![]() ![]() It was a clumsy way to achieve the suspense and I felt my time had been wasted wondering who the person was.Īnother thing I didn't like was his messing around with geography. It was necessary to keep you guessing about his identity, but describing someone’s feelings on the death of a comrade and having a doctor sign a death certificate - to me this means the person is certainly dead. One thing I didn't like was the killing off and then resurrecting of a major character. I won't spoil the plot for those that haven't read it, because the story really jumps around and alters with each chapter, but that does make it confusing at times and sometimes I needed to go back and read a part again to be sure I read it right. It also follows several generations of the same families whose lives have become inextricably entwined, even if they don’t realise themselves. It is set during both the Second World War and the present time, concerned with both Nazi/Japanese Gold and an attempt to establish a free South East Asian 'data haven' for digital information in the present day. ![]() ![]() I do think it is an excellent read, and a gripping and page turning thriller. None of the technology is far fetched though the ultimate reason for forming the company Epiphyte is futuristic. I'm not sure that I would personally class this as Science Fiction, more action/adventure with a technological bent, but it seems to come under the wing of Cyberculture and it is in the SciFi section of every bookshop that I've been into. ![]()
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![]() The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat – Oliver SacksĪn interesting look at neurological conditions. Very interesting.Įmperor of all Maladies – Siddhartha MukherjeeĪ look at modern day views on cancer as a disease and its various treatments Whilst focusing on complications in surgery, this book is an honest discussion about the social and ethical dilemmas faced in the medical world – everything from who novice surgeons should be practicing on to medical negligence issues. A great book to help you with you evaluation skills of data and deciding whether experiments are trustworthy. This is a wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations. The book takes a very multi-disciplinary approach, making it a very riveting read for any Medic! ![]() ![]() ![]() Written by a neuropharmacologist, this book is very accessible and assumes little former knowledge about the subject. Private Life of the Brain – Susan Greenfield This recommended reading list is mainly aimed at A Level students, but can be enjoyed by anyone who is a good reader! Live Online Admissions Information Event (for current Y5 pupils).Online Safety Advice for Staff, Parents & Students.GDPR (Privacy & Cookie Notice (Pupils & Parents). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My experience has helped me figure out what is the best way to learn this very difficult language. I have worked with hundreds of happy foreign students in the last 20 years. I am a very proud Ukrainian who loves Ukraine and the Ukrainian language and want to make sure that this language is learned by as many people as possible. 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Do you want to visit Ukraine? ![]() ![]() Plus, he gets to converse with those passing through with whom he can actually communicate a friendship evolves from this which is a bright point for him. He entertains himself with the technologies and artifacts that are gifted to him by those traveling through, but mostly his days are occupied with equipment maintenance, journal writing, walking his farmland property, and occasional visits by the mailman. Enoch cannot establish long-term relationships given that he is, for all practical purposes, immortal. He only ages for the hour so he daily walks the rural farm property, once his boyhood home, on which the isolated waystation is located. As long as he remains within the converted house that is now the interstellar waystation and tends the equipment needed to support various aliens as they transfer through, he does not age. ![]() Enoch takes the offer presumably after weighing the advantages and disadvantages. Earth is situated at a point relatively free of interstellar dust and gas which can disrupt long distance teleportation. ![]() Around the time of the US Civil War Enoch was selected by an intergalactic community to operate a transfer point for aliens of all intelligent races and species who are teleporting long distances. The main character of WAY STATION lives in a no-man’s land of his own choosing. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the age of 16 Ballantyne moved to Canada, where he worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company, travelling all over the country to trade for fur. Born in Edinburgh, Ballantyne was the ninth of ten children. ![]() Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish artist and prolific author of mostly children’s fiction. ![]() A gripping nautical tale from the popular children’s author. On the eve of his wedding to young Nellie Carr a powerful storm hits, and Bob, along with his men, must set to work to find and rescue survivors of a stricken vessel. 