Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity

Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity
Author: Kristin Elizabeth Clark
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2016-11-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0374380074

The last time Jess saw her father, she was a boy. Now she’s a high school graduate, soon to be on her way to art school. But first she has some unfinished business with her dad. So she’s driving halfway across the country to his wedding. He happens to be marrying her mom’s ex-best friend. It’s not like Jess wasn’t invited; she was. She just never told anyone she was coming. Surprise! Luckily, Jess isn’t making this trip alone. Her best friend, Christophe—nicknamed Chunk—is joining her. Along the way, Jess and Chunk learn a few things about themselves—and each other—which call their feelings about their relationship into question.

Driving Into Infinity

Driving Into Infinity
Author: Paula Lenz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2017-08-28
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781504384810

In Memory of Don Edgar Lenz (1957-1983) In 1983, a recurring dream Paula had proved to be a precognitive warning. The sudden, shocking loss of her brother, Don, that year would come close to completely destroying Paula. She did not know, however, that his death would result in strange occurrences and outreach from him for the rest of her life. Three days after Don's funeral, Paula had an out-of-body experience with her brother's spirit while she was driving. The result was a visit to "infinity" and a change in her consciousness. Paula recounts stories about her brother from her family as well as from Don's closest friends, painting a picture of a beloved brother, son, and friend. She hopes her story will provide comfort to those who have experienced the loss of someone they love deeply.

The Joy of X

The Joy of X
Author: Steven Henry Strogatz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2012
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0547517653

A delightful tour of the greatest ideas of math, showing how math intersects with philosophy, science, art, business, current events, and everyday life, by an acclaimed science communicator and regular contributor to the "New York Times."

Understanding Driving

Understanding Driving
Author: John A. Groeger
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134690975

This book closely examines what is involved in driving. It identifies the aspects of perception, attention, learning, memory, decision making and action control which are drawn upon in order to enable us to drive, and the brain systems involved. It attempts to show how studying tasks such as driving can help to understand how these fundamental aspects of cognition combine to facilitate performance in complex everyday tasks. In doing so it shows how a very broad range of laboratory based findings can be applied, and that through our attempts to apply this knowledge to complex everyday tasks, we gain, in return, a greater understanding of fundamental aspects of human cognition.

Infinity and Me

Infinity and Me
Author: Kate Hosford
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1467737917

When I looked up, I shivered. How many stars were in the sky? A million? A billion? Maybe the number was as big as infinity. I started to feel very, very small. How could I even think about something as big as infinity? Uma can't help feeling small when she peers up at the night sky. She begins to wonder about infinity. Is infinity a number that grows forever? Is it an endless racetrack? Could infinity be in an ice cream cone? Uma soon finds that the ways to think about this big idea may just be . . . infinite.

Infinity's Edge

Infinity's Edge
Author: John Carter
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2004
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0595303501

"With you, desire does not waken slowly, but arrives within me as a thing complete, filling every limb at the same instant." Writer and poet John Carter presents a fresh and fragrant breeze in this collection of poems and prose beautiful enough to be enjoyed in the living room, and erotic enough for the bedroom. Classical styles mix with free verse and lyric, while prose sings poetry. In the long tradition of Rumi, Byron and Neruda, John Carter sets his pen firmly on the path of romance and sensuality expressed in written words. Infinity's Edge breathes new life into the art of love poetry. If you haven't felt good about yourself in a while, if love hasn't been all you believed it could be, if you're missing romance in your life, if you want to relight sparks and recapture passion in the space of an evening and have it last a lifetime, Infinity's Edge is for you. Don't let her take it to bed without you.

The Lost Art of High Performance Driving

The Lost Art of High Performance Driving
Author: Ross Bentley
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2017-07
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0760352372

Become a better performance driver with Speed Secrets With the promise of autonomous vehicles in our near future, and current cars equipped with all sorts of mind-boggling driver aides, many feel that the art (and science) of performance driving has been lost - or will be. But no! For every device designed to take the act of driving out of our hands, the desire to actively participate in the control of a car becomes even stronger for driving enthusiasts. One only needs to look at the number of performance cars available today to see that the desire to truly drive is still in strong demand. In Speed Secrets: The Lost Art of Performance Driving, Ross Bentley explains in plain language how you can become an even better performance-oriented driver, whether it's to enjoy a twisty mountain highway, to take that secret back-road route to work, or to participate in a track day on a racing circuit. From how best to use your car's controls, to cornering, to dealing with adverse driving conditions, this book will make you a better performance driver. Along the way, you'll learn what ABS, traction and stability control, self-braking systems, and semi-automatic transmissions do and how best to incorporate them into your driving. Speed Secrets: The Lost Art of Performance Driving will help you understand your car well and be an even better, faster driver. Most importantly, it will fuel your passion for driving!

Infinity's Reach

Infinity's Reach
Author: Glen Robinson
Publisher: Prevail Publications
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1482788306

Life was pretty simple for Infinity Richards as a teenager in a private school in Baltimore. Then she woke up to discover that she'd spent the past two years in a prison camp. Now she and her friends are faced with a trek across a forbidding landscape scarred by a surprise nuclear attack on the United States. Their journey will lead them past hot zones, warlords, "crazies," occupying Coalition forces and an assortment of allies and foes. It may take her years to get to Camp Zion in the West where her father is reorganizing American forces to take back their country. But in the meantime, her journey across apocalyptic America will turn her into someone stronger, smarter and more courageous than she ever imagined she would be. More than three centuries ago, John Bunyan wrote Pilgrim's Progress, second only to the Bible in readership. Now Infinity's Reach revisits the challenges and lessons of the original Pilgrim's Progress in a totally new and exciting setting.

The Infinity of You & Me

The Infinity of You & Me
Author: J.Q. Coyle
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2016-11-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250099234

"The clever, fast-moving plot features a strong, appealing heroine, Sylvia Plath's poetry, romance, betrayal, and heart-stopping suspense." - Kirkus Reviews "This ambitious sci-fi novel, filled with multiverses and what-ifs... contains complex world building that would appeal to fans of TV's Orphan Black." - Booklist Almost fifteen, Alicia is smart and funny with a deep connection to the poet Sylvia Plath, but she’s ultimately failing at life. With a laundry list of diagnoses, she hallucinates different worlds—strange, decaying, otherworldly yet undeniably real worlds that are completely unlike her own with her single mom and one true friend. In one particularly vivid hallucination, Alicia is drawn to a boy her own age named Jax who’s trapped in a dying universe. Days later, her long-lost father shows up at her birthday party, telling her that the hallucinations aren’t hallucinations, but real worlds; she and Jax are bound by a strange past and intertwining present. This leads her on a journey to find out who she is while trying to save the people and worlds she loves. J.Q. Coyle’s The Infinity of You & Me is a wild ride through unruly hearts and vivid worlds guaranteed to captivate.