![]() ![]() ![]() During the 26 weeks of training at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, the women get both sneers and hard work from the civilian male instructors they loam to fly many varieties of army planes they pal-up, exchanging stories of stumbling blocks thrown in their way. Benjamin the sweet innocent is Mary Lynn Palmer, married to overseas pilot Beau the all-rounder is ""Cappy"" Hayward, army brat and only child of the Army's Major Hayward and of course there's Rachel Goldman, a silent but tough, cookie from the Lower East Side. The Boy-from-Brooklyn type here is ragged-but-right Marry Rogers from Detroit the upper cruster is Eden van Valkenburgh, who makes the mink-to-Government-Issue adjustment à la Pvt. ![]() And, following the male WW II-movie format, Dailey tracks the fortunes of a cinematically assorted crew of servicewomen. Dailey leaves the wagon wheels of the Calder series to take to the air in this aviation novel: a comrade-in-arms tribute to the band of civilian female pilots who for a too-brief period (1942-43) performed valiantly for the military as WASPs (Women's Airforce Service Pilots), under the leadership of cosmetics-queen Jacqueline Cochran and USAF chief General ""Hap"" Arnold. ![]()
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![]() Wes Craven, filmmaker and creator of Scream “By the end of the first chapter, I turned on all the lights in the house.” Anya Allyn, author of The Dark Carousel series “Enthralling! Sunshine Girl is a winner for fans of teen horror!” “Existing fans won’t be the only ones eager for more of this strong but vulnerable heroine just awakening to her potential.” “Suspenseful, exciting and endlessly entertaining.” “For Harry Potter and Twilight Fans, get ready for The Haunting of Sunshine Girl.” ![]() Stine, #1 bestselling author of Goosebumps “I was on the edge of my seat from the very first page.” ![]() “ The Haunting of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie is based on the YouTube web series phenomena and will prove to be an enduringly popular addition to school and community library YA fiction collections” ![]() “ The Haunting of Sunshine Girl is a brisk and breezy novel that calls to mind a 21st-century, iPhone-enabled Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a participant observer, Randol Contreras offers both a personal and theoretical account for the rise of the Stickup Kids and their violence. Known on the streets as “Stickup Kids,” these men raided and brutally tortured drug dealers storing large amounts of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and cash. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an unprecedented insider’s look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers. Book excerpt: Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. This book was released on 2013 with total page 304 pages. ![]() Book Synopsis The Stickup Kids by : Randol Contrerasĭownload or read book The Stickup Kids written by Randol Contreras and published by Univ of California Press. ![]() ![]() In front of them, human waves, dense and insatiable, crashed against the edge of the stage before rising up and shouting in unison. ![]() Their clothes were ripped and their fists raised, rage made the veins in their necks stand out. That evening, a concert in a small venue was being shown on Les Enfants du Rock. Because Leïli and Mina were asleep, I’d turned the sound off, so it wasn’t the music that struck me-but rather, the dangerous energy emanating from four young guys dressed in black, barely older than my sisters, strutting across the stage like they owned the world. ![]() The revelation came to me a bit later, through the TV (an old, poorly-functioning set left by previous renters and installed in our room by my sister Leïli), which I watched until late at night. ![]() ![]() ![]() How did we get this book: We both got review copies from BEA Stand alone or series: First book in a new series. Now the doors to Elsewhere are closing, and Karou must choose between the safety of her human life and the dangers of a war-ravaged world that may hold the answers she has always sought em> She is a secret even to herself, plagued by the sensation that she isn’t whole. Raised half in our world, half in ‘Elsewhere’, she has never understood Brimstone’s dark work – buying teeth from hunters and murderers – nor how she came into his keeping. ![]() On the one hand, she’s a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague on the other, errand-girl to a monstrous creature who is the closest thing she has to family. In general, Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. ‘He never says please’, she sighed, but she gathered up her things. The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Publisher: Little, Brown (US) / Hodder & Stoughton (UK) ![]() ![]() ![]() He may be the perfect person to remind Sophie how to embrace life again, but only if their newfound friendship can survive the storm. As they struggle to find safety, Sophie learns that Finn has suffered his own heartbreak but instead of playing it safe, Finn’s become the kind of guy who goes surfing in the eye of the hurricane. But when a hurricane forms off the coast of North Carolina’s Outer Banks and heads right toward their island, Sophie realizes nature is one thing she can’t control.Īfter she gets separated from her family during the evacuation, Sophie finds herself trapped on the island with the last person she’d have chosen-the reckless and wild Finn Sanders, who broke her heart freshman year. ![]() With nothing but pain in her past, all Sophie wants is to plan for the future-keep the family business running, get accepted to veterinary school, and protect her mom and sister from another disaster. The one that left Sophie’s older sister, Meredith, barely able to walk at all. The one that caused Sophie’s dad to walk out of her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He makes an implausible escape and ends up in New York City, where he gains notoriety for political journalism and public speaking and marries a daughter of a prominent Protestant industrialist. A man who gained fame as a voice of rebellion at the time of the potato famine in the 1840s, leading to his conviction for sedition and banished to the penal colony of Tasmania. Egan’s summary bits on the life of a man I’d never heard of hooks me to become eager for the story to rectify that ignorance. Was it an accident from a drunken stumble or murder from enemies he complained to the captain about (“Johnny, they threaten my life in that town.”). The saga of Thomas Meagher starts with his end, a disappearance of a nearly penniless acting governor off of a riverboat at night in Fort Benton, Montana, in 1867. A biography that reads like an adventure novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ward, No.1 New York Times bestselling author of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. It's Charley's last adventure, and the one thing we know for sure is that it's going to be one wild ride. What happened to her mother? How did she really die? Who killed her? And are cupcakes or coffee the best medicine for a broken heart? It all comes to a head in an epic showdown between good and evil in this final smart and hilarious novel. But now that she's back on earth, it's time to put to rest burning questions that need answers. She's missed Cookie and Garrett and Uncle Bob. Is it too much to hope for that not much has changed? Apparently it is. But someone's looking out for her, and she's allowed to return after a mere hundred years in exile. She's been kicked off the earthly plane for eternity - which is exactly the amount of time it takes to make a person stark, raving mad. Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper extraordinaire, is pissed. ![]() this is the epic finale for our favourite Grim Reaper and her sinfully sexy son-of-the-devil husband, Reyes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is nothing less than the restoration of a classic.Īdder Sowing Thorns in the Garden of the Soul For reasons he describes in his Author's Note, Milan Kundera devoted much time to creating (with the assistance of his American publisher-editor) a completely revised translation that reflects his original as closely as any translation possibly can: reflects it in its fidelity not only to the words and syntax but also to the characteristic dictions and tonalities of the novel's narrators. The present audio edition provides English-language listeners an important further means toward revaluation of The Joke. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera 's work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature that sheds new light on the eternal themes of human existence. All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book was at first hardly noticed by Hungarian critics and became a success only many years later once it had been translated into German and then, in 2005, made into a film by the Hungarian cinematographer Lajos Koltai. Kertész’s first and most influential novel, Sorstalanság ( Fatelessness, 1975), is the story of a 14-year-old boy, Gyuri Köves, who survives deportation to Auschwitz and captivity in Buchenwald, and, on his return to Hungary, finds it impossible to relate his experiences to his surviving family. ![]() He later modified his statement by saying: “The main question is: can we go on living after Auschwitz?” This was the problem with which the Nobel prize-winning Hungarian Jewish writer Imre Kertész, a survivor of the Holocaust, grappled throughout his life and literary work, until his death at the age of 86. “To write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric,” wrote the German critic Theodor Adorno soon after the second world war. ![]() |