![]() ![]() ![]() Conjures a high-class nature documentary film in prose.”-Steven Poole, Guardian “I was transported by the author’s superbly sensuous descriptions of her years spent studying the animals. The Elephant’s Secret Sense is ultimately a story of intellectual courage in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. ![]() In her attempts to study an elephant community, O’Connell encounters corrupt government bureaucrats, deadly lions and rhinos, poachers, farmers fighting for arable land, and profoundly ineffective approaches to wildlife conservation. This compelling odyssey of scientific discovery is also a frank account of fieldwork in a poverty-stricken, war-ravaged country. The Elephant’s Secret Sense is O’Connell’s account of her groundbreaking research into seismic listening and communication, chronicling the extraordinary social lives of elephants over the course of fourteen years in the Namibian wilderness. While observing a family of elephants in the wild, Caitlin O’Connell noticed a peculiar listening behavior-the matriarch lifted her foot and scanned the horizon, causing the other elephants to follow suit, as if they could “hear” the ground. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Respected in the community yet reading the book I doubted his innocence and felt sorry for his wife and children and the horrors they had to deal with because of his arrest. The Outsider has a full cast, Terry Maitland and his wife appear to be good people. ![]() This story keeps you guessing right to the end. He has an alibi, but how can anyone possibly believe he is innocent when some many factors are pointing right at him. That is exactly what happens to Terry Maitland. The police not only have eyewitnesses, but they also have fingerprints and DNA evidence that point straight to you…. Not just any murder, but an extremely gruesome murder of a young boy. Imagine you are unexpectedly arrested for murder. ![]() This book is a genuinely intriguing mystery. I have never been happier about being early. I discovered my love for fiction when I read my first Stephen King book, so Stephen King is the reason I started reading seriously.Īrriving at Johannesburg airport early for a flight to Cape Town left me floating around Exclusive Books, simply killing time when this book caught my eye. Before I get into my thoughts on this book you need to know that I am a true Stephen King fan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. meaning, yes, there is some descriptive steamy scenes and racy thoughts. Unlike the Covenant series, the Titan series is NOT geared for young adult, but new adult. From the New York Times bestselling author comes a spin-off novel from the epic Covenant series, featuring bad-boy Seth. The Return by Jennifer L Armentrout is the first book in her Titan series, a spin-off from her fantastic Young Adult series, the Covenant Series. ![]() Josie can't decide which is more dangerous: an angry Titan seeking vengeance? Or the golden-eyed, secretive Seth - and the white-hot attraction developing between them. Either she's going insane, or a nightmare straight out of ancient myth is heading her way. Josie has no idea what this crazy hot guy's deal is, but he arrives in her life just as everything she's ever known is turned upside down. And for someone who has a problem with restraint, this assignment might be Seth's most challenging yet. Now, Apollo has a task for Seth: one which sees him playing protector over a beautiful, feisty girl who's strictly off-limits. : 9781473611573 in Makeen books shop sri lanka. A year ago, Seth made a deal with the gods - and pledged his life to them. Return: A Titan Novel : From the New York Times bestselling author comes a. ![]() and an electric love story which will send you reeling. From the New York Times bestselling author of the Covenant and Lux series comes a novel of danger, Gods and Titans. ![]() ![]() ![]() ^ Bird, Betsy Danielson, Julie Sieruta, Peter (5 August 2014).Lesbian and gay voices: An annotated bibliography and guide to literature for children and young adults. Bang, Bang, You're Dead (co-written with Louise Fitzhugh, illus.Three of her novels have been finalists for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery. ![]() Her book Happy Endings Are All Alike (1978) was one of the earliest young-adult books to depict a lesbian relationship it was chosen by the American Library Association for its "Best Books for Young Adults" list. Her play Home Again, Home Again, Jiggerty Jig was produced by TOSOS, a gay and lesbian theatre company, in 1975. She wrote Suzuki Beane (1961 with illustrator Louise Fitzhugh.) She is known for her mystery and young adult books. Sandra Scoppettone (born June 1, 1936, Morristown, New Jersey) is an American author whose career spans the 1960s through the 2000s. Suzuki Bean, Happy Endings Are All Alike, Trying Hard to Hear You, Everything You Have Is MineĮugene O'Neill Memorial Theatre Award (1972), Shamus Award of the Private Eye Writers of America. Morristown, New Jersey, United States of America ![]() ![]() ![]() Ettian barely manages to save his best friend and flee the compromised academy unscathed, rattled that Gal stands to inherit the empire that broke him, and that there are still people willing to fight back against Umber rule.Īs they piece together a way to deliver Gal safely to his throne, Ettian finds himself torn in half by an impossible choice. Even better, he’s met Gal-his exasperating and infuriatingly enticing roommate who’s made the academy feel like a new home.īut when dozens of classmates spring an assassination plot on Gal, a devastating secret comes to light: Gal is the heir to the Umber Empire. He’s spent seven years putting himself back together under its rule, joining an Umber military academy and becoming the best pilot in his class. ![]() “An exciting space opera full of action and adventure that explores the bonds of loyalty and love, and what happens when they are stretched to their limits.”