The Hunger GamesCatching FireMockingjayThe Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesKatniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.This box set includes all three books in Suzanne Collins's internationally bestselling Hunger Games trilogy together with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and
Christian teaching and modern sensibilities both eschew "nationalism" as an extreme, fanatical form of patriotism, an excessive or disordered form of an otherwise healthy and proper national identity.
The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black “chosenness” into plans
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the global Mennonite church developed an uneasy relationship with Germany. Despite the religion's origins in the Swiss and Dutch Reformation, as well as
Description4500 Key English Words is a four-book series for intermediate students, designed to reinforce and expand their foundation of vocabulary. The words chosen for the series come from an analysi
Description4500 Key English Words is a four-book series for intermediate students, designed to reinforce and expand their foundation of vocabulary. The words chosen for the series come from an analysi
Description4500 Key English Words is a four-book series for intermediate students, designed to reinforce and expand their foundation of vocabulary. The words chosen for the series come from an analysi
Description4500 Key English Words is a four-book series for intermediate students, designed to reinforce and expand their foundation of vocabulary. The words chosen for the series come from an analysi
Description 1200 Key English Words is a three-book series designed to provide a solid foundation in vocabulary for a wide age range of beginners. The words chosen for the series come from an analysis
Description 1200 Key English Words is a three-book series designed to provide a solid foundation in vocabulary for a wide age range of beginners. The words chosen for the series come from an analysis
Description 1200 Key English Words is a three-book series designed to provide a solid foundation in vocabulary for a wide age range of beginners. The words chosen for the series come from an analysis
You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation . . .During a terrorist attack near the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a courageous mother sacrifices her life to save her four-year-old daughter
The story of a girl unsparingly plunged into heartache and chaos, who would save a nation … of Esther, who would be queen.Wrenched from a simple life for her beauty, Esther finds herself at the mercy
Why do so many Americans celebrate Shakespeare, a long-dead English poet and playwright? By the nineteenth century newly independent America had chosen to reject the British monarchy and Parliament, class structure and traditions, yet their citizens still made William Shakespeare a naturalized American hero. Today the largest group of overseas visitors to Stratford-upon-Avon, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Bankside's Shakespeare's Globe Theatre come from America. Why? Is there more to Shakespeare's American popularity than just a love of men in doublet and hose speaking soliloquies? This book tells the story of America's relationship with Shakespeare. The story of how and why Shakespeare became a hero within American popular culture. Sturgess provides evidence of a comprehensive nineteenth-century appropriation of Shakespeare to the cause of the American Nation and shows that, as America entered the twentieth century a new world power, for many Americans Shakespeare had become as Am
Why do so many Americans celebrate Shakespeare, a long-dead English poet and playwright? By the nineteenth century newly independent America had chosen to reject the British monarchy and Parliament, class structure and traditions, yet their citizens still made William Shakespeare a naturalized American hero. Today the largest group of overseas visitors to Stratford-upon-Avon, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Bankside's Shakespeare's Globe Theatre come from America. Why? Is there more to Shakespeare's American popularity than just a love of men in doublet and hose speaking soliloquies? This book tells the story of America's relationship with Shakespeare. The story of how and why Shakespeare became a hero within American popular culture. Sturgess provides evidence of a comprehensive nineteenth-century appropriation of Shakespeare to the cause of the American Nation and shows that, as America entered the twentieth century a new world power, for many Americans Shakespeare had become as Am
Like the massively bestselling Rick Mercer Report: The Book, Rick's newest collection brings together his weekly "rants," interview excerpts and other choice items from his show, chosen from all of th
Historian Ray Raphael has chosen seven representative characterssome famous, some unknownto anchor a sweeping new history of the entire Founding Era, from the beginnings of unrest in 1761
