![]() ![]() ![]() I was parched just reading it."-Laurie David, academy award winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth, and author of The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming "Let us pray that the world which Cameron Stracher has invented in The Water Wars is testament solely to his pure, wild, and brilliant imagination, and not his ability to see the future. Timely and eerily familiar, acclaimed author Cameron Stracher makes a stunning YA debut that's impossible to forget. When Kai suddenly disappears, Vera and Will set off on a dangerous journey in search of him-pursued by pirates, a paramilitary group, and greedy corporations. But then Vera befriends Kai, who seems to have limitless access to fresh water. Water is hoarded by governments, rivers are dammed, and clouds are sucked from the sky. Vera and her brother, Will, live in the shadow of the Great Panic, in a country that has collapsed from environmental catastrophe. Goodreads summary-Welcome to a future where water is more precious than gold or oil-and worth killing for ![]()
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"Brutally beautiful - not like anything else you'll read this year, or any other." - Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Clockwork Angel ![]() ![]() ![]() A riveting and startling companion to the bestselling Impulse, Ellen Hopkins’s Perfect exposes the harsh truths about what it takes to grow up and grow into our own skins, our own selves. And Andre realizes that to follow his heart and achieve his perfect performance, he’ll be living a life his ancestors would never understand. To score his perfect home run-on the field and off-Sean will sacrifice more than he can ever win back. Kendra covets the perfect face and body-no matter what surgeries and drugs she needs to get there. For her, perfect means rejecting their ideals to take a chance on a new kind of love. Cara’s parents’ unrealistic expectations have already sent her twin brother Conner spiraling toward suicide. For four high school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get there. Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they’d rather be. ![]() What would you give up to be perfect? Four teens find out in the New York Times bestselling companion to Impulse. You can read this before Perfect PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Perfect written by Ellen Hopkins which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Perfect by Ellen Hopkins ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In my opinion every part is better then the last, with part 4 (currently being translated) being my current favorite. 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The book now completes the file on Pinochet's story, detailing his multiple indictments between 2004 and his death on December 10, 2006, including the Riggs Bank scandal that revealed how the dictator had illegally squirreled away over $26 million in ill-begotten wealth in secret American bank accounts. Published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet's infamous September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, this updated edition of The Pinochet File reveals the shocking, formerly secret record of the US government's complicity with atrocity in a foreign country. ![]() Revised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet's Chilean coup-"the evidence is overwhelming" ( The New Yorker). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this game, there are hearts and lives at stake-and there is nothing more Hawthorne than winning. 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