Shadow: the Magnificent Machines of a Man of Mystery

Shadow: the Magnificent Machines of a Man of Mystery
Title Shadow: the Magnificent Machines of a Man of Mystery PDF eBook
Author Pete Lyons
Publisher Evro Publishing Limited
Pages 0
Release 2020-09-15
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 9781910505496

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This book reveals the story of Man of Mystery Don Nichols's Shadow, the only US-based team to win a Can-Am championship, and one of only three to win in F1.

In the Shadow of Man

In the Shadow of Man
Title In the Shadow of Man PDF eBook
Author Jane Goodall
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 390
Release 2000
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780618056767

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The classic study of primates.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Title The Invention of Hugo Cabret PDF eBook
Author Brian Selznick
Publisher Scholastic
Pages 264
Release 2015-09-03
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1407166573

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An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his world collides with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life are put in jeopardy. Turn the pages, follow the illustrations and enter an unforgettable new world!

Sophie's World

Sophie's World
Title Sophie's World PDF eBook
Author Jostein Gaarder
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 599
Release 2007-03-20
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1466804270

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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

A Fine Balance

A Fine Balance
Title A Fine Balance PDF eBook
Author Rohinton Mistry
Publisher McClelland & Stewart
Pages 834
Release 2010-10-29
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1551991381

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A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a “State of Internal Emergency.” Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances – and their fates – become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen. Mistry’s prose is alive with enduring images and a cast of unforgettable characters. Written with compassion, humour, and insight, A Fine Balance is a vivid, richly textured, and powerful novel written by one of the most gifted writers of our time.

Medusa Uploaded

Medusa Uploaded
Title Medusa Uploaded PDF eBook
Author Emily Devenport
Publisher Macmillan + ORM
Pages 394
Release 2018-05-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1250169321

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This sci-fit thriller about a rogue starship servant has “mysteries around every corner. . . . the end product is just as fantastic as one would hope” (Los Angeles Times). My name is Oichi Angelis, and I am a worm. They see me every day. They consider me harmless. And that’s the trick, isn’t it? A generation starship can hide many secrets. When an Executive clan suspects Oichi of insurgency and discreetly shoves her out an airlock, one of those secrets finds and rescues her. Officially dead, Oichi begins to rebalance power one assassination at a time and uncovers the shocking truth behind the generation starship and the Executive clans. “Readers will be riveted.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “The first book in the Medusa Cycle does not disappoint.” —RT Book Reviews “A chilling tale of class warfare in deep space.” —Booklist “An enticing start to a new space opera .” —Library Journal “One of the best generation starship novels.” —SF Revu “The worlds . . . both physical and virtual, are richly detailed and gorgeously imagined.” —Kirkus Reviews “Disturbing, exciting, and frankly kind of mind-blowing.” —Annalee Newitz, author of Autonomous

The Electric Woman

The Electric Woman
Title The Electric Woman PDF eBook
Author Tessa Fontaine
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 385
Release 2018-05-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0374717028

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A New York Times Editors' Choice; A Southern Living Best Book of 2018; An Amazon Editors' Best Book of 2018; A Refinery29 Best Book of 2018; A New York Post Most Unforgettable Book of 2018 "Fascinating." —Vogue “This is the story of a daughter and her mother. It’s also a memoir, a love story, and a tale of high-flying stunts . . . An adventure toward and through fear.” —Southern Living Tessa Fontaine’s astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery—through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother. Turns out, one lesson applies to living through illness, keeping the show on the road, letting go of the person you love most, and eating fire: The trick is there is no trick. You eat fire by eating fire. Two journeys—a daughter’s and a mother’s—bear witness to this lesson in The Electric Woman. For three years Tessa Fontaine lived in a constant state of emergency as her mother battled stroke after stroke. But hospitals, wheelchairs, and loss of language couldn’t hold back such a woman; she and her husband would see Italy together, come what may. Thus Fontaine became free to follow her own piper, a literal giant inviting her to “come play” in the World of Wonders, America’s last traveling sideshow. How could she resist? Transformed into an escape artist, a snake charmer, and a high-voltage Electra, Fontaine witnessed the marvels of carnival life: intense camaraderie and heartbreak, the guilty thrill of hard-earned cash exchanged for a peek into the impossible, and, most marvelous of all, the stories carnival folks tell about themselves. Through these, Fontaine trained her body to ignore fear and learned how to keep her heart open in the face of loss. A story for anyone who has ever imagined running away with the circus, wanted to be someone else, or wanted a loved one to live forever, The Electric Woman is ultimately about death-defying acts of all kinds, especially that ever constant: good old-fashioned unconditional love.