The Knife and the Butterfly

2014-08-01 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Ashley Hope P‚rez
Release : 2014-08-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 243/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Knife and the Butterfly by : Ashley Hope P‚rez

Download or read book The Knife and the Butterfly written by Ashley Hope P‚rez. This book was released on 2014-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a marijuana-addled brawl with a rival gang, 16-year-old Azael wakes up to find himself surrounded by a familiar set of concrete walls and a locked door. Juvie again, he thinks. But he can't really remember what happened or how he got picked up. He knows his MS13 boys faced off with some punks from Crazy Crew. There were bats, bricks, chains. A knife. But he can't remember anything between that moment and when he woke behind bars. Azael knows prison, and something isn't right about this lockup. No phone call. No lawyer. No news about his brother or his homies. The only thing they make him do is watch some white girl in some cell. Watch her and try to remember. Lexi Allen would love to forget the brawl, would love for it to disappear back into the Xanax fog it came from. And her mother and her lawyer hope she chooses not to remember too much about the brawl?at least when it's time to testify. Lexi knows there's more at stake in her trial than her life alone, though. She's connected to him, and he needs the truth. The knife cut, but somehow it also connected.

Out of Darkness

2015-09-01 Young Adult Fiction

Author : Ashley Hope Pérez
Release : 2015-09-01
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 785/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Out of Darkness written by Ashley Hope Pérez. This book was released on 2015-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Michael L. Printz Honor Book "This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?" New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can be explosive. Ashley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion—the worst school disaster in American history—as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family, and the forces that destroy people. "[This] layered tale of color lines, love and struggle in an East Texas oil town is a pit-in-the-stomach family drama that goes down like it should, with pain and fascination, like a mix of sugary medicine and artisanal moonshine."—The New York Times Book Review "Pérez deftly weaves [an] unflinchingly intense narrative....A powerful, layered tale of forbidden love in times of unrelenting racism."―starred, Kirkus Reviews "This book presents a range of human nature, from kindness and love to acts of racial and sexual violence. The work resonates with fear, hope, love, and the importance of memory....Set against the backdrop of an actual historical event, Pérez...gives voice to many long-omitted facets of U.S. history."―starred, School Library Journal

Tinfoil Butterfly

2019-09-10 Fiction

Author : Rachel Eve Moulton
Release : 2019-09-10
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 037/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Tinfoil Butterfly written by Rachel Eve Moulton. This book was released on 2019-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shining meets About a Boy in this electrifying debut about a troubled young woman and a lonely boy facing their demons in the frozen Black Hills. Emma is hitchhiking across the United States, trying to outrun a violent, tragic past, when she meets Lowell, the hot-but-dumb driver she hopes will take her as far as the Badlands. But Lowell is not as harmless as he seems, and a vicious scuffle leaves Emma bloody and stranded in an abandoned town in the Black Hills with an out-of-gas van, a loaded gun, and a snowstorm on the way. The town is eerily quiet and Emma takes shelter in a diner, where she stumbles across Earl, a strange little boy in a tinfoil mask who steals her gun before begging her to help him get rid of “George.” As she is pulled deeper into Earl’s bizarre, menacing world, the horrors of Emma’s past creep closer, and she realizes she can’t run forever. Tinfoil Butterfly is a seductively scary, chilling exploration of evil—how it sneaks in under your skin, flaring up when you least expect it, how it throttles you and won't let go. The beauty of Rachel Eve Moulton's ferocious, harrowing, and surprisingly moving debut is that it teaches us that love can do that, too.

The Balisong Manual

1984 Knife fighting

Author : Jeff Imada
Release : 1984
Genre : Knife fighting
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 026/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Balisong Manual written by Jeff Imada. This book was released on 1984. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeff Imada, one of the most respected balisong practitioners in the world, presents the definitive work on the balisong knife. Everything you always wanted to know about the balisong is featured in this book, with concise text and hundreds of detailed photos showing: carrying, drawing and flipping manipulation techniques; self-defense techniques; the knife and the law; knife-fighting philosophy; care and maintenance; and striking areas.

Balisong

1985 Sports & Recreation

Author : Cacoy Hernandez
Release : 1985
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 133/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Balisong written by Cacoy Hernandez. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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