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How can someone who condemns hunting, animal farming, and animal experimentation also favor legal abortion, the deliberate destruction of a human fetus? The authors of Beating Hearts aim to reconcile this apparent conflict and examine the surprisingly similar strategic and tactical questions faced by activists in the pro-life and animal-rights movements. Beating Hearts maintains that sentience, or the ability to have subjective experiences, grounds a being’s entitlement to moral concern. The authors argue that nearly all human exploitation of animals is unjustified. Early abortions do not contradict the sentience principle because they precede fetal sentience, and Beating Hearts explains why the mere potential for sentience does not create moral entitlements. Late abortions do raise serious moral questions, which the authors explore by comparing the plight of women forbidden from having abortions to the plight of laying hens and dairy cows exploited for their reproductive products. These ethical explorations lead to a wider discussion of the strategies deployed by the pro-life and animal-rights movements. Should legal reforms precede or follow attitudinal changes? Do gory images win over or alienate supporters? Is violence ever principled? By probing the connections between debates about abortion and animal rights, Beating Hearts uses each highly contested set of questions to shed light on the other.

This house is mine and I am its beating heart. She is a ghost: a figure glimpsed from the corner of your eye, a momentary chill, and a memory of secret kisses and hidden passion. He is 17 years old: Evan Calhoun, warm and alive, and ever since moving to this big abandoned house, he has dreamt of her. Ghost and boy fascinate each other–until her memories and his desire collide in a moment that changes them both. Combining verse fragments with chiseled prose, A. M. Jenkins captures the compelling voice of a long–dead ghost and the perspective of a modern teen, twining mystery and romance in this evocative, sensual, and unrelentingly engrossing novel. Ages 14+

This book of poems expresses reactions to experiences that unleash emotions, ranging from childlike observations to disturbing revelations of a mind destroyed by despair. The poems tug at heartstrings on their journey of discovery that recognizes the need to express oneas innermost thoughts, while realizing the futility of the effort, similar to spent energy that is neither created nor destroyed. They simply exist and are converted into new energy like tears, laughter, sadness, or joy. The poetical effect creates new meaning as the poems are reshaped by readers into a new frame of reference that reflects their personal experiences, emotions, and reactions. This new energy that allows them to put into words what was difficult to express may cause a personas heart to beat faster.

Only One of Us Can Survive. Wren knows only one thing: she is being hunted by the most powerful woman in Aria and she won’t stop until she is dead. Born a defective clone and cast out of society, Wren is a liability to have around because of her mirror image of the famous face. Reece is the soldier who let her escape. A dedicated member of the Resistance hiding in plain sight with the city’s trooper division, he is determined to change things from the inside. Being a spy is deadly, especially when every move he makes is being watched. When their paths cross everything changes. Wren must decide whether she can trust the soldier in order to find safety. When her best friend is taken by a guard, she has no choice except to beg Reece to help her find him. In a fight for justice, the truth, and the lives of all Defectives, Wren and Reece are the unlikely duo who must risk everything they’ve ever known for the cause. In the first book of the Aria Clones Trilogy, be prepared to question everything you’ve been told. Also in the Defectives Series: Three Fates Entwined (Short Prequel) Two Beating Hearts A Hundred Stolen Breaths One Spark of Hope

Kate, a spunky filmmaker, is willing to delve as deep as is needed to uncover the truth behind rumors of human blood-slave trafficking. An interview with Nick, a vampire with a dark past, begins her journey into the shadowy underworld. Her investigation leads her to Beating Hearts, the club where Nick's entanglement with the slave trade occurred. Nick finds he can't unravel from his past, or protect Kate from the danger it causes. Together they draw on the enigmatic love they spurned in hopes to find the inner strength required to defeat Warren, a truly evil monster and the owner of Beating Hearts.

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