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Author : Greg Mitchell
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616384142
DIV Dras Weldon is a twenty-two-year-old unemployed washout. He lives in a world populated by horror movies and comic books, content to hide in the shadow of adolescence. /div
Author : Graham Farmelo
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571250073
'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael Frayn The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in twentieth-century science: quantum mechanics. The youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was also pathologically reticent, strangely literal-minded and legendarily unable to communicate or empathize. Through his greatest period of productivity, his postcards home contained only remarks about the weather.Based on a previously undiscovered archive of family papers, Graham Farmelo celebrates Dirac's massive scientific achievement while drawing a compassionate portrait of his life and work. Farmelo shows a man who, while hopelessly socially inept, could manage to love and sustain close friendship.The Strangest Man is an extraordinary and moving human story, as well as a study of one of the most exciting times in scientific history. 'A wonderful book . . . Moving, sometimes comic, sometimes infinitely sad, and goes to the roots of what we mean by truth in science.' Lord Waldegrave, Daily Telegraph
Author : Solomon Alexander Amu Djoleto
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0435900412
Mensa endures his Ghanaian childhood under the shadow of successive tyrannical headmasters. In his maturity he struggles with the trials that village jealousies and his own family lie upon him.
Author : Amu Djoleto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:484194280
Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409068464
From multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell, this is a strange, seductive and suspenseful psychological thriller with a cunning final twist that will get right under the skin. Perfect for fans of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon. 'She is incapable of writing a sentence that is not invested with mystery and fear... I was totally transfixed. If you read it, you will not sleep well. And it is a marvellous piece of work' -- Today 'Difficult to put down... she begins with the everyday, the ordinary and transmutes it into an almost Gothic tale of suspense and quiet terror' -- Daily Express 'Probably the greatest living crime writer in the world' -- Ian Rankin 'Ruth Rendell's mesmerising capacity to shock, chill and disturb is unmatched.'-- The Times 'Pure genius' -- ***** Reader review 'Gripping throughout' -- ***** Reader review 'Possibly her best' -- ***** Reader review 'A twisted, strange, compelling piece of brilliance' -- ***** Reader review **************************************************************** Safe houses and secret message drops, double crosses and defections - it sounds like the stuff of sophisticated espionage, but the agents are only schoolboys engaged in harmless play, unaware of the danger awaiting them if their messages were intercepted... John Creevey doesn't know the truth behind the mysterious codes he is reading. To him, the messages he decodes with painstaking care are the communications of dangerous and evil men. As he comes face to face with the reality of his beloved wife Jennifer's defection, he begins to see a way to get back at the man she left him for, a man with a disturbing connection to the schoolboys... And soon the schoolboys are playing more than just a game.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780520270008
Originally published: Berkeley, Calif; London: University of California Press, 1969.
Author : Alannah Hopkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Authors, Irish
ISBN : 1848407947
This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a literary stylist, often cited as the heir to Ireland's great Modernist tradition. They wrote steadily during their twenty-nine years together, but their careers could not have been more different: while Aidan focused on fiction and memoirs, Alannah prioritised work that paid the bills. This gave Aidan the most stable and productive years of his life. But as his eyesight failed and his memory began to fade, Alannah became his carer and had to fight to keep her own writing career alive. Drawing from diaries and notebooks, and correspondence with writers such as Samuel Beckett, Alice Munro and Harold Pinter, this is a unique record of a major Irish writer. From the joyful honeymoon years - filled with launches, festivals and visits to their Kinsale home by Richard Ford, Edna O'Brien and other literary legends - to the increasingly difficult years of Aidan's decline, Hopkin tells their story candidly and without commentary. She shows us how, in spite of all, they remained the best of friends, in love until Aidan's very last breath.
Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : LCCN:55004571
Life story of the Oglala Sioux chieftain from boyhood to his death in 1877.
Author : Tres Seymour,Walter Krudop
Publisher : Orchard Books (NY)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0531331075
In illustrations and simple text, tells how Melville Murrell invented the first flying machine in 1876.
