Bøger af Gregory Martin

When a rain of alien invaders crashes to Earth and lays siege to the planet, destroying everything in their path, humans find themselves powerless against the onslaught. The creatures roll across the country from every direction, converging on the heartland unimpeded except by a small group of teenagers in the forests of Idaho. Running into one of the creatures while on a morning hunt, Kit, Luke, and Chris find themselves forced to do what no one else on the planet has been able to.....kill their attacker. What follows is a desperate bid by an inexperienced group of young survivors, changelings, vampires, and humans alike, to save the people of Earth from annihilation. Yet even as the ragtag group frantically searches for the meaning of and a potential solution to the ever-advancing invasion, their respective leaders plot and scheme in ruthless power plays from the shadows of the planet's imminent doom. Kit and her friends soon find themselves struggling against all sides as they not only face resistance from all sides but strive to unite their disparate peoples as well.

Flint's Fist offers a fresh twist on a classic tale. Ben Gunn, a carpenter's boy, dreams of escaping 18th century London to find the "happy isles" of peace and contentment. But when he and his friend Dirk venture to West Africa in service of a crown trading company, they find more than they bargained for. Their voyage sweeps them to the back of beyond, across oceans, through slavery, piracy, and shipwreck, to their final reckoning on the shore of a desert island. Generations of readers of Treasure Island have puzzled over the untold history of Captain John Flint and his pirate crew. How did Long John Silver lose his leg and blind Pew lose his eyes? Why did Flint betray his shipmates by burying their gold in a secret cache, and what caused his death at Savannah? How did Ben survive being marooned on the Treasure Island and deliver himself from Silver and his blood-crazed mutineers?Flint's Fist reveals all this and more about the fabulous band of brigands, many not mentioned in Treasure Island. At times brutal, always exotic, it is decidedly a tale for grown-ups.

With clean vivid descriptions, and ruthless soul-wrenching self examination, Greg Martin bravely tells a story he never imagined having to tell. The reader is privileged here, to be allowed to watch as he wrestles with his sons, his own belief systems, his urge toward forgiveness and even Walt Whitman. This finely made, deeply felt memoir restores our faith in the power of language and story to make sense of a broken world. PAM HOUSTON, author Contents May Have Shifted Stories for Boys is a charming and moving coming-of-age story, its narrator situated in the pivotal position between being his father's son and his sons' father. So refreshing and unique is Martin's treatment of the material that the reader will never mistake this book for its inferior competitors dealing with similar subjects (suicide, latent homosexuality, child abuse). One hopes this is the new wave of memoir: stories of people whose lives are not easily categorized nor dismissed. It is a sweet read. ANTONYA NELSON, author of Bound Gregory Martin's Stories for Boys is a magnetic meditation on what happens when a decades-long lie is brutally revealed. Moving, brave, and unforgettable, this deeply personal book pushes us all further into the light. CHERYL STRAYED, author of Wild

By the end of Gregory Martin's unsentimental but affecting memoir, only thirty-one people live in remote Mountain City, Nevada, and none of them are children. The town's abandoned mines are testimony to the cycle of promise, exploitation, abandonment, and attrition that has been the repeated story of the West. Yet the comings and goings at Tremewan's, the general store Martin's family has run for more than forty years, reveal a remarkably vibrant community that includes salty widows, Native Americans from a nearby reservation, and a number of Martin's deeply idiosyncratic Basque-descended relatives. Martin observes them as they persist in a difficult but rewarding existence and celebrates, with neither pity nor regret, the large and small dramas of their lives and their stubborn attachment to a place that seems likely to disappear in his lifetime.

This book discusses promoting social change through school, workplace and community. The authors define basic concepts and clearly explain what it is to engage in inquiry through "problem posing," to promote engagement in Participatory Activist Research.