Author: Jessica Alter
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300073888
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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In the second novel of the Dome Trilogy, Remy is glorified as the long-awaited messianic leader of a devoutly religious populace and promises them the Dome above their heads as a homeland -- a vow even their revered Messiah Ami was unable to fulfill. Vengeance turns to apprehension as Remy realizes that not everything is as simple as it seems and even the best intentions can produce devastating consequences.
Author: Baron Specter
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1614788154
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Jared Jenson lives next to Woodland Cemetery at the far corner of Marshfield. He used to think it was funny that he and his best friend, Stan, live by cemeteries, but now it's starting to creep him out. In his dreams each night, he sees people dragging bodies through the cemetery . . . until he is dragged for real! Ghostly grave robbers think he is supposed to be buried in the Potter's Field grave. Can Jared, Stan, and the rest of the Zombie Hunters track down Jared's nightmare and free them all from the grave robbers before it's too late? Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Author: Jessica Alter
Publisher: Indie Imprint
ISBN: 131131573X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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In search of a place to call home . . . Ten years after child prodigy Remy had an accident which robbed her of a prestigious future, she walks the edge between life on Solaray-lit Level One and the gloom of the UnderDome, waiting for an opportunity to return to her place among the elite ruling class and put the nightmare of living as a sub-human behind her. Remy’s life spirals from her control; she is condemned to live her life in the most reviled pit in the Dome world, known to be populated by brutish beasts too inhuman to even live on the edge of society. When she arrives, however, she discovers that humanity does not belong only to the citizen, life is not what she had believed it to be, and a threat more grave than the UnderDome, itself, lurks just beyond its shadows.
Author: Hanna Kalter Weiss
Publisher: Devora Publishing
ISBN: 9781932687682
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Hanna Kalter was a typical teenager when the Nazis came to power in Germany. But on Kristellnacht, when mobs destroyed the synagogue and Jewish property, and ransacked her home, Hanna's parents shipped her and her sister Ruth off to safety in free Holland on the Kindertransport. Soon, the Nazi's conquered Holland and the Gestapo moved in next door. But Hanna was determined to live her life ? to get an education, learn a skill, make friends, find a boyfriend. She didn't lose her cool, even when she and her sister were deported to a concentration camp. And, for years, she waited for her parents to send for her, so the family could be reunited in safety.
Author: Patrick Bizzaro
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807122020
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Dream Garden provides the first inclusive appreciation and evaluation of the poetry of one of the South's, indeed America's, premier writers, Fred Chappell. The selections range from a poignant prologue by George Garrett to appreciations by R.T. Smith and R.H. W. Dillard; from critical pieces by Henry Taylor and Dabney Stuart, among others, to a description of the Chappell papers at Duke University by Alex Albright. In addition, Dream Garden includes a recent interview with Chappell by Resa Crane and James W. Kirkland. Dream Garden is essential reading for those interested in the writing of Fred Chappell, one of the finest voices in the South.
Author: Martin J. Beck Matuštík
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 143841224X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Specters of Liberation argues that dissent against the New World Order is possible through a collaboration of critical postmodern social theory and existential philosophy. It integrates those Western, Eastern European, and postcolonial approaches to democratic theory that provide the best alternatives to today's nationalist and racial conflicts and offer the best prospects for a free world. Rigorously argued and written in an impassioned voice, it examines multidimensional specters of liberation and resources for democratic change after 1989. Inspired by the persistence of the Marcusean Great Refusal, Matustik takes up a wide variety of issues, ranging from the encounter between critical social theory and existential philosophy found in the works of Herbert Marcuse to the contributions of Czech existential phenomenology to democratic theory, with attention to the works of Havel.
Author: Brian Guzzi
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499012586
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 685
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A Veritable Medley of Poetic Meanderings by Sereena Nightshade and Brian Guzzi is a distinct three books/ sections within one compilation of primarily poetry covering a number of topics. The first book in this series entitled Filigree of Sweetness features romantic and relationship based materials. There are no shocking revelations within this portion and yet there are many works regarding longing, desires, wishes, whimsies and wistful fugues. Filigree of Sweetness is followed by a drastic change in scenery with books/sections two and three, which are entitled The Years in the Killing Fields and Outside of the Years of Being stalked.” The material in these segments is highly recommended for both victims of abuse as well as their support persons (i.e. family, friends, romantic partners new on the scene or new on the parameter of the inner- nucleus of the events, and others) who want to understand the external and internal workings or cycles in reactions, survival, conduct and experiences, which would otherwise be entirely foreign. Through these varying compilations A Veritable Medley of Poetic Meanders offers a vivid collection of alluring, enlightening, provocative poetry for every variety of adult connoisseurs of prose, versification or composition. A Veritable Medley of Poetic Meanderings includes the best of previously published poetry from the vast collection of books by Sereena Nightshade, including the exclusive coffee table editions, and a significant serving of new material plus the poetry of Brian Guzzi.
