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H2O

By: Virginia Bergin

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.27 is a number Ruby hates. It's a number that marks the percentage of the population that has survived. It's a number that means she's one of the "lucky" few still standing. And it's a number that says her father is probably dead. Against all odds, Ruby has survived the catastrophic onset of the killer rain. Two weeks after the radio started broadcasting the warning, "It's in the rain. It's fatal and there's no cure," the drinkable water is running out. Ruby's left with two options: persevere on her own, or embark on a treacherous journey across the country to find her father-if he's even still alive.

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339

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1492606561

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9781492606567

While Rome Burned

Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination

By: Virginia M. Closs

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While Rome Burned

Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination

By: Virginia M. Closs

While Rome Burned attends to the intersection of fire, city, and emperor in ancient Rome, tracing the critical role that urban conflagration played as both reality and metaphor in the politics and literature of the early imperial period. Urban fires presented a consistent problem for emperors from Augustus to Hadrian, especially given the expectation that the princeps be both a protector and provider for Rome’s population. The problem manifested itself differently for each leader, and each sought to address it in distinctive ways. This history can be traced most precisely in Roman literature, as authors addressed successive moments of political crisis through dialectical engagement with prior incendiary catastrophes in Rome’s historical past and cultural repertoire. Working in the increasingly repressive environment of the early principate, Roman authors frequently employed “figured” speech and mythopoetic narratives to address politically risky topics. In response to shifting political and social realities, the literature of the early imperial period reimagines and reanimates not just historical fires, but also archetypal and mythic representations of conflagration. Throughout, the author engages critically with the growing subfield of disaster studies, as well as with theoretical approaches to language, allusion, and cultural memory.

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363

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University of Michigan Press

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0472126660

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9780472126668

The Storm

By: Virginia Bergin

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The Storm

By: Virginia Bergin

The shocking conclusion to the YA dystopian H2O duology. The rain may not be the only thing to fear in this post-apocalyptic thriller. Ninety-seven percent of the population is dead. And the killer rain keeps falling. Ruby's not sure she can make it on her own much longer. So when a chance encounter leads her to a camp with the last boy she may ever kiss (it's not easy to date during an apocalypse), Ruby gratefully accepts the army's protection. But safety comes with a price: If Ruby wants to stay, she must keep her eyes—and her mouth—shut. Except Ruby stumbles across a secret she can't possibly keep. Horrified, she flips out and fights back—only to make the most shocking discovery of all. The H2O Duology: H2O (Book 1) The Storm (Book 2) Perfect for those looking for: Post-apocalyptic survival fiction Intriguing and unique takes on a bestselling genre Young adult dystopian fiction A strong female narrative

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283

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1492606588

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9781492606581

Byzantine Tree Life

Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination

By: Thomas Arentzen,Virginia Burrus,Glenn Peers

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Byzantine Tree Life

Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination

By: Thomas Arentzen,Virginia Burrus,Glenn Peers

This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture’s deep involvement—and even fascination—with the arboreal. These pages tap into the current attention paid to plants in a wide range of scholarship, an attention that involves the philosophy of plant life as well as scientific discoveries of how communicative trees may be, and how they defend themselves. Considering writings on and images of trees from Late Antiquity and medieval Byzantium sympathetically, the book argues for an arboreal imagination at the root of human aspirations to know and draw close to the divine.

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203

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Springer Nature

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3030759024

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9783030759025

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