Hunger Games: Catching Fire

“Every revolution begins with a spark”

Summary:

Katniss has returned from the Hunger Games, and is finally settling back into her new life as a Hunger Games victor.  She and Peeta are about go start their Victory Tour, and President Snow is breathing down her back.  He is upset because of the way that they defied the Capitol with the berries.  She and Peeta must convince the entire country of Panem that what she did was not an act of defiance, but that she was too in love with Peeta and wasn't thinking straight.  In an effort to get rid of her the President decides the next Hunger Games, the 3rd Quarter Quell, the tributes will be chosen from the existing pool of victors.  Katniss and Peeta are going back into the arena. 

Green Light for Red Dawn

It was a normal fall weekend in Spokane, Washington.  Then came the Saturday morning unlike any other.  First came the explosions, then the paratroopers.  Only at the last minute did most of the people of Spokane realize what was happening;  the United States was being invaded by North Korea.  The disturbance woke Jed Eckert, a Marine home from Iraq, and his younger brother Matt.  In an effort to follow their Dad’s orders to “go to the cabin,” they hop in Jed’s car, picking up stragglers along the way whilst dodging soldiers.  After a couple of days, their cabin is discovered and they must flee into the wilderness.  For Jed there is only one response: fight back.  Jed trains the ragtag group of young people into a team capable of war-trained resistance.  Meanwhile, Matt waits for the moment he can rescue his girlfriend, Erica.  But his desperation to do so may result in the complete ruin of this unusual group of teen heroes who have come to call themselves the Wolverines.