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The Brotherband Chronicles:Slaves of ...
Brief Summary
The fourth installment in the New York Times bestselling Brotherband series, for fans of Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones.
Hal and his fellow Herons have returned home to Skandia after defeating the pirate captain Zavac and reclaiming Skandia's most prized artifact, the Andomal. With their honor restored, the Herons turn to a new mission: tracking down an old rival turned bitter enemy.
Tursgud—leader of the Shark Brotherband and Hal's constant opponent—has turned from a bullying youth into a pirate and slave trader. After Tursgud captures twelve Araluen villagers to sell as slaves, the Heron crew sails into action . . . with the help of one of Araluen's finest Rangers!
ISBN:9780142427262
Author:John A. Flanagan
Scorpion Mountain- The Brotherband Ch...
Brief Summary
From John Flanagan, author of the worldwide bestselling Ranger's Apprentice -- an all-new adventure featuring the Brotherband crew and one of our favorite Rangers!
Hal, his Brotherband crew, and the Ranger Gilan have freed the twelve Araluens sold into slavery. Returning to Araluen, Gilan is given a new mission by King Duncan: protect his daughter’s life. Princess Cassandra has survived one attempt on her life already, and now whispers of a second attempt have reached the kingdom. A deadly sect known as the Scorpion Cult is thought to be behind the assassination threat.
Not waiting to see if the knife will strike true, the Brother-band again team up with Gilan to track down the would-be killers.
In this fifth book in the Brother-band Chronicles, old friends reemerge to take on new enemies as the worlds of Ranger’s Apprentice and Brother-band join forces in battle!
ISBN:9780142427279
Author:John A. Flanagan
The Carnivorous City
Brief Summary
Rabato Sabato aka Soni Dike is a Lagos big boy; a criminal turned grandee, with a beautiful wife, a seaside mansion and a questionable fortune. Then one day he disappears and his car is found in a ditch, music blaring from the speakers. Soni's older brother, Abel Dike, a teacher, arrives in Lagos to look for his missing brother.
Abel is rapidly sucked into the unforgiving Lagos maelstrom where he has to navigate encounters with a motley cast of common criminals, deal with policemen intent on getting a piece of the pie, and contend with his growing attraction to his brother's wife.
Carnivorous City is a story about love, family and just desserts but it is above all a tale about Lagos and the people who make the city by the lagoon what it is.
ISBN:9781911115243
Author:Toni Kan
Off the Page
Brief Summary
From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jodi Picoult and her daughter and co-writer, Samantha van Leer, comes OFF THE PAGE, a tender and appealing romantic YA novel filled with humor, adventure, and magical relationships.
Sixteen-year-old Delilah is finally united with Oliver—a prince literally taken from the pages of a fairy tale. There are, however, complications now that Oliver has been able to enter the real world. To exist in Delilah’s world, Oliver must take the place of a regular boy. Enter Edgar, who agrees to take Oliver’s role in Delilah’s favorite book. In this multilayered universe, the line between what is on the page and what is possible is blurred, but all must be resolved for the characters to live happily ever after. Includes twelve full-color illustrations, and black-and-white decorations throughout.
Full of humor and witty commentary about life, OFF THE PAGE is a stand-alone novel as well as a companion to the authors’ bestseller Between the Lines, and is perfect for readers looking for a fairytale ending. Fans of Sarah Dessen and Meg Cabot are sure to appreciate this novel about love, romance, and relationships.
ISBN:9780553535587
Author:Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer
A Primates Memoir by Robert M. Sapolsky
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life among the Baboons.
In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons.
"I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,” writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist’s coming-of-age in remote Africa.
An exhilarating account of Sapolsky & and twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate’s Memoir interweaves serious scientific observations with wry commentary about the challenges and pleasures of living in the wilds of the Serengeti — for man and beast alike.
Over two decades, Sapolsky survives culinary atrocities, gunpoint encounters, and a surreal kidnapping, while witnessing the encroachment of the tourist mentality on the farthest vestiges of unspoiled Africa. As he conducts unprecedented physiological research on wild primates, he becomes ever more enamored of his subjects — unique and compelling characters in their own right — and he returns to them summer after summer, until tragedy finally prevents him.
