6/28/2023 0 Comments Devolution the booktale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.” - Kirkus Reviews(starred review) Part survival narrative, part bloody horror tale, part scientific journey into the boundaries between truth and fiction, this is a Bigfoot story as only Max Brooks could chronicle it-and like none you’ve ever read before. We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us-and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity. Kate’s is a tale of unexpected strength and resilience, of humanity’s defiance in the face of a terrible predator’s gaze, and, inevitably, of savagery and death.īecause if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it. The journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing-and too earth-shattering in its implications-to be forgotten. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of World War Z is back with “the Bigfoot thriller you didn’t know you needed in your life, and one of the greatest horror novels I’ve ever read” (Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter and Recursion).Īs the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined.
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Third, it will go over the main policies that the UBQQSG implemented, what resistance it confronted and how it struggled with issues of discipline amongst its assigned cadres. Second it will tackle the issue of the presence of Southerners in the state apparatus for transition. This paper will start by examining what kind of challenge Saigon represented for the Vietnamese revolution and how the revolutionaries prepared to face it. 2, in particular the incomplete series of the Military Administration Committee’s weekly or monthly reports, as well as recently published archival documents from the Central Office of South Vietnam (COSVN), this paper aims to shed light on the issue of “Tiếp quản”, the transition of power in Saigon after 30 April 1975 from the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) to the combined Vietnamese revolutionary forces by studying the Ủy ban Quân quản Thành phố Sài Gòn – Gia định (UBQQSG), the Military Administration Committee for the City of Saigon – Gia Dinh. Using materials from the Vietnam’s National Archives Center No. *This text will be available in the room for students to read during their free time, as well as used for a read aloud during the lesson focused on assimilating to a new country.īrothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan By: Mary Williams However, he comes up with a plan to teach everyone how to say his name correctly and feels more comfortable in his new school. When Sangoel comes to America, no one can pronounce his name correctly and he feels really sad about it. His name, Sangoel, is very important to him, because it is the name of his ancestors, and he is now he man in his family because he lost his father to the war. This book is told from the perspective of an eight-year-old boy from Sudan, leaving a refugee camp to come to America. My Name is Sangoel By: Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra Mohammed 6/27/2023 0 Comments Aliens vs. Predator by Steve PerryAnd what follows is no less then guerrilla warfare on the Aliens' planet - and Alien conquest on Earth! Plot When Wilks's team departs on their mission, a trained assassin trails them. Now the government has tapped Wilks to lead an expedition to the Aliens' home planet to bring back a live Alien.īut the competition on Earth to develop the Aliens as a new weapons system is brutal. Thirteen years later Wilks is in prison, and Billie lives in a mental institution, the nightmare memories of the massacre at Rim seared into her mind. Thrown together in the last hellish night of an Alien invasion, Billie and Wilks helped each other get out alive. Billie was a child, the only survivor of a far-flung colony outpost. Wilks is a space marine with a near-fatal flaw: he had a heart. 6/27/2023 0 Comments One last stop reviewAugust’s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there’s one big problem: Jane doesn’t just look like an old school punk rocker. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August’s day when she needed it most. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. And there’s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.īut then, there’s this gorgeous girl on the train. She can’t imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. Summaryįor cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don’t exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. Keep reading this book review for my full thoughts. I was in tears, laughter, and nodding in agreement – sometimes all in the span of a minute. Like with Red, White & Royal Blue, McQuiston truly excels at creating punchy, vulnerable, and hilarious dialogue. At this point Casey McQuiston is an auto-buy author. 