![]() ![]() They began their harrowing journey on bicycles, pedaling to Southern France with children’s book manuscripts among their few possessions. In 1940, Hans and Margret Rey fled their Paris home as the German army advanced. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J.
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![]() ![]() Barrett argues that the Glock achieved such market penetration. Anyone interested in modern firearms (or marketing) should give this book a go. As Barrett writes, the Glock is the Google of modern civilian handguns: the pioneer brand that defines its product category. John Rutherford's (he would become sheriff in 2003) glowing report was used by the company to convince law enforcement agencies around the country to trade in their six shooters for the 17-shot equalizer and Glock's super pistol became the iPhone of handguns in record time.īarrett gives us an all-access pass to the ways of international finance by way of the Gold Club. Barrett has produced Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun, a riveting account of corporate maneuvering and intrigue that, despite some underhanded dealings. Barrett, a veteran journalist who witnessed the meteoric rise of the Glock weapon, decided to report the amazing story. Crime was on the rise and police forces around the nation felt they were out-gunned by automatic-weapon toting bad guys.Ī Jacksonville policeman was assigned to evaluate this new handgun. Twenty-five years later another enterprising young man, Paul M. With an almost breezy, extremely readable style journalist Paul Barrett has written the definitive biography of a gun that has become the standard for American firearms.įrom Gaston Glock's garage in Austria to the private second floor of a Georgia "gentleman's club," Barrett follows the marketing evolution of the Glock 17, detailing how the creator and a team of aggressive marketing professionals changed the handgun landscape around the world and especially in America. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the one where Kronos, Lord of the Titans, is beginning his attack on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. According to an ancient prophecy, bad things will happen when I turn sixteen - because I'm the one who gets to decide the fate of the entire world. That's how it is when you're the son of Poseidon, God of the Sea. I get a prophecy that could save or destroy the world. Most people get presents on their sixteenth birthday. This is the on where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I've stolen his lightning bolt - and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends and generally trying to stay alive. That's when things started going really wrong. ![]() Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, and skateboarding. I never asked to be the son of a Greek god. Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() The old world has ended and a new one has taken its place: full of magick - both light and dark, destruction and despair, courage, survival, strength and heart and simmering underneath it all: hope. A war between good and evil is brewing, and Fallon - young, tough, headstrong - must be ready.Ī sequel to the number one bestselling YEAR ONE, this breathtaking novel of love, war, family and magic is a gripping and deeply satisfying continuation of an extraordinary new trilogy. Because Fallon is not only a powerful 'Uncanny' - she also has a pivotal role to play in the bloody battles ahead. Now she must leave them, and learn to fight. Growing up with her three brothers on a quiet farm, she has been protected from danger by her mother and stepfather. In some survivors, it awoke strange powers - to heal, to harm, even to predict the future.įallon Swift has no memories of the old world - but she is destined to shape this new one. ![]() ![]() Thirteen years ago, a catastrophic pandemic known as The Doom killed billions.įor those left behind, it is a chance to build a new world. 'A match for end-of-the-world classics like Stephen King's THE STAND' - New York Times Review of Books The gripping sequel to New York Times number one bestseller YEAR ONE - an epic story of love, war, family and magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Emerson carried her shawl and hat into the little adjoining bedroom. Meserve settled herself in the parlour rocking-chair, while Mrs. Here, I'll put them on my bed in the bedroom. Meserve, "and I thought I'd just run over a few minutes." "Well, I didn't have a thing on hand except my crochet work," responded Mrs. I am putting the ruffles on my new black dress skirt." I thought of coming over to your house this afternoon, but I couldn't bring my sewing very well. She was just in time, after drawing it up beside the opposite window, to greet her friend at the door. She returned the greeting with enthusiasm, then rose hurriedly, ran into the cold parlour and brought out one of the best rocking-chairs. Meserve was a pretty woman, moving with graceful flirts of ruffling skirts her clear-cut, nervous face, as delicately tinted as a shell, looked brightly from the plumy brim of a black hat at Mrs. ![]() Meserve had married Simon Meserve and come to the village to live. The two women had been friends ever since Mrs. John Emerson was the first to