoms, Beobrand and his men are thrown into the midst of the conflict. Beobrand soon finds himself fighting for his life and his honour. In the chaos that grips the south, dark secrets are exposed, bringing into question much that Beobrand had believed true. Can he unearth the answers and exact the vengeance he craves? Or will the blood-price prove too high, even for a warrior of his battle-fame and skill?

Pickford

Pickford
Author: Eileen Whitfield
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2007-08-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780813191799

A comprehensive biography of film's first star traces her rise to fame with the growth of the medium, her influence as a partner in United Artists, her relationship with Douglas Fairbanks, and her struggles later in life. UP.

The Spirit Is Willing

The Spirit Is Willing
Author: T. E. Kinsey
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2016-01-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781523272716

It's Spring 1909 and Lady Hardcastle and her maid Florence Armstrong are back for four more mysteries. The Farmer's Revenge - Our heroines resume their amateur sleuthing when a sudden death at the cattle market begins to look like murder. The Ghost of the Dog and Duck - Flo persuades Lady Hardcastle to attend a seance where a medium calls forth a ghost who begins to haunt the village pub. The Trophy Case Case - There's a burglary at the rugby club on the night of the end of season celebrations and Lady Hardcastle and Flo agree to help the village police find the thief. The Last Tram - There's sabotage, murder and kidnap in the city. Lady Hardcastle and Flo are called in to find out who's behind the chaos at the tram company but things go from bad to worse."

The Art of Monster, Inc.

The Art of Monster, Inc.
Author:
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2015-11-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1452147515

The Art of Monsters, Inc. opens the door into Pixar's colorful archives of concept art and to the endearing story of Monsters, Inc. Since the very first bedtime, children around the world have known that once their parents tuck them into bed and shut off the light, monsters lie waiting behind closet doors, ready to emerge. But what they don't realize is that these monsters scare children because they have to. It's their job. This superb film from Pixar Studios, the people who brought you Toy Story, A Bug's Life, and Toy Story 2, reveals the truth about monsters with the brilliant techniques that have earned them their reputation as a ground-breaking animation studio. This incredible body of artwork was commissioned from the top artists, illustrators, and animators in the industry and from it the ultimate visual approach of the film was defined. From sketches scribbled on napkins and quickly inked marker drawings, to finished oil paintings and fabulous pastel color scripts, this behind-the-scenes artwork reveals the elaborate creative process behind a blockbuster film.