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Little, Brown and Company. Good. 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.60(d). Paperback. 2014. 560 pages. Cover worn<br>What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold a… Mehr…

Little, Brown and Company. Good. 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.60(d). Paperback. 2014. 560 pages. Cover worn<br>What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursul a Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night , Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, s he also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young c entury marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Doe s Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can -- will she? Darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly orig inal: this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best. Editorial Revi ews There aren't enough breathless adjectives to describe Life A fter Life: Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound. W ildly inventive, deeply felt. Hilarious. Humane.-Gillian Flynn, a uthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl Life After L ife is a masterpiece about how even the smallest choices can some times change the course of history. It's wise, bittersweet, funny , and unlike anything else you've ever read. Kate Atkinson is one of my all-time favorite novelists, and I believe this is her bes t book yet.-J. Courtney Sullivan, bestselling author of Maine and Commencement Kate Atkinson's new novel is a box of delights. In genious in construction, indefatigably entertaining, it grips the reader's imagination on the first page and never lets go. If you wish to be moved and astonished, read it. And if you want to giv e a dazzling present, buy it for your friends.-Hilary Mantel, aut hor of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies An audacious, ambitious book that challenges notions of time, fate and free will, not to mention narrative plausibility...[Atkinson's] writing is funny a nd quirky and sharp and sad - calamity laced with humor - and ful l of quietly heroic characters who offer knowing Lorrie Moore-esq ue parenthetical asides...Atkinson's true genius is structure...E ach version is entirely and equally credible.-Sarah Lyall, New Yo rk Times An exercise in narrative gutsiness; a meditation on his tory, contingency, and free will; and the best new novel I've rea d this year.-Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine [Atkinson's] late st novel, Life After Life, is her very best... A big book that de fies logic, chronology and even history in ways that underscore i ts author's fully untethered imagination... Even without the slei ght of hand, Life After Life would be an exceptionally captivatin g book with an engaging cast of characters... [Atkinson's] own wr iterly cradle was rocked by a very sure hand indeed.-Janet Maslin , New York Times Audacious, the kind of sweeping virtuoso epic t hat actually earns overheated book-jacket phrases like 'tour de f orce!'...Atkinson is a fantastic storyteller... It's all so richl y imagined and ingeniously executed that the mystery feels right. Her domestic vignettes and wide-screen portraits of wartime reso nate with startling physical and emotional clarity, and even her repetitions find fresh revelations... What Atkinson has mastered: shining a light on how full life is of choices and chance, and h ow lucky we are to live it.-Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly The Blitz segments vibrate with life, as vivid and horrifying a s a series of glimpses into a charnel house...The natural exubera nce of Atkinson's prose is brought into sharp, precise control. B uried inside Life After Life is the best Blitz novel since Sarah Waters's The Night Watch.-Steve Donoghue, The Washington Post Fa scinating... A tour de force that ponders memory and déjà vu-and puts history on a very human scale.-Parade [Atkinson] is nothing if not clever...A fine writer...filling the pages with a livelin ess and intelligence...Ursula's quest to 'get it right' gradually becomes less important than Atkinson's talent to create such an entertaining and suspenseful story that tells many versions of th e history of the 20th century.-Bob Hoover, The Minneapolis Star T ribune Ambitious...[Atkinson] can be playful and profound, an en joyable storyteller as well as an artful writer...She gives us a complete picture of an upper-class British family as it moves int o the modern era, and in such a way that we are left sifting thro ugh the many turns a life can take and contemplating the conseque nces thereof.-Sherryl Connelly, New York Daily News Audacious an d darkly mysterious...Atkinson is a master of structure...A sense of dread but also one of hope infuse the novel...Even the cannie st reader can't predict what will happen next, so the long novel remains absorbing until its end. It lightly raises questions abou t the meaning of life and death and identify, fate and chance, an d leaves them unanswered to echo in the reader's mind after the f inal page.-Margaret Quamme, Columbus Dispatch Life After Life is a hypnotic dance of causality and chance, in which Ursula makes genuine progress...