![]() With "powerful tension that holds the reader to the story like a pin to a magnet" ( The Houston Post), The Dead Zone is a "faultlessly ntinuously engrossing" ( Los Angeles Times) novel of second sight.Ībout the Author Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. ![]() When Johnny has a disturbing vision after he shakes the hand of an ambitious and amoral politician, he must decide if he should take drastic action to change the future. ![]() His fiancée married another man during his coma and people clamor for him to solve their problems. ![]() Many consider his talent a gift Johnny feels cursed. Johnny Smith awakens from a five-year coma after his car accident and discovers that he can see people's futures and pasts when he touches them. About the Book "A #1 national bestseller about a man who wakes up from a five-year coma able to see people's futures and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in the dead zone-a "compulsive page-turner" (the Atlanta Journal-Constitution)"-īook Synopsis Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine A #1 New York Times bestseller about a man who wakes up from a five-year coma able to see people's futures and the terrible fate awaiting mankind-a "compulsive page-turner" ( The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). ![]()
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![]() ![]() But to escape, Neil and David are going to have to figure out a way to put the past behind them and work together. Once they realize they're lost, each moment is precious as they band together facing a cave that takes no prisoners. Hopelessly lost, angry, hungry, and terrified, the boys are willing to do just about anything to find a way out of the cave before they end up killing one another. Joyce Sweeney 3.88 116 ratings8 reviews When the four boys enter the cave, they're armed with some food and supplies and their innermost secrets and fears. As tension builds between the boys, Neil and David try to address what they've kept hidden for years: the truth about David that can never be forgotten-or forgiven. Neil knows it's not David's fault that they're lost, yet he still lashes out at his brother with every wrong turn, and Randy and David's constant bickering isn't helping to calm his nerves. What starts out as an exciting expedition soon turns dangerous when the four boys get lost in the cave's labyrinth of winding passages. But when Neil's little brother, David, finds out, Neil is forced to bring David and his timid friend Terry along for the ride. When four boys decide to spend the day exploring a cave, they have no idea that their fun afternoon is about to become a fight for survival Neil and his best friend, Randy, can't wait to explore a nearby cave for the afternoon. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Lynn and Michael begin to receive death threats, they know they're into something bigger than either of them anticipated. ![]() Hospitals associated with Middleton Healthcare, including the Mason-Dixon Medical Center, have unnervingly high rates of unexplained anesthetic complications and patients contracting serious and terminal illness in the wake of routine hospital admissions. What she uncovers, however, is far more disturbing. ![]() Convinced there's more to the story than what the authorities are willing to reveal, Lynn uses all her resources at Mason-Dixon-including her initially reluctant lab partner, Michael Pender-to hunt down evidence of medical error or malpractice. Carl fails to return to consciousness after the procedure, and an MRI confirms brain death.ĭevastated by Carl's condition, Lynn searches for answers. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, her neatly ordered life is thrown into total chaos. Lynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student at South Carolina's Mason-Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. Coma-reimagined for the twenty-first century from the undisputed king of medical thrillers. ![]() ![]() But staying with the mysterious huntsman poses risks of its own: Tess does not know how to handle the attraction she feels for him-or resist the elusive call that draws her deeper onto the heart of Dragonswood. ![]() As their pursuer draws ever closer they find shelter with a huntsman in the outskirts of the forbidden Dragonswood sanctuary. ![]() Accused of witchery, Tess and her two friends are forced to flee the violent witch hunter. But in times like these wanting more can be dangerous. Strong-willed Tess, a blacksmith’s daughter from a tiny hamlet, wants more for herself than a husband and a house to keep. As the uneasy pact between dragons, fairies, and humans begins to fray, the royal witch hunter with a hidden agenda begins a vengeful quest to burn girls suspected of witchcraft before a new king is crowned. ![]() Wilde Island is in an uproar over the recent death of its king. On Wilde Island, there is no peace between dragons, fairies, and humans. ![]() ![]() I agree with Ford, but it’s also at this point that I wince. You sit about in morning rooms with the characters.” In The March of Literature (1938), Ford Madox Ford wrote: “Society was rendered by Jane Austen with a vividness that made the reader feel that he was actually sitting in an armchair in Mansfield Park … That is it. ![]() ![]() Jane Austen doesn’t go in for florid description, but there’s something about her prose that puts you right in the scene. In fact, I feel like I have already seen it all. I can also sympathise with the famous (if possibly apocryphal) story of Lord Tennyson interrupting his friends on a visit to Lyme Regis when they started talking about the 1685 rebellion and demanding: “Don’t talk to me of the Duke of Monmouth, show me the exact spot where Louisa Musgrove fell.” It’s exactly what I’ll be trying to picture next time I visit Lyme Regis. He quite fired up in defence of it, insisting that it was the most beautiful of her works. ![]() On one occasion I said that I had found Persuasion rather dull. When I was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, Mr Whewell, then a fellow and afterwards master of the college, often spoke to me with admiration of Miss Austen’s novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe. ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. 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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() |a A hula-hooping moose, a badger with a bumblebee umbrella and a rabbit in a cashmere sweater, show their grumpy bear friend that a day of fun does not have to depend on sunshine and blue skies. ![]() ![]() |a 1 volume (unpaged) : |b color illustrations |c 24 x 27 cm. |a Cushman, Abi, |e author, |e illustrator. |a GIP |b eng |e rda |c GIP |d UTW |d OCLCO |d YDX |d TDS |d lb Stony Creek/Willoughby Wallace Juvenile Easy Fiction North Branford/Atwater Children's Picture Book Madison/Scranton Children's Picture Books ![]() Ledyard/Gales Ferry Juvenile Picture Books Hamden/Whitneyville Children's Picture Books ![]() ![]() Enlisting Jackson's help they embroil him in the complexities of their own jealousies, obsessions and lust. Julia and Amelia Land, long having given up hope of uncovering the truth of what happened to their baby sister, Olivia, suddenly discover her lost toy mouse in the study of their recently-deceased father. ![]() Jackson Brodie, a private investigator and former police detective, is quietly contemplating life as a divorced father when he is flung into the midst of these resurrected old crimes. ![]() The scene is set in Cambridge, with three case histories from the past: A young child who mysteriously disappeared from a tent in her back garden An unidentified man in a yellow jumper who marched into an office and slashed a young girl through the throat and a young woman found by the police sitting in her kitchen next to the body of her husband, an axe buried in his head. ![]() ![]() Amartya Sen’s Development as Freedom has been widely praised as a way forward for a more humane society since it was published a decade ago in 1999, the year after its author won the Bank of Sweden prize in economics (otherwise known as the Nobel Prize for economics). To many, it is the standard for ethical economics, so much so that one critic laments ‘until now the issue of ethics and economics, especially in the context of development, has been dominated by Amartya Sen, almost to the extent of being a one-man show with supporting acts’ (Fine, 2004). Kofi Annan says of Amartya Sen that ‘the world's poor and dispossessed could have no more articulate or insightful a champion’. It has almost reached the point where criticizing Amartya Sen, like Mother Theresa, is out of bounds. In this critical assessment of Sen’s much lauded book, Denis O’Hearn considers its central thesis and impact on development. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ideas/synopses for this list courtesy of. Written in the voices of dog and cat sleuths, combine your love for Sherlock homes and four-legged friends as they race against the clock to solve a mystery.Ĥ) For a humