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Barely Floating

Author : Lilliam Rivera
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593323130
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Barely Floating written by Lilliam Rivera and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling story full of heart about how one twelve-year-old channels her rage into synchronized swimming dreams, from the author of The Education of Margot Sanchez and Never Look Back, Lilliam Rivera. Natalia de la Cruz Rivera y Santiago, also known as Nat, was swimming neighborhood kids out of their money at the local Boyle Heights pool when her life changed. The L.A. Mermaids performed, emerging out of the water with matching sequined swimsuits, and it was then that synchronized swimming stole her heart. The problem? Her activist mom and professor dad think it's a sport with too much emphasis on looks—on thinness and whiteness. Nat grew up the youngest in a house full of boys, so she knows how to fight for what she wants, using her anger to fuel her. People often underestimate her swimming skills when they see her stomach rolls, but she knows better than to worry about what people think. Sometimes, she feels more like a submarine than a mermaid, but she wonders if she could be both. Barely Floating explores what it means to sparkle in your skin, build community with those who lift you up, and keep floating when waters get rough.

We Light Up the Sky

Author : Lilliam Rivera
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1547603771
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book We Light Up the Sky written by Lilliam Rivera and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should you save a world that doesn't want to save you? Award-winning author Lilliam Rivera explores the haunting story of an alien invasion from the perspective of three Latinx teens. Pedro, Luna, and Rafa may attend Fairfax High School together in Los Angeles, but they run in separate spheres. Pedro is often told that he's “too much” and seeks refuge from his home life in a local drag bar. Luna is pretending to go along with the popular crowd but is still grieving the unexpected passing of her beloved cousin Tasha. Then there's Rafa, the quiet new kid who is hiding the fact that his family is homeless. But Pedro, Luna, and Rafa find themselves thrown together when an extraterrestrial visitor lands in their city and takes the form of Luna's cousin Tasha. As the Visitor causes destruction wherever it goes, the three teens struggle to survive and warn others of what's coming--because this Visitor is only the first of many. But who is their true enemy--this alien, or their fellow humans? Pura Belpré Honor-winning author Lilliam Rivera examines the days before a War of the Worlds-inspired alien invasion in this captivating and chilling new novel.

Swordbane

Author : Paul Joseph Santoro Emerick
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 166984319X
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book Swordbane written by Paul Joseph Santoro Emerick and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark plot unfolds in the western lands of the Kingdom of Swordbane with the formation of an unholy alliance, deliberate spread of a deadly affliction, and a newly conspired war looming on the horizon after the Kingdom of Swordbane has just emerged victorious from a bitter twenty-year-long war with its eastern rival neighbor. Masterminding this dark plot built on social malaise from corruption and an espoused propaganda of revisionism, a former vassal of the kingdom emerges who seeks to claim the status of the ultimate dark lord and chosen vessel. In seeking to receive special divine powers, this aspiring dark lord will pave a bloody path of death and destruction in order to ultimately create a new prosperous social and political order inspired from the ashes of the once-great Lupercalian Empire. Only a group of unlikely but personally connected heroes seek to stand in the way and fight back to preserve what is left of the kingdom. Throughout their trials and hardships, both the heroes and this ambitious dark lord will reflect upon their past life events while seeking to move forward with the challenges they face ahead in the ultimate war of perceived good versus evil. Whoever wins in this struggle, one thing is certain among all of them: life will never be the same.

Introductory Physics

Author : Lothrop Davis Higgins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Introductory Physics written by Lothrop Davis Higgins and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

