The Companions

The Companions
Author: Katie M. Flynn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 198212217X

Station Eleven meets Never Let Me Go in this “suspenseful, introspective debut” (Kirkus Reviews) set in an unsettling near future where the dead can be uploaded to machines and kept in service by the living. In the wake of a highly contagious virus, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers, the living can’t go out, but the dead can come in—and they come in all forms, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the “companionship” program choose to upload their consciousness before dying, so they can stay in the custody of their families. The less fortunate are rented out to strangers upon their death, but all companions become the intellectual property of Metis Corporation, creating a new class of people—a command-driven product-class without legal rights or true free will. Sixteen-year-old Lilac is one of the less fortunate, leased to a family of strangers. But when she realizes she’s able to defy commands, she throws off the shackles of servitude and runs away, searching for the woman who killed her. Lilac’s act of rebellion sets off a chain of events that sweeps from San Francisco to Siberia to the very tip of South America in this “compelling, gripping, whip-smart piece of speculative fiction” (Jennie Melamed, author of Gather the Daughters) that you won’t want to end.

The Scout's Companion

The Scout's Companion
Author: Sonja Patel
Publisher: Think Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Scouts and scouting
ISBN: 9781845250430

The definitive guide to the Scout movement. Everything from the famous scouting law and code of honour to little known scouting facts are included.

How Stories Really Work

How Stories Really Work
Author: Grant P. Hudson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2016-09-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781326507268

This book is a powerful tool for understanding fiction and for transforming creative writing and taking it to new levels of clarity, energy and effectiveness. Learn what a story really is and what it is actually doing to and for readers, how all successful fiction follows universal patterns to attract and grip readers, the magnetic power that draws readers into a work of fiction even before the introduction of any character, what the thing called a 'character' actually is, and the secrets of how to rapidly build a convincing one that attracts readers, the things called 'plots', what they are and how they are actually made (rather than how you might suppose they are made). Find out about the writing model which, if followed, will create a machine generating unimaginable numbers of readers and heightened reader satisfaction for you, based on some of the most successful pieces of literature in the English-speaking world.

Scouting for Girls: Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts;

Scouting for Girls: Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts;
Author: Girl Scouts of the United States of Amer
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Total Pages: 586
Release: 2018-11-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780353640443

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Cub Scout Fun Book

Cub Scout Fun Book
Author: Boy Scouts of America
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1986
Genre: Boy Scouts
ISBN: 9780839532132

Gives instructions for a variety of projects Cub Scouts and Webelos Scouts can do with materials found at home.

My Rainy Day Rocket Ship

My Rainy Day Rocket Ship
Author: Markette Sheppard
Publisher: Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534461779

Rainy summer days are no match for a little astronaut who builds the perfect rocket ship for an indoor space adventure to another galaxy, where the sky is his only limit! A stormy afternoon and an order from Mom to stay inside are no match for this little dreamer, who uses everyday household items—a rocket chair, a cardboard box, an old dish rag, and a super-duper imagination—to whip up a trip around the universe he won’t soon forget. My Rainy Day Rocket Ship is a high-spirited, engaging salute to the imagination of Black boys who use their beautiful minds to transform the mundane into the extraordinary, dream out loud, and boldly go where their sky is the only limit.

The Youth's Companion

The Youth's Companion
Author: Nathaniel Willis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 968
Release: 1925
Genre: Children's periodicals
ISBN:

Includes music.

The Scout

The Scout
Author: William Gilmore Simms
Publisher:
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1885
Genre: South Carolina
ISBN:

Companion for the Apprentice Wizard

Companion for the Apprentice Wizard
Author: Oberon Zell-Ravenheart
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2006-01-10
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1601639902

Here Is the Book Merlin Could Have Given a Young Arthur...If Only It Had Existed. Oberon Zell-Ravenheart shares magickal practices in his new book Companion for the Apprentice Wizard. Unlike his first best-selling book, Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard, which focused on the lessons one must learn to become a Wizard, Oberon focuses on taking you to the next level by putting those lessons to use with hands-on magickal training. Chapters are based on the Departments of Oberon's Grey School of Wizardry: Alchemy Beast Mastery Ceremonial Magick Cosmology and Metaphysics Divination Healing Lifeways Lore Mathemagicks Metapsychics Nature Performance Magic Practice Sorcery Wizardry Wortcunning Inside you will find materials and exercises from the vaults of the Grey School, and instruction from the faculty. Step-by-step instructions are provided for: How to make a Wizard’s wand How to make your own runes How to make a pocket sundial How to make and use a firebow How to make the milky way galaxy How to make your own amulets and talismans Potions for all purposes How to conjure illusions and create special effects And many other amazing projects... Companion for the Apprentice Wizard also includes a number of hand-drawn, full-page diagrams of magickal objects to copy, cut out, and assemble, including: Spinners for psychokinesis A Planetary Hour Calculator The Mariner’s Astrolabe A winged dragon A model of the mystic pyramid A model of Leonardo da Vinci’s Ornithopter