[Life After Life] displays...trapeze-artist pa nache, releasing plotlines into the oblivion of one past life onl y to retrieve them, to the reader's appreciative gasps, in a late r one...It's rich in the gravity and texture of reality... Marvel ously vibrant...Atkinson makes every one of Ursula's lives, as we ll as the lives of those she touches, feel inestimably precious.- Laura Miller, Salon A densely layered, century-sprawling work th at is a formidable bid for the brass ring of the U.K.'s prestigio us Man Booker Prize. Life After Life is a drama of failures and p rovidential rebirths...High-concept premise...A deft and convinci ng portrayal of an English family's evolution across two world wa rs...Marvelous...Not only does she bring characters to life with enviable ease, she has an almost offhand knack for vivid scene-se tting ...Her storytelling prowess is on fullest display in a gorg eous and nerve-racking novella-length chapter set during the Blit z ... It's spellbindingly done.-Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journa l Delightfully precocious and darkly moody... Revealing and stra ightforward... Originality is the jumping-off point for this espe cially unique novel, and readers looking for something fresh shou ld take a chance. Readers already in love with Atkinson's novels, and equally besotted with Jackson Brodie, will be just as please d with the life - the lives - of Ursula Todd.-Carol Memmott, USA Today Masterful...Atkinson not only invites readers in, she also asks them to give up their preconceptions of what a novel should be, and instead accept what a novel can be... What impresses me about this flip book of nonstop scenarios - in wartime and peacet ime - is not only how absorbing they are, but how brave Atkinson is to have written them. After all, there really isn't much recen t precedent for a major, serious yet playfully experimental novel with a female character at its center. Good for her to have give n us one; we needed it...She opened her novel outward, letting it breathe unrestricted, all the while creating a strong, inviting draft of something that feels remarkably like life.-Meg Wolitzer, NPR.org Gripping and sophisticated...Enthralling...[Atkinson] d eftly captures the cruel frailty of life with judicious compassio n...No writer alive makes for better company on the page-knowing, funny, and prodigally inventive: Ursula is a magnificent creatio n, but dozens of finely drawn secondary characters (her bohemian Aunt Izzie alone would make this book worth reading) force her to fight for the spotlight on every page...Unflaggingly curious and unfailingly open-minded, Atkinson is like some great snoop, prow ling among life's mysteries, turning the commonplace inside out.. .Literary and entertaining all at once, Atkinson is a sophisticat ed artist who also can keep you up well past bedtime, and that do uble-barreled talent is on display as never before in Life After Life. My first reaction upon finishing it was to imitate the unsi nkable Ursula and begin all over again.-Malcolm Jones, The Daily Beast Atkinson has turned a high-concept conceit into an intrica tely crafted, totally engaging new novel...Atkinson combines the cleverness of metafiction with the warmth and detail of period fi ction for an end result that is satisfyingly original.-Yvonne Zip p, Christian Science Monitor Atkinson has a knack for puzzle-mak ing...creating a series of narrative fragments that cohere into a breathtaking whole...By the final chapters, it's clear that Ursu la is gaining on something much bigger than any of her lives: a t rue calling. Watching that pursuit is frequently heartbreaking an d entirely thrilling.-Katie Arnold-Ratliff, Time Inventive...Thi s ingenious narrative conceit not only illustrates how seemingly small decisions can affect our lives, it also allows us as reader s to inhabit a novelist's creative process...Atkinson has crafted a narrative that pushes us to think about our own choices... Som e of Ursula's narratives are so compelling, so convincing, that i t is hard to imagine her ending up any other way.-Carolyn Kellogg , Los Angeles Times Life After Life is dark and funny and suspen seful and sad all at the same time.-Emily Ecton, NPR (Great Reads of 2013) It is in the depiction of Ursula's loving yet contenti ous family that Life After Life truly shines...a dazzling, intric ate and entertaining novel.-Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicl e A thoroughly entertaining, periodically moving read, and a who lly unique addition ... Atkinson never so much as flirts with pat hos; her ethos and heroine are as unsentimental as the times requ ire.-Eugenia Williamson, Boston Globe Sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year. Life After Life is a dazzling ju ggling act...(by all means, read this book).-Mary Ann Gwinn, Seat tle Times You can't put down Life After Life until you finish it , and then I suggest you read it a second time.-Bob Hoover, Dalla s Morning News Dazzling...the fantasy behind that reality turns out to be rivetingly complex.-Karen Holt, O, the Oprah Magazine I cannot recommend this book enough. It's nothing short of a genr e-bending masterpiece - thoughtful and compelling, convoluted in plot but clear in resolve. If I had many lifetimes, I would make sure to read Life After Life in each.