Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House childrens list. Timesnatch - Kindle edition by Swindells, Robert. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Timesnatch. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Timesnatch - Kindle edition by Swindells, Robert. Urn:lcp:timesnatch00robe:epub:e30c43c7-a676-4999-a0b2-ecb04f0ab249 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier timesnatch00robe Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t22c0908b Isbn 0552555924ĩ780552555920 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL7815880M Openlibrary_edition Robert Swindells left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 23:01:52 Boxid IA160601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier TIMESNATCH by Swindells, Robert Condition Used - Very Good +, Jacket Condition Very Good + Edition First Edition Published 1994 Binding Hardcover ISBN 10 0385404107 Quantity Available 1 Seller Diversity Books, IOBA Korumburra, Victoria, AUS Seller rating : Description: London: Doubleday, 1994.
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Just as in his bestselling, award-winning Stuff Matters, Mark Miodownik’s unique brand of scientific storytelling brings his subject to life in ways that will inform and amuse science buffs and lay readers alike. We come to see liquids with wonder and fascination, and to understand their potential for death and destruction. We encounter fluids within the plane-from hand soap to liquid crystal display screens-and without: in the volcanoes of Iceland, the frozen expanse of Greenland, and the marvelous California coastline. : Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives (9780544850194) by Miodownik, Mark and a great selection of. But do we really understand how much we rely on liquids, or their destructive power? Set on one of the author's transatlantic flights, Liquid Rules offers readers a tour of these formless substances, told through the language of molecules, droplets, heartbeats, and ocean waves. New York Times best-selling author of Stuff Matters and Liquid Rules There's a word for the color you see when you turn off the lights. We know that we need water to survive, and that, for some of us, a cup of coffee or a glass of wine can feel just as vital. Sometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, and always fascinating: the New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters offers an "entertaining discussion of the various ways our lives are enriched by fluids” (The Wall Street Journal). Mohler - Home / by Ian Ross & Lovern Kindzierski illustrated by Adam Gorham - Tlicho-Nàowo / by Richard Van Camp illustrated by Nicholas Burns - Ayanisach / by Todd Houseman illustrated by Ben Shannon - First hunt / by Jay & Joel Odjick illustrated by Jay Odjick - Copper heart / by Elizabeth LaPensée, Ph.D., illustrated by Claude St. Robertson illustrated by Haiwei Hou - Coyote and the pebbles / by Dayton Edmonds illustrated by Micah Farritor - The Qallupiluk: forgiven / by Sean and Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley illustrated by menton3 - Ue-Pucase: water master / by Arigon Starr illustrated by David Cutler - The observing / by Elizabeth LaPensée illustrated by Gregory Chomichuk - Strike and bolt / by Michael Sheyahshe illustrated by George Freeman - Siku / by Tomy Romito illustrated by Jeremy D. Introduction / by Michael Sheyahshe - Vision quest: echo / by David Mack - Ochek / by David. The Devotion of Suspect X is only the second of Keigo Higashino's works to be translated into English. The detectives think something is not right with the story, but all the evidence tells a rather convincing story. While he asks nothing in return, he insists that Yasuko and her daughter must follow his plan precisely for it to work. Her neighbor, a brilliant mathematician, named Ishigami, offers assistance to help cover up anything he can regarding the crime. The story follows Yasuko, who has unintentionally killed her ex-husband following a violent struggle in her apartment. Originally published in Japan in 2005, The Devotion of Suspect X would gain Higashino the Naoki Sanjugo Prize and be later turned into a film in 2008. The Devotion of Suspect X: A Detective Galileo Novel is the second of Higashino's works translated into English. Prize for best mystery, amongst several other awards in his career. Higashino has won the Edogawa Rampo Prize for best mystery, the Mystery Writers of Japan, Inc. Author Keigo Higashino is one of the most widely known best-selling novelists in Japan. This collection of poems is incredibly personal, perhaps too personal at times, and it’s a beautiful insight into the way that Barrett Browning viewed her marriage to Robert Browning. Secondly, I read this entire collection within a day, which was fairly easy because it is rather short, but it was an emotional rollercoaster. I think they should be in print, and perhaps they are elsewhere in the world, but I had to read an online version. Firstly, I couldn’t find a printed edition of this book anywhere so I read them online for free via Project Gutenberg. I have a few things to get out of the way before I start this review/discussion of Barrett Browning’s sonnets. There are forty-four poems in the collection. Recognized for their Victorian tradition and discipline, these are some of the most passionate and memorable love poems in the English