![]() ![]() ![]() The first chapter consists entirely of death and destruction, and it is so intense, it has you completely hooked from the very beginning, and you won’t be able to stop reading. Finally I had the chance to read it, and oh wow, it was worth the wait! It was actually my dad who recommended James Herbert to me, and I am so glad I finally picked up his books. I read The Rats and Lair (books one and two in the Rats series) back in 2019, and was planning to read Domain straight away, but review requests, blog tours, and arcs took priority, and it just kept being pushed back. I have been intending to read Domain for a long time. They know that Man is weakened, become frail. But below, the rats, demonic offspring of irradiated forebears, are waiting. For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets – if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes. ![]() The city torn apart, shattered, its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. Originally Published: 1984, by New English Libraryīuy It Here (affiliate links): Amazon UK, Waterstones, Book Depository ![]()
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Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown.Īt first, Alaska seems to be the answer to their prayers. Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family. ![]() When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: He will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. Untamed.įor a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival.Įrnt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. Kristin Hannah reads the acknowledgements.Īlaska, 1974. ![]() ![]() This program is read by acclaimed narrator Julia Whelan, whose enchanting voice brought Gone Girl and Fates and Furies to life. 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Jasper seems to feel like he’s losing his identity when his work is not his own and decides the crayon must be destroyed. ![]() Jasper’s been struggling with school (he’s failing all his subjects except art) but he discovers that when he writes his assignments with his new crayon friend, he gets straight A’s. Summary: Jasper Rabbit of Creepy Carrots and Creepy Pair of Underwear fame is back with a new reason to be scared: a purple crayon that seems to have all the answers. ![]() ![]() ![]() She defies the people who want to repress her, and keeps hope glimmering for the rest of her friends and family. Yet however bleak and desperate things appear, Nory manages to keep a positive outlook. ![]() N ory Ryan's Song gives a stark picture of the realities of life during the Irish potato famine. How will they survive? Will Nory live to see her family reunited in America? Lord Cunningham takes their chickens, cows, and pigs as down payment for their rent. A terrible blight attacks the potato crop and the remaining inhabitants are left with meager food supplies. Nory's older sister, Maggie, gets married and leaves for Brooklyn, New York, where many former bay families now reside. Many have left Ireland and sailed to America, searching for a better life. He has made it difficult for the people to survive. Lord Cunningham, the English landlord who owns all of the property around Maidin Bay, wants to remove the people from the land that has been farmed by their families for generations, in order to turn it into sheep grazing pasture. But life is also full of love, and the family and their close friends work together to produce a potato crop for food. Life is tough Nory's mother died shortly after giving birth to her younger brother, Patch, and her father is away most of the year fishing to provide money for the family. It is 1845, and Nory Ryan and her family live in Maidin Bay, Ireland. ![]() ![]() ![]() When evil once again begins to stalk Arkadia, Connor is suddenly on a timeline to find his missing mate before a maniac kills the one person to give him the solace he desperately craves. The only problem is that the man he truly is, isn't what Arkadia knows him to be. When Madison dismisses him easily he knows he will have to take drastic measures for his mate to see the man he is. With his mind burdened with the terrible images of the killer's aftermath, he's not looking to find his mate. Will she let perception cloud her judgment to the point where she may lose her mate? Connor Arkadion is on the brink of exhaustion, helping to track a serial killer. No matter how downright sexy the man is, she has trouble seeing beyond his apron. ![]() ![]() Upon moving to Arkadia, Madison Claybourne, a high-powered New York lawyer, discovers that she is mated to the diner's busboy. ![]() ![]() Through the NAACP and later through CORE and SNCC, she experienced firsthand the demonstrations and sit-ins that were the mainstay of the civil rights movement-and the arrests and jailings, the shotguns, fire hoses, police dogs, billy clubs, and deadly force that were used to destroy it.Ī deeply personal story but also a portrait of a turning point in our nation’s destiny, this autobiography lets us see history in the making, through the eyes of one of the footsoldiers in the civil rights movement. the fear of being killed just because I was black.” In that moment was born the passion for freedom and justice that would change her life.Ī straight-A student who realized her dream of going to college when she won a basketball scholarship, she finally dared to join the NAACP in her junior year. Before then, she had “known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till’s lynching. ![]() “Anne Moody’s autobiography is an eloquent, moving testimonial to her courage.”- Chicago Tribuneīorn to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. ![]() The unforgettable memoir of a woman at the front lines of the civil rights movement-a harrowing account of black life in the rural South and a powerful affirmation of one person’s ability to affect change. ![]() ![]() ![]() Real Queer America is a tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states, offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America. She also holds a PhD in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University. She is a GLAAD Award-winning journalist who has written widely for publications including CNN, The New York Times, and The Daily Beast. Samantha Allen is the author of Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States and of Love & Estrogen. Today, journalist and author Samantha Allen has chosen The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin, and debut novelist Lauren Wilkinson has chosen A Philosophy of Ruin by Nicholas Mancusi. ![]() From childhood favorites to classics, to new and forthcoming reads, you’ll hear how the people who make books happen have been influenced by the ones they’ve read. You’re listening to Recommended, where we talk to interesting people about their favorite books. This is a transcript of Recommended Season 5 Episode 2, featuring Samatha Allen and Lauren Wilkinson. Subscribe Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher RSS ![]() |