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![]() ![]() On The Run From His Own Government And With Everything On The Line, Does He Need To Change Sides To Save Lives – Including His OwnThe Innocent Is The First Novel In David Baldacci's Blockbuster Will Robie Series. In Doing So, Robie Finds Himself Becoming The Target. Dispatched To Kill A US Government Employee, He Does The Unthinkable When Things Don’t Add Up – He Refuses To Pull The Trigger. ![]() The Odds Were Stacked Against Him, But That’s Never Made A Difference Before.But Now He’s Facing The Most Difficult Operation Of His Career. He Never Questions His Orders, And He Never Misses His Mark.He’s Just Returned From A Covert Assignment In Edinburgh To Neutralize A Growing Threat, Having Drawn Upon All His Expertise To Complete His Mission And Disappear Without A Trace. Master Assassin Will Robie Is The Man The US Government Call To Eliminate Their Most Ruthless Enemies At Home Or Abroad. He Could No Longer Remember The Names Of All The People Whose Lives He Had Ended. 9780446572989 Genre Mystery & Thriller / Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense Description America’s best hitman was hired to killbut when a D.C. The Innocent Is Another Action-packed Thriller From David Baldacci, One Of The World's Most Popular Writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Afraid to live on her own, she is willing to overlook the fact that Thomas ignores her birthday, constantly monitors her eating habits and insults her friends under the guise of being honest. Tara, a computer analyst, lives with Thomas, a bitter and miserly high school geography teacher. This time, the protagonists are two London women who grew up together in the small, repressive Irish town of Knockavoy. This is another paragraph From Publishers Weekly nImagine Bridget Jones in a Jacobean revenge drama, a sort of 'Tis a Pity She's Single that's the flavor of this entry in the urban unmarried female angst sweepstakes. Near fine condition.Michael Joseph,1999.First paperback edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Paperback(a couple of creases & nicks on the edges of the cover and spine)in near fine condition.Nice and clean pages as new with a two ink marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges,small pencil mark impression on the first page of the book.Nice and clean book with light shelf wear.596pp. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a standalone thriller from Tana French, author of the excellent Dublin Murder Squad books, and it finds her in barnstormingly good form. He has “a sense of being surrounded by a vast invisible web, where one wrong touch could shake things so far distant he hasn’t even spotted them”. ![]() Cal is forced to abandon his “newfound talent for letting things be”, drawn into Trey’s desperation by his “urgency, so concentrated that it shimmers the air around him like heat coming off a road”, and soon finds himself causing ripples in this tiny community as he tries to investigate without appearing to investigate, search without appearing to search. “Bored kids, ten to one,” he thinks, but he keeps an eye out, and eventually discovers a local boy who needs his help: Trey’s big brother has gone missing, and nobody seems to care. He’s fixing up his ramshackle home when the back of his neck starts flaring: someone is watching him. “I got weary… bone weary,” he says, as “every morning got to be like waking up with the flu, knowing he had to trek miles up a mountain”. Cal Hooper is a disillusioned former Chicago police officer who has left the force and moved to a remote village in the Irish countryside in an effort to find who he is again. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her release of the bird earns the ire of the airmen, the bird in turn rescues her, and a clever resolution leads the girl to a friend with his own magic chalk. ![]() Yet she does not linger-she draws a hot-air balloon, takes to the air, and encounters a squadron of magnificent, steampunk-style airships manned by soldiers who have trapped a phoenix-like bird. Drawing a red boat, she drifts toward a breathtaking castle city whose gleaming turrets and domes promise adventure and intrigue. Drab sepia drawings introduce a lonely girl whose afternoon is jolted into life (and full color) when she uses a piece of red chalk to draw a door on her wall, walking through it into a lantern-lit forest with a winding river. ![]() Becker develops concepts for film studios, and his wordless picture book debut reads like a cinematic tribute to Harold and the Purple Crayon. ![]() ![]() ![]() English literature, history and music (he played the piano very well) were to remain Hilton's main interests for the rest of his life. Then he joined the Christ's College, Cambridge University, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History and English in 1921. ![]() From 1915 to 1918, he attended the Leys School in Cambridge, where he also became editor of the school magazine. His parents were schoolteachers at Walthamstow, a suburb of London where James grew up and studied in public schools. James Hilton, the only son of John and Elizabeth Hilton, was born on 9 September, 1900 in Leigh in Lancashire, England (at his grandfather's house). ![]() ![]() But who was James Hilton and how did he come to write this novel? Why did Lost Horizon (both the novel and the film) become so popular around the world? And which place(s) inspired Hilton's Shangri-La? Here we explore these questions. James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon published in 1933 established Tibet in Utopian literature and introduced a new word to our language - Shangri-La. Soon after that the journey to Shangri-La was begun. He was also interested in the mountain beyond the valley it was a sensational peak, by any standards, and he was surprised that some