![]() As the monsters of the title multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, the story reaches a crescendo of moral reckoning. Bailey's only ally and protector, Sergeant McFarland, intervenes, which sets off a chain of cascading events that spin out of everyone's control. Secretive, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past and looking for a future, Bobby is the perfect candidate for a secret US government experiment, an unholy continuation of a genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany nearly 20 years earlier in the waning days of World War II. ![]() Bailey doesn't realize he is about to fulfil his tragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office. 35 YEARS IN THE MAKING: THE MOST ANTICIPATED GRAPHIC NOVEL IN RECENT HISTORY *A GUARDIAN 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK* The year is 1964. ![]()
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Do Atl and Domingo even stand a chance of making it out alive? ![]() Vampires, humans, cops, and gangsters collide in the dark streets of Mexico City. Little by little, Atl finds herself warming up to the scrappy young man and his effervescent charm.Īnd then there’s Ana, a cop who suddenly finds herself following a trail of corpses and winds up smack in the middle of vampire gang rivalries. Hell, the only living creature she loves is her trusty Doberman. ![]() Her plan doesn’t include developing any real attachment to Domingo. Smart, beautiful, and dangerous, Atl needs to escape to South America, far from the rival narco-vampire clan pursuing her. An Oasis In A Sea Of Vampires.ĭomingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is busy eking out a living when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life.Ītl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, must feast on the young to survive and Domingo looks especially tasty. From a critically-acclaimed novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia comes Certain Dark Things, a pulse-pounding and action-packed contemporary fantasy that turns vampire fiction on its head. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dick’s seminal replicant thriller Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and the film versions of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes- The Iron Man was not initially received as a science-fiction landmark. Published in 1968-the same year as Philip K. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. All the separate pieces tumbled, scattered, crashing, bumping, clanging, down on to the rocky beach far below.” He rebuilds himself, but Hughes has established his hero’s mix of power and vulnerability. His great iron ears fell off and his eyes fell out. No sooner has the giant metal figure descended upon the earth than an errant step sends him hurtling off the edge of a cliff: “His iron arms broke off, and the hands broke off the arms. Its entrance is pitched halfway between mythmaking and slapstick. The opening paragraph of Ted Hughes’s children’s book The Iron Man introduces its title character in a strange and contradictory way. ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for the Novels of Michael Curtis Ford Once again, Ford demonstrates his mastery as a chronicler of battle, honor, and ancient worlds in this masterfully plotted epic novel that will leave readers begging for more. Pulsing with intrigue, saturated with historical detail, The Fall of Rome brings readers to new places-pressed into the trenches as catapult bolts fly overhead, lurking within the palace where betrayal is plotted, imprisoned in a tower stronghold where an emperor turns mad. In this powerful saga of Roman warfare, the sons of Attila's great officers wage battle with one another as the dramatic confrontation between Rome's last emperor and Rome's barbarian conqueror leads to the thrilling dénouement that becomes the fall of a mighty empire. Now, in The Fall of Rome, he takes on the bloody twilight of empire, as the legacy of Attila-once thought destroyed on the battlefield-emerges again to defy the power of the Western World. In his riveting novel The Sword of Attila, Michael Curtis Ford thrilled readers with his recounting of a cataclysmic clash of ancient civilizations. ![]() 476 a.d.: The Roman Empire, riddled with corruption and staggered by centuries of barbarian onslaughts, now faces its greatest challenge-not only to its wealth and prestige, but to its very existence. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In an analysis of one of the most world changing centers of innovation in the 20th century, Gertner highlights the lessons on how Bell labs was formed and some of the practices that are at the heart of building a strong culture of innovation within a company. This is the message of "The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation" by Jon Gertner. Innovation requires courage, vision, and sacrifice. Innovation is a complex phenomenon that involves not only technical skills, but also psychological, social, and cultural factors. You might think that innovation is a simple matter of having a good idea and making it work. ![]() The Emergent Hardware book series highlights recommended reading and books for hardware designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs ![]() ![]() ![]() Sea Prayer, his fourth book, was inspired by Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed upon the beach in Turkey in September 2015. ![]() Hosseini is also a Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN Refugee Agency, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. And the Mountains Echoed was chosen for the Richard & Judy Summer Book Club in 2014, and readers voted it as their favourite of all the titles. ![]() A Thousand Splendid Suns was the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year in 2008. ![]() ![]() 3 on its list of the 100 best nonfiction books of the 20th century, and in 1999 it was also listed by the conservative Intercollegiate Review as one of the "50 Best Books of the Twentieth Century". In 1998, the Modern Library listed the book at No. His educational philosophy stresses combining academic subjects with learning a trade. Washington makes it clear just how far race relations in America have. On another level it the story of how an entire race strove to better itself. Washington and his rise from slavery to accomplished educator and activist. ![]() On one level it is the life story of Booker T. He describes his efforts to instill manners, breeding, health and a feeling of dignity to students. Up from Slavery is one of the most influential biographies ever written. Up From Slavery: An Autobiography CHAPTER XIV THE ATLANTA EXPOSITION ADDRESS THE Atlanta Exposition, at which I had been asked to make an address as a representative of the Negro race, as stated in the last chapter, was opened with a short address from Governor Bullock. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who helped in educating blacks and Native Americans. The book describes his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to his work establishing vocational schools-most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama-to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. Ranked #3 of 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century by The Modern Library! Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. ![]() |