The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Dorian, who reveals that he owns a circus. The mother is killed, but the child is spared and taken in by Mr. Brogan is stopped by a pair of Sasquatch. An avalanche interrupts the ceremony, and in the chaos Brogan tries to steal the golden spike. Dorian, is there to take pictures of the event. One of the workers, Brogan, sees the gold spike as an insult, as they have been working for some time without getting paid. There’s only one final rail spike that needs to be laid, one that Van Horne had made out of solid gold. Will meets up with his father who is finishing his last day of work. Will is craving adventure, so he goes with Van Horne to surprise his father. Will never makes it to the circus though, as he runs into a rich man named Van Horne, who happens to be the owner of the rails that his father is working on. ![]() She takes a Sasquatch tooth that his father had given him, intending to return it when he sees her at the circus. Will runs into a circus worker, Maren, who notices that he’s a skilled artist. Will Everett arrives at the train station, Farewell, waiting for his father, James, to return from laying down rails. ![]()
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Revolutionary mothers book6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She introduces us to 16-year-old Sybil Ludington, who sped through the night to rouse the militiamen needed to defend Danbury, Connecticut to Phillis Wheatley, literary prodigy and Boston slave who voiced the hopes of African Americans in poems to Margaret Corbin, crippled for life when she took her husband's place beside a cannon at Fort Monmouth to the women who gathered firewood, cooked, cleaned for the troops, nursed the wounded, and risked their lives carrying intelligence and participating in reconnaissance missions. ![]() We see how they managed farms, plantations, and businesses while their men went into battle, and how they served as nurses and cooks in the army camps, risked their lives seeking personal freedom from slavery, and served as spies, saboteurs, and warriors. We see women boycotting British goods in the years before independence, writing propaganda that radicalized their neighbors, raising funds for the army, and helping finance the fledgling government. The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American, and Carol Berkin shows us that women played a vital role throughout the struggle.īerkin takes us into the ordinary moments of extraordinary lives. ![]() Elnathan john books6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Before long, he is faced with a terrible conflict of loyalties, as one of the sheikh’s closest advisors begins to raise his own radical movement. With his quick aptitude and modest nature, Dantala becomes a favored apprentice to the mosque’s sheikh. He makes his way to a mosque that provides him with food, shelter, and guidance. When their attempt to burn down the opposition’s local headquarters ends in disaster, Dantala must run for his life, leaving his best friend behind. During the election, the boys are paid by the Small Party to cause trouble. In far northwestern Nigeria, Dantala lives among a gang of street boys who sleep under a kuka tree. From two-time Caine Prize finalist Elnathan John, a dynamic young voice from Nigeria, Born on a Tuesday is a stirring, starkly rendered first novel about a young boy struggling to find his place in a society that is fracturing along religious and political lines. ![]() Vurt book6/30/2023 ![]() To explain silver feathers, and vurt further, you must think of vurt feathers as a kind of magnetic tape for the mind. Silver vurt feathers are "empty feathers, that have yet to be instilled or "programed" to be mind altering. Yellow feathers are the most rare and dangerous feathers, because they are like a game, you can win, and come back to reality, or you can lose, and get stuck in the vurt world, which in turn will cause something from the vurt world to cross over into the real world in exchange for you. Cream colored feathers indicate that the feather has already been used and is therefore no longer any good. Black feathers are the equivalent of " bad trips" on LSD, they produce uncomfortable, usually negative experiences. One pink feather in the novel "Vurt" is callled "Catholic Fuck". I think you get the picture what pink feathers are all about: sex. Pink vurt is most commonly known as "pornovurt". Blue feathers are the only legal ones, and they produce pleasureable experiences, such as frolicking through a field of daisies on a sunny day, or playing a game of soccer. The basic effects of a vurt depend upon the color of the feather. ![]() The drug comes in the form of a feather that you put into your mouth and then you enter a dream like state, however remain conscious. ![]() Vurt is a novel by Jeff Noon that was published in February 1996 by St. ![]() |