Author: Hayley Patton Publisher: Silver Frog Press ISBN: 1916096824 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 367
Book Description
An ancient spell gone wrong. A legacy of time travel. The latest unsuspecting heir. Fifteen-year-old Sophia McAskie can see an object's past just by touching it. She doesn’t know why. She can’t control it. And she doesn’t know she can time travel. Finding out will be an epic adventure... One day, while cleaning the grandfather clock in her dad’s antiques shop, Sophia accidentally sends herself and her brother tumbling into the house of a Victorian gentleman. Before she can figure out what happened, a mysterious time traveller with sinister plans demands their custody, igniting a gruelling chase through unfamiliar times and foreign lands. Lost and on the run, with no idea how to get home, the siblings win the help of an intrepid local boy in their battle for survival. But in a web of magic and hidden agendas, who can they trust? When a devious figure tears the siblings apart, Sophia must master her powers if she is ever going to find her brother and return home to safety. If she fails, they’ll be 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: Hayley Patton Publisher: Silver Frog Press ISBN: 1916096824 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 367
Book Description
An ancient spell gone wrong. A legacy of time travel. The latest unsuspecting heir. Fifteen-year-old Sophia McAskie can see an object's past just by touching it. She doesn’t know why. She can’t control it. And she doesn’t know she can time travel. Finding out will be an epic adventure... One day, while cleaning the grandfather clock in her dad’s antiques shop, Sophia accidentally sends herself and her brother tumbling into the house of a Victorian gentleman. Before she can figure out what happened, a mysterious time traveller with sinister plans demands their custody, igniting a gruelling chase through unfamiliar times and foreign lands. Lost and on the run, with no idea how to get home, the siblings win the help of an intrepid local boy in their battle for survival. But in a web of magic and hidden agendas, who can they trust? When a devious figure tears the siblings apart, Sophia must master her powers if she is ever going to find her brother and return home to safety. If she fails, they’ll be 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
Book Description
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
Book Description
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
Book Description
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: Penguin ISBN: 1101625155 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 134
Book Description
THE NEW GHOST FINDER NOVEL from the bestselling author of the Nightside and Secret Histories series... Meet the operatives of the Carnacki Institute—JC Chance: the team leader, brave, charming, and almost unbearably arrogant; Melody Chambers: the science geek who keeps the antisupernatural equipment running; and Happy Jack Palmer: the terminally gloomy telepath. Their mission: Do Something About Ghosts. Lay them to rest, send them packing, or just kick their nasty ectoplasmic arses… Their latest assignment takes JC and the team 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. Then one story rings true: the tale of a traveler trapped by an unusual thunderstorm who 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 that he has always feared...
Author: Holly Tipper Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1039133312 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 271
Book Description
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: Vicki Hinze Publisher: BelleBooks ISBN: 1611940648 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 267
Book Description
"[A}clever fusion of humor, mystery, and romance." - Publishers Weekly "Powerful and uplifting." - Literary Times Whimsy. Serenity. And a Touch of Magic. The Seascape Inn. Marketing executive Maggie Wright and artist T.J. MacGregor are linked by a mysterious car accident that killed Maggie's cousin, Carolyn, T.J.'s fiancée. When Maggie arrives on the Maine coast determined to get answers from T.J., she discovers a tortured man who is bound to the Seascape Inn by supernatural forces. Despite the tragedy that stands between them, Maggie and T.J. begin to fall in love, seeking answers and a healing spirit they may never achieve. Vicki Hinze is the award-winning author of 24 novels, 4 nonfiction books and hundreds of articles, published in as many as sixty-three countries. She is recognized by Who's Who in the World as an author and as an educator. Visit her at http://www.vickihinze.com.
Author: Alexander McCall Smith Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 0748110798 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 400
Book Description
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: Nibi Soto Publisher: Thornock International ISBN: 9780615288253 Category : Science fiction, American Languages : en Pages : 324
Book Description
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: Mary Shelley Publisher: e-artnow ISBN: 802689829X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 23204
Book Description
Are you ready to step over the edge? This grand horror collection contains the greatest supernatural mysteries, gothic novels, dark romances & macabre tales: Bram Stoker: Dracula The Squaw… John William Polidori: The Vampyre James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontillado The Masque of the Red Death The Premature Burial Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal The Evil Eye Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie Bowen: Black Magic Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental… H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House… Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood The Haunted House… Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel The Woman in White Richard Marsh: The Beetle Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet… Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla… Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan… William Hope Hodgson: The Ghost Pirates The Night Land E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Terror by Night… Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birth Mark The House of the Seven Gables… Thomas Hardy: What the Shepherd Saw The Grave by the Handpost Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Guy de Maupassant: The Horla Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto William Thomas Beckford: Vathek Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire Rudyard Kipling: My Own True Ghost Story The City of Dreadful Night The Mark of the Beast… Stanley G. Weinbaum: The Dark Other Émile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian: The Man-Wolf… Amelia B. Edwards: The Phantom Coach… Pedro De Alarçon: The Nail Walter Hubbell: The Great Amherst Mystery Some Real American Ghosts Some Chinese Ghosts…
Author: Hayley Patton
Author: Hayley Patton
Author: G. F. C. Gordon
Author: Tom Stonier
Author: Sarah Maine
Author: Simon R. Green
Author: Holly Tipper
Author: Vicki Hinze
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Author: Nibi Soto
Author: Mary Shelley