-Kevin Nguyen, Grantland - F rom the Publisher PRAISE FOR LIFE AFTER LIFE: Kate Atkinson is a marvel. There aren't enough breathless adjectives to describe L ife After Life: Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profou nd. Wildly inventive, deeply felt. Hilarious. Humane. Simply put: It's one of the best novels I've read this century. - Gillian Fl ynn One of the things I like most about British mystery novels ( including Kate Atkinson's) is the combination of good writing and a certain theatrical bravado. Their authors enjoy showing us how expertly they can construct a puzzle, then solve it: the literar y equivalent of pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Life After Life in spires a similar sort of admiration, as Atkinson sharpens our awa reness of the apparently limitless choices and decisions that a n ovelist must make on every page, and of what is gained and lost w hen the consequences of these choices are, like life, singular an d final. - The New York Times Book Review - Francine Prose I can not recommend this book enough. It's nothing short of a genre-ben ding masterpiece - thoughtful and compelling, convoluted in plot but clear in resolve. If I had many lifetimes, I would make sure to read Life After Life in each. - Kevin Nguyen Dazzling...the f antasy behind that reality turns out to be rivetingly complex. - Karen Holt Sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year. Life After Life is a dazzling juggling act...(by all means, read this book). - Mary Ann Gwinn A thoroughly entertaining, pe riodically moving read, and a wholly unique addition ... Atkinson never so much as flirts with pathos; her ethos and heroine are a s unsentimental as the times require. - Eugenia Williamson It is in the depiction of Ursula's loving yet contentious family that Life After Life truly shines...a dazzling, intricate and entertai ning novel. - Michael Berry Life After Life is dark and funny an d suspenseful and sad all at the same time. - Emily Ecton Invent ive...This ingenious narrative conceit not only illustrates how s eemingly small decisions can affect our lives, it also allows us as readers to inhabit a novelist's creative process...Atkinson ha s crafted a narrative that pushes us to think about our own choic es... Some of Ursula's narratives are so compelling, so convincin g, that it is hard to imagine her ending up any other way. - Caro lyn Kellogg Atkinson has a knack for puzzle-making...creating a series of narrative fragments that cohere into a breathtaking who le...By the final chapters, it's clear that Ursula is gaining on something much bigger than any of her lives: a true calling. Watc hing that pursuit is frequently heartbreaking and entirely thrill ing. - Katie Arnold-Ratliff Atkinson has turned a high-concept c onceit into an intricately crafted, totally engaging new novel... Atkinson combines the cleverness of metafiction with the warmth a nd detail of period fiction for an end result that is satisfyingl y original. - Yvonne Zipp Gripping and sophisticated...Enthralli ng...[Atkinson] deftly captures the cruel frailty of life with ju dicious compassion...No writer alive makes for better company on the page-knowing, funny, and prodigally inventive: Ursula is a ma gnificent creation, but dozens of finely drawn secondary characte rs (her bohemian Aunt Izzie alone would make this book worth read ing) force her to fight for the spotlight on every page...Unflagg ingly curious and unfailingly open-minded, Atkinson is like some great snoop, prowling among life's mysteries, turning the commonp lace inside out...Literary and entertaining all at once, Atkinson is a sophisticated artist who also can keep you up well past bed time, and that double-barreled talent is on display as never befo re in Life After Life. My first reaction upon finishing it was to imitate the unsinkable Ursula and begin all over again. - Malcol m Jones Masterful...Atkinson not only invites readers in, she al so asks them to give up their preconceptions of what a novel shou ld be, and instead accept what a novel can be... What impresses m e about this flip book of nonstop scenarios - in wartime and peac etime - is not only ho, Little, Brown and Company, 2014, 2.5, Viking Juvenile. Good. Hardcover. 2006. 288 pages. Cover worn. <br>Fascinated by forensics, seventeen-yea r-old Cameryn Mahoney persuades her father, the county coroner in sleepy Silverton, CO, to take her on as his assistant. But she n ever expects her first case to involve the death of a friend! Rac hel Geller, a beautiful young waitress, is found strangled in a f ield with a Christopher medal around her neck--clearly marking he r as the fourth victim of a serial killer. Cameryn is determined to help find Rachel's killer, and attending the autopsy gives her the first clue. But as she follows her instincts and gets closer to the killer, Cameryn suddenly finds herself on the verge of be coming his fifth victim! Editorial Reviews From School Library Journal Grade 9 Up-When aspiring forensic pathologist Cameryn Mah oney convinces her father, the county coroner of Silverton, CO, t o hire her as his assistant, she has no idea that one of the firs t deaths she will investigate will be that of her friend, Rachel Geller. Rachel is the fourth victim of a serial killer who strang les his victims and leaves a St. Christopher medal on their bodie s. The teen must put aside her emotional response to the murder i n order to evaluate the information clinically. In her relentless pursuit of the truth, Cameryn puts herself in danger of becoming the fifth victim of the Christopher Killer. Teachers and librari ans who are trying to reach their television-junkie reluctant rea ders should look no further; this novel reads like an episode of CSI. Each scene lends itself to a mental picture straight from so me crime-fighting show. The narrative gallops through a story lin e that is as engaging as it is implausible. Suspension of disbeli ef is made easy by the well-researched scientific tidbits sprinkl ed throughout the text, lending an air of credibility. There is t he sense that this is a pilot episode with people that readers wi ll see again as the series progresses, so the characters feel int roduced rather than fully developed. Despite these flaws, this is an enjoyable read that teens will appreciate.-Heather M. Campbel l, Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock, CO Copyright ® Reed Bu siness Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights r eserved. From Booklist Gr. 7-10. Ferguson's latest mystery-thril ler introduces 17-year-old Cameryn Mahoney, who has the annoying habit of challenging her elders (most of whom seem to deserve it) . She also has the unshakable desire to be a forensic pathologist --and a very strong stomach. The latter comes in handy during the autopsy of a friend, the latest victim of a serial killer whose signature is a St. Christopher's medal left with each body. The v ivid autopsy scenes are surprising, given the fairly routine stor y line and agreeable, though certainly not complex, characters. I t's Cammie's energy and chutzpa that really propel the story, and readers will sympathize with her as she struggles to decide whet her to keep faith with science or be sucked in by a charismatic p sychic. This is worlds away from the Nancy Drew college series in terms of gore, but CSI fans won't blink twice. Stephanie Zvirin Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Ab out the Author Alane Ferguson is the author of numerous novels an d mysteries, including the Edgar Award-winning Show Me the Eviden ce. She does intensive research for her books, attending autopsie s and interviewing forensic pathologists as she delves into the f ascinating world of medical examiners. Ms. Ferguson lives with h er family near the foothills of the Colorado Rockies. Excerpt. ® Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter Five YOU GUYS DON'T HAVE TO wait here with me, Cameryn said, drumming the steering wheel nervously. The bell's going to ring any second, a nd . . . I don't know, I just . . . She didn't finish the sentenc e. It felt like she couldn't string her words together, or worse, her thoughts. It was hard to make anything inside her head line up. Instead, her syllables spun like autumn leaves caught in a wh irligig of air. It was all the crazy talk of Jewel that was makin g her think sideways. She had to pull herself together. Don't wo rry about me; I don't care if I'm late, Adam announced from the b ackseat. I mean, I'm still trying to take it all in. Somebody's d ead. He shook his head and exclaimed, Man. It's just like Jewel s aid last night. We don't know that--right now we don't know anyt hing except someone died. And, you guys know not to say anything to anyone at school, right? Cameryn said for the third time. Reme mber, my dad said he didn't want reporters showing up. It's still a crime scene. We've got to get it all sorted out. We already p romised we wouldn't say a word, Lyric replied. Don't worry, we'll keep our mouths shut. But, you do realize this is going to be a Christopher killing. When the media catches wind of what happened , it's going to get crazy. You need to prepare yourself. It's no t the Christopher Killer, Cameryn said, her voice sharp. Okay, it 's a possible murder--and I say possible because we haven't even been to the scene yet to know for sure--but that doesn't mean it' s the murder. I mean, you just made a huge leap in logic. I want to stick to facts. The fact is this--a murdered girl in the moun tains is just what Dr. Jewel saw in his vision, Lyric told her ca lmly. The orange soil. The body by water. I don't care if you bel ieve me now or not, because you will believe as soon as you get t here. But Cameryn would hear none of it. Statistically, there ha ve been lots of murders since Jewel made his prediction. And by t he way, where was Dr. Jewel when he 'saw' all this, anyway? New Mexico, Adam answered. From his coat pocket he pulled out a cigar ette and rolled it between his hands. Cameryn turned in her seat so she could watch him. You're not going to light that, are you? she asked. Adam shook his head. See, right now Jewel's holding a live psychic convention down there in Santa Fe. But you can't le t the distance throw you, because with mediums, space and time an d all of those existential limitations no longer exist. It's stil l hard to get my head around this. I knew Jewel had power, but I got to admit this is freaking weird. He stopped rolling his cigar ette and looked up through his curtain of hair. Do you think the dead girl is someone from Silverton? Her heart skipped a beat. N o way, she said. Cameryn didn't know why she was so