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Author: R. S. Traylor Publisher: ISBN: 9781651054956 Category : Languages : en Pages : 288
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For readers of Marieke Nijkamp's This Is Where It Ends and Jennifer Brown's Hate List, Gunpoint of View is a harrowing, poignant tale of three teens' experiences leading up to a planned school shooting. The year is 1998. Bill Clinton is the president. You're either Team Backstreet Boys or Team NSYNC. Furbies are all the rage. Deadly school shootings are practically unheard of. And other than your dope, new Nokia 6120 cell phone, beeping your friend is the easiest way to see if they want to hit up Blockbuster later. Life is simple and innocent.Until Dustin and his best friend, Ryan, decide to avenge the years-worth of emotional agony, shame, and physical pain they've suffered at the hands of Callahan High's most supreme jocks and bullies. All-around athlete Joshua isn't one of the "bad ones", but a grim discovery leads him to believe that being a bystander to the torture has led him to face his karma. Meanwhile, Samiya lives to fight the power, embrace her black culture, and be an advocate for those who struggle to find their voice at Callahan. She never thought a person existed who was unsavable--until she took on the challenge of helping Dustin find the light.Is the light enough to stop the disturbing darkness that's about to be let loose?
Author: R. S. Traylor Publisher: ISBN: 9781651054956 Category : Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
For readers of Marieke Nijkamp's This Is Where It Ends and Jennifer Brown's Hate List, Gunpoint of View is a harrowing, poignant tale of three teens' experiences leading up to a planned school shooting. The year is 1998. Bill Clinton is the president. You're either Team Backstreet Boys or Team NSYNC. Furbies are all the rage. Deadly school shootings are practically unheard of. And other than your dope, new Nokia 6120 cell phone, beeping your friend is the easiest way to see if they want to hit up Blockbuster later. Life is simple and innocent.Until Dustin and his best friend, Ryan, decide to avenge the years-worth of emotional agony, shame, and physical pain they've suffered at the hands of Callahan High's most supreme jocks and bullies. All-around athlete Joshua isn't one of the "bad ones", but a grim discovery leads him to believe that being a bystander to the torture has led him to face his karma. Meanwhile, Samiya lives to fight the power, embrace her black culture, and be an advocate for those who struggle to find their voice at Callahan. She never thought a person existed who was unsavable--until she took on the challenge of helping Dustin find the light.Is the light enough to stop the disturbing darkness that's about to be let loose?
Author: James J. Gormley Publisher: ISBN: 9780757003813 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 0
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The FDA, an agency established with honorable intentions, has become tainted by lobbyists and money. In addition to exposing the FDA's long-standing battle against natural health products, this book examines how big business, industry, globalization, and politics have affected the quality and production of our food supply, destroyed the environment, and compromised our safety and health time and time again. Learn what you can do to take back your health, and your freedom of choice.
Author: Paul Chandler Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 1613744455 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 394
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On October 23, 2009, Somali pirates kidnapped Paul and Rachel Chandler from their sailing boat, the Lynn Rival, in the Seychelles, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean. In this remarkable memoir, the Chandlers recount their terrifying ordeal, revealing the inspiring and poignant story behind the dramatic headlines. The book chronicles the aftermath of the attack, and how the Chandlers' captors held them in Somalia for more than a year while trying to extort millions of dollars from their middle-class family. It goes on to describe how despite enduring threats, intimidation, solitary confinement, and even whippings, their unshakable belief in each other and their determination to survive sustained them. With its detailed, day-to-day account of the experience of being held captive by pirates, this unique and inspiring story will resonate with travelers the world over.
Author: Herbert Gintis Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691160848 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 283
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Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences—from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully explain human behavior and should instead complement other key concepts championed by the behavioral disciplines. Herbert Gintis shows that just as game theory without broader social theory is merely technical bravado, so social theory without game theory is a handicapped enterprise. This edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. Reinvigorating game theory, The Bounds of Reason offers innovative thinking for the behavioral sciences.
Author: Jason Reynolds Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1481438271 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 333
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“An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review) “Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017 A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017 A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017 An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RULE Or, you can call it a gun. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he’s after. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. And that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buck’s in the elevator? Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck’s cigarette. Will doesn’t know her, but she knew him. Knew. When they were eight. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES. And so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. A story that might never know an END…if Will gets off that elevator. Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.
Author: Hugh Laurie Publisher: Soho Press ISBN: 1641296038 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 409
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A deluxe paperback reissue of British actor (comedian, musician, and writer) Hugh Laurie’s acclaimed spy romp—starring Thomas Lang, a hapless ex-soldier who is drawn into the center of a dangerous plot involving international terrorists, arms dealing, and CIA spooks. Featuring an introduction by Hugh Laurie, and a foreword by Stephen Fry! Retired Army officer Thomas Lang would love nothing more than to live out the rest of his existence drinking whiskey and riding motorcycles, and is content to make ends meet with mercenary jobs—just never murder. Not even when he’s offered a fortune to assassinate American businessman Alexander Woolf. Lang opts to warn the target instead. But Lang’s good deed does not go unpunished. When he finds not Woolf, but Woolf’s alluring daughter, Sarah, and another less scrupulous mercenary closing in, Lang becomes entangled in an international conspiracy that lands him in the sights of both the Ministry of Defence and the CIA. Lang takes on rogue CIA agents, aspiring terrorists, and high-tech arms dealers to prevent an international bloodbath—and save the femme fatale he’s falling in love with. Robert Ludlum by way of—well, Hugh Laurie, THE GUN SELLER is a whizz-bang novel of suspense, espionage, and humor, perfect for crime fiction and comedy fans alike.
