![]() ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. ![]() Some of the worlds are: Planet Earth, Under The Sea, Inventions, Seasons, Circus, Transports and Culinary Arts. Are you looking for never-ending fun in this exciting logic-brain app Each world has more than 20 groups with 5 puzzles each. Cod圜ross is an addictive game developed by Fanatee. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Artist who created The Ultimate Alphabet book. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This wonderfully intricate painting by Mike Wilks is from the best-selling book The Ultimate Alphabet: Complete Edition (Pomegranate, 2015). This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() Vowing never to return to his father's house, Davy makes his way to New York City. The origin of this power is never explained, but he ends up using this power continually throughout the novel. This is a place that Davy is familiar with and spends a lot of time in, which is why he was able to easily teleport there. One evening, while being physically abused by his father, David "Davy" Rice unexpectedly teleports (or "jumps") and finds himself in the local library, the Stanville Library. ![]() ![]() As he tries to make his way in the world, he searches for his mother (who left when he was a child), develops a relationship with a woman from whom he keeps his ability secret, and is eventually brought into conflict with several antagonists. It tells the story of David, a teenager who escapes an abusive household using his ability to teleport. The novel was published in mass market paperback in October 1993 and re‑released in February 2008 to coincide with the release of the film adaptation. ![]() Jumper is a 1992 science fiction novel by Steven Gould. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He finds the only way he can escape the emptiness he feels is to quit doing the things that made him happy when his cousin was alive, such as playing his beloved trumpet, and take up football, where he hopes the physical pain will suppress the emotional. His world becomes divided into "before" and "after" Josh's death. Jericho Prescott lost his best friend when he lost his cousin, Josh, and the pain is almost more than he can bear. How in the world will she tell her mom? And how will Josh's parents take the news? She's never needed a friend more. But Josh left something behind that will change November's life forever, and now she's faced with the biggest decision she could ever imagine. ![]() When November Nelson loses her boyfriend, Josh, to a pledge stunt gone horribly wrong, she thinks her life can't possibly get any worse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. 9780099529125 Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition 35.1000 NZD InStock /shop/books/fiction /shop/books/fiction/classics /shop/books 50th anniversary of Catch 22's publication. If Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions then he is caught in Catch-22- if he flies he is crazy, and doesn't have to but if he doesn't want to he must be sane and has to. His real problem is not the enemy - it is his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. 50th anniversary of Catch 22's publication. ![]() ![]() His real problem is not the enemy - it is his own army whi. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Yossarian lives!Įxplosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Nonoguchi and Kaga continue to spar with each other, the detective digs deeper into the past, uncovering startling revelations about the death of Hidaka’s first wife, the two men’s school days, and their literary careers, before coming up with a solution, and then another, and still another.Įach time you’re convinced Higashino’s wrung every possible twist out of his golden-age setup, he comes up with a new one. Despite the alibi Nonoguchi offers Kyoichiro Kaga and the detailed written account of his movements during the fatal evening, the police detective, who once taught at Nonoguchi’s school, can’t help suspecting his former colleague of “creat a fictional account of the events in order to divert suspicion from himself.” That’s an ingenious idea, but Higashino is only getting started. ![]() Returning to Hidaka’s home a few hours after he last saw him, Nonoguchi, accompanied by Rie, Hidaka’s much younger second wife, finds his body, felled by a paperweight and strangled. ![]() Hidaka became a best-selling novelist, Nonoguchi a middle-school teacher who retired to write children’s books. ![]() Kunihiko Hidaka and Osamu Nonoguchi were childhood friends. The creator of Detective Galileo ( Salvation of a Saint, 2012, etc.) returns with another fiendishly clever Chinese-make that Japanese-box of a whydunit. