Horrors Of History City Of The Dead

Author : T. Neill Anderson
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 158089514X
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horrors of History: City of the Dead written by T. Neill Anderson and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year was 1900--a time before cars, evacuation routes, and up-to-the-minute weather reports. It was the day the deadliest storm in US history hammered Galveston, Texas. It was the day an entire island city was nearly wiped from existence. At the onset of the hurricane, Albert Campbell and the other boys at the orphanage kicked and splashed in the emerging puddles. Daisy Thorne read letters from her fiancé, and Sam Young wondered if his telegram had reached the mainland, warning his family of the weather. Just a few hours later, torrential rains and crushing tidal waves had flooded the metropolis. Winds upwards of one hundred miles per hour swept entire houses and trees down the streets. Debris slashed through the air; bodies whirled amid the rushing waters. Albert, Daisy, and Sam weren’t safe. No one was. Based on an historic natural disaster, CITY OF THE DEAD weaves together a shocking story where some miraculously survive . . . and many others are tragically lost. CITY OF THE DEAD is the first book in the Horrors of History series. The series commemorates horrific, life-changing events in our nation's past. Each novel makes history accessible with a combination of thorough research, descriptions of a specific time period, narrative accounts of actual historical persons, and fictionalized characters.

Author : T. Neill Anderson
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781580895156
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of Horror written by T. Neill Anderson and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fate of Sam, Charlie, Alice, Daisy, and other Galvestonians hangs in the balance as the flood waters rise during the great hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas, in 1900.

Author : Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375424237
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brief History of the Dead written by Kevin Brockmeier and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-02-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City’s only newspaper, are wondering what exactly is going on. Others, like Coleman Kinzler, believe it is the beginning of the end. Meanwhile, Laura Byrd is trapped in an Antarctic research station, her supplies are running low, her radio finds only static, and the power is failing. With little choice, Laura sets out across the ice to look for help, but time is running out. Kevin Brockmeier alternates these two storylines to create a lyrical and haunting story about love, loss and the power of memory.

Author : T. Neill Anderson
Publisher : Charlesbridge
ISBN 13 : 1607346036
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horrors of History: City of the Dead written by T. Neill Anderson and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fate of Sam, Charlie, Alice, Daisy, and other Galvestonians hangs in the balance as the flood waters rise during the great hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas, in 1900.

Author : M.T. Anderson
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763691003
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symphony for the City of the Dead written by M.T. Anderson and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2015.

Author : Sharon Stewart
Publisher : Calgary : Red Deer Press
ISBN 13 : 9780889952294
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of the Dead written by Sharon Stewart and published by Calgary : Red Deer Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A god of death lurks in the streets ... an ethereal presence types messages on a computer screen ... Spine-tingling tales guaranteed to take readers to the edge of fear and back" Cf. Our choice, 2002

Author : Joseph Roach
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231555261
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities of the Dead written by Joseph Roach and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early eighteenth century, a delegation of Iroquois visited Britain, exciting the imagination of the London crowds with images of the “feathered people” and warlike “Mohocks.” Today, performing in a popular Afrodiasporic tradition, “Mardi Gras Indians” or “Black Masking Indians” take to the streets of New Orleans at carnival time and for weeks thereafter, parading in handmade “suits” resplendent with beadwork and feathers. What do these seemingly disparate strands of culture share over three centuries and several thousand miles of ocean? Interweaving theatrical, musical, and ritual performance along the Atlantic rim from the eighteenth century to the present, Cities of the Dead explores a rich continuum of cultural exchange that imaginatively reinvents, recreates, and restores history. Joseph Roach reveals how performance can revise the unwritten past, comparing patterns of remembrance and forgetting in how communities forge their identities and imagine their futures. He examines the syncretic performance traditions of Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the urban sites of London and New Orleans, through social events ranging from burials to sacrifices, auctions to parades, encompassing traditions as diverse as Haitian Voudon and British funerals. Considering processes of substitution, or surrogation, as enacted in performance, Roach demonstrates the ways in which people and cultures fill the voids left by death and departure. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this classic work features a new preface reflecting on the relevance of its arguments to the politics of performance and performance in contemporary politics.

Author : James Ponti
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442441291
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead City written by James Ponti and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventh-grader Molly has always been an outsider, even at New York City's elite Metropolitan Institute of Science and Technology, but that changes when she is recruited to join the Omegas, a secret group that polices and protects zombies.

Author : Brandon Hobson
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616958871
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Dead Sit Talking written by Brandon Hobson and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a 15-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface - that is, until he meets 17-year-old Rosemary, another youth staying with the Troutts. Sequoyah and Rosemary bond over their shared Native American background and tumultuous paths through the foster care system, but as Sequoyah's feelings towards Rosemary deepen, the precariousness of their lives and the scars of their pasts threaten to undo them both.

Author : T. Neill Anderson
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607345420
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horrors of History: People of the Plague written by T. Neill Anderson and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-researched and rich with ghastly details, this third historical fiction novel in the Horrors of History series is based on the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Actual and fictionalized victims and survivors, like the young, heroic Barium and the concerned, wise Doctor Wilmer Krusen, help weave together a gripping account of how Philadelphia coped with the outbreak.