Author: Hayley Patton
Publisher: Silver Frog Press
ISBN: 1916096824
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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An ancient spell gone wrong. A legacy of time travel. The latest unsuspecting heir. Sophia just wants to earn enough money to go climbing by helping her father in his antiques shop. But when strange visions interrupt her work, she struggles to understand their meaning. Little does she know that they depict the past. Flung back in time with her younger brother in tow, Sophia must get to grips with life in Victorian England before they make one mistake too many. But a dangerous man is watching. When he discovers their secret, the siblings embark on an arduous journey through distant lands that will push them to the brink of survival. With no way home and her brother’s future in her hands, Sophia must learn to control her gift or risk losing everything. One wrong move, and they’ll suffer a fate far worse than being trapped in the past forever. Beyond the Longcase Clock is the first book in the YA fantasy time-travel series Chronicles of the Chiliad. If you like fast-paced adventure, vivid historical settings, and unpredictable magical powers, then you’ll love the first instalment in Hayley Patton’s compelling new series. Buy Beyond the Longcase Clock to embark on this exciting journey today!

Author: G. F. C. Gordon
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447488989
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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This vintage book contains a complete guide to clocking making. This text is a veritable must-have for anyone with a keen interest in clocks and watches, and includes detailed, interesting information on the history of clock making, descriptions of the inner machinations and composition of clocks, and much more besides. Although old, the information contained herein is timeless, and will be of as much utility to modern readers as it was to those contemporary with its original publication. The chapters of this book include: A history of clocks and watches, Materials, Tools, Wheels and pinions, Escapements, Pendulums, Motive power, Striking mechanisms, Lantern clocks, Long case clocks, Bracket clocks, The age of a movement, Clock hands, British clocks for export, etcetera. We are republishing this antiquarian volume now in a modern, affordable edition complete with a new introduction on the history of clocks and watches.

Author: Tom Stonier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1447118359
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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Preamble The emergence of machine intelligence during the second half of the twentieth century is the most important development in the evolution of this planet since the origin of life two to three thousand million years ago. The emergence of machine intelligence within the matrix of human society is analogous to the emergence, three billion years ago, of complex, self-replicating molecules within the matrix of an energy-rich molecular soup - the first step in the evolution of life. The emergence of machine intelligence within a human social context has set into motion irreversible processes which will lead to an evolutionary discontinuity. Just as the emergence of "Life" represented a qualitatively different form of organisation of matter and energy, so will pure "Intelligence" represent a qualitatively different form of organisation of matter, energy and life. The emergence of machine intelligence presages the progression of the human species as we know it, into a form which, at present, we would not recognise as "human". As Forsyth and Naylor (1985) have pointed out: "Humanity has opened two Pandora's boxes at the same time, one labelled genetic engineering, the other labelled knowledge engineering. What we have let out is not entirely clear, but it is reasonable to hazard a guess that it contains the seeds of our successors".

Author: Sarah Maine
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473639670
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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From the author of The House Between Tides, winner of the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year, comes an atmospheric and stunningly evocative historical novel. Perfect for fans of Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent. 'Maine writes beautifully' THE TIMES 'Riveting' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Scotland,1893. Nineteen-year-old Evelyn Ballantyre, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, has rarely strayed from her family's estate in the Scottish Borders. She was once close to her philanthropist father, but his silence over what really happened on the day a poacher was shot on estate land has come between them. An invitation to accompany her father to Canada is a chance for Evelyn to escape her limited existence. But once there, on the wild and turbulent Nipigon river, she is shocked to discover that their guide is James Douglas, Ballantyre's former stable hand, and once her friend. He disappeared the night of the murder, charged with the shooting. Evelyn never believed that James was guilty - and her father's role in the killing has always been mysterious. What does he have to hide? In the wild landscape of a new world, far from the constraints of polite society, the secrets and lies surrounding that night are finally stripped away, with dramatic consequences. ***** 'Stunning' Booklist 'Maine's gift of setting the mood shines' RT Reviews

