As they are checking into the hotel Kyle sees a bully, Daren, from school. He gets to fly on a plane for the first time and see the Pacific Ocean during their visit to Oregon's coast. Thirteen year old Kyle is excited for his family vacation. The perfect vacation has become a nightmare! Somehow Kyle and BeeBee have to outwit nature's fury and save themselves from tsunami terror. The giant wave charges straight up the hillside and through the woods where the children are running for their lives. Kyle and BeeBee flee uphill as a tsunami crashes over the beach, the hotel, and the town. Giant tsunami waves - three or four stories high can ride in from the sea and engulf anyone who doesn't escape fast enough. Then the earthquake comes - starting a fire in their hotel! As Kyle and BeeBee fight their way out through smoke and flame, Kyle remembers the sign at the beach that said after an earthquake everyone should go uphill and inland, as far from the ocean as possible. One evening Kyle is left in charge of his younger sister, BeeBee, while his parents attend an adults-only Salesman of the Year dinner on an elegant yacht. He'd never flown before, and he'd never seen the Pacific Ocean. The Worst Vacation Ever! Thirteen-year-old Kyle thought spending a vacation on the Oregon coast with his family would be great.
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This new edition of A Different Mirror is a remarkable achievement that grapples with the raw truth of American history and examines the ultimate question of what it means to be an American. A look at the sudden visibility of Muslim refugees from Afghanistan. An investigation into the hot-button issue of "illegal" immigrants from Mexico business account Series: A Different Mirror A History Of Multicultural America Paperback: 529 pages Publisher: Back Bay Books Revised edition (December 8, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 9780316022361 ISBN-13: 978-0316022361 ASIN: 0316022365 Step By Step To Download Or Read Online 1. The history of Chinese Americans from 1900-1941 The role of black soldiers in preserving the Union Now, Ronald Takaki has revised his landmark work and made it even more relevant and important. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounted the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States-Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others-groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture. Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. The "brilliant revisionist history of America" ( Publishers Weekly) that dramatically retells our nation's story from the perspective of minorities. I’d grown up feeling like I was the only black person like myself, though of course that wasn’t the case. I want to read more about people who have had experiences similar to my own. I wanted to think about what it means to be a black person today but also respond to what James McCune Smith was theorising almost 200 years ago. Much of it is dealing with the same issues we’re dealing with today – and now we have a president who is very vocal about his racism. My husband is a professor of literature and he writes a lot about McCune Smith and other 19th-century writers who were publishing sketches in Frederick Douglass’s newspapers – he would come downstairs excited and talk about this research. The title of your collection comes from the 19th-century abolitionist James McCune Smith and his sketches Heads of the Colored People. The collection has been shortlisted for the Gordon Burn prize. Her debut short-story collection, Heads of the Colored People, which portrays the lives of contemporary African Americans, was described by Booker prize winner George Saunders as “vivid, fast, funny, way-smart and verbally inventive”. Nafissa Thompson-Spires was born in San Diego, California and studied creative writing as a graduate student at the University of Illinois and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. 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I felt I could relate to this amazing, scrappy, intelligent, hard working woman, who fought to develop a career and rise above poverty by becoming a talented and innovative cook for wealthy families. I have a bookshelf of books on various diseases, both non-fiction and fiction and I understand the causes of typhoid, but I never thought of what it might feel like to be a healthy carrier of such a deadly disease until I read Mary Beth Keane's chilling and moving novel about Mary Mallon, aka "Typhoid Mary". He identifies where individuals were on the battlefield, when they were there, and what they saw-creating an absorbing common soldier's version of the conflict. Whereas previous accounts relied on often inaccurate histories and a small sampling of participant narratives, Babits uses veterans' sworn pension statements, long-forgotten published accounts, and a thorough knowledge of weaponry, tactics, and the art of moving men across the landscape. Here, Lawrence Babits provides a brand-new interpretation of this pivotal South Carolina battle. The victory at Cowpens helped put the British army on the road to the Yorktown surrender and, ultimately, cleared the way for American independence. On 17 January 1781, Daniel Morgan's force of Continental troops and militia routed British regulars and Loyalists under the command of Banastre Tarleton. The battle of Cowpens was a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War in the South and stands as perhaps the finest American tactical demonstration of the entire war. She doesn't know where she found it, or when exactly, but its ever changing pages whisper with power that has lain untouched for centuries.īut others have plans for Raine too, and as the king's health fails, rebellious lords begin to vie for power. And to do so, she must learn the secrets the Draoihn themselves purged from the world. The power of the Sixth Gate grows stronger within Raine each day - to control it, she needs lessons no living Draoihn can teach her - but when her master Ulovar is struck by a mysterious sickness that slowly saps the vitality from his body, Raine must face her growing darkness alone. The second in Ed McDonald's Chronicles of Redwinter, full of shady politics, militant monks, ancient powers.and a young woman navigating a world in which no one is quite what they seem. There are no polar bears left on Bear Island. Young readers won't forget it in a hurry. An instant classic with a bear-sized heart, Hannah Gold’s debut novel is a touching story of kindness, adventure, and forging your own path - perfect for fans of Pax and A Wolf Called Wander. Mixing the adventure of life in the Arctic Circle with danger, excitement, a touching exploration of April's relationship with her father and a thought-provoking exploration of the climate emergency, Hannah Gold's story is a reminder of the difference that one person can make.Įven though it's set in the Arctic Circle, The Last Bear is full of warmth. This beautifully written story - featuring captivating illustrations from Levi Pinfold - is a moving tale that children will fall in love with. Slowly, April gains the bear's trust and the pair form a strong friendship, but as she grows further apart from her father, she resolves to help Bear get back where he belongs - no matter what it takes. How did he get there? And how can she protect him? but polar bears aren't supposed to be on Bear Island anymore. When they arrive, though, April's dad is still really busy, so she takes the opportunity to explore Bear Island for herself. So when he announces that they'll be moving to an uninhabited island in the Arctic Circle so he can take weather measurements, she's hopeful that they'll be able to spend more time together. Ever since her mum died, April's father has thrown himself into his work. I just wish Hamilton would leave that final chapter. There are also a lot of repetitive sentences that once you notice them, start to get on your nerves. Okay, I admit, Larry in leather pants was kind of funny. If she would have said nothing about his clothes, he would have been so much sexier in my imagination. Hamilton is actually ruining some scenes for me because, I’m just not into white suits with lace and blouses with long sleeves that cover hands and jackets that hit mid waist. I don’t need a total description of someone’s wardrobe. The clothes thing is starting to bother me. Jean-Claude for once isn’t the arrogant bastard, and he’s actually… kind of cute. It’s good to see that he still has compassion and isn’t as pitiless as Anita, but he is getting close. We see Larry grow from shy animator to a relentless vampire killer. Anita is still the ass-kicking heroine we are used to, but finally, she’s learning an important lesson: not every vampire belongs to the monsters. It is fast paced, as we are familiar with from the other books, but this one sees a lot of growth in some characters. Of course, nothing is what it seems and throw in some master vampires and fey magic and a boggle, and you get Anita in a whole lot of trouble. When she arrives, the police wants her opinion as monster expert on a slaying of a couple of teenagers. In the 5th instalment of the Anita Blake series, Anita is summoned to resurrect a whole hill of scrambled zombie mess. Bloody Bones (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #5) by Laurell K. This is a timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work consistently locates unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural histories. She examines how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster-whether manmade or natural-people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? A startling investigation of what people do in disasters and why it matters |