traveller had not made much of it in the kind of book that a journey in Tibet invariably elicits. James Hilton and Shangri-La Rasoul Sorkhabi ![]() ![]() His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has eaten its way into the hearts of literally millions of children all over the world and has been translated into more than 25 languages and sold over twelve million copies. ![]() ![]() Children may take comfort in the devotion of these undersea fathers.except perhaps at the very end when the father seahorse says to a freshly hatched sea-pony who wants back in the pouch: "I do love you, but now you are ready to be on your own." (Preschool) -Karin Snelson About the Author:Įric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. ![]() Here, for a splendid lesson in camouflage, colorful acetate sheets mask marine life that is revealed as the child turns the page. Most of Carle's books employ some sort of gizmo or gadget-and this one is no exception. The story? Well, repetition is the heart of instruction, after all. Cut-up tissue paper soaks up the watery paint and makes for a boldly colorful, almost jewel-like undersea journey. As ever, it's Carle's art that steals the show. In Mister Seahorse, master collage artist Eric Carle teaches preschoolers this lesson and introduces them to a few other fish who bear the traditionally maternal burden of caring for eggs: the stickleback, tilapia, Kurtus nurseryfish (known here as Mr. Are you ready for a scintillating seahorse fact? The father seahorse is the one who carries the mother's eggs around in his pouch before they hatch. ![]() ![]() ![]() But The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment, despite a catch-all title that promises more than Hunter’s tightly-focused study can deliver, does break fresh ground in the quest to understand how minds change, how paradigms shift, and how societies progress.Įngland’s last significant witch trial, of Jane Wenham, took place in 1712. His closely argued book modifies rather than overturns the conventional narrative, which sees the cleansing forces of Enlightenment banish the clutter of superstition from mainstream thought, law, and, indeed, religion. Now, almost half-a-century later, Michael Hunter revises the story to suggest that Thomas and his followers ignored some crucial solvents at work in the dissolution of magical beliefs. In 1971, Keith Thomas published a classic account of the process as it unfolded in Britain: Religion and the Decline of Magic. ![]() The “disenchantment” of our world, and the wholesale migration of the paranormal realm into the safely fenced domain of fantasy and fiction, has long fascinated historians. They began, after all, as beings whose supposed reality shaped the ideas and actions of almost everybody in pre-modern communities. Yet the afterlife of such supernatural entities, now the cast of choice for tall tales of every kind, rests on the utter annihilation of their first existence. They have seldom seemed so robust and so resilient. The creatures dismissed by a sceptical thinker in 1709 as “ghosts, hobgoblins, witches and spectres” now enjoy a second life across swathes of British popular and literary culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() There, a grim and spiteful old man, Karl Konrad Koreander, interrogates him, and quickly forms a harsh opinion of Bastian. The book starts as Bastian rushes into a little dusty antiques shop, hiding from the bullies who are chasing him. I was grown up enough not to expect to disappear into Phantasia when I read it, but it still messed with my head a little bit. Therefore, I was a Sebastian reading 'The Neverending Story' about Bastian reading 'The Neverending Story' about stories and imagination, and while Bastian was being drawn into Phantasia, he was being told that someone else was following. It's a book about a boy being sucked into a story, and a character tells him that other people are following his story. At one point in the book, the book breaks the fourth wall. My middle name, meanwhile, happens to be Sebastian (the long form of Bastian), so perhaps it is no surprise that the book hit me harder than any other - especially as it was my first experience of metafictional narratives. In short, aside from his academic performance and family tragedy, Bastian was basically me at that age. His mother has died, his father has fallen into a deep depression and become quite distant, and on top of it all, Bastian is a timid boy with a habit of overthinking things. ![]() The Neverending Story is the tale of Bastian Balthasar Bux, a fat little 9-year-old boy who has no friends, gets bullied, and is doing badly in school. ![]() ![]() ![]() He blamed himself for his brother’s death and Ari wasn’t so sure his parents didn’t either.Īri felt a rip of pain across her chest at the thought of how much agony her best friend was in. ![]() The happy Creaghs stopped being parents to Charlie and Charlie stopped being…Charlie. Charlie had swerved onto oncoming traffic and the passenger side took the full impact of the collision. He was hurrying, trying to get Mike home so he could head over to Ari’s to pick her up and take her out to celebrate. Two years ago, on Ari’s 16th birthday, Charlie had taken his parent’s SUV out to pick up his little brother from Little League. ![]() Satisfied that there was nothing dramatic going down between the siblings Ari left them to it, only glancing back once at the kid. ![]() “Yeah, but you owe me, like, twenty bucks…” “Bobby!” They both spun around to see Gemma rushing down the school steps towards them. As if coerced onto the scene by a sad Fate a little boy of nine or ten years old with dark brown hair and eyes shot towards her, puffing out of breath.Ĭoncerned by his appearance at the high school during the day Ari stopped, grabbing his arm before he could shoot off without an answer. ![]() |