Author: R. J. Morgan
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407138278
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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Jake is not a bad person. But now he's been expelled again and there's only one school left that'll take him. This is his last chance. But Jake is drowning in grief - a grief that makes him angry and violent and unafraid. He is ready to self-destruct. Until he meets Robin, a girl who needs help as much as he does...
Author: Jesmyn Ward
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140882700X
Category : African American children
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the family. Esch and her three brothers are stocking up on food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; at fifteen, she has just realized that she's pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pit bull's new litter, dying one by one. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting. As the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to a dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family - motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce - pulls itself up to face another day.
Author: Brenna Hassett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472922956
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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The city has killed most of your ancestors, and it's probably killing you, too - this book tells you why. Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 15,000 years ago. You've got a choice – carry on foraging, or plant a few seeds and move to one of those new-fangled settlements down the valley. What you won't know is that urban life is short and riddled with dozens of new diseases; your children will be shorter and sicklier than you are, they'll be plagued with gum disease, and stand a decent chance of a violent death at the point of a spear. Why would anyone choose this? This is one of the many intriguing questions tackled by Brenna Hassett in Built on Bones. Using research on skeletal remains from around the world, this book explores the history of humanity's experiment with the metropolis, and looks at why our ancestors chose city life, and why they have largely stuck to it. It explains the diseases, the deaths and the many other misadventures that we have unwittingly unleashed upon ourselves throughout the metropolitan past, and as the world becomes increasingly urbanised, what we can look forward to in the future. Telling the tale of shifts in human growth and health that have occurred as we transitioned from a mobile to a largely settled species. Built on Bones offers an accessible insight into a critical but relatively unheralded aspect of the human story: our recent evolution.
Author: Rudolf Hoernle
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788170221371
Category : Bones
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Author: Daniel John Cunningham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 1644
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Author: Henry Gray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 1170
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Author: Grant Farley
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1641291184
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Set in Northern California in the late ’70s, this timeless coming-of-age story examines the nature of evil, the art of storytelling, and the possibility of redemption. Fifteen-year-old RJ Armante has never known a life outside his deadend hometown of Arcangel, CA. The Blackjacks rule as they have for generations, luring the poorest kids into their monopoly on petty crime. For years, they’ve left RJ alone, but now they have a job for him: prey upon an old loner in town. In spite of the danger, RJ begins to resist. He fights not only for himself, but for his younger brother, Charley, whose disability has always made RJ feel extra protective of him. For Roxanne, the girl he can’t reach, and the kids in his crew who have nothing to live for. Even for the old loner, who has secrets of his own. If RJ is to break from the Blackjacks’ hold, all of Arcangel must be free of its past.
Author: Henry Gray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
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Author: Arthur Trehern Norton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Author: Carolyn Haines
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250046149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
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"Sarah Booth Delaney helps her old flame Scott Hampton investigate a mysterious message threatening him and his bandmates. The threat becomes reality when the bartender from Scott's club is gunned down in a drive-by and Sarah Booth is caught in a race against the clock as she tries to stop a killer from striking again"--Provided by publisher.
