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Wheatley appears in an official plug-in created by Valve for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim; Fall of the Space Core, Vol 1. Wheatley appears floating around the Skills Menu, the backdrop of which is a series of constellations in potato. Wheatley appears in Valve's multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2 as an item for the Spy class called "The Ap-Sap ...
The Tree of Life is an adventure scenario for elf player characters who seek a cure for the ailment which is killing their Tree of Life. [1] The Feadiel clan's Tree of Life is dying. The best warriors in the clan are recruited to cure the tree; if it dies, all the elves will perish as well.
Code Lyoko: Quest for Infinity is a 2007 video game for the Wii console based on the animated television series Code Lyoko. It is the second game based on the French animated television series Code Lyoko. PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable ports of the game were released in 2008.
Black August is an adventure novel by the British writer Dennis Wheatley. First published in 1934, it is set in about 1960, when an economic and political crisis causes a collapse of civilization. [1] [2] It was the first (in order of publication) of Dennis Wheatley's novels to feature the character Gregory Sallust.
The story, told in first-person narration, follows the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American poet. The story recounts her capture by black slavers in Africa and the horrors of the Middle Passage as experienced by a woman of intelligence and artistic ability when society assumed Africans were not endowed with either.
The Quest for Power is dedicated to Hubert Cecil Booth, inventor of the vacuum cleaner.The dedication reads: "In friendship's name to Hubert Cecil Booth, F.C.G.I., M. Inst. C.E. who by the invention and subsequent development of the vacuum cleaner has created a new industry, lightened the burden of human toil, and increased the health and happiness of innumberable homes".
First edition (publ. Hutchinson) The Devil Rides Out is a 1934 horror novel by Dennis Wheatley, telling a disturbing story of black magic and the occult. [1] The four main characters, the Duke de Richleau, Rex van Ryn, Simon Aron and Richard Eaton, appear in a series of novels by Wheatley.
The Queen's Gambit is a 1983 American novel by Walter Tevis, exploring the life of fictional female chess prodigy Beth Harmon. A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism, chess, drug addiction and alcoholism. The book was adapted for the 2020 Netflix miniseries of the same name.