A tale of smuggling set among the cliffs, caves, & downs of Dorset. Everyone in the tiny village of Moonfleet lives by the sea one way or another, so it`s no surprise when young John Trenchard gets involved in the smuggling trade. Forced to flee England with a price on his head, John little guesses the adventures & trials he will have before he sees Moonfleet again or the change in his fortunes when he does. ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year * A Washington Post Book of the Year * An NPR Book of the Year * A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year * A Slate Book of the Year` Probably Chabon`s greatest, a piece of sustained writing that will be hard to see outdone in 2017` The Times` Entirely sure footed, propulsive, the work of a master at his very best. The brilliance of Moonglow stands as a strident defence of the form itself, a bravura demonstration of the endless mutability & versatility of the novel` Observer` The world, like the Tower of Babel or my grandmother`s deck of cards, was made out of stories, & it was always on the verge of collapse.` Moonglow unfolds as a deathbed confession. An old man, his tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, his memory stirred by the imminence of death, tells stories to his grandson, uncovering bits & pieces of a history long buried. Why did he try to strangle a former business partner with a telephone cord? What was he thinking when he & a buddy set explosives on a bridge in Washington, D.C.? What did he feel while he hunted down Wernher von Braun in Germany? & what did he see in the young girl he met in Baltimore after returning home from the war? From the Jewish slums of pre-war Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of a New York prison, from the heyday of the space programme to the twilight of `the American Century`, Moonglow collapses an era into a single life & a lifetime into a single week. ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year * A Washington Post Book of the Year * An NPR Book of the Year * A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year * A Slate Book of the Year ` Probably Chabon`s greatest, a piece of sustained writing that will be hard to see outdone in 2017` The Times ` Entirely sure footed, propulsive, the work of a master at his very best. The brilliance of Moonglow stands as a strident defence of the form itself, a bravura demonstration of the endless mutability & versatility of the novel` Observer ` The world, like the Tower of Babel or my grandmother`s deck of cards, was made out of stories, & it was always on the verge of collapse.` Moonglow unfolds as a deathbed confession. An old man, his tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, his memory stirred by the imminence of death, tells stories to his grandson, uncovering bits & pieces of a history long buried. Why did he try to strangle a former business partner with a telephone cord? What was he thinking when he & a buddy set explosives on a bridge in Washington, D.C.? What did he feel while he hunted down Wernher von Braun in Germany? & what did he see in the young girl he met in Baltimore after returning home from the war? From the Jewish slums of pre-war Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of a New York prison, from the heyday of the space programme to the twilight of `the American Century`, Moonglow collapses an era into a single life & a lifetime into a single week. ...

Twenty-something Daria is an intelligent, bilingual secretary who should have her pick of the men in Odessa
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Storm clouds gather over Lily & Robert`s summer when criminal mastermind the Jack of Diamonds appears. For Jack is searching for the mysterious Moonlocket
- but that`s not the only thing he wants. Suddenly, dark secrets from Robert`s past plunge him into danger. Jack is playing a cruel game that Robert is a part of. Now Lily & Malkin, the mechanical fox, must stay one step ahead before Jack plays his final, deadly card...
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA CHILDREN`S BOOK AWARD 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE YA BOOK PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CBI BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLi PPA AWARD 2018 ` Devastating.. . Any reader with a heart will weep buckets` Sunday Times Book of the Week They think I hurt someone. But I didn`t. You hear? Cos people are gonna be telling you all kinds of lies. I need you to know the truth. Joe hasn`t seen his brother for ten years, & it`s for the most brutal of reasons. Ed is on death row. But now Ed`s execution date has been set, & Joe is determined to spend those last weeks with him, no matter what other people think.. . From one-time winner & two-time Carnegie Medal shortlisted author Sarah Crossan, this poignant, stirring, huge-hearted novel asks big questions. What value do you place on life? What can you forgive? & just how do you say goodbye? Review: Devastating.. . Any reader with a heart will weep buckets * Sunday Times, Book of the Week * Mistrust, forgiveness & the premeditated stripping away of a future, distorting many other lives in unfathomable ways, are communicated through Crossan`s spare, expressive free verse, with understated, heart-breaking clarity * Guardian * Impossible to put down
- its agonising & informative plot, along with the poetry of the writing, makes for a powerful story that should appeal to anyone over 13 with a heart & a love for storytelling.. . Deep, light, witty & authentic * The Times * An outstanding & daring achievement.. . Bravely tackles the issue of capital punishment, putting an all too human face on the protagonists * Irish Examiner * Brilliant.. . An affecting story about the power of sibling love.. . One of the most important writers of YA fiction around * Times Educational Supplement * Powerful * Irish Times * One of the most thought-provoking, tender stories of the year * IMAGE * Spare & sad & angry, but Moonrise is also laced with nuggets of happiness thanks to how beautifully the brothers` relationship is built. This is an important, & strangely lovely, read * Sunday Post * Prizes: Short-listed for CBI Book of the Year Award 2018. Author Biography: Sarah Crossan has lived in Dublin, London & New York, & now lives in Hertfordshire. She graduated with a degree in philosophy & literature before training as an English & drama teacher at Cambridge University. Since completing a masters in creative writing, she has been working to promote creative writing in schools. sarahcrossan.com @ Sarah Crossan
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Launched in 1989, Project Galileo, NASA's most ambitious interplanetary mission, came to an end on 21 September 2003 when Galileo disintegrated in Jupiter's atmosphere, nearly nine years after it entered orbit around the planet. During this time, it made a number of startling discoveries & transmitted more than 6, 000 images of Jupiter & its moons. With a selection of stunning photographs, this book explores Jupiter's moons: Io, simmering with over 100 active cauldrons; Europa, encrusted with salt-stained ice that may hide a sea; Ganymede, with its own magnetic field; & Callisto, one of the oldest & most unchanged places in our solar system; as well as Jupiter's inner moons & thirty-two minor moons. It shows that the Jovian system is like none we know. With an afterword by John R. Casani, the original project manager for the Galileo mission. ...