Author: Simon R. Green
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1784297070
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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The Carnacki Institute is all about ghosts - or at least, keeping them under control. Their latest assignment sees JC and the team sent to a small country village, site of a famously haunted inn. At first, JC thinks that the spirits in the King's Arms are more the stuff of urban legend than anything that needs the Ghost Finders' expertise. But one story rings true: the tale of a traveller trapped in the inn by an unusual thunderstorm. She retired to her room for the night - and vanished. Trapped by an unusual thunderstorm - like the one that begins raging outside shortly after they arrive . . . As the team investigates, they are forced, one by one, to face some hard truths about themselves, their relationships and the haunting itself - truths that may push Happy Jack over the edge into the madness he has always feared . . . Spirits from Beyond is the fourth title in New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green's Ghost Finders series.

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0748110798
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, has turned his hand to humour. The delightful result is a creation of comic genius. For in the unnaturally tall form of Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, we are invited to meet a memorable character whose sublime insouciance is a blend of the cultivated pomposity of Frasier Crane and of Inspecteur Clouseau's hapless gaucherie. Von Igelfeld inhabits the rarefied world of the Institute of Romance Philology at Regensburg, a world he shares with his equally tall and equally ridiculous colleagues, Professors Florianus Prinzel and Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer. Their unlikely adventures are described in three deliciously funny instalments: Portuguese Irregular Verbs, The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs and At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances.

Author: Holly Tipper
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039133312
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Alph O’leary has a life nobody would be jealous of. Wartime London is boring, dull, and anxiety inducing. His tense relationship with his father doesn’t help with almost every word exchanged seeming to drive them apart even further. However, on a day like any other, Alph happens upon a set of instructions. Depicting a mysterious creature and addressed to Norway, he runs away on a quest in search of their rightful owner. Lured into a hidden kingdom full of beasts and magic, Alph finds himself wrapped up in a plot to bring an end to the destructive path of an ancient monster: the Nuckelavee. With his young son suddenly missing, Timothy O’leary is in no way prepared to rush across Norway after him. Trying to live a peaceful life whilst dealing with the challenges of being a single father and his own past trauma, his world is thrown into chaos. Faced with horrifying monsters and the looming frigid North, Timothy must find every shred of courage in him to save Alph.

Author: Nibi Soto
Publisher: Thornock International
ISBN: 9780615288253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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All Mattie Bott and Trevor Karington have ever known were unusually happy, stable lives until Mattie begins to see into the future and witnesses historical events appearing on particles of light. She is also able to talk to the dead, move at lightning speed, and shift her body through solid walls. Mattie and Trevor must learn how to apply their new abilities to stop the Interloper, an illicit time traveler from the future whose goal is to rule time by capturing the rings of Prather Mendell from Mattie's dowry.

Author: D.N. Dettwiler
Publisher: Elm Hill
ISBN: 1400326281
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Travel to the future...3030, to meet the Team, a group of friends determined to love not only each other but those that hate them the most. What will become of their convictions under fire? Will they truly give it all, or will their good intentions fall flat? And what if it is all for nothing?

Author: Janet Hancock
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1912924633
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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'Beyond the Samovar' is a gripping, engaging story of escape, love and loss.In 1919, a young English couple, Livvy and Peter, leave Baku, which the previous year had become the capital of an independent Azerbaijan. While Livvy is reluctant to leave her home, Peter sees no future for Britons in the new country and treats their escape as an adventure. With their baby, they bluff and bribe their way across Bolshevik and White Russian territory to Archangel on the north coast of Russia, hoping to board a British ship. Only two of them ever manage to reach home.About the Author:Born in Worcestershire, Janet Hancock has lived in Dorset since 1991. For many years she taught English in the south of England to Arab and African officers. The germ of Beyond the Samovar was a newspaper reference to an unnamed Englishwoman caught up in the 1917 revolution in Baku, which at that time was in Russia. Janet enjoys choral singing and cultivating her courtyard garden.