Books with title A Dangerous Game

This eagerly awaited addition to Joan Aiken's award-winning Wolves series takes us on Dido's most imaginative adventure yet!Dido Twite has been sailing the high seas, chasing after Lord Herodsfoot, who is scouring the globe for new and interesting games. Now he's needed back in London, in the hope that his games will help King James, who is lying ill and wretched with a mysterious disease no doctor can cure. Dido's search has taken her to Aratu, a mysterious spice island where foreigners seldom venture--maybe because of the deadly pearl snakes and sting monkeys there.When Dido lands at Aratu, she realizes that there is something even more dangerous than poisonous snakes on the island. She soon makes friends among the Forest People and learns of a plot to overthrow the island's king, who lives--deaf and sick--at his palace on the Cliffs of Death. Will Dido and her friends be able to reach him in time?

Their fate is in the cards. Talon has betrayed his people. Now he must atone for his broken oaths and marry a woman he doesn’t love, or face banishment forever. Ambry is the last of a lost race that possesses all traits of magic. Desperate for details about her true heritage, she turns to the cards presented to her by the Seer, Jomeini Straylark. They offer little in the way of answers, until Ambry discovers they aren’t just cards that divine her future. They’re part of a game of destiny, a long lost access point in gaining command over an angelic army, one powerful enough to wipe out an entire race. If Ambry and Talon want any hope of stopping the Arcaians, of freeing their people trapped in gemstone and releasing their magic, they must play their hand in the game. Hearts must break. Blood must spill. And if the game isn’t played right, they could lose everything they hold dear. Emotions clash, worlds collide, and even the best intentions go wrong in this heart-pumping final installment in USA Today bestselling author Cortney Pearson’s Stolen Tears series.

Short and sweet, Richard Connell's masterpiece reads as well as it did when it was written 86 years ago. A model in lean prose that sticks to the story without unnecessary embellishment, "The Most Dangerous Game" manages to expose weighty issues of war, ecology, and especially human nature that remain relevant today. Yet there is no preaching here - simply a well-told tale that will be enjoyed by grade school students as easily as adults. And if the brevity leaves you wanting, this little gem set the foundation for decades of authors and screenwriters who've picked up on the basic man-hunter theme. At half the price of a movie, "The Most Dangerous Game" is worth a detour back to one of the key building blocks of modern pop fiction.

Short and sweet, Richard Connell's masterpiece reads as well as it did when it was written 86 years ago. A model in lean prose that sticks to the story without unnecessary embellishment, "The Most Dangerous Game" manages to expose weighty issues of war, ecology, and especially human nature that remain relevant today. Yet there is no preaching here - simply a well-told tale that will be enjoyed by grade school students as easily as adults. And if the brevity leaves you wanting, this little gem set the foundation for decades of authors and screenwriters who've picked up on the basic man-hunter theme. At half the price of a movie, "The Most Dangerous Game" is worth a detour back to one of the key building blocks of modern pop fiction.

The Battle Continues!This is a struggle that has been waged since the beginning of time. Now it is your turn to defend the world against evil molecules and elements. The third book in the Adventures of the Elements book series forces Catherine and her brothers and sisters to confront their greatest fears.When does a game become a dangerous battle for life? When the forces of the element world collide in a struggle for control, games are no longer safe. An ordinary football scrimmage forces two brothers into a nightmarish flight for survival. A simple pool party leaves three sisters and their friends swimming for their lives. In a desperate attempt to save humanity, the five brothers and sisters join the powers of the Rings of Enlightenment with the forces of the element guardians to destroy the cunning, villainous Ozzie Ozone and Clifton Chlorine. Yet, this monstrous molecule and element prove to be deadly, continuously using the secrets of the chemical realm to strike at the five siblings and element guardians.Injured and confused, the human guardians seek refuge in a hospital only to stumble onto a murder and an evil doctor’s lethal scheme. Rapidly, their refuge disintegrates into a hospital of horrors. Only the bravest and most cunning human guardians dare venture into the terrifying evils lurking within Dangerous Games. This is education through entertainment. Knowledge is power.

'Larry Writer has delivered a gem in Dangerous Games' - Roland Perry, author of Bill the Bastard'Writer has faithfully recreated the 1936 Olympics - the most controversial in history... Hitler, the host, represented the darkest evil...those Australians, the purest innocence.' - Harry Gordon, author of Australia and the Olympic GamesThis is a tale of innocents abroad. Thirty-three athletes left Australia in May 1936 to compete in the Hitler Olympics in Berlin. Believing sporting competition was the best antidote to tyranny, they put their qualms on hold. Anything to be part of the greatest show on earth.Dangerous Games drops us into a front row seat at the 100,000-capacity Olympic stadium to witness some of the finest sporting performances of all time - most famously the African American runner Jesse Owens, who eclipsed the best athletes the Nazis could pit against him in every event he entered. The Australians, with their antiquated training regimes and amateur ethos, valiantly confronted the intensely focused athletes of Germany, the United States and Japan. Behind the scenes was cut-throat wheeling and dealing, defiance of Hitler, and warm friendships among athletes.What they did and saw in Berlin that hot, rainy summer influenced all that came after until their dying days.

When I was in high school I and a few friends did séances.I was the one doing the talking and sometimes they replied.I have always been fascinated by paranormal activities and I used to take a lot of notes on what had just happened.I recently found my notes after over fifteen years and I found out some of those experiences were astonishing: when I was young I felt involved and I didn't really think too much about what was going on, but after so many years and knowing what happened next, it still gives me the chillsFrom those notes this short novel was born...