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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Exiles and The Dry comes a captivating new novel set in a modern ghost town. Carralon Ridge, a once vibrant village in rural New South Wales, has become a shell of itself, its houses and buildings bought up and left to rot by the mining company operating at its borders. A decade into its slow death, surrounded by industrial noise and swathed in thick layers of dust, the skeletal town is all but abandoned,...
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• This is an exciting story about a newspaper reporter who risked his life on countless occasions in Nanking, Singapore, and Manila to provide people throughout the world with riveting coverage of the war in Asia.
• Author Jack Torry spent two and a half years reading hundreds of the subject's newspaper articles, examining scores of letters written by McDaniel's parents and sister, going through personal letters he wrote during the war, and reviewing...
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When Henry Williamson wakes from surgery, he's paralyzed, alone and in the dark. Within hours, the hospital has been overrun by the victims of a new virus. They are gripped by a bloodthirsty, zombie-like rage, desperate to feed on the uninfected. With the help of a handful of the surviving medical staff, Henry must get on his feet, escape from the hospital and get across a countryside ravaged by the flesh-hungry walking corpses to find a way...any...
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Last One Out Shut Off the Lights is a vivid portrait of the last-chance towns of southwest Louisiana, where oil development, industrial pollution, dying wetlands, and the ever-present threat of devastating hurricanes have eroded their inhabitants' sense of home. These stories feature characters struggling to find a foothold in a world that is forever washing out from under them, people who must reckon with their ambivalence about belonging to a place...
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Carralon Ridge, a once vibrant village in rural New South Wales, has become a shell of itself, its houses and buildings bought up and left to rot by the mining company operating at its borders. A decade into its slow death, surrounded by industrial noise and swathed in thick layers of dust, the skeletal town is all but abandoned, with just a handful of residents clinging onto what remains. After years of scorning those who left the Ridge behind as...
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"This is a story she needed to tell; and the rest of the country needs to listen."
— New York Times Book Review
"This vital memoir will change how we look at the opioid crisis and how the media talks about it. A deeply moving and emotional read, STRUNG OUT challenges our preconceived ideas of what addiction looks like."
—Stephanie Land, New York Times bestselling author of Maid
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— New York Times Book Review
"This vital memoir will change how we look at the opioid crisis and how the media talks about it. A deeply moving and emotional read, STRUNG OUT challenges our preconceived ideas of what addiction looks like."
—Stephanie Land, New York Times bestselling author of Maid
In this deeply...
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While growing up in New York, Marilyn Shimon often visited her uncle in California. She saw his scars, gaped at his "31321" tattoo, and listened to his horrific stories of the Holocaust. However, she could not relate to the suffering he endured or understand the significance of his accounts- until now. In this grisly memoir, Marilyn resurrects Murray Scheinberg's stories of six hellish years in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The Polish...
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When Henry Williamson wakes from surgery, he's paralyzed, alone, and in the dark. Within hours, the hospital has been overrun by the victims of a new virus. They are gripped by a bloodthirsty, zombie-like rage, desperate to feed on the uninfected. With the help of a handful of the surviving medical staff, Henry must get on his feet, escape from the hospital, and get across a countryside ravaged by the flesh-hungry walking corpses to find a way - any...
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Erin Khar's memoir is the story of her 15-year addiction to heroin, starting at age thirteen, and her eventual recovery. Khar explores the psychology of addiction and the reasons why she turned to opiods, the lies she told herself and others as an addict, the shame and stigma that prevented her from getting help for years, and her motivations for ultimately deciding to get clean.
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With less than twenty-four hours before the last ark leaves a dying Earth, Dr. Ben Caewood's daughter Sara has gone missing. Finally, the critically acclaimed series about a father and daughter trying to reconcile at the end of the world is collected into a single, unforgettable graphic novel from Marc Guggenheim (Arrow, X-Men) and Eduardo Ferigato (Radiant Black).
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"After a long, cold winter, doors finally open, and children spill out like candies from a box. Amanda is the last one out of the apartment building, with a carton of chalk in her hands. On every inch of the pavement outside, the children draw pictures of flowers and trees, mushrooms and snails, and a few very unexpected things. It's a concrete garden. Their creativity, unfettered in the open air, brings something beautiful, something hopeful, to...
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"It's frustrating. You're the first one in and the last one out. You're working your butt off. But still, you have to watch other coworkers get promoted into shiny new titles, while you're stuck in the same position you've been in for the last five years. Chances are it's not about what you're doing right--it's about what you're doing wrong. How Not to Get Promoted is filled with interviews and stories of people who were being held back by the things...
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First In, Last Out, is the motto of the U.S. Air Force Combat Control Team, and this elite group certainly lives by that slogan. Readers get a captivating look into this lesser-known branch of the special forces. Additionally, as-told-by accounts of clandestine missions offer a window into what it's really like to be the first ones in and the last ones out of war zones.
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"Anchors aweigh! Let's call a spade a spade. Last one out is a rotten egg! We've all heard cliché's before -lots and lots of times. That's the thing. We've heard them so often they've become meaningless. Learn what a cliché was before it became one, and practice weeding cliches out of your writing in favor of more precise language. Examples of cliché-ridden and cliché-free language abound in this title, along with fun exercises to help strengthen...
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"A lively and entertaining picture book for young children by Japanese science fiction picture book master Tatsuhide Matsuoka. Listen, whose voice is it? It turns out to be Ling calling Ming. Then, the kitten, the pony, the frog, the puppy, the mallard duck, the dinosaur and the goat make their own voices in turn and join the queue, and everyone guesses who is next to make a sound. The last one out is the little snail, but does a little snail make...
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"From the bestselling author of Hidden Pictures comes a breathtaking work of suspense about a father trying to save his daughter from a life-altering decision that will put everything he loves on the line. Frank Szatowski is shocked when his daughter, Maggie, calls him for the first time in three years. He was convinced that their estrangement would become permanent. He's even more surprised when she invites him to her upcoming wedding in New Hampshire....
