After centuries of exclusivity, the Quatra Fleet Academy finally accepts students from the settler planets, forcing four teenagers from different backgrounds, with different ambitions, motives, and missions, to work together to outmaneuver a mysterious alien enemy.

"Complications ensue when two emotionally reticent doctors find themselves drawn to each other, despite their qualms about romantic entanglements"--

What would intelligent life-forms on another planet look like? Would they walk upright? Would they wear clothes? Or would they be hulking creatures on six legs that wallow in their own excrement? Upon first contact with the Utod- intelligent, pacifist beings who feel no pain-mankind instantly views these aliens as animals because of their unhygienic customs. This leads to the slaughter, capture, and dissection of the Utod. But when one explorer recognizes...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I was 11 in 1967, and I was playing the game with my brothers. We all started to feel strange, and my mother pulled me aside to talk. She understood the nature of drama. #2 I had been teaching myself how to faint, and I wanted to show my mother. She was in the kitchen, cooking dinner, when I asked if she wanted to see me faint. She said no, and explained that fainting...

"When Frank Huyler was just starting out in the medical profession in the late 1990s, he published a collection of medical vignettes detailing his encounters in the highly charged world of an emergency room. The Blood of Strangers became an instant classic, praised for Huyler's poetic prose and his ability to probe beneath the surface of his patient encounters-revealing the hard truths of life in the medical field. Now, over twenty years later, Huyler...

A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.