Angelina and her cousin Henry are camping in the Big Cat Mountains with Uncle Louie. Out exploring, they get lost deep in the forest. Night is falling, a storm is brewing... and is that Big Cat behind the trees? Luckily, Angelina is brave enough to calm Henry's fears and her own.
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How It Works: Book of Amazing Technology – Volume 4
The future is now with the new volume of How It Works Book of Amazing Technology. Discover the gadgets that will transform your daily life, learn more about the technology behind our most popular forms of entertainment and lifestyle products, find out about the incredible engineering behind our structures and machinery, and dissect the biotech that keeps us alive and enhances our own biological functions. Featuring: Gadgets and Future Tech – When will we see domestic robots? What is inside an Apple Watch? How come a GoPro works in the water? Find out the answers to these questions and many more here.
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building
An insider’s tour through the construction of invented languages from the bestselling author and creator of languages for the HBO series Game of Thrones and the Syfy series Defiance
Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction: Covert Progressions Behind Overt Plots
In many fictional narratives, the progression of the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs, at a hidden and deeper level, throughout the text. In this volume, Dan Shen systematically investigates how stylistic analysis is indispensable for uncovering this covert progression through rhetorical narrative criticism. The book brings to light the covert progressions in works by the American writers Edgar Allan Poe, Stephan Crane and Kate Chopin and British writer Katherine Mansfield.
