![]() ![]() ![]() The remains offer dramatic new clues to the disappearance of the Romanovs, and in particular their famous daughter, Princess Anastasia, whose murder has always been in question. ![]() Laura Pavlov, an American forensic archaeologist, is about to unravel a mystery that promises to shed light on one of the 20th century’s greatest enigmas.Ī member of an international team digging on the outskirts of the present-day Russian city of Ekaterinburg, where the Romanov royal family was executed in July 1918, Pavlov discovers a body perfectly preserved in the permafrost of a disused mine shaft. Glenn Meade’s electrifying latest novel combines the epic sweep and drama of a heroic quest, the passion and tragedy of Doctor Zhivago, and a majestic cast of characters that will stay with you long after the final pages have been turned. ![]()
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The Secret of Hunters Keep (House of Secrets) ISBN: 0006747388 Title: The Secret of Hunters Keep (House of Secrets) EAN: 9780006747383 Authors: Stranger, Joyce Binding: Paperback Publisher: Collins Publish Date: Pages: 192 Weight: 100 Condition: Used Good SKU: 1170299 Brit Books Our Team aims to provide customers with good value for money, a fast delivery service, but most of all with clean books that they will enjoy. The picture may not reflect the books condition or specific edition. Title: The Secret of Hunters Keep (House of Secrets). The Secret of Hunters Keep (House of Secrets). Item: 313265934829 The Secret of Hunters Keep (House of Secrets), Stranger, Joyce, Used Good Book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her footnotes contained the first appearance of the general computing theory, a hundred years before an actual computer was built. ![]() When Lovelace translated a description of Babbage’s plans for an enormous mechanical calculating machine in 1842, she added annotations three times longer than the original work. Meet Victorian London’s most dynamic duo: Charles Babbage, the unrealized inventor of the computer, and his accomplice, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, the peculiar protoprogrammer and daughter of Lord Byron. in which Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious series of adventures. THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cat and Cooper’s mom is given a sedative by her husband when she hears about Cooper’s fate, which she reluctantly takes “as if she could… pretend life was all blue skies and sunshine.” ![]() To go into greater detail spoils the “fun” of this darkly comic novel. And if they’re an entomologist like Cat’s brother, Cooper, they’ll cover all their exposed skin and work outdoors in the dangerous California sun, trying to collect data on why all the insects are dying.īut all that, argues Boyle, won’t stop horrible things from happening to these people. Yes, if they live in almost-underwater Florida like Cat, the daughter in the book, they’ll fight back the ever-creeping mold in their house on stilts and pilot a boat to their kid’s pre-school. Set in a not-too-distant future, “Blue Skies” is a work of fiction that begins with the premise: How will humans really react when their day-to-day lives are impacted by climate change? Boyle’s answer: They won’t. ![]() Set in a not-too-distant future, “Blue Skies” is a work of fiction that begins with the premise: How will humans really react when their day-to-day lives. But somehow none of them are quite as devastating as T.C. They’re packed with truly frightening scenarios based on science. There have been entire shelves of non-fiction books written about climate change. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the years, I kept getting pulled back into the archives. ![]() When I began this journey, I didn’t know historical fiction would become my life’s work. It’s a city soaked in history, and I grew up in the arms of a rich Black community that told stories. Perkins-Valdez: I’ve only recently realized that the first source of my inspiration to remember is my birthplace, Memphis, TN. With Wench, Balm, and now Take My Hand, you invite readers to step into the past.Can you share how the inspiration to write historical fiction books came into your life? You have a calling to bring others back to remembrance. Wade, ESSENCE had the opportunity to speak with Perkins-Valdez about the timeliness of Take My Hand and the parallels that exist in American society today. The Tuskegee Syphilis project, the phrase Mississippi Appendectomy, systemic oppression of the poor and marginalized, involuntary sterilization, abortion, the legacy of historically Black colleges and universities, and the ill regard for the Black body are all themes that run deep in Take My Hand. By then it would be too late to connect their illness to Depo. ![]() If the drugs were dangerous, it could be years before we knew if they’d caused cancer. Civil ponders, “It was entirely possible the federal government was using our patients as if they were the subjects of a live clinical trial, the same thing they’d done to those men at Tuskegee. ![]() |