Greaney red metal6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() A Realistic View of Modern Warfare, a Thriller Book Talk & Signing. If you are a fan of Tom Clancy style, speculative present-day military fiction like, Hunt for Red October, and Red Storm Rising. ![]() Rawlings IV, USMC An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019 Kindle Edition. Pitted against the Russians are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy job at the Pentagon and thrown into the fray in Africa, a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father, a young Polish female partisan fighter, an A-10 Warthog pilot, and the commander of an American tank platoon who, along with his German counterpart, fight from behind enemy lines in Germany all the way into Russia.įrom a daring MiG attack on American satellites, through land and air battles in all theaters, naval battles in the Arabian sea, and small unit fighting down to the hand-to-hand level in the jungle, Russia's forces battle to either take the mines or detonate a nuclear device to prevent the West from exploiting them. Mark Greaney & Ripley Rawlings with Charles Henderson - Red Metal. Red Metal Mark Greaney, and Lieutenant Colonel Hunter R. ![]() ![]() From the New York Times bestselling author of the Gray Man series comes a startlingly realistic novel of World War III.Ī desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three Rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control for generations over the world's hi-tech sector. ![]()
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For as long as he can remember Lorenzo has been an observer, an explorer, and a storyteller.As a young boy and inspired by old Hollywood movies such as Robin Hood or Prince Valiant, he penned extraordinary tales of heroes rescuing loved ones in distress. Affordable digital textbook from RedShelf: The Light of a Cuban Son by: Lorenzo Chavez. ![]() Colorless tsukuru tazaki6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() While the opening chapter was interesting enough that I ended up purchasing the whole book, the plot started to unravel rather quickly the more I read which lead me to inevitably regret the purchase. I have not read any of Murakami’s works in the past, but seeing as this was #1 on the NYTimes Bestseller list, I thought I would download the sample and give it a try. ![]() The result is a vintage Murakami struggle of coming to terms with buried emotions and missed opportunities, in which intentions and pent up desires can seemingly transcend time and space to bring both solace and desolation. To be empty." Feeling his life will only progress if he can tie up those emotional loose ends, Tsukuru journeys through Japan and into Europe to meet with the members of the group and unravel what really happened 16 years before. For months after the break, not knowing what had gone wrong, he became obsessed with death and slowly lost his sense of self: "I've always seen myself as an empty person, lacking color and identity. A tight-knit fivesome for years, the group suddenly alienated Tsukuru under mysterious circumstances when he was in college. Living a simple, quotidian life as a train station engineer, Tsukuru is compelled to reexamine his past after a girlfriend suggests he reconnect with a group of friends from high school. Murakami's (1Q84) latest novel, which sold more than a million copies during its first week on sale in Japan, is a return to the mood and subject matter of the acclaimed writer's earlier work. ![]() The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() But he finds help from an unexpected ally-a moody, young cadet with a penchant for drink, two volumes of poetry to his name, and a murky past that changes from telling to telling. It's a baffling case Landor must pursue in secret, for the scandal could do irreparable damage to the fledgling institution. Someone has removed the dead man's heart.Īugustus Landor-who acquired some renown in his years as a New York City police detective-is called in to discreetly investigate. ![]() ![]() The next morning, an even greater horror comes to light. Lincoln.Īt West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet's body swinging from a rope. Bayard reinvigorates historical fiction.” - New York Times Book ReviewĪn ingenious tale of murder and revenge at West Point, featuring a retired detective and a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe-from the author of Courting Mr. “Shockingly clever and devoutly unsentimental. Now a Netflix film starring Christian Bale, Harry Melling, and Gillian Anderson ![]() The yellow wallpaper ending6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() By symbolizing the yellow wallpaper as the jail the narrator’s husband has forced her into, Gilman underscores that the oppression from man will ultimately destroy woman. Moreover, the yellow wallpaper represents the narrator’s spoiled happiness because the color yellow symbolizes happiness but in the story, the color of the yellow wallpaper is “old, foul, bad” and has a “peculiar odor”.