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She observes how “Her job exhausts her and her girlfriend exasperates her.” Her only real passions beside reading are riding her bicycle around the city and blogging about what it's really like to be a trans woman. Most of her days are spent lingering around the most obscure shelves of books and occasionally sneaking out to buy a bagel. She describes in brilliant tragi-comic scenes how she's settled into working at a large old bookstore in New York City. This is the employment Maria, the protagonist of Imogen Binnie's “Nevada”, has settled into. I've often thought I could have spent my life at this retail gig that I wasn't particularly skilled at simply because I like to be near books. When I was in my late teens I got a temporary job in a bookstore. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of the performances on the album have been previously available only on the extremely limited edition “50th Anniversary / Copyright Extension” albums (three highly-collectible compilations–released in 2012, 20–of rare early Dylan recordings).Īcross two discs-worth of music, Live 1962 – 1966: Rare Performances from The Copyright Collections chronicles Dylan’s transformation from groundbreaking acoustic “folk” artist to iconic force of pop culture. Bob Dylan’s Live 1962 – 1966: Rare Performances from The Copyright Collections is now available digitally or as a 2-CD set. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Sailing from Byzantium, Colin Wells tells of the missionaries, mystics, philosophers, and artists who against great odds and often at peril of their own lives spread Greek ideas to the Italians, the Arabs, and the Slavs.Their heroic efforts inspired the Renaissance, the golden age of Islamic learning, and Russian Orthodox Christianity, which came complete with a new alphabet, architecture, and one of the world’s greatest artistic traditions. Yet very few of us have any idea of the enormous debt we owe them.The story of Byzantium is a real-life adventure of electrifying ideas, high drama, colorful characters, and inspiring feats of daring. ![]() Without Byzantium, the works of Homer and Herodotus, Plato and Aristotle, Sophocles and Aeschylus, would never have survived. A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege….Byzantium: the successor of Greece and Rome, this magnificent empire bridged the ancient and modern worlds for more than a thousand years. ![]() ![]() Raina is engaged to marry a military officer involved in what they all believe is a heroic battle against the enemy. Set in the late 19th century during a war raging between Serbia and Bulgaria, Shaw’s satire about the glorification of love and war begins in the bedroom of Raina Petroff (Elinor Gunn), daughter of a wealthy Bulgarian family. The jewelbox production is beautifully mounted on a shallow stage which moves the action, the crisp dialogue, and the gorgeous costuming close to the audience. ![]() Nothing and no one is safe from his juicy pen-love, war, men, women, the military, the bourgeoisie, even the Swiss. Jewel Theatre has made this daring choice for its highly entertaining season opener.įew theater-goers aren’t familiar with the wicked wit of Shaw, the man whose Pygmalion gave us My Fair Lady. Can a satirical anti-romantic comedy written over 100 years ago-and not by a man named Shakespeare-have anything to say to us today? It can if the play is Arms and the Man, and the playwright the acerbic Nobel Laureate George Bernard Shaw. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What is Dean Koontz nameless series about?įrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes Photographing the Dead, part of Nameless, a riveting collection of short stories about a vigilante nomad, stripped of his memories and commissioned to kill. As both names appear on his works, both should be kept. Librarian’s Note: This author writes under the name Dean R. Is Dean Koontz the same as Dean R Koontz? Is there a sequel to devoted by Dean Koontz?ĭEVOTED is not a prequel or sequel to Watchers, Koontz says, but having had three golden retrievers, he realized there had to be another way to approach a novel about a dog, a story that would demonstrate what Koontz has known for a long time: “Scientists have always said that dogs don’t have the same emotions as us. “His stories often focus on the battle between good and evil, and his characters are placed against nearly impossible odds from which they emerge victorious. “Nameless” isn’t a novel, but a collection of six short thrillers.ĭean Koontz’s novels have been described as “an author who refuses to be slotted in any single genre,” combining suspense, horror and fantasy. ![]() How many books are in Dean Koontz nameless?ĭean Koontz has signed on with Amazon for the “Nameless” series and five novels. ![]() |