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Gravity Changes
Gravity Changes is a collection of fantastical, off-beat stories that view the quotidian world through the lens of the absurd. Set in a surreal fictional world that is populated by strange characters—children who defy gravity, a man who marries a light-bulb, the Devil and his miracle-worker wife—these stories take wide steps outside of reality, finding new ways to illuminate truth.
First Cosmic Velocity
A stunningly imaginative novel about the Cold War, the Russian space program, and the amazing fraud that pulled the wool over the eyes of the world. It's 1964 in the USSR, and unbeknownst even to Premier Khrushchev himself, the Soviet space program is a sham. Well, half a sham. While the program has successfully launched five capsules into space, the Chief Designer and his team have never successfully brought one back to earth. To disguise this, they've used twins. But in a nation built on secrets and propaganda, the biggest lie of all is about to unravel. Because there are no more twins left. Combining history and fiction, the real and the mystical, First Cosmic Velocity is the story of Leo...
Israel and the Western Powers, 1952-1960
A comprehensive analysis of the development of Israel's foreign policy during the critical years of the 1950s, particularly relations between the Jewish state and three Western powers--the United States, Great Britain, and France. Drawing extensively on recently declassified archival materials, Zach Levey challenges traditional accounts of the nature and success of Israel's policy goals.
My Magical Life
Selected as a title in Tom Fletcher's Book Club 2018! ------------- A debut series from the mega-talented Zach King, full of laughs, zany action and more than a hint of magic. Eleven-year-old Zach has magical powers, just like everyone in his family, but he's having trouble harnessing his abilities... Obviously being magical, but not being able to use his abilities isn't exactly great for Zach So, his parents decide he needs to be around real people. No more home schooling- it's time to go to the scary world of secondary school! But Zach can't resist a bit of magic... A simple spell ends with him and his best friend stuck in a vending machine. Someone filmed it and by the next day he's gone viral on YouTube, getting the attention of Rachel, the prettiest girl at school. With everyone wondering how Zach does his tricks, and with head mean girl Trisha plotting to bring him down, Zach's got his work cut out if he's going to survive year 7 and keep his dreams of becoming a master magician intact. Get the app! With the My Magical Life app, you can bring the book to life in front of your eyes!
The City of Good Death
Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Priyanka Champaneri’s transcendent debut novel brings us inside India’s holy city of Banaras, where the manager of a death hostel shepherds the dying who seek the release of a good death, while his own past refuses to let him go. Banaras, Varanasi, Kashi: India’s holy city on the banks of the Ganges has many names but holds one ultimate promise for Hindus. It is the place where pilgrims come for a good death, to be released from the cycle of reincarnation by purifying fire. As the dutiful manager of a death hostel in Kashi, Pramesh welcomes the dying and assists families bound for the funeral pyres that burn constantly on th...
Risky Business of Love
Reporter Ciara Miller is working the congressional beat, waiting for the big story that will earn her a spot on the evening news. Then she meets senatorial candidate Jonathan Butler.
The Conium Review
The Conium Review: Vol. 4 includes nine new stories, each with a penchant for innovative characterization, bizarre settings, and other weirdness. Readers will discover a dictator trapped in a jar, a modernized fairy tale, a person living as a Tinseltown extra, and more.
The Transkei Run
It is a painfully hungover Saturday morning for two incorrigible small-town scallywags. Jeremy “Spikes” Vorster and his impulsive but charismatic sidekick, Zachary Post, decide to flee their previous night’s regrets in search of adventure in the rural Transkei. A run-in with a local taxi gang sets in motion a series of events that unravels a tense and violent misadventure as the two young rebels are forced to defend themselves at all costs. What results is a gritty, uniquely South African undertaking, complete with sex, drugs and crawling paranoia.
I Am What I Am #1
Grey Smarton, once a mindless party-pooping teenager is nonetheless the average suburban teenager, that is before his not so hidden destiny as a male witch is revealed unto to him simply throughout the interests of his little brother. Besides the not so expectant fact that Grey Smarton is a male witch, he's nonsurprisingly a target for a legion of underworld demons, all because the ruler of the Hell dimension feels threatened by his very presence.
Z for Zachariah
A Newbery Medalist presents a gripping, thought-provoking story about life after a nuclear holocaust.