Author: Gabrielle Union Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062694006 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 175
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Named a Best Book of the Year by The Root Chosen by Emma Straub as a Best New Celebrity Memoir “A book of essays as raw and honest as anyone has ever produced.” — Lena Dunham, Lenny Letter In the spirit of Amy Poehler’s Yes Please, Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race, beauty, Hollywood, and what it means to be a modern woman. One month before the release of the highly anticipated film The Birth of a Nation, actress Gabrielle Union shook the world with a vulnerable and impassioned editorial in which she urged our society to have compassion for victims of sexual violence. In the wake of rape allegations made against director and actor Nate Parker, Union—a forty-four-year-old actress who launched her career with roles in iconic ’90s movies—instantly became the insightful, outspoken actress that Hollywood has been desperately awaiting. With honesty and heartbreaking wisdom, she revealed her own trauma as a victim of sexual assault: "It is for you that I am speaking. This is real. We are real." In this moving collection of thought provoking essays infused with her unique wisdom and deep humor, Union uses that same fearlessness to tell astonishingly personal and true stories about power, color, gender, feminism, and fame. Union tackles a range of experiences, including bullying, beauty standards, and competition between women in Hollywood, growing up in white California suburbia and then spending summers with her black relatives in Nebraska, coping with crushes, puberty, and the divorce of her parents. Genuine and perceptive, Union bravely lays herself bare, uncovering a complex and courageous life of self-doubt and self-discovery with incredible poise and brutal honesty. Throughout, she compels us to be ethical and empathetic, and reminds us of the importance of confidence, self-awareness, and the power of sharing truth, laughter, and support.
Author: Martin Dillon Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136680535 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 257
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In this astonishing and at times terrifying book, acclaimed writer and political commentator Martin Dillon examines for the first time the true role of religion in the conflict in Northern Ireland. He interviewed those directly involved--terrorists like Kenny McClinton and Billy Wright and churchmen like Father Pat Buckley--finding that the terrorists were more forthcoming than the priests and ministers. Dillon charts the history of the paramilitary forces on both sides and exposes the shocking covert role of British intelligence. He finds that, ultimately, both the church and government have failed their communities, allowing men and women of violence to fill a vacuum with bigotry and violence.
Author: Robert Ljubas Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1662436459 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 416
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Two teenagers, Bobby Karuko and Jeff Housner, hitchhike to the West Coast, believing they are on a mission from God. As they travel into the unknown, searching for love, adventure, and clues to their questions, their quest takes an unexpected turn filled with mystery and suspense. Girls from their high school and neighborhoods are mysteriously disappearing, and Bobby suspects Jeff knows more about the missing girls than what he's saying. When Bobby, Jeff, and a few others accidentally invade someone's hidden domain and evidence points toward two possible suspects, Bobby and the others must decide if Jeff is innocent or guilty of the most horrific acts any of them could ever imagine.
Author: Ben Sanders Publisher: Minotaur Books ISBN: 1250140110 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 334
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An NYPD robbery detective uses his insider cop knowledge to rob rich criminals. The latest from Ben Sanders, following his novels American Blood and Marshall’s Law. Rip-offs are a dangerous game, but heist man Miles Keller thinks he’s found a good strategy: rob rich New York criminals and then retire early, before word’s out about his true identity. New town, new name, no worries. Retirement can’t come soon enough, though. The NYPD is investigating him for the shooting of a hitman named Jack Deen, who was targeting Lucy Gates—a former police informant and Miles’s ex-lover. Miles thinks shooting hitmen counts as altruism, but in any case a murder charge would make life difficult. He’s ready to go to ground, but then Nina Stone reappears in his life. Nina is a fellow heist professional and the estranged wife of LA crime boss Charles Stone. Miles last saw her five years ago, and since then her life has grown more complicated: her husband wants her back, and he’s dispatched his go-to gun thug to play repo man. Complicating matters is the fact that the gun thug in question is Bobby Deen, cousin of the dead Jack Deen—and Bobby wants vengeance. The stakes couldn’t be higher, but Nina has an offer that could be lucrative. Maybe Miles can stick around a while longer...
Author: R. S. Traylor
Author: R. S. Traylor
Author: James J. Gormley
Author: Paul Chandler
Author: Herbert Gintis
Author: Jason Reynolds
Author: Hugh Laurie
Author: Gabrielle Union
Author: Martin Dillon
Author: Robert Ljubas
Author: Ben Sanders