Author: Sereena Nightshade
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493113372
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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The Dimming The Dimming consists of the following: The Achilles Tendon, Realizations, Kwashiorkor Dreams, Park Rain, Unbridled, Not Expected, The Maid, Simple, Ivys Child, Killing Field, Everything, Gravesite, Obvious, Three Wishes, Pains Flower, Bloodbath, Blame, Pill Dreams, Speedball, Starving, Message, Silenced, Lost, Tick-Tock, The Coming, Transformation, Fairest Treasures, Crackerjacks, Preview, Latter Day Dances Too Late, Karma, Magic, Spots, Sight, Somewhere, Photos Pages. This material is a great rated PG picture book featuring original artwork, photos and written material by the well-loved yet as fans know nearly extinct author Sereena Nightshade. Commentary on the short books in general: Please be advised that the color photos in these awesome Advantage Package books, break down Nightshades previously presented works while displaying new "materials" most commonly in RD #1 form, offering readers a rare glance into Nightshades private world as this writer is a true recluse. A recluse though she may be Nightshade easily moves through different environments unabashed, easily approachable, garnering friendships and interviewing various individuals along the way. These vibrant color photo books are guaranteed to delight fans with bold revealing pictures of Nightshade, her environment both past and current as well as some of Nightshades informal artwork. Color books by Nightshade include: Last Dance, Nightshade Rains, The Killing Fields, Dysfunctional Meanderings, Grace and False Prophets, The Dimming, Low Lying Fruit, Tick Tock, Backlash, Riddle as well as additional books waiting behind the "Stage left side of life." Upcoming Riddle features some of Nightshades current and likely last travel photos in this "Offering of many inadvertent and purposeful journeys intertwined in the carpets woven of mismatched threads, multilayered, multi-colored, singular tones, transparent and Pecksniffian where little is what one believes it to be or everything is a riddle no matter ones wish for a variance sweet..," including Nightshades November 2013 journey. However, be it Riddle or the many others, all of Nightshades color picture books sincerely enchanting for fans everywhere. Names of individuals in all of this authors books are fictitious names. Real names are not revealed. Review by Dominic.
Author: Wendy Orent
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451699212
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Plague is a terrifying mystery. In the Middle Ages, it wiped out 40 million people -- 40 percent of the total population in Europe. Seven hundred years earlier, the Justinian Plague destroyed the Byzantine Empire and ushered in the Middle Ages. The plague of London in the seventeenth century killed more than 1,000 people a day. In the early twentieth century, plague again swept Asia, taking the lives of 12 million in India alone. Even more frightening is what it could do to us in the near future. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian scientists created genetically altered, antibiotic-resistant and vaccine-resistant strains of plague that can bypass the human immune system and spread directly from person to person. These weaponized strains still exist, and they could be replicated in almost any laboratory. Wendy Orent's Plague pieces together a fascinating and terrifying historical whodunit. Drawing on the latest research in labs around the world, along with extensive interviews with American and Soviet plague experts, Orent offers nothing less than a biography of a disease. Plague helped bring down the Roman Empire and close the Middle Ages; it has had a dramatic impact on our history, yet we still do not fully understand its own evolution. Orent's retelling of the four great pandemics makes for gripping reading and solves many puzzles. Why did some pandemics jump from person to person, while others relied on insects as carriers? Why are some strains more virulent than others? Orent reveals the key differences among rat-based, prairie dog-based, and marmot-based plague. The marmots of Central Asia, in particular, have long been hosts to the most virulent and frightening form of the disease, a form that can travel around the world in the blink of an eye. From its ability to hide out in the wild, only to spring back into humanity with a terrifying vengeance, to its elusive capacity to develop suddenly greater virulence and transmissibility, plague is a protean nightmare. To make matters worse, Orent's disturbing revelations about the former Soviet bioweapon programs suggest that the nightmare may not be over. Plague is chilling reading at the dawn of a new age of bioterrorism.
Author: Heinrich Heine
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 0981987303
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), one of Germany’s most revered poets, is equally well-known for his idiosyncratic prose, the vibrant voice of which feels astonishingly modern in its familiar tone and thematic acrobatics. Travel Pictures comprises the accounts of four journeys taken at different times in his life. The opening "Harz Journey," a quirky chronicle of his walking tour in the Harz Mountains, is the text that first made him famous. But in all four accounts, Heine, seasoned by the skepticism of a born outsider, does more than climb mountains, ford streams and cross borders. In this remarkable book, Heine propels German letters into the Modern mindset. Freud cites a few of Travel Pictures’ most humorous passages in Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. Heine’s incomparable lyric vision lifts the book into the transcendent realm of great journey literature.
