Clay s Ark (Patternmaster, #3)

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Clay s Ark (Patternmaster, #3)

In a violent near-future, Asa Elias Doyle and her companions encounter an alien life form so heinous and destructive, they exile themselves in the desert so as not to contaminate other humans. To resist the compulsion to infect others is mental agony, but to succumb is to relinquish humanity and free will. Desperate, they kidnap a doctor and his two daughters as they cross the wasteland--and endanger the world.

ISBN: 0446603708

Author: Octavia E. Butler

Publisher: Warner Books

Rating: 3.88

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The Beauty of the Beastly

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The Beauty of the Beastly

Natalie Angier knows all that scientists know - and sometimes more - about the power of symmetry in sexual relations, about the brutal courting habits of dolphins, about the grand deceit of orchids, about the impact of female and male preferences on evolution. She knows how scientists go about their work, and she describes their ways, their visions, and their arguments. Perhaps most poignantly, she understands the complexities and the sad necessity of death. "The beauty of the natural world lies in the details, and most of those details are not the stuff of calendar art," she points out. Few writers have ever covered so many facets of biology so evocatively in one book. The Beauty of the Beastly tells us how the genius of the biological universe resides in its details and proves why, according to Timothy Ferris, author of the acclaimed Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Angier is "one of the strongest and wittiest science writers in the world today."

ISBN: 0395791472

Author: Natalie Angier

Publisher: Mariner Books

Rating: 3.80

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The Girls In the Back of the Class: They re High School Girls With Secrets, Trouble, And Two Choices Dropping Out...Or Trusting Her.

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The Girls In the Back of the Class: They re High School Girls With Secrets, Trouble, And Two Choices Dropping Out...Or Trusting Her.

Her classroom was the last stop for a group of troubled kids. Teacher LouAnne Johnson, the petite ex-Marine of Dangerous Minds, was their last chance. The boys, like handsome Latino Julio Escovar, expected to end up in jail. The girls, like regal, golden-skinned Simoa, often mysteriously disappeared. But not in LouAnne Johnson's class.

Risking her life, and her heart, LouAnne cajoled, bribed, and loved these teens. She went out on tough urban streets to track down Simoa, she faced a dangerously angry father to get pretty, talented Araceli into art school, and she fought drug pushers, trouble-making dropouts, and burned-out teachers to leave her kids alone. Her goal was to get her kids to graduation. Her method? Believe in them...until they believed in themselves.

ISBN: 0312958803

Author: LouAnne Johnson

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Rating: 3.66

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Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women

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Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women

Alice Walker and Pratibha Parmar expose the secret of female genital mutilation, a practice that affects one hundred million of the world’s women. New Introductions by the Authors.

ISBN: 0156002140

Author: Alice Walker

Publisher: Mariner Books

Rating: 3.97

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