A Merciless Place
Author: Emma Christopher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-07
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 0199782555
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"First published in Australia in 2010 by Allen & Unwin"--T.p. verso.
Author: Emma Christopher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-07
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 0199782555
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"First published in Australia in 2010 by Allen & Unwin"--T.p. verso.
Author: Emma Christopher
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2011-08-11
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 0191623520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a story lost to history for over two hundred years; a dirty secret of failure, fatal misjudgement and desperate measures which the British Empire chose to forget almost as soon as it was over. In the wake of its most crushing defeat, the America War of Independence, the British Government began shipping its criminals to West Africa. Some were transported aboard ships going to pick up their other human cargo: African slaves. When they arrived at their destination, soldiers and even convicts were forced to work in the region's slave-trading forts guarding the human merchandise. In a few short years the scheme brought death, wholesale desertions, mutiny, piracy and even murder. Some of the most egregious crimes were not committed by the exported criminals but by those sent out to guard them. Acts of wanton desperation added to rash transgressions as those whom society had already thrown out realised that they had nothing left to lose. As jail and prison hulks overflowed, and as every other alternative settlement proved unsuitable, the British Government gambled and decided to send its criminals as far away as possible, to the great south land sighted years before by Captain James Cook. Out of the embers of the African debacle came the modern nation of Australia. The extraordinary tale is now being told for the first time - how a small band of good-for-nothing members of the British Empire spanned the world from America, to Africa, and on to Australia, profoundly if utterly unwittingly changing history.
Author: Danielle Vega
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2019-06-04
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0593113578
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Page-to-page Stephen King-style terror..."—Booklist "The Merciless is chilling...think 'Mean Girls' meets 'The Exorcist.'"—MTV.com “Pretty Little Liars fans, get a sneak peek at your new favorite book The Merciless…a nail biting thriller.”—Seventeen Magazine Brooklyn Stevens sits in a pool of her own blood, tied up and gagged. No one outside of these dank basement walls knows she’s here. No one can hear her scream. Sofia Flores knows she shouldn’t have gotten involved. When she befriended Riley, Grace, and Alexis on her first day at school, she admired them, with their perfect hair and their good-girl ways. They said they wanted to save Brooklyn. They wanted to help her. Sofia didn’t realize they believed Brooklyn was possessed. Now, Riley and the girls are performing an exorcism on Brooklyn—but their idea of an exorcism is closer to torture than salvation. All Sofia wants is to get out of this house. But there is no way out. Sofia can’t go against the other girls...unless she wants to be next. By the shockingly twisted end, readers will be faced with the most haunting question of all: Is there evil in all of us?
Author: Emma Christopher
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 1742372279
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, the author has found the 'missing link' between the American Revolution and The Fatal Shore, and tells the extraordinary story - lost for two centuries - of how a failed British attempt to establish a penal colony in West Africa led to their eventual decision to abandon their African plans and establish a new colony in the recently discovered colony known as New South Wales.
Author: Robin Parrish
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0764201794
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ancient buildings are pulverized into dust. Fire and blood rain down from the sky. Oblivion has come to Earth.
Author: Danielle Vega
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0448493527
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While trying to locate and save an anonymous caller to her teen helpline, sixteen-year-old Brooklyn Stephens becomes involved with the Christ First Church's cultish youth group and the pastor's hot son and adopted daughter, but will Brooklyn's attempt to rescue a victim of abuse and rid the church of evil only make her vulnerable to the demons hiding in everyone?
Author: Diana Palmer
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-04-24
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1459227018
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tall, dark and eligible? That's all that matters to the women of Jacobsville when it comes to handsome and aloof FBI agent Jon Blackhawk. But if it were up to him, he would never settle down. Luckily, Jon has a gatekeeper: his efficient and reliable assistant, Joceline Perry. Without her help, he'd be at the mercy of husband hunters—but the more he comes to rely on her, the more he notices how invaluable she really is.… While Joceline can't deny that her boss is attractive, as a single mother with responsibilities she's determined to be professional. But when Jon is accosted by a criminal seeking revenge, she comes to his aid—fueling the spark that is growing between them. As the danger to Jon's safety grows, Joceline stands by his side. But when the smoke clears, will the man who avoided love realize that all he ever needed was right there all along?
Author: Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2011-01-04
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1609800303
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arguably one of Italy’s greatest contemporary writers, Natalia Ginzburg has been best known in America as a writer’s writer, quiet beloved of her fellow wordsmiths. This collection of personal essays chosen by the eminent American writer Lynne Sharon Schwartz from four of Ginzburg’s books written over the course of Ginzburg’s lifetime was a many-years long project for Schwartz. These essays are deeply felt, but also disarmingly accessible. Full of self-doubt and searing insight, Ginzburg is merciless in her attempts to describe herself and her world—and yet paradoxically, her self-deprecating remarks reveal her deeper confidence in her own eye and writing ability, as well as the weight and nuance of her exploration of the conflict between humane values and bureaucratic rigidity.
Author: Rachel Cusk
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0374720797
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A haunting fable of art, family, and fate from the author of the Outline trilogy. A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence itself becomes an enigma—and disrupts the calm of her secluded household. Second Place, Rachel Cusk’s electrifying new novel, is a study of female fate and male privilege, the geometries of human relationships, and the moral questions that animate our lives. It reminds us of art’s capacity to uplift—and to destroy.
Author: Danielle Vega
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017-06-06
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1595147276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Danielle Vega—YA’s answer to Stephen King—once again brings major scares in the spine-tingling sequel to horror hit The Merciless, which MTV calls “Mean Girls meets The Exorcist.” Sofia is still processing the horrific truth of what happened when she and three friends performed an exorcism that spiraled horribly out of control. Ever since that night, Sofia has been haunted by bloody and demonic visions. Her therapist says they’re all in her head, but to Sofia they feel chillingly real. She just wants to get out of town, start fresh someplace else . . . until her mother dies suddenly, and Sofia gets her wish. Sofia is sent to St. Mary’s, a creepy Catholic boarding school in Mississippi. There, seemingly everyone is doing penance for something, most of all the mysterious Jude, for whom Sofia can’t help feeling an unshakeable attraction. But when Sofia and Jude confide in each other about their pasts, something flips in him. He becomes convinced that Sofia is possessed by the devil. . . . Is an exorcism the only way to save her eternal soul? Readers won’t be able to look away from this terrifying read full of twists and turns that will leave them wondering, Is there evil in all of us?