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Building Harlequin's Moon
by Larry Niven Brenda CooperAn inter-generational starship goes off course and must find a way to replenish their anti-matter if they are ever going to get to their destination. Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper deliver a fast-paced story about the virtual slave labor of children that is used to create the anti-matter factory. Could it be that, once the work is done, the children will be abandoned?
Building Harlequin's Moon
by Larry Niven Brenda CooperThe first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology, and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn's crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir, in hopes of creating a utopian society that would limit intelligent technology. But by some miscalculation they have landed in another solar system and must shape the gas giant planet Harlequin's moon, Selene, into a new, temporary home. Their only hope of ever reaching Ymir is to rebuild their store of antimatter by terraforming the moon. Gabriel, the head terraformer, must lead this nearly impossible task, with all the wrong materials: the wrong ships and tools, and too few resources. His primary tools are the uneducated and nearly-illiterate children of the original colonists, born and bred to build Harlequin's moon into an antimatter factory. Rachel Vanowen is one of these children. Basically a slave girl, she must do whatever the terraforming Council tells her. She knows that Council monitors her actions from a circling vessel above Selene's atmosphere, and is responsible for everything Rachel and her people know, as well as all the skills, food, and knowledge they have ever received. With no concept of the future and a life defined with duty, how will the children of Selene ever survive once the Council is through terraforming and have abandoned Selene for its ultimate goal of Ymir?At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Building Her Amish Dream: An Uplifting Inspirational Romance
by Jo Ann BrownThey can&’t change the past… but they can choose their future Opening a new farm shop on Prince Edward Island with her little sister is Mattie Albrecht&’s chance at a fresh start. But avoiding her past becomes impossible when Benjamin Kuhns—her old secret crush—offers to help with repairs. As they work together to renovate the shop, the new beginning they&’re searching for could be right in front of them… From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.Amish of Prince Edward Island Book 1: Building Her Amish Dream
Building Her a Home: An Uplifting Inspirational Romance
by Lisa CarterCan one little girl&’s wish Bring two lonely hearts together? When country music singer Noah Brenden walked away from fame to raise his orphaned niece, he made a vow never to stay anywhere long enough to be recognized. So when a blast from his past, music teacher Chloe Randolph, falls into his arms while trying to rescue little Lili&’s cat, it&’s his cue to leave. But Lili longs for a permanent home, and Chloe desperately needs Noah&’s help to restore the town&’s historic theater, promising to keep his true identity safe in return. Staying put wasn&’t his plan, but could it lead to the future he never knew he was looking for?From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.
Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of Subcreation
by Mark J.P. WolfMark J.P. Wolf’s study of imaginary worlds theorizes world-building within and across media, including literature, comics, film, radio, television, board games, video games, the Internet, and more. Building Imaginary Worlds departs from prior approaches to imaginary worlds that focused mainly on narrative, medium, or genre, and instead considers imaginary worlds as dynamic entities in and of themselves. Wolf argues that imaginary worlds—which are often transnarrative, transmedial, and transauthorial in nature—are compelling objects of inquiry for Media Studies. Chapters touch on: a theoretical analysis of how world-building extends beyond storytelling, the engagement of the audience, and the way worlds are conceptualized and experienced a history of imaginary worlds that follows their development over three millennia from the fictional islands of Homer’s Odyssey to the present internarrative theory examining how narratives set in the same world can interact and relate to one another an examination of transmedial growth and adaptation, and what happens when worlds make the jump between media an analysis of the transauthorial nature of imaginary worlds, the resulting concentric circles of authorship, and related topics of canonicity, participatory worlds, and subcreation’s relationship with divine Creation Building Imaginary Worlds also provides the scholar of imaginary worlds with a glossary of terms and a detailed timeline that spans three millennia and more than 1,400 imaginary worlds, listing their names, creators, and the works in which they first appeared.
