When Lula and her family must leave their house next to the beach to make way for a highway, Lula is desperate to protect the place she calls home, and all the wildlife that shares it with her. But how will a small girl like her be able to do it? A chance encounter with a magical creature changes everything . .

Ellisiv Stifoss-Hanssen\'s widely acclaimed debut novel is about Mia, who is hospitalized for cervical cancer treatment. It is a quiet, intimate and intense story of how brutal disease can be and how difficult love can be, and why someone needs to write about it. What happens to consciousness when disease and treatment takes control of the body? It\'s a novel to remember and forget about slipping between

The Animator\'s Sketchbook will teach students of animation how to improve their work through observation and drawing. It will show readers how to access their inner \"animator.\" With over 60 different gesture and drawing exercises, this book enhances vision, analysis, understanding, and the core skills required to become a master animator. Filled with extensive practice pages, Tony White\'s Sketchbook,

Without its pubs, London just wouldn\'t be London. They are the backbone and the heart - not to mention the liver - of our city. This collection of vintage photographs is a glorious reminder of the pre-pandemic joys of jostling at the bar while also showcasing the classic design of the traditional pub, from large lounges to secretive backrooms and smoky bars. Celebrating the bartenders, musicians,

Some secrets are better left buried... 2022. Stained-glass expert Rhoda Sullivan is called to Telton Hall to examine a window designed by an Italian prisoner of war during WW2. It should be a quick job but when she and the owner\'s son, Nate Hartwell, discover a body underneath one of the flagstones in the chapel, Rhoda cannot let the mystery go. She knows what it\'s like to miss someone who is missing

Turn to this illustrated collection of 40 dogs whenever you need some puppy love, a little laugh, or a pep-talk. A dog is more than a best friend. From chill puppers to little stinkers, the dogs in this book think the world of you. This fun book includes a charming illustration and a short essay about each dog and why you need its playful advice right now. Think supportive socks-with-sandals-wearing

The 5th revised edition expands on the basic chemistry of high-energy materials of the previous editions and examines new research developments, including plastic bonded explosives and melt-castable dinitrate esters. Applications in military and civil fields are discussed. This work is of interest to advanced students in chemistry, materials science and engineering, as well as to all those working

Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness--and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy, their new neighbors saw them as a shining example of the homespun Christian

It happens whenever wolf shifter Roni Axton is near Marcus Fuller: a crackle of sexual awareness that\'s intoxicating...and deeply annoying. Marcus is a pack enforcer who oozes power, but Roni is lethal in her own right--nothing like the flirty females who flock around him. Even still, his possessive gaze makes one thing clear. Marcus has singled her out for seduction, and he wants to make her sit

Create a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of market-leading history textbooks and the individual subject specialisms of the author team to inspire student

The arrival of two newcomers in the quiet village of Mellstock arouses a bitter feud and leaves a convoluted love affair in its wake. While the Reverend Maybold creates a furore among the village\'s musicians with his decision to abolish the church\'s traditional \"string choir\" and replace it with a modern mechanical organ, the new schoolteacher, Fancy Day, causes an upheaval of a more romantic nature,

When it was published in 1968, The Norton Facsimile set a new standard for scholarly accuracy. It was the first facsimile in which every page had been selected from a large number of copies in an attempt to find a clean, clear example with minimal show-through. Even more important, it offered the latest, most corrected state of pages known to vary from copy to copy because of correction at press. Finally,

A systematic exploration of the shared history of Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan languages. Tracing the history of their pronunciation, this book sheds light on the prehistoric language from which they descend. It will be welcomed by scholars and advanced students of phonology, language typology, and Asian languages and

New York Times-bestselling author Michael Koryta returns with a thrilling new standalone crime novel and a rugged new investigator, an FBI interrogation

Poetry that sings of southern Appalachian beauty and crisis. Set in a landscape of red sunsets and wildfire smoke, Queen Anne\'s lace on the roadsides, and toxic chemicals in the watershed, Lindsay Turner\'s The Upstate is a book about southern Appalachia in a contemporary moment of change and development. Layering a personal lyric voice with a broader awareness of labor issues and political and ecological

Lynsey Logan, a London-based novelist, usually keeps the plots of her novels a secret. One evening, her best friend, Emma Carmichael, comes to discuss her list of characters, who Lynsey finds most unpleasant. The worst character is a Broadway \'hoofer\', a song and dance queen called Lynda Lombardi who is appearing in a Broadway show called \'Bitches on Broadway\'. She has a daughter called Isabel,