Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.

"Ryan examines enormous subjects -- existence, consciousness, love, loss -- in compact poems that have ... powerful resonance"--Amazon.com.

Examines the background, significance, symbols, and traditions of Easter.

The history of the USAF, how pilots are trained, and some of the fighting and bomber planes in use today. Examines the most modern air force in the world, the US Air Force. Readers will also learn about various aircraft, such as the F-16 fighting falcon, the F-22 raptor, the B-52 bomber, and predator drones.

Examines international religious violence, growing public atheism in the West, and the author's religious rejection for his homosexuality, exploring subjects ranging from Jerusalem and Silicon Valley to Lance Armstrong and Mother Teresa.

Examines the etymological origins and developments of one hundred words, including "brothel," "grin," and "zombie."

Examines the formation of molecules and their relationship to matter, solids, and fluids.

After an old university friend and fellow archaeologist's murdered, forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway travels to Lancashire to examine the bones he found, which reveal a shocking fact about King Arthur, and discovers a campus living in fear of a sinister right-wing group called the White Hand.

This book briefly examines the behavior and habitats of the parrot.