Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Zola Books
ISBN: 1939126126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers is a young adult novel about seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, a Harlem teenager who volunteers for the Army when unable to afford college and is sent to fight in the Vietnam War. Perry and his platoon—Peewee, Lobel, Johnson, and Brunner—come face-to-face with the Vietcong, the harsh realities of war, and some dark truths about themselves. A thoughtful young man with a gift for writing and love of basketball, Perry learns to navigate among fellow soldiers under tremendous stress and struggles with his own fear as he sees things he’ll never forget: the filling of body bags, the deaths of civilians and soldier friends, the effects of claymore mines, the fires of Napalm, and jungle diseases like Nam Rot. Available as an e-book for the first time on the 25th anniversary of its publication, Fallen Angels has been called one of the best Vietnam War books ever and one of the great coming-of-age Vietnam War stories. Filled with unforgettable characters, not least Peewee Gates of Chicago who copes with war by relying on wisecracks and dark humor, Fallen Angels “reaches deep into the minds of soldiers” and makes “readers feel they are there, deep in the heart of war.” Fallen Angels has won numerous awards and honors, including the Coretta Scott King Award, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a Booklist Editors Choice, and a School Library Journal Best Book. Fallen Angels was #16 on the American Library Association’s list of the most frequently challenged books of 1990–2000 for its realistic depiction of war and those who fight in wars.
Author: Terrell Frazier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692084670
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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The Annunaki are said to be the ancient Sumerian and Mesopotamian Gods. Their name means, "They that Came from the Heavens." but what if I told you that these so-called Gods actually did come from the Stars, from OuterSpace? The Author claims that his knowledge of the Annunaki was knowledge given to him at birth. He believes that the mysterious Annunaki are well rooted in Mankind's Past, Present, and even our Future.
Author: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1445217910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Scarlet Hallow, drop-out, goth, leaves the safety of her foster family and runs away to America to find her mother. She is soon embroiled in a mystery surrounding the elusive Daniel. Why does he figure in so many newspaper articles? What links him to the dead and dying?Scarlet finds herself sinking into a world she doesn't understand, a world of death, love and rock and roll.
Author: Nancy Jackson
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
ISBN: 1489720545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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This little book is about the creation of man on the sixth day in chapter 1 of Genesis in the Bible. It’s about the fall of Lucifer and his angels and how they were thrown to earth by the angels in heaven. While they were here, they destroyed human life and opened their kingdoms on earth that were full of deceit and terror! They changed our DNA according to chapter 6 in Genesis and presented to us multiple gods for all of mankind to worship and make sacrifices to. This is a very unconventional outlook, but think outside the box. All the evidence we need is in the Bible.
Author: Jack G. Shaheen
Publisher: Interlink Publishing
ISBN: 1623710200
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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“Nothing will be the same again.” Americans scarred by the experience of 9/11 often express this sentiment. But what remains the same, argues Jack Shaheen, is Hollywood’s stereotyping of Arabs. In his new book about films made after 9/11, Shaheen finds that nearly all of Hollywood’s post-9/11 films legitimize a view of Arabs as stereotyped villains and the use of Arabs and Muslims as shorthand for the “Enemy” or “Other.” Along with an examination of a hundred recent movies, Shaheen addresses the cultural issues at play since 9/11: the government’s public relations campaigns to win “hearts and minds” and the impact of 9/11 on citizens and on the imagination. He suggests that winning the “war on terror” would take shattering the centuries-old stereotypes of Arabs, and frames the solutions needed to begin to tackle the problem and to change the industry and culture at large.
Author: Nick Holt
Publisher: Ology
ISBN: 9781848776661
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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'Vampireology' reveals the history of vampires who have lived among us and preyed on humans since the beginning of time. Written in 1900 by the world's Protector, Archibald Brooks, the unpublished manuscript falls into the hands of our detective, Kraik, when Brooks is murdered in 1920. Kraik is given the task of publishing the book.
Author: Nicky Raven
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 0763649147
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
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This rich, mesmerizing resource, written in 1900, sheds light on three vampire bloodlines. Interspersed are booklets, flaps, and letters between a young paranormal researcher and an alluring woman who seeks his help. Consumable.
Author: Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1932890211
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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"Did rebel angels take on human bodies to fulfill their lust for the “daughters of men”? Did these fallen angels teach men to build weapons of war? That is the premise of the Book of Enoch, a text cherished by the Essenes, early Jews, and Christians but later condemned by both rabbis and Church Fathers. Elizabeth Clare Prophet examines the controversy surrounding this book and sheds new light on Enoch’s forbidden mysteries. She demonstrates that Jesus and the apostles studied the Book of Enoch and tells why Church Fathers suppressed its teaching that angels could incarnate in human bodies. Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil takes you back to the primordial drama of Good and Evil, when the first hint of corruption entered a pristine world—earth. Contains Richard Laurence’s translation of the Book of Enoch, all the other Enoch texts (including the Book of the Secrets of Enoch) and biblical parallels."
Author: Gustav Davidson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 002907052X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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In the midst of the remarkable revival of interest and belief in angels comes this handsomely illustrated reference work--the fruit of 16 years of research in Talmudic, gnostic, cabalistic, apocalyptic, patristic, and legendary texts. "A wacky and wonderful compendium of angelic lore".--Time. Illustrations.
Author: Joseph Lumpkin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936533923
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Among the first seven scrolls discovered in the caves of Qumran at the Dead Sea is a scroll given the name, "The Book of Giants." It is thought to have been based on the Book of Enoch, a pseudepigraphical Jewish work from the 3rd century BCE. The Book of Giants, like the Book of Enoch, concerns itself with the Nephilim, which are the offspring of fallen angels, who are called the Watchers. Two main versions of the text exist. The Dead Sea version is written in Aramaic. Another version has been found written in middle Persian, adapted from the Aramaic to fit into the Manichean religion. Both versions will be examined.Following theories speculating that the Book of Giants was once part of the Book of Enoch, we will attempt to place the two texts back together to render the complete story of the Watchers and the Nephilim. We will discover the history and contributions of these ancient scrolls and look carefully at their content and meaning. Throughout the combined texts of the Book of Giants and the Book of Enoch we will examine all the biblical and apocryphal references and parallels within the text.The result is an in-depth and panoramic view of the Angels, the Watchers, and the Nephilim, and how one of the giants of the Nephilim race may have survived the flood intended to cleanse the Earth of their horror.
