And then you'll know why they call me Captain Death. The story of me and my Raiders: Pepper, Catfish, Tony, Jinks, Star and Jen. Against the zombies and a far worse enemy. The story of a small town and how we prevailed. We got a whole new system of justice and morality that may jar with some of you liberal types just ask the rapist we sent packingīut lemme tell you: in a world where folk we thought of as human can pimp out zombies as hookers, you know morality has taken a back seat. Yep, I've got two wives, and I've got more guns under my command than you can ever dream about. Hell, what doesn't? The story I'm gonna tell you will shock you, may even terrify you. Small towns are easier to defend from the zombies, if not the other enemies That was when we realized that growing up in a small town gave us an advantage you folks didn't have. You think you knew all about us small-town folk, didn't you? Laughed at us bushwhackers, your poor country cousins out in the sticks. The best part-aside from the gruesome action-is that you come away caring about these people in unexpected ways. DescriptionWe have a saying: "You're either dead and chompin' or alive and hidin'." In Snareville, neither is an option. Books by David Youngquist (Author of Snareville) Books by David Youngquist David Youngquist Average rating 3. Youngquists SNAREVILLE sinks its teeth into the readers jugular-a horrific, mordant, lean, page-turning ride dissecting the denizens of a backwater burg besieged by a zombie plague.
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Hot Rock by Annie SeatonShe could be fired from her job at the university, she could be labeled a cheat and dishonest, and be turned into some leper or something. She’s just landed in England to research what I think is her PhD thesis and she gets a call: some jerk of an ex has hacked into her entire life and sabotaged her entire career. No, it’s not the time travel storyline that bugged me. I got a copy and I read that copy and let me just say, this was one of the dumbest books I think I’ve ever read. I’m not sure where she got it from, but she’d have blogged about it if it had been a gift from the author. Susan sent me a copy of Annie Seaton’s Hot Rock. 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To create the next generation of Leaders in their families So basically, to wed them and breed them. (Contract marriage) most were too young of age to know what was going on, until they came of age. They trade it off the females at a young age., amongst the families To keep the hierarchy amongst the families. K I can’t lie, I was so freakin excited to find out more about Calix & Thalia after reading Dreams of the Vengeful If you enjoy any of the following you have found yourself in the right place Where Calix and Thalia story had First begun. Please make sure to read Dreams of the Vengeful This book was intoxicating to read from start to finish. Diana and Aaron come across as stereotypical representations of their respective social classes ,and the conflict between them feels clichéd and predictable. While the story has its charming moments and Aaron and Diana certainly steam up the pages, the lack of character depth and development makes it difficult to become immersed in the romance. Unfortunately, this short epitomizes all that is problematic with novellas. Will they be able to put aside society's dictates and find happiness together? Gathering the courage to act on their desires against all social propriety, Aaron and Diana cherish the stolen moments they share in his forge until scandal threatens to destroy their new found love. Instead she is attracted to the most unsuitable of men, Aaron Dawes, Spindle Cove's strong, silent and sexy blacksmith. Despite her mother's claims that she is destined to marry a wealthy and titled lord, Diana Highwood has never had such aspirations herself. 7/7/2023 0 Comments Severance novelWith the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. Winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award * Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction * Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award * Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel * A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 * An Indie Next SelectionĬandace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. Club * Jezebel * Vulture * Literary Hub * Flavorwire NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR * The New Yorker ("Books We Loved") * Elle * M arie Claire * Amazon Editors * The Paris Review (Staff Favorites) * Refinery29 * Bustle * Buzzfeed * BookPage * Bookish * Mental Floss * Chicago Review of Books * HuffPost * Electric Literature * A.V. “A satirical spin on the end times- kind of like The Office meets The Leftovers.” - Estelle Tang, Elle "A stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring." - Michael Schaub, NPR.org Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance. 7/7/2023 0 Comments Woodson red at the boneThere is an abundance of angst over class, gender and race subtly woven into this beguilingly slim novel. Where was I looking? At my father? My grandparents? At anything. “That afternoon, the years that separated us could have been fifty – Iris standing at the bottom of the stairs watching me. Melody can’t help but observe that her relationship with her mother is full of regrets and thorns. On a spring day in 2001, while Melody and Malcolm, her childhood friend and date, swirl around the dance floor, so do the memories for the teenager and the key players in her life. The baby bump deprived Iris of her own introduction into society: now she must look on as her daughter descends the stairs wearing the white dress she was not permitted to wear and is serenaded by an orchestra playing an instrumental version of Prince’s “Darling Nikki”. Melody is also the product of a teenage pregnancy that has left her estranged from her mother, Iris, who chose the distance of college in Ohio over nappies, baby bottles and the domesticity of her parents’ Brooklyn brownstone. Melody is smart, pretty, private school privileged and much adored by her father, Aubrey, and proud grandparents, Sabe and Po’Boy. I n US author Jacqueline Woodson’s haunting novel, a 16-year-old girl’s coming-of-age party prompts an avalanche of memories for her middle-class African American family. 