Author : Susanna Clarke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608195350
In the Hugo-award winning, epic New York Times Bestseller and basis for the BBC miniseries, two men change England's history when they bring magic back into the world. In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England - until the reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals his powers and becomes an overnight celebrity. Another practicing magician then emerges: the young and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's pupil, and the two join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wild, most perilous forms of magic, and he soon risks sacrificing his partnership with Norrell and everything else he holds dear. Susanna Clarke's brilliant first novel is an utterly compelling epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two magicians who, first as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its history.
Author : Kathleen Olmstead,Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1402726678
An abridged version of the tale of a kind and well-respected doctor who can turn himself into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug he has created.
Author : Grant Buday
Publisher : New Star Books
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781554200573
In Vancouver, $600 a month gets you half a bachelor suite. On Mayne Island, it gets you a three–bedroom house overlooking the waters of Active Pass, with varied wildlife and lush trees as neighbours. With that in mind, Grant Buday trades in the high–powered city life in Vancouver for the small town eccentricities of Mayne Island. The scenery, however impressive, is not the only change. A college English instructor for six years, Buday now finds himself working wherever a hand is needed. Some of his more adventurous jobs included stealing a boat with one of the locals, who in exchange asked Buday for a word of the day; sheep herding on a deer farm with no deer; and his current part–time gig, helping out at the Mayne Island Recycling Depot. Living on Mayne has also presented Buday with endless opportunities for learning, whether it's firewood–picking lessons from his tree–felling Mennonite neighbour Jake, or chainsaw lingo lessons from the local dealer in Sidney. In Stranger on a Strange Island, Buday explores the layered nature of small–town life, the rich history of Mayne Island and the reasons that compelled him to trade in city life for the island life. Stranger On a Strange Island is number 19 in the Transmontanus series.
Author : Paul Fleischman
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781466860322
When sixteen-year-old Brent Bishop inadvertently causes the death of a young woman, he is sent on an unusual journey of repentance, building wind toys across the land. In his most ambitious novel to date, Newbery winner Paul Fleischman traces Brent's healing pilgrimage from Washington State to California, Florida, and Maine, and describes the many lives set into new motion by the ingenious creations Brent leaves behind. Paul Fleischman is the master of multivoiced books for younger readers. In Whirligig he has created a novel about hidden connections that is itself a wonder of spinning hearts and grand surprises.
Author : Sun PangZi
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648144561
In the vast northeast, there are countless strange legends. The protagonist of this book was originally a young man with no ambition, but he was destined for ghosts all his life. After difficulties and obstacles, he gradually grew into a strong and righteous man. His life is not only the life of killing demons and removing demons, but also the life of saving the declining human nature.
Author : Charlotte Montague
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 078583334X
Strap in for a terrifying look into the life and times of the original strange man: Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is viewed as the ultimate doomed romantic whose last days are shrouded in sordid mystery. His life was a disaster, but his achievements in writing are amazing. He is widely recognized as father of the modern short story, inventor of the detective story and the master of horror. A Boston born writer, editor, and literary critic, he's best known for his creepy and macabre tales as well as being one of the central figures in the Romanticism movement in the United States. Accurately being dubbed as the ultimate doomed romantic, Poe was a drunk, his last days are shrouded in mystery akin to that of his short stories. During his lifetime, Edgar Allan Poe didn't make a dime out of writing, but his legacy to the world is one of never-ending riches. He left behind seventy-three wonderfully gruesome stories and a novel filled with suspense and brilliantly twisted plots. Hist stories and poems are now read and revered globally. As another master of horror, Stephen King, has said, we are all "the children of Poe." Abraham Lincoln, Josef Stalin, Michael Jackson, and Bart Simpson all have one thing in common; they are fans of the nineteenth century American writer and poet, Edgar Allan Poe. The writer of "The Raven" has legions of such devotees across the globe. The list of authors inspired by Poe is long and varied, but his profound influence reaches much further-into music, film, and art just as much as modern day literature. There have been more than a dozen film adaptations of his story "The Fall of the House of Usher," and his works have inspired composers ranging from Claude Debussy to Lou Reed. More than 160 years after his death, Charlotte Montague has written a fascinating account of Poe's life and times, in which she uncovers a strange man, standing deep in the shadows, who's unique imagination and macabre writing have changed popular culture forevermore. n the process, she uncovers a strange man, standing deep in the shadows, whose macabre stories and twisted plots changed literature forever.