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Still reeling from war wounds and devastated by loss, Mila finds herself isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington, DC-until an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility of happiness. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper-a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son-but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper.
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The source james michener amazon7/6/2023 BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. An epic tale of love, strength, and faith, The Source is a richly written saga that encompasses the history of Western civilization and the great religious and cultural ideas that have shaped our world. Through the discoveries of modern archaeologists excavating the site of Tell Makor, Michener vividly re-creates life in an ancient city and traces the profound history of the Jewish people-from the persecution of the early Hebrews, the rise of Christianity, and the Crusades to the founding of Israel and the modern conflict in the Middle East. Michener transports us back thousands of years to the Holy Land. In his signature style of grand storytelling, James A.
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Amelia bedelia books by peggy parish7/6/2023 Amelia - MelasDelta (1) Amelia Bedelia Series - Peggy Parish (11). OL1933022W Page-progression lr Pages 40 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1404686622 All Fandoms Anime & Manga Books & Literature Cartoons & Comics & Graphic Novels. Urn:lcp:ameliabedel1983pari:epub:9ac7d7ce-3399-4052-beff-e87830d63d47 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier ameliabedel1983pari Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5p85010g Isbn 0064430367ĩ780064430364 Lccn 63014367 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary_edition A sortable list in reading order and chronological order with publication date, genre, and rating. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:15:34 Boxid IA119613 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Littleton, MA DonorĪlibris Edition Harper Trophy ed.
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Lynley a great deliverance7/6/2023 In sifting slowly through the ashes of the past, the detectives find enough horrific skeletons in every closet to lead them to a climax unexpectedly loaded with fire and fury. Inspector Thomas Lynley is smooth, attractive and utterly upper-class ""stubby, sturdy'' detective-sergeant Barbara Havers, conscious of her plain appearance and lower-class origins, considers Lynley a ``sodding little fop.'' Thrown together, they weigh the general conviction in the villagethat Roberta could not possibly have wielded the bloody axeagainst mounting evidence that damns the now catatonic girl. The detectives sent by Scotland Yard to investigate are a mismatched pair. The legendharking back to violent events in Cromwell's timethat surrounds local Keldale Abbey pales in comparison to a modern-day crime committed in this quiet corner of Yorkshire, England: Roberta Teys, a silent, obese adolescent, is accused of killing her church-going father with an axe. In her debut novel, George too often plays to the gallery with characterizations broad enough to border on caricature.
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The keeper of the lost cities book 27/6/2023 They are not publisher's returns, remainders or s ourced from bookfairs Please note our books are brand new and supplied directly from the publishers. Customer Reviews: 4.8 out of 5 stars 363 customer ratings.Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 1.7 x 7.6 inches.Publisher: Aladdin Reprint edition (August 5, 2014).Series: Keeper of the Lost Cities (Book 2).Sophie is tasked with helping to train the magical creature so that the Alicorn can be revealed to the people of the lost cities as a sign of hope, and Sophie wants to believe that the recent drama and anguish is gone for good.īut the secrets buried deep in Sophie’s memories remain, and before long before she’s back in incredible danger, risking everything to find the answers to questions that could save not only her life, but the life of someone close to her… Product Details And it helps that living at Havenfield means getting to spend time with rare, precious species-including the first female Alicorn, who shows herself to Sophie and trusts no one but her. Sophie is settling in nicely to her new home and her new life in the world of the lost cities. Sophie befriends the mythical Alicorn and puts her mysterious powers to the test in this enchanting second book in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series. 10 Books to thank your favorite teacherĪ California Young Reader Medal–winning series.Exile (Keeper of the Lost Cities #2) – BookaliciousMY
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Book review unaccustomed earth7/5/2023 Although more traditional her father tries to persuade her to continue her legal career while being a mother. Ruma has left her successful legal career to raise children, and her husband works hard to support the family. The father, a retiree and recent widower, visits his daughter's new home in the suburbs of Seattle. The title story of the book is about the family relationships between three generations: the father, his daughter, Ruma, and her son, Akash. Four of the eight stories ("Hell-Heaven", "Nobody's Business", "Once in a Lifetime", and "Year's End") were previously published in The New Yorker Part One "Unaccustomed Earth" The title of the collection is taken from a passage in "The Custom-House," the preface to The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book was Lahiri's first to top The New York Times Best Seller list, where it debuted at #1. As with much of Lahiri's work, Unaccustomed Earth considers the lives of Indian American characters and how they deal with their mixed cultural environment. It is her second collection of stories, following Interpreter of Maladies (which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction). Unaccustomed Earth is a collection of short stories from American author Jhumpa Lahiri.
