Download or read book The Maw written by Taylor Zajonc and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Clive Cussler Grandmaster Adventure Writer's Competition 2019 Oregon Book Awards Finalist For fans of Clive Cussler and Michael Crichton, a thrilling tale of an underground expedition to the deep . . . and the ultimate struggle for survival. Milo Luttrell never expected to step inside the mouth of an ancient cave in rural Tanzania. After all, he's a historian—not an archaeologist. Summoned under the guise of a mysterious life-changing opportunity, Milo suddenly finds himself in the midst of an expedition into the largest underground system in Africa, helmed by a brash billionaire-turned-exploration guru and his elite team of cavers. It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to finally solve a century-old disappearance of the famed explorer Lord Riley DeWar, an enigmatic figure who both made—and nearly ruined—Milo's fledgling career. Determined to make the most of his second chance, Milo joins the team and begins a harrowing descent into one of Earth's last secrets: a dangerous, pitch-black realm of twisting passages and ancient fossils nearly two thousand feet underground. But when a storm hits the surface base camp, stranding the cavers and washing away supplies, all communication to the outside world is lost. As the remaining resources dwindle and members of the team begin to exhibit strange and terrifying abilities, Milo must brave the encroaching darkness to unearth the truth behind DeWar's fascination with the deep—and why he never left.

Download or read book Maw 1 written by Jude Ellison S. Doyle and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when one woman becomes the real monster society has always made her out to be? Dragged by her sister Wendy to a feminist retreat on the remote island of Angitia, Marion Angela Weber hopes to gain some perspective and empowerment... that isn’t at the bottom of a bottle. But everything is horribly derailed after an assault on their first night there. The violent encounter awakens something in Marion she never imagined, triggering warped mutations in her body, and awakening a hunger she can’t bring herself to name. When the townsfolk react with suspicion and violence, what unforgivable act will transform Marion into the very monster they’ve made her out to be?

Download or read book Maw written by Jude Ellison S. Doyle and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana, the ethereal, larger-than-life feminist commune leader, prepares Marion to become the vessel for all of the rage and suffering of the commune -- and of women everywhere. Marion and the other women on the commune take their revenge on Chuck and Howie as scapegoats for the sins of mankind. But will their brutal justice resolve the seemingly endless cycle of violence, or will it continue until it devours the entire island—and perhaps even the entire world?

Download or read book Storage Unit for the Spirit House written by Maw Shein Win and published by Omnidawn. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With sharp focus and startling language, the poems in Maw Shein Win's second full-length book, Storage Unit for the Spirit House use physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral, the material, and the immaterial. Vinyl records, felt wolverines, a belt used to punish children, pain pills, and "show dogs with bejeweled collars" crowd into Win's real and imagined storage units. Nats, Buddhist animist deities from her family's homeland of Burma, haunt the book's six sections, as forgotten children sleep under Mylar blankets and daughters try to see through the haze of a father's cigarette smoke. The artful assemblages of both earthly and noncorporeal possessions throughout the collection become resonant and alive, and Win must summon "a circle of drums and copper bells" to appease the nats who have moved into a long-ago family house. This carefully curated collection of unlikely objects and images creates an act of ritual that uses language to interrogate how pain can transform into a nat or a siren. The minimal line length belies maximal imagination in this remarkable new book"--

Download or read book The Cat s Maw written by Brooke Burgess and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sleepy town of Appleton, a young loner follows a cat onto the road and is struck by a car. A leg is shattered, a summer is ruined, and the troubled life of Billy Brahm goes from bad to cursed.

