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"When Asim moves to a new town, he must save his new teacher when an evil spirit from Guyanese folklore begins to wreak havoc"--Provided by publisher.

"When Asim moves to a new town, he must save his new teacher when an evil spirit from Guyanese folklore begins to wreak havoc"--.

Asim and his friends realize that the astrophysicist helping teach their class about the moon is actually a Moon Gazer intent on brainwashing the entire town.

"As people consider how to respond to a resurgence of racist, xenophobic populism, A Mouth Is Always Muzzled tells an extraordinary story of the ways art brings hope in perilous times. Weaving disparate topics from sugar and British colonialism to attacks on free speech and Facebook activism and traveling a jagged path across the Americas, Africa, India, and Europe, Natalie Hopkinson, former culture writer for the Washington Post and The Root, argues that art is where the future is negotiated"--Jacket flap.

When it was issued in 1856, it cost a penny. In 2014, this tiny square of faded red paper sold at Sotheby's for nearly $9.5 million, the largest amount ever paid for a postage stamp at auction. Through the stories of the eccentric characters who have bought, owned, and sold the one-cent magenta in the years in between, James Barron delivers a fascinating tale of global history and immense wealth, and of the human desire to collect.

In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jones founded a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. A preacher with idealistic beliefs, he quickly filled his church with those eager to hear his sermons on social justice. As he became more idealistic his behavior became more erratic and his message, more ominous. His followers leaned on each other for the sense of equality they got from the church but increasingly Jones made it more and more difficult for anyone to leave. Soon Jones moved his congregation to a remote jungle in Guyana, South America. There authorities began to investigate allegations of abuse and false imprisonment. Soon Jonestown became a mass murder scene when Jim Jones deprived his followers of food, sleep, and hope, and ultimately forced them to commit "revolutionary suicide".

Survivors of the 1978 Jonestown massacre discuss what drew them to the People's Temple cult and the lasting effects of that fateful November day on their lives.

The moon people use a cloud bridge to travel to the Earth, a messy but beautiful world of incredible variety that becomes their new home.

The moon people use a cloud bridge to travel to the Earth, a messy but beautiful world of incredible variety that becomes their new home.