Building Mr. Darcy
by Ashlinn CravenIt is a truth universally acknowledged...that Jane Austen set the bar for romantic male leads way back in 1813. What mortal man could live up to the gruff yet golden-hearted Mr. Darcy?Now programmer Zoe Bunsen thinks she has the cure to two centuries' worth of female disillusionment: a new artificial intelligence program that looks, talks, and thinks like Darcy. No way will she let the chauvinistic atmosphere at her company nor her stuffy colleague, Max, get in the way of her wildest dream--creating the perfect man. Even if he isn't quite human...Max Taggart, project manager extraordinaire, has crossed a continent to secure this high-profile position. His frustrating teammate Zoe may not know it, but everyone's jobs depend on not only the duo meeting the nearly impossible deadline but the new AI being a huge success. Mr. Darcy needs to sell, even if that means selling out a few literary details.When the AI starts using its scary degree of emotional intelligence to reveal their individual secrets, Zoe and Max must rethink everything, and a surprising connection begins to develop. Will these two unlikely cohorts cling to their prejudices or toss pride aside and admit love is stronger than a fantasy?Sensuality Level: Behind Closed Doors
Building Mr. Darcy
by Ashlinn CravenIt is a truth universally acknowledged...that Jane Austen set the bar for romantic male leads way back in 1813. What mortal man could live up to the gruff yet golden-hearted Mr. Darcy?Now programmer Zoe Bunsen thinks she has the cure to two centuries' worth of female disillusionment: a new artificial intelligence program that looks, talks, and thinks like Darcy. No way will she let the chauvinistic atmosphere at her company nor her stuffy colleague, Max, get in the way of her wildest dream--creating the perfect man. Even if he isn't quite human...Max Taggart, project manager extraordinaire, has crossed a continent to secure this high-profile position. His frustrating teammate Zoe may not know it, but everyone's jobs depend on not only the duo meeting the nearly impossible deadline but the new AI being a huge success. Mr. Darcy needs to sell, even if that means selling out a few literary details.When the AI starts using its scary degree of emotional intelligence to reveal their individual secrets, Zoe and Max must rethink everything, and a surprising connection begins to develop. Will these two unlikely cohorts cling to their prejudices or toss pride aside and admit love is stronger than a fantasy?Sensuality Level: Behind Closed Doors
Building Mr. Darcy
by Ashlinn CravenIt is a truth universally acknowledged . . . that Jane Austen set the bar for romantic male leads way back in 1813. What mortal man could live up to the gruff yet golden-hearted Mr. Darcy?Now programmer Zoe Bunsen thinks she has the cure to two centuries' worth of female disillusionment: a new artificial intelligence program that looks, talks, and thinks like Darcy. No way will she let the chauvinistic atmosphere at her company nor her stuffy colleague, Max, get in the way of her wildest dream - creating the perfect man. Even if he isn't quite human . . .Max Taggart, project manager extraordinaire, has crossed a continent to secure this high-profile position. His frustrating teammate Zoe may not know it, but everyone's jobs depend on not only the duo meeting the nearly impossible deadline but the new AI being a huge success. Mr. Darcy needs to sell, even if that means selling out a few literary details.When the AI starts using its scary degree of emotional intelligence to reveal their individual secrets, Zoe and Max must rethink everything, and a surprising connection begins to develop. Will these two unlikely cohorts cling to their prejudices or toss pride aside and admit love is stronger than a fantasy?Sensuality Level: Behind Closed Doors
Building Root City (Fountas & Pinnell LLI Purple #Level R)
by Victoria SmithBuilding Root City by Victoria Smith illustrated by Craig Orback
Building Trust: An Amish Family Novella (Amish Family Novellas)
by Kathleen FullerA woman’s heart embarks on a forbidden love in this heartwarming Amish family novel from the USA Today–bestselling author of Behind Enemy Lines.Grace Miller and Joel King are in love. They’ve dated secretly for the past year and when he proposes marriage, Grace eagerly agrees. But when she tells her parents about the wedding, she’s shocked when her father tells her she can’t marry Joel. Can Grace get to the bottom of her father’s animosity toward Joel so they can have the happily ever after she’s always dreamed of?Praise for Kathleen Fuller and her Amish novels“Kathleen Fuller will keep you guessing with her endearing characters, compelling writing, and unexpected plot twists.” —Rachel J. Good, USA Today–bestselling author, on The Courtship Plan“Readers will wait breathlessly for the emotional fulfillment of the story.” —Booklist (starred review of A Reluctant Bride)“A beautiful story of faith, hope, and second chances.” —Amy Clipston, bestselling author of Caring for the Amish Family, on A Reluctant Bride
Building W. B. Yeats's Later Poetry: The Tower Poems
by Tomoko IwatsuboThis book explores Yeats’s later poetry through the metaphor of the poetic tower, where different kinds of ‘building’ – architectural, textual, political and symbolic – were closely interrelated. It chronologically examines Yeats’s tower poems, composed during a period of dramatic personal and national transformation, from 1915 to 1932. Within a year after the Easter Rising in Dublin, Yeats acquired a half-ruined Norman tower in County Galway, Ireland, which had enthralled him for the past two decades, and textually and architecturally constructed it into a focus of his life and work. Interweaving the account of the renovation of the actual building and the textual construction in the socio-historical contexts, the book reveals the evolution of Yeats’s multiplex tower as an organizing principle of his later poetry. Using the archive of correspondence and manuscript materials of relevant poems, including those which have thus far escaped close attention, the book offers close textual-genetic analyses and a diachronic view of Yeats’s tower poetry, which, with its foundations laid decades earlier, he built in the collections from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) to The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933). Highlighting the delicate exchange between poetry and biography as well as between the textual architecture and the actual one, identifying a turning point in the making of each tower-oriented poem and proposing some draft-dating revisions, this first book-length systematic study on the process of Yeats’s creation of the tower casts an unfamiliar light on a familiar yet underexplored landmark in modern poetry and makes his step-by-step construction work come alive.
