The 1956 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War.

In this ebook, I discuss 18 ideas that are considered common sense by many people or are the conventional wisdom among some people but that are, nevertheless, wrong, including: A good way to deal with terrorists is through drone strikes. We own the Earth. The 2nd Amendment gives us the right to keep assault weapons. Evolution is a fact. The end justifies the means. Jesus Christ is the Son of God.Paolo Manfredi is an affirmed paediatric surgeon who lives and works in Paris. Born in Torre dell'Isola, a town not too far from Palermo, after high school he left Sicily, a land then upset by serious upheavals, to pursue his ambitions. After thirty years, he comes back with his wife and his children to celebrate his fiftieth birthday, and to retrace the steps of a brusquely interrupted personal and civil history. He finds a deeply changed world, and walking on the footsteps of his own past, searching for his Sicily, he finds again his old friends, and with them the emotions he denied for a long time, his cut roots, his childhood places, changed yet still deeply intact. In the nostalgic memory of his past life, Paolo learns to look at the events from the point of view of those who stayed and fought so that the identity of a people wouldn’t be lost.

Hit Points: Gettysburg Generals is a short story about General Grant and General Sherman who must take out the Gray team. To do it they'll need to use plasma rifles, precious drops from previous kills and manage a healthy amount of respawning. Not to mention the fact that they'll need to do something that is almost impossible: work together.Kira has built up a reputation as a transporter and escort. She takes on a contract to work her way into a pirates nest. However her audacity, skill and ability enable her to make rapid progress within the pirate ranks. Does she complete her contract, or turn coat and stay within the ranks. Only time will tell.

The original poetry--dulcet and dissonant, supercilious and super-silly--of the eighth graders in Mr. Stewart's English classes.Watreon is on the brink of war. A fact that has eluded Ryhan until days before her sixteenth birthday. Drought has crippled her village and made it nearly impossible to live in. Angry and confused by what their king’s lust for power has done to their land, her family is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. Packed and ready to venture into the unknown, everything changes the night before they are set to leave. Ryhan discovers a secret that her mother has been hiding from her. Not only was she one of five girls born under a shooting sapphire star, but she possesses the elemental power of fire and is part of a prophecy about the coming war. Setting out to find the other daughters she leaves her mother and father for a journey she never expected. Along the way she faces the challenge of learning and controlling her powers, experiences love and heartbreak, and struggles to accept the life she is destined for. All the while testing the peace keeping limits of Evangeline, whose elemental power of spirit is used to bridge their powers and keep the five of them connected. Together they cross an ocean to seek out Alexandra, Lillian and Victoria. Battling evil forces at every turn, they race to meet with the magical council to start training. Each girl wrestles with the reality unfolding before them and the choices they will all be forced to make. Overwhelmed with expectations, they hope that their powers of earth, air, fire, water and spirit are enough to defeat their enemies and save not only themselves but all of Watreon.

Poetry in God, Soul and Life beyond, with a new perceptionThis book consists of 160 poems about God, Soul and Life beyond looking from logical aspects in a style suited to common people of all adults across the globe. Some of them much thought provoking and some for introspection; Almost all poems are in blank verse type and metric. These poems got births during 2013

From ghost stories to psychological suspense, the complete horror and dark fantasy stories of Rudyard Kipling. Rudyard Kipling, a major figure of English literature, used the full power and intensity of his imagination and his writing ability in his excursions into fantasy. Kipling is considered one of England's greatest writers, but was born in Bombay. He was educated in England, but returned to India in 1882, where he began writing fantasy and supernatural stories set in his native continent: "The Phantom Rickshaw," "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes," and his most famous horror story, "The Mark of the Beast" (1890). This masterwork collection, edited by Stephen Jones (Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed anthologist) for the first time collects all of Kipling's fantastic fiction, ranging from traditional ghostly tales to psychological horror.

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Language of Flowers comes her much-anticipated new novel about young love, hard choices, and hope against all odds. For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children—Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, six—in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty’s parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain is challenging for Letty, especially as Luna desperately misses her grandparents and Alex, who is falling in love with a classmate, is unwilling to give his mother a chance. Letty comes up with a plan to help the family escape the dangerous neighborhood and heartbreaking injustice that have marked their lives, but one wrong move could jeopardize everything she’s worked for and her family’s fragile hopes for the future. Vanessa Diffenbaugh blends gorgeous prose with compelling themes of motherhood, undocumented immigration, and the American Dream in a powerful and prescient story about family.

