Author : Emily Morgan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781681400082
"Written in verse, this book explains the importance of scientific inquiry and encourages children to ask questions about the world around them."--
Author : Frank C. Keil
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 10,6 MB
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0262046490
How we can all be lifelong wonderers: restoring the sense of joy in discovery we felt as children. From an early age, children pepper adults with questions that ask why and how: Why do balloons float? How do plants grow from seeds? Why do birds have feathers? Young children have a powerful drive to learn about their world, wanting to know not just what something is but also how it got to be that way and how it works. Most adults, on the other hand, have little curiosity about whys and hows; we might unlock a door, for example, or boil an egg, with no idea of what happens to make such a thing possible. How can grown-ups recapture a child’s sense of wonder at the world? In this book, Frank Keil describes the cognitive dispositions that set children on their paths of discovery and explains how we can all become lifelong wonderers. Keil describes recent research on children’s minds that reveals an extraordinary set of emerging abilities that underpin their joy of discovery—their need to learn not just the facts but the underlying causal patterns at the very heart of science. This glorious sense of wonder, however, is stifled, beginning in elementary school. Later, with little interest in causal mechanisms, and motivated by intellectual blind spots, as adults we become vulnerable to misinformation and manipulation—ready to believe things that aren’t true. Of course, the polymaths among us have retained their sense of wonder, and Keil explains the habits of mind and ways of wondering that allow them—and can enable us—to experience the joy of asking why and how.
Author : Alice Feeney
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250144833
My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?
Author : Emily Rachel Morgan
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Nature observation
ISBN : 9781681403106
"Written in verse, this book explains the importance of scientific inquiry and encourages children to ask questions about the world around them."--
Author : Pam Muñoz Ryan
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545532345
A modern classic for our time and for all time-this beloved, award-winning bestseller resonates with fresh meaning for each new generation. Perfect for fans of Kate DiCamillo, Christopher Paul Curtis, and Rita Williams-Garcia. Pura Belpre Award Winner * "Readers will be swept up." -Publishers Weekly, starred review Esperanza thought she'd always live a privileged life on her family's ranch in Mexico. She'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home filled with servants, and Mama, Papa, and Abuelita to care for her. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp. Esperanza isn't ready for the hard work, financial struggles brought on by the Great Depression, or lack of acceptance she now faces. When Mama gets sick and a strike for better working conditions threatens to uproot their new life, Esperanza must find a way to rise above her difficult circumstances--because Mama's life, and her own, depend on it.
Author : Vince Flynn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501190679
“One of the best thriller writers on the planet.” —The Real Book Spy In the next thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series, it’s a race against the clock when ISIS takes out the entire US power grid and throws the country into chaos. When Mitch Rapp captures ISIS’s top technology expert, he reveals that he was on his way to meet a man who claims to have the ability to bring down America’s power grid. Rapp is determined to eliminate this shadowy figure, but the CIA’s trap fails. The Agency is still trying to determine what went wrong when ISIS operatives help this cyber terrorist do what he said he could—plunge the country into darkness. With no concept of how this unprecedented act was accomplished, the task of getting the power back on could take months. Perhaps even years. Rapp and his team embark on a desperate search for the only people who know how to repair the damage—the ones responsible. But his operating environment is like nothing he’s experienced before. Computers and communication networks are down, fuel can no longer be pumped from gas stations, water and sanitation systems are on the brink of collapse, and the supply of food is running out. Can Rapp get the lights back on before America descends irretrievably into chaos? This compulsive thriller proves once again that the Mitch Rapp series is “the best of the best when it comes to the world of special ops” (Booklist, starred review).
Author : Colleen Hoover
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 18,24 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 153872474X
Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Too Late and It Ends With Us. #1 New York Times Bestseller · USA Today Bestseller · Globe and Mail Bestseller · Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.
Author : Chaaru
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 16,12 MB
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1948473895
Summer is that kind of girl that will leave you very curious. Striving through her life with Selective Mutism and other psychological conditions, she dreams about a life where she could be normal. While she strives through the plights of a psychotic introvert, Summer seems comfortable to talk with Aphro on Facebook, who is mysteriously haunting her heart day by day, but as she strides into the outside world, she finds Iris. Her mind keeps oscillating like a mad pendulum between Aphro and Iris, amidst all the struggles she had to face from her past. In the middle of guilt trips, self-harming and fairy tale obsessions, she keeps searching for a dawn after having lost the most precious person of her life. Who is Aphro? Will he be real and passionate enough to come into Summer’s life and love the flaws in her? Why is Iris so closed-up all the time? Is he as mysterious as Summer? Will Iris fall in love with Summer? Read Summer discover the world full of adventures and surprises, finally finding dawn after struggling with all her storms and rains.
Author : Zeena Becks
Publisher : Independent
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 2020-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"Zeena Becks's masterpiece will leave you speechless, swooning, breathless, tearful, heartbroken, incredibly excited, happy, thrilled, hopeful. And always thirsty for more." - Goodreads Reviewer This "emotionally captivating story" (Amazon reviewer) will take you on a journey of friendship, love, mental health and heartbreak. Best Friends who've loved and lost reconnect after two years of silence. Nate Fox is the face of the British rock band Devil's Entourage. Writing one heart-melting hit after the other, he could have every girl he wants. But his heart only belongs to her. Jay. His best friend, the girl he couldn't help falling in love with. The girl who disappeared without a word of goodbye... What happens when they meet again after two years of silence? When Nate has to realise that she had to go through times harder than he ever imagined. Times that left the girl once known as the Devil's Daughter nothing but a shadow of herself. **If you're into rich alphah*les dominating their women, this book may not be your cup of tea. If you like your heroes flawed but sweet, caring and full of love, however, Nate Fox might just be your bookboyfriend-type-of-guy. This is a medium-heat open door romance series.** Content warning: This series contains strong subject matter that may not be suitable for, or enjoyed by all readers, including scenes that may depict, mention or discuss: rape, substance abuse, physical and sexual abuse, suicide, depression, anxiety, blood, death, homelessness, parental loss, child disease, pregnancy, abortion, birth trauma, strong language, and explicit sex.
Author : Portia Moore
Publisher : Portia Moore
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
All this time, I’ve saved them. I’ve been the strong one, the stubborn one, the one who fights. Who bleeds. Who lost everything so Megan could have her time in the sun. But now there’s more than just us to think about. There’s a baby coming, and whether it’s Kam’s or Ian’s, there’s only one chance for my future. We have to stop fighting each other. We have to become one. And I know what I want for us. It doesn’t matter whose this baby is. This life isn't just for one of us. If this ends in disaster it won't just be one us at fault, it will be ours.
