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Getaway by Zoje Stage5/30/2023 As friendship and survival collide with an unspeakable evil, Getaway becomes another riveting thriller from a growing master of suspense and a “literary horror writer on the rise” ( BookPage). And when supplies begin to disappear, it becomes clear secrets aren’t the only thing they’re being stalked by. A week away, secluded in nature.surely it’s just what they need.īut as the terrain grows tougher, tensions from their shared past bubble up. But after Imogen survives a traumatic attack, Beck suggests they all reunite to hike deep into the Grand Canyon’s backcountry. Once inseparable, over two decades, the women have grown apart. Imogen and Beck, two sisters who couldn't be more different, have been friends with Tilda since high school. It was supposed to be the perfect week away. In this terrifying novel from the best-selling "master of the psychological thriller" and author of Baby Teeth ( Entertainment Weekly ), three friends set off on a hike into the Grand Canyon - only to discover it's not so easy to leave the world behind. Counting by seven book5/30/2023 When Willow was taken for the paperwork, she felt nauseous and fainted and hit her head – hard! She was taken to the emergency room and had to get nine stitches. Mai lied and said that they were old family friends of Willow’s. She stayed with her friend from counseling, Mai. (He lied on his resumé and said that he had lots of counseling experience and that’s how he got the job.) However, after a counseling session, Willow came home to find out that her parents were dead. He wasn’t really qualified for the job he just needed to make money somehow. They sent her to counseling with a man named Dell. Willow is really smart, so some teachers say that she’s cheating on her tests when she makes 100s.Īfter she made a 100 on every subject on her achievement test, her teachers thought she was cheating, because no one else made a 100 in the entire state. Hi! Have you ever gotten in trouble unfairly? Well, Willow has. How music works byrne5/30/2023 Now 60-years-old and no longer content with being a giant in only the music world, Byrne has now written nine books. Perhaps more accurate, however, is that his presence and that of his impressive discography in contemporary music is seminal: a search of The Quietus archives alone returns 187 results - a slew of articles, reviews and interviews that either relate to Byrne directly or mention him by name in some (often reverential) way. Vincent - it's safe to say that Scottish-born David Byrne's impact on and contribution to the music industry since the 1970s has been, at the very least, significant. Whether it's with his most lauded project, the genre-defining American New Wave band Talking Heads, working solo, or one of his many collaborations - most recently the album Love This Giant with St. Dreamland dessen novel5/30/2023 Her family thinks that she is at the Lamont Whipper Show, a show that Cass used to watch. Caitlin’s sister Cass one day leaves to be with her boyfriend in some destination. The book Dreamland starts out to a rough start. This perfect relationship soon goes wrong when Rogerson begins to abuse her which leads to Caitlin falling out of dreamland and into a nightmare.Ĭaitlin realizes that “being with Rogerson is more of a problem than being without him” (Goodreads Author). Instead it is a book about a girl, Caitlin, trying to escape her old self and find her new self with her new boyfriend, Rogerson. You may or may not have had the same thoughts as I had but let me tell you one thing: that is not it at all. The first thing I thought of when hearing the title was a girl lost in a dream finding people and magic and waking up into reality. The book Dreamland, by author Sarah Dessen, is not exactly what the title seems to be. Collapse jared5/30/2023 It also started to become a movement when Jared Diamond's work Collapse was published. Petit manuel de collapsologie à l’usage des générations présentes (How everything can collapse: A manual for our times), published in 2015 in France. The word collapsology has been coined and publicized by Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens in their essay: Comment tout peut s’effondrer. It is concerned with the "general collapse of societies induced by climate change, scarcity of resources, vast extinctions, and natural disasters." Although the concept of civilizational or societal collapse had already existed for many years, collapsology focuses its attention on contemporary, industrial, and globalized societies. The term collapsology is a neologism used to designate the transdisciplinary study of the risks of collapse of industrial civilization. Showalter the female malady5/29/2023 She is also the past-president of the Modern Language Association (MLA). Her academic honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Humanities fellowship (1981–82). She is the Avalon Foundation Professor Emerita. Her most innovative work in this field is in madness and hysteria in literature, specifically in women's writing and in the portrayal of female characters. Showalter is a specialist in Victorian literature and the Fin-de-siècle (turn of the 19th century). She is a recipient of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. Showalter has been a television critic for People magazine and a commentator on BBC radio and television. Showalter has written and edited numerous books and articles focused on a variety of subjects, from feminist literary criticism to fashion, sometimes sparking controversy, especially with her work on illnesses. She influenced feminist literary criticism in the United States academia, developing the concept and practice of gynocritics, a term describing the study of "women as writers". Bryn Mawr College Brandeis University University of California, DavisĮlaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. Quit or Die Trying by Alison Beard5/29/2023 This time he informed his parents that he would be off the grid for 30 days but would be back in touch when he could.įour weeks before Isaac left his home in Michigan, Shukree Abdul-Rashed called his wife in Rochester, N.Y. Whom was he with? Had he joined a cult? How could she talk him into coming home?Ī few weeks passed before Isaac called back. He was in Hawaii, he said, but he still wouldn’t elaborate. He wanted her to know he was safe and asked to talk with his young siblings, both of whom adored their big brother. He drove the rows of the parking lot, pressing the panic button on a spare key until he heard the horn blare from Isaac’s silver Volkswagen Passat.Ī few days later, Isaac called his mother. Danian’s husband, John, headed to the local airport. He needed money for a “great opportunity” in Hawaii, but that was all he would say. All weekend, her 20-year-old son, Isaac, had been calling her from the family home in Grand Rapids, Mich. 7, 2020, and she had been out of town for Labor Day. When Abigail Danian walked into her kitchen and saw the empty packaging of a burner cellphone on the counter, she knew Isaac had gone. Heidi by johanna spyri first edition5/29/2023 “I am going to let her grow up and be happy among the goats and birds with them she is safe, and will learn nothing evil.” There's a separate shelf for this book, for I read it more than once each year. And I don't know many other books capable of engaging me that way, a book I believe could be enjoyed by readers of any age. Spyri does an incredible job with her simple, yet enchanting style of writing which captivated me from the very first page.Īfter each time I read this book, I have found it to give a so amazing and relaxing feeling, something that I cannot properly express in words. How simply and innocently she sees the world, enjoying all the great things the Nature has to offer, while surrounded by a few caring, humble and interesting set of characters in her grandfather's home. I love it more and more every time I re-read it, for, there is very little else I found relaxing and make me feel great, than reliving the life of Heidi among the beautiful mountains, and in the cozy little house of grand pa. "I would a thousand times rather be with grandfather on the mountain than anywhere else in the world.” Congo by Michael Crichton5/29/2023 Karen Ross assembles a team and heads out to the Congo. However, it also becomes clear the crew was attacked by a mysterious race of violent grey-haired gorillas and killed much of the crew. And secure for the business lucrative diamonds. To understand what happened, a new expedition is sent out to try and rescue the previous crew. loses contact with an expedition in the Virunga region of the Congo, efforts must be made to establish contact. After the business Earth Resource Technology Services Inc. Where a business expedition to secure precious demands leads to a terrifying discovery. This was his 15th book, although only the fifth using his proper name.Ĭongo is a story about science, greed, and the mysticism surrounding that vast jungle. Here’s a 1980 sci-fi novel from author Michael Crichton (1944-2008). |