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8 Days is the riveting story of a not-so-distant future when four brilliant young scientists begin the process of “cleansing” humanity by systematically releasing the chemical X-86 on cities worldwide. The horrific result is something they don’t expect and can’t control. With only the visions of eight-year-old Jessie Bayker to guide them, the survivors gather in the Midwest to try to salvage what’s left of their world.
“I wanted to write something relevant dealing with near-future possibilities, something edgy that takes the reader’s breath away,” says Bumgarner. “And I want it to bother you long after you put it down.”
JESSIE DIDN’T UNDERSTAND the horrors of Stage I that had swallowed St. Louis, but she knew whatever killed her daddy had stolen the world at the same time. What do I do? She couldn’t shake what the old homeless man had said about her being the chosen one. He’d told her to follow her heart, but how could she when it hurt so bad?
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All the bodies, the destruction, the silence that suffocated the world – she was sure she was the only sane one left…
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8 Days is the riveting story of the not-so-distant future when f | |  | | Dregs
Benson Schmidt is tired of being a dreg, low man on the social totem pole. But when he and his best friend Ryan develop a project for their 7th grade publications class to show the popular kids the fragile nature of social expectations, it backfires in the worst way possible, putting them on the Columbine map.
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.25in; text-align: justify">font size="3">span style="font-family: Georgia">I began i>Dregs /i>in March of 1998, still a year before the tragedy that made /span>st1:place>st1:placename>span style="font-family: Georgia">Columbine/span>/st1:placename>span style="font-family: Georgia"> /span>st1:placetype>span style="font-family: Georgia">High School/span>/st1:placetype>/st1:place>span style="font-family: Georgia"> synonymous with school violence. Within five months, there would be fata | |  | | My First Year in the Classroom
Fifty teachers share the trials, tribulations, and triumphs they’ve experienced during their first year on the job.
i>"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear."/i>br />
—Lao Tzu
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But is the teacher ready? That's the question that haunts every teacher that fateful first day in the classroom. Making it through that day and the 179 school days that follow is how every career in education—and lifelong learning—truly begins. In this collection, fifty teachers share the trials, tribulations, and triumphs they've experienced during their first year on the job. Organized along the lines of the school calendar, these touching tales illustrate the learning | |  | | Slipping
Danna Scanlon, a detective with the Special Crimes Task Force, is in the middle of the case of a lifetime.
For Seth Berman, he is that case…he just doesn’t know it. And not knowing has become a way of life, because Seth is never alone, even when he’s by himself. The scit-scit of spiders behind his eyes is a precursor to Zeus” slipping” in, shoving Seth to the back of his own brain for a little R & R. Zeus, always there when the Zyprexa can’t buffer the outside world and it all becomes too much for Seth, has had to play the role of protector, without whom Seth might have never survived a brutal past. Now, Zeus sees his role as more of a safety valve, though the four other mental mates don’t agree. Seth, unaware of the others, prays Zeus doesn’t blow this job or screw things up with his girlfriend, Valerie.
To Zeus, the girlfriend is just one of many perks. That and prospecting for house guests.
It’s just a hobby, he insists, but when Detective Scanlon gets caught up in the hunt for the worst serial killer in Bloomington’s history, it’s game on.
And she might just be ruthless enough to catch him.
Serial killers strike fear in all of us. But what if you found out you were the serial killer? Missouri author Barri L. Bumgarner twists an oft-used plot device by putting the reader into the head of a murderer with multiple personalities. Slipping exposes the coldest fears in all of us, then comes back for more.
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Slipping introduces us to Danna Scanlon, a detective with the Special Crimes Task Force, who’s in the middle of the case of a lifetime. Seth Berman, he is that case…he just doesn’t know it. And not knowing has |
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