In the third and last volume of this vivid history, Shelby Foote brings to a close the story of four years of turmoil and strife which altered American life forever. Here, told in rich narrative and as seen from both sides, are those climactic struggles, great and small, on and off the field of battle, which finally decided the fate of this nation.
Their lives were ruined by a brutal attack. Gianna ended up in the hospital and he was thrown in juvie. For Caleb, being apart from Gianna is worse torture than being locked up. Gianna is lost, her mind going to dark places. Emerging, are new threats to her safety and her relationship with Caleb. Gianna struggles with her ability to be Caleb’s girlfriend, while Caleb struggles to hold on to her.
Here James O'Hara shows how the deceptive nature of prophecy in the Aeneid complicates assessment of the poem's attitude toward its hero's achievement and toward the future of Rome under Augustus Caesar. This close study of the language and rhetorical context of the prophecies reveals that they regularly suppress discouraging material: the gods send promising messages to Aeneas and others to spur them on in their struggles, but these struggles often lead to untimely deaths or other disasters only darkly hinted at by the prophecies.
A wickedly duplicitous woman, and a trail of dead bodies, lead the Newport Beach Police to the door of John Struggles, an out of work drummer with a bad attitude and a violent past.
Col. Jack O'Neill and his SG-1 team find themselves stranded on a primitive world where the inhabitants pay homage to the Goa'uld by providing their best specimens as host bodies for their young. Doing so, they would avert total annihilation...while the hosts would be doomed to a living death. For years, the helpless supplicants have been sacrificed. With the new "payment" about to be sent, the team struggles to rescue a terrified populace that does not want their help, while facing the possibility of being marooned forever. And one fact overshadows all else—the Goa'uld are already on their way....
