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Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell5/13/2023 ![]() Two of the historical novel series have been adapted for television: the Sharpe television series by ITV and The Last Kingdom by BBC. He wrote a nonfiction book on the battle of Waterloo, in addition to the fictional story of the famous battle in the Sharpe series. ![]() A feature of his historical novels is an end note on how they match or differ from history, and what one might see at the modern sites of the events described. He has written historical novels primarily based on English history, in five series, and one series of contemporary thriller novels. He has also written The Saxon Stories, a series of 13 novels about the making of England. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. Bernard Cornwell OBE (born 23 February 1944) is an English-American author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. ![]() In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide toward certain environmental disaster. ![]() In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.īill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. ![]()
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Sorry not sorry book naya rivera5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Millennial readers and aspiring performers will be particularly drawn to Rivera's never-give-up "keep it moving" outlook. Each chapter ends with a section called "Sorry: Not Sorry," reminding readers that so-called mistakes are lessons. ![]() ![]() Sassy and engaging, Rivera's memoir tells of struggles with self-image, failed romance, and finding her place in the world and onstage as a girl with a racially mixed background. Just when she was about to ditch acting, however, her mother encouraged her to stay in the game, and shortly thereafter she landed the Glee role of Santana Lopez, a character she developed as she herself grew up. During adolescence her career plummeted, she succumbed to an eating disorder, and her parents divorced. Even as a child, Rivera reveals, she "liked the responsibility of acting," and when her family fell on financial hard times, she was the only member with money in the bank and an unemployment check. Her mother procured an agent for her daughter before she could walk, and Rivera was in her first commercial when she was seven the young Rivera also appeared on The Royal Family (with Redd Foxx), The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Family Matters. Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up (Hardcover) (Naya Rivera) 15.44When purchased online In Stock Add to cart About this item Specifications Dimensions (Overall): 8.1 Inches (H) x 5.6 Inches (W) x. Actress, singer, and former Glee star Rivera looks back on her career and the hit TV series, revealing that the road to fame was riddled with missteps and challenges. 1 'Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes And Growing Up' by Naya Rivera Audiobook BLINK 5H 3. ![]()
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Skunk and badger book 35/13/2023 ![]() This is something that Timberlake brings to the page in a palpably cozy way. ![]() With Frog and Toad and Mole and Rat, the friendships of these creatures and how they learn from each other and overcome their differences is almost as enchanting to me as the domestic lives they enjoy, together and apart. I have a deep love for what I'll call the "opposites attract-animal buddy" story, and while comparisons to Arnold Lobel's inimitable Frog and Toad are inevitable here, Skunk and Badger, for me, evokes my all-time favorite opposites attract-animal buddies, Mole and Rat from The Wind in the Willows (you can read my reviews of recent adaptations of this classic here and here). ![]() ![]() Klassen's illustrations bring this already vivid story to life with a palette that roots it in the natural world. These are but a few examples of the absolutely unforgettable, image rich, laugh-out-loud gift Timberlake has delivered with her story of Badger, who resides in Aunt Lula's brownstone in North Twist, and Skunk, who has been invited by Aunt Lula to take up residence there as well. ![]()
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Just one day book series5/13/2023 ![]() Because his girlfriend is a little bit crazy. ![]() If anyone touches him, harms him, or even threatens him, then they should probably run. Something I laugh about to myself, while secretly soaking in all his protectiveness and concern. ![]() He makes me feel something other than cold. It just means I want more.one day.īut how do you make a good man love the monster inside you without stripping his soul away as well? He is all the best parts of me right now, resurrecting bits of my heart I forgot could even exist. Logan Bennett makes me want to have a future not tainted by the constant hunger for revenge. To love a monster, you have to share your soul. To kill a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous. ![]() ***Ebook currently only available on Amazon*** He doesn't know he's in love with their killer.Īnd Logan doesn't suspect the girl in his bed.Īt least until I tell them the story they've pretended never happened.īut in the end, will Logan choose them? Or will we watch them burn together? He doesn't know how twisted that town really is. He doesn't know about the screams they ignored. They never see me coming, until I paint their walls red. They should have made sure I stayed dead. Collecting the debts that are owed to me. Logan Bennett makes the world a safer place.īut while he's saving lives, I'm taking them. ![]()