By turns hilarious and poignant, A Primate’s Memoir is a magnum opus from one of our foremost science writers.
The Nowhere Man
Brief Summary
If You've Read Orphan X You'll Be Dying To Read This
He was once called Orphan X.
As a boy, Evan Smoak was taken from a children's home, raised and trained as part of a secret government initiative buried so deep that virtually no one knows it exists. But he broke with the programme, choosing instead to vanish off grid and use his formidable skill set to help those unable to protect themselves.
One day, though, Evan's luck ran out . . .
Ambushed, drugged, and spirited away, Evan wakes up in a locked room with no idea where he is or who has captured him. As he tries to piece together what's happened, testing his gilded prison and its highly trained guards for weaknesses, he receives a desperate call for help.
With time running out, he will need to out-think, out-manoeuvre, and out-fight an opponent the likes of whom he's never encountered to have any chance of escape. He's got to save himself to protect those whose lives depend on him. Or die trying . . .
The Nowhere Man delivers another master class in hi-octane thriller writing.
It doesn't get better than this.
ISBN:9781250067852
Author:Gregg Hurwitz
Thirteen Reasons Why
Brief Summary
You can’t stop the future.
You can’t rewind the past.
The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why.
Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.
ISBN:9781595147882
Author:Jay Asher
Tick Bite Fever
Brief Summary
Tick Bite Fever is the unconventional memoir of a very unconventional childhood. In the early Seventies, Dave Bennun's family transplanted themselves from Swindon to the wilds of Kenya. His father, who was a doctor, had lived in Africa before (but had felt it expedient to leave when the South African government realized he was carting explosives around in the boot of his car for the ANC).
But for Dave, Kenya was be musingly new. It would be his home for the next 16 years. In Kenya, the childhood memoir takes on a surreal tone. On the way home from school, closed because a pair of lions are padding around the playground, Dave is mugged by baboons.
Meet Dave's favorite pet Achilles, the almost indestructible dog! Find out about 'Nairobi snow' - and the national radio station that only has three records. And read about Dave and his Dad spending happy Sunday afternoons being chased by a herd of elephants. Enchantingly funny, Tick Bite Fever is a tale of the fading innocence of childhood that is miles ahead of the competition.
ISBN:9780091886899
Author:David Bennun
Hannah Fox
Brief Summary
When Hannah Fox's younger brother Sam is ridden down in the street by Thomas Truswell, the spoilt son of the most powerful industrialists in Sheffield, she sets off to the Truswell's estate to complain. Lady Truswell is taken with the hot-tempered young girl who has come to demand an apology of her son. Promising to deal with Thomas, Lady Truswell offers Hannah a position as housemaid on the estate.
But Hannah's father forbids her to have anything to do with the Truswells. In his anger he reveals that his grandfather was once in partnership with a Truswell, who stole his silver designs and made a fortune that should have rightly been shared with the Foxes. Dismissing this as history, Hannah resolves to defy her father - only to find that the Truswells' taste for treachery is not all in the past.
ISBN:9780749957971
Author:Elizabeth Jeffrey
The Weaver’s Daughter
Brief Summary
When Anna hears her father's plans to marry her off to an old widower, she is determined to escape. Gathering together everything they own, Anna and her childhood sweetheart Jan board a boat from Holland to England. Heading for Colchester, the hub of the thriving cloth trade, life is not easy for the young lovers - Jan falls terribly ill on their journey and they are shocked to find seething tensions between the English and the Dutch.
On the advice of the local church minister, Jan finds work in very poor conditions. Faring better, Anna is offered a place in the minister's house. But when lecherous motives behind Minister Archer's generosity are revealed, Anna flees her new home. But with no money and nowhere to live, the future looks perilous for Jan and Anna.
ISBN:9780749958084
Author:Elizabeth Jeffrey
Fatal Voyage
Brief Summary
"Fans of TV's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation should be in heaven" (People) stepping into the world of forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, star of Kathy Reichs' electrifyingly authentic bestsellers.