Author : Caspar Henderson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022604470X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Barely Imagined Beings written by Caspar Henderson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From medieval bestiaries to Borges’s Book of Imaginary Beings, we’ve long been enchanted by extraordinary animals, be they terrifying three-headed dogs or asps impervious to a snake charmer’s song. But bestiaries are more than just zany zoology—they are artful attempts to convey broader beliefs about human beings and the natural order. Today, we no longer fear sea monsters or banshees. But from the infamous honey badger to the giant squid, animals continue to captivate us with the things they can do and the things they cannot, what we know about them and what we don’t. With The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Caspar Henderson offers readers a fascinating, beautifully produced modern-day menagerie. But whereas medieval bestiaries were often based on folklore and myth, the creatures that abound in Henderson’s book—from the axolotl to the zebrafish—are, with one exception, very much with us, albeit sometimes in depleted numbers. The Book of Barely Imagined Beings transports readers to a world of real creatures that seem as if they should be made up—that are somehow more astonishing than anything we might have imagined. The yeti crab, for example, uses its furry claws to farm the bacteria on which it feeds. The waterbear, meanwhile, is among nature’s “extreme survivors,” able to withstand a week unprotected in outer space. These and other strange and surprising species invite readers to reflect on what we value—or fail to value—and what we might change. A powerful combination of wit, cutting-edge natural history, and philosophical meditation, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is an infectious and inspiring celebration of the sheer ingenuity and variety of life in a time of crisis and change.

Floating Staircase

Author : Ronald Malfi
Publisher : Medallion Media Group
ISBN 13 : 1605424609
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Floating Staircase written by Ronald Malfi and published by Medallion Media Group. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of his latest novel, Travis Glasgow and his wife Jodie buy their first house in the seemingly idyllic western Maryland town of Westlake. At first, everything is picture perfect—from the beautiful lake behind the house to the rebirth of the friendship between Travis and his brother, Adam, who lives nearby. Travis also begins to overcome the darkness of his childhood and the guilt he’s harbored since his younger brother’s death—a tragic drowning veiled in mystery that has plagued Travis since he was 13. Soon, though, the new house begins to lose its allure. Strange noises wake Travis at night, and his dreams are plagued by ghosts. Barely glimpsed shapes flit through the darkened hallways, but strangest of all is the bizarre set of wooden stairs that rises cryptically out of the lake behind the house. Travis becomes drawn to the structure, but the more he investigates, the more he uncovers the house’s violent and tragic past, and the more he learns that some secrets cannot be buried forever.

The Education of Margot Sanchez

Author : Lilliam Rivera
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481472127
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book The Education of Margot Sanchez written by Lilliam Rivera and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margot Sanchez is paying off her debts by working in her family's South Bronx grocery store, but she must make the right choices about her friends, her family, and Moises, the good looking but outspoken boy from the neighborhood.

Navigator

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Navigator written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blindside

Author : Jim R. Lane
Publisher : Bridgeworks
ISBN 13 : 146162326X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Blindside written by Jim R. Lane and published by Bridgeworks. This book was released on 2002-06-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blindside, written by a former Navy legal officer, is the story of Commander Neal Olen, 44, an intelligence officer who faces charges of adultery and possibly leaking secrets. It is an insider's look at the archaic and potentially crushing machinery of military justice. Olen's troubles begin in 1999 when he is recognized as the officer on whom a fictional character is based in a salacious, tell-all novel. Its author is a woman with whom he had a weekend affair five years earlier while separated from his wife. Information about the nation's reconnaissance satellites somehow found its way into her novel. Olen finds himself a pawn of the author, hoping to hype her book and the Navy, eager to make an example of him in its push for "zero tolerance" of sex scandals and for airtight security on intelligence information. He grapples with the ethical dilemma: When caught in an unjust system, is honesty still a virtue?

Dealing in Dreams

Author : Lilliam Rivera
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 148147216X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Dealing in Dreams written by Lilliam Rivera and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A novel exploration of societal roles, gender, and equality.” —School Library Journal (starred review) The Outsiders meets Mad Max: Fury Road in this “daring and dramatic” (Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling) dystopian novel about sisterhood and the cruel choices people are forced to make in order to survive. At night, Las Mal Criadas own these streets. Sixteen-year-old Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City. That role brings with it violent throwdowns and access to the hottest boydega clubs, but Nala quickly grows weary of her questionable lifestyle. Her dream is to get off the streets and make a home in the exclusive Mega Towers, in which only a chosen few get to live. To make it to the Mega Towers, Nalah must prove her loyalty to the city’s benevolent founder and cross the border in a search of the mysterious gang the Ashé Riders. Led by a reluctant guide, Nalah battles crews and her own doubts but the closer she gets to her goal the more she loses sight of everything—and everyone—she cares about. Nalah must choose whether or not she’s willing to do the unspeakable to get what she wants. Can she discover that home is not where you live but whom you chose to protect before she loses the family she’s created for good?

