Her Permanent Record

Her Permanent Record
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 9781416986140
ISBN-13 : 1416986146
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Her Permanent Record by : Jimmy Gownley

After moving in with her Aunt Tanner after her parents' divorce, Amelia tries to fit in at a new school.

Permanent Record

Permanent Record
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9780349003443
ISBN-13 : 0349003440
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Permanent Record by : Mary H. K. Choi

A New York Times bestseller! ---------------------------------------------------------- On paper, college dropout Pablo Rind doesn't have a whole lot going for him. His graveyard shift at a twenty-four-hour deli in Brooklyn is a struggle. Plus, he's up to his eyeballs in credit card debt. Never mind the state of his student loans. Pop juggernaut Leanna Smart has enough social media followers to populate whole continents. The brand is unstoppable. She graduated from child stardom to become an international icon and her adult life is a queasy blur of private planes, aspirational hotel rooms, and strangers screaming for her just to notice them. When Leanna and Pablo meet at 5:00 a.m. at the bodega in the dead of winter it's absurd to think they'd be A Thing. But as they discover who they are, who they want to be, and how to defy the deafening expectations of everyone else, Leanna and Pablo turn to each other. Which, of course, is when things get properly complicated. ---------------------------------------------------------- PRAISE FOR PERMANENT RECORD 'Captivating, with quotable one-liners pinging on every page' The New York Times 'Scintillating' Financial Times 'This is the kind of book you get a crush on as you read' Wired 'This astounding follow-up to her debut, Emergency Contact, proves Choi is a spokesperson for the way we communicate (and strive, and love) now' Refinery29, Best Books of September

Permanent Record

Permanent Record
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Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 9781250237248
ISBN-13 : 1250237246
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Permanent Record by : Edward Snowden

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online—a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.

Permanent Record

Permanent Record
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Publisher : Skyscape
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1477847367
ISBN-13 : 9781477847367
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Permanent Record by : Leslie Stella

Having left public school under mysterious circumstances, sixteen-year-old junior Badi Hessamizadeh enters Magnificat Academy, where he struggles with his Iranian-American identity, his clinical depression, and bullies.

Emergency Contact

Emergency Contact
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Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Total Pages : 416
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781534408975
ISBN-13 : 1534408975
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Emergency Contact by : Mary H. K. Choi

“Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this book.” —Rainbow Rowell From debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory—perfect for fans of Eleanor & Park and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. For Penny Lee, high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she’d somehow landed a boyfriend, they never managed to know much about each other. Now Penny is heading to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer. It’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind. Sam’s stuck. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. He works at a café and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he’s a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him. When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. Still, they swap numbers and stay in touch—via text—and soon become digitally inseparable, sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to, you know, see each other.

Nagasaki

Nagasaki
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Publisher : Souvenir Press
Total Pages : 289
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780285643284
ISBN-13 : 0285643282
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Nagasaki by : Susan Southard

On August 9th, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. It killed a third of the population instantly, and the survivors, or hibakusha, would be affected by the life-altering medical conditions caused by the radiation for the rest of their lives. They were also marked with the stigma of their exposure to radiation, and fears of the consequences for their children. Nagasaki follows the previously unknown stories of five survivors and their families, from 1945 to the present day. It captures the full range of pain, fear, bravery and compassion unleashed by the destruction of a city.Susan Southard has interviewed the hibakusha over many years and her intimate portraits of their lives show the consequences of nuclear war. Nagasaki tells the neglected story of life after nuclear war and will help shape public debate over one of the most controversial wartime acts in history. Published for the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, this is the first study to be based on eye-witness accounts of Nagasaki in the style of John Hersey's Hiroshima. On August 9th, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a 5-tonne plutonium bomb was dropped on the small, coastal city of Nagasaki. The explosion destroyed factories, shops and homes and killed 74,000 people while injuring another 75,000. The two atomic bombs marked the end of a global war but for the tens of thousands of survivors it was the beginning of a new life marked with the stigma of being hibakusha (atomic bomb-affected people). Susan Southard has spent a decade interviewing and researching the lives of the hibakusha, raw, emotive eye-witness accounts, which reconstruct the days, months and years after the bombing, the isolation of their hospitalisation and recovery, the difficulty of re-entering daily life and the enduring impact of life as the only people in history who have lived through a nuclear attack and its aftermath. Following five teenage survivors from 1945 to the present day Southard unveils the lives they have led, their injuries in the annihilation of the bomb, the dozens of radiation-related cancers and illnesses they have suffered, the humiliating and frightening choices about marriage they were forced into as a result of their fears of the genetic diseases that may be passed through their families for generations to come. The power of Nagasaki lies in the detail of the survivors' stories, as deaths continued for decades because of the radiation contamination, which caused various forms of cancer. Intimate and compassionate, while being grounded in historical research Nagasaki reveals the censorship that kept the suffering endured by the hibakusha hidden around the world. For years after the bombings news reports and scientific research were censored by U.S. occupation forces and the U.S. government led an efficient campaign to justify the necessity and morality of dropping the bombs. As we pass the seventieth anniversary of the only atomic bomb attacks in history Susan Southard captures the full range of pain, fear, bravery and compassion unleashed by the destruction of a city. The personal stories of those who survived beneath the mushroom clouds will transform the abstract perception of nuclear war into a visceral human experience. Nagasaki tells the neglected story of life after nuclear war and will help shape public discussion and debate over one of the most controversial wartime acts in history.

Be My Bully!

Be My Bully!
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 570
Release :
ISBN-10 : 173266918X
ISBN-13 : 9781732669185
Rating : 4/5 (8X Downloads)

Synopsis Be My Bully! by : Regina Watts

The latest transfer student to Griswald School for Unruly Girls finds herself thrust in the middle of the hunt for a serial killer in this erotic noir by DOTTIE FOR YOU and BURNINGSOUL author Regina Watts.

Full Grown People

Full Grown People
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 230
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0990830101
ISBN-13 : 9780990830108
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Full Grown People by : Jennifer Niesslein

An anthology of thirty essays from the site fullgrownpeople.com.

This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record

This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record
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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages : 330
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781458766281
ISBN-13 : 1458766284
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record by : Susannah Felts

At the beginning of a lonely summer, 16-year-old Vaughn Vance meets Sophie Birch, and the two forge an instant and volatile alliance at Nashville's neglected Dragon Park. But when Vaughn takes up photography, she trains her lens on Sophie, and their bond dissolves as quickly as it came into focus. Felts keenly illuminates the pitfalls of coming of age as an artist, the slippery nature of identity, and the clash of class in the New South. This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record is a sparkling and probing debut novel from a rising literary star.

You Name It, Formerly The Record

You Name It, Formerly The Record
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 766
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B2861628
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis You Name It, Formerly The Record by : Girls Friendly Society