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Until Our Lungs Give Out

Author : George Yancy

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 397 pages

File Size : 49,18 MB

Release : 2023-09-15

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1538176432

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A 2023 Library Journal Best Social Sciences Title From Library Journal's Starred Review: "All readers stand to learn something from this compelling book." Award-winning author, scholar, and social visionary George Yancy brings together the greatest minds of our time to speak truth to power and welcome everyone into a conversation about the pursuit of justice, equality, and peace. This interwoven collection of searingly honest interviews with leading intellectuals includes conversations with Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Peter McLaren. Each conversation bears witness to the weighty moment in which it was first conducted and presented by Truthout and Tikkun magazines while pointing to ramifications, future hurdles, and practical optimism for moving forward. Learning how to speak about such topics as white supremacy and global whiteness, xenophobia, anti-BIPOC racism, fear of critical race theory, and the importance of Black feminist and trans perspectives, readers will be better able to join future conversations with their peers, those in power, and those who need to be empowered to change the status quo.



Ascendant

Author : Diana Peterfreund

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 404 pages

File Size : 35,40 MB

Release : 2010-09-28

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 0062012673

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Forget everything you ever knew about unicorns. The fluffy, sparkly, friendly “horses” so popular the world over don’t exist. Real unicorns are killers. Don't miss book 2 in the thrilling Killer Unicorn series! Beasts the size of elephants, with cloven hooves that shake the earth, hides impervious to bullets, and horns that contain a deadly poison, unicorns can outrun a sports car and smell a human from a mile away. And they can only be killed by virgin warriors descended from Alexander the Great. Astrid Llewelyn is now a fully trained unicorn hunter, but she can't solve all her problems with just a bow and arrow. Her boyfriend, Giovanni, has decided to leave Rome, the Cloisters is in dire financial straits, her best friend's powers are mysteriously disintegrating, and Astrid can't help but feel that school, home, and her hopes of becoming a scientist are impossible dreams. So when she's given the opportunity to leave the Cloisters and put her skills to use as part of a scientific quest to discover the Remedy, Astrid leaps at the chance. Finally, she can have exactly what she wants—or can she? At Gordian headquarters in the French countryside, Astrid begins to question everything she thought she believed: her love for Giovanni, her loyalty to the Cloisters, and—most of all—her duty as a hunter. Should Astrid be saving the world from killer unicorns, or saving the unicorns from the world?



Warchild: Pawn | A Series of Young Adult Dystopian Books

Author : Ernie Lindsey

Publisher : Ernie Lindsey

Page : 139 pages

File Size : 37,17 MB

Release : 2014-07-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "This impressive novel is part coming-of-age action-adventure and part fierce war games dominated by a young girl just coming into her powers. A fine, durable, inaugural volume brimming with imagination and sparkling, inventive characters." ********* All Caroline Mathers wanted was a chance to make her own way. War will force her to make history. In this post apocalyptic landscape marred by never-ending rain, life is calm, sometimes even okay, as long as you can find food to eat, have a roof over your head, and steer clear of the roving bands of marauders and thieves. But what Caroline and her people don't realize is that across a distant mountain, a bigger problem arises, a sinister plot is forming, and an army grows in strength. In order to survive, they'll need a hero... One that doesn't know just how strong she really is. The first book of the Warchild series is a powerful, gritty, young adult dystopian thriller full of fast-paced action, hard choices, and the undeniable strength of the human bond. Google Topics: free science fiction books, dystopian novels, dystopian science fiction, thriller novels, young adult dystopian fiction, thriller, suspense, science fiction, war, future, free, freebie, young adults free books, young adults, free dystopian books, dystopian novels free, dystopian free, dystopian novels, young adults books, top free adventure books for young adults, free fantasy books for young adults, free young adults books, free novels for young adults, best sci fi books



Living on Borrowed Time

Author : Debbie Pitts

Publisher : Author House

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 18,13 MB

Release : 2007-01-19

Category : Health & Fitness

ISBN : 1452033463

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My book tells how I have struggled to live from day to day since my being diagnosed at six months of age. So you know I have lived a long time with this disease. It hadn't been easy.







MARINES

Author : Chuck Mansfield

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 616 pages

File Size : 35,21 MB

Release : 2023-10-29

Category : History

ISBN :

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The history and lore of the United States Marine Corps are likely unmatched. Steeped in the rich history and tradition of the Corps since its founding in 1775, this book focuses on more recent history, specifically the author’s experiences as a young Marine in the 1960s, including his tour of duty in Vietnam. It also includes biographical profiles of more than 100 other Marines who fought in Vietnam or other conflicts. Most of those profiled are Marines with whom the author served or has come to know since his active military service. The 30th Marine Commandant, General Carl Mundy, has written: “Few who have borne the title [United States Marine] fail to identify with it throughout their entire lives.” Marines are, as Shakespeare has written, “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.” And brothers are members of a family. This family is “The few. The proud. The Marines.”



Finnie Walsh

Author : Steven Galloway

Publisher : Vintage Canada

Page : 178 pages

File Size : 19,56 MB

Release : 2010-01-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307398668

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Steven Galloway's first novel, an incredible coming of age story, now revised and available in trade paperback from Vintage Canada. Finnie Walsh is a captivating, Irving-esque story of family, friendship, redemption, and legend. Paul Woodward lives in Portsmouth, a quiet northern mill-town. Born the day Paul Henderson planted the puck between the pipes against the Soviet Union to win the 1972 Super Series, Paul has no choice about playing hockey. His best friend Finnie Walsh is stinking rich. He is also fellow hockey fanatic and the only good kid in a long line of delinquent brothers. Paul's father works the nightshift at the local mill, owned by Finnie's father. One fateful day the boys noisily prepare for their first season of hockey in the Woodward driveway, keeping Paul's father awake when he should be sleeping. This triggers a chain of world-altering events. Galloway proves that childhood innocence, while not exactly bliss, can be amusing and more than mildly instructional. This is the book John Irving would have written if he understood hockey as well as wrestling. Finnie Walsh, like the fabled games before NHL expansion, is a story about greatness and legend. But it's also a heartsong to family, friendship, and atonement.



Blue Mesa Review

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Publisher :

Page : 472 pages

File Size : 37,73 MB

Release : 2004

Category : American literature

ISBN :

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The Journey Prize Stories 26

Author : Various

Publisher : McClelland & Stewart

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 28,44 MB

Release : 2014-10-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0771050518

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For more than twenty-five years, The Journey Prize Stories has been Canada’s most celebrated annual fiction anthology and a who’s who of up-and-coming writers. With settings ranging from Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music to a hospital ward in Thailand, from British Columbia’s Burrard Inlet to St. John’s Bowring Park, the stories in this collection represent the year’s best short fiction by some of our most exciting new writers. Among the stories this year: A woman’s quest to trend on social media blinds her to her inability to connect with her own adult daughter. The delicate equilibrium maintained by a newly pregnant expat living in Israel is shattered when a missile lands in her backyard. An unusual guide to caring for an exotic pet highlights the many opportunities owners will have to learn valuable life lessons – beginning with the pet’s death. The tender relationship between two musical prodigies is no match for the machinations of the adult world. After a woman returns to her parents’ house to recuperate from a life-changing surgery, she discovers how difficult it is for others to accept who she has become. A terrible act of cruelty forces the tensions between two workers at a fish processing plant to spill out into the surrounding waters. When a former couple has a chance encounter on a B.C. ferry, old grievances and desires alike resurface with surprising results.