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Wick's dark thriller is cinematic in its telling.Meet Michael Maven - an anti-hero who will keep you up past your bedtime." - David M Salkin A wise and wonderful tale distinguished by razor-sharp dialogue and spot-on narration, Safecracker is a must for all readers who like their crime stories done fast and hard." - Jon Land Ryan Wick's sterling crime thriller, also reminiscent of Lawrence Block and George Higgins at their level best, is part heist story and part cat-and-mouse game with a clock ticking loudly in the background. "Safecracker is a blisteringly original slice of contemporary noir as channeled through both Donald Westlake and his alter ego Richard Stark. Ryan Wick has written a gripping, high-octane page-turner that grabs you from the very start and doesn't let go." - Simon Gervais "Fast-paced and ingenius, Safecracker is one hell of an adventure. ![]() A knockout cast of characters, a killer sense of place, and a scope that's truly cinematic in the best way. "Ryan Wick's Safecracker is a high stakes thriller that kept me reading through the night until my kids tapped me on the shoulder and told me it was time for breakfast. ![]() ![]() ![]() He contains it and buries it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository. When he is sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he finds something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. “Cold Storage” follows a Pentagon bioterror operative named. Paramount considers the project a high priority, with the current COVID-19 pandemic shuttering the industry, a production start date is still unknown. Publishing rights went to Ecco and Harper Collins. Koepp became the go-to screenwriter for blockbusters, having worked on features like “Jurassic Park,” “Angels and Demons”, “Panic Room,” and “Mission: Impossible.” When he brought his debut book to the market in 2018, most major studios tried to grab rights, with Paramount being the most aggressive. Jonny Campbell, who recently directed Netflix’s “Dracula” series, will helm Paramount’s “ Cold Storage,” an adaptation of veteran screenwriter David Koepp’s first novel. ![]() ![]() As the criminal charge is investigated, Nunez reveals Gardner to be the real criminal-not only toward Carlos, but also toward his native servant, Ariana (Ariel), and Virginia herself. Inevitably, Carlos and Gardner's daughter, Virginia (Miranda), fall in love the doctor, in a paroxysm of rage at the thought of a sexual union between his daughter and a dark-skinned man, accuses Carlos of attempted rape. Gardner teaches the boy biology, astronomy, music-"an exclusively European education," Carlos later reflects-but his natural brilliance far surpasses anything the doctor can impart. The novel's Caliban is Carlos, a mixed-race orphan whose house on an outlying island the doctor steals. Peter Gardner (the Prospero figure) arrives on the island with his baby daughter after a botched medical experiment in England made him an outlaw. ![]() ![]() , set in her native Trinidad in the early 1960s. ) critiques colonialist assumptions about race and class in this ambitious reworking of The Tempest ![]() ![]() ![]() Schuyler Miller praised the science fiction stories for their "quality of thrown-away understatement" but found the other pieces marked by "the old familiar themes of fantasy, smoothly and competently but not very originally handled. combin time-proven narrative methods and meaningful, if frequently obvious, social commentary." Reviewing for a genre audience, P. New York Times reviewer William Peden reviewed the collection favorably, describing it as "a series of very competent stories depicting the effect of the supernatural on the lives of ordinary English people. Strenberry’s Tale" was originally published as “Doomsday”. Strenberry’s Tale" ( The London Magazine 1930)
![]() ![]() Jonathan Wilson, having lived there on and off during the last decade, is ideally placed to chart the sport's development in a country that, perhaps more than any other, lives and breathes football, its theories and its myths.'Simultaneously epic and intimate, this is a magisterial work: not just a history of Argentinian football, but a history of Argentina' Tom Holland'People who like football like Brazil people who love it love Argentina. olatile history of Argentinian football is made up of both the sublime and the ruthlessly pragmatic. It's a history of Argentina as reflected in the sport, and how life in Argentina has been reflected in the sport. Argentina has produced some of the greatest footballers of all time. Now Wilson has turned his considerable powers to one country and its obsession with the game: ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES. The definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of Inverting the PyramidAlfredo Di Stefano, Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Juan Roman Riquelme, Lionel Messi. Angels with Dirty Faces Wilson, Jonathan 4. Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina ![]() |