She has a passion for the truth . . . and this time, it's taking her down.
A commercial airliner disaster has brought Tempe Brennan to the North Carolina Mountains as a member of the investigative agency DMORT. As bomb theories abound, Tempe soon discovers a jarring piece of evidence that raises dangerous questions -- and gets her thrown from the DMORT team.
Relentless in her pursuit of its significance, Tempe uncovers a shocking, multilayered tale of deceit and depravity as she probes her way into frightening territory -- where someone wants her stopped in her tracks.
ISBN:9780671028374
Author:Kathy Reichs
The Freemasons An Ancient Brotherhood
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The Freemasons: An Ancient Brotherhood Revealed
Despite a long and noble ancestry stretching back to 1500BC, Freemasonry has enjoyed mixed fortunes in recent times. Banned in some places wile flourishing in others, the brotherhood has been vilified and applauded in equal measure.
This book seeks to present freemasonry in the context of a long and oboile ancestry stretching back over 2000 years and through the laudable aims espoused by its founding fathers.
The Freemasons examines:
1. The roots of Freemasonry and it's spread around the world
2. The brotherhood's rites and rituals, its ideals and virtues
3. The influence of Freemasonry on modern notions of democracy and the rights of the individual
4. The role of Freemasonry in their lives of some of the most famous men in history, including Jonathan Swift, Isaac Newton, Benamin Franklin, George Washington and Winston Churchill
The Freemasons celebrates the ways in which the true Masonic principles of brotherly love and truth have shaped the world for the better.
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ISBN:9781782126973
Author:Michael Johnstone
Trump and Me
Brief Summary
Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race in a press conference attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican immigrants he has dominated headlines, becoming the unrestrained id at the center of one of the most bizarre and alarming elections in American history.
It was not always so. In 1996, longtime New Yorker writer Mark Singer was conscripted by his editor to profile Donald Trump. At that time Trump was a mere Manhattan-centric megalomaniac, a failing casino operator mired in his second divorce and (he claimed) recovering from the bankruptcy proceedings that prompted him to inventory the contents of his Trump Tower home. Conversing with Trump in his offices, apartments, cars, and private plane, Singer found himself fascinated with this man who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.
In Trump and Me, Singer revisits the profile and recounts how its publication lodged inside its subject s head as an enduring irritant and how Singer (A TOTAL LOSER! according to Trump) cheerfully continued to bait him. He reflects on Trump s evolution from swaggering buffoon to potential threat to America s standing as a rational guardian of the world order.
Heedlessly combative, equally adept at spewing insults and manipulating crowds at his campaign rallies, the self-proclaimed billionaire has emerged as an unlikely tribune of populist rage. All politics is artifice, and Singer marvels at how Trump has transfixed an electorate with his ultimate feat of performance art a mass political movement only loosely tethered to reality."
ISBN:9780451498595
Author:Mark Singer
Alarums
Brief Summary
'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King
Beautiful violinist Melanie Conway has visions of death, and when she collapses at a concert her boyfriend, Bodie, is there to hear her premonition.
Penelope Conway is even more stunning than her sister ... but her looks have attracted an obscene caller. All three are drawn into a nightmare that is fired by sex and haunted by blood.
ISBN:9780747241300
Author:Richard Laymon
Finding Audrey
Brief Summary
Audrey can't leave the house. She can't even take off her dark glasses inside the house.
Then her brother's friend Linus stumbles into her life. With his friendly, orange-slice smile and his funny notes, he starts to entice Audrey out again - well, Starbucks is a start. And with Linus at her side, Audrey feels like she can do the things she'd thought were too scary. Suddenly, finding her way back to the real world seems achievable.
ISBN:9780553536515
Author:Sophie Kinsella
Probability and Statistics for Engine...
Brief Summary
This updated text provides a superior introduction to applied probability and statistics for engineering or science majors. Ross emphasizes the manner in which probability yields insight into statistical problems; ultimately resulting in an intuitive understanding of the statistical procedures most often used by practicing engineers and scientists. Real data sets are incorporated in a wide variety of exercises and examples throughout the book, and this emphasis on data motivates the probability coverage.