language. Summary: Written for Robert Browning, who had affectionately nicknamed Elizabeth Barrett Browning his “little Portuguese,” the sequence is a celebration of marriage, and of one of the most famous romances of the nineteenth century. He develops anxiety, self-hatred, and a high-stakes gambling habit. Eventually, however, wealth and lust prove too much for Siddhartha. For a time, Siddhartha is content with his life and is able to maintain a Samana-like distance from material concerns. Siddhartha begins working for a wealthy merchant named Kamaswami and becomes Kamala’s lover. Kamala says he needs money, clothes, and shoes. He offers himself to her as a student in the art of love, but is gently rebuffed. Siddhartha travels to a nearby town where he is entranced by the beauty of a well-known courtesan named Kamala. He decides instead that he’s an independent learner and is done with doctrine. Despite Govinda’s urgings and despite recognizing Gotama as the Holiest Man Ever, Siddhartha opts not to follow Gotama. Govinda is impressed and chooses to join Gotama’s community of monks. Although the two friends learn quite a bit from the Samana way of life, they are still dissatisfied and decide to hear the teachings of Gotama Buddha. His best friend, Govinda, accompanies him, and the two men spend three years with the Samanas learning how to withstand pain and hunger in an effort to flee the body’s limitations. Siddhartha decides to join the Samanas, who are a group of wandering ascetics. He is spiritually dissatisfied and believes the elders in his community have nothing more to teach him. He’s well-loved, but unhappy despite his popularity. Siddhartha (don't call him Sidd he hates that) grows up in a prosperous Brahman family. The girl Sevika had just called was taller than almost anyone else in her class, and Vi couldn’t believe she hadn’t noticed her until now. Mish mash of Rom-Coms from the 90s but CaitViĪ figure brushed past Vi, interrupting her thoughts and making her finally look up.Language: English Words: 8,071 Chapters: 2/? Comments: 7 Kudos: 100 Bookmarks: 13 Hits: 803 However, her last employee retired and her only option is an ex-con from the Undercity. In a last attempt to save her mother's beloved horse ranch, Caitlyn wants to turn the boarding facility into a sanctuary for old horses. So now here she was sitting in her office caked in dust and sweat, looking at the only resume she’s gotten in the last two weeks, while her bones were pleading for a hot bath and a nice dinner. Since they stopped being a boarding facility, Ranch Kiramman was pretty much a one person operation for the daily maintenance and care of the animals.
Lexie, before her tragic death, lived in a dreamily shabby mansion with four other grad student friends. So much of the tension in this novel comes from how freaking idyllic the share house is. The location of the body and the damage Lexie sustained were important clues, and I didn’t, you know, enjoy reading that part, but my friend was right, it wasn’t too gross. I borrowed The Likeness from a friend who’d read it, loved it, and promised me it would be suspenseful and not too gory. Someone, somewhere thinks they’ve murdered Lexie, and that person is going to see “Lexie” walking around like nothing’s happened… It’s this curiosity that compels Cassie and the other investigators, and this pulls the reader too. The cops are all constantly aware that this likeness is a huge, almost miraculous break to solve the case, and it’s something no one has ever been able to do before. It’s a bit of a stretch, but the wild premise works because the characters all know it’s just so insanely unlikely. The premise of Tana French’s The Likeness is almost too unbelievable: A murder victim is found who looks exactly like undercover investigator Cassie Maddox. She hopes to be in league with the Scarlet Pimpernel, who heroically tried to save her father. Amy, exiled to rural England with her mother, now wants to avenge, with the help of her cousin Jane, her father's death at the hands of the French. She dives into this treasure trove, and suddenly the reader is plunged into a novel within a novel, told from the viewpoint of Amy Balcourt. Working in London on her history dissertation, Eloise gets access to a trunk of papers and documents from the early 19th century. The French eventually unmasked the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian, famed spies in the Napoleonic wars, but as Harvard graduate student Eloise Kelly discovers at the start of this breezy historical romance, the identity of the Pink Carnation remains a mystery. Here is the Lincoln who, as a boy, was steeped in the sermons of emancipation by Baptist preachers who insisted that slavery was a moral evil and who sought, as he put it, to do right as God gave him light to see the right. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.Īt once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen in popular minds as the greatest of American presidents-a remote icon-or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. This illuminating new portrait gives us a very human Lincoln-an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment was essential to the story of justice in America. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of AmericaĪ President who governed a country at war with itself has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. |