No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his dear animal friend. There has been a film and even a musical based on this moving story, a fine work of great American literature.

Thailand's pristine Ko Phi Phi island attracts tourists from around the world. There, struggling to make ends meet, small-resort owners Lek and Sarai are happy to give an American named Patch room and board in exchange for his help. But when Patch's brother, Ryan, arrives, accompanied by his girlfriend, Brooke, Lek learns that Patch is running from the law, and his presence puts Lek's family at risk. Meanwhile, Brooke begins to doubt her love for Ryan while her feelings for Patch blossom.In a landscape where nature's bounty seems endless, these two families are swept up in an approaching cataclysm that will require all their strength of heart and soul to survive...

From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End of Your Life Book Club - a wonderfully engaging new book: both a celebration of reading in general and an impassioned recommendation of specific books that can help guide us through our daily lives. "I've always believed that everything you need to know you can find in a book," writes Will Schwalbe in his introduction to this thought-provoking, heartfelt, and inspiring new book about books. In each chapter he makes clear the ways in which a particular book has helped to shape how he leads his own life and the ways in which it might help to shape ours. He talks about what brought him to each book - or vice versa; the people in his life he associates each book with; how each has led him to other books; how each is part of his understanding of himself in the world. And he relates each book to a question of our daily lives, for example: Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener speaks to quitting; 1984 to disconnecting from our electronics; James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room to the power of finding ourselves and connecting with one another; Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea to taking time to recharge; Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird to being sensitive to the surrounding world; The Little Prince to making friends; Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train to trusting. Here, too, are books by Dickens, Daphne du Maurier, Haruki Murakami, Edna Lewis, E. B. White, and Hanya Yanagihara, among many others. A treasure of a book for everyone who loves books, loves reading, and loves to hear the answer to the question: "What are you reading?"

Librarian’s note: An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here. Donor 3319 Profile: Tall. Blonde. Blue eyes. Medical Student. Wanted for Serial Murder. Christine Nilsson and her husband, Marcus, are desperate for a baby. Unable to conceive, they find themselves facing a difficult choice they had never anticipated. After many appointments with specialists, endless research, and countless conversations, they make the decision to use a donor. Two months pass, and Christine is happily pregnant. But one day, she is shocked to see a young blond man on the TV news being arrested for a series of brutal murders—and the blond man bears an undeniable and uncanny resemblance to her donor. Delving deeper to uncover the truth, Christine must confront a terrifying reality and face her worst fears. Riveting and fast-paced with the depth of emotionality that has garnered Lisa Scottoline legions of fans, Most Wanted poses an ethical and moral dilemma: What would you do if the biological father of your unborn child was a serial killer?

Jim Crace at the top of his game! Allegory, moral fable - a label doesn't really matter. We are taken into the English countryside, to a village with no name - just The Village - at a time which could be any time from the 15th to the 19th century. Extraordinary writing, a prose that over and over touches poetry, wonderful and evocative details, take us to this village and its story told over seven days by Walter Thirsk. A traditional end-of-harvest celebration and a centuries-old way of life, is tragically and brutally overturned. Outside forces of power and greed arrive and with them the culture of "Profit,Progress,Enterprise". Enclosures will soon end what had been a collective style of farming: common land will be stolen from the common people; forests will be cleared and everything will be fenced and hedged and "the sheaf" give "way to sheep". "Harvest" is about loss, displacement, dispossession. What it deals with may be set in a past we can't pin down exactly, but such inhuman practices that accompanied the forced enclosing of land, the destruction of ordinary people's lives and the further enrichment of already rich men, are so evident today across the world, that "Harvest" speaks as much of today as it does of the past.

Ferocious and funny, penetrating and exuberant, Theft is two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey’s master class on the things people will do for art, for love . . . and for money. “I don’t know if my story is grand enough to be a tragedy, although a lot of shitty stuff did happen. It is certainly a love story but that did not begin until midway through the shitty stuff, by which time I had not only lost my eight-year-old son, but also my house and studio in Sydney where I had once been famous as a painter could expect in his own backyard. . .” So begins Peter Carey’s highly charged and lewdly funny new novel. Told by the twin voices of the artist, Butcher Bones, and his “damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother” Hugh, it recounts their adventures and troubles after Butcher’s plummeting prices and spiralling drink problem force them to retreat to New South Wales. Here the formerly famous artist is reduced to being a caretaker for his biggest collector, as well as nurse to his erratic brother. Then the mysterious Marlene turns up in Manolo Blahniks one stormy night. Claiming that the brothers’ friend and neighbour owns an original Jacques Liebovitz, she soon sets in motion a chain of events that could be the making or ruin of them all. Displaying Carey’s extraordinary flare for language, Theft is a love poem of a very different kind. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo – and exploring themes of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption – this great novel will make you laugh out loud. From the Hardcover edition.

