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. ...

Winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize The year is 1918 & in Iceland the erupting volcano Katla can be seen colouring the sky night & day from the streets of Reykjavik. Yet life in the small capital carries on as usual, despite the natural disaster, a shortage of coal &, in the outside world, the Great War grinding on. There, sixteen-year-old Mani Steinn lives for the new fashion
- the movies. Asleep he dreams altered versions of them, their tapestry of events threaded with strands from his own life. Awake he hovers on the fringes of society. But then the Spanish flu epidemic comes ashore, killing hundreds & driving thousands into their sick beds. The shadows of existence deepen & for Mani everything changes. Capturing Iceland at a moment of profound transformation, this is the story of a misfit in a place where life & death, reality & imagination, secrets & revelations jostle for dominance. With not a word wasted, this mesmerising & original novel is the work of a major international writer.
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Winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize` An extraordinary & original writer` A.S. Byatt on Sjon Reykjavik, 1918. The eruptions of the Katla volcano darken the sky night & day. Yet despite the natural disaster, the shortage of coal & the Great War still raging in the outside world, life in the small capital goes on as always. Sixteen-year-old Mani Steinn lives for the movies. Awake, he lives on the fringes of society. Asleep, he dreams in pictures, the threads of his own life weaving through the tapestry of the films he loves. When the Spanish flu epidemic comes ashore, killing hundreds of townspeople & forcing thousands to their sick beds, the shadows that linger at the edges of existence grow darker & Mani is forced to re-evaluate both the society around him & his role in it. Evoking the moment when Iceland`s saga culture met the new narrative form of the cinema & when the isolated island became swept up in global events, this is the story of a misfit transformed by his experiences in a world where life & death, reality & imagination, secrets & revelations jostle for dominance. ...

Map No. 0179, Moorduo
- Bad Kohlgrub
- Bad Bayesoien, in a series of hiking maps from Kompass providing extensive coverage

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This is the most comprehensive survey into mooring equipment yet undertaken & the results are essential information for surveyors, inspectors & ship operators concerned with proper use & maintenance. The book demonstrates, with the use of photographs, appropriate & inappropriate use of mooring equipment. The author draws on his picture library from over 1, 000 ship visits to show how lack of awareness & knowledge can lead to unsafe practices. Different components of mooring systems are described & the consequences of correct & incorrect use shown. ...

This well-researched book sets out to explain the principles involved when ships use lines & anchors to hold them in place. The particular value of this book lies in the illustrations & the seamanlike text, which is based on theoretical principles but explained in a practical way. The Foreword is written by the former Secretary General of the IMO, Efthimios Mitropoulos, & the book is supported by the major international associations concerned with ship operations. ...