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In a bleak, dystopian future surveillance state, a band of teens rises from society's lowest classes to incite an eerily familiar revolution. "I was born here, in this forgotten hole a mile un'er t'Empire streets. They call it t'Sewers. T'is the place where Boss Dog Magistrate dumps his trash. Us..." Huddled under a narrow slash of light in a dank and debris-strewn alley of Regent Street, seventeen-year-old Donovan Washington Rush quickly scribbled the words across the cracked, yellowed pages of an old hand-bound journal. Barely bigger than his hand, the book overflowed with a lifetime of maps, all surrounded by musings on freedom, tyranny, and rights. It was all that was left of Donovan's father, Dr. Princeton Rush, a man long since thought dead by the Empire's hand. Here in the relative anonymity of the underground maze he called home, Donovan knew he was being watched--not just by the hidden electronic eyes of the Empire, but by the people of the Sewers themselves, compelled to complicity by the Empire's constant messages of fear and reprisal. The Empire had its eyes everywhere. For Donovan, possessing such a book as Dr. Rush's journal was a "Black Flag" offense--an act of subversion punishable by public execution. Yet the Empire was where Donovan and the book were both headed. This made for two forbidden crimes under one cover. "They call us "Sewer Rats" but these Sewers once made up t'original city, t'very seat of t'Empire. T'is t'seat for sure, right un'er Boss Dog's ass. T'nite it changes. T'nite I take the first step fo' my brothers and sisters o' the sword, fo' t'Sewers whole...Freedom or death!"
Format: Paperback / softbackCONTRIBUTORS: Rob TravalinoEAN: 9781637589953COUNTRY: United StatesPAGES: WEIGHT: 191 gHEIGHT: 210 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Permuted PressDATE PUBLISHED: 2023-07-25CITY: GENRE: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Dystopian, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Alternative HistoryWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Speculative, dystopian and utopian fiction
"Revolution Empire: Book One is an immersive and quite subversive tale.... To pull the reader deep into a web of dystopian oppression and thrilling intrigue, Rob has created a strange new world that will be eerily familiar to careful readers and students of history.... By the conclusion of Book One, readers will be eager to join forces with Donovan the Sewer Rat as they learn one of life's most important lessons, 'Freedom is not given. It is taken.'"--H. Kirk Bozigian, Practitioner Faculty of Marketing, Providence College; Former Vice President of Marketing, Hasbro, Inc., "Filled with concepts and challenges so increasingly familiar in today's chaotic world, Revolution Empire presents a thought-provoking and inspiring lesson into the often brutal truth of absolute power and the preciousness of the freedom that can defeat it."--April Thome, Director, KATS; Founder of HomeLink Yakima, a leading homeschool curriculum, training, and support program, "Serious though its themes are, Revolution Empire is above all entertaining. Highly readable. It will find a big audience and so its ideas will be deservedly spread wide. Stories like Revolution Empire give us hope that the young will leave behind a better world than that which previous generations have handed them."--Geale Peter Lawrence, Author, Screenwriter, Producer
Rob Travalino is a Telly, Effie, Gemini, and Emmy Awards winner. He has been a creator, screenwriter, author, and marketing expert for twenty-plus years and has overseen, or contributed to, the development and realization of some of the world's most powerful and lasting franchises. As an independent content developer, Rob co-created and story-edited the Gemini Award-winning Alliance Atlantis TV show Dragon Booster, which aired on Toon Disney, and developed the Emmy Award-winning teen property Growing up Creepie for Mike Young Productions and Discovery TV. As a marketing executive, Rob oversaw the development of fully integrated and multi-platform content and brand initiatives for Lucasfilm, Hasbro, Warner Brothers, and many others. He also helped relaunch both the Transformers and Batman franchises for kids TV. A member of the Directors Guild of America, Rob continues to consult on narrative content across the media spectrum. He graduated magna cum laude from Iona College in New York, with a focus on broadcasting and journalism.
In a bleak, dystopian future surveillance state, a band of teens rises from society's lowest classes to incite an eerily familiar revolution. "I was born here, in this forgotten hole a mile un'er t'Empire streets. They call it t'Sewers. T'is the place where Boss Dog Magistrate dumps his trash. Us..." Huddled under a narrow slash of light in a dank and debris-strewn alley of Regent Street, seventeen-year-old Donovan Washington Rush quickly scribbled the words across the cracked, yellowed pages of an old hand-bound journal. Barely bigger than his hand, the book overflowed with a lifetime of maps, all surrounded by musings on freedom, tyranny, and rights. It was all that was left of Donovan's father, Dr. Princeton Rush, a man long since thought dead by the Empire's hand. Here in the relative anonymity of the underground maze he called home, Donovan knew he was being watched--not just by the hidden electronic eyes of the Empire, but by the people of the Sewers themselves, compelled to complicity by the Empire's constant messages of fear and reprisal. The Empire had its eyes everywhere. For Donovan, possessing such a book as Dr. Rush's journal was a "Black Flag" offense--an act of subversion punishable by public execution. Yet the Empire was where Donovan and the book were both headed. This made for two forbidden crimes under one cover. "They call us "Sewer Rats" but these Sewers once made up t'original city, t'very seat of t'Empire. T'is t'seat for sure, right un'er Boss Dog's ass. T'nite it changes. T'nite I take the first step fo' my brothers and sisters o' the sword, fo' t'Sewers whole...Freedom or death!"
