Set in Pleasanton, California, Todd James Myers lives between a world of light and darkness, but the bridge connecting him to his death is calling out to claim his soul. The demons from his childhood followed him to the dark side but he's not the only one to take the fall. Kaleigh, a beautiful girl from his past, has a horrific secret that unexpectedly hurled her into Todd's realm. This intricate web of abuse, addiction and an awakening, that no one see's coming, will make them fight for life!
After falling off the wall, Humpty Dumpty is very afraid of climbing up again, but is determined not to let fear stop him from being close to the birds.
From James Preller, the author of Bystander, another unflinching book about bullying and its fallout.
Madeline Usher has been buried alive. The doomed heroine comes to the fore in this eerie reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story "The Fall of the House of Usher.
5 Ryan, 2003. 6 Service, 1978, p.167. 7 Malinowski, 1932; Elwin, 1968. 8 Elwin, 1968. 9 Malinowski, 1932. 10 Ryan, 2003, p.128. 11 Bolton, 1973; Ryan, 2003. 12 Holmberg, 1950. 13 Lawlor, 1991. 14 Ryan, 2003, p.100. 15 ibid., p.101.
Traces the labor movement from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s, and looks at the relationships between workers of different ethnic backgrounds 'This book offers the most sweeping portrait of working-class life yet to emerge from the ...
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Is it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. It tells the...
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A fiercely told survivorship novel about one girl's determination to push her body to win gold at the Olympics, and the power of uniting as women to speak out.
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