As sharp & delicious as a Thai red curry, the beautifully-crafted interlinking tales of Moonshine in the Morning present an unforgettable cast of strong-minded women & their wayward husbands clinging to village life in Thailand before the relentless advance of modernity. How can Mother Nong & Mother Pensri save their menfolk from terrifying visions of 'widow ghosts', when Uncle Lai's moonshine stall does such brisk business? What possessed Mother Suree to cut off her husband's proudest appendage & attach it to a high-flying balloon during the festival of Loy Krathong? & is the sacred banyan tree dying because the men are taking bets on its size, or because the women are lighting too many oil lamps under its ancient boughs? Achieving both charm & authenticity, debut novelist Andrea Mc Nicoll subtly builds up her characters & themes to create a world so distant in its geography, & yet so familiar in its intimate human drama, as to be utterly irresistible. ...

Burkhard Bilger's beautifully written, wonderfully funny & movingly nostalgic book explores the surviving (and often dying) folk traditions of the American South, from the eating of squirrel brains in Kentucky, cock-fighting in Oklahoma, frog-ranching in Georgia & coon-hunting all over, to the noodling for flatheads (fishing for catfish, using your fingers as bait & your arm as a hook) of the title. Caught between the possibility of survival through commercialisation or gradual decline (or in the case of squirrel-brain-eating, threatened by fears of Mad Squirrel Disease), many of these activities will be lucky to survive far into the new century. Burkhard Bilger's book is a wonderful elegy, hilarious, fascinating & touching, to a threatened tradition of American eccentricity & independence, but it is also a celebration of the survival of local folk culture in the era of the global triumph of Nike, Barbie & Coca-Cola, a survival that persists in America's own back yard. Narrative non-fiction at its best. ...

In December 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 captured images depicting Earth hanging like a lonely fruit in the vast darkness of space. The social & spiritual shock of that photograph—and those which followed—never fully diminished, even as Apollo missions followed at an incredible pace, including the first lunar landing on July 20, 1969. Moonshots is the definitive photographic chronicle of NASA space exploration—a giant slipcased book featuring more than 200 remarkable photographs from that eventful era created almost exclusively on large-format Hasselblad cameras. Though a number of these images have been reproduced in books & magazines over the years, one attribute of this incredible collection has seldom been exploited: the sheer size & resolution of the photography. Aerospace author Piers Bizony scoured NASA’s archives of Hasselblad film frames to assemble the space fan’s ultimate must-have book—a gorgeous large-format hardcover presented in a heavy slipcase with die-cuts to represent the phases of the moon. This resulting volume extracts a stunning selection of photographs captured by astronauts using Hasselblad equipment, many of them seldom previously published, let alone in such a lavish package. The Apollo voyages form the centerpiece of this amazing collection, but equally fabulous images from precursor Gemini missions are also featured, along with later photographs chronicling Space Shuttle missions & even the construction of the International Space Station. ...