ģ.In her short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper", Charlotte Perkins Gilman depicts feminism to epitomize the entrapment of woman from society, specifically man. In the beginning, the narrator is constantly “tired” and “nervous” and wishes that “John would take me away from here!” However, as she spends more time in the room, the narrator shows signs of schizophrenia and is determined to free "the woman" behind the yellow wallpaper which is why she no longer “want to go out” of the room.Ģ.The symbolism of the yellow wallpaper is area of restriction built by man and society which woman can never escape. This pattern mirrors the narrator’s own daily movements. ![]() As moonlight strikes the wall, however, the woman begins to move or, perhaps more accurately, to creep. ![]() During the day, the narrator writes that the woman trapped in the wallpaper is motionless and immobile. 1.Throughout the course of the story, the narrator’s tone shifts from a mix of depression and anxious to determination and settlement (into her insanity). In 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' moonlight represents a time for the feminine. ![]() Ed caesar the moth and the mountain6/24/2023 ![]() But he had pluck, daring and a vision - he wanted to be the first man to stand on top of the world. In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceived his own crazy, beautiful plan: he would fly a Gipsy Moth aeroplane from England to Everest, crash land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit - all utterly alone. 'A small classic of the biographer's art' Sunday Times A fine, fine slice of history by a truly special writer who proves time and time again that he is among the best of his generation' Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets 'One of the best books ever written about the early attempts to conquer Everest. SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021 WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH BEST SPORTS WRITING AWARD 2021 ![]() Black beauty young folks edition6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Please contact us directly for expedited shipping quotes. Expedited shipping is available but additional fees will apply. Standard ground shipping is no additional charge on all tax exempt orders. Shipments are made through USPS, FedEx or UPS and standard shipping rates apply. Shipping & Handling: All orders placed will ship via Best Way as determined by A to Z. She died in 1878, just five months after her publication, living long enough to see the book's initial early success. She dictated the text to her mother and from 1876 began to write on slips of paper which her mother then transcribed. She was often so weak that she couldn't get out of bed and writing at all was a challenge. During this time her health was declining. ![]() Her only publication was Black Beauty, which she wrote between 18. ![]() Mary was an author of evangelical children's books, which Anna helped to edit. She never married or had children, but lived at home, and remained very close to her mother, Mary Wright Sewell. For greater mobility, she frequently used horsedrawn carriages, which contributed to her love of horses and concern for the humane treatment of animals. Possibly through mistreatment of her injury, she became lame for the rest of her life and was unable to stand or walk for any length of time. At the age of 14, she fell while walking home from school in the rain, injuring both her ankles. Anna Sewell (1820-1878) was a British author. ![]() Purity a novel6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn’t understand, and she is equally conflicted about her attraction to him. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur. ![]() But she doesn’t have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she’ll ever have a normal life.Ī glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with the Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world-including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she’s saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she’s squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother-her only family-is hazardous. ![]() Hyperion canterbury tales6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() This structure gives the novel a feeling of being more a collection of short novels than a proper novel, but the common theme of the Hegemony and the Shrike bring the stories together into a collective instead of each story standing alone. It borrows the structure of The Canterbury Tales, with a group of pilgrims on a holy journey sharing his or her story along the way. I enjoyed this novel a great deal, partly due to nostalgia, but namely because this is an incredible story. ![]() ![]() What I did recall was the humanism of the story, and how much it resonated with me beyond the story itself. I remembered bits and pieces of it - the Treeship Yggdrasil the story of Sol Weintraub and his daughter the Shrike - but for the most part I didn't remember the details of the entire novel. This is another series where I'm re-reading part of it before finishing it off, and I remember liking Hyperion a lot when I first read it back in college. With Hyperion, I've started on the last series in my Unfinished Series project, which I started last summer. ![]() |