Author: Emmie Ferguson Farrar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Old Virginia Houses: Along the fall line
Author: Emmie Ferguson Farrar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Nine
Author: Zach Hines
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062567241
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In this twisted Lauren Oliver-meets-A.S. King debut, Julian has just eight more lives to burn in order to uncover a brutal secret. In an alternate world startlingly close to our own, humans have nine lives—and they can’t wait to use them up. The government has death incentives aimed at controlling overpopulation. As you shed lives, you shed your awkward phases: one death is equal to one physical and mental upgrade. Julian’s friends are obsessed with the idea of burning, but Julian is determined to stay on his first life for as long as he can. His mother burned too fast and inflicted a debilitating rebirth sickness on herself. Julian realizes that he’s going to have to burn at some point—especially when he becomes a target for Nicholas, the manipulative leader of the Burners, the school’s suicide club. And when Julian eventually succumbs, he uncovers suspicious gaps in the rebirth system that may explain exactly why his mother went so far down the rabbit hole years ago. Along with a group of student dissenters, Julian sets out to find answers and is soon on the verge of exposing the greatest conspiracy ever unleashed on the world.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062567241
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In this twisted Lauren Oliver-meets-A.S. King debut, Julian has just eight more lives to burn in order to uncover a brutal secret. In an alternate world startlingly close to our own, humans have nine lives—and they can’t wait to use them up. The government has death incentives aimed at controlling overpopulation. As you shed lives, you shed your awkward phases: one death is equal to one physical and mental upgrade. Julian’s friends are obsessed with the idea of burning, but Julian is determined to stay on his first life for as long as he can. His mother burned too fast and inflicted a debilitating rebirth sickness on herself. Julian realizes that he’s going to have to burn at some point—especially when he becomes a target for Nicholas, the manipulative leader of the Burners, the school’s suicide club. And when Julian eventually succumbs, he uncovers suspicious gaps in the rebirth system that may explain exactly why his mother went so far down the rabbit hole years ago. Along with a group of student dissenters, Julian sets out to find answers and is soon on the verge of exposing the greatest conspiracy ever unleashed on the world.
Figure Skating
Author: James Robert Hines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Discusses skating's many technical and artistic advances, its important figures, its intrigues and scandals, and the historical high points during its evolution.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Discusses skating's many technical and artistic advances, its important figures, its intrigues and scandals, and the historical high points during its evolution.
On the Trail of the Jackalope
Author: Michael P. Branch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643139320
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The never-before-told story of the horned rabbit—the myths, the hoaxes, and the entirely real scientific breakthroughs it has inspired—and how it became a cultural touchstone of the American West. Just what is a jackalope? Purported to be part jackrabbit and part antelope, the jackalope began as a local joke concocted by two young brothers in a small Wyoming town during the Great Depression. Their creation quickly spread around the U.S., where it now regularly appears as innumerable forms of kitsch—wall mounts, postcards, keychains, coffee mugs, shot glasses, and so on. A vast body of folk narratives has carried the jackalope’s fame around the world to inspire art, music, film, even erotica! Although the jackalope is an invention of the imagination, it is nevertheless connected to actual horned rabbits, which exist in nature and have for centuries been collected and studied by naturalists. Around the time the two young boys were creating the first jackalope in Wyoming, Dr. Richard Shope was making his first breakthrough about the cause of the horns: a virus. When the virus that causes rabbits to grow “horns” (a keratinous carcinoma) was first genetically sequenced in 1984, oncologists were able to use that genetic information to make remarkable, field-changing advances in the development of anti-viral cancer therapies. The most important of these is the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which protects against cervical and other cancers. Today, jackalopes are literally helping us cure cancer. For fans of David Quammen’s The Song of the Dodo, Jon Mooallem’s Wild Ones, or Jeff Meldrum's Sasquatch, Michael P. Branch's remarkable On the Trail of the Jackalope is an entertaining and enlightening road trip through the heart of America.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643139320
