![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He suspects that Abigail needs protection from something - and that her elaborate defenses hide a story that must be revealed. Her logical mind, her secretive nature, and her unromantic viewpoints leave him fascinated but frustrated. But Abigail’s reserve only intrigues police chief Brooks Gleason. She keeps to herself, saying little, revealing nothing. A freelance programmer, she designs sophisticated security systems - and supplements her own security with a fierce dog and an assortment of firearms. Twelve years later, the woman known as Abigail Lowery lives on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. The events that followed changed her life forever. Daughter of a controlling mother, Elizabeth finally let loose one night, drinking at a nightclub and allowing a strange man’s seductive Russian accent lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Connors records the day-to-day of one typical season (the book is organized like a journal, chapters headed April through August), remembers past summers and muses on nature and solitude, weaving in a surprisingly thorough discussion of conservation thought in America.Ĭonnors will be touring the West Coast for his book from April 11 to April 14. His only companions (apart from the musk deer and the occasional long-distance hiker) are literary - Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Edward Abbey, Norman Maclean - all of them veterans of lookoutry. He hikes, fishes, throws a Frisbee around with his faithful dog, plays endless games of cribbage. During fire season, Connors spends his nights in a Forest Service cabin and his days in a seven-by-seven-foot box atop a steel tower. ![]() Fire Season, a first book from Philip Connors, is a memoir of the author’s summers as a fire lookout in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL5727121W Pages 198 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.13 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210511133528 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 830 Scandate 20210505110149 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780759530430 Tts_version 4. ![]() They arrive at the hotel, and Darren enjoys relaxing like he used to as a human again. Crepsly all depart from the Cirque du Freak, supposedly to pursue the subject of Gavner Purl’s news, and head for a big city. Urn:lcp:cirquedufreakvol0003shan:lcpdf:8561aa47-ffbf-4947-99c7-717a4efc1a14 Darren, Evra Von, Darren’s half-snake, half-boy friend, and Mr. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:00:59 Associated-names Arai, Takahiro, 1982- ill Paul, Stephen (Translator), tr Boxid IA40111308 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() Geneviève Côté has illustrated a number of books over the years, including Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott, Jean Little's Wishes, Cary Fagan's Ella May and the Wishing Stone, Danielle Simard's The Little Word Catcher, and many others. She's also authored a few short stories in both English and French: King's She teaches creative writing classes at Capilano University and CWC (Creative Writing for Children) when she isn't writing or editing. ![]() Clover's Luck, Book 1 in the Magical Animal Adoption series, will be published by Disney-Hyperion in February 2015. She is the co-creator of Paola Opal's Simply Little Series of acclaimed board books, as well as the author of M the Exploring Dreamer, with art by Soizick Meister, and the picture book The Melancholic Mermaid, illustrated by Abigail Halpin. In 2007, she earned her master's degree in children's literature from the University of British Columbia. ![]() Kallie George is a Vancouver-based author and editor. ![]() ![]() ![]() The fact that the screenplay is in development is what’s happening. So, if Armada is so disliked by critics, why is it being made into a movie? Well, for one thing, it’s not becoming a movie, yet. It’s the insularity that’s breathtaking here, the inability to imagine the world through any lens other than the one he has spent his brief 18 years marinating in.” - Washington Post. It’s the fact that it reminds him of things he’s seen on the TV before. But what takes his breath away isn’t the architecture or the scope or the grandeur or the stars in the sky or the isolation. The moon base is a “breathtaking site,” according to Zack. ![]() “If you aren’t familiar with the works referenced here, that stretch of writing is gibberish. Instead they make Armada feel even more like a failed attempt to recapture the cleverness of Cline’s debut.” - AVClub. But put against such a lackluster backdrop, they can’t drive the novel the way they did in Ready Player One. “Plenty of the references and geeky arguments in Armada are hilarious, from Star Wars-themed insults to debates about the relative merits of fantasy weapons. ![]() ![]() “While the aims of the novel are onanistic rather than malicious, Armada nonetheless demands to be bronzed as the perfect embodiment of the impulses that so often make games-and gaming culture-boring, self-indulgent, and regressive.” - Slate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book also offers family and friends of transitioning people insight into the complexity of their