The Ferocious Summer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ferocious Summer write by Meredith Hooper. This book was released on 2008. The Ferocious Summer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Synopsis Antarctica's capacity to create, store and disperse ice is critical to the way our planet functions. But along the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula there has been a 40 per cent decrease in the mean annual sea ice extent since 1979. The daily life of a few thousand Adelie penguins became critical evidence of real, incontrovertible climate change. Meredith Hooper worked with key scientists in bases, on ice breakers and in research vessels. Her story focuses on the work and ideas of individual scientists and on the local animals. In it she memorably brings an outsider's non-specialist awareness to the crucial understanding of what is happening, now, to the planet we share.
A Shadow in Summer
A Shadow in Summer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Shadow in Summer write by Daniel Abraham. This book was released on 2007-04-01. A Shadow in Summer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From debut author Daniel Abraham comes A Shadow in Summer, the first book in the Long Price Quartet fantasy series. The powerful city-state of Saraykeht is a bastion of peace and culture, a major center of commerce and trade. Its economy depends on the power of the captive spirit, Seedless, an andat bound to the poet-sorcerer Heshai for life. Enter the Galts, a juggernaut of an empire committed to laying waste to all lands with their ferocious army. Saraykeht, though, has always been too strong for the Galts to attack, but now they see an opportunity. If they can dispose of Heshai, Seedless's bonded poet-sorcerer, Seedless will perish and the entire city will fall. With secret forces inside the city, the Galts prepare to enact their terrible plan. In the middle is Otah, a simple laborer with a complex past. Recruited to act as a bodyguard for his girlfriend's boss at a secret meeting, he inadvertently learns of the Galtish plot. Otah finds himself as the sole hope of Saraykeht, either he stops the Galts, or the whole city and everyone in it perishes forever. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Summer Demands
The Summer Demands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Summer Demands write by Deborah Shapiro. This book was released on 2019-06-04. The Summer Demands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Taking place over a single summer at an abandoned Massachusetts summer camp, this “sun–saturated tale of love and longing” explores the sting of seduction and how desire and ambition can shift through time and experience (Chicago Tribune). After Emily inherits an abandoned summer camp in Massachusetts just before her fortieth birthday, she and her husband David move onto the property with grand plans to fix it up. Instead, Emily finds herself drifting, grieving her recent miscarriage and her own perceived lack of ambition, while David works in the city. Until the day Emily discovers that their new property includes an unexpected guest. Living undetected in one of the cabins is a magnetic twenty–two–year–old named Stella. Their immediate and intense connection expands and contracts over the course of an single summer, calling all of Emily’s relationships, including her marriage, into closer scrutiny. As the two women begin spending time together―talking and drinking, swimming in the lake, watching seductive French films through long afternoons―Emily finds herself playing at performing various roles relative to Stella: friend, mother, lover. Each encounter they share promises to bring Emily a little closer to an understanding of her own identity, but it also puts her marriage and future at risk. How much does she really know about Stella? Why is Stella here, and what does she want, and what might she take with her, if and when she leaves? Named one of the best books of the summer by O, The Oprah Magazine, this “sun–saturated tale of love and longing” is a “smart, funny, nuanced and seductive” read (Chicago Tribune). Startling yet dreamlike, The Summer Demands marks Deborah Shapiro as a master at capturing complex relationships and the electricity of what passes unsaid between people.
The Ferocious Engine of Democracy
The Ferocious Engine of Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ferocious Engine of Democracy write by Michael P. Riccards. This book was released on 2000-01-01. The Ferocious Engine of Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Opinions will vary widely on all the presidents, but this work will make those opinions more penetrating and judicious.— James MacGregor Burns
Killer Summer
Killer Summer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Killer Summer write by Ridley Pearson. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Killer Summer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It begins as a heist in Sun Valley, Idaho-until the local sheriff discovers a more sinister underlying plan. The crime gets more personal. The stakes are raised, and nothing is as it seems.
