Life on Old Earth is simple. Under the rule of the Spark Lords, most chaos has been brought under control. Five unsatisfied teachers out for a night of drinking is nothing out of the ordinary...until they find one of their students has been murdered by an unknown alien organism. When it's discovered that the murdered student's boyfriend has gone missing, this group of misfits find themselves tangled in an unofficial homicide investigation that uncovers things they'd never imagined. The hunt for a murderer unveils a horrifying conspiracy that may involve everyone from the Spark Lords to the League of Peoples...and a force more sinister than anything they could have imagined.
“Gullickson's?” said Krista. “English?” It was as good as any, a big room right in the center. “The windows face right out,” she said. What she meant was that they faced out on to the parking lot and the road beyond it, so we would be ...
What happens next will astound and inspire. Based on true events, this is a story of interspecies cooperation and the importance of human responsibility to protect the earth and its many inhabitants.
Two boys must escape with their lives as they search for the secret of a cursed cave, where buried treasure lies, and attempt to find a killer.
"In the tradition of bestselling explainers like The Tipping Point, [this] book [is] based on cutting edge science that breaks down the idea of extreme conflict--the kind that paralyzes people and places--and then shows how to escape it"--
Despite the story that claims that some kids had been killed mysteriously there thirty years ago, a group of young people sneaks out of Saturday detention to explore the tunnels beneath Shadyside High. Original.
Trapped is a massive illustrated book comprised of over 500 snapshots of domestic and exotic animals, mostly taken at night by automatically triggered camera traps.
“A top-shelf test of courage, friendship, and ingenuity.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Florian Bates—the only kid on the FBI Director’s speed dial and several international criminals’ most wanted lists—must save his friend ...
They wore their hair long , piled atop their heads to emulate the Gibson Girl , the paragon of beauty immortalized in the sketches of Charles Dana Gibson . The Ladies - Home Journal sold a million copies each month , and the Sears ...
Self-trapped Excitons
She started a diary, evidence to reassure herself that she wasn't going mad. This is the true story of a strong, independent woman's descent into abuse, and how she eventually escaped -- Publisher's description.