Format: Paperback / softbackCONTRIBUTORS: Rob TravalinoEAN: 9781637589953COUNTRY: United StatesPAGES: WEIGHT: 191 gHEIGHT: 210 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Permuted PressDATE PUBLISHED: 2023-07-25CITY: GENRE: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Dystopian, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Alternative HistoryWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Speculative, dystopian and utopian fiction
Rob Travalino is a Telly, Effie, Gemini, and Emmy Awards winner. He has been a creator, screenwriter, author, and marketing expert for twenty-plus years and has overseen, or contributed to, the development and realization of some of the world's most powerful and lasting franchises. As an independent content developer, Rob co-created and story-edited the Gemini Award-winning Alliance Atlantis TV show Dragon Booster, which aired on Toon Disney, and developed the Emmy Award-winning teen property Growing up Creepie for Mike Young Productions and Discovery TV. As a marketing executive, Rob oversaw the development of fully integrated and multi-platform content and brand initiatives for Lucasfilm, Hasbro, Warner Brothers, and many others. He also helped relaunch both the Transformers and Batman franchises for kids TV. A member of the Directors Guild of America, Rob continues to consult on narrative content across the media spectrum. He graduated magna cum laude from Iona College in New York, with a focus on broadcasting and journalism.
Die verhaal van die kasarm en die Calitze kom tot 'n mooi einde
Ek kan nie ’n boek summier toemaak nadat die slotsin geskryf is nie. Ek lees álles, tot by die outeursnotas en die bronnelys (gewoonlik gooi ek darem net vlugtig ’n oog oor die bonne!). Chanette Paul maak in die nota oor Maanschijnbaai 2, die verdere verhaal van Nan en Jeannie, die stelling: “Lesers moet my asseblief vergewe dat my verbeelding altyd die oorhand oor die werklikheid kry en verdigsel voorkeur bo feite.” (p.635) Ek wil daarby aanhaak en bieg dat ’n uitstekende verhoudingsroman soos hierdie tydelik die oorhand gekry het oor my traagheid om te lees oor reïnkarnasie en die esoteriese. Die klomp Calitzse het my tyd en aandag totaal gekaap.
Die skrywer wy die laaste bladsye aan ’n verduideliking oor hoe die Maanschijnbaai-tweeluik ontstaan het. Sy beweer dat die Calitze haar “onkant” betrap het. Sy wou ’n romanse skryf maar uiteindelik was die karakters so kompleks dat dit op twee dik boeke en ’n intense familiedrama uitgeloop het.
Van die onderskeie karakters raak diep waarhede kwyt wat die moeite werd is om te onderstreep en te onthou, soos Zach wat dit gehad het oor die risiko om iemand op ’n pedestal te plaas omdat jy daardeur die persoon ’n onreg aandoen. (p.539) En Nan, wat die hele klomp Calitze moes grootkry, se wyse raad: “Met eerlikheid, Jeannie, kom ’n mens baie verder as met opoffering. Met eerlikheid gee jy almal ’n regverdige kans. Opoffering beteken bloot jy doen iets teen jou sin omdat jy glo dit sal ander baat.” (p.613)
Maak seker dat jy genoeg tyd op hande het, dan lees jy hierdie tweeluik in volgorde, Jo & Sue, gevolg deur Nan & Jeannie. Dit is hersien en met splinternuwe, pragtige baadjies uitgegee deur Lapa Uitgewers.
A very practical approach and the tools to go along with it
Very useful. The book provides a structure and an approach that I would have been useful earlier in my investing. I like the five gates and in particular the attention to quality and management's capital allocation decisions. I will also apply the idea of the stewardship log to get more explicit on my investment theses. This is kind of the practical aspect of what I learned from the Psychology of Money.
the title ties in really nicley the more towards the end but the title for the book suits it real...
the book is very slow burn and takes a while for like captivating parts of the book .but the middle to the end the pace of the book is really nice the beginning is just repetitive and and trust the processes
Skuld en vergifnis word nie versuiker in hierdie jeugverhaal nie
Twee halwes maak ’n hele is die wenner van ’n jeugboekprys. Ek moes myself gedurig herinner wat die teikenmark nou eintlik is, want die sake wat aangeraak word, is geensins beperk tot jeugdige lesers nie. Die sterk newe-karakters dra daartoe by die selfs baie ouer lesers goed aanklank kan vind by die storielyn wat ontvou.
“Hulle sê as jy iemand vergewe, lig jy ’n vrag van daardie persoon se skouers af. Maar miskien is sommige dinge net te swaar om van iemand anders se skouers te lig?” (p.178) Baie aandag word gegee aan skuld en vergifnis, maar geen suikeromhulde kitsoplossings word aangebied nie. Dit sou die storie beslis vervlak het.
Na die aardskuddende ontdekking wat Lira gemaak het, gaan sy vir drie maande na ’n Griekse eiland en maak sy kennis met haar ander helfte, ’n halfsuster wat presies die teenoorgestelde is van haar eie ingetoë, overthinking self. Ek het daarvan gehou dat hulle, die verskille ten spyt, nie in heftige konflik was nie. Eerder besig om algaande te ontdek dat hulle by mekaar kan aanpas en albei sterker daardeur kan kom.
Marita van der Vyver is ’n waardige wenner van die Tafelberg Jeugboekprys en hierdie boek hoort beslis in van der Vyver versamelings. Dit is uitgegee deur Tafelberg, ’n druknaam van Jonathan Ball Uitgewers.
