Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)
The futures of both humans and Oankali rest in one young being's successful metamorphosis into adulthood.
ISBN: 0446603635
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Publisher: Aspect
Rating: 4.19
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Tuesday, April 1, 1997
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
Lilith lyapo awoke from a centuries-long sleep to find herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. Creatures covered in writhing tentacles, the Oankali had saved every surviving human from a dying, ruined Earth. They healed the planet, cured cancer, increased strength, and were now ready to help Lilith lead her people back to Earth--but for a price.
ISBN: 0446603775
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Publisher: Warner Books
Rating: 4.09
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Sunday, December 1, 1996
Clay s Ark (Patternmaster, #3)
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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Thursday, April 4, 1996
The Beauty of the Beastly
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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Friday, March 15, 1996
The Girls In the Back of the Class: They re High School Girls With Secrets, Trouble, And Two Choices Dropping Out...Or Trusting Her.
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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Wednesday, February 28, 1996
Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women
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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Tuesday, March 14, 1995
Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England
Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England
At the age of seven, Paul Watkins was roughly transplanted from his home in Rhode Island to England's Dragon School. He was greeted by a delegation of bullies who, in time, would become his friends and whose rules would become his own. For at Dragon, and later at Eton, "there was no middle ground. You could not go here and come out not caring one way or the other. You had to stand before your God and commit."
In this enthralling and sometimes harrowing memoir, the acclaimed author of The Promise of Light gives us a masterly companion to such classics as Brideshead Revisited and A Separate Peace. Here are the masters who paddle boys for small infractions and then offer them sweets; the seniors who pamper pretty favorites and subject all others to humiliating servitude; the deep friendships and sudden, devastating betrayals. Above all, here is the exhilaration of a boy discovering own capacities for learning and creativity, in a book that conveys with astonishing insight the pangs of growing up.
ISBN: 0679759417
Author: Paul Watkins
Publisher: Vintage
Rating: 4.00
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