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Being lost can sometimes be the first step toward finding your destiny. A Junior Library Guild Selection Forbidden to become a pilot by her overprotective father, Amelia Erroway yearns to command her own airship. To prove her worth, she sets off alone on her father's prized craft. But disaster strikes: A fierce storm crashes her ship in uncharted lands and Amelia, now a castaway, must use her wits to survive. With the help of Rastor and Fynley, brothers who live deep in the Juniper rainforest, Amelia is determined to repair her airship and, with her newly formed crew, fly home.
Our Catholic faith teaches that we should experience new life, abundant joy, and exuberant hope. Yet sadly, many of our parishes lack any of these. Drawing from decades of experience and service to over a hundred parishes, Deacon Keith Strohm breaks down the often complex and overwhelming task of parish renewal using a simple-to-understand framework that can help put your community on the path to vitality. Whether you’ve just begun the journey toward parish renewal or your parish is well on its way toward new life and mission, this book will provide critical insights and tools to help you on the way. “Ablaze gets to the heart of the matter in challenging parish and diocesan leadership to step up and, in spite of the cost, lead a transformation of the culture of their organizations.” —from the foreword by FR. JAMES MALLON, author of Divine Renovation: Bringing Your Parish from Maintenance to Mission
An accessible, inclusive guide aimed at helping young fans get in touch with their inner game master by offering advice and creative ways to get involved, celebrate, and interact with the tabletop RPG community! Calling all adventurers! Whether you're a level five wizard in Dungeons & Dragons or just starting out on your tabletop roleplaying journey, A Kid's Guide to Tabletop RPGs is the perfect way to explore the ins-and-outs of playing, creating, and sharing tabletop games. Written by game developer and game master Gabe Hicks, A Kid's Guide to Tabletop RPGs includes chapters on: The Basics of Tabletop RPGs The Roles of the Narrator/Game Master and Players Recommendations of Games to Play How to Write Your Own TTRPG Packed full of quizzes, sidebars full of history and recommendations, as well as interviews and advice from on how to get started, this is the ultimate guide and companion for young gamers and game designers. It's time to roll for initiative and get ready to explore the world of tabletop roleplaying games!
Understand Video Games as Works of Science Fiction and Interactive Stories Science Fiction Video Games focuses on games that are part of the science fiction genre, rather than set in magical milieux or exaggerated versions of our own world. Unlike many existing books and websites that cover some of the same material, this book emphasizes critical a
One-of-a-kind source for checklists of every single CCG printed in English, along with accurate prices formore than 75,000 cards.
Got some down time between brawls? Check out this guide, packed with brawling tips! Test our Bakugan knowledge and sharpen skills you'll use when brawling to make sure you're even better nest time you're summoned to play!
Undead Cole McGee serves the Devil by hunting down escapees from Hell, in order to win freedom to search for his beloved Rose, and now he has a chance at immediate freedom if he returns just one more escapee, the mysterious Rath.
The third volume in this series deals with Lukan themes in feminist perspectives. The fourteeen essays from an international authorship cover a range of issues, including Imperial Masculinity, Mary and Asceticism, Martha in the Kitchen and Reading Luke 15 with Arab Chistian Women. The list of contributors includes Robert Karris, Mary Rose D'Angelo, Brigitte Kahl, Turd Karlsen Seim, Barbara Reid, Teresa Hornsby, Ben Witherington III, Esther DeBoer, Veronica Koperski, Loveday Alexander, Warren Carter, Pamela Thimmes, Carol Schersten Lahurd and Maris-Luisa Rigato. The volume also includes an introduction by the editor, and a bibloigraphy.
This book is the Proceedings of the 19th Annual RoboCup International Symposium, held in Hefei, China, in July 2015. The book contains 20 papers presented at the Symposium, carefully selected from 39 submissions. Additionally the book contains 11 champion team papers and one paper from the Workshop on Benchmarking Service Robots. The papers present current research in robotics, artificial intelligence, computer vision, multiagent systems, simulation, and other areas.