What the team didnt know was that they had infiltrated a section of jungle that concealed a major enemy base. Their objective, just miles over the Vietnam border, was to collect evidence that proved the North Vietnamese Army was using the Cambodian sanctuary as a major conduit for supplying troops and materiel to the south via the Ho Chi Minh Trail. On May 2, 1968, a twelve-man Special Forces team covertly infiltrated a small clearing in the jungles of neutral Cambodiawhere U.S. Armys 240th Assault Helicopter Company and a Green Beret Staff Sergeant's heroic mission to rescue a Special Forces team trapped behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War, from New York Times bestselling author Eric Blehm.
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Talut, a powerful bear of a man with bright red hair, a booming laugh, and a gentle heart, and his tall, dark-haired sister, Tulie, are the leaders of the Lion Camp of the Mamutoi. But to Ayla, who was raised by the Clan of the Cave Bear, they are “the Others.” She approaches them with mixed feelings of fear and curiosity. Together they meet the Mamutoi-the Mammoth Hunters-people like Ayla. With her is Jondalar, the tall, handsome, yellow-haired man she nursed back to health and came to love. Set in the challenging terrain of Ice Age Europe that millions of Jean Auel’s readers have come to treasure, The Mammoth Hunters is an epic novel of love, knowledge, jealousy, and hard choices-a novel certain to garner Jean Auel even greater acclaim as a master storyteller of the dawn of humanity.Īyla, the independent heroine of The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Valley of Horses, sets out from the valley on Whinney, the horse she tamed. The dissolution of the monasteries is in full swing during the first book, which takes place in a monastery at Scarnsea but the strong portions of the books are set in amongst the throng of London. Tasked by Thomas Cromwell and latterly Archbishop Cranmer to investigate politically sensitive crimes, he tries to solve several murders while steering clear of falling foul to the many powerful players that vie for position in Henry VIII's favour. Shardlake is a sympathetic character rapidly becoming disillusioned with his former reformist beliefs by the maelstrom of politics, religion, greed and courtly intrigue that rages around him. The first book begins shortly after the execution of Ann Boleyn. They follow the life of a hunchbacked lawyer in the sixteenth century. I discovered them earlier on in the year and have been working steadily through them until now. I've just finished reading the last of the first four Shardlake books by C.J.Sansom. Her mugshot made the local news - Ivy League student arrested with $150,000 worth of heroin. After pulling on some unlaundered clothes and heading out, she was arrested with a Tupperware container of heroin on her. At the time, she was a student at Cornell University, dealing with an overwhelming heroin problem, plus all the other problems that a college student might face, like not having any clean clothes and needing yet another extension on a paper which was long overdue. Martin’s Press, 2022), she candidly interrogates her own struggles, her incarceration and her journey to becoming a relentless watchdog.īlakinger opens her memoir by writing about the morning of her arrest in December of 2010. After her release, Blakinger became a journalist, worked for the Houston Chronicle and the Marshall Project and has just signed on with the Los Angeles Times. Journalist and writer Keri Blakinger spent about two years behind bars, serving time on drug charges in both jails and prisons in the state of New York. In the city park, the pair are startled by the sudden appearance of a king, who thrusts into their hands a map and some strange objects. A follow-up to Aaron Becker's Caldecott Honor picture book debut, Journey, this is another visually stunning, wordless adventure story featuring two friends and their magical markers. Can it also guide her home and to happiness? In this exquisitely illustrated book, an ordinary child is launched on an extraordinary, magical journey towards her greatest and most rewarding adventure of allĪaron Becker, creator of the stunning Journey, presents the next chapter in his luminous wordless fantasy. who knows where? When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage and kindness can set her free. Red marker pen in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon and a flying carpet which carry her on a spectacular journey. Through it she escapes into a world where wonder, adventure and danger abound. The winner of the prestigious Caldecott Honor, and described by the New York Times as 'a masterwork', Aaron Becker's stunning, wordless picture book debut about self-determination and unexpected friendship follows a little girl who draws a magic door on her bedroom wall. Be swept away on an elaborate flight of fancy in this Caldecott award-winning, wondrously illustrated picture book about self-determination and unexpected friendship. This is partly because all of the existing European translations are either abridged or based on an inferior recension of the text. Although its importance in the history of Chinese narrative has long been recognized, the technical virtuosity of the author, which is more reminiscent of the Dickens of Bleak House, the Joyce of Ulysses, or the Nabokov of Lolita than anything in the earlier Chinese fiction tradition, has not yet received adequate recognition. With the possible exception of The Tale of Genji (1010) and Don Quixote (1615), there is no earlier work of prose fiction of equal sophistication in world literature. The novel, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of the narrative art form―not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a world-historical context. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P’ing Mei is an anonymous sixteenth-century work that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch’ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This is the first volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The first volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novel You Will Know Me is told in the close third person, from the perspective of Devon’s mother, Katie Knox. The result is that the attentions of these girls, and their parents, become hyper focused on the fate of their most promising gymnast, the extraordinary Devon Knox, whose skills inspire awe and envy in those around her. As with her most recent books - Dare Me (2012) and The Fever (2014) - You Will Know Me excels at capturing the specificities of teenage girl behavior, but the difference this time is that the teenage girls spend the bulk of their time training on vaults and high beams, rather than engaging in typical high school social activities. Just in time for the 2016 Summer Olympics, Megan Abbott has published one of her most riveting novels yet, You Will Know Me (Little Brown, 2016) set in the highly specialized and competitive world of female gymnastics. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. Suddenly Veronica and Stoker are forced to go on the run from an elusive assailant, wary partners in search of the villainous truth". But before the baron can deliver on his tantalizing vow to reveal the secrets he has concealed for decades, he is found murdered. Promising to reveal in time what he knows of the plot against her, the baron offers her temporary sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker-a reclusive natural historian as intriguing as he is bad-tempered. But fate has other plans, as Veronica discovers when she thwarts her own abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron with ties to her mysterious past. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a sharpened hatpin with equal aplomb, and with her last connection to England now gone, she intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry-and the occasional romantic dalliance. from "Experience and Thinking" One of the most influential figures in the progressive education movement of the early 20th century delineated here, in this 1916 volume, his profoundly revolutionary ideas about how best to teach young minds to be vigorous citizens of a truly democratic society. Systematic advance in invention and discovery began when men recognized that they could utilize doubt for purposes of inquiry by forming conjectures to guide action in tentative explorations. A]s long as men kept a sharp disjunction between knowledge and ignorance, science made only slow and accidental advance. For the story alone, it’s worth 5–the characters are engaging, the romance well-done, and the suspense is pulse-pounding. I really wanted to give this book 5 stars while I was reading it. But he soon learns the price that this order demands. He sees the benefits of the current German regime, as he values the order it brings to a country once chaotic and destitute. Peter Lang is a graduate student working on his dissertation and teaching American students how to speak the German language more fluently. Or maybe there’s more than just her gender causing her boss to edit her stories to death. Evelyn Brand is a foreign war correspondent living in Munich, her hands tied as a woman in a man’s world. Americans living in Germany in the late 1930s had front-row seats as the country sped toward war. |