To risk everything...She has weathered over four years of the apocalypse. She has done things that she would not have dreamt of doing in her darkest nightmares. But she has survived. And now, she has staked a claim in the plague-ravaged city of Atlanta. It is a safe haven for her people, rising high above the walker-ridden streets, a place of warmth and comfort. But for Lilly Caul, something is missing... She still dreams of her former home—the quaint little village known as Woodbury—a place of heartache as well as hope. For Lilly, Woodbury, Georgia, has become a symbol of the future, of family, of a return to normal life amidst this hell on earth. The call is so powerful that Lilly decides to risk everything in order to go back... to reclaim that little oasis in the wilderness.Against all odds, against the wishes of her people, Lilly leads a ragtag group of true believers back across the impossible landscape of walker swarms, flooded... Views: 51
In 1986, it was unimaginable that death metal and grindcore would ever impact popular culture. Yet this shockingly fast and barbaric amalgam of hardcore punk and heavy metal would define the musical threshold of extremity for years to come. Initially circulated through an underground tape-trading network by scraggly, angry young boys, death metal and grindcore spread faster than a plague of undead zombies as bands rose from every corner of the globe. By 1992, the genre's first legitimate label, Earache Records, had sold well over a million death metal and grindcore albums in the United States alone. Choosing Death, featuring an introduction by John Peel, conquers the lofty task of telling the two-decade-long history of this underground art form through the eyes and ringing ears of the artists, producers, and label owners–past and present–who propelled the movements. Views: 51
This Halcyon Classics ebook contains twenty-five novels from the pulp era and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, spanning the 1930s to the 1960s. A few earlier important works, like THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON and MIZORA, are also included.Many of the masters of science fiction are here, including works by Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Cummings, Raymond Z. Gallun, Randall Garrett, A. Merritt, Andre Norton, H. Beam Piper, Ayn Rand, and H.G. Wells.This ebook is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.contentsGULLIVER OF MARSBy Edwin L. ArnoldTHIS CROWDED EARTHBy Robert BlochTHE LANI PEOPLEBy J. F. BoneBLACK AMAZON OF MARSBy Leigh BrackettMIZORA: A PROPHECYBy Mary E. BradleyTHE COLORS OF SPACEBy Marion Zimmer BradleyTHE MIND MASTERBy Arthur J. BurksTHE MONSTER MENBy Edgar Rice BurroughsTHE ULTIMATE WEAPONBy John Wood CampbellWARLORD OF KORBy Terry CarrEIGHT KEYS TO EDENBy Mark Irvin CliftonTHE BEST MADE PLANSBy Everett B. ColeBRIGANDS OF THE MOONBy Ray CummingsPOLICE YOUR PLANETBy Lester del ReyTWO THOUSAND MILES BELOWBy Charles Willard DiffinPAGAN PASSIONSBy Randall GarrettTHE LORD OF DEATH AND THE QUEEN OF LIFEBy Homer Eon FlintTHE PLANET STRAPPERSBy Raymond Z. GallunOCCASION FOR DISASTERBy Randall GarrettTHE MOON POOLBy A. MerrittSTAR BORNBy Andre NortonLITTLE FUZZYBy H. Beam PiperANTHEMBy Ayn RandTHE FIRST MEN IN THE MOONBy H.G. WellsThis unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected. Views: 51
This series is North America's best-selling children's bathroom reader series. Views: 51
Cornelia Greene is fed up with gossip about her mother. Caty Littlefield Greene was once a beautiful young bride who lifted the troops' spirits at Valley Forge, but Cornelia knows that rumors of Caty's past indiscretions hurt Nathanael Greene, Cornelia's adored father. Yet Caty claims that she's just a flirt, and that flirting is a female necessity—a woman's only means of power.Cornelia's concern with her mother's reputation abruptly fades to the background when she learns that Nathanael Greene may not be her father. As she searches for the truth, she makes unexpected discoveries that lead her to a new understanding of love and family. Views: 51
From award-winning author Jessie Haas, nine interconnected tales about kids and their love of animalsIn "The Wake," fifteen-year-old Kris tries to comfort her great-aunt Mil, who is grief stricken over the death of Puttins, her old cat and longtime companion. With her grave, golden-brown eyes and long, graceful paws, "The Greyhound" is almost human . . . and Kris's friend Phillip is determined to save this special, endangered dog. Even if her father doesn't understand her love of animals, Kris realizes that your "Extended Family" can be as big as you want it to be, including cherished pets and not just your (sometimes unlovable) blood ties. "Horse Man" is James MacLiesh, who believes he was "bred to ride," just as horses were "bred to be ridden." And in the title story, James is torn between loyalty to his faithful horse Robbie and his dreams of glory with a sleek, majestic steed named Avatar. Everything changes when horse and rider get lost and James has to depend... Views: 51
Strong Men Armed relates the U.S. Marines’ unprecedented, relentless drive across the Pacific during World War II, from Guadalcanal to Okinawa, detailing their struggle to dislodge from heavily fortified islands an entrenched enemy who had vowed to fight to extinction—and did. (All but three of the Marines’ victories required the complete annihilation of the Japanese defending force.) As scout and machine-gunner for the First Marine Division, the author fought in all its engagements till his wounding at Peleliu. Here he uses firsthand experience and impeccable research to re-create the nightmarish battles. The result is both an exciting chronicle and a moving tribute to the thousands of men who died in reeking jungles and on palm-studded beaches, thousands of miles from home and fifty years before their time, of whom Admiral Chester W. Nimitz once said, “Uncommon valor was a common virtue.” Strong Men Armed includes over a dozen maps, a chronology of the war in the Pacific, the Marine Medal of Honor Winners in World War II, and Marine Corps aces in World War II. Views: 51
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 ignited a Central Europe already deeply divided by political hostility. The Habsburgs felt Serbia threatening at every turn, challenging their power in the Balkans and their status as a great power. After two decades of inept, saber-rattling Weltpolitik, Germany, their closest ally, found itself diplomatically isolated and militarily outgunned on land and sea. War was an opportunity for both nations to turn around their declining fortunes, and reestablish themselves as major power players. The key to this much-needed victory would be popular support—support the Central Powers' governments would lie to gain, and struggle unsuccessfully to keep. In Ring of Steel, award-winning historian Alexander Watson explores the experiences of the German and Austro-Hungarian peoples and the ordeals that they faced at home and on the battlefield, showing how wartime suffering undermined their fragile support for the war and... Views: 51