sure, but she was. It's got to be a tourist. We've still had a lot of people c oming up on the train since the weather's been so good. It'll be an out-of-towner. And I'm getting out of the car--I think I need some air. As if on cue, the three of them spilled out of the car . It was harder for Adam. He exited legs-first, unfolding himself , piece by piece, as though he were a piece of collapsible gear t hat needed to be reassembled outside its box. Lyric reached aroun d him to grab her backpack, and when she did, she accidentally bu mped against him. Sorry, she said softly. Crossing her arms, Cam eryn leaned against the side of the Jeep and waited. It was only eight thirty and already the air was warming up. October weather in Silverton could be schizophrenic. The last few days had brough t cool temperatures in the mornings and evenings only, when the s ky was still purple-blue and the stars mere pricks of pale light. The middle of the day, however, had been uncharacteristically wa rm. The higher than normal temperatures, she knew, would make her father's job--her job--that much harder. She knew a body would decompose fast in the heat. Insects, especially blowflies, honed in on their mark within hours and laid their eggs into any availa ble flesh. That was the science of it. A short while later maggot s would emerge, a wriggling white mass capable of stripping a cor pse to the bone within weeks, depending on temperature and humidi ty levels, which meant precious evidence could be lost quickly. And that wasn't even factoring in the animal activity that would inevitably occur when a body was left in the wild. Mentally she t ried to prepare herself for what she might see, but how could she steel her insides for what lay at Smith Fork? Was it only last w eek that she'd seen the man in the bathtub? It seemed like a life time ago that she'd retched from the smell. Today, Cameryn realiz ed, could be much, much worse. Adam lit his cigarette with a pla stic lighter, politely blowing the smoke away from Cameryn. His s moking irritated her. She wished the two of them would leave, but at the same time she liked them there with her--just one more co ntradictory set of emotions to sort through. The warning bell ran g, followed by the bell signaling the start of school, and still her father had not come. What's taking your dad so long? Lyric a sked, tapping her foot into the dirt. I thought he was rushing ri ght over to pick you up. Cameryn shrugged. He might have stopped to get a white body bag. They're supposed to use white ones when it's a murder. That's what the books say, anyway. Why white? Ada m asked. Already he was working on a second cigarette. A bit of p aper had stuck to his bottom lip, which he carefully pinched off. Because evidence left inside the bag is easier to spot. Adam n odded. He took a drag and exhaled. Man, how do you know this stuf f? I read, she answered. I study. I focus on things you can see, taste, smell, and test. Then I throw in a rosary for Mammaw and I'm good to go. And they say I'm twisted. At that moment Patric k's station wagon whipped around the corner and into the parking lot. From the way he clutched the steering wheel she could tell h e was upset. Dad! she cried, waving frantically. Over here! When he saw her he flipped a U-turn in front of the school, so close his wheel bounced up on the curb. He slowed down as he approached them. The passenger-side window was already down, and he scooped the air with his hand, ordering her in. Come on, they're waiting for us! A jolt of electricity shot through Cameryn as she hoppe d inside the car and buckled up. Adam and Lyric gave a wave as th e station wagon pulled away. She watched them as they grew smalle r in the distance, Adam, as tall and thin as a poplar tree next t o Lyric's full evergreen frame. Lyric's backpack slumped between them like a tired dog. The station wagon turned onto Greene, and soon the car was heading south along the Million Dollar Highway, so named because it cost the state well over a million dollars t o carve it into the high mountains. Patrick said nothing; his pos ture behind the wheel was ramrod straight, and his head grazed th e ceiling of the car, bending his hair back like the bristles of an old scrub brush. I'm sorry to make you miss school, he said. I almost didn't call you, but since it's a murder, well, I need a ll the help I can get. It's okay, Dad. You know I've got all As. So do they know who it is? she asked. Patrick shook his head. N ot yet. With all the tourists running around it's most likely one of them and . . . well, it's bad no matter who it is, right? Jac obs said the victim appears young. Shaking his head, he looked as though he were trying the clear his thoughts. But we've got to g et to business. I've brought two cameras--one'll take color and t he other black and white. So here's what I want you to do: I want you to photograph the body from every conceivable angle using bo th the cameras--color first. That'll be important. He rubbed a ha nd over his chin. It's been years since I've done homicide and I' m trying to remember every single step. The cameras and other sup plies are in that knapsack in the back. Can I put you in charge? Cameryn nodded. She'd taken many photographs in her life, just n ever of something so grim. Good. I've got to