Before he knew about the Roses, 16-year-old Jack lived an unremarkable life in the small Ohio town of Trinity. Only the medicine he has to take daily and the thick scar above his heart set him apart from the other high-schoolers. Then one day Jack skips his medicine.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 3 October 2011
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Through Thick and Thin
Stephanie is an overwhelmed stay-at-home mom with a six-month-old. Her sister, Meredith, on the other hand, is hitting the two-year mark without a boyfriend-or even a decent date-but has a successful career as a food critic. Sometimes it seems the only thing these sisters share is their mutual desire to lose weight, so they decide to do it together. But will the strong desire for sisterhood outweigh their equally strong desire for comfort foods?
In an endeavor similar to his debut novel, The Kitchen Boy, Alexander couples extensive research and poetic license, this time turning his enthusiasm toward perhaps the most intriguing player in the collapse of the Russian dynasty: Rasputin. This eyebrow-raising account of the final week of the notorious mystic's life is set in Petrograd in December 1916 and narrated by Rasputin's fiery teenage daughter, Maria. The air in the newly renamed capital is thick with dangerous rumors, many concerning Maria's father, whose close relationship with the monarchy—he alone can stop the bleeding of the hemophiliac heir to the throne—invokes murderous rage among members of the royal family.
Thick Black Theory: Forbidden Strategies For Victory
The first and only translation of Li Zongwu's seminal work on "black" strategy. Thick Black Theory is a clasic treatise on Strategy, similar to Sun Tzu's The Art Of War. However, Thick Black Theory is more simple, easier to understand, contains immediately actionable material, and is a higher level of strategic abstraction than The Art Of War. Anyone who loves The Art Of War, Machiavelli, The 48 Laws Of Power, Etc. will also love Thick Black Theory.
It's Spirit Week at Abigail Adams Junior High, but the IM gossip chain has gotten way out of control, and poor Isabel is the target! Mean messages and whispering classmates are popping up all over — and of course, the Queens of Mean are in the thick of it. Everybody claims to be "just kidding," but it's not funny at all. Can the BSG stop the Whisperers and rally for a new kind of Spirit Week?
