Penny Brunel is content; living in North Notting Hill, married to a famous explorer forever away on a polar expedition, working for a P.R. company and generally being an honest and wise person. Sadly, this perfectly cut jigsaw is thrown in to disarray by the untimely appearance of her stepson Terence, who moves into her life making uncomfortable assumptions. On hearing her husband has fallen through the ice, Penny examines her marriage and life more closely and begins to discover an unsettling truth about herself. Maybe the friends who she thought fabricated their lives, had actually been pretending less than her all along.
Sophia Watson's entertaining and thought-provoking novel is about having fun & making money while trying to stay faithful - to ideals as much as to marriage. By the author of Her husband's children.
This is the first book in a mini-series about cyber crime and Cyber Vigilantes within the Silver Lake mysteries. Jake Wheeler has been a major cyber-criminal, a teenage genius and computer prodigy, a hacker and darknet webhost, the victim of a ‘copter crash on the cliffs of Scottish Highlands, honorary member of Anonymous, an FBI fugitive . Then, possibly, an FBI informant. Jacob Wheeler had begun life as a lonely boy, small for his age and too intelligent to be popular. He was a little socially inept. Jake was bullied in school and in his neighborhood and took solace in his computers. As an adult, his skill at programming brought him into contact with the wrong crowd. He became an ace hacker. His life was about to change.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1922.
BUY ANY TWO BOOKS IN THE SILVER LAKE SERIES AND GET FREE SHIPPING whether or not you have Amazon Prime! This summer Sylvia Reynolds comes to visit her aunt, famous documentary film maker Asia Reynolds. Fifteen year old Sylvie is in no mood for anything new and her aunt's barn load of animals is way exactly NOT what Sylvie is in any mood for. Although compared with adults, Aunt Asia's livestock quickly becomes more appealing. After being shunted from her best friend's house to her grandfather's to her aunt's she is a little too open to being accepted by the wrong crowd. That wrong crowd is Bertram Thomas, son of an abusive father. Bert and Sylvie have something in common, both were raised without their mothers. This forms a very strong bond between the two teenagers. Bertram responds positively to the love of pretty, little Sylvie Reynolds. There trying to end that relationship is bad cop, Officer Carlton Thomas, the father of converted "bad-boy bully" Bert Thomas -- a former town troublemaker. That's where our story begins... Officer Thomas comes under constant suspicion for several local crimes. It is the responsibility of his son and Carlton's old friend, the Chief of the Silver Lake Police, to delicately and safely try and round him up. As Asia helps with the investigation, her new animal menagerie increases from a pretty brown and tan donkey with huge ears, named Pumpkin (or Punkin) and a red, long-haired Chihuahua named Fuzzy Bud, to two new very fiesty, cute goats -- Thelma and Louise, as well as a quickly growing St. Bernard puppy named "Junior," a couple of baby chicks, a duckling and a gosling (adopted from Frankie Franklin's private animal rescue). Seems that Asia cannot help adopting new animals that tickle her fancy. The story increases in intrigue as Officer Carlton Thomas rampages around the sleepy hamlet of Silver Lake, threatening and annoying many of its residents.
Jake Wheeler has been a major cyber-criminal, a teenage genius and computer prodigy, a hacker and Darknet webhost, the victim of a 'copter crash on the cliffs of Scottish Highlands, honorary member of Anonymous, an FBI fugitive and then, finally, an FBI informant. Literally, life has driven Jacob Wheeler to ground level. A year ago (See: Snow Angels or No Angels, Book 2), Jake lost altitude off the cliffs of one of the Hebrides islands, possibly the Isle of Lewis. A ferocious wind storm knocked his personal helicopter into the very edge of a cliff. He teetered there until he managed to escape with his survival backpack and a bottle of Glenlivet whiskey. He was to need both. Jake had begun life as a lonely boy, small for his age. He was a little socially inept, and knew it. He had taken solace in his computers and online reputation from a very early age. He was bullied in school to the point that it made him a little callus as an adult. This was about to change. And, change for the good, if he could help it. Travel with us again to the Outer Hebrides of Scotland to find out why the politico-hacker organization "Anonymous" elicits Jake Wheeler's aid and the dangerous path he must follow. This is the second book in our international Cyber Crime mini-series ("Snow Angels" is the first).
Young and beautiful, the Dutchess of Kent brought to the House of Windsor a style and chic that the family was sadly lacking. But in 1942 Marina was widowed when the Duke of Kent was killed in a freak air crash.
Sophia will be entering into the 6th grade this year (2015) and has always been interested in words, phrases, analogies and idioms. One of her more quirky attributes is the ability to take an idiom and use it in an entirely new way that somehow actually fits the current situation. Sophia sees things differently than most people and this compliments her ability to churn out poetry that is sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes funny, and sometimes sad. When Sophia was a small child we read to her almost every night, mostly the same old children's books we have all come to love/hate, but occasionally we would read Shel Silverstein and of course Dr. Seuss, these she loved. I will never forget the time when Sophia was able to recite all of Shel Silverstein's "Hungry Mungry" after only hearing it twice. She has a gift, and while this current collection represents Sophia's efforts in its infancy, I do hope you will enjoy it. By the way if you are reading these poems out loud it helps if you imagine Seuss's "The Cat in the Hat" with a guitar singing Silverstein's "The Giving Tree." -Good Luck- John S. Fitch, Sophia's Dad
Combines specific art projects and the study and appreciation of Australian artists. This book covers a rich and diverse range of Australian art from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and early settler landscapes through to living working artists of the 20th century.
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