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The Accidental Time Traveller

Author : Janis Mackay
Publisher : Floris Books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780863159732

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Winner of the Scottish Children's Book Award 2013 Younger Readers (8-11 years) category. I'm not mad, ok? I know this sounds off the wall, but I was just walking to the corner shop and this girl almost got hit by a car. She grabbed hold of me and told me her name's Agatha Black and she's here from the past. At first I thought she was nuts but maybe it's true. She doesn't get traffic, she's freaked out by photos and she's terrified of TV. And she knows about the past -- body snatchers, making fires, and pet monkeys. Her dad does a bit of time travel. But obviously, he's not very good at it. I mean, he got her lost. Now it's me that has to get her back ? to 1812!

The Accidental Time Machine

Author : Joe Haldeman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440635656

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NOW IN PAPERBACK-FROM THE AUTHOR OF MARSBOUND Grad- school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when he inadvertently creates a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose in taking a time-machine trip himself-or so he thinks.

The Accidental Time Traveller

Author : Sharon Griffiths
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1847563171

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Life on Mars meets It's a Wonderful Life in this inventive romantic comedy that looks at what we can learn from the past...

The Unlikely Time Traveller

Author : Janis Mackay
Publisher : Floris Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782502753

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Robbie has disappeared. And, since he'd been asking Saul a lot of questions about time travel, Saul has a good idea where he might have gone... At school they've been doing a project on the future: will it be full of robots and shiny technology? Or will the environment have been destroyed? The last thing Saul wants to do is go there and find out for sure -- but there's no way Robbie will manage on his own in the twenty-second century. The third book in Janis Makay’s much-loved Time Traveller series, set in Peebles in the Scottish borders, takes the reader to an unpredictable and exciting future filled with thought-provoking discoveries. What does the future hold in store, and can Saul get Robbie safely back to their own time?

The Accidental Tourist

Author : Anne Tyler
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143196334

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In this irresistible #1 New York Times best-selling novel, Anne Tyler explores the slippery alchemy of attracting opposites, and the struggle to rebuild one’s life after unspeakable tragedy. Travel writer Macon Leary hates travel, adventure, surprises, and anything outside of his routine. Immobilized by grief, Macon is becoming increasingly prickly and alone, anchored by his solitude and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts. Then he meets Muriel, an eccentric dog trainer too optimistic to let Macon disappear into himself. Despite Macon’s best efforts to remain insulated, Muriel up-ends his solitary, systemized life, catapulting him into the center of a messy, beautiful love story he never imagined. A fresh and timeless tale of unexpected bliss, The Accidental Tourist showcases Tyler’s talents for making characters—and their relationships—feel both real and magical. “Incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating…One cannot reasonably expect fiction to be much better than this.” —The Washington Post Look for Clock Dance, the charming new novel from Anne Tyler, available now.

The Time Machine illustrated

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782384370016

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The Time Machine illustrated by H. G. Wells Pdf

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells is a science fiction classic, which lends itself well to visualization. This version, illustrated by Yoann Laurent-Rouault, an illustrator master who graduated from the Beaux-Arts, and published in the international literary collection Memoria Books, is a reference on the time travel theme. Wells transports us in the year 802 701, in a society made up of the “Elois”, who live peacefully in a kind of big Garden of Eden, eating fruits and sleeping high up, while underground lives another species, also descending from men, the “Morlocks”, who do not stand the light anymore, living in the dark for too long now. At night, they return to the surface, going back up by the wells, in order to kidnap some Elois that they eat ; these last became livestock unknowingly. In The Time Machine, made into a movie several times, the last of them in 2002 by Simon Wells, the great-grandson of H. G. Wells, time is both a pretext to move the class struggle and warn... and also, in a way, a full character, who fascinates, arbitrates, transcends... The illustrations come to reinforce the time travel and provide a new experience to the reader.

The Reluctant Time Traveller

Author : Janis Mackay
Publisher : Floris Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782501459

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If Saul and Agnes don't do something their den will be destroyed. But the title deeds that could save it were lost in 1914. Good job they know the secret of time travel!Still, is travelling back in time to a world on the verge of war really a good idea? When Agnes disappears Saul has no choice -- he can't let her go to the past on her own.100 years before their own time, Saul and Agnes meet a brother and sister, servants at a big house where a sinister visitor is expected. Together the new friends try to uncover the mystery but Saul and Agnes know time is running out. Soon a war will begin: can they risk altering the past, the present and their future?This fun, time-twisting sequel to The Accidental Time Traveller -- winner of the Scottish Children's Book Award 2013 -- is full of historical details about World War One and will bring early-twentieth-century Scotland to life for young readers.