Building Waves
by Taeko Tomioka Louise Heal KawaiIt is the early eighties, and the housing industry is booming. Previously unpopulated mountainous areas of the Japanese countryside are being leveled to accommodate new waves of people. Similarly, a new wave of feminism, particularly a change in attitudes toward marriage and child-rearing, is growing among the women of Japan. Both the physical and social landscapes are in flux. In her early forties, married, and childless by choice, Kyoko has no compunction about getting what she wants. But when she begins a relationship with a man who is as traditional and conformist as they come, the result is at times uncomfortable, at others comical, but ultimately fatal.Beautifully written by Taeko Tomioka, a renowned poet, Building Waves is often droll in tone, but always touching in its portrayal of a culture divided, and ultimately swept away, by ferocious waves of change.
Building Waves
by Taeko Tomioka Louise Heal KawaiIt is the early eighties, and the housing industry is booming. Previously unpopulated mountainous areas of the Japanese countryside are being leveled to accommodate new waves of people. Similarly, a new wave of feminism, particularly a change in attitudes toward marriage and child-rearing, is growing among the women of Japan. Both the physical and social landscapes are in flux. In her early forties, married, and childless by choice, Kyoko has no compunction about getting what she wants. But when she begins a relationship with a man who is as traditional and conformist as they come, the result is at times uncomfortable, at others comical, but ultimately fatal.Beautifully written by Taeko Tomioka, a renowned poet, Building Waves is often droll in tone, but always touching in its portrayal of a culture divided, and ultimately swept away, by ferocious waves of change.
Building a Family
by Jennifer SlatteryCreating a circle of love together…Can love for two little matchmakersunite their reluctant hearts?Worried that Noah Williams is still the reckless bull rider she remembers, Kayla Fisher is convinced he isn’t the right person to care for their orphaned niece and nephew. Now she’s back home, determined to fight for custody. But Noah is a changed man, and he intends to prove it. When Noah and Kayla start falling for each other, could raising the children together be the perfect solution?
Building a Family
by Lyn CoteLawyer Eleanor Washburn defends wayward teenagers and supervises volunteers for Habitat for Humanity without missing a beat. But she is unnerved by fascinating single dad Pete Beck-especially since his chaotic life includes a little girl wishing for a mother. Sweet Cassie has Eleanor yearning for what's been missing from her lonely existence. Soon, both dad and daughter are chipping away at Eleanor's defenses. Can she find the courage to risk losing her heart to this ready-made family?
Building a Family (A True North Hero #2)
by M. K. StelmackThe best man in the world wanted to marry herBut she couldn’t say yes…yet!Most girls dreamed of the day someone offered them a ring. Not Connie Greene. She couldn’t even open the box. She did care for Ben Carruthers—always had, always would. But she couldn’t marry him until she’d made amends for the wrongs she’d committed. Until then, she had to protect Ben from himself. And most important, from her.
Building a Future (An Amish Legacy Novel #2)
by Amy ClipstonThey both had different plans for their futures . . . until their hearts led them to each other.Michelle Lantz dreams of marrying and starting a family, and now that she&’s been dating Korey for over a year, she thought it was only a matter of time before he proposed. But lately, Korey has seemed distant and is far from the attentive boyfriend she once knew. They&’ve spent so much time together that she feels she can&’t give up on their relationship, but she begins to question her own feelings as his seem to cool.Tyler Bontrager is focused on expanding his father&’s roofing company so he can take over one day. He throws himself into his work and thinks he&’s too busy to worry about finding a wife. He and his brother Korey find themselves continually arguing: Tyler doesn&’t approve of how Korey treats Michelle and Korey thinks Tyler is out to take anything that&’s his. When Tyler happens to be around when Michelle needs a listening ear, he is startled to realize that he has feelings for Michelle, so he denies them because his relationship with his brother is too important.But when there&’s an accident and lives are at stake, true feelings come to the surface. Is it possible for Michelle and Tyler to put aside their feelings for the sake of their relationships with Korey, or will they find a new foundation on which to build their future?&“Amy Clipston once again entertains us with a story that reaches all the way to the heart.&” —Vannetta Chapman, USA TODAY bestselling authorSweet, inspirational Amish romanceFull-length novel (85,000 words)Second book in Amy Clipston&’s Amish Legacy seriesBook 1: Foundation of LoveBook 2: Building a FutureBook 3: Breaking New Ground (coming summer 2023)Book 4: The Heart&’s Shelter (coming winter 2024)Includes discussion questions for book clubs
Building a Mystery (T.Witches #2)
by H. B. Gilmour Randi ReisfeldThe book is about two identical twin witches who were separated by birth but later got together. They found that they are more powerful when they were together than apart.
Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830-1870
by Peter Uwe Hohendahl Renate Baron FrancisconoBuilding a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine the canonical status of writers and works. He examines important elements in the making of a national literature, including the political and literary public sphere, the theory and practice of literary criticism, and the emergence of academic criticism as literary history. Hohendahl considers such key aspects of the process in Germany as the rise of liberalism and nationalism, the delineation of the borders of German literature, the idea of its history, the understanding of its cultural function, and the notion of a canon of major and minor authors.
Building a Perfect Match
by Arlene JamesIn charge of a hotel renovation, Petra Chatam's got everything under control-except Dale Bowen. The too-handsome contractor has his own ideas about the project. And they don't match up with ambitious Petra's, who hopes to become hotel manager. But the more time they spend together, the more Petra realizes they both agree on what really matters: love, faith and family. And they soon learn that building a future together is more work than building a hotel! It'll take a little bit of patience-and a lot of help from three love-minded aunts.
Building a Surprise Family: A Clean Romance (Butterfly Harbor Stories #10)
by Anna J. StewartAn instant family…Is life-changing! Pregnant construction supervisor Jo Bertoletti doesn&’t need anyone&’s help…or another heartbreak. So she&’s putting handsome, kindhearted firefighter Ozzy Lakeman firmly into the friend zone. After all, she&’s just passing through Butterfly Harbor, and her life is too complicated for a summer romance. But Ozzy feels an immediate connection. Can he convince the woman of his dreams to take a chance on building a forever family with him?Butterfly Harbor StoriesBook 1: The Bad Boy of Butterfly HarborBook 2: Recipe for RedemptionBook 3: A Dad for CharlieBook 4: Always the HeroBook 5: Holiday KissesBook 6: Safe in His ArmsBook 7: The Firefighter's Thanksgiving WishBook 8: A Match Made PerfectBook 9: Bride on the RunBook 10: Building a Surprise FamilyBook 11: Worth the Risk
Building the Perfect Daddy
by Brenda HarlenRyder to the Rescue! On location for his home-improvement show, "America's Hottest Handyman" Ryder Wallace has his hands full with the station's contest winner. Lauryn Schulte is a single mom with a falling-down house, a failing business and two kids under four-exactly the kind of woman that has this playboy running for the hills...but not this time. Not when her little girl has him playing tea party, building castles and cuddling her baby brother. And Lauryn? She torments his libido in ways that should be outlawed. Ryder doesn't do relationships with strings-but Lauryn has him tied up in knots. He's got to cut and run. So why does he keep getting tangled up in the most outrageous idea of all-becoming a husband and a daddy?
Building the Wall: The Play and Commentary (Oberon Modern Plays Ser.)
by Julian E. Zelizer Douglas S. Massey Robert Schenkkan Timothy Patrick McCarthyIn the tradition of Hamilton and Angels in America, a powerful, politically charged, dystopian drama that couldn’t be more timely. Written in a “white-hot fury” on the eve of the 2016 election, the stunning new play by Pulitzer Prize– and Tony Award–winning dramatist Robert Schenkkan is creating a nationwide sensation. Bypassing the usual development path for plays, it has been signed up to open in five theaters across America in a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere, starting in Los Angeles (March) and Denver (April) and continuing in the Washington, DC, area, Tucson, and Miami, with more productions to follow, including in Santa Fe and New York City. Building the Wall lays out in a harrowing drama the consequences of Donald Trump’s anti-immigration campaign rhetoric turned into federal policy. Two years from now, that policy has resulted in the mass round-up of millions of illegal aliens, with their incarceration overflowing into private prisons and camps reminiscent of another century. The former warden for one facility is awaiting sentencing for what happened under his watch. In a riveting interview with a historian who has come seeking the truth, he gradually reveals how the unthinkable became the inevitable, and the faceless illegals under his charge became the face of tragedy. The play is accompanied by commentary from three prominent scholars: on the real purpose of the border wall, our dark nativist history of restricting immigration, and the tradition of political protest in art.