7/7/2023 0 Comments Edmund Campion by Evelyn WaughAfter the Second World War he published what is for many his masterpiece, “Brideshead Revisited,” in which his Catholicism took centre stage. From this decade come: “Vile Bodies” (1930), “Black Mischief” (1932), the incomparable “A Handful of Dust” (1934) and “Scoop” (1938). It was during this time that he converted to Catholicism.ĭuring the thirties Waugh produced one gem after another. His second marriage to Audrey Herbert lasted the rest of his life and begat seven children. Waugh would derive parts of “A Handful of Dust” from this unhappy time. She proved unfaithful, and the marriage ended in divorce in 1930. After inglorious stints as a school teacher (he was dismissed for trying to seduce a school matron and/or inebriation), an apprentice cabinet maker and journalist, he wrote and had published his first novel, “Decline and Fall” in 1928. In 1924 Waugh left Oxford without taking his degree. When asked if he took up any sports there he quipped, “I drank for Hertford.” He said of his time there, “…the whole of English education when I was brought up was to produce prose writers it was all we were taught, really.” He went on to Hertford College, Oxford, where he read History. In fact, his book “The Loom of Youth” (1917) a novel about his old boarding school Sherborne caused Evelyn to be expelled from there and placed at Lancing College. His only sibling Alec also became a writer of note. Evelyn Waugh's father Arthur was a noted editor and publisher. Her voice is as distinct and memorable as the range of characters she's played on-screen, which gives listeners an immediate familiarity to connect to, along with a warmth and intimacy that spans and uplifts any genre. qualities that translate especially well into her career as an audiobook narrator. Favored on KCRW, Chris Douridas compared her voice and songwriting to the Beatles' Let it Be in meaning and soulfulness. are 16 to 18 and in full-time education are pregnant or have had a baby in the previous 12 months and have a valid maternity exemption certificate (MatEx). After honing her stage presence by studying acting and playing hundreds of sold-out live music shows (singing and playing bass), she moved to LA to record with Channel/DreamWorks and act on TV. Ominous and foreboding, the ship’s lines were full of sharp edges. Built from a dark metal, it nearly blended in with the black of space. A hundred of humanity's enemies eliminated in one of the bloodiest battles of a decade-long war. The daughter of two English professors, Natasha Soudek was raised in the South, speaks native German, lived in Berlin and Vienna, and finally settled in the Lower East Side of New York City as a teenager. It would have had a crew of about a hundred aboard when it was destroyed. If you've watched TV at all in the past ten years, you've definitely seen her face and heard her voice countless times in any number of wildly successful national, global, and Super Bowl commercials, as well as playing the first blond Vulcan in Star Trek history. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Hatchet by gary paulsenWhen he was 5 years old, Paulsen's mother put him on a train, alone, with nothing but a $5 bill and a suitcase, and sent him to live with his aunt and uncle on their farm in Northern Minnesota. Alone on the train with a five-dollar bill That's what the bartenders gave me a lot of," he told NPR in an interview. "She would take me to bars and have me sing," he said. His father was off fighting in World War II his mother was an alcoholic, and her drinking and partying formed some of Paulsen's very first memories. In a memoir, Gone To The Woods - which came out earlier this year - Paulsen wrote about a difficult childhood. Paulsen was best known for those wilderness survival stories, though he wrote more than 200 books during his lifetime, and three of his novels, Hatchet, Dogsong and The Winter Room, were Newbery Honor books. Gary Paulsen, whose books taught generations of kids how to survive in the woods with only a hatchet, died Wednesday at the age of 82 his publisher said it was "sudden" but did not give a cause. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Parenting book trippTripp's manifesto is about more than simply our duty as parents- it's about our privilege of being an ambassador of Jesus Christ to our kids. This is Tripp at his best: He shows us the big picture of life with Christ and gets down to the nitty gritty specifics of walking by grace through faith. "I cannot recommend this book highly enough it is simply outstanding. Francis Chan, pastor and church-planter best-selling author of Crazy Love and Erasing Hell The other part wanted to scream with excitement for the tremendous insight I now have to be a better parent." Part of me wanted to sit, cry, and confess all of my failures as a parent. My oldest is twenty, and my youngest is an infant. After reading this, I am convinced that I could never write one better than this. "For years, people have asked me to write a book on parenting. Ann Voskamp, NY Times best-selling author of One Thousand Gifts "Simply put, I read everything that Paul Tripp writes. TobyMac, GRAMMY® award-winning hip-hop artist Parenting our children is one of life's greatest challenges and Paul points us to the one thing that can make a difference - a genuine encounter with the living God." He constantly turns us back to the life giving power of the gospel and God's unfailing grace. "Paul's writing encourages those who have grown weary of the struggle, living under the weight of the world. Within 1-3 business days of you placing your order, we ship it out from our office in Philadelphia. |