Knight Janek

Knight Janek
Author: Robert Sienicki
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2022-06-21
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 195341429X

What if Zelda and Conan had a child? The answer is Knight Janek. Grab the award-winning graphic novel collected in English for the first time ever! Things are not going well in the realm of Fancylake. The royal couple falls a victim of a fatal accident, and the fresh new Duke shows a disturbing passion for the occult. As if that were not enough, a strange wanderer arrives in the capital... Knight Janek will fight giant Kaiju Centipede's and many others in his journey to stop the Duke from taking over the realm of Fancylake. Time to decapitate this monster and save this Kingdom. What do you think of that Knight?

Pink Knight

Pink Knight
Author: C J Harvey
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 919
Release: 2019
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1728381622

Some ten thousand years ago Earth was visited by beings from another planet in the Barnard’s Star system. The Babylonians recorded that beings they called the ‘Oannes’ were amphibious creatures who came to Earth for the welfare of the human race. The historian Hellandus describes them as having fishlike features but the head, feet and arms of a man. They instructed humans in everything a civilized nation should know. They built a city beneath Antarctica near the Davis Sea and have lived there peacefully and secretly ever since. But now a rogue Dwarf Star called Zarama threatens the very existence of both Earth and the home planet Nazmos. Their mythology predicts that a being from another planet will avert disaster. Enter Ashley Bonner into this scenario. He has been granted ‘special gifts’ and the Oannes think he may be the predicted one. Can Ashley really prevail against a star a third more massive than the Sun? This is the story of Ashley’s development to manhood from age four to seventy and his ultimate sacrifice to save both worlds.

Pest Gold

Pest Gold
Author: Jutta Ahrens
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2018-12-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1547563389

Bohemia at the beginning of the 15th century: The people of a small village have survived the terrible plague. Weak, hungry and desperate, they abandon the caves in which they found refuge from the pest. They are pinched by poverty for the fields lay unsown – and the winter is coming. Even their noble lord on the nearby castle is suffering. Fortunately, he still has the treasure, which he stole together with other robber knights before the plague struck. When he wants to use it to battle the hardship, he realises to his horror that the chests filled with gold and jewels are gone. He could lose his life over this! In the meantime, precious items are showing up in and around the village time and again, and the villagers claim a troll is the source of their small wealth. The young, educated village priest Martin along with Janek, the noble lord’s son, find this superstition very intriguing: Who stole the treasure? Who is this mysterious benefactor in the forest? Can the two men unveil the truth and ward off the consequences of greed and superstition that has been growing in Janovice since the beginning of the outbreak of the pest?

The Painter Knight

The Painter Knight
Author: Fiona Patton
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Total Pages: 554
Release: 1998-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101666501

Galactic Spectrum Award nomination • Locus Recommended Reading List • Epic fantasy series with character-driven intrigue and spectacular magic Simon, the court painter of Branion, was the closest friend of the kingdom’s ruler, Marsellus. Even though Marsellus was the vessel of the Flame and Simon was a follower of the opposing Essusiate religion, Simon was still Marselllus’ staunchest ally and defender—instead of Marsellus’ own priests and guards. Yet not even Simon could protect Marsellus from unexpected treachery within the court. After an assassin ends Marsellus’ reign, it was Simon who became the champion and rescue of the new royal leader, Marsellus’ five-year-old daughter Kassandra. With civil and religious war threatening the suddenly leaderless realm, Simon has no choice but to flee the country with Kassandra. Pursued by the very forces which should have been the new ruler’s protectors, Simon and a most-unlikely band of companions have to keep both the child and her inherited powers hidden—until they can reach the one person who could offer Kassandra sanctuary and a chance, however desperate, of regaining her kingdom.

A Tragic Victory

A Tragic Victory
Author: Maria Halina Horn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1989
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Narrative of Maria Halina Horn's experiences during the Holocaust in Poland. She later emigrated to Canada.

Mature Audiences

Mature Audiences
Author: Karen E. Riggs
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1998
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780813525402

In Mature Audiences, Karen Riggs challenges traditional ideas about older viewers as passive, vulnerable audiences for television. She tells the stories of seventy elder Americans who have worked television into their lives in specific and practical ways. In particular, Riggs studies older women fans of Murder, She Wrote, the impact of news and public affairs programming in an affluent retirement community, the efforts of several older African Americans to produce and telecast their own public-access shows, and the role of television in the daily lives of minority elders, including gays, American Indians, and immigrants from Russia and Laos. Although television's own images of the elderly are nearly nonexistent or frequently negative, this collection of interviews provides a portrait of viewers who are often deliberate, thoughtful, and seasoned in their responses to questions about the role of television in their daily lives.

Poles Apart

Poles Apart
Author: Jacqueline Hayden
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317760964

First published in 1994. This book offers the reader a first-hand account of the people who have been central to Poland’s transformation since the early 1980s. With interviews of main actors: Lech Walesa, Wojciech Jaruzelski and leaders of Solidarity. Also observed and covered are the Gdansk shipyard strikes, martial law, a move towards democracy from Communism and the Round Table talks of 1989.

Make Your Own Job

Make Your Own Job
Author: Erik Baker
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2025
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0674293606

Make Your Own Job charts the transformation of the American work ethic in the twentieth century. It is no longer enough to be reliable; now, workers must lead with creative vision. Erik Baker argues that the entrepreneurial ethic has been a Band-Aid for a society in which ever-mounting precarity discredits the old ethics of effort and persistence.