Author: Sarah Roberts (Children's story writer)Publisher: Anchor Books
ISBN: 9780992950507
Category : Marine resources conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conjoined twins
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This is a story of a sober kind, picturing life in a little town of Missouri, half a century ago. The principal incidents relate to a slave of mixed blood and her almost pure white son, whom she substitutes for her master's baby. The slave by birth grows up in wealth and luxury, but turns out a peculiarly mean scoundrel, and perpetrating a crime, meets with due justice. The science of fingerprints is practically illustrated in detecting the fraud. The title character is the village atheist, whose maxims doubtless express much of the author's own disillusion.
Author: Sarah RobertsSomebody Crunched Colin
Author: Sarah RobertsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780702308321
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Colin longs to be like the other flowers! Their sweet smell and bright colours are so appealing! But Colin is too crunchy-munchy and he doesn't belong where they grow... A story about the trouble litter can cause in the environment.
Darwinia
Author: Robert Charles WilsonPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429956186
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antedeluvian monsters. To some, the Miracle is an act of divine retribution; to others, it is an opportunity to carve out a new empire. Leaving American now ruled by religious fundamentalism, young Guilford Law travels to Darwinia on a mission of discovery that will take him further than he can possibly imagine...to a shattering revelation about mankind's destiny in the universe. Darwinia is a 1999 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Amped
Author: Daniel H. WilsonPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030774549X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
As he did in New York Times bestseller Robopocalypse, Daniel Wilson masterfully envisions a stunning world where superhuman technology and humanity clash in surprising—and thrilling—ways. It’s the near future, and scientists have developed implants that treat brain dysfunction—and also make recipients capable of superhuman feats. Exploiting societal fears of the newly enhanced, politicians pass a set of laws to restrict the rights of “amplified” humans, instantly creating a new persecuted underclass known as “amps.” On the day that the Supreme Court passes the first of these laws, twenty-nine-year-old schoolteacher Owen Gray is forced into hiding, only dimly aware of the latent powers he possesses. To escape imprisonment, and to find out who he really is, Owen seeks out a community in Oklahoma where, it is rumored, a group of the most enhanced amps may be about to change the world—or destroy it.
Rapunzel to the Rescue
Author: Lucy RowlandPublisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 070230624X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
What if Rapunzel saved the prince? In this terrific twist on a much-loved fairytale, a prince with magical hair is saved by a fiercely independent Rapunzel. With laugh-out-loud moments and beautiful illustrations, this is an inspirational picture book for a new kind of hero!
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
Author: Jacqueline WoodsonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110115246X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Three-time Newbery Honor author Jacqualine Woodson explores race and sexuality through the eyes of a compelling narrator Melanin Sun has a lot to say. But sometimes it's hard to speak his mind, so he fills up notebooks with his thoughts instead. He writes about his mom a lot--they're about as close as they can be, because they have no other family. So when she suddenly tells him she's gay, his world is turned upside down. And if that weren't hard enough for him to accept, her girlfriend is white. Melanin Sun is angry and scared. How can his mom do this to him--is this the end of their closeness? What will his friends think? And can he let her girlfriend be part of their family?
Mysterium
Author: Robert Charles WilsonPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575117451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In the early hours before dawn, a small Michigan town vanishes from the face of the earth. That morning the men and women of Two Rivers wake up in a world strangely different from their own - a world of curfews, food rationing and secret police. Something has gone terribly wrong in Two Rivers, something that has to do with the mysterious government facility on the outskirts of the town. For schoolteacher Dexter Graham, who has lost his family and has nothing left he values . . . for twelve-year-old Clifford Stockton, driven by a child's curiosity and courage . . . for Evelyn Woodward, torn between obedience to the state and loyalty to her friends . . . and for physicist Howard Poole, haunted by the memory of his brilliant, enigmatic uncle, the only way to escape the nightmare is to journey deeper into fear.
Moonlocket
Author: Peter BunzlPublisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 1631633767
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
When infamous escapologist Jack Door breaks out from prison, he sets out for the town of Brackenbridge, determined to find his missing treasure—the Moonlocket. But when Lily and Robert unwittingly find themselves caught up in Jack Door’s search, they discover that Robert’s history holds the secret to the Moonlocket’s whereabouts.
