![]() ![]() "This exciting story of tenacity, determination, and ingenuity is hard to put down, and thank heavens nothing happens to the dog." - NPR Can Maddie’s stubborn will to survive carry her through the most frightening experience of her life? But Maddie’s most formidable enemy is the crushing loneliness she faces every day. After a rough start, Maddie learns to trust her own ingenuity and invents clever ways to survive in a place that has been deserted and forgotten.Īs months pass, she escapes natural disasters, looters, and wild animals. ![]() Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. She’s alone-left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. Winner of the Colorado Book Award, the High Plains Book Award, an NCTE Notable Verse Novel, a Goodreads Choice Award Finalist, and named on multiple Best of 2021 book lists, ALONE is a " Hatchet for a new age." ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() A multiple award winning, critically acclaimed masterpiece and one of the most iconic, bestselling comic book series of its time. An epic for mature readers, Saga follows new parents Marko and Alana as they risk everything to raise their child amidst a never-ending galactic war. ![]() Romeo & Juliet meets Star Wars in this genre-blending, sci-fi/fantasy space opera about star crossed lovers from enemy worlds. A CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC CELEBRATING A DECADE OF EXCELLENCE! At long last, Hazel and her star-crossed family are finally back, and they've made some new.friends? This collection features the latest six chapters of the most epic adventure in comics, including the series' double-sized first issue back from hiatus. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() (□: The character remains as a soul or ghost) †: The character is deceased and passed on to the afterlife ![]() (✩: Subsequent leader / ✦: Leader of their own faction within the group) ![]() As such, the Ripple was created to fight off vampires, and its process allows users to return this "flow" back to normal and revive the souls of vampires for a last moment before their death. According to the dynamics of the arts of the Ripple and Will Anthonio Zeppeli, all living beings on Earth bear energy from the sun, but vampires are considered beings whose natural "flow" of energy has been reversed and perverted. The other way is for a vampire to give a corpse some of their own blood. One way is to wear the Stone Mask while exposing it to blood. This would then lead the Pillar Men to discover the Red Stone of Aja, which can be combined with the Stone Mask to make them perfect, granting them immunity to sunlight and allowing them to rewrite their DNA. ![]() The purpose of the vampires was to become food for the Pillar Men and to explore human potential. Vampires were created by the Pillar Men with acupuncture techniques that they developed through the use of the Stone Mask. ![]() ![]() Calloused palms plant the seeds, nurse the seedlings under a shade canopy, transplant them to mountainside ranks, prune and fertilize, spray for pests, irrigate, harvest, and lug two hundred–pound bags of coffee cherries. ![]() It is an incredibly labor-intensive crop. At various times it has been prescribed as an aphrodisiac, enema, nerve tonic, and life extender.Ĭoffee provides a livelihood (of sorts) for some 100 million human beings. ![]() In the form of a hot infusion of its ground, roasted seeds, coffee is consumed for its bittersweet bouquet, its mind-racing jump start, and social bonding. From its original African home, coffee propagation has spread in a girdle around the globe, taking over whole plains and mountainsides between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Yet coffee is big business, one of the world’s most valuable agricultural commodities, providing the largest jolt of the world’s most widely taken psychoactive drug. The evergreen leaves form glossy ovals and, like the seeds, are laced with caffeine. ![]() It first grew on a shrub-or small tree, depending on your perspective or height-under the Ethiopian rain forest canopy, high on the mountainsides. It is only a berry, encasing a double-sided seed. trifle away their time, scald their Chops, and spend their Money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty bitter stinking, nauseous Puddle water? “In Praise of Coffee,” Arabic poem (1511) This is the beverage of the friends of God. O Coffee! Thou dost dispel all care, thou are the object of desire to the scholar. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hume also divides people’s perception of the world into two categories, ideas and impressions, where one is dependent on the other: “the ideas I form are exact representations of the impressions I felt nor is there any circumstance of the one, which is not to be found in the other” (Hume 3). ![]() The author argues that innate ideas no longer exist: “the principle of innate ideas has been already refuted, and is now almost universally rejected in the learned world” (Hume 158). This sentence summarizes the entire argument of Book I Hume claims that all human knowledge is based on experience or in some way derived from it. He follows the popular notion of empiricism by arguing that experience and observation are essential in most science subjects, as well as in the study of human nature: “as the science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences, so the only solid foundation we can give to this science itself must be laid on experience and observation” (Hume xx). ![]() In the introduction to Book I, Hume claims that all sciences are ultimately dependent on human knowledge, yet the subject of knowledge is rarely addressed adequately by the scholars (xix). ![]() |