Books with title The Impossible Race

Who is the true child of the prophecy?The Shadow Lord has the Philosopher's Stone, and therefore an army of invincible penumbra. He also possesses the fragments of Excalibur, the legendary sword prophesied to be the instrument of either his own destruction, or that of the Child of the Prophecy. The sword, he knows, requires blood to be reforged... and he knows exactly whose blood he wants.Meanwhile, the Watchers are desperate to steal back the fragments of Excalibur and find out how to reforge them before the Shadow Lord does. Isdemus places Peter and Lily in Carlion's sister cities for safe-keeping until the war begins. But Peter and Lily have an idea that might enable the Watchers to steal back the fragments, in spite of the Shadow Lord's invincible army. Their plan requires them to travel halfway across the world, to an island largely believed to exist only in Greek mythology. Along the way, however, the Shadow Lord uses a pawn to convince Peter and Lily that they are powerless. Without their gifts of the Ancient Tongue, will either one of them stand a chance?In this gripping conclusion of the Piercing the Veil trilogy, the Watchers and the Shadow Lord both amass their ranks, the battle begins, and the true identity of the Child of the Prophecy is revealed--to the shock of all.

The Shadow Lord has the Philosopher's Stone, and therefore an army of invincible penumbra. He also possesses the fragments of Excalibur, the legendary sword prophesied to be the instrument of either his own destruction, or that of the Child of the Prophecy. The sword, he knows, requires blood to be reforged... and he knows exactly whose blood he wants. Meanwhile, the Watchers are desperate to steal back the fragments of Excalibur and find out how to reforge them before the Shadow Lord does. Isdemus places Peter and Lily in Carlion's sister cities for safe-keeping until the war begins. But Peter and Lily have an idea that might enable the Watchers to steal back the fragments, in spite of the Shadow Lord's invincible army. Their plan requires them to travel halfway across the world, to an island largely believed to exist only in Greek mythology. Along the way, however, the Shadow Lord uses a pawn to convince Peter and Lily that they are powerless. Without their gifts of the Ancient Tongue, will either one of them stand a chance? In this gripping conclusion of the Piercing the Veil trilogy, the Watchers and the Shadow Lord both amass their ranks, the battle begins, and the true identity of the Child of the Prophecy is revealed-to the shock of all.

Aleck Morganson just wants to live an ordinary life: helping out on her family's farm, attending high school, and making friends. The only problem is that she's a cyborg forged as the ultimate weapon against a savage invading race bent on the destruction of humanity. In her debut novel, Joy Yakovlev tells the galaxy-spanning story of a girl with immense physical power whose biggest dream is to just be like everyone else. A warrior from the age of eight, most of Aleck's life has consisted of one horror piled upon the next. But during a rare lull in the fighting, she is given leave to live with her aunt and uncle. Desperately attempting to overcome her mental scars, she attends high school, and there she forms a circle of friends with three other students: tech-genius Ben, the observant Odette, and Jareth, disgraced high prince of the planet Rillia. Though close to them all, her bond with Jareth is much deeper, and the two discover that they have a unique telepathic connection that gives them great power when they need it. But the war still rages, and Aleck must travel to the stars to fight once again. This time, however, she has the help of her friends, and her developing love for Jareth, to help her through the horrors she must face. In the end, she will need every bit of their strengths and talents to defeat the powerful forces she faces and return to the common realities of the small-town world that she truly loves.

Excerpt from The Impossible BoyMr. Jones stopped licking his front paws, and raised his head, the tip of his nose twitching at tentively. For several moments he looked at Pedro with an unwavering stare, and then, as though sud denly remembering what he had been about, re sumed the lavatorial process. It might be men tioned in passing that Mr. Jones was a small brown bear, fat, young, and intelligent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

