Karen T Smith: 8 books

Download This. Pissed about moving to the space station Convergence, Anya expects life to suck. Lonely and afraid, she makes an unlikely friend. When her friend is threatened by dark forces aboard Convergence, Anya has to pull out all the stops to stage a heart-pounding rescue. Some...

Ali isn’t like her sister, Julia. She keeps to herself on the Lunar Colony where they live. But when Julia offers her a chance to buy apples, a rarity on the moon, she goes along, enticed by the idea of seeing her cute classmate Kofi. When some of the kids decide to mess around with an airlock’s...

Life is hard enough for Nate and his sister Sylvia in post-apocalypse Chicago. When Sylvia falls ill, Nate embarks on a desperate mission to get her help. He heads to the one sane place left in all the chaos and debris: The Harold Washington Library, which is policed by librarians in cardigans and...

Think living on the moon as a teen would mean an escape from cliques and teenage pranks? Think again. When Marci's longtime friend Jess joins the pop-crowd at school, Marci finds herself talked into participating in one of their initiation rites and questioning herself, her friendships, and her values...

"All the heavy hitters...came out for USA Noir...an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple." --New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) One of Zoom Street Magazine's Favorite Books of 2014 Indie Books Roundup #1 Pick, Barnes & Noble Book Blog Included...

This book documents the "brave new world" of teacher, administrator, school, and student accountability that has swept across the United States in recent years. Its particular vantage point is the perspective of dozens of new teachers trying to make their way through their first months and...

Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors...