Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction
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| Author | Nahoko Uehashi |
| ISBN | 0545102952 |
Balsa returns to her native Kanbal to clear the name of Jiguro, her dear mentor, who saved her life when she was six years old. But what should be a visit of truth and reconciliation becomes a fight for her life when she learns that Jiguro had been a member of King Rogsam's personal bodyguard. After Jiguro...
| Author | Alice Hoffman |
| ISBN | 1405218312 |
This book had two good stories in it, but it was disappointing mostly. I bought it expecting it to be a longer novel (it says it's a YA novel and it has 198 pages). It only took about an hour to read; it was more appropriate for kids in the third grade than kids in middle or high school. The reason it appears as...
| Author | Lauren Baratz-Logsted |
| ISBN | 1416950680 |
Lacey Underhill has what her Dutch grandmother refers to as luxe problemen: luxury problems. But Lacey's problems are very real and they are exactly two: her breasts. Twelve years old and in eighth grade, Lacey has developed faster than everyone else around her. The other girls -- even her own best...
| Author | P.G. Kain |
| ISBN | 1416935193 |
Dorie Dilts is about to move from California to New Jersey, and instead of seeing this as the worst thing to happen to her in her 13 years, Dorie sees this as a great opportunity--an opportunity to reinvent herself as one of the popular crowd, that is. When she arrives at her new school, she immediately sets...
| Author | Douglas Rees |
| ISBN | 0373210175 |
My name is Kestrel.
Kestrel Murphy.
Never call me Susan.
Who ever heard of a witch named Susan?
A year ago, I was on the white-magic side. Lately, I've been leaning toward the black. I blame the universe. What's the point in being a nice little white witch in the universe...
| Author | Meg Haston |
| ISBN | 0316068268 |
In How To Rock Break-Ups and Make-ups Kacey joined a band. From the previous book she had met a guy named Zander. Molly had been with Zander but had recently broke up with him. As Kacey is in the band she begins to like Zander more and more. He soon tells her that he has a surprise for her. When he gives her the...
Naked Reading was inspired by the author's ten-year-old granddaughter, whose frequent practice of spending time after a shower air-drying in the privacy of the bathroom, so she can continue reading an engrossing book, made Teri Lesesne curious about what makes some tweens avid readers while others...
| Author | Alexa Young |
| ISBN | 0061175617 |
What happens when two besties become full-blown worsties?
Avalon Greene rules the fashion scene at her sunny SoCal middle school with a diamond-clad fist, calling out classmates for their fashion-do's and most unfortunate clothes-pas. She's determined to host the social event of the season—a...
It's never fun when a great summer comes to an end.
Particularly when one argues with one’s adorable, but grossly insensitive, boyfriend the night before school starts. It’s such a terrible fight, Jess doesn’t know—are they broken up? Should she apologize? Too bad Jess is spending...
| Author | Mark Peter Hughes |
| ISBN | 0385906471 |
Kirkus said, "warmhearted and innocently wild, this stand-alone sequel will find appreciative fans among teen music obsessives and social activists."
Olivia, Wen, Stella, Charlie, and Mo—the members of the legendary band Lemonade Mouth—have been labeled many things. But just how...
| Author | Tanya Landman |
| ISBN | 0763642193 |
A bearer of doom, or a bringer of change? As the Aztec empire falls, one girl defies her destiny.
In the golden city of Tenochtitlán, the people live in awe of Emperor Montezuma and in fear of blood-hungry gods. Under an ill-fated sky, a girl is born, facing a life of submission and domestic drudgery....
| Author | John Ross |
| ISBN | 1568584245 |
John Ross has been living in the old colonial quarter of Mexico City for the last three decades, a rebel journalist covering Mexico and the region from the bottom up. He is filled with a gnawing sense that his beloved Mexico City’s days as the most gargantuan, chaotic, crime-ridden, toxically contaminated...
| Author | David Lida |
| ISBN | 1594489890 |
A panoramic literary portrait of Mexico City— a vibrant, seductive, paradoxical city now commanding the world’s attention and showing us the way to the future of urban life.
David Lida moved to Mexico City fifteen years ago in search of a kind of culture, energy, and spontaneity that he...
The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction
| Author | Davíd Carrasco |
| ISBN | 0195379381 |
This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic...
It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
| Author | Luis J. Rodríguez |
| ISBN | 1416584161 |
IN A HARROWING JOURNEY FROM DRUGGED-OUT GANG MEMBER TO ONE OF THE MOST REVERED FIGURES IN CHICANO LITERATURE AND AMERICAN LETTERS, LUIS J. RODRÍGUEZ CONTINUES THE REMARKABLE STORY OF HIS BESTSELLING MEMOIR, ALWAYS RUNNING. Hundreds of thousands of readers came to know Luis J. Rodríguez through...
| Author | Robin Palmer |
| ISBN | 0142415014 |
Lucy B. Parker has finally settled into her new life in New York City, living with her new frister (friend + sister), superstar Laurel Moses. She's got a new BFF in Beatrice, and she's spending her summer vacation off in L.A. visiting Laurel on the set of her new movie and meeting teen heartthrobs left and...
| Author | Sue Bentley |
| ISBN | 0448449994 |
In this book Abi just at school started a new grade. She made a friend called Sasha,and an enemy called Keera. The thing that made it hard was Keera had friends, they are called Marsha and and Tiwa. At the market place Keera steeled candy. Not long after Mrs. York their teacher wanted to figure out. So after...
The People's Guide to Mexico
| Author | Carl Franz |
| ISBN | 1566917115 |
Now in its updated 13th edition, The People's Guide to Mexico still offers the ideal combination of basic travel information, entertaining stories, and friendly guidance about everything from driving in Mexico City to hanging a hammock to bartering at the local mercado.
Features include:
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| Author | Louis L'Amour |
| ISBN | 0553270478 |
Mary Breydon knew how to get things done. Raised on a Virginia plantation, she learned how to care for livestock, respect her workers, and keep good books. But after her husband is killed, she must make a living running a stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. Mary faces challenges that even the men...
| Author | Rick Bass |
| ISBN | 0618596747 |
Rick Bass's new collection contains a broad range of characters and settings: the title story concerns a woman recovering from cancer; "Pagans" tells, at forty years' distance, of a girl and two boys -- one of whom was in love with her -- and the dangerous games they played; in "Her First Elk," a woman reflects...
How My Private, Personal Journal Became a Bestseller
| Author | Julia DeVillers |
| ISBN | 0142403326 |
Formerly ordinary fourteen-year-old Jamie Bartlett isn't so ordinary anymore. Ever since she wrote a story about Isabella (aka IS), the stereotype-defying, popular-girl-crushing super teen, Jamie's life hasn't been the same. Suddenly she's doing interviews and book signings, flying to L.A....
