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Author: Helen Hull
Publisher: Persephone Books
ISBN: 9781903155912
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: John Sandford
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780399155277
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Summoned by Lucas Davenport to investigate a pair of murders in which the victims are found with lemons in their mouths, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers struggles to find a connection that could prevent additional killings. 500,000 first printing.

Author: Robert F. Carroll
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573622137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440619883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz’s brilliantly thrilling novel of suspense. In the midst of a raging blizzard, lightning struck on the night Laura Shane was born. And a mysterious blond-haired stranger showed up just in time to save her from dying. Years later, in the wake of another storm, Laura will be saved again. For someone is watching over her. Is he the guardian angel he seems? The devil in disguise? Or the master of a haunting destiny beyond all time and space? “A gripping novel…fast-paced and satisfying.”—People

Author: Anne Stuart
Publisher: Impeccably Demure Press
ISBN: 1951309170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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It’s a long, hot summer, and when Caleb Spenser comes to town, everyone knows he’s trouble. No man should be that good-looking, and his sinfully sexy smile is enough to melt even the strongest backbone. Good girl Jassy Turner doesn’t know what to do with the outsider who’s come into their midst, infiltrating the very proper Turner family and setting his sights directly on her. After a lifetime of good behavior, she’s more than ready to fall from her pedestal, straight into Caleb’s bed. But there are dark secrets lurking in the sultry atmosphere. As summer heats up and the heat lightning builds, so do the desire and the danger, and all Jassy can do is hang on for dear life, wondering if she’s made the worst mistake of her life. Or the best mistake ever.

Author: Raelein MB Haley
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450002625
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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This book is a collection of poetry I have been writing over the years. Some of it has been published in Literary Quarterlies. This book is divided into 5 sections. Each section deals with different aspects of my life. The poems are arranged in a way to evoke emotions Ive experienced and to carry you into the book. It culminates with the last poem designed to make you think------ Is there still hope? You decide.

Author: Paul Fleisher
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 0761363297
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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What causes thunderstorms and lightning? Where and why do hurricanes form? How are blizzards more dangerous than other snowstorms? To answer these questions, you’ll need to know about nature’s most powerful weather events. Storms of all types and sizes occur around the globe. Each storm needs just the right combination of weather conditions to form and become dangerous—or even destructive. In this fact-packed book, discover how storms form, where they strike, and what makes them so powerful.

Author: Leah Hager Cohen
Publisher: William Morrow
ISBN: 9780380974689
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Set in a small town in upstate New York, this luminous novel about one remarkable summer in the lives of two young, orphaned sisters traces the unraveling of the mythology which the girls create to explain the untimely death of their parents.

Author: Lauren Redniss
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679644725
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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Note: This eBook file contains many richly detailed full-color images and makes use of unconventional page layouts. Because of this, readers will be required to zoom in on each page to read the text and see the finer detail of the artwork. [It has not been optimized for devices that display only in black and white.] From the National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, author of Radioactive, comes a dazzling fusion of storytelling, visual art, and reportage that grapples with weather in all its dimensions: its danger and its beauty, why it happens and what it means. WINNER OF THE PEN/E. O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND SHELF AWARENESS Weather is the very air we breathe—it shapes our daily lives and alters the course of history. In Thunder & Lightning, Lauren Redniss tells the story of weather and humankind through the ages. This wide-ranging work roams from the driest desert on earth to a frigid island in the Arctic, from the Biblical flood to the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Redniss visits the headquarters of the National Weather Service, recounts top-secret rainmaking operations during the Vietnam War, and examines the economic impact of disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on extensive research and countless interviews, she examines our own day and age, from our most personal decisions—Do I need an umbrella today?—to the awesome challenges we face with global climate change. Redniss produced each element of Thunder & Lightning: the text, the artwork, the covers, and every page in between. She created many of the images using the antiquated printmaking technique copper plate photogravure etching. She even designed the book’s typeface. The result is a book unlike any other: a spellbinding combination of storytelling, art, and science. Praise for Thunder & Lightning “[An] aesthetically charged and deeply researched account . . . a wild rainstorm of a book, pelting the reader with ideas and inspiration.”—Nature “A gorgeous and illuminating illustrated study of weather in all its tempestuous variety . . . Redniss’s combo of fact, folklore, and vibrant etched copperplate prints enthralls.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Eerily beautiful . . . Contains plenty of scientific explanation (including more than a few nods toward global warming), but also far-flung personal stories that illuminate the beauty, wonder and chaos inherent in the elements.”—The New York Times “Magical . . . Redniss has . . . shown us how human beings live with nature—fighting, coexisting, taming, predicting via leech barometer and radar and intuition.”—The New York Times Book Review “[A] twenty-first-century genius . . . The reader willing to put herself fully in Redniss’s hands will be rewarded with a delicious feeling of being enveloped by a phenomenon that eclipses the chiming trivialities of daily life.”—Elle “Redniss is one of the most creative science writers of our time—her combination of beautiful artwork, reporting, and poetic prose brings science to life in ways that words alone simply cannot.”—Rebecca Skloot “Redniss combines her own dual punch of expressive art and impressive erudition to give an entirely new take on all that happens above our heads.”—Adam Gopnik “A strange and wonderful thing, the work of a first-class mind that refuses to submit to any categories or precedent.”—Dave Eggers

Author: Robert Bingham
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385488688
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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From the highly acclaimed author of Pure Slaughter Value comes this latter-day literary noir about an ex-pat in Cambodia eager to get home but taking all the wrong turns. Asher went to Cambodia to get away from Julie, his Harvard grad ex-girlfriend currently tending bar in a topless joint in New York. But when his UNESCO work cleaning bat dung from Khmer statues is finished, and he decides on a dicey heroin scheme as his means to get home with plenty of money to spare, it's Julie whose help he solicits. She agrees, but plans go dangerously awry frighteningly fast. A pulsating plot and precise literary prose make Lightning on the Sun a startlingly compelling and strangely poetic tale.