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An ALA Amelia Bloomer SelectionAn ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults BookBorn in an Andean village in Ecuador, Virginia lives with her large family in a small, earthen-walled dwelling. In her village of indígenas, it is not uncommon to work in the fields all day, even as a child, or to be called a longa tonta-stupid Indian-by members of the ruling class of mestizos, or Spanish descendants. When seven-year-old Virginia is taken from her vi...

When tragedy strikes Michele Windsor's world, she is forced to uproot her life and move across the country to New York City, to live with the wealthy, aristocratic grandparents she's never met. In their old Fifth Avenue mansion filled with a century's worth of family secrets, Michele discovers a diary that hurtles her back in time to the year 1910. There, in the midst of the glamorous Gilded Age, Michele meets the young man with striking blue ...

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Invictus is the story of Humanity emerging from the wastes of Nuclear war and expanding out from Earth to colonize the Solar system. During this expansion the Colonists are wracked with internal strife from separatist terrorists and alien beings. Only whe

Would you like to understand your role in the events of your life and learn to make the kinds of choices that support your dreams? The World According to YOU! helps us understand how every relationship, event, and drama in our lives reflects back to us who we are being. We are essentially generating our reality, moment to moment, through our feelings of worthiness or unworthiness, and the thoughts, words, and actions that arise as a result. Wh...

Brian returns to the wilderness to discover where he truly belongs in this follow-up to the award-winning classic Hatchet from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen! As millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson survived alone in the wilderness by finding solutions to extraordinary challenges. But now that's he's back to ordinary life, he can't make sense of high school life. He feels disco...

WALK SOFTLY AND CARRY A MAGIC SWORDRaizo and his kunoichi are on a mission to confront Kabuki Seigan and rescue Kagari. The odds are against them as Seigan commands the deadly Army of 100 Flowers. However, there is hope in the special power behind Raizo's sword... But will it be enough to overcome an entire army? It all comes to a head in this exciting final volume of Ninja Girls!Final Volume!Includes special extras after the story!

In this engaging book, Bradford Martin illuminates a different 1980s than many remember-one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative ascendancy. Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period, encouraging Americans to renounce the activist and liberal politics of the 1960s and '70s and embrace the resurgent conservative wave. But a closer look reveals that a sizable swath of Americans strongly dis...

The only book of its kind to provide an overview of sustainable street design Today, society is moving toward a more sustainable way of life, with cities everywhere aspiring to become high-quality places to live, work, and play. Streets are fundamental to this shift. They define our system of movement, create connections between places, and offer opportunities to reconnect to natural systems. There is an increasing realization that the right-o...

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Like its companion volume From Tagus to the Ganges, this book deploys the concept of 'connected histories' to shed important light on aspects of the history of early modern Eurasia. It reflects on two and a half centuries of Mughal-European relations, beginning with the early sixteenth century. The book uses the idea of 'contained conflict' to reject both the view of total cultural incompatibility between East and West, and the simplistic para...

There are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister's face before Annah left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the Horde as they swarmed the Dark City, the sear of the barbed wire that would scar her for life. But most of all, Annah would like to forget the morning Elias left her for the Recruiters. Annah's world stopped that day, and she's been waiting for Elias to come home ever since...

Every day, you hear about new medical studies touted as the "next big thing that will save your life." But how can you tell which claims are real and which are bogus? Live Better, Live Longer gives you the answers.Live Better, Live Longer explains the latest research to provide you with the most accurate medical information. You will learn about the right diet, the best cancer-screening methods, the incredible power of coffee to prevent diseas...

Self-Consciousness One of our finest novelists now gives us his most dazzling creation -- his own life. In six eloquent and compelling chapters, the author of The Witches of Eastwick and the wonderful Rabbit trilogy gives us an incitingly honest look at the makings of an American writer -- and of an American man. Here is Updike on his childhood, on ailments both horrible (psoriasis) and hilarious (his experiences at the hands of a dentist), on...

Why can't our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition-the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do...

The government sends Brian back to the Canadian wilderness in this beloved follow-up to the award-winning classic Hatchet from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen! Two years after Brian Robeson survived fifty-four days alone in the Canadian wilderness, the government wants him to head back so they can learn what he did to stay alive. This time Derek Holtzer, a government psychologist, will accompany him. But a freak storm leav...

A Time Magazine Best Book of 2011, Featuring Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Mudhoney and more! Twenty years after the release of Nirvana's landmark album Nevermind comes Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, the definitive word on the grunge era, straight from the mouths of those at the center of it all. In 1986, fledgling Seattle label C/Z Records released Deep Six, a compilation featuring a half-dozen loc...

Gorelov wakes up in an alleyway in the middle of the London riots suffering from a dissociative fugue. Unaware of his identity and having lost his memory, he is rescued by a stranger who guides him out of the riot and on to a journey to help him recover

Le 04 janvier 1960, Albert Camus s'en allait un peu dans un tragique accident de voiture à l'âge de 47 ans. Quatre années auparavant, il était l'un des plus jeunes écrivains à recevoir le prix Nobel de littérature pour toute son oeuvre. L'enfance pauvre à Belcourt, la passion du football, le journalisme à Alger Républicain puis l'exclusion et l'exil par la France de Vichy, Camus sera forcé de « monter » à Paris. Il rejoindra la Résistance et s...

SPIRITUAL BEACONS How to Construct and Use Them! By The Abbotts Did you know that you can construct your own spiritual beacon and place it over your own home to transmit messages and receive higher, hidden knowledge? These same remarkable spir