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The Terror: A Novel by Dan Simmons
Book Description
The bestselling author of Ilium and Olympos
transforms thetrue story of a legendary Arctic expedition into a
thriller worthy ofStephen King or Patrick O'Brian. Their captain's
insane vision of a Northwest Passage has kept the crewmenof The Terror
trapped in Arctic ice for two years without a thaw. But thereal threat
to their survival isn't the ever-shifting landscape of white,the
provisions that have turned to poison before they open them, or theship
slowly buckling in the grip of the frozen ocean. The real threat
iswhatever is out in the frigid darkness, stalking their ship,
snatching oneseaman at a time or whole crews, leaving bodies mangled
horribly or missingforever. Captain Crozier takes over the expedition
after the creature kills itsoriginal leader, Sir John Franklin. Drawing
equally on his own strengths asa seaman and the mystical beliefs of the
Eskimo woman he's rescued, Croziersets a course on foot out of the
Arctic and away from the insatiable beast.But every day the dwindling
crew becomes more deranged and mutinous, untilCrozier begins to fear
there is no escape from an ever-more-inconceivablenightmare. Pdf Created Especially For EnglishTips.Org
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TTC - Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia
What
pieces of a distant past drift before our mind's eye when ancient
Mesopotamia is mentioned?
Do we see the temples known as ziggurats, thrust toward the sky by
stepped platforms that would bring worshippers closer to the gods they
honored? Entire populations paralyzed by fear before a dreaded invader,
their dreams haunted by images of their own severed heads held aloft?
Priests making sacrifices to the gods who ruled over and protected
their city? Or the fabled Hanging Gardens of Babylon, their terraces as
shadowed by mystery as they are set alight by color?
Any of these, of course, may come to mind. Perhaps all of them. And
with the exception of Babylon's fabled gardens, whose existence has
never actually been confirmed, they are all true—each
a part of the legacy of a region from which our own culture has drawn
so many essential aspects, including writing, the first code of law,
the idea of cities, and even the first epic poem. All cultures lie in
the shadow of Mesopotamia.
What elevates Palahniuk's best novels (e.g., Fight Club) above their shocking premises is his ability to find humanity in deeply grotesque characters. But such generosity of spirit is not evident in his latest, which charts the trials of a group of aspiring writers brought together for a three-month writer's retreat in an abandoned theater. The novel intersperses the writers' poems and short stories with tales of the indignities they heap upon themselves after deciding to turn their lives into a "true-life horror story with a happy ending."
Maddy and her friend Cate are in Egypt on a school trip. They keep seeing a mysterious man in a black suit. Then they look in Cate's bag and are shocked at what they find. Should they tell somebody about their discovery? Why is the man in black following them?
TTC - Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia
