Karen Tucker

Set in rural, poverty-stricken North Carolina, this funny, painful, and very wise novel follows two young women--best friends--as they struggle to free themselves from opioid addiction, perfect for readers of Julie Buntin's Marlena. Irene, a lonely nineteen-year-old in rural North Carolina, works long nights at the local pool hall, serving pitchers and dodging drunks. One evening, her hilarious, magnetic coworker Luce invites her on a joy ride through the mountains to take revenge on a particularly creepy customer. Their adventure not only spells the beginning of a dazzling friendship, it seduces both girls into the mysterious world of pills and the endless hustles needed to fund the next high. Together, Irene and Luce run nickel-tossing scams at the county fair and trick dealers into trading legit pharms for birth-control pills. Everything is wild and wonderful until Luce finds a boyfriend who wants to help her get clean. Soon the two of them decide to move away and start a new, sober life in Florida--leaving Irene behind. Told in a riveting dialogue between the girls' addicted past and their hopes for a better future, Bewilderness is not just a brilliant, funny, heartbreaking novel about opioid abuse, it's also a moving look at how intense, intimate friendships can shape every young woman's life.

Bewilderness

Set in rural, poverty-stricken North Carolina, this "beautiful, gritty, and piercing" novel follows two young women--best friends--as they "journey through the highs and lows of friendship, love, and addiction," perfect for readers of Julie Buntin's Marlena (Erika Carter, author of Lucky You). Irene, a lonely nineteen-year-old in rural North Carolina, works long nights at the local pool hall, serving pitchers and dodging drunks. One evening, her hilarious, magnetic coworker Luce invites her on a joy ride through the mountains to take revenge on a particularly creepy customer. Their adventure not only spells the beginning of a dazzling friendship, it seduces both girls into the mysterious world of pills and the endless hustles needed to fund the next high. Together, Irene and Luce run nickel-tossing scams at the county fair and trick dealers into trading legit pharms for birth-control pills. Everything is wild and wonderful until Luce finds a boyfriend who wants to help her get clean. Soon the two of them decide to move away and start a new, sober life in Florida--leaving Irene behind. Told in a riveting dialogue between the girls' addicted past and their hopes for a better future, Bewilderness is not just a brilliant, funny, heartbreaking novel about opioid abuse, it's also a moving look at how intense, intimate friendships can shape every young woman's life.

BROWN LITTLE ME is a cleverly written children's poem designed to celebrate and appreciate the blessing of having brown skin. From a child's perspective, the reader gets to experience an array of fun, loving and life activities of children who look just like them! BROWN LITTLE ME is a "must have" book that encourages self love and self esteem. The beauty of this work is that its illustrations depict children of every complexion; from the lightest of brown skin to the darkest brown skin--each with unique color of eyes, varying hair color and texture.

Brown Little Me

Wallace Tucker

Describes the technology of the Very Large Array, the Einstein X-ray Observatory, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, and the Space Telescope, and shares interviews with the individuals who make and use these tools

Modern Telescopes and Their Makers

The Cosmic Inquirers

Wallace H. Tucker

Traces the development of the universe, explains the concept of dark matter or the missing mass, and discusses the implications of different universe models

Contemporary Science's Quest for the Mass Hidden in Our Universe

The Dark Matter

Lara Montesinos Coleman

The book examines some of the ways in which contemporary forms of political dissent are situated within processes of global ordering. Grounded in analysis of concrete practices of discipline and dissent in specific contexts, it explores the ways in which resistance can be shaped by dominant ways of thinking, seeing or enacting politics and by the multiform relations of power at play in the making of global order. The contributions, written from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, address themes such as the processes through which particular sorts of resisting subjects are produced; the politics of knowledge in which resisting practices are embedded; the ways in which visual technologies are deployed within and towards oppositional practices; and the politics of gender, race and class within spaces of contestation. The volume thus opens up space for critical reflection and inter-disciplinary dialogue on what it means to be a resisting subject and on the interplay between the power and counter-power in global order. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Between Discipline and Dissent

Situating Global Resistance

Frank Elley

Lyn McCarter

After mastering the basics of Director, users move on to complete increasingly more advanced tasks up to and including scripting with Lingo. Using a text-based approach, the book allows readers to work through lessons by employing practice files on the CD-ROM.

Macromedia Director 6 and Lingo Authorized

Revealing the Universe tells the story of the Chandra X-ray Observatory."--BOOK JACKET.

Karen Tucker

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