As with the previous editions, Ross' text has tremendously clear exposition, plus real-data examples and exercises throughout the text. Numerous exercises, examples, and applications apply probability theory to everyday statistical problems and situations.
New to the 4th Edition:
1. New Chapter on Simulation, Bootstrap Statistical Methods, and Permutation Tests
2. 20% New Updated problem sets and applications, that demonstrate updated applications to engineering as well as biological, physical and computer science
3. New Real data examples that use significant real data from actual studies across life science, engineering, computing and business
4. New End of Chapter review material that emphasizes key ideas as well as the risks associated with practical application of the material
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ISBN:9780123704832
Author:Sheldon M. Ross
How to Make Real Money in Second Life
Brief Summary
How to Make Real Money in Second Life: Boost Your Business, Market Your Services, and Sell Your Products in the World's Hottest Virtual Community
START MAKING MONEY.
With a population in the millions and a monthly growth rate of 20 percent, Second Life® is a virtual 3-D world bursting with opportunities in areas like real estate, legal practice, and marketing, corporate connections, and people just like you. This all-in-one guide will show you, step by step, how to use Second Life as an alternative marketplace. Learn how to:
• Create a cool avatar and connect with residents
• Adapt your business for the virtual environment
• Play for profit--and bring your dreams to life
ISBN:9780071508254
Author:Robert Freedman
Why Am I So Tired
Brief Summary
Why Am I So Tired? Is your thyroid making you ill?
An essential guide to how an underactive thyroid could be the root of your health problems.
Why am I so Tired? Questions the problems associated with an underactive thyroid. Mild hypothyroidism affects about 7 – 10 % of the population, but is frequently misdiagnosed because the symptoms are similar to that of ME, chronic fatigue, depression, and menopausal symptoms.
Symptoms can include:
exhaustion * weight gain * mental fogginess * low sex drive * thinning hair * dry skin * poor circulation * aching joints
Why am I so Tired? Offers an essential guide to discovering whether an underactive thyroid is at the root of your health problems with an easy to follow questionnaire, case studies and an excellent question and answer format. The book includes:
1. what the thyroid is and how it functions
2. what happens when it is underactive
3. what tests your should ask your doctor for
4. simple self-diagnosis – temperature testing
5. where to go for help
6. other illnesses which might be confused for hypothyroidism or vice versa
7. how nutrition and naturopathic remedies help
ISBN:9780722539422
Author:Martin, N.D., D.O. Budd
Why Men Do not Listen
Brief Summary
Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About It
Have you ever wished your partner came with an instruction booklet? This international bestseller is the answer to all the things you've ever wondered about the opposite sex.
For their controversial new book on the differences between the way men and women think and communicate, Barbara and Allan Pease spent three years traveling around the world, collecting the dramatic findings of new research on the brain, investigating evolutionary biology, analyzing psychologists, studying social changes, and annoying the locals.
The result is a sometimes shocking, always illuminating, and frequently hilarious look at where the battle line is drawn between the sexes, why it was drawn, and how to cross it. Read this book and understand--at last!--why men never listen, why women can't read maps, and why learning each other's secrets means you'll never have to say sorry again.
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ISBN:9780767907637
Author:Barbara Pease and Allan Pease
Why Hes So Last Minute
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Why He’s So Last Minute and She Got It All Wrapped Up
As the festive season comes round once more, it can so easily be a time of increased stress for everyone - a time when the differences between men and women are never more apparent!
Renowned relationship experts Allan and Barbara Pease tackle the Christmas Season to give a uniquely informative and fascinating guide:
1. The battle of the sexes, made worse by the festive season
2. Kids at Christmas - how to get them to do what you want
3. Why women get upset at men's solutions to Christmas catering
4. And why men always get lost on the way to the in-laws
Thank goodness Christmas only comes once a year...
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ISBN:9780752882628
Author:Allan Pease and Barbara Pease