-Rebecca Roanhorse, Nebula and Hugo award–winning author of Trail of LightningĮttian’s life was shattered when the merciless Umber Empire invaded his world. A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend-the man he trusts most and might even love-only to learn that his friend is secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire. ![]() ![]() ![]() They also didn’t carve bird whistles from palm nuts or nearly knock themselves unconscious trying to make homemade palm wine. Most girls Keena’s age didn’t spend their days changing truck tires, baking their own bread, or running from elephants as they tried to do their schoolwork. ![]() But for the months of the year when her family lived in the United States, this brave kid from the bush was cowed by the far more treacherous landscape of the preppy, private school social hierarchy. She could wield a spear as easily as a pencil, and it wasn’t unusual to be chased by lions or elephants on any given day. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her parents were studying. Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-DownsĬopy courtesy of the publisher via NetGalleyīlurb : ![]() ![]() ![]() "Played" a short novella in the "Altered" saga begins when Chloe Tacktor who's tracking the heartless and sinister new leader of the Branch Tom Riley, encounters a blonde, good-looking waiter and asks him up to her hotel room for a one-night stand. And the ending means, there's going to be another book? In the end, he offers a proposition for Chloe to join him to keep running the Branch under a new name and she says yes and doesn't even question that why he didn't try to find her all these years if he was alive and had all his memories intact. Some trained whatever she is.Īnyway so far in three books they couldn't get Riley but here with an insider informant they find him and the insider informant turns out to be Chloe's brother who she thought had died but finds out that he's been alive and also has all his memories even though he tries to kill her. She meets this hot guy and hooks up and doesn't even think for a second that she should be careful and all. ![]() So Chloe can't be killed due to Angel serum and she gets a new tattoo and gets to a new town where she might get a lead for Riley. Chloe was in Reborn for all of five seconds but she gets her novella and Cas has been in the series from the beginning and still nothing for him. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Manifold Trilogy is another example of Baxter's future history mode, even more conceptual than the Xeelee sequence. Character development tends to be secondary to the depiction of advanced theories and ideas, such as the true nature of the Great Attractor, naked singularities and the great battle between baryonic and dark matter lifeforms. ![]() The central narrative is that of humanity rising and evolving to become the second most powerful race in the universe, next to the god-like Xeelee. These stories begin in the present day and end when the Milky Way galaxy collides with Andromeda five billion years in the future. It encompasses the Xeelee Sequence, which consists of nine novels (including the Destiny's Children trilogy and Vengeance/Redemption duology that is set in alternate timeline), plus three volumes collecting the 52 short pieces (short stories and novellas) in the series, all of which fit into a single timeline stretching from the Big Bang singularity of the past to his Timelike Infinity singularity of the future. ![]() His fiction falls into three main categories of original work plus a fourth category, extending other authors' writing each has a different basis, style, and tone.īaxter's " Future History" mode is based on research into hard science. Wells, Baxter has been vice-president of the international H. He has degrees in mathematics and engineering. Stephen Baxter (born 13 November 1957) is an English hard science fiction author. Baxter at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention, 2005. ![]() ![]() Elias and Laia battle against the odds to save her brother with the help of Keenan and Izzi. She struggles with choices that deep down she feels are right, in contrast to the actions a loyal, obedient subject and Blood Shrike should do. Her character is growing and evolving, but alas she is stuck in the mud with regard to her loyalty of the Empire. I was eagerly anticipating hearing perspectives from another strong female lead, however her sections were typically painful at best. This book is made up of chapters switching perspectives between Laia and Elias as before, with the addition of Helene’s perspective. Tahir’s follow up novel picks up mere moments after the first one leaves off with Laia and Elias frantically trying to escape the city. I was incredibly impatient, waiting for Samuel to send me my beautiful signed copy of A Torch Against the Night, as such I tore into the package when it finally arrived and promptly dove in. ![]() Samuel really enjoyed the event, saying Tahir was very funny, to the point that he has even started to read the series. Little did Samuel and his roommate Tim know, they were in for a three hour event without even having read the books! Needless to say, I’m a very lucky sister. Samuel generously humors my book obsession, and agreed to get a signed book for me, as well as getting my copy of An Ember in the Ashes signed. ![]() ![]() ![]() When glancing at Tahir’s book tour schedule, of which no author comes to Michigan, I noticed that she was doing an event in Seattle where my younger brother lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our debt to folkloristics is hidden in what is thought to be common sense. Though folkloristics was one of the founding sources of food studies, it has receded from view under the glare of cultural anthropology, social history, and sociology, and thus the first compelling aspect of this book is Magat's utilization of that fecund theoretical domain. ![]() What could a book on balut, an embryonated duck egg, possibly teach us about the world we live in? Margaret Magat hopes to delineate a whisper of subversion in the face of cultural domination by taking a street food from a peripheral corner of the Philippines and tracing its circulation both nationally and globally, through various mass mediated urban sites and diasporas, to pose sharp questions about culinary nationalism omnivorousness and the accumulation of cultural capital and the role of old and new media. ![]() |