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Wilson

    Tento autor se sice zabýval širokou škálou alternativních kariér v jiných dimenzích, jako například manažer domova důchodců pro roboty nebo instruktor létajících koberců, ale na Zemi se rozhodl pro klidnější život. Věnuje se psaní pro časopisy a tráví čas s rodinou v Austinu v Texasu. Jeho zájmy zahrnují procházky, sledování úvodních znělek sitcomů ze 70. a 80. let a získávání koček na svou stranu. Spoluuvádí také podcast THIS WEEK IN THE MULTIVERSE.

    The Infinity Guardians
    Called to Community
    Call Me Stan
    Fire and Spirit
    Following the Call
    Me vs. the Multiverse: Enough About Me
    • Me vs. the Multiverse: Enough About Me

      • 272 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení
      4,6(13)Ohodnotit

      Can plain old Average Me fix the rip in the multiverse? The Mes are back in this hilarious second book in the sci-fi comedy series for fans of Stuart Gibb's Moon Base Alpha and quirky animated shows like Rick and Morty and Regular Show. Saving the multiverse starts with another origami note: Make it here, pronto. This time Meade Macon, aka Average Me, knows that parallel dimensions are real. He's met dozens of his counterparts from other Earths. What he doesn't know is that they're all about to get zapped out of existence. On Earth Zero, a rip in the multiverse is spreading to other realities and causing chaos wherever it appears. And the different versions of Meade--the Mes--are caught in the middle! Motor Me, Resist Me, and Hollywood Me just want to go back home to their own Earths. The only way to do that is to repair the rip. Once again, it's up to Average Me! But if Average is going to fix the multiverse, he just might have to team up with his archnemesis . . . Meticulous Me.

      Me vs. the Multiverse: Enough About Me
    • Following the Call

      • 380 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení
      4,4(91)Ohodnotit

      Fifty-two readings to spark weekly group discussion on putting Jesus’ most central teachings into practice. Jesus’ most famous teaching, the Sermon on the Mount, possesses an irresistible quality . Who hasn’t felt stirred and unsettled after reading these words, which get to the root of the human condition?This follow-up to the acclaimed collection Called to The Life Jesus Wants for His People taps an even broader array of sources, bringing together prophetic voices from every era and a range of traditions to consider the repercussions of these essential words.More than a commentary or devotional , this book is designed to be read together with others, to inspire communities of faith to discuss what it might look like to put Jesus’ teachings into practice today.

      Following the Call
    • Fire and Spirit

      • 130 stránek
      • 5 hodin čtení
      4,5(2)Ohodnotit

      "Lightning and forest fires could strike terror in primitive humans, yet they also cherished fire as a life-giving gift from the gods"-- Provided by publisher

      Fire and Spirit
    • Call Me Stan

      • 420 stránek
      • 15 hodin čtení
      4,3(23)Ohodnotit

      Long-listed for the 2022 Leacock Medal for Humour When King Priam's pregnant daughter was fleeing the sack of Troy, Stan was there. When Jesus of Nazareth was beaten and crucified, Stan was there - one cross over. Stan has been a Hittite warrior, a Roman legionnaire, a mercenary for the caravans of the Silk Road and a Great War German grunt. He’s been a toymaker in a time of plague, a reluctant rebel in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, and an information peddler in the cabarets of post-war Berlin. Stan doesn't die, and he doesn't know why. And now he's being investigated for a horrific crime. As Stan tells his story, from his origins as an Anatolian sheep farmer to his custody in a Toronto police interview room, he brings a wry, anachronistic perspective to three thousand years of Eurasian history. Call Me Stan is the story of a man endlessly struggling to adjust as the world keeps changing around him. It is a Biblical epic from the bleachers, a gender fluid operatic love quadrangle, and a touching exploration of what it is to outlive everyone you love. Or almost everyone.

      Call Me Stan
    • Escape into space with the conclusion to the star-spangled duology that began with The Infinity Files, perfect for fans of Doctor Who and Guardians of the Galaxy. "Action-packed, joyously futuristic." Armadillo"After so many years of bleak dystopias it's a pleasure to witness the return of space opera to YA." The Irish Times Get in. Get out. Keep to the task. Leave no one behind.Ash Yang is the youngest ever Guardian of the Infinity Files, responsible for the universe's most powerful and dangerous artefacts. And whether her planet-hopping missions take her to crumbling space ports, volcanic disasters or cloud cities, her new team - loyal Ezra, tech-genius Amara and daring Trik - have got her back. But when a ruthless enemy tracks them across the galaxies, Ash must protect not just her team and their home, but the whole universe.

      The Infinity Guardians
    • Me vs. the Multiverse: Pleased to Meet Me

      • 288 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení
      3,8(22)Ohodnotit

      What if you suddenly met someone who's you--only better? That's what happens in this hilarious new series for fans of Stuart Gibb's Moon Base Alpha and quirky sci-fi animated shows like Rick and Morty and Regular Show. It all starts with a note folded into the shape of an origami octopus: "Hi, Me. Yes, you. You're me, and I'm you." If you believe this and the other origami notes that follow--which middle schooler Meade Macon absolutely, positively does NOT--the concept of parallel dimensions is true, and there is a convention full of alternate versions of Meade waiting for his RSVP. It's got to be a joke. Except . . . the octopus is an origami fold Meade thought he invented. And the note writer has a lot of intel on him that nobody else should know. I mean, he's told his best friend Twig a lot about himself, but he's definitely kept mum about that time he sleepwalk-peed into his Lego container when he was six. Could Me Con be a real thing? And should he go?

      Me vs. the Multiverse: Pleased to Meet Me
    • 3,9(24958)Ohodnotit

      In the powerful, stunning dramatic work that won August Wilson his first Pulitzer Prize, Troy Maxson has gone through life in a country where to be proud and black was to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s. It's a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less.-Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less. This is a modern classic, a book that deals with the impossibly difficult themes of race in America, set during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s.

      Fences
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      • 238 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení
      3,9(3312)Ohodnotit

      Může Ellina láska vzbudit mámu z kómatu? Ella se cítí bolestně osamělá. Její nejlepší kamarádka si našla jinou nejlepší kamarádku. Její nevlastní táta je unavený a nevrlý. A jejich nové miminko v jednom kuse řve. Nejhorší je ale to, že její máma leží v nemocnici v kómatu. Nemůže s Ellou mluvit, nemůže ji pohladit, nemůže ji obejmout. Školní projekt, který ve škole začali, vypadá zezačátku docela nudně, ale čím víc se toho Ella dozvídá o velrybách, tím víc ji okouzlují. Velryby dokážou zpívat celé hodiny - posílají si navzájem pod vodou své písně lásky. Může se velrybí píseň dostat až k mámě do jejího tak vzdáleného a mlčenlivého světa? Pro čtenáře od 10 let.

      Nejdelší velrybí píseň
    • Failed starfighter pilot Ash Yang has landed the most important job in the universe - travelling the galaxies to steal and return mysterious artefacts for a secret facility known as the Library. Under Ash's control they have the power to stop wars - or start them. But when her home planet is threatened, will her new powers be enough to save it?

      The Infinity Files