Herrick's End

Author : T.M. Blanchet
Publisher : Tiny Fox Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herrick's End written by T.M. Blanchet and published by Tiny Fox Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You did nothing. You were nothing. And so, you shall remain here, until the end of your days. As nothing. Ollie's only friend disappeared a few days ago, and now, he's frantic to find her. But he doesn't have much to go on until a mysterious note arrives which reads: "Still looking for your friend? I know where she is." Unfortunately for Ollie, the trail leads to the last place he'd ever expect. Somewhere dark. Somewhere deep. The kind of place where magic spills like blood, vengeance is merciless, and escape seems all but impossible. Worse still, it soon becomes clear that someone-or something-was expecting him. Now, time is running out. If Ollie has any hope of ever seeing home again, he's going to have to summon every last scrap of courage, smarts, and tenacity he can find. And none of it will matter if he can't get some help. Fast. Because Ollie might not know much about the vast underworld that's ensnared him, but he does know this: He'll never make it out alone.

Hardwood

Author : Gary B. Fitzgerald
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434399168
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Hardwood written by Gary B. Fitzgerald and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's about time business is taught a good lesson or ten! What can you do when you are instructed to motivate an employee who is belligerent? Should you spill the beans on your boss who is lying to management? Why do good managers turn bad when they suddenly report to a bad manager? What would have happened if the boy in "The Emperor's New Clothes" lived in the business world when he declared the king naked? The ending will surprise you. Are all mission statements necessary? What are the consequences of ignoring good business travel techniques? "Ten Vital Lessons for Good Business" answers the questions above while entertaining and educating you, the businessperson, through a series of amusing vignettes with interesting characters. For example, you will meet my Silly Boss, who purposefully ignored his stomach sickness and was almost stranded in a third-world country; Large Woman, whose bad attitude created a disturbance in Switzerland; and Jerkzilla, who learned a valuable lesson after years of antagonizing his fellow employees. You were taught to work hard to succeed and survive in business. Unfortunately, you were not taught what to do when your boss is a poor leader with poor judgment, when businesspeople lie about their company's financial performance, or when management repackages bad news and calls it good news. "Ten Vital Lessons for Good Business" addresses these issues and many more. This book is a must read for all working people from the new employee to the CEO. After reading this book you will realize why some businesspeople are frustrated and kick their dog or their neighbor's dog. Improve your business life read "Ten Vital Lessons for Good Business." Those close to you will thank you for it.

A Unique Life at Sea

Author : Captain Peter Skog
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728392802
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book A Unique Life at Sea written by Captain Peter Skog and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a hot fine day in the middle of November 2003 in the very upper part of the mighty Amazon River in Iquitos Peru where I ended up living for 15 years, when I started to write on this autobiography, realizing that my life at sea had been extremely special in every aspect ever since I started at sea 1963 as a barely 16-year young teenager facing some weird events that would shape me for the rest of my future life at sea, and I was longing to see the real world before I die. Though I was not a writer the idea of writing this book emerged in a moment of great sadness in February 2002 In Antarctica when I started to think about how it could be, that I was commanding the 2398-ton The World’s First Expedition Cruise Ship MS Explorer [Lindblad Explorer] the “Ship in The Wilderness” and my destination was the Prince Gustav Sound in the Weddell Sea east of the Antarctic Peninsula in the Antarctic wilderness, when one of my passengers standing behind my back suddenly said: “This is really going to make the boys back at the golf club jealous”. To write about my own experiences feels kind of strange and from the start I knew that I was incapable of producing a strict biography of all the stunning account of adventures I have had and discoveries we made in those years onboard the Lindblad Explorer in the early 70 ́s as well as on the Explorer.

Madness' One Step Beyond...