loved ones’ motivations and struggles. Transgender readers will appreciate Ladin’s nuanced, wide-ranging musings on gender and the longings, terrors, successes, and searing losses arising from her struggle to find life worthwhile and to live authentically. ![]() In addition, she shares her navigations through and between gender, and her awkward, exhilarating “second adolescence” as she experiments with walking, dressing, and speaking as a woman her conversations with God, messages from angels, and the surprising consideration and ultimate acceptance from Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, where she still teaches. She describes her wife forced “to witness the slow erasure of the man she loved,” her children’s fury and bewilderment at the decision that broke apart their family, and the practice of love. In this eloquent, bittersweet memoir, professor and poet Ladin (Psalms) leavens with literary artistry the often incredibly painful story of her gender transition from male to female. ![]() ![]() Lou figures it for milk run - how hard could it be to set-up moonshine shipments from a few ass-backward hillbillies? What Lou doesn't figure on is that Holt is just as cunning as ruthless as any NYC crime boss and Lou is in way over his pin-striped head. ![]() ![]() THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE NEW ON-GOING SERIES From writer, BRIAN AZZARELLO and artist, EDUARDO RISSO - the Eisner award-winning creative team behind the crime classic, 100 Bullets - comes a brutal new series! Set during Prohibition, and deep in the backwoods of Appalachia, MOONSHINE #1 tells the story of LOU PIRLO, a city-slick "torpedo" sent from New York City to negotiate a deal with the best moonshiner in West Virginia, one HIRAM HOLT. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Candy is a deliciously entertaining novel about what it's like to come of age in Hollywood while starring in a reality TV show, written by a girl who has experienced it all firsthand: Lauren Conrad. In a city filled with people chasing after their dreams, it's not long before Jane wakes up to the reality that everyone wants something from her, and nothing is what it seems to be. In September 2004, as an 18-year-old, Conrad came to prominence after being cast in the reality television series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, which documented her and her friends' lives in their hometown of Laguna. ![]() But those same friends who are always up for a wild night are also out for a piece of Jane's spotlight. Lauren Katherine Conrad (born Febru1) is an American television personality, fashion designer and author. Fame brings more than she ever imagined possible for a girl from Santa Barbara-free designer clothes, the choicest tables at the most exclusive clubs, invites to Hollywood premieres-and she's lapping up the VIP treatment with her eclectic entourage of new pals. When Jane and Scarlett are approached by a producer who wants them to be on his new series, a „reality version of Sex and the City,” they can hardly believe their luck. for an internship, but Jane plans to play as hard as she works, and has enlisted her BFF Scarlett to join in the fun. Nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts can't wait to start living it up. : Sweet Little Lies: LA Candy (9780007357376) by LaurenConrad and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Los Angeles is all about the sweet life: hot clubs, cute guys, designer. ![]() ![]() They have included some of the most charismatic, courageous, and idiosyncratic thinkers of all time. ![]() From the first time mankind had an inkling of the vast space that surrounds us, those who study the universe have had to struggle against political and religious preconceptions. From the second-century celestial models of Ptolemy to modern-day research institutes and quantum theory, this classic book offers a breathtaking tour of astronomy and the brilliant, eccentric personalities who have shaped it. In 'Coming of Age in the Milky Way, ' Timothy Ferris uses his unique blend of rigorous research and captivating narrative skill to draw us into the lives and minds of these extraordinary figures, creating a landmark work of scientific history. ![]() ![]() In this groundbreaking work, based on massive research, Chernow shatters forever the stereotype of George Washington as a stolid, unemotional figure and brings to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one volume biography of George Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his adventurous early years, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president. I can't recommend it highly enough-as history, as epic, and, not least, as entertainment." -Hendrik Hertzberg, The New YorkerCelebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president of the United States. well-researched, well-written and absolutely definitive biography" -Andrew Roberts, The Wall Street Journal "Until recently, I'd never believed that there could be such a thing as a truly gripping biography of George Washington. ![]() Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography "Truly magnificent. ![]() From the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the first president of the United States. ![]() |