In 2190, a New America celebrates its first centennial, marking the time when a wandering rogue turned into a Prophet Warrior rebuilt the battle-scarred country on principles he found in the pages of The Book of Tomorrows, but a hereditary link to a young couple reveals a dark conspiracy that forces them on a fateful journey through the past to save their future tomorrow.Driven by a powerful love story, The Book of Tomorrows is a suspense-filled conspiracy thriller steeped in dark secrets, hidden pasts, ancient truths, and might just turn out to be the first prophetically true story set 175 years in the future, as it puts forth a distinctly credible answer to life’s greatest mystery, life itself.A Trilogy within in a Trilogy, Forever Tomorrow: Volume One of The Book of Tomorrows begins this visionary epic at the end with Book One: Bright Night Past Yesterday. Each volume tells a complete story the reader can enjoy separately, chronologically, or as numerically conceived, starting and ending with Forever Tomorrow. Book Two: Dark Light Present Today of volume one directly follows book one, while holding back Book Three: Evening Dawn Future Tomorrow as the last story told. Readable as its own separate trilogy, Forever Tomorrow tells a tale the whole family can enjoy, while Volume Two: I, Messiah & Volume Three: The Prophet Warrior, contain much darker stories more mature readers can pass down to their children when old enough.In the year 2190, New America is celebrating its first centennial, marking the time when a wandering rogue turned into a Prophet Warrior rebuilt the battle-scarred country on 5 key principles for survival he found in the pages of The Book of Tomorrows. But years later, a hereditary link reveals a dark conspiracy that forces a young couple on a fateful journey through the past to save their future tomorrow. Michael Angel and Eve Adams meet for the first time through a government mandated Selected Breeding Program. He is the unknown heir of the Prophet Warrior and she is a rebel spy of the Free Will Forever (FWF) rebellion specifically recruited to be Michael’s mate. They fall in love at a museum, where they join a group of schoolchildren taking a computer-guided history tour given by an animated, 3-D old man, who looks like a cross between Albert Einstein and The Monopoly Man. Michael works as a researcher for Jacob Rose, the country’s most beloved celebrity and Michael’s best friend. Jacob’s TV specials are a favorite of Guardian Administrator Cain—ancestor of the despot general who co-founded New America with the Prophet Warrior. Michael has to leave on an expedited expedition and makes a fantastic discovery exploring the depths of a submerged New York City on a bold, early morning swim through Rockefeller Center. Meanwhile, Eve is feeling the pressure of not being pregnant from both the SBP and the FWF. Then the discovery of Michael’s hidden ancestral lineage and Eve’s clandestine rebel cause forces them to go seek out ancients truths dating back before the founding of New America to prove the paradox of how great evil can sometimes give birth to a greater good, just as easily as written words meant to save, can also destroy. An edge-of-your-seat, grand action adventure, where no one is who they appear to be, keeping the reader held in suspense until the last page of the spine-tinglingly final chapter of the epic futuristic trilogy is turned. A well-crafted, intelligent thrill-ride, filled with high adventure, true romance and nail-biting cliffhanger endings, The Book of Tomorrows is an inspirational, socially redeeming good story that is sure to elicit more than emotion from the reader.

This book could best be described as a speculative look at the formation and composition of the Universe and the Entities that reside within, including the population of Humans living on this world. Although I will discuss 'other' Entities in the Universe, primarily I focus on our species on this planet and what has transpired since our inception here and our probable fate if nothing changes.It is 2102. On one of the worst days of her life, Amala makes a discovery that will change her life forever. In a world with little use for paper books, she finds tucked away behind a dusty bookshelf the journal of a teenage girl written in 2001. Although over 90 years separate the two teenage girls, Amala soon learns that navigating the difficult waters of adolescence and life transcends time, but more importantly, she uncovers a valuable story about faith in an uncertain world that resonates with her own experience.Young adults are certain to appreciate the fresh, authentic writing style taken from actual teenage journals and the candid way challenging, relevant issues are addressed.