Last of the Sandwalkers

Last of the Sandwalkers

Author: Jay Hosler

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2015-04-07

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 162672024X

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When field scientist Lucy defies the law of her safe but authoritarian home on an oasis by leading a team of researchers into the desert to learn about the greater world, what she finds will change everything, beginning with the knowledge that beetles are not the only living creatures.


Clan Apis

Clan Apis

Author: Jay Hosler

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2013-02-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781482347456

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A graphic novel that tells the life story of a young bee named Nyuki, showing the structure of life in a beehive and the struggles bees face to survive. Also includes an educational section on bee anatomy and behavior, and an extra comic on the bee sting allergy.


Optical Allusions

Optical Allusions

Author: Jay S Hosler

Publisher: Active Synapse

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780967725529

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Optical Allusions is for those people seeking a painstakingly researched, scientifically accurate, eye-themed comic book adventure! Wrinkles the Wonder Brain has lost his bosses eye and now he has to search all of human imagination for it. Along the way, he confronts biology head on and accidentally learns more about eyes and the evolution of vision than he thought possible. And, as if a compelling story with disembodied talking brains, shape-changing proteins, and giant robot eyes wasn't enough, each tale is followed by a fully illustrated, in-depth exploration of the ideas introduced in the comic story. Designed to be a hybrid college text book/comic book, Optical Allusions is suitable for advanced readers with an interest in evolution and real science. 127 pages.


The Dark Wild

The Dark Wild

Author: Piers Torday

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-01-05

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0147509661

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Includes and excerpt from The last wild.


Sandwalk Adventures

Sandwalk Adventures

Author: Jay S Hosler

Publisher: Active Synapse

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780967725512

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The Sandwalk Adventures is the tale of follicle mites living in the left eyebrow of Charles Darwin himself. The mites believe Darwin is a god, one of their myths handed down from generation to generation, and he has to set them straight about that and other mite fables. A humorous series of illustrated lessons in natural selection and evolution ensues. Recommended for readers with an interest in real science and a working funny bone. 159 pages of evolution, humor, and science suitable for high schoolers and other intelligent readers


We Hunt the Flame

We Hunt the Flame

Author: Hafsah Faizal

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published: 2019-05-14

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 0374311560

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An Ignyte Award Winner 2020 A TIME Magazine Top 100 Fantasy Book of All Time A Paste Magazine Best YA Book of 2019 A PopSugar Best YA Book of 2019 A TeenVogue Book Club Pick for 2019 A Barnes & Noble Teen Book Club Pick for 2019 "Lyrical and spellbinding" —Marieke Njikamp, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Set in a richly detailed world inspired by ancient Arabia, Hafsah Faizal's We Hunt the Flame—first in the Sands of Arawiya duology—is a gripping debut of discovery, conquering fear, and taking identity into your own hands. People lived because she killed. People died because he lived. Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan. If Zafira was exposed as a girl, all of her achievements would be rejected; if Nasir displayed his compassion, his father would punish him in the most brutal of ways. Both Zafira and Nasir are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya—but neither wants to be. War is brewing, and the Arz sweeps closer with each passing day, engulfing the land in shadow. When Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world and stop the Arz, Nasir is sent by the sultan on a similar mission: retrieve the artifact and kill the Hunter. But an ancient evil stirs as their journey unfolds—and the prize they seek may pose a threat greater than either can imagine.


My Side of the Mountain Trilogy

My Side of the Mountain Trilogy

Author: Jean Craighead George

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2000-10-23

Total Pages: 641

ISBN-13: 0525462694

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In 1959, Jean Craighead George published My Side of the Mountain. This coming-of-age story about a boy and his falcon went on to win a Newbery Honor, and for the past forty years has enthralled and entertained generations of would-be Sam Gribleys. The two books that followed--On the Far Side of the Mountain and Frightful's Mountain--were equally extraordinary. Now all three books are available in one deluxe yet affordable volume for veteran devotees and brand-new fans alike.


The Arab Avant-Garde

The Arab Avant-Garde

Author: Thomas Burkhalter

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2013-11-13

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0819573876

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The first in-depth study of diverse and radical innovation in Arab music From jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The essays in this collection investigate the plethora of compositional and improvisational techniques, performance styles, political motivations, professional trainings, and inter-continental collaborations that claim the mantle of "innovation" within Arab and Arab diaspora music. While most books on Middle Eastern music-making focus on notions of tradition and regionally specific genres, The Arab Avant Garde presents a radically hybrid and globally dialectic set of practices. Engaging the "avant-garde"—a term with Eurocentric resonances—this anthology disturbs that presumed exclusivity, drawing on and challenging a growing body of literature about alternative modernities. Chapters delve into genres and modes as diverse as jazz, musical theatre, improvisation, hip hop, and heavy metal as performed in countries like Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and the United States. Focusing on multiple ways in which the "Arab avant-garde" becomes manifest, this anthology brings together international writers with eclectic disciplinary trainings—practicing musicians, area studies specialists, ethnomusicologists, and scholars of popular culture and media. Contributors include Sami W. Asmar, Michael Khoury, Saed Muhssin, Marina Peterson, Kamran Rastegar, Caroline Rooney, and Shayna Silverstein, as well as the editors.


Journey Into Mohawk Country

Journey Into Mohawk Country

Author: Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006-09-05

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9781596431065

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Van den Bogaert's journal of their adventures, fears, success, and hardships of making a journey in winter to an Iroquois Country in what is now New York State.


Fairy Tale Comics

Fairy Tale Comics

Author: Various Authors

Publisher: First Second

Published: 2013-09-24

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1466843861

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From favorites like "Puss in Boots" and "Goldilocks" to obscure gems like "The Boy Who Drew Cats," Fairy Tale Comics has something to offer every reader. Seventeen fairy tales are wonderfully adapted and illustrated in comics format by seventeen different cartoonists, including Raina Telgemeier, Brett Helquist, Cherise Harper, and more. Edited by Nursery Rhyme Comics' Chris Duffy, this jacketed hardcover is a beautiful gift and an instant classic.