Download or read book One Blood written by Denene Millner and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A People Magazine Pick. “In delicious, decadent prose, Denene Millner does what few authors can–compose a sprawling multigenerational tale that is necessary American reading. One Blood sings the song of the South in a voice that is heartbreaking, hopeful, and resilient. A masterpiece.” –Tara M. Stringfellow, National Bestselling author of Memphis Join New York Times bestselling author Denene Millner as she explores the lives of three generations of women tied together by love, hope, dreams, ambition...and family secrets in this epic novel. Meet Grace: raised by her beloved grandmother in tension-filled, post-segregation Virginia, Grace is barely a teenager when she loses her grandmother. Shellshocked, she is shipped up North to live with her formidably ambitious Aunt Hattie―a woman who firmly left behind her Southern roots in pursuit of upward mobility. Feeling like a fish out of water in the high society world filled with fancy teas and coveted debutante balls, Grace’s only place of comfort is with the smart, handsome son of one of the society’s grand dames. Meet Delores: beautiful, intelligent and fierce, Delores a.k.a. Lolo has never had it easy. Once she makes it north, she puts aside her dream of being a model to do what she has to do to survive as a woman with little money and no mooring: get married and have a family of her own. When secrets start to spill out and she and her family slowly begin to unravel, Lolo is willing to do whatever it takes to keep her dream intact and those she loves together. Meet Rae: when Lolo’s headstrong daughter, Rae discovers that she is adopted, it’s just one secret among others that her family is keeping. When Rae finds out that she’s about to become a mother herself, she knows that there is an important reckoning that must be faced about herself and her two mothers. Potent, poetic, powerful, told with deep love, and spanning from the Great Migration to the civil unrest of the 1960s to the quest for women’s equality in early 2000s, Denene Millner’s beautifully wrought novel explores three women’s intimate, and often complicated, struggle with what it truly means to be family. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book In the Maw of the Earth Monster written by James E. Brady and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As portals to the supernatural realm that creates and animates the universe, caves have always been held sacred by the peoples of Mesoamerica. From ancient times to the present, Mesoamericans have made pilgrimages to caves for ceremonies ranging from rituals of passage to petitions for rain and a plentiful harvest. So important were caves to the pre-Hispanic peoples that they are mentioned in Maya hieroglyphic writing and portrayed in the Central Mexican and Oaxacan pictorial codices. Many ancient settlements were located in proximity to caves. This volume gathers papers from twenty prominent Mesoamerican archaeologists, linguists, and ethnographers to present a state-of-the-art survey of ritual cave use in Mesoamerica from Pre-Columbian times to the present. Organized geographically, the book examines cave use in Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya region. Some reports present detailed site studies, while others offer new theoretical understandings of cave rituals. As a whole, the collection validates cave study as the cutting edge of scientific investigation of indigenous ritual and belief. It confirms that the indigenous religious system of Mesoamerica was and still is much more terrestrially focused that has been generally appreciated.

Download or read book Family Stories written by James C. McMillan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-06-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family stories are typically passed down by word of mouth, and thus over the generations much our family history is lost forever. This anthology collects letters and stories actually written down by various people so that future generations can read them and have some inkling of what people were like. Included in the anthology are stories of what it was like growing up in the 1930’s, 1950’s, and 1960’s. Also included are detailed stories of actual events that had significant impact on the individuals who wrote them done, including: • taking a grandmother to church on a sled pulled by an ox • a best friend killed in action during World War I • a tragic car accident that left a man paralyzed • a cattle round-up • a father’s suicide

Download or read book The Story of Bug A Memoir of Resilience written by Jane Aylor Fretz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Bug is a rich, evocative memoir about growing up in southern West Virginia, where the author's dramatic, mercurial mother's violent outbursts keep her family on edge. As a young child, Bug longs for love from the one woman who means the most to her. She feels her aching heart is being kept on a leash, tied to the mother she never really knows. A plucky, imaginative and resilient little girl, Bug defends the weak, cares for the wounded, and faces down danger. As she watches her mother peel back layers of rage, the warring between her parents increases. Finding herself in the unique position of having to parent her parents. Bug learns to care for herself as she monitors the violence and her mother's downward spiral. Written after the deaths of her parents, this moving memoir reckons with the author's difficult past and is an act of both resurrection and reconciliation.

Download or read book Louvenia s Quest written by Wanda F. Jackson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louvenia Buchanan interviews her great-grandmother Mary Clotel Baker Buchanan as a class project and discovers that her Maw Maw has a wealth of information to share about freedom, education, and some of the most influential African Americans in history. Louvenia also learns about her own ancestors who were kidnapped and brought to America . Her project is so exciting that it wins First Place, and Maw Maw is invited to the school to receive an award! ForeWord Clarion Book Review

Download or read book Waking Ghosts written by Carla Jean Cranfill and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lovey Batistes Mama brings her home to a small Louisiana town filled with people who hate them and a Grandmother she never knew she had, she begins to slowly unravel family secrets that she, her beloved Mama and her new Maw Maw can never escape, which makes her wonder if you ever really can come home again. Eleven year old Lovey Batiste comes face to face with a past she never knew she had. Even worse, she has no idea that she will be paying the price for the mistakes the women in her family have made. When her Mama realizes that they can no longer live on their own, Lovey is plucked from the only city shes ever known into the lives of the people of small town Franklin City, Louisiana with only her mother to lean on and no father to fight her battles. In getting to know herself and a Maw Maw who seems to hate her she learns the secrets that her Mama has kept from her for her entire life. Her journey takes her down a dark road paved with violence, promiscuity and self-loathing. Can she come to terms with the burden her family name has put upon her or will she fall prey to the future the women in the Batiste family seem doomed to carry?

