![]() ![]() One thing is certain: Miles inside the earth, evil is very much alive. But in the dark underground, as humanity falls away from them, the scientists and mercenaries find themselves prey not only to the savage creatures, but also to their own treachery, mutiny, and greed. A scientific expedition is launched westward to explore beneath the Pacific Ocean floor, both to catalog the riches there and to learn how life could develop in the sunless abyss. Nations, armies, religions, and industries rush to colonize and exploit the subterranean frontier. ![]() With all of Hell's precious resources and territories to be won, a global race ensues. So begins mankind’s most shocking realization: the underworld is a vast geological labyrinth populated by another race of beings. In Bosnia, something has been feeding upon the dead in a mass grave. In the Kalahari Desert, a nun unearths evidence of a proto-human species and a deity called Older-than-Old. The Descent By Jeff Long Read by Boyd Gaines Abridged Audio Download LIST PRICE 14.95 PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER See More Retailers Get a FREE audiobook by joining our mailing list today Plus, receive recommendations and exclusive offers on all of your favorite books and authors from Simon & Schuster. In a cave in the Himalayas, a guide discovers a self-mutilated body with a warning: Satan exists. ![]() And they are waiting for us to find them. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Showing a humility that suggests his sobriety is the real thing, he includes the damning recollections of his old drug buddies. Hosoi talks candidly about his drug use and the disastrous effects it had on his family and career, and unlike most celebrity memoirists, he gives plenty of hideous details. ![]() Readers interested in Hosoi's addiction, his related criminal behaviors and his eventual 5-year prison term will also appreciate this book. If you toyed around on a skateboard in the Reagan era and enjoy 1980s nostalgia to a healthy, non-obsessive degree, Christian's anecdotes about skate tournaments, Tony Hawk and the "Two Coreys" era of Hollywood will be an amusing guilty pleasure. Hosoi nobly attempts to satisfy them all but the limitations of the first-person genre, namely, the sporadic input of others and the subject's selection of events to prioritize, results in a book that is wide in scope but slim in substance. As far as memoirs go, "Hosoi" has perhaps the most divergent mix of target readers out there: skaters, 1980s enthusiasts, recovering drug addicts, and new school Christians. ![]() ![]() It appeared in 1939, at the beginning of World War II, but Seredy did not write a patriotic story. She suffered physically and emotionally from the effects of nursing on the front during World War I, and she drew on her experience in several of her books, including the Singing Tree. Seredy was not afraid to tackle social issues in her books. ![]() However, Seredy’s display of political correctness somehow hurts the novel’s content". " The Singing Tree, like The Good Master, is a memorable tale for children to learn from by evoking powerful ideas of love and friendship through its text. A review in the Fresno Literature Examiner is more qualified in its praise. ![]() More recently, children's literature expert Anita Silvey singled out the book's "strong and moving narrative". Story movingly told, skillfully interweaving incident and idea." In 1940 The Singing Tree was named a Newbery Honor book. It has all the charm in text and pictures of its predecessor, The Good Master, and more mature technique. Kirkus Reviews gave it a starred review for "books of remarkable merit", saying it "might well be a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Peace. ![]() Horn Book Magazine included it on its Fanfare list of the best books of 1939. The Singing Tree was well received when it came out. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Cainhurst Vilebloods were in active conflict with the Healing Church, until they were exterminated by the Executioners.It is implied that Queen Annelise and her Cainhurst Knights could have been Vampires, as the ritual of initiation for their covenant is drinking her blood and the Knights vied for the boon of tasting her blood. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() The movie tells the story of the mass escape of prisoners from the camp, an escape which was of course run with military precision and also demonstrated how much the arrogant German captors underestimated the strategic planning and the stealth of their prisoners. Another deviation from history was the almost total omission of Canadian soldiers from the story, although in real life they had played a pivotal role in the success of the escape. This turned out to be a wise decision the characters remained the same as the ones in the book, but their nationality was changed for the screen. In the real-life camp, there were no American prisoners, but this was changed when the book was adapted into a screenplay, because it was felt that including a couple of American characters would make the film more marketable. The Great Escape was based upon a book written by Australian World War II veteran Paul Brickhill his first-person account told of his experiences as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III, a prison camp in Poland where the Germans kept British and Commonwealth prisoners until liberation came. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today. ![]() ![]() These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. In the black comedies of Switch Bitch Roald Dahl brilliantly captures the ins and outs, highs and lows of sex. In the middle, meanwhile, are "The Great Switcheroo" and "The Last Act," two stories exploring a darker side of desire and pleasure. Topping and tailing this collection are "The Visitor" and "Bitch," stories featuring Dahl's notorious hedonist Oswald Hendryks Cornelius (or plain old Uncle Oswald) whose exploits are frequently as extraordinary as they are scandalous. ![]() In Switch Bitch four tales of seduction and suspense are told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl. About Bitch Dahl is too good a storyteller to become predictable. "Dahl is too good a storyteller to become predictable." -The Daily Telegraph ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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But she has also learned that her world is not as it seems, and revelations about an enemy more daunting than Zetian imagined forces her to share power with a dangerous man she cannot simply depose. Xiran Jay Zhao unleashed the cover of Heavenly Tyrant, the sequel in the Iron Widow series, on social media tonight. ![]() Zetian must balance dangerous politics with a new quest for vengeance in the sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Iron Widow, a blend of Chinese history and mecha science fiction.Īfter suffering devastating loss and making drastic decisions, Zetian finds herself at the seat of power in Huaxia. ![]() ![]() Mercier's translation remained the standard one for a hundred years and changes that he made to the French text have continued to be incorporated into more recent translations. The novel was first published in English in 1873, in an abbreviated translation by Lewis Page Mercier, a British clergyman. The greatest depth that the Nautilus descends to is four leagues. The "twenty thousand leagues" of the title refers to the distance traveled, six times the diameter of the Earth. In order to escape repression in his homeland, Nemo has built a submarine called the Nautilus and roams freely through the world's oceans in it. The main characters are a French scientist named Aronnax and the mysterious Captain Nemo. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a science fiction fantasy adventure novel by the French author Jules Verne. ![]() Front cover of an 1874 German translation of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. ![]() ![]() ![]() His immediate reaction is to write her letter but he admits that the letter is poor:ĭear Queenie, Thank you for your letter. He learns from the letter that she is now dying from cancer in a hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed, nearly 500 miles from where he lives. ![]() He had worked with her at the brewery but they had not been in touch for many years. The novel starts with Harold receiving a letter from a woman called Queenie Hennessy. They currently live in a house in South Devon. Harold had never been close to his son, declining to hold him when he was a baby and not particularly getting on with him when he was older. David had been far more intelligent than his parents and had done well at school and got into Cambridge University. He seems to do little in retirement, while Maureen spends her time perpetually cleaning the house and missing their son, David, who has left home. Harold has retired from working for a brewery. Harold and Maureen Fry do not have a happy marriage. Home » England » Rachel Joyce » The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry ![]() |