In a world where Thinkers control the population and Rules are not meant to be broken, fifteen-year-old Violet Schoenfeld must make a choice to control or be controlled after learning truths about her "dead" sister and "missing" father.

A soccer guide for the upper elementary grades. Includes tips on ball control, passing, shooting, volleying, heading, dribbling, and goal keeping, plus a glossary and game rules.

Seventh-grader Selah Godfrey knows that to be "normal" she has to keep her feelings tightly controlled when people are around, but after hitting a fellow student, she needs to figure out just what makes her different--and why that is ok. Told in verse.

Explores the dichotomy between belief and disbelief, and the human need to believe, in a poetic study of the tension between abandon and control, the physical and the spiritual. In The Rest of Love, his seventh book, Carl Phillips examines the conflict between belief and disbelief, and our will to believe: Aren't we always trying, Phillips asks, to contain or to stave off facing up to, even briefly, the hard truths we're nevertheless attracted to?...

Her life thrown into turmoil by a diagnosis of breast cancer, Dana Hill, a successful attorney with a leading Seattle law firm, delays medical treatment to launch a personal investigation into the murder of her twin brother. "Robert Dugoni follows up Jury master with another scintillating novel about murder and intrigue."--Provided by the publisher.

When a young woman named Carine enters their lives, Tom and his controlling father, who have fashioned a strained peace on their family farm, reach the breaking point, while a catastrophic volcanic eruption thrusts a discontented nation into open revolution.

When Phillip Carver is asked by his sisters to help avert their widower father's impending marriage to a younger women, he is forced to confront his domineering siblings, a controlling patriarch, and a flood of memories from his deeply troubled past.

"Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party's political monopoly endures. How? Minxin Pei looks to the surveillance state. Though renowned for high-tech repression, the Chinese surveillance state is also a hugely labor-intensive project. Pei delves into the human sources of coercion at the heart of CCP power."--