House of Slaughter #12

House of Slaughter #12 PDF Author: James Tynion IV
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN: 1939867428
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Alone after barely surviving a monster’s massacre, Sunny is elusive to Jace–but not the White Masks! Caught up in the business of the White and Black Masks, will Sunny join Jace’s former house, or be left in the woods to face the same horrors again?

House of Slaughter #12

House of Slaughter #12 PDF Author: James Tynion IV
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN: 1939867428
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
Alone after barely surviving a monster’s massacre, Sunny is elusive to Jace–but not the White Masks! Caught up in the business of the White and Black Masks, will Sunny join Jace’s former house, or be left in the woods to face the same horrors again?

House of Slaughter #3

House of Slaughter #3 PDF Author: James Tynion IV
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN: 164668723X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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As the House leaders discuss the fate of “the Last Butcher”, Aaron and Jace escape the watchful eye of Helen and the White Masks and sneak into the forbidden outreaches of Chicago. Then, in the present-day, Aaron finally comes face-to-face with the monster that he’s been tracking...which is much more powerful than expected.

House of Slaughter #2

House of Slaughter #2 PDF Author: James Tynion IV
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN: 1646685830
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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Erica Slaughter isn’t the only member of the House of Slaughter to have made sacrifices in order to become the monster hunter she is today. As a teenager, her handler and rival Aaron finds himself with a new roommate, the mysterious “transfer student” Jace Boucher. To initiate his training, Jace must prove his loyalty to the House of Slaughter through a binding ritual... a ritual that few survive.

Every Twelve Seconds

Every Twelve Seconds PDF Author: Timothy Pachirat
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030015268X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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The author relates his experiences working five months undercover at a slaughterhouse, and explores why society encourages this violent labor yet keeps the details of the work hidden.

Something is Killing the Children #12

Something is Killing the Children #12 PDF Author: James Tynion IV
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN: 1646683447
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 27

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Time is running out for Erica to save Archer’s Peak, both from its monster infestation and from the occupation of the Order of St. George. Will Erica be forced to finally stop being a lone wolf and accept help from unlikely allies?

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five PDF Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 0385333846
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time). Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.” An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O’Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut’s words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as “the kind of writer who made people—young people especially—want to write.” George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be “the great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us . . . a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.” More than fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut’s portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties.

Coming Through Slaughter

Coming Through Slaughter PDF Author: Michael Ondaatje
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307776611
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place. In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a tantalizingly ungraspable phantom, the central mysteries of his life, his art, and his madness remaining felt but never quite pinned down. Ondaatje's prose is at times startlingly lyrical, and as he chases Bolden through documents and scenes, the novel partakes of the very best sort of modern detective novel--one where the enigma is never resolved, but allowed to manifest in its fullness. Though more 'experimental' in form than either The English Patient or In the Skin of a Lion, it is a fitting addition to the renowned Ondaatje oeuvre.

House of Slaughter #5

House of Slaughter #5 PDF Author: James Tynion IV
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN: 1646687760
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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The first arc of House of Slaughter comes to a close as Jace finally enacts his secret plan. As chaos fills the halls and the Order members fight off legions of monsters, will Aaron be able to intervene in the battle between his love and the House? And in those final moments, what will he choose?

A Season of Slaughter

A Season of Slaughter PDF Author: Chris Mackowski
Publisher: Grub Street Publishers
ISBN: 1611211492
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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A gripping narrative of one of the Civil War’s most consequential engagements. In the spring of 1864, the newly installed Union commander Ulysses S. Grant did something none of his predecessors had done before: He threw his army against the wily, audacious Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia over and over again. At Spotsylvania Court House, the two armies shifted from stalemate in the Wilderness to slugfest in the mud. Most commonly known for the horrific twenty-two-hour hand-to-hand combat in the pouring rain at the Bloody Angle, the battle of Spotsylvania Court House actually stretched from May 8 to 21, 1864—fourteen long days of battle and maneuver. Grant, the irresistible force, hammering with his overwhelming numbers and unprecedented power, versus Lee, the immovable object, hunkered down behind the most formidable defensive works yet seen on the continent. Spotsylvania Court House represents a chess match of immeasurable stakes between two master opponents. This clash is detailed in A Season of Slaughter: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, May –21, 1864. A Season of Slaughter is part of the new Emerging Civil War Series offering compelling, easy-to-read overviews of some of the Civil War’s most important stories. The masterful storytelling is richly enhanced with hundreds of photos, illustrations, and maps. “[A] wonderful book for anyone interested in learning about the fighting around Spotsylvania Court House or who would like to tour the area. It is well written, easy to read, and well worth the price.” —Civil War News

Something is Killing the Children #8

Something is Killing the Children #8 PDF Author: James Tynion IV
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN: 1646682165
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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Book Description
Erica's employers, the mysterious Order of St. George, have taken control of Archer’s Peak and sealed it off from the outside world. But can they hope to quarantine the damage caused by the monsters... and Erica Slaughter?