A Hero Born

Author: Jin Yong
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250220610
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
The epic Chinese classic and phenomenon published in the US for the first time! Featured in iO9's 2019 Fall Preview. Set in ancient China, in a world where kung fu is magic, kingdoms vie for power and the battle to become the ultimate kung fu master unfolds, an unlikely hero is born... in the first book in the epic Legends of the Condor Heroes by the critically acclaimed master of the genre, Jin Yong. After his father—a devoted Song patriot—is murdered by the Jin empire, Guo Jing and his mother flee to the plains of Ghengis Khan and his people for refuge. For one day he must face his mortal enemy in battle in the Garden of the Drunken Immortals. Under the tutelage of Genghis Khan and The Seven Heroes of the South, Guo Jing hones his kung fu skills. Humble, loyal and perhaps not always wise, Guo Jing faces a destiny both great and terrible. However, in a land divided—and a future largely unknown—Guo Jing must navigate love and war, honor and betrayal before he can face his own fate and become the hero he’s meant to be. Legends of the Condor Heroes A Hero Born A Bond Undone A Snake Lies Waiting A Heart Divided

A Hero Born

Author: Michael A. Stackpole
Publisher: WordFire +ORM
ISBN: 1614754497
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 347

Book Description
A sweeping epic fantasy from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Dark Glory War and Star Wars novels. An apprentice swordsman, Locke has ridden the narrow trail to the City of the Sorcerers to see with his own eyes the Ward Walls that hold back the Realms of Chaos. It is Locke’s dream to become a Chaos Rider, and he seeks his destiny beyond the Wall. And it is Locke’s hope that somewhere in the Wildness, where time and change rage out of control, his lost father still survives. But more than mere survival is at stake. For on the other side of the Wall awaits a Darkness beyond all ken—a burgeoning evil that will test the steel of one young hero . . . and the entire bold and foolish race called Humanity. "Stackpole spins tales which grab you by the heart, throat, and imagination.” —Dennis L. McKiernan, author of The Dragonstone

A Hero Born

Author: Yong Jin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

A Hero Born

Author: Reuben Cullen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648547709
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
A Hero Born is a story about being the best person you can be, the way you can be it for yourself. To be your own hero.

Hero Born (Seeds of Destiny, Book 1)

Author: Andy Livingstone
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007593066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496

Book Description
It’s in the darkest hour, when all hope is lost, that heroes are born.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation

Author: Cosima Bruno
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350215325
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 542

Book Description
Offering the first systematic overview of modern and contemporary Chinese literature from a translation studies perspective, this handbook provides students, researchers and teachers with a context in which to read and appreciate the effects of linguistic and cultural transfer in Chinese literary works. Translation matters. It always has, of course, but more so when we want to reap the benefits of intercultural communication. In many universities Chinese literature in English translation is taught as if it had been written in English. As a result, students submit what they read to their own cultural expectations; they do not read in translation and do not attend to the protocols of knowing, engagements and contestations that bind literature and society to each other. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation squarely addresses this pedagogical lack. Organised in a tripartite structure around considerations of textual, social, and large-scale spatial and historical circumstances, its thirty plus essays each deal with a theme of translation studies, as emerged from the translation of one or more Chinese literary works. In doing so, it offers new tools for reading and appreciating modern and contemporary Chinese literature in the global context of its translation, offering in-depth studies about eminent Chinese authors and their literary masterpieces in translation. The first of its kind, this book is essential reading for anyone studying or researching Chinese literature in translation.

Hero Born

Author: Michael A. Stackpole
Publisher: No Series Linked
ISBN: 9781680576009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A sweeping epic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Glory War and Star Wars novels. An apprentice swordsman, Locke has ridden the narrow trail to the City of the Sorcerers to see with his own eyes the Ward Walls that hold back the Realms of Chaos. It is Locke's dream to become a Chaos Rider, and he seeks his destiny beyond the Wall. And it is Locke's hope that somewhere in the Wildness, where time and change rage out of control, his lost father still survives. But more than mere survival is at stake. For on the other side of the Wall awaits a Darkness beyond all ken-a burgeoning evil that will test the steel of one young hero ... and the entire bold and foolish race called Humanity. Stackpole spins tales which grab you by the heart, throat, and imagination."-Dennis L. McKiernan, author of The Dragonstone

Her

Author: Sweh
Publisher: Joshua Sweh Velilla
ISBN: 1414113552
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 149

Book Description
HER Heaven's Earthly Romance Warning: This book will force you to question everything you have ever believed about love! The love story between Christ and his bride, the church, is the foundation upon which Scripture commands us to build our own romantic relationships. But in a world of romance based upon emotions and arbitrary standards, we have lost sight of God's desire for our love lives. Outlining the love story between God and man and examining how we reflect that love story in each other, Sweh reveals that we will never have a heavenly love story apart from the path Christ laid out for us in his Word. Providing practical application as well as thought-provoking narrative and Scriptural truth as well as personal experience, Heaven's Earthly Romance is intended to be the impetus of a total paradigm shift. You will never look at true love, sexual purity, romance, and your relationship with Christ in quite the same way ever again!

THE KALEVALA or Land of Heroes - New Improved Edition

Author: Anon E Mouse
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1907256563
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 765

Book Description
THE following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala (the Land of Heroes, the national epic of the Finns.) The Kalevala describes Finnish nature very minutely and very beautifully. Grimm says that no poem is to be compared with it in this respect. A deeper and more esoteric meaning of the Kalevala, however, points to a contest between Light and Darkness. The numerous myths of the poem are likewise full of significance and beauty, and the Kalevala should be read between the lines, in order that the full meaning of this great epic may be comprehended. The whole poem is replete with the most fascinating folk-lore about the mysteries of nature, the origin of things, the enigmas of human tears, and, true to the character of a national epic, it represents not only the poetry, but the entire wisdom and accumulated experience of a nation. One of the most notable characteristics of the Finnish mythology is the interdependence among the gods. The Finnish deities, like the ancient gods of Italy and Greece, are generally represented in pairs. They have their individual abodes and are surrounded by their respective families. The Sun and the Moon each have a consort, and sons and daughters. Only two sons of Paeivae appear in The Kalevala, one comes to aid of Wainamoinen in his efforts to destroy the mystic Fire-fish, by throwing from the heavens to the girdle of the hero, a "magic knife, silver-edged, and golden-handled;" the other son, Panu, the Fire-child, brings back to Kalevala the fire that bad been stolen by Louhi, the wicked hostess of Pohyola. 10% of the net profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.

Heroes of the Seventh Crisis

Author: David E. O'Brien
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595449794
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175

Book Description
The math is clear and simple. We have, at most, forty more years of living this self-serving lie before the combined forces of overpopulation and resource depletion expose Global Civilization for what it really is-an unsustainable mirage. We, the over-40, have timed it perfectly. The planet will run out of fresh, unpolluted water and nutrient-rich topsoil just as we are finishing our extended lives of abundance, greed, and gluttony. We have been waging a resource war against the generations behind us. And the good news is-we are winning! So far. But what if they learn the Truth? What if they find out that we have been stealing from them and deceiving them? What if Internet communication unifies them? And what if they live in a country where weapons are accessible and violence is glorified? History, too, is clear and simple. When conditions warrant, when the situation is sufficiently extreme, human beings are capable of-whatever it takes. They will not go quietly. Brace yourselves for the most deterministic generation since the Conquerors of World War II. The Heroes of the Seventh Crisis are coming. And they're pissed off.