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Soldier Stories features four compelling tales of military conflict all written by veterans who served. These first-person accounts of real-life warfare have been re-imagined across a variety of genres from sci-fi to horror to personal memoir. What's it like to wait out a chemical attack? How does it feel to abandon your allies? In a world of push-button warfare has killing gotten too easy? How do you go on when the war is over but the struggle is not? These are personal stories compelling stories stories that will haunt and surprise you. Because every soldier has a story.
A Black immortal in 1930's Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to discover who she truly is in this extraordinarily affecting novel for readers of N. K. Jemisin and Octavia E. Butler. Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles with no memory of how she got there or where she’s from. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. She’ll go on to become the first Black female journalist at the Los Angeles Times, but Lou’s extraordinary life is about to take an even more remarkable turn. When she befriends a firefighter at a downtown boxing gym, Lou is shocked t...
Introduzione di Carlo Verdone Da Mare fuori al Trono di Spade, da Breaking Bad a The Crown, da Gomorra a Stranger Things, da Squid Game al Commissario Montalbano: quante ore abbiamo passato, davanti alla televisione o a un computer, immersi in una serie, senza riuscire a staccarci dallo schermo (“un altro episodio e poi basta”). Mario Sesti, tra i più autorevoli critici cinematografici italiani, curatore di una rubrica di segnalazione della nuova serialità sul sito dell’ANSA, ha raccolto in questo libro le recensioni delle migliori serie TV: 250 titoli da non perdere, per evitare di scorrere per ore il catalogo delle piattaforme cercando qualcosa da guardare (come racconta Zerocalcar...
The summer before senior year, 17-year-old Chloe starts an internship as a reporter at a local newspaper. While on assignment, she meets Kieran, a quirky aspiring actor. Chloe becomes smitten with Kieran's charisma and his ability to soothe her soul, torn over her parents' impending divorce. But as their bond deepens, Kieran becomes smothering and flies into terrifying rages. He confides in Chloe that he suffered a traumatic childhood, and Chloe is moved to help him. If only he could be healed, she thinks, their relationship would be perfect. But her efforts backfire and Kieran becomes violent. Chloe breaks up with him, but Kieran pursues her relentlessly to make up. Chloe must make the heartrending choice between saving herself or saving Kieran, until Kieran's mission of remorse turns into a quest for revenge.
‘A cracking futuristic adventure, told with pace and panache and packed with vivid, shiver-inducing description’ Daily Mail ‘Read this in one sitting. DEEPLY satisfying.’ Lucy Mangan
"Peace In the Hood takes readers inside the dual world of violence and intervention, evoking the reality of gangland warfare but also acknowledging the possibility of peace in these war zones. Written from the perspective of Aquil Basheer, a pioneer of the interventionist movement, it documents the lessons Basheer has learned over his 40 years of working in inner cities, and passes these lessons on to readers so they too can know what the job of peacekeeping entails"--
"The zombies are disappearing. This might seem like a good thing, since zombies eat your brains, but normal human kid Jack Sullivan is suspicious. He keeps hearing an eerie shrieking noise that seems to be almost summoning the zombies--but to where, and for what (probably) foul purpose?"--Page 4 of cover.
Catching the killer is just the beginning in the outstandingly dark debut, What You Don't Know, from rising grip-lit star, JoAnn Chaney. Do you really know your neighbours? Jacky Seever was a beloved local businessman and pillar of the Denver community. Until thirty-one bodies were discovered in the crawlspace of his house. Detective Paul Hoskins was lauded for bringing down one of the most ruthless serial-killers of the decade. Sammie Peterson, the lead reporter on the case, finally obtained the success she craved. And Seever's wife, Gloria? Well, she claimed to be as surprised as everyone else. But when you get that close to a killer, can you really just move on?
Who said pirates have to be men? Caught between Captain "Calico Jack" Rackham and the British Crown, buccaneers Anne Bonny and Mary Read have no choice but to assemble an all-female crew and teach them the pirates' life!
During the war's worst fighting in 2006 and 2007, a handful of Iraqi interpreters put their lives on the line to help American troops. Families threatened, a bounty on their heads, ignored by the powers that be, they faced execution as collaborators with the enemy if they remained in their homeland. A Task Force Commander decides a promise made should be a promise kept. After the murders of several Iraqi allies, Lt. Col Steve Miska decides to slice through the bureaucratic red tape to get interpreters to safety. His team creates the Baghdad Underground Railroad to get the "terps" and other allies out of the country to Jordan for their Embassy interviews. Soldiers also tap their own families ...