whom she imparted it. Rhoda Meserve always had the news as soon as the news was in being, and generally Mrs. She also knew by a certain something about her general carriage-a thrusting forward of the neck, a bustling hitch of the shoulders-that she had important news. Rhoda Meserve coming down the street, and knew at once by the trend of her steps and the cant of her head that she meditated turning in at her gate. ![]() John Emerson, sitting with her needlework beside the window, looked out and saw Mrs. ![]() ![]() At the end of 2014, she had an epiphany where she saw herself as a seventy-year-old mortal who had never dedicated herself to writing, despite the fact that it had always been her first love. Before she dared to take her writing seriously, she worked at a Colorado dude ranch, as a school librarian, and as a live-time captionist for a college. That quest eventually led her to the University of Georgia, where she graduated with her degree in English. Rebecca Ross grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, where she soon became a voracious reader and longed to find a portal to Narnia. When not writing, she can be found reading or in her garden, where she grows wildflowers and story ideas. ![]() The Elements of Cadence Duology ( A River Enchanted and A Fire Endless) are her novels for adults. Divine Rivals, Sisters of Sword & Song, Dreams Lie Beneath, and The Queen’s Rising Duology are her titles for teen readers. ![]() She lives in the Appalachian foothills of Northeast Georgia with her husband, their lively Australian Shepherd, a flock of chickens, and an endless pile of books. Rebecca Ross is the New York Times and #1 Sunday Times Bestselling author of fantasy novels for teens and adults. ![]() ![]() When he's not writing or drawing, Franco also teaches high school art.īorn in Chicago, Art Baltazar found his way early to comic book art and has been cartooning ever since he can recall, self-publishing in 1994 with such titles as The Cray-Baby Adventures, Gyro-Man, Captain Camel & the Space Chicken, Jimmy Dydo, Lunar Lizard, Meteor Mite and the famous Patrick the Wolf Boy. Franco is the creator, artist and writer of Weirdsville, L'il Creeps, and Eagle All Star, as well as the co-creator and writer of Patrick the Wolf Boy. In 1995, Franco founded Blindwolf Studios, an independent art studio where he and fellow creators can create children's comics. ![]() Currently residing in upstate New York with his wife, Ivette, and son, Nicolas, he spends most of his days in his Batcave-like studio where he produces DC's Tiny Titans comics. ![]() ![]() Bronx-born writer and artist Franco Aureliani has been drawing comics since he could hold a crayon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everything else may be changing around her, but that doesn't mean that Clementine has.īut which is worse, saying good-bye, or not saying good-bye? D'Matz is going to tell her all kinds of things that aren't true. What Clementine really isn't ready for is saying good-bye to her third grade teacher. Clementine just hopes the baby won't be a dud. She's suddenly crazy about cleaning (Dad says she is nesting), but she doesn't even have a name picked out yet. ![]() Clementine's mom sure doesn't seem ready. Instead, she gives him drawings of animals she knows would not want to be somebody's dinner. She is not ready to start speaking to her father again, because she's still mad at him for eating meat. Summer is coming, and Clementine is not ready. Perfect for fans of Amelia Bedelia and Ivy + Bean! ![]() This delightful chapter book series, from the award-winning author of Pax, is a modern classic that has been keeping readers engaged and laughing as they follow the hijinks of Clementine, a clever and quirky third grader who’s the most spectacular friend around. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the first book, The Sweetest Oblivion, we are introduced briefly to both Christian and Gianna. Ok, I’m going to be completely honest here and say that of the three books currently released in this incredible mafia romance series, I left The Maddest Obsession until last to read because of the heroine. She’s chaos embodied, not his type, and married, but none of that can stop his eyes from following her wherever she goes.Īll along, she doesn’t even know that she’s his-his frustration, his fascination. Nowhere in Christian’s plans had he ever prepared for Gianna. She hates him-his stone-cold demeanor, his arrogance and too-perceptive eye-but over the years, even as their games consist of insulting each other’s looks and intelligence, she begins to live to play with him. One winter night and their lives intertwine. With a proclivity for order and the number three, he’s never been tempted to veer off course. ![]() Christian Allister has always followed the life plan he’d envisioned in his youth, beneath the harsh lights of a frigid, damp cell. In the New York underworld, others know him as a hustler, a killer, his nature as cold as the heart of ice in his chest. Most see a paragon of morality a special agent upholding the law. Little do most know it’s just a sparkly disguise, there to hide one panic attack at a time. She laughs too loudly, eats without decorum, and mixes up most sayings in the book. Her dresses are too tight, her heels too tall. ![]() |