6/27/2023 0 Comments Dragon rider the griffin's featherThe legendary horse has three unhatched eggs with him, but the only way they’ll ever hatch – and continue the survival of this incredible magical species – is to place them under a griffin’s feather. Both boy and dragon have finally found homes, but they must live hundreds of miles apart and can only see each other every once in a while.During one such visit, news reaches Ben, the Greenblooms, and their friends that the last Pegasus in the world has been discovered. The sequel to the #1 New York Times Bestseller!It’s now been two years since Ben and Firedrake defeated Nettlebrand and rescued the silver dragons. The middle-grade sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling classic, Dragon Rider! The paperback of Book One has been repackaged ahead of Book Two, for an exciting series relaunch. Includes a description of activities of the 33rd Virginia Infantry Regiment (Confederate) in the following battles or localities: 1st Manassas, Va. A truthful record of the battles and skirmishes, advances, retreats of the Army Of incidents as they occurred on the march, in the field, in bivouac and in battle, on the scout, in hospital and prison, replete with thrilling adventures and hair-breadth escapes. Remainder of title: Containing the daily experiences of four years' service in the ranks from a diary kept at the time. Salt Lake City, Utah : FamilySearch International, 2015 (John Overton), 1838-: Four years in the Stonewall brigade, (Marietta, Ga., Continental book co., 1951), also by Jedediah Hotchkiss (page. To view a digital version of this item click here.Įlectronic reproduction. Part 1, The Confederate States of America and border states VA 309-314Īdd to Print List Remove from Print List Notes Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade John O. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Too much book rachel vorona coteRobin Wasserman, author of GIRLS ON FIRE It's a necessary read for anyone who's ever wondered whether her 'muchness' is too much. Praise for Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women TodayĪ fascinating exploration of how literature and pop culture have constructed (and exploded) our expectations of modern womanhood, this book is as gloriously defiant as the women it profiles. This book will tell the story of how women, from then and now, have learned to draw power from their reservoirs of feeling, all that makes us 'too much'. An erstwhile Victorian scholar, she sees many parallels between that era's fixation on women's 'hysterical' behavior and our modern policing of the same in the space of her writing, you're as likely to encounter Jane Eyre and Lizzie Bennet as you are Britney Spears and Lana Del Rey. Rachel Vorona Cote braids cultural criticism, theory, and storytelling together in her exploration of how culture grinds away our bodies, souls, and sexualities, forcing us into smaller lives than we desire. Written in the tradition of Shrill, Dead Girls, Sex Object and other frank books about the female gaze, Too Much encourages women to reconsider the beauty of their excesses - emotional, physical, and spiritual. Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, Too Much explores how culture corsets women's bodies, souls, and sexualities - and how we might finally undo the strings. 6/26/2023 0 Comments May bird among the starsAnd Bo Cleevil’s got one last trick up his sleeve-one that no one on Earth is ready for. May Bird among the stars:book two/ JodiLynn. Now, with her friends missing and enemies all around her, May must find her way to the edge of the universe, where night swallows the stars, where allies are few and often have bad breath, where endings can also be beginnings, and where the truest hero lurks in the unlikeliest of souls. The Library of Congress has cataloged the original hardcover edition as follows: Anderson, Jodi Lynn. And then one night, through a most unexpected means, the Ever After is once again more than a memory.īut what May Bird discovers is devastating: the Ever After seems deserted, and evil Bo Cleevil is close to making his reign supreme. But even though May Bird and Somber Kitty were happy to reunite with her mother, May is still haunted by thoughts of the friends she left behind. Three years after May Bird found her way home from the Ever After, she is still quiet and introspective, though she’s gained an awkward fame in her hometown of Briery Swamp. May Bird returns to the Ever After for a ghostly showdown in the conclusion to an otherworldly trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Jodi Lynn Anderson. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Fake Geek Girls by Suzanne ScottBut this shift has left some people behind. Over the past decade, fan and geek culture has moved from the margins to the mainstream as fans have become tastemakers and promotional partners, with fan art transformed into official merchandise and fan fiction launching new franchises. While extreme, these responses are far from unusual, with similar uproars around the female protagonists of the new Star Wars films to full-fledged geek culture wars and harassment campaigns, as exemplified by the #GamerGate controversy that began in 2014. Reveals the systematic marginalization of women within pop culture fan communities When Ghostbusters returned to the screen in 2016, some male fans of the original film boycotted the all-female adaptation of the cult classic, turning to Twitter to express their disapproval and making it clear that they considered the film's "real" fans to be white, straight men. |