Regenesis eric walters5/13/2023 ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() VERDICT This exciting adventure will please sci-fi fans, specifically those who enjoy reading about rebuilding a society after a catastrophic event.-Carrie Shaurette, Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ Although there is a prequel, End of Days (Doubleday Canada, 2011), this book can stand alone and the cliff-hanger ending will drive all readers straight to the next installment. Fans of Ender's Game will appreciate the attention paid to the importance of leadership skills and those that enjoyed the problem solving aspects of Andy Weir's The Martian (Broadway, 2014) will be right at home as disaster inevitably strikes. Say You Will - Eric Walters A funny, heartfelt novel about one high school boy's quest for a prom date, perfectly timed for the surge in realistic YA. It may be a stretch to imagine the population of Earth would allow a 16-year-old to lead a mission this large, but the politics of all that entails is captivating and richly drawn. Three on Three - Eric Walters 1999 Kia, Nick, and Marcus struggle to play as a team in order to win their school's three-on-three basketball tournament. Readers will feel immediately immersed in the communal space atmosphere and connected to the fate of the crew. With the isolated society that has formed on the space station, many dynamic relationships develop and evolve, though characterization does take a backseat to plot, which is what really drives this space adventure. ![]() Gr 7–10-An incoming asteroid is projected to end all life on Earth and 100 highly skilled children and four adults wait in space until the time when it is safe to return to the planet. ![]()
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The book seeks to explain and describe the "mysterious" sociological changes that mark everyday life. ![]() The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference is the debut book by Malcolm Gladwell, first published by Little, Brown in 2000. ![]() Only the good spy young series5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In this fourth installment of the New York Times best-selling series, the Gallagher Girls must hack, spy, steal, and lie their way to the truth as they go searching for answers, recognizing that the key to Cammie’s future may lie deep in the past…. When a terrifying encounter in London reveals that one of her most-trusted allies is actually a rogue double-agent Cammie no longer knows if she can trust her classmates, her teachers-or even her own heart. Now the danger follows her everywhere and even Cammie “The Chameleon” can’t hide. But that’s exactly what happened two months ago when she faced off against an ancient terrorist organization dead set on kidnapping her. 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One small gripe, Daine in the first book mentions she can use a sling, but I don't think in any of the books at any point does she use one and yet they have her using one to throw stones and a Coldfang on the book cover. This book is based approximately a year and a half after the first book. ![]() ![]() 1968 encompasses the worlds of youth and music, politics, war, economics, assassinations, riots, demonstrations and the media, and shows us how we got to where we are today. With 1968: The Year that Rocked the World, award-winning journalist Mark Kurlansky has written his magnum opus - a cultural and political history of that world-changing year of social upheaval, when television's impact on global events first became apparent, and when simultaneously - in Paris, Prague, London, Berkeley, and all over the globe - uprisings spontaneously occurred. ![]() It was also the year of the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, the Prague Spring, the Chicago convention, the Tet offensive in Vietnam and the anti-war movement, the student rebellion that paralysed France, civil rights, the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union, and the birth of the women's movement. But what impact did it have on today's political and social landscape? ![]() It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. On this edition of Dialogue, host Marcia Franklin talks with New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky. 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Chet and Bernie begin to look into Wendell’s work, a search that leads to a struggling winemaker who has received an offer he can’t refuse. What did the hydrologist want to see them about? Is his death a random robbery, or something more? Chet and Bernie, working for nothing more than an eight-pack of Slim Jims, are on the case.īernie might be the only one who thinks the police have arrested the wrong man, including the perp’s own defense attorney. When Chet the dog, “the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction” (Boston Globe), and his partner, PI Bernie Little of the desert-based Little Detective Agency, arrive to a meeting with hydrologist Wendell Nero, they are in for a shocking sight-Wendell has come to a violent and mysterious end. Spencer Quinn's Of Mutts and Men is the latest in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series that the Los Angeles Times called “nothing short of masterful"… ![]() The bartimaeus trilogy book 15/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Throughout each book, Nathaniel will find himself overcoming all sorts of challenges in this magical alternate world, with the help of Bartimaeus, a five-thousand-year-old djinni he has summoned. ![]() The series follows twelve-year-old Nathaniel as he grows older, working his way up from magician's apprentice to junior magician entering the government ranks, to finally becoming senior magician and a key part of the ruling council. ![]() That's how the British Empire has overcome the whole of Europe, thanks to its magical oligarchy of elite magicians who are the gatekeepers of all power. 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