Author: Perry Moore
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
Keywords: hero
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2009-05-05
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 1423101960
ISBN-13: 9781423101963
The last thing in the world Thom Creed wants is to add to his father??s pain, so he keeps secrets. Like that he has special powers. And that he??s been asked to join the League ?? the very organization of superheroes that spurned his dad. But the most painful secret of all is one Thom can barely face himself: he??s gay. But becoming a member of the League opens up a new world to Thom. There, he connects with a misfit group of aspiring heroes, including Scarlett, who can control fire but not her anger; Typhoid Larry, who can make anyone sick with his touch; and Ruth, a wise old broad who
Author: Sharon M. Draper
Publisher: Atheneum
Keywords: hero
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-06-23
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1416907009
ISBN-13: 9781416907008
Suppose someone showed up in YOUR classroom carrying an AK-47. You have a split second: To think.To act.To be a hero.But what is a hero?That question becomes all too real for Arielle, November, Jericho, and their friends. They’ve been through so much: the hazing ritual that left Joshua dead and hearts aching; November finding out that she was pregnant with Josh’s baby. But senior year is going well, and when the fire alarm goes off in English class, everyone assumes that crazy Jack is trying to get out of another quiz. But the alarm was pulled for a very different reason. A potenti
Author: Sharon M. Draper
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Keywords: hero
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-07-06
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 1416907017
ISBN-13: 9781416907015
InJust Another Hero, a follow-up to Sharon Draper’s Battle of Jericho and November Blues, a distraught student with an AK 47 holds a class hostage.
Author: T.Coraghessan Boyle
Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade
Keywords: hero
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1995-01-26
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0140140808
ISBN-13: 9780140140804
This new collection of stories is published to coincide with the paperback publication of T.C. Boyle’s "The Road to Wellville".
Author: Echo Hero
Publisher: Ivy Book
Keywords: critical, condition
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1995-05-31
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0804113351
ISBN-13: 9780804113359
"ENTERTAINING...GRITTY, BEHIND-THE-SCENES DETAILS OF HOSPITAL OPERATIONS."--Booklist"In the prologue of this book, Echo Heron, RN, states: Nurses are able to do what they do because they are rich in the gifts of healing, compassion and love. She then goes on to illustrate that statement with 18 chapters of amusing and moving true stories of her career in critical care and in the emergency room."--Chicago Tribune"Heron gives a voice to her fellow nurses (a savvy, wisecracking, take-no-guff voice) and turns them into real people."--Seattle Post-Intelligencer"Although Heron provides enough person
Author: Robin McKinley
Publisher: Ace Trade
Keywords: crown, hero
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-01-02
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0441013058
ISBN-13: 9780441013050
From childhood, Aerin had been haunted by the story of her mother-a "witchwoman" who enspelled the king and then died in childbirth, leaving behind a newborn daughter and an heirless land. Left to her own devices, Aerin grew up wild, doing her best to live up to her reputation as the disappointment of the realm. But little did the young princess know the long-dormant powers of her mother would wield their own destiny, and leave Aerin with a duty to her scornful homeland that she couldn’t refuse.
Author: Michael Korda
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: hero, american, ike
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0060756667
ISBN-13: 9780060756666
Ike is acclaimed author Michael Korda’s sweeping and enthralling biography of Dwight David Eisenhower, arguably America’s greatest general and one of her best presidentsa remarkable man in an extraordinary time, the hero who won the war and thereafter kept the peace.
