How Far We Go and How Fast

How Far We Go and How Fast
Author: Nora Decter
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1459816900

Sixteen-year-old Jolene, named after the girl in the Dolly Parton song, is from a long line of lowlifes, but at least they're musical lowlifes. Her mother is a tanning-salon manager who believes she can channel her karaoke habit into a professional singing career. Jolene's dad, a failed bass player, has gone back to the family demolition business and lives by the company motto: "We do not build things; we only tear them down." But Jolene and her big brother, Matt, are true musicians, writing songs together that make everything Jo hates about their lives matter less. When Matt up and leaves in the middle of the night, Jo loses her only friend, her support system and the one person who made her feel cool. As it becomes clear that Matt is never coming back, Jo must use music to navigate her loss.

How Fast, how Far?

How Fast, how Far?
Author: Clifford Stetson Parker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1969
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

A history of movement, transportation, and speed involving animals, men, and machines.

How Far the Light Reaches

How Far the Light Reaches
Author: Sabrina Imbler
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2022-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 031654051X

A fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this "miraculous, transcendental book" invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live (Ed Yong, author of An Immense World). A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature, including: ·the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, ·the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution and dams, ·the bizarre, predatory Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena), ·the common goldfish that flourishes in the wild, ·and more. Imbler discovers that some of the most radical models of family, community, and care can be found in the sea, from gelatinous chains that are both individual organisms and colonies of clones to deep-sea crabs that have no need for the sun, nourished instead by the chemicals and heat throbbing from the core of the Earth. Exploring themes of adaptation, survival, sexuality, and care, and weaving the wonders of marine biology with stories of their own family, relationships, and coming of age, How Far the Light Reaches is a shimmering, otherworldly debut that attunes us to new visions of our world and its miracles. WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE in SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award One of TIME’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year • A PEOPLE Best New Book • A Barnes & Noble and SHELF AWARENESS Best Book of 2022 • An Indie Next Pick • One of Winter’s Most Eagerly Anticipated Books: VANITY FAIR, VULTURE, BOOKRIOT

Choose Life

Choose Life
Author: Simon Guillebaud
Publisher: Monarch Books
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2014-07-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 085721523X

This unique set of daily readings from bestselling author Simon Guillebaud encourages the reader to live the Christian life without compromise and without restraint; to live on full throttle and with utter abandonment to Christ. Simon Guillebaud has lived in Burundi since his early twenties. He takes unimaginable risks so much so that he didn't expect to live to the age of 30. He sees miraculous results time and again as he works tirelessly for the salvation, peace and prosperity of the country he loves and daily gives his life for. Burundi is a place where choices are vivid, stark and sometimes deadly. It is a front line state in a fragile democracy seeking to overcome a bloody past. The spiritual battle between the forces of light and the repressive power of the local witchdoctors is very real. It is in this context that Simon Guillebaud has learned the lessons he shares in this volume. Succinct and engaging, these daily reading cover a separate topic every day. The range is striking and profound as Simon shares the things he has learned through the council of the Holy Spirit. Those who engage with this unique devotional will be challenged and ultimately changed.

How Fast Can You Fart? And Other Weird, Gross and Disgusting Facts

How Fast Can You Fart? And Other Weird, Gross and Disgusting Facts
Author: Noel Botham
Publisher: Dino Books
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2014-08-07
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1784181730

DID YOU KNOW THAT. . .There are TWICE AS MANY CHICKENS in the world as humans, or that ONE IN THREE MEN PICKS HIS NOSE while driving?DO YOU WANT TO KNOW . . .The average WEIGHT of a human EYEBALL, or how many HEARTS a WORM has?AMAZE YOUR FRIENDS . . .By telling them about PURPLE ANIMALS, the HEAVIEST SUMO WRESTLER, and the LONGEST BOUT of HICCUPS!How Fast Can You Fart? marks the launch of John Blake's brand new children's imprint, Dino Books, and is the first instalment in Dr Dino's Learnatorium. Written by Noel Botham, author of the ever-popular Useless Information series, and decorated throughout with eye-catching hand illustrations, this book is packed with the wildest, weirdest, funniest, grossest, fastest, longest, brainiest and best facts about history, science, food, geography, words, and much more!

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Running

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Running
Author: Bill Rodgers
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2003
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780028644660

Offers motivation to begin running plus warm-up exercises and tips for building stamina, avoiding injury, and choosing the right shoes and clothing.

New Modular Science for Gcse.

New Modular Science for Gcse.
Author: Will Deloughry
Publisher: Heinemann
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1997
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780435570545

Providing material for both the Foundation and Higher tiers of the revised NEAB and WJEC syllabuses, this series is an updated edition of "Modular Science for GCSE". This compendium volume contains six of the 12 modules of the series.

The Moon Can't Wait

The Moon Can't Wait
Author: Nicky J Poole
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2009-12-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1445245574

An Anthology of 35 short stories and other prose of comedy, romance and the occasional murder plus the complete novella Going Back (The Moon Can't Wait) by Nicky J Poole. Set on the Moon just a few years from now, this is a futuristic thriller that touches today. When a vital moon base suddenly shuts down, John Patterson is sent on a rescue mission and to investigate, but it seems there are forces that will stop at nothing to prevent him finding out the truth. Or staying alive. The biggest theft in history has begun.

Third Grade Bound

Third Grade Bound
Author: Thinking Kids
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2015-03-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1483812871

Third Grade Bound prepares children for third grade by reviewing skills and then building up to what they will likely learn in the grade ahead. This book includes language arts, reading, and math skills. Skills include vowel sounds, parts of speech, homonyms, prefixes and suffixes, multiplication, division, and fractions. --Workbooks in the Bound series are designed to prepare children for the grade ahead. These comprehensive workbooks begin by reviewing skills that children have learned and gradually build up to skills that they will likely learn in the grade ahead. This series addresses important language arts, reading, math, and basic skills. The content covers many skills addressed in current state standards as well as other age-appropriate skills.