Author : Sam Bowring
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 2019-06-12
Category :
ISBN : 9780648582304
In this funny sci fi adventure with heart, a girl with a name no one can pronounce properly finds out she never does anything important with her life, so she has no impact on the timeline whatsoever - and thus she is free to travel time and space and have amazing adventures with heedless abandon.
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0385674562
"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.
Author : Matthew Fort
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1429995025
Replete with authentic Siclian recipes culled directly from the out of the way island stoves and cafe kitchens that cook them, Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons presents a travelogue for seasoned travelers, and lovers of all things Italian. At the age of twenty-six Matthew Fort first visited the island of Sicily. He and his brother arrived in 1973 expecting sun, sea and good food, but they were totally unprepared for the lifelong effect of this most extraordinary place. Thirty years later and a bit wiser—but no less hungry—Matthew finally returns. Travelling around the island on his scooter, Monica, he samples exquisite antipasti in rundown villages and delicate pastries in towns tumbling down vertical hillsides, and goes fishing for anchovies underneath a sky scattered with stars. Once again this enigmatic island casts its spell as Matthew rediscovers its beauty, the intensity of its flavors, and finds himself digging into the darkness of Sicily's past as well as some mysteries of his own.
Author : Avi
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 054592247X
Avi's treasured Newbery Honor Book now in expanded After Words edition!Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle is excited to return home from her school in England to her family in Rhode Island in the summer of 1832. But when the two families she was supposed to travel with mysteriously cancel their trips, Charlotte finds herself the lone passenger on a long sea voyage with a cruel captain and a mutinous crew. Worse yet, soon after stepping aboard the ship, she becomes enmeshed in a conflict between them! What begins as an eagerly anticipated ocean crossing turns into a harrowing journey, where Charlotte gains a villainous enemy . . . and is put on trial for murder!After Words material includes author Q & A, journal writing tips, and other activities that bring Charlotte's world to life!
Author : Sam Bowring
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 13,20 MB
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0734416245
Little Bad Wolf dreams of being big and bad, wreaking havoc wherever he goes - just like his grandad, the Big Bad Wolf, before him. He does his best to make trouble around the neighbourhood, especially for Mrs Pig! But does he live up to his grandfather's fearsome reputation? Fans of SHREK will love the fabulous and funny THE LITTLE BAD WOLF - from the illustrator of WOMBAT WENT A'WALKING.
Author : Cristin Terrill
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1408835207
A brilliantly brain-warping thriller and a love story that leaps back and forth in time – All Our Yesterdays is an amazing first novel, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games. Em is locked in a bare, cold cell with no comforts. Finn is in the cell next door. The Doctor is keeping them there until they tell him what he wants to know. Trouble is, what he wants to know hasn't happened yet. Em and Finn have a shared past, but no future unless they can find a way out. The present is torture – being kept apart, overhearing each other's anguish as the Doctor relentlessly seeks answers. There's no way back from here, to what they used to be, the world they used to know. Then Em finds a note in her cell which changes everything. It's from her future self and contains some simple but very clear instructions. Em must travel back in time to avert a tragedy that's about to unfold. Worse, she has to pursue and kill the boy she loves to change the future . . .
Author : Sam Bowring
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,64 MB
Release : 2021-03-14
Category :
ISBN : 9780648582311
As Scharlette journeys to the time travelling space station known as Panoptica, she has no idea how she'll be received by its crazily futuristic inhabitants. Do they know she's a runaway from ancestral Earth? The first person-from-the-past ever to drop by and say hi? Oh, and that she helped foil an elaborate plot to stop their president from ever existing in the first place? Will everyone want to give her a medal, maybe? Instead President Charkie thanks Scharlette by asking her to save humanity from a terrifying alien race of vicious murderbugs known as the Germs. These sons-of-peaches will eviscerate anything they can fix their eyeball stalks on - and they're harder to squash than ever, now that they've stolen Panoptician time travel tech. Scharlette isn't sure that assigning such a monumentally important task to a woman with basically zero experience in galactic warfare is such a great idea. She isn't sure about that at all. The Panopticians are sure though - they think it's a great idea! Join Scharlette for a second wild ride through time and space, as she blasts off once again with handsome time agent Tomothy Dartle and their trusty spaceship Gordon.
Author : Jodi Picoult
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1451635818
Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy-tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.
Author : Penelope Farmer
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 2016-07-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1681371111
A time-travel story that is both a poignant exploration of human identity and an absorbing tale of suspense. It’s natural to feel a little out of place when you’re the new girl, but when Charlotte Makepeace wakes up after her first night at boarding school, she’s baffled: everyone thinks she’s a girl called Clare Mobley, and even more shockingly, it seems she has traveled forty years back in time to 1918. In the months to follow, Charlotte wakes alternately in her own time and in Clare’s. And instead of having only one new set of rules to learn, she also has to contend with the unprecedented strangeness of being an entirely new person in an era she knows nothing about. Her teachers think she’s slow, the other girls find her odd, and, as she spends more and more time in 1918, Charlotte starts to wonder if she remembers how to be Charlotte at all. If she doesn’t figure out some way to get back to the world she knows before the end of the term, she might never have another chance.
Author : Scarlett Thomas
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 32,59 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1921351594
IF YOU KNEW A BOOK WAS CURSED, WOULD YOU READ IT? When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr Y in a second-hand bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She's read about its author before, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, and this is his most notorious, and rarest, book. It is also believed to hold a curse. Anyone who's ever read it, including Lumas, has disappeared without trace. With Mr Y under her arm, Ariel is thrust into an adventure of faith, physics, love, death, and everything in between. Part gothic mystery, part time-travelling love story, The End of Mr Y lies somewhere between Shadow of the Wind and Dr Who. Scarlett Thomas sends us on a wild and irresistible quest into our deepest selves and our biggest questions.
