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"Having escaped the nefarious cluthces of the insidious trickster Castiwyr, the Rat Queens return to Palisade with piles of gold - and they are in the mood to party. But Palisade has a new resident: a strange wizard that wishes to end the suffering of others. Forever." -- Page 4 of cover.
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Xena is a smart, tough, and fearless fighter who travels the dangerous roads of ancient Greece, defending the innocent from the forces of darkness and seeking redemption for her cruel misdeeds of the past. Along for the adventures is her devoted friend Gabrielle, a compassionate girl who hopes to be a warrior one day.
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"A vengeful presence from the past forces the Rat Queens to face their own demons in order to save everything they've ever loved! Can the Queens hold their own legacy together when faced with their greatest challenge yet? A whole new era for the RAT QUEENS begins here, chronicled by a brand new creative team!" --
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"The further adventures of the booze guzzling, death dealing battle maidens-for-hire in the business of killing all the gods' creatures for profit. Hannah the Rockabilly Elven Mage, Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter, Dee the Atheist Human Cleric, Betty the Hippy Smidgen Thief and Braga the Orc Princess."--Provided by publisher.
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"In the whirling noise of our advancing technological age, we are seemingly never alone, never out-of-touch with the barrage of electronic data and information. Felicity Aston, physicist and meteorologist, took two months off from all human contact as she became the first woman -- and only the third person in history - to ski across the entire continent of Antarctica alone. She did it, too, with the simple apparatus of cross-country, without the aids...
30) Polar explorer
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At fourteen-year-old, Hameister had a dream: to complete the Polar Hat Trick: expeditions to the North Pole, across the Greenland ice sheet, and to the North Pole. At sixteen she became the youngest person in history to complete it. She endured extremes of cold and blizzards; treacherous terrain where one wrong step could be fatal; struggled through sastrugi, ice rubble and emotional lows to achieve an extraordinary goal. And along the way, she made...
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While Dora and Boots are looking up at the stars, they see a dragon, a castle, and some beautiful crystal constellations. When Boots notices that Dora's crystal looks like the one in the sky, the crystal constellations, Dora's necklace, and even her storybook begin to glow. The storybook's pages turn, magically stopping on the Crystal Kingdom story. What will happen next?
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"Stel Cain is on a mission to rise from the depths of the sea, where humanity has fled to save itself from the ravages of a dying sun, and be the first human in millennia to walk the scorched surface of the earth. There, she believes, a deep-space probe holds the coordinates to an inhabitable world and promises to restore hope to all of humanity. The the rumor of the probe is spreading, and has reached the ears of one of the feared Ministers of Thought...