Download or read book Going to See the Elephant written by Karen Hensel and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The action takes place before a sod hut in the Kansas wilderness of the 1870s, where four frontier women wrest a living from the stubborn soil. The matriarch of the group is Ma, a feisty, resourceful survivor whose wanderlust is still st

Download or read book Our Young People written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Slap Dab written by R. W. Taylor and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slap dab. What is it? Well, it can be anything you want it to be! It can be something youve found, something youve lost, something funny, something strange and something messy and muddy especially if left out in the rain! Get ready to play in the slap dab and meet such characters as Cock-a-Doodle-Dog, Boe Boe and Hissy with the story of the rattle snake who had lost his rattle, Lenny the Lying Lion, a Yorkshire Alligator in New York, Nit Wit and Flea Bag, Maw Maw the lazy magpie, Boney the dinosaur with a weak bladder, White Rabbit White Rabbit White Rabbit and the Crisscross Kiss Monsters, as well as a rhyme here and there. Of course you may meet anyone of them when you walk down the street today, but just in case you dont, why not read on and meet some new friends who may surprise you!

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Download or read book Fingerprints Of Jesus written by Jennifer Cheshire and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fingerprints of Jesus is a journey through a woman's life who knew the pain of abuse and great loss at a very young age. As a small child, fear gripped most of her days. However, in the midst of the darkness was her precious grandmother, who was her only light. Her grandmother's love, memories, and teachings live in the quiet, safe places in her mind and heart. The constant struggle with anxiety, fear, and worthlessness paved the way for difficulties to come. The damaging scars carried into teen and adulthood for this woman are shown in vivid color. Through the winding pathways of life, stumbling over mistakes and disappointments, she finds true hope. When all seemed lost, and the bottom couldn't be any further down, somehow there's hope. This hope is only found in Jesus Christ. Could the prayers her sweet widowed grandmother prayed over her live on in heaven forever? Come and see how Jesus intervenes in the life of brokenness she has found herself. Still carrying the scars from a painful childhood, she's desperately trying to be a good wife and mother. With certain failure and the pain of a broken marriage gripping her soul, God has other plans. See how God can transform lives and change the entire trajectory of her family. Through every twist and turn, see God's perfect timing working for the good of all. Watch the bonds of unforgiveness break as the love of Jesus is felt in the heart and soul of this woman. Though the walk was not easy, she could face the morning because Jesus was by her side. Step by step, see how the beautiful truths told in the Bible come to life in the lives of this family. As you read, you too will see the "fingerprints of Jesus."

Download or read book The Fog of Paranoia written by Sarah Rae and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pat and Sarah had long been friends, not just brother and sister. They supported each other, shared music and movies, and confided in each other as they went through the many challenging stages of adolescence. But something began to change in Pat. He was convinced people were watching him, spying on him. Once outgoing and sociable, he began to withdraw into a world of his own, on the inside, where social engagement was not necessary nor desired. He stopped taking care of his personal hygiene. Conversation became increasingly difficult. After a series of visits with psychologists, he was diagnosed at first with bi-polar disorder, and then, more accurately with schizophrenia with paranoid delusions. His world, and that of his sister’s, changed forever. This is the story of one sister’s fight to convince her family that her brother needed help, that initial efforts to curtail his symptoms were inadequate, that he needed additional intervention. At the same time, it is the story of her own struggles with anxiety and depression, and coping with the changes in her life as her brother suffered at home. And finally, it is the story of one family’s acceptance of a difficult diagnosis and their embracing of the child and brother they have always known and loved. Schizophrenia, indeed mental illness in general, is often misunderstood and therefore feared by society at large. Here, the author helps to dislodge some long-held assumptions about mental illness and encourages readers to ask questions, to offer help and support, and to advocate for assistance for anyone suffering mental illness before it’s too late. She offers a voice to all the sisters and brothers of the mentally ill, so that they may find comfort in her words and hope for their siblings.