The Accidental Life

Author : Terry McDonell
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101970515

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An Amazon Best Book of 2016 A celebration of the writing and editing life, as well as a look behind the scenes at some of the most influential magazines in America (and the writers who made them what they are). You might not know Terry McDonell, but you certainly know his work. Among the magazines he has top-edited: Outside, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Sports Illustrated. In this revealing memoir, McDonell talks about what really happens when editors and writers work with deadlines ticking (or drinks on the bar). His stories about the people and personalities he’s known are both heartbreaking and bitingly funny—playing “acid golf” with Hunter S. Thompson, practicing brinksmanship with David Carr and Steve Jobs, working the European fashion scene with Liz Tilberis, pitching TV pilots with Richard Price. Here, too, is an expert’s practical advice on how to recruit—and keep—high-profile talent; what makes a compelling lede; how to grow online traffic that translates into dollars; and how, in whatever format, on whatever platform, a good editor really works, and what it takes to write well. Taking us from the raucous days of New Journalism to today’s digital landscape, McDonell argues that the need for clear storytelling from trustworthy news sources has never been stronger. Says Jeffrey Eugenides: “Every time I run into Terry, I think how great it would be to have dinner with him. Hear about the writers he's known and edited over the years, what the magazine business was like back then, how it's changed and where it's going, inside info about Edward Abbey, Jim Harrison, Annie Proulx, old New York, and the Swimsuit issue. That dinner is this book.”

The Child in Time

Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345809681

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Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realizes his daughter is gone. With extraordinary tenderness and insight, Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan takes us into the dark territory of a marriage devastated by the loss of a child. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife, Julie, on diverging paths as they each struggle with a grief that only seems to intensify with the passage of time. Eloquent and passionate, the novel concludes in a triumphant scene of love and hope that gives full rein to the author's remarkable gifts.

Magnus Fin and the Ocean Quest

Author : Janis Mackay
Publisher : Floris Books
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780863158902

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Magnus Fin and the Ocean Quest by Janis Mackay Pdf

There has always been something unusual about Magnus Fin, a school misfit. On his eleventh birthday Magnus throws a message in a bottle out to sea, wishing for a best friend and to be more brave -- and he gets a lot more than he bargained for. Magnus discovers that he is half selkie -- part seal, part human -- and his selkie family urgently need his help. Can Magnus save his new-found family from the evil force threatening all the ocean's creatures? And will he find the friend he has always dreamed of? Winner of the Kelpies Prize.

Marsbound

Author : Joe Haldeman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440633270

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Marsbound by Joe Haldeman Pdf

Young Carmen Dula and her family are embarking on the adventure of a lifetime-they're going to Mars. But Carmen's rebellious streak leads her to venture out into the bleak Mars landscape alone, where she is saved by an angel. An angel with too many arms and legs, a head that looks like a potato gone bad-and a message for the humans on Mars: We were here first...

The Unintentional Time Traveler

Author : Everett Maroon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 159021661X

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Jack, a sarcastic fifteen year old boy with a knack for automotive repair and self-acceptance beyond his age finds an experimental treatment for epilepsy causes him to travel back in time and find himself in the body of 1920s teenage girl, Jaqueline.

Accidental Mage

Author : Jamie Davis
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 198414166X

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Dragged Back To The Game, It's Personal This Time Hal Dix returns home from Fantasma to find his greatest nightmare has come true. A personal tragedy drags him back into the game world of Fantasma one last time. Seeking help from his comrades in Fantasma, Hal must master the art of magic, gaining abilities and training under four different and cantankerous archmages to complete his quest. Does Hal have the discipline to stick with the training and reach the end of his chosen path before it's too late? Return to the game with the third action-packed book of the Accidental Traveler LitRPG fantasy trilogy. Journey along with Hal and his friends in the world of Fantasma, as he becomes the Accidental Mage and fulfills his role as the hero of prophecy. Click to buy Accidental Mage now.

Accidentally Wes Anderson

Author : Wally Koval
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781409197416

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Wes Anderson's beloved films announce themselves through a singular aesthetic - one that seems too vivid, unique, and meticulously constructed to possibly be real. Not so - in Accidentally Wes Anderson, Wally Koval collects the world's most Anderson-like sites in all their faded grandeur and pop-pastel colours, telling the story behind each stranger than-fiction-location. Based on the viral online phenomenon and community of the same name, Accidentally Wes Anderson celebrates the unique aesthetic that millions of Anderson fans love - capturing the symmetrical, the atypical, the unexpected, the vibrantly patterned, and distinctively coloured in arresting photographs from around the world. Authorised by Wes Anderson himself, and appealing to the millions who love his films, this book is also for fans of Cabin Porn and Van Life - and avid travellers and aspiring adventurers of all kinds.

Power of UN

Author : Nancy Etchemendy
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0606249567

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When he is given a device that will allow him to "undo" what has happened in the past, Gib Finney is not sure what event from the worst day in his life he should change in order to keep his sister from being hit by a truck.