Matt Young
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases charged with making him a Marine. Matt survived the training and then not one, not two, but three deployments to Iraq. Visceral, ironic, self-lacerating, and ultimately redemptive, Young's story drops us unarmed into Marine Corps culture and lays bare the absurdism of 21st-century war, the manned-up vulnerability of those on the front...
Author
Publisher
Moose Country Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In New Hampshire late on a Sunday afternoon in September 1821 a tornado blasted its way from the Connecticut River to the Merrimack in a single hour by way of Lake Sunapee and Mount Kearsarge. It was part of a rapidly advancing, 300-mile front of severe thunderstorms that stretched from Canada practically down to New York City. A dozen years of 'strange portents and lurking malignancies' preceded the Tornado of 1821 -- a comet, strong earthquakes,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go. James Cook Geographer, historical consultant and bestselling author Vanessa Collingridge searches for the man behind the legend as she traces his story in a series that is part biography, part travelogue and completely enthralling. A hero to some, a villain to others, this son of an English farm labourer described more of the globe than...
4) Teacup
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A boy travels across the sea in a rowboat in search of a new home, making a journey that is long and difficult--but also filled with beauty and hope"--