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The never-before-told story of the horned rabbit—the myths, the hoaxes, and the entirely real scientific breakthroughs it has inspired—and how it became a cultural touchstone of the American West. Just what is a jackalope? Purported to be part jackrabbit and part antelope, the jackalope began as a local joke concocted by two young brothers in a small Wyoming town during the Great Depression. Their creation quickly spread around the U.S., where it now regularly appears as innumerable forms of kitsch—wall mounts, postcards, keychains, coffee mugs, shot glasses, and so on. A vast body of folk narratives has carried the jackalope’s fame around the world to inspire art, music, film, even erotica! Although the jackalope is an invention of the imagination, it is nevertheless connected to actual horned rabbits, which exist in nature and have for centuries been collected and studied by naturalists. Around the time the two young boys were creating the first jackalope in Wyoming, Dr. Richard Shope was making his first breakthrough about the cause of the horns: a virus. When the virus that causes rabbits to grow “horns” (a keratinous carcinoma) was first genetically sequenced in 1984, oncologists were able to use that genetic information to make remarkable, field-changing advances in the development of anti-viral cancer therapies. The most important of these is the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which protects against cervical and other cancers. Today, jackalopes are literally helping us cure cancer. For fans of David Quammen’s The Song of the Dodo, Jon Mooallem’s Wild Ones, or Jeff Meldrum's Sasquatch, Michael P. Branch's remarkable On the Trail of the Jackalope is an entertaining and enlightening road trip through the heart of America.
Southside Virginia Families
Author: John Bennett Boddie
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 080630040X
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
The second volume of the set (see Item 531) covers more families from the early counties of Virginia's Lower Tidewater and Southside regions. With an index in excess of 10,000 names.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 080630040X
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
The second volume of the set (see Item 531) covers more families from the early counties of Virginia's Lower Tidewater and Southside regions. With an index in excess of 10,000 names.
John William Hines, Born C. 1600 in Londonderry, Ireland
Author: William Neal Hurley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"Being principally a study of the descendants of the three sons of John William Hines, who immigrated to America in 1650, and settled first in or near Chuckatuck, Virginia; and later throughout North Carolina, as well as further south and west.".
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"Being principally a study of the descendants of the three sons of John William Hines, who immigrated to America in 1650, and settled first in or near Chuckatuck, Virginia; and later throughout North Carolina, as well as further south and west.".
The Summer Before the Dark
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007383576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The story of a middle-aged woman’s search for freedom, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007383576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The story of a middle-aged woman’s search for freedom, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Cracked, Not Broken
Author: Kevin Hines
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 9781442222403
Category : PSYCHOLOGY
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work is about the art of living mentally well. Told through the first-hand experience of mental health advocate, activist and speaker Kevin Hines (who has bipolar disorder), the story is an honest account of the struggle to live mentally well, and teach others how to do t...
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 9781442222403
Category : PSYCHOLOGY
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work is about the art of living mentally well. Told through the first-hand experience of mental health advocate, activist and speaker Kevin Hines (who has bipolar disorder), the story is an honest account of the struggle to live mentally well, and teach others how to do t...
Albemarle Parish Vestry Book, 1742-1786
Author: Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806317564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Vestry Book of Albemarle Parish is one of the priceless original public records of the Old Dominion that has survived the vicissitudes of time, wars, invasions, fire, and neglect. Now, for the first time, the Vestry Book is widely available to researchers owing to the transcription efforts of Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis and Andrew Wilburn Hogwood.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806317564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Vestry Book of Albemarle Parish is one of the priceless original public records of the Old Dominion that has survived the vicissitudes of time, wars, invasions, fire, and neglect. Now, for the first time, the Vestry Book is widely available to researchers owing to the transcription efforts of Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis and Andrew Wilburn Hogwood.
The Virginia Carys: An Essay in Genealogy
Author: Fairfax Harrison
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5878936240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5878936240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description