When Hector Coleman and his mates genetically mutate overnight, their lives change in impossible ways ... A comic-book inspired adventure for fans of Stephen King and Charlie Higson.Hector Coleman. Just your average angst-ridden teenager, living a normal rubbish life in a normal rubbish town with, let's face it, a rubbish name. But then all the teens in Hector's small town develop weird mutations, and not in a superhero-type way. Someone gets transparent skin, someone else starts breathing fire ... and that doesn't end well. What the hell is going on? Hector and his friends need to find out, before it's too late.It's a bit like Stranger Things, only stranger. Everything has changed. Apart from Hector's name. And his girl trouble. And his embarrassingly low number of Twitter followers. All those things, unfortunately, stay the same. For now ...A warm, funny novel about friendship, family, and being different - oh, plus aliens, mutants and some serious scares ... 'This is one of the weirdest books I have read - I loved it! If you ever imagined that people who get special gifts always turn out to be super-heroes, think again ... a sort of cross between super-hero story, sci-fi, detective story, love story ... More like this, please.' Melvin Burgess

Let's go inside Toby Trumperton's Hospital for Sick and Injured Toys. Rusty, the three-legged tiger, is snoring his head off (as usual.) Is he having that dream again, the one where the toys get so fed up with waiting for the doctor to repair them that they decide to repair themselves, escape from the hospital and all head off home to their Happy Ever Afters? But when something distressing happens, it soon becomes evident that the only way this can be fixed is for the toys to try and make this dream become reality. Can they really make The Impossible Dream come true?

Whaling in the Arctic waters off Alaska's coast was as dangerous as it was lucrative in 1897. In that particular year, winter came early, bringing with it storms and ice packs that caught eight American whale ships and about three hundred sailors off guard. The ships were imprisoned in ice with no hope of escape. With limited provisions on board the ships that hadn't been crushed by the ice, there was little hope that these men could survive until warmer temperatures arrived at least ten months later.Martin Sandler tells the incredible true adventure story of three men who were ordered by President McKinley to carry out an overland rescue that covered 1,500 miles of treacherous Alaskan terrain in the dead of winter. Their mission was to drive two herds of reindeer the distance to feed the starving men. With their own survival in the balance, these men battled raging storms, killing cold, injured sled dogs, and their own will to continue to bring relief to the stranded whale men. Entries from the journals of two of the rescuers and photographs taken by the third key member of the unlikely expedition dramatically document every mile of their heroic, unprecedented journey.

Whaling in the Arctic waters off Alaska's coast was as dangerous as it was lucrative in 1897. In that particular year, winter came early, bringing with it storms and ice packs that caught eight American whale ships and about three hundred sailors off guard. The ships were imprisoned in ice with no hope of escape. With limited provisions on board the ships that hadn't been crushed by the ice, there was little hope that these men could survive until warmer temperatures arrived at least ten months later.Martin Sandler tells the incredible true adventure story of three men who were ordered by President McKinley to carry out an overland rescue that covered 1,500 miles of treacherous Alaskan terrain in the dead of winter. Their mission was to drive two herds of reindeer the distance to feed the starving men. With their own survival in the balance, these men battled raging storms, killing cold, injured sled dogs, and their own will to continue to bring relief to the stranded whale men. Entries from the journals of two of the rescuers and photographs taken by the third key member of the unlikely expedition dramatically document every mile of their heroic, unprecedented journey.

Let's go inside Toby Trumperton's Hospital for Sick and Injured Toys. Rusty, the three-legged tiger, is snoring his head off (as usual.) Is he having that dream again, the one where the toys get so fed up with waiting for the doctor to repair them that they decide to repair themselves, escape from the hospital and all head off home to their Happy Ever Afters?But when something distressing happens, it soon becomes evident that the only way this can be fixed is for the toys to try and make this dream become reality.Can they really make The Impossible Dream come true?

Excerpt from Babs the ImpossibleHe had in his early youth travelled much and seen much of mankind, and then, because he wanted to com prehend, he came home. People go to the cities to see life but when they want to know life they return to the quiet fields. Human nature is the same everywhere, but it is in single specimens, and not in the restless mass, stripped of all individuality and moulded by friction into conventional forms, that the student still finds traits which are worth his research.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.