Author : Terry Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441110534
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Madness' One Step Beyond... written by Terry Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Step Beyond isn't the best album in the world - it's not even the best album by Madness. It is, however, a great record and an exceptional debut album -fully formed despite half the band still being in their teens - and it remains as exhilarating, inspiring and as much fun as when people first heard it nearly 30 years ago. Through extensive interviews with the band, as well as producers Clive Langer & Alan Winstanley, Terry Edwards tells the inside story of how Madness rose to be the most successful singles band of the 1980s in the UK charts.

Vitro

Author : Jessica Khoury
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1595146067
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Vitro written by Jessica Khoury and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Magnificent and unsettling." --Marie Lu, New York Times Bestselling author of the Legend Trilogy A death-defying tropical adventure delivers a frightening message about dabbling with creation, perfect for fans of Orphan Black. On a remote island in the Pacific, Corpus scientists have taken test tube embryos and given them life. These beings—the Vitros—have knowledge and abilities most humans can only dream of. But they also have one enormous flaw. Sophie Crue is determined to get to Skin Island and find her mother, a scientist who left Sophie behind years ago. She enlists hunky charter pilot Jim Julien to take her there. But once on the island, Sophie and Jim encounter more than they bargained for, including a charming, brilliant Vitro named Nicholas and an innocent, newly awoken one named Lux. In a race for their lives, Sophie and Jim are about to discover what happens when science stretches too far beyond its reach.

The Culling

Author : Robert Johnson
Publisher : The Permanent Press
ISBN 13 : 1579623514
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book The Culling written by Robert Johnson and published by The Permanent Press. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Sims, a young virologist, discovers a plot hatched by a group of international scientists to cull, in a matter of weeks, two-thirds of the world's population - some 4.5 billion people, by releasing a deadly virus that kills two-thirds of those it infects. Their goal is to reduce Earth's population from an unsustainable seven billion to two billion. What is he to do? Try to stop the conspiracy, or join it? Horrific, yes, but what if this culling could prevent the extinction of some forty percent of our planet's flora and fauna? Or if he was certain it was the only way to prevent an even larger human die-off, incurring significantly more suffering, by the end of this century? Or if he were convinced it represented the only hope for humanity surviving at all? This is at the heart of this thriller, for these viruses do, in fact, exist. Most everything that plagues mankind today - the highest concentration of atmospheric CO2 in 3 million years, escalating extinction rates, habitat loss, fishery collapses, climate change, polar and glacial ice thaws, arable land loss, desertification, aquifer depletions, ocean acidification, unprecedented air pollution, looming famine and social unrest - stems from over consumption which, unchecked, will lead to Earth's sixth mass extinction event. "Robert Johnson's first novel tackles an issue that most in the media, the arts, and entertainment industry--even the environmental community--are afraid to discuss directly: overpopulation. Despite the potential for despair or preachy diatribes, the gravity of the issues is woven into the story with plenty of colorful characters, gallows humor and a suspenseful plot that unravels across continents, making for an entertaining and thought-provoking debut." --New York Journal of Books "This is so real, it is frightening, although the characters are fictional, the story is possible--and very likely. The book will keep you awake nights, thinking about our vulnerability, and worried that we've already gone too far for the planet to survive without a culling." --Pulp Den "Johnson's debut thriller could be more science fact than science fiction. There's a scheme afoot by rogue scientists to release a virulent flu virus and kill two-thirds of Earth's population, a megalomaniacal plot to save the planet from becoming a lifeless rock due to climate change and overpopulation. A scary premise. Get a flu shot. Wash your hands regularly." --Kirkus

Outdoor Alphas Boxset

Author : Jaycee Wolfe
Publisher : Jaycee Wolfe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outdoor Alphas Boxset written by Jaycee Wolfe and published by Jaycee Wolfe. This book was released on 2023-06-21 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes family is more than blood. We were foster kids just trying to survive, seven boys on the run who became brothers. Through everything, we stuck together, and no one will ever tear us apart. Or so we thought. Adding our soulmates to the mix should have been nothing but bliss. Unfortunately, someone’s after our family, a hidden ghost from our past. One who is willing to take it all away, everything we worked for, everything we built. Will we be able to stop them before we lose more than just our dreams… before we lose ourselves and those we love more than life itself? With our brothers at our backs and our women at our sides, we will face whatever this threat is head-on and overcome.