Whether forming a pirate gang to search for buried treasure or spending a quiet time at home, sharing his medicine with Aunt Polly's cat, the irrepressible Tom Sawyer evokes the world of boyhood in nineteenth century rural America. In this classic story, Mark Twain re-created a long-ago world of freshly whitewashed fences and Sunday school picnics into which sordid characters and violent incidents sometimes intruded. The tale powerfully app ...
“ After the Flare is spectacularly imagined, well-written, and a pleasure to read. An absorbing novel that explores a compelling, African-centered future world.” – Kirkus Reviews , Starred Review A catastrophic solar flare reshapes our world order as we know it – in an instant, electricity grids are crippled, followed by devastating cyberattacks that paralyze all communication. With America in chaos, former NASA employee Kwesi Bracket works ...
When Jamie Paddock learns of his father's suicide, memories of his childhood in West Virginia come roaring back. One of the few people in his town to ever make it out, Jamie’s living in New York City now, developing marketing videos for YouTube, struggling to write and partying a lot — all while suppressing the accent that gives him away. Spurred by an artistic curiosity surrounding his silent and private father, Jamie go ...
John and his circle of friends, wanted dead by the new ruler of the world, suddenly have their one and only sanctuary infiltrated and destroyed.<br><br>Yet this catastrophe is also an opportunity for the group of teenagers to do what their elders have so far failed to do, and topple the tyrant once and for all.<br><br>With the Woodward Base destroyed by Arnold Hammerson and his soldiers, John and his friends must take wha ...
Two college girls, a chem lab project, murder and a ball: Just your average day at Dreamland City<br><br>Lily Anderson is a brilliant scholarship girl, jaded and wise beyond her years. Raised in a trailer park by her stepfather Beau and a motley assortment of neighbors, she gets a free ride to a dream university, where she cannot fit in. She meets, rooms and is paired with the "It" girl for a lab project; her life w ...
The John Carter of Mars Collection (7 Novels + Bonus Audiobook Links)<br><br>"In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers." – Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars<br><br>* Professional formatting, giving you full control over fonts, font sizes, and line spacing<br>* Active table of contents accessed by the "go to" or "menu&a ...
Individuals are tools of production and consumption, relentlessly looking for pleasure that never comes. Their same "self" vanishes while attempting to fill up the emptiness of their existences completely dehumanized and possessed by the totalitarian law of profit. Neither old nor new values will never appease their plight while the social regime remains unaltered. Until the social room we all occupy is humanized, there is no c ...
It is 1953 in southern England, the time of the Coronation, and Jack is a small boy from the poor end of the village who is trying desperately to understand the strange people he has been born into. After the gritty, state-regulated austerity of the war, it is supposed to be a time for the celebration of cherished values and national renewal and the idea is to share the ultimate luxury food – a chicken – at a street party as a symbol of all that ...
Between the two World Wars, the most famous employee of the British Museum was a cat called Mike. For some twenty years, Mike made it his home and his friend was a most irregular Egyptologist, Wallis Budge, a freebooting fieldworker and smuggler of antiquities. It was a time when the wildest spiritualist ideas were in full resurgence, when ghosts, mummies and lethal curses were held to stalk the earth and many leading scientists, writers and thi ...