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He is about to disappear - leaving behing a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths." IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH. Determined to give his wife and daughter the best. Jason Archer is a young executive at a world-leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, he has secretly entered into a deadly game of cat and house. Total Control is a breathtaking thrill-ride on a roller-coaster of non-stop action and suspense from David Baldacci, one of the worlds favourite storytellers. TOTAL CONTROL - Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world's leading technology conglomerate. SYNOPSIS: "ABSOLUTE POWER - set in Washington DC, this viveting thriller of unparalleled suspense dares to explore an unthintable abuse of power and criminal conspiracy: a vicious murder involving the US president and a cover-up orchestrated by his zealously loyal staff. Features two full-length novels Absolute Power and Total Control. The book is showing signs of shelf storage in that there is some discolouration to one third of the bottom and leading edges of pages, not affecting text. Some tanning to pages and a small bump at the head of the book spine. First UK omnibus edition with a full 1 to 9 number sequence indicating a first printing. David Baldacci has become one of the world’s favourite thriller writers, with his first novel Absolute Power, being adapted into the film of the same name starring and directed by Clint Eastwood.
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Javascript by douglas crockford7/5/2023 After about 10 years, another book by this author has recently been released. But time goes fast and especially in the frontend world – it’s flying with the speed of sound. He is an active contributor to JavaScript standards, tools and related web technologies, as well as an author of JSON format.īack in 2008, Douglas Crockford wrote a book called “ JavaScript: The Good Parts”, which became quite popular among web developers. He is one of the JavaScript pioneers, who wrote thousands of lines of production code when we all still kids. At least you most probably have seen his name in some programming book or an article. If you’ve been in the JavaScript world for a while, you must know Douglas Crockford. It’s supposed to shed a light on different aspects of the language, point out the problems and discover possible solutions. More than ten years have passed since Douglas Crockford released his first book about JavaScript.
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Man after man by dougal dixon7/5/2023 What this “picture book for grown-ups” did for me was remind me that our planet’s real timeline isn’t one of human history, but of its own history. You’ve got to wonder if some of these creatures began in the author’s nightmares, if he worked backward to make them plausible. If I remember right (the book is back at the library), the night stalker evolved from the bat, outgrew eyes, grew big fangs and claws, and turned its wings into ears. The book skips around to various ecosystems–jungle, desert, plains–and shows artist renderings of what the animals there have adapted into, with captions explaining why.įor instance, rabbits have grown to fill in the niche deer left in their extinction and rats have grown to fill the wolf niche.Īnd here’s a cuddly hell-spawn called a night stalker: Those that survived kept evolving, and now we’re visiting them 50 million years after the Age of Man. We blew it and died and took a lot of animals with us.īut not all the animals. The end wasn’t dramatic or sudden or particularly sad, it was just the culmination of humanity’s long-brewing bad habits. A couple of the more exciting book stumbles I’ve enjoyed recently are Geologist Dougal Dixon’s “zoology of the future,” After Man (1981), and its “anthropology of the future” sequel, Man After Man (1990).Īfter Man is a credible paleontology/speculative fiction bonanza that runs on the sober premise that our era is over.
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The bazaar of bad dreams7/5/2023 Among the five stories, "Why We're in Vietnam" is especially horrifying, as it weaves in the theme of trauma-induced hallucination and the heavy burden of guilt, which is a fathomless source of terror in itself. Opening with an epigraph that quotes Easy Rider-a scorching “ We blew it”-King explores the generation’s ideas, worldviews, and expectations while delving into the profound failures that are set in the 1960s, especially the Vietnam War. Published in 1999, Hearts in Atlantis features two novellas and three short stories that are interconnected via recurring characters and temporal synchronicities and revolves around King’s ideas about the Baby Boomer generation. |