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Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() With Lula riding shotgun and Grandma Mazur on the loose, Stephanie Plum is racing against the clock in her most suspenseful novel yet. And if the Junkman doesn't find her first. There's only one safe place, and it has Ranger's name all over it-if she can find it. With super bounty hunter Ranger acting more mysteriously than ever (and the tension with vice cop Joe Morelli getting hotter), she finds herself with a decision to make: how to protect herself and where to hide while on the hunt for a killer known as the Junkman. It would be just another day in the life of Stephanie Plum, except that she becomes the target of a gang-and of an even scarier, more dangerous force that comes to Trenton. A robbery leads to an explosion, which leads to the destruction of yet another car. ![]() But Stephanie Plum and her partner, Lula, are clearly in the wrong place at the wrong time. It begins as an innocent trip to the deli-mart, on a quest for nachos. She's Stephanie Plum, and she kicks butt for a living (well, she thinks it sounds good to put it that way.). Her mother's convinced she'll end up dead. She's a target for every psycho and miscreant this side of the Jersey Turnpike. She's accidentally destroyed a dozen cars. ![]() Janet Evanovich is the hottest author in America, and her Stephanie Plum novels have taken the nation by storm! ![]()
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The marlow murder club 25/13/2023 ![]() And the puzzle they set out to solve has become a trap from which they might never escape… When another body turns up, they realize they have a real-life serial killer on their hands. Together, they are the Marlow Murder Club. Judith investigates and picks up a crew of sidekicks: Suzie the dogwalker and Becks the vicar's wife. Ha! Stefan can't be left for dead like that. The local police don't believe her story. That is, until Judith hears her neighbor shot while skinny-dipping in the Thames. ![]() Meet Judith: a seventy-seven-year-old whiskey drinking, crossword puzzle author living her best life in a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of Marlow. Paris, New York Times bestselling authorĪ delightfully clever new mystery from creator of BBC One's hilarious murder mystery series Death in Paradise Funny, entertaining, and beautifully written." -B. ![]() ![]() 2023 EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE, LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN AWARD ![]()
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Auntie claus home for the holidays5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() If you’re trying to engage reluctant readers (or kids who are simply reluctant to sit still), try interactive books with touch-and-feel or search-and-find elements. It can feel heartwarming to select a special story to share at the same time every year, or you may want to shake things up with new-to-you tales of elves, animals and favorite characters. Reading together is something that kids of all ages-and adults, too!-can enjoy. Either way, you’ll be surprised by what kids can remember and appreciate about these special moments with you. Is there anything cozier than cuddling up for a read-aloud at holiday time? You may be reading to a little Santa baby who is more interested in gnawing on board book pages than listening to a story, or you may be trying to calm older kids who managed to consume way too many pieces of chocolate gelt. ![]()
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The prestige by christopher priest5/13/2023 ![]() "A taut, twisting, prize-winning story of two magicians and their fierce fin-de-siècle rivalry that taints successive generations of their respective families.An unexpectedly compelling fusion of weird science and legerdemain." - Kirkus on The Prestige Priest masters the merging of SF and mainstream, and The Prestige is his finest novel to date." - New Scientist on The Prestige The pioneer of electrical power, Nikola Tesla, appears in a supporting role to say more would reveal too much. It's a story of utter fakery and scientific audacity. Two magicians vie with each other to create the perfect illusion: vanishing from one part of the stage and reappearing instantaneously in another. Magnificently eerie." - Anthony Quinn, The Sunday Times "Nothing quite prepares you for the sinister complexity and imaginative flair of The Prestige. "As ingenious as it is suspenseful." - Newsday on The Prestige A brilliantly constructed entertainment!" - The Washington Post on The Prestige "A dizzying show of a novel.Imagine Possession rewritten by Barbara Vine, or Robertson Davies at his most smoothly diabolical. ![]() ![]() "Extraordinary-like a dazzling magic act!" - Entertainment Weekly on The Prestige "One of our most gifted writers." - John Fowles on The Prestige "A brilliant conjuring act by one of the master illusionists of our time." - Wired on The Prestige ![]()
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The big oyster by mark kurlansky5/13/2023 ![]() Travellers to New York were also keen to experience the famous New York oyster houses. ![]() In a dubious endorsement, William Makepeace Thackeray said that eating a New York oyster was like eating a baby. From the Minuit purchase until pollution finally destroyed the beds in the 1920s, New York was a city known for its oysters, especially in the late 1800s, when Europe and America enjoyed a decades-long oyster craze. Book excerpt: When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed Ellis Island in 1770. This book was released on with total page 336 pages. Book Synopsis The Big Oyster by : Mark Kurlanskyĭownload or read book The Big Oyster written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Random House. ![]() |