Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: squad, goon
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-06-08
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0307592839
ISBN-13: 9780307592835

Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa.We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist’s couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compu

Author: Michael Rex
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Keywords: parody, petrifying, goon, goodnight
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2008-08-14
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0399245340
ISBN-13: 9780399245343

Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Keywords: goon, archer
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0064473562
ISBN-13: 9780064473569

"Face the facts! This town is run by seven megalomaniac wizards!" When Howard Sykes comes home to find a giant thug -- the Goon -- in the kitchen, life turns upside down. Archer, one of seven siblings who control everything in their town from electricity to the police, has sent the Goon to collect the two thousand words Howard’s father owes him. Suddenly, the Sykes family is caught in the middle of the wizards’ battle for power -- and only Howard can save them!

Author: Michele Martin Bossley
Publisher: Lorimer
Keywords: series, stories, sports, squad, goon
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2003-10-15
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 1550288083
ISBN-13: 9781550288087

Jason’s rough moves on the ice nearly got him kicked out of the hockey league, but he’s learned to keep his aggression in check. Now he’s on an elite team and his new coach is pressuring him to return to his old ways. If he doesn’t toughen up, he might lose his spot on the team. But if he starts playing dirty, he could get kicked out of the league. Jason finds himself fighting to play fair in this exciting and often comic sequel to Power Play and Danger Zone.

Author: Deborah Blum
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: science, affection, harlow, harry, goon, park, love
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-10-02
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0738202789
ISBN-13: 9780738202785

In this meticulously researched and masterfully written book, Pulitzer Prize-winner Deborah Blum examines the history of love through the lens of its strangest unsung hero: a brilliant, fearless, alcoholic psychologist named Harry Frederick Harlow. Pursuing the idea that human affection could be understood, studied, even measured, Harlow (1905-1981) arrived at his conclusions by conducting research-sometimes beautiful, sometimes horrible-on the primates in his University of Wisconsin laboratory. Paradoxically, his darkest experiments may have the brightest legacy, for by studying "neglect" and

Author: Ann Morris
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Keywords: grandma, remembers, lai, goon
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2002-02-06
List price: $22.90
ISBN-10: 0761323147
ISBN-13: 9780761323143

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