Author: Wendy Mass
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Keywords: day, leap
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-09-06
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0316058289
ISBN-13: 9780316058285
Sometimes Josie wonders what other people are thinking, and in this uniquely constructed novel, readers "leap" into the minds and viewpoints of Josie and everyone around her as she goes through her day. Josie learns that birthday surprises, play auditions, and the all-important initiation at the lake may be the things that define her today, but what defines her tomorrow and in the days to come are the people that touch her life at every moment. This fascinating and surprising novel, now in paperback, is full of everyday imaginations and truths in the life and future of one everygirl teenager.
Author: Wendy Mass
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Keywords: day, leap
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2004-02
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0316537284
ISBN-13: 9780316537285
Sometimes Josie wonders what other people are thinking, and in this uniquely constructed novel, readers "leap" into the minds and viewpoints of Josie and everyone around her as she goes through her day. Josie learns that birthday surprises, play auditions, and the all-important initiation at the lake may be the things that define her today, but what defines her tomorrow and in the days to come are the people that touch her life at every moment. This fascinating and surprising novel, now in paperback, is full of everyday imaginations and truths in the life and future of one everygirl teenager.
Author: Terry Tempest Williams
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: leap
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-09-18
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0679752579
ISBN-13: 9780679752578
With Leap, Terry Tempest Williams, award-winning author of Refuge, offers a sustained meditation on passion, faith, and creativity-based upon her transcendental encounter with Hieronymus Bosch’s medieval masterpiece The Garden of Delights. Williams examines this vibrant landscape with unprecedented acuity, recognizing parallels between the artist’s prophetic vision and her own personal experiences as a Mormon and a naturalist. Searing in its spiritual, intellectual, and emotional courage, Williams’s divine journey enables her to realize the full extent of her faith and throug
Author: Jane Breskin Zalben
Publisher: Yearling
Keywords: leap
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-07-08
List price: $6.50
ISBN-10: 0440421748
ISBN-13: 9780440421740
Daniel says: life caused me to grow up fast. Real fast. Like overnight. Krista says: The real me—the one who knew I should treat Daniel the way I’d want to be treated—was angry at the other me. I just didn’t want to lose Bobby by taking sides with Daniel.Daniel and Krista used to be inseparable. Now that they’re older, they’ve drifted apart—but when an accident leaves Daniel temporarily paralyzed, he needs his old friend more than ever. And Krista wants to help him. Only it’s not as easy as it seems, not when Krista’s feelings for another boy, Bobby, k
Author: Tom Duerig
Publisher: iUniverse
Keywords: leap, stan
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2005-06-10
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0595508480
ISBN-13: 9780595508488
What would you do if you found yourself stranded in Paradise? Newlyweds Jenny and Stan are eager to travel before they begin building their family. After seeing an intriguing ad in a travel magazine, Jenny arranges a vacation to a remote Pacific island. The advertisement promises a completely authentic Polynesian experience. Despite an arduous journey to reach their paradise, they are excited to immerse themselves in the history, adventure, and culture of the Polynesian islands as they were before contact with the western world. Led by the zealous Kimo and his beautiful partner Nani, Henderson
Author: Sara Davidso
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: lives, leap
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-02-26
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0345478096
ISBN-13: 9780345478092
Thirty years ago, Sara Davidson wrote the phenomenal bestseller Loose Change, the definitive book about the boomer generation’s coming-of-age. Now this witty social observer has again turned her discerning eye to her contemporaries, with Leap!, a no-holds-barred, illuminating, and hopeful look at the choices and challenges we face and the roads open to us.For many years Davidson earned a living as a successful journalist and screenwriter, but in her fifties she saw her life come apart: She could no longer find work, she endured a break-up with her partner, and her children left for college.
Author: David Darling
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: leap, impossible, teleportation
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-05-18
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0471470953
ISBN-13: 9780471470953
An authoritative, entertaining examination of the ultimate thrill ride Until recently the stuff of sci-fi fiction and Star Trek reruns, teleportation has become a reality-for subatomic particles at least. In this eye-opening book, science author David Darling follows the remarkable evolution of teleportation, visiting the key labs that have cradled this cutting-edge science and relating the all-too-human stories behind its birth. He ties in the fast emerging fields of cryptography and quantum computing, tackles some thorny philosophical questions (for instance, can a soul be teleported?), a
