The Deviant Underground

Download or read book The Deviant Underground written by Elisabeth Roseland and published by Magnificent Mile Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even with the ability to stop time, you still can run out of it. Kathryn should be institutionalized or incarcerated. That’s what happens to deviants—people born with unusual abilities. And if the government knew she can teleport and stop time, she can say good bye to her freedom. Not that her life is all that great anyway. Her inability to control her gifts forces her to keep everyone at a distance. Few friends. No meaningful romantic relationships. Until Susan introduces her to Charge, that is. When the 6’4” guy with the caramel-colored skin and million-watt smile shows up at her door, she lets her guard down. What she discovers is that her best friend and her new lover have gifts of their own, and there’s an entire underground network of undetected deviants living freely in society. Kathryn’s brought into the fold with open arms, and she’s finally found something she’s never had—a family. But now, people are disappearing. Some come back weeks later with strange scars, sutured wounds, and missing limbs, with no memory of what happened. Some don’t come back at all. When Charge becomes the next victim, Kathryn is willing to teleport to the edge of the world to find him, but confronting the mastermind behind the kidnappings puts her life in jeopardy. And when the rescue attempt goes horribly wrong, she wonders if dying might have been a better idea. Warning: This book contains teleportation, mind control, and sparks that fly in sexy--and possibly deadly--ways.

Download or read book The Deviant Apparition written by SK Webb and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the strange woman, and what is it about her that both attracts and worries James? Suddenly in over his head, James is horrified to discover the woman seems to be, quite literally, living in the past! He goes along with her apparent madness until he realises that a spate of other, seemingly impossible, happenings are now occurring around the world, practically each minute. Swept up in her deeds, from the tragic to the heroic, James has to battle the world media and the British security services. Meanwhile, a Cambridge physics professor goes public with his bold pronouncement of what we can do to stop the bizarre events from happening and, in the process, communicating wisdom and advice that will forever change the way we look at ourselves, at others, and at the very universe of which we are part. Science has finally proven things that were previously considered beyond its remit. Weaving strands of real life quantum physics findings with spirituality forms the elaborate set-piece for this warm-spirited, fast-moving mystery, epic in scope and profound in spiritual significance.

Download or read book The Deviant's War written by Eric Cervini and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Winner of the 2021 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction. One of The Washington Post's Top 50 Nonfiction Books of 2020. From a young Harvard- and Cambridge-trained historian, and the Creator and Executive Producer of The Book of Queer (coming June 2022 to Discovery+), the secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C. The Pentagon had reason to believe he was a homosexual, and after a series of humiliating interviews, Kameny, like countless gay men and women before him, was promptly dismissed from his government job. Unlike many others, though, Kameny fought back. Based on firsthand accounts, recently declassified FBI records, and forty thousand personal documents, Eric Cervini's The Deviant's War unfolds over the course of the 1960s, as the Mattachine Society of Washington, the group Kameny founded, became the first organization to protest the systematic persecution of gay federal employees. It traces the forgotten ties that bound gay rights to the Black Freedom Movement, the New Left, lesbian activism, and trans resistance. Above all, it is a story of America (and Washington) at a cultural and sexual crossroads; of shocking, byzantine public battles with Congress; of FBI informants; murder; betrayal; sex; love; and ultimately victory.

Download or read book The Deviant Future Collection #1 written by Eve Langlais and published by Eve Langlais. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a Deviant Future, the world has been reshaped. Humanity has been changed. Yet despite it all, one thing does survive—love. Three previously published novels that take place in a post-apocalypse future, where civilization has had to adapt to survive, and where mutations have given some magical powers. A dystopian society ruled by an elite class who are about to experience a shift in power. Toxic Dust: Laura knows nothing of the world outside the domes other than it is deadly. Everything she knows is upended when the marauder who kidnaps not only shows her how to survive, he makes her want a forbidden thing called love. Wasteland Treasure: New Earth isn’t a kind or gentle place, so Gunner isn’t entirely surprised when a freak windstorm leaves him blinded in a strange place. The problem is he’s not alone. Twisted Metal Heart: Riella has a special skill when it comes to working with metal and Titan knows she mustn’t fall in the wrong hands. Especially since she might hold the key to bringing down a corrupt Queen. genre: action and adventure, mad max romance, apocalyptic romance, post apocalypse, paranormal dystopian romance, end of the world, futuristic romance, paranormal romance, psychic romance, futuristic fantasy, magic and sorcery

Download or read book Academy written by Mick Rooney and published by Mick Rooney. This book was released on 2008 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary journey into fiction, surrealism, and some of the greatest artist and innovators of the past. Leonardo Buonarroti works as a clerk for the region's Academy. The Academy is an all-controlling, totalitarian government ruling in every aspect of a citizen's life. Set against a snow-covered, post-war, apocalyptic landscape, this Orwellian novel sets an austere atmosphere of unease throughout, merging surrealism and historical documentary. It weaves a complex and fragmented journey, from the Great Siberian Explosion of 1908, to the lives of artists and innventors, including, da Vinci, Von Zeppelin and the Russian explorer, Kulik. On his journey from the Academy to the Underground, Leonardo discovers the lies and truths in his own life.

Download or read book The Deviant's Advantage written by Ryan Mathews and published by Crown Business. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t consider yourself deviant? Well, that just may be a career breaker. Odds are the idea or product that will transform your business or industry tomorrow is out there right now, hiding in the shadows of the Fringe, raw, messy, untamed, and just waiting to be exploited. Trapping, taming, and marketing it is the key to burying your competition and staying ahead of your market. Deviance is nothing more than a marked separation from the norm and is the source of innovation, the kind of breakthrough thinking that creates new markets and tumbles traditional ones. Positive deviation is an inexhaustible font of new ideas, products, and services. It’s the source of all creative thinking and dynamic new market development and ultimately the basis of all incremental profit. The Deviant’s Advantage describes how deviance proceeds along a traceable trajectory from the Fringe, where it originates but has zero commercial potential; to the Edge, where word of mouth creates a limited audience; to the Realm of the Cool, where the buzz and market momentum really start to build; to the Next Big Thing, where demand is honed and intensifies; finally landing at Social Convention, the heart of the mass market. Ryan Mathews and Watts Wacker, two of America’s most respected futurists, trace the “Path of the Devox” (the voice, spirit, or incarnation of deviant ideas, products, and individuals), using it as a way to explain how and why: * Christian fundamentalism morphed from college Bible studies to Republican party king-making * Reebok cares more about what’s on the feet of kids in Detroit and Philadelphia than what the so-hip-it-hurts set is wearing in New York or on Rodeo Drive * Napster exploded from an idea germinating inside a sixteen-year-old to a movement with 60 million subscribers that very nearly destroyed the music industry * Hugh Hefner went from America’s most public pornographer to a cultural icon with decidedly Puritan sensibilities Mathews and Wacker also look at what happens to formerly deviant products and ideas after they are replaced by the next wave from the Fringe—how they morph into Cliché (where their commercial potential may actually increase), become Icons or even Archetypes, or fade into Oblivion, and how you can profitably manage even a fading concept. Looking for the next big idea for your business? Then it’s past time to quit staring at the Social Convention for inspiration and start scouring the Fringes of society. Tomorrow’s breakthrough concept is lurking out there right now, in the mind of a deviant individual. Your choice is simple: find it and exploit it, or be buried by those who do. From the Hardcover edition.

Download or read book Into the Black written by Bastion Press and published by Bastion Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-10-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasirollespil.