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Enclave
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The world is in chaos: war, plague, global ecological collapse. Seeking sanctuary for their children, parents enrol them in the elite Clothos Academy. Run by a mysterious man known only as Sarge, set in a former monastery atop a sheer cliff on a tiny island, Clothos will admit only 100 children before it is sealed off—perhaps permanently—from the terrors outside.
These precious, protected children are hardly the best and the brightest: empty-headed, anorexia-thin “starlets;” troublemakers barely one step ahead of the law; cast-off junior royals too embarrassing to be let out in public. The staff isn’t much better, from the alcoholic doctor and lovelorn guidance counselor to a teacher with a lust for power and an ancient monk with secrets of his own.
And the dangers from which these castaways are being protected? Stored on hundreds of DVDs, ready to be trotted out whenever Sarge needs to terrify his little flock.
And yet . . .
Two boys discover there are real dangers beyond Clothos’ thick stone walls when they hack the Academy’s self-contained computer network and connect, for a brief but disastrous moment, to the outside world. Worse, a stranger has penetrated the Academy’s defenses. And he has brought Death.
The Night Children
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Inside the Castertown MegaMall, the biggest mall in the world, live the night children—runaways, abandoned kids, kids who got lost and were never found. They only come out at night, after all the shoppers are gone. When thirteen-year-old Jule Devereaux visits the mall after the mysterious disappearance of her aunt, she becomes a pawn in the war between two gangs of night children: the Castertown Crazies, led by the stalwart Tick Stiles, and the Dingos, whose leader is the batty Burt Arno. What the night children don’t realize is that the megalomaniacal owner of the MegaMall, billionaire Amos Zozz, knows all about them. To him, they are vermin—“rats” living in his beautiful mall—and he has plans to exterminate them. Julie, Tick, and Burt must join forces if they want to survive.…
The Baby Merchant
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Among careerists who postpone parenthood, fertility problems abound. Adoptions have always been difficult and now America's borders have been closed by the Centers for Disease Control. Babies are high end commodities in this economy, microchipped at birth to protect them from theft.
Tom Starbird rescues "unwanted" babies--but he's tired of meeting wealthy would-be parents' demands for "perfect" children. Tom is shutting up shop when Jake Zorn, the Television Conscience of Boston, blackmails him into doing one more job.
Desperate to find one last perfect baby, Tom finds the lovely and very pregnant Sasha Egan. Stalked by her unborn child's father, on the run--Tom guesses she will be glad to be rid of her burden. Neither he nor Sasha could predict that the baby she never wanted is the one thing in her life she will do anything to keep.
Revision (Writer's Workshop)
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Part of a series, this book is a step-by-step guide to the most effective ways to develop the necessary skills and discipline needed for correction and appreciation of work in progress. It includes examples from both students and well-known writers.
Thinner Than Thou
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In the tomorrow of Thinner Than Thou, the cult of the body has become the one true religion. The Dedicated Sisters are a religious order sworn to help anorexic, bulimic, and morbidly obese youth. Throughout the land, houses of worship have been replaced by the health clubs of the Crossed Triceps. And through hypnotically powerful evangelical infomercials, the Reverend Earl preaches the heaven of the Afterfat, where you will look like a Greek god and can eat anything you want. Just sign over your life savings and come to Sylphania, the most luxurious weight-loss spa in the world, where the Reverend himself will personally supervise your attainment of physical perfection.
But the glory of youth and thinness that America worships conceals a hidden world where teens train for the competitive eating circuit, where fat porn and obese strippers feed people's dark desires, and where an underground railroad of rebellious religions remember when people worshipped God instead of the Afterfat.
As Annie, an anorexic, and her friend Kelly, who is so massive she can barely walk, find out, the tender promises of the Dedicated Sisters are fulfilled by forced feedings and enforced starvation in hidden prisons.
As middle-aged Jeremy discovers, Sylphania is a concentration camp where failure to lose weight and tone up leads to brutal punishment.
The Rev. Earl's public sympathy for the overweight conceals a private contempt . . . and, beneath that, a terrible longing known only to a select few.
The inevitable decay of old age is the only thing keeping mankind from reaching perfection. Luckily, Reverend Earl has a plan that will take care of that . . . .
Dogs of Truth: New and Uncollected Stories
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The Dogs of Truth contains 17 new or previously uncollected short stories. Included are "High Rise High," about a student revolt at the ultimate "secure" high school; "Focus Group," where a star-struck fan dictates the fate of soap opera characters through a biochip implant; "Escape from Shark Island," which looks at an extreme version of today's trendy "family bed;" and "Precautions," where germ-phobia reigns supreme.
The new stories tell of the "Grand Opening" of the world's largest mega-mall, study the relationship of a writer and his muse in "Getting It Back," and, in "The Shop of Little Horrors," take a dark look at the child-free lifestyle.
Reed Kit News
Family members try to make sense of pilots' deaths - WSBT-TV
WSBT-TV, IN - May 23, 2009
WSBT-TVFamily members try to make sense of pilots' deathsThornton's kit plane — which took him five years to put together — crashed in a Southwest Michigan field during a second attempt at landing. Like Cook, Dr. Robert Reed had a military background, and he also shares a passion for flying.
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Kit houses provided American Dream - assembly required - Lynchburg News and Advance
Lynchburg News and Advance, VA - May 15, 2009
Lynchburg News and AdvanceKit houses provided American Dream - assembly required201 Westover Blvd., an Aladdin 'Pasadena' house, is one of seven houses on the street built from kits with pre-cut pieces purchased in the 1920s. By Ray Reed Rosemary Thornton, who writes books about houses that were sold through the Sears Roebuck
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Team building - IP Review Online
IP Review Online, UK - May 22, 2009
Team building'We're entering into more licensing and sponsorship deals, including an exclusive agreement with Nike as our kit manufacturer. We also updated our club crest and moved to a new home. If we are to derive maximum value from our brand, we need to make
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Kit Bond backs bill to fund new effort to combat homelessness - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, MO - May 07, 2009
St. Louis Post-DispatchKit Bond backs bill to fund new effort to combat homelessnessJack Reed, DR.I., held a press conference to publicly introduce the legislation Wednesday morning. Just three hours later, the Senate passed it as an amendment to mortgage legislation. Supporters expect the bill to stay intact in the House. Senators Point to DC as a Model to Combat Homelessness Bond's bill for the homeless speeding through Congress
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No power drills in this doctor's bag - 6minutes
6minutes, Australia - May 21, 2009
6minutesNo power drills in this doctor's bagby Jared Reed But back in the days before electric drills, doctors carried an armamentarium of manual tools around with them to perform routine surgical procedures. A favourite blog of ours, medGadget, has uncovered an 1800's surgical kit complete with
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