Author: Alexander Laban Hinton File Type: pdf This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America. Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to destroy Indigenous peoples as groups. The contributors examine these efforts through the lens of genocide. Considering some of the most destructive aspects of the colonization and subsequent settlement of North America, several essays address Indigenous boarding school systems imposed by both the Canadian and U.S. governments in attempts to civilize or assimilate Indigenous children. Contributors examine some of the most egregious assaults on Indigenous peoples and the natural environment, including massacres, land appropriation, the spread of disease, the near-extinction of the buffalo, and forced political restructuring of Indigenous communities. Assessing the record of these appalling events, the contributors maintain that North Americans must reckon with colonial and settler colonial attempts to annihilate Indigenous peoples. Contributors. Jeff Benvenuto, Robbie Ethridge, Theodore Fontaine, Joseph P. Gone, Alexander Laban Hinton, Tasha Hubbard, Margaret D. Jabobs, Kiera L. Ladner, Tricia E. Logan, David B. MacDonald, Benjamin Madley, Jeremy Patzer, Julia Peristerakis, Christopher Powell, Colin Samson, Gray H. Whaley, Andrew Woolford **

Author: Gillian Flynn File Type: mobi From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl, and the basis for the major motion picture starring Charlize Theron* hr Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas. She survivedand famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Clubasecret society obsessed with notorious crimeslocates Libby and pumps her for details. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben. Libbyhopes to turn a profitoff her tragic history Shell reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the clubfor a fee. As Libbys search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she startedon the run from a killer. **From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Edgar-finalist Flynns second crime thriller tops her impressive debut, Sharp Objects. When Libby Days mother and two older sisters were slaughtered in the familys Kansas farmhouse, it was seven-year-old Libbys testimony that sent her 15-year-old brother, Ben, to prison for life. Desperate for cash 24 years later, Libby reluctantly agrees to meet members of the Kill Club, true crime enthusiasts who bicker over famous cases. Shes shocked to learn most of them believe Ben is innocent and the real killer is still on the loose. Though initially interested only in making a quick buck hocking family memorabilia, Libby is soon drawn into the clubs pseudo-investigation, and begins to question what exactly she sawor didnt seethe night of the tragedy. Flynn fluidly moves between cynical present-day Libby and the hours leading up to the murders through the eyes of her family members. When the truth emerges, its so twisted that even the most astute readers wont have predicted it. (May) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From The New Yorker Libby Day, the protagonist of Flynns disturbing second novel, was, as a seven-year-old, the only survivor of her familys brutal murder by her older brother, an event dubbed by the media the Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas. Twenty-five years later, she has become a hardened, selfish young woman with no friends or family. Since the tragedy, her life has been paid for by donations of well-wishers, but, with that fund now empty, Libby must find a way to make money. Her search leads her to The Kill Club, a secret society of people obsessed with the details of notorious murders. As Libby tries to gather artifacts to sell to The Kill Club (whose members, it turns out, doubt the guilt of her brother), she is forced to reexamine the events of the night of the murder. Flynns well-paced story deftly shows the fallibility of memory and the lies a child tells herself to get through a trauma. 2008 Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker

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Author: David Fairer File Type: pdf Currently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetry presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation. * Balanced to reflect current interests and favorites (including prominent poets like Finch, Swift, Pope, Montagu, Johnson, Gray, Burns, and Cowper) as well as less familiar material, offering a variety of voices and new directions for research and learning * Includes 46 new poems with more texts by women poets and the inclusion of four additional poets (Mary Barber, Mehetabel Wright, Anna Seward, and Mary Robinson) poems reflecting new ecological approaches to 18th-century literature and poems on the art of writing * Accessible and user-friendly, with generous head notes, full foot-of-page annotations, an expanded thematic index, and a visually appealing text design**