Set 100 years ago in Boston Fortunes Rocks is a classic of literary & romantic storytelling. Fourteen-year-old Olympic Biddeford is spending the summer with her parents at their seasonal house at Fortunes Rocks. Her father handles her education himself & is in fact a publisher of mildly liberal literature. One author he admires who also practises as a physician comes to visit the house. 40 years old married with four children he still embarks on an affair with the adolescent girl. They have a swift passionate summer torn apart when they are discovered together during Olympics fifteenth birthday party. She is taken back to Boston her parents are mortified & remove themselves from society. When Olympic is delivered of a baby boy nine months later he is taken from her & she finds herself in exile at a ladies college & then as a governess. She decides she must get her child back which means returning to Fortunes Rocks... This sensuality of a girls rite of passage the descriptions of landscape weather music & light are vintage Shreve & her seventh novel will thrill her many admirers. ...

Fortunes Unexpected Groom Jordana Fortune never expected to be expecting after her impulsive encounter with gorgeous pilot Tanner Redmond. But when Tanner found out he ran straight to her door demanding matrimony. Yet his blushing bride was hesitating
- holding out for the one thing Tanner believes he cant give... Fortunes Perfect Match Emily Fortune had given up on finding Mr Right...when she met airport manager Max Allen. But after hed lost baby Anthony he was heartbroken. & now hes fallen for a woman intent on having a baby. Is Max headed for another heartbreak? Or will Emily be the one to finally make him whole?
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This is the most authoritative & readable account to date of just how British Columbia became British & how Oregon Washington & Alaska became American. By the closing years of the 18th century the stage was set for a major international confrontation over the Northwest Coast. Imperial Russia was firmly established in Alaska Spain was extending its trade routes north from Mexico Captain James Cook had claimed Northwest America for England & Captain Robert Gray had claimed the Columbia River region for the United States. Open warfare between Spain & England was narrowly averted during the Nootka Sound Controversy of 1789-1794 & again between Britain & the US in the War of 1812 when a British warship seized American property in Oregon. In Fortune's a River" noted historian Barry Gough re-examines this Imperial struggle for possession of the future British Columbia & fully evokes its peculiar drama. It turned out the great powers were reluctant conquerors in this area. Russia & Spain withdrew of their own accord. Britain was in a position to dominate but couldn't be bothered. The US vaguely wished to fulfill its manifest destiny by securing the Northwest Coast but it was not a priority. In the end the battle was carried on by private enterprise & individuals of vision. Alexander Mackenzie established an overland route to the coast & with his partners Simon Fraser & David Thompson set up a network of fur trading forts south to Oregon. US president Thomas Jefferson countered by sending out the Lewis & Clark expedition to strengthen American claims & an American entrepreneur John Jacob Astor established a lonely US outpost at Astoria. Gough examines each of the players in this territorial drama bringing them fully to life & vividly recounting their hardships & struggles. This is a major historical work that reads like a wild west adventure." ...

Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying the author
- a seasoned correspondent
- took to travelling by rail road & sea.

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This collection of pithy brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories Barthelmes earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic haughty sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings but it is style rather than content which takes precedence. ...

This is a new edition of the clearest most authoritative guide to fossils. Packed with more than 1 000 amazing photographs of over 500 species this handbook is designed to cut through the complicated identification process & enable you to recognize species instantly. It covers everything from what a fossil is how they are classified to how to start a collection. Perfect for fossil lovers
- this is a comprehensive guide for collectors.
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Highlighting recent projects Foster + Partners: Catalogue traces the development of the Foster studio from its formation in the 1960s to the present. More than 120 buildings & projects are featured in stunning full-color photographs & complemented by architectural sketches & drawings. The book examines the distinctive features of Fosters work & shows the full range of the practices achievements as urban planners architects & industrial designers. Organized by themes it

Includes:: the studios latest buildings such as the new Beijing Airport the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. the Hearst Tower in New York the Great Court at the British Museum in London & the distinctive new headquarters tower for Swiss Re??????winner of the 2004 Stirling Prize. Including numerous current works as well as buildings that showcase the essential characteristics of Fosters distinctive design philosophy this book presents the most comprehensive overview of the renowned architects career to date.

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Kate left her seaside home town of Lyme Regis for the bright lights of London when she was eighteen & never looked back. She had it all: the glamorous career the lovely house the gorgeous husb&. But now she's back: unemployed separated & holed up in her dead granny's bungalow. Worse still she's forced to share the bungalow with Ben the clueless & domestically challenged fiance of her bossy sister Prue. Ben is a man in need of simple instruction. & Kate is a woman in need of a project. So she decides to secretly train Ben her foster husband as a selfless pre-wedding gift to her sister. But Kate may still have a few lessons of her own to learn... ...

Three book editors jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic & the occult are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game but then their game starts to take over the deaths start mounting & they are forced into a frantic search for the truth. ...

Foul Play: the second book in this crime fighting series by Tom Palmer. Danny is obsessed with two things: football
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