admit it, I'm glad you're with me. He wore a long-sleeved plaid shirt beneath a navy bomber jacket. Patrick tugged at the collar of his shirt and the n, with one hand, unfastened the top button. The way you handled yourself with Robertson, Cam, well, you were a real professional. I have total faith in you. And it sure doesn't hurt that you've been reading up on forensics. I could use some of that expertise. If she hadn't been so preoccupied with the murder she might hav e cringed at the compliment. When faced with Robertson's body the second time around she'd been able to hold her emotions in check . The difference was in knowing what was in front of her, of bein g mentally steeled. Stone-faced, she'd photographed the body, and both her father and Jacobs thought her a natural investigator, w hich she'd let them believe. And Justin, true to his promise, nev er said a word. But that was a different death, a different reaso n. This was a murder. Now they fell into silence. She looked out of the station wagon, to the pines that marched straight up the granite mountain in an endless evergreen army. The trees were thi ck at Smith Fork, and Cameryn suddenly wondered if there was bloo d there. And if that blood soaked into the earth to disappear lik e water into sand, what then? Were they supposed to dig it out? H er books hadn't told her anything about that--they probably hadn' t told her about a lot of things. She pictured blood and suddenly she had a strange thought: What happened to the blood they could n't reach? Would the tree roots drink up the blood molecules? If the roots leeched the blood, then the victim might become part of the trees themselves and live again, like the circle of life tha t Lyric always talked about. Or was it like her mammaw told her-- when you died, your spirit soared to heaven and you lived on stre ets paved with gold? Or were you just dead, like the deer she saw strapped to big pickup trucks that rumbled through Silverton eve ry fall. Robertson had looked plain dead. The old lady had looke d peaceful, sleeping, and thinking of that face Cameryn could bel ieve in some kind of angelic rest. But what happened with a murde r, when a soul was ripped out of a body and the person wasn't rea dy? Cameryn squeezed her eyes shut; it seemed as though her mind was jumping sideways again. She had to get a grip, to think clini cally instead of emotionally. She'd be no good at all if she didn 't get her thoughts clear. On her right she saw a sheet of water weeping from slick rock, and past that a wall of stone where the mountain had bee, Viking Juvenile, 2006, 2.5, Fodor's Travel Publications. Good. 5.5 x 1.0 x 8.7 Inches. Paperback. 1997. 343 pages. Cover worn <br>ROCK & ROLL TRAVELER GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND ROCK & ROLL TRAVELER GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND The Ultima te Guide to Famous Rock Hangouts Past and Present Tips and Rock & Roll Lore From the Beatles Liverpool and the Manchester of the Smiths and Oasis to the Dublin of U2 and Bawl, with an obligator y stop in London, where everyone who was ever anyone has partied and performed, this entertaining guide showcases a UK and Ireland you'll find nowhere else. Historic gigs: Jimi Hendrix at the Sc otch of St. James, the debut of Blind Faith at Hyde Park, the Bea tles' first gig as the Beatles. Pop shrines: London's Lyceum, Fil thy McNasty's, and the 100 club; Liverpool's The Cavern and Jacar anda; Manchester's Boardwalk. Unruly Rockers: Where the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, and other stars have lived fast and gotten into and out of trouble. Sound Supplie rs: Record stores (new, used, and vinyl), recording studios, and the best local clubs for catching rock in progress. Great Photos from Club and Band Managers, Rock Star Kin and More Behind the scenes at rock festivals: Beck at the Phoenix Festival, Stratford -Upon-Avon; the Wild Bunch spinning disks at the St. Paul's Festi val, Bistrol. Historic rock moments: Elvis arriving at Prestwick Airport; the Moody Blues' first photo session, Birmingham; U2 pro testing with Greenpeace at Sellafield nuclear reactor site. Live gigs: Liam Gallagher of Oasis at Moles in Bath; the Clash playing at the London Rock Against Racism concert; Motorhead at the Asto ria in London. ., Fodor's Travel Publications, 1997, 2.5, Hodder & Stoughton. Good. 3 x 16.6 x 23.7 centimetres (0.5. Paperback. 2009. 399 pages. Cover worn<br>The latest Kathryn Dance thriller from t he New York Times bestselling author of The Sleeping Doll! The M onterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadsid e crosses beside local highways -- not in memoriam, but as announ cements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly hor rific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the vi ctims that they've carelessly posted in blogs and on social netwo rking websites. The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigations foremost body language exper t. She and Deputy Michael O'Neil follow the leads to Travis Brigh am, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has in spired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Report. As the investigation progresses, Travis vanishes. Using techniques he learned as a brilliant participant in multiplayer o nline role-playing games, he easily eludes his pursuers and conti nues to track his victims. Among the obstacles Kathryn must hurdl e are politicians from Sacramento, paranoid parents and the blogg er himself, James Chilton, whose belief in the importance of blog ging and the new media threatens to derail the case and potential ly Dance's career. It is this threat that causes Dance to take de sperate and risky measures... In signature Jeffery Deaver style, Roadside Crosses is filled with dozens of plot twists, cliff-han gers and heartrending personal subplots. It is also a searing loo k at the accountability of blogging and life in the online world. Roadside Crosses is the third in Deaver's bestselling High-Tech Thriller Trilogy, along with The Blue Nowhere and The Broken Wind ow. Unabridged Compact Disk Includes a Bonus MP3 Cd of Jeffery D eaver's The Blue Nowhere! ., Hodder & Stoughton, 2009, 2.5, Jove. Very Good. 4.3 x 0.92 x 6.76 inches. Mass Market Paperback. 2008. 320 pages. <br>When environmental activist Ben Maki makes a disco very that could supply clean drinking water for millions of peopl e, he is unaware of the danger hidden deep within the ice that co uld bring about the apocalypse. Original. Editorial Reviews Fro m Publishers Weekly The battle for control of Antarctica's ice qu ickly turns into a fight for survival in this uneven debut thrill er. Idealistic and controversial (but corporate) environmentalist Ben Maki wants to bring fresh water to millions by melting the A ntarctic icebergs. As Maki's trial run progresses, a group of sci entists studying the icebergs begin falling prey to a deadly illn ess and to packs of vicious Antarctic rats. Maki and his colleagu es must abandon their efforts, hoping only to get out of Antarcti ca alive. While the scientific and ethical themes are fascinating and timely and the remoteness of the Antarctic makes an ideal th riller setting, readers will find it difficult to suspend their d isbelief long enough to find the rats scary rather than silly. Di onne would have done better to stick to the human capacity for mo nstrosity--something she touches on, but never fully explores--an d the surprisingly complex and overlapping motivations of the cha racters. (Oct.) Copyright ® Reed Business Information, a divisio n of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review Dionne is go ing to be an author to be reckoned with if her debut novel is any indication. A fascinating blend of science fiction and fact, it weaves a great deal of information into a complex story of enviro nmentalism, greed and potential Armageddon. Its ingenious plot, g enuine characters, superlative writing and nail-biting suspense w ill change the way you look at a bottle of water. Summary: Envi ronmentalist and engineer Ben Maki sees the possibilities for Ear th's future in a mountain-sized iceberg. If the Soldyne Corporati on can tap into the ice, it can provide clean drinking water for millions, and if the company's vision isn't all philanthropic, we ll, there are always trade-offs. But environmental terrorist Rebe cca Sweet lives for her cause -- free, fresh water for everyone - - and she will do anything to stop Soldyne. As their private ba ttle escalates, a group of researchers on a frozen tundra are dra wn into that private war. As the body count rises, the terror esc alates and, ultimately, it's up to Maki and two brilliant and plu cky scientists to put the clues together to prevent worldwide dis aster. --Pat Cooper --Romantic Times Book Review, October 2008 To p Pick Review It's rare to find a book that truly lives up to a ny from the first page... hype, but Karen Dionne's new scientific thriller FREEZING POINT opens with a physical tension that, trum ping cliche, never lets up. . . . Never pedantic, often fascinati ng, and always compulsively readable, Dionne's narrative voice is a uniquely compelling entertainment. Review It's rare to find a book that truly lives up to any from the first page... hype, but Karen Dionne's new scientific thriller FREEZING POINT opens with a physical tension that, trumping cliche, never lets up. . . . N ever pedantic, often fascinating, and always compulsively readabl e, Dionne's narrative voice is a uniquely compelling entertainmen t. Review When David Morrell lends a blurb to a new writer, it's a rare event and also a sign he read the book. When he calls her the New Michael Crichton, a reader takes notice. Fresh off the h igh from the arctic horrors of Dan Simmons' The Terror, Freezing Point heads off to the southern pole of chilly Antarctica. The pr emise? A company seeks icebergs to melt into drinkable water for an overpopulated planet. An eco-terrorist seeks to stop them at a ll costs. All the typical Crichton-esque elements are here but Di onne is no clone. From the opening The Perfect Storm meets Ice Age(2?) chapter which introduces the complex protagonist to the h igh tech science which seems all too plausible, Dionne paints a g rim picture of the near future despite the simplicity the company believes replenishing the world's water supply can be. The scien ce team which studies the fracturing ice shelves scrambles to fin d a cure for a mysterious illness that sweeps through their ranks , bringing to mind a non-supernatural The Thing scenario. Yet w hat might halt the mission is completely different than what one might think, a fly in the ointment which, and all who are involve d before the first bottle is delivered to the supermarket. Someth ing that at first seems as scary as in Tim Lebbon's White or Simm ons' creation but turns out to be very terrestrial and very norma l (but still creepy). The cause of the terror is both claustropho bic and global, eventually, something simple yet still render the reader to be more vigilant outdoors. To give more detail about t he cause of the virus would spoil the book and while at first it seemed petty, within a few pages it crept under the skin. Anyone near New York can definitely sympathize! (read the book to find o ut why it's so damned creepy!) This is a competent first novel for anyone looking in a Crichton, Clancy, or other techno-thrille rs. The technology is top notch yet explained in laymen's terms a nd none too timely, as the science is just about here. Yet even t hough this story has the big corporation and bigwig who will cont inue at any cost and some Native American lore, it doesn't allow itself to be bogged down in clichés and typical thriller plot hol es that seem to abound these days. Dionne draws some quality prot agonists who become real while the line of who the true antagonis ts really are only adds to the tension. David Morrell should reco mmend more books - he seems to have a keen eye on what makes a th riller rock the reader's world (or ice, in this case). -- Dave Si mms Review Idealistic and controversial (but corporate) environ mentalist Ben Maki wants to bring fresh water to millions by melt ing the Antarctic icebergs. As Maki's trial run progresses, a gro up of scientists studying the icebergs begin falling prey to a de adly illness and to packs of vicious Antarctic rats. Maki and his colleagues must abandon their efforts, hoping only to get out of Antarctica alive. . . . the scientific and ethical themes are fa scinating and timely and the remoteness of the Antarctic makes an ideal thriller setting. Review Idealistic and controversial (bu t corporate) environmentalist Ben Maki wants to bring fresh water to millions by melting the Antarctic icebergs. As Maki's trial r un progresses, a group of scientists studying the icebergs begin falling prey to a deadly illness and to packs of vicious Antarcti c rats. Maki and his colleagues must abandon their efforts, hopin g only to get out of Antarctica alive. . . . the scientific and e thical themes are fascinating and timely and the remoteness of th e Antarctic makes an ideal thriller setting. Book Description Wh o owns Antarctica's ice: big business, environmentalists or Mothe r Nature? In this timely, terrifying thriller, green-minded Ben M aki's mission is to melt the polar ice caps to create fresh drink ing water for millions of people. Instead, he inadvertently unlea shes a horrifying apocalypse as project scientists fall prey to b oth vicious Antarctic rats and an encroaching deadly illness that threatens all of mankind. Filled with fascinating science and th orny ethical questions, Freezing Point takes horror to a chilling new degree. About the Author Detroit native Karen Dionne droppe d out of the University of Michigan in the 1970s and moved to Mic higan's Upper Peninsula wilderness with her husband and infant da ughter as part of the back-to-the-land movement. During the next thirty winters, her indoor pursuits included stained glass, weavi ng, and constructing N-scale model train layouts. Eventually, h er creative interests turned to writing. Karen's short stories ha ve appeared in Bathtub Gin, The Adirondack Review, Futures Myster ious Anthology Magazine and Thought Magazine. She worked as Senio r Fiction Editor for NFG, a print literary journal out of Toronto , Canada, before founding Backspace, an Internet-based writers or ganization with over 850 members in a dozen countries. Karen is a member of Sisters in Crime, the Mystery Writers of America, an d the International Thriller Writers, where she serves as Debut A uthors Committee Chair. She and her husband live in Detroit's nor thern suburbs. Freezing Point is her first novel. </div ., Jove, 2008, 3, The University of Wisconsin. , 1969. Journal. Good. Soft cover. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; softcovers; staple-bound; ex-library; light foxing of covers; light creasing of corners of wraps and leaves; o/w in good condition. ., The University of Wisconsin., 1969, 2.5, United States Government Printing Office. , 1923. Journal. Good. No Binding. ORIGINAL 1923 ARTICLE; disbound from USGS Bulletin; no covers; chips/nicks along gutter where disbound, o/w in good condition. ., United States Government Printing Office., 1923, 2.5, Bloomsbury Continuum. Illustrated. Paperback. Used; Good. Simply Brit – welcome to our online used book store, where affordability meets great quality. Dive into a world of captivating reads without breaking the bank. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there’s something for every literary palate. All orders are shipped within 24 hours and our lightning fast-delivery within 48 hours coupled with our prompt customer service ensures a smooth journey from ordering to delivery. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. 06/23/2011, Bloomsbury Continuum, 2.5<

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