The Gecko's Foot: Bio-inspiration: Engineering New Materials from Nature by Peter ForbesFrom Goodreads: "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." When Frank Lloyd Wright said this, he probably wasn't envisioning self-cleaning surfaces, the photonic crystal, or Velcro. But nature...
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung ChangFrom Goodreads: The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao s close circle in China who have never talked before...
Ready Player One by Ernest ClineFrom Goodreads: In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden...
Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games and Their Impact on the People Who Play Themby Jamie MadiganFrom Goodreads: Video games are big business. They can be addicting. They are available almost anywhere you go and are appealing to people of all ages. They can eat...
The Yellow Birds by Kevin PowersFrom Goodreads: In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to...
The Witches by Roald DahlFrom Goodreads: A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice....
Black Star, Bright Dawn by Scott O'DellFrom Goodreads: Bright Dawn was a teenaged Eskimo girl. Black Star was her part-husky, mostly wolf, pet. Together they were about to begin the famous Iditarod dogsled race through the bitter cold of Alaska. Bright Dawn knew they would win,...
Social Justice Art: A Framework for Activist Art Pedagogy by Marit DewhurstFrom Goodreads: In this lively and groundbreaking book, arts educator Marit Dewhurst examines why art is an effective way to engage students in thinking about the role they might play in addressing social injustice.Based...
The Last Dragon Chronicles series by Chris d'LaceyFrom Book #1, The Fire Within, on Goodreads: A magical adventure about the power of dragons...
The False Prince (Ascendance Trilogy) by Jennifer A. NielsenFrom Goodreads: The False Prince is the thrilling first book in a brand-new trilogy filled with danger and deceit and hidden identities that will have readers rushing breathlessly to the end.In a discontent kingdom, civil war is...
