Weapons of mass delusion5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Journalist Draper has interviewed many of the protagonists floating the baseless theories that, as election-denier Marjorie Taylor Greene believes, “their once‐great country under assault from within.” The author digs deep into the “big lie” and how conservative conspiracy theories took root and began to run rampant during the Obama administration-questioning the former president’s birthplace and demonizing Hillary Clinton-all in an effort to obstruct any Democratic progress in Congress. ![]() 6, 2021, insurrection and the right-wing lawmakers who gleefully perpetuated them. An engrossing and disturbing examination of the conspiracy theories leading up to the Jan. ![]()
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The troop craig davidson5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Riggs agrees to help the man and without realising it puts the entire troop at risk.Īs a fan of both outbreak and monster stories, this novel got my immediate attention. As the stranger begs and pleads for food he shovels dirt and plants into his mouth. Every instinct in Riggs body tells him to run, but the doctor in him knows that the skeletal man is ill and needs help. He follows the boat’s course as it pulls up onto the island and he watches as a creature, barely human stumbles towards him. ![]() On the first night there, after the troop leader and doctor, Tim Riggs makes sure the boys are settled in for the night, he peers across the dark ocean that surrounds him and sees a boat heading their way. When Troop 52 took to the small uninhabited island of Falstaff it should have been just a regular three-day trip for the boys to earn their hiking and survival badges. Written by Canadian author Nick Cutter (pen name of Craig Davidson), The Troop won the James Herbert Award for horror writing and received the quote “ …scared the hell out of me” from the master of fear, Stephen King. Today on The Tattooed Book I’m reviewing the award-winning horror novel, The Troop. ![]() Real to reel bell hooks5/28/2023 ![]() She loved movies, yet the ways in which the theatre made us occasionally captive to small-mindedness and stereotype compelled her to wonder if there were ways to look (and talk) back at the screen’s moving images. She was born in 1952 and attended segregated schools up until college it was in the classroom that she, eager to learn, began glimpsing the liberatory possibilities of education. hooks, who died on Wednesday, was raised in Hopkinsville, a small, segregated town in Kentucky. ![]() Before she became bell hooks, one of the great cultural critics and writers of the twentieth century, and before she inspired generations of readers-especially Black women-to understand their own axis-tilting power, she was Gloria Jean Watkins, daughter of Rosa Bell and Veodis Watkins. ![]() Me too little critter5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Need tech support? Contact us Say hello to us on FB! /oceanhousemedia Please share your thoughts in a review! Your experience matters to us. ![]() Young kids will enjoy the stories of Little Critter. Start building your digital book app library today! And you will always have your entire library with you in your pocket. You will help support a more sustainable world. ![]() Plus, your dog will never chew the pages. KEEP kids in the story with parental controlsĮnjoy interactivity, narration, music, sound and educational features that simply are not possible in the print version. SELECT a scene with easy-to-use navigation RECORD your own narration & share it with others LEARN new vocabulary with tappable words and pictures ENCOURAGE literacy skills with highlighted narration Jump inside to find out how Little Critter learn that sharing with your siblings is good because sometimes they share back! Join Little Critter in this interactive book app as his little sister tags along wherever he goes, saying "Me Too!" to everything from playing football with his friends to eating the last piece of cake! Explore pictures, learn new vocabulary, and personalize the story with your own narration. ![]() ![]() ![]() That moment turned into an hour of encouragement. Schulz, my name is Stephan Pastis, and I'm an attorney.' And he turned white, 'cause he thought he was getting served with a subpoena!" "I knelt on one knee by the side of the table, and in the worst opening line of all time, I said, 'Mr. Pastis was an attorney who so wanted to follow in Schulz's pen strokes that he tracked him down at the Warm Puppy Café, in Santa Rosa, California, where Schulz spent every morning having coffee and an English muffin. I'm heartbroken.' 'Peanuts' had all of that." ![]() "Think of the comics before that they were all slapstick, people getting hit over the head, or pies," said Stephan Pastis, the mind behind the popular syndicated comic "Pearls Before Swine." "This was something saying, 'Hey, I'm not happy. ![]() The Apollo X astronauts even named their command module and lunar module after Charlie Brown and Snoopy. ![]() By the 1960s the gang was on the cover of Time Magazine. A "Peanuts" strip from 1967.Ĭharlie Brown and friends first appeared in 1950 in only seven newspapers. "Peanuts" wasn't so much a comic strip as it was a mirror – a tale of adult angst told through children who never aged, and a dog who imagined he could be anything. Schulz created a world unlike anything we'd seen in the funny pages. ![]() Blindness book jose saramago5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Blindness is a powerful novel of human nature, the fragility of society in extreme situations and man’s will to survive. Saramago’s novel focuses on one group of the blind seeking to survive when they leave the hospital and discover the rest of the world has also gone blind and society has fallen apart. It tells of an unexplained plague of ‘white blindness’ and how initial attempts to quarantine the blind in a disused mental hospital fail to halt its spread. Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago’s Blindness evokes a powerful vision of the human spirit, bound by both strength and weakness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Alamein unites them in a desperate struggle for survival. Since they flew together during the Siege of Malta, both men have taken different paths, Curtis following his conscience, Wolf insouciant and headstrong, killer in the air, liability on the ground. Ossie Wolf, American volunteer, is seconded to fly in a covert operation behind enemy lines. RAF fighter pilot, Englishman Kit Curtis, is in an unarmed photo-reconnaissance Spitfire, reporting Axis movements. ![]() Within twelve days, the Axis forces will be in full retreat, their dreams of controlling the Mediterranean and seizing the Suez Canal shattered. The greatest artillery barrage in the history of warfare is about to be unleashed. The eve of El Alamein, the battle that turned the Second World War. To Play The Fox is the perfect novel for fans of Band of Masters of the Air and Band of Brothers. A heart-pounding thriller of non-stop action and suspense, with an unexpected twist that will leave you breathless. ![]() The velvet rage5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() In fact, some professionals blame the high rates of substance abuse on the internalized shame and homophobia gay men experience in childhood. While that may be true sometimes, there are also proven psychological explanations behind these behaviors. Such behaviors increase the odds of contracting HIV, hepatitis, and other sexually transmitted diseases.Ĭasual observers probably see these behaviors as gay men misbehaving or simply trying to have a good time. Risky behaviors include having unprotected group sex or sharing needles. Some, when high, may engage in risky behaviors. They’re also 10 times more likely to use heroin. Gay and bisexual men are 12 times more likely to use amphetamines than heterosexual men. While meth is the drug most cited by the media, it’s not the only one causing problems. Substance abuse is an epidemic among gay men. ![]() What moves the dead by t kingfisher5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() She lives in North Carolina with her husband, dogs, and chickens who may or may not be possessed. Under a pen name, she also writes bestselling children’s books. KINGFISHER writes fantasy, horror, and occasional oddities, most recently The Twisted Ones and Swordheart. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.Īided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all. ![]() What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. ![]() When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic “The Fall of the House of Usher.” ![]() Crank palace a maze runner novella5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() He will try to fulfill a new-found destiny before his path leads to its inevitable conclusion-and one last meeting with his best friend. Although Newt thought he was running away from his friends to save them from himself, along the way he meets a young mother named Keisha and her son, Dante, who end up saving Newt in a way he could never have imagined.Taking place during the latter events of The Death Cure, Crank Palace tells the story of Newt like never before, from inside his own mind, as he searches for meaning in a life gone horribly wrong. From there, he experiences the gritty nightmare of life on the streets, running from the infected and those hunting them, until he ends up in the Crank Palace, the last dumping ground of those without hope. And Newt can't bear the thought of his friends watching him descend into madness as he succumbs to the virus.Leaving only a note, Newt departs the Berg before the Gladers return from their mission into Denver, Colorado. But now he has a burden that can't be shared with Thomas and the others-the Flare. ![]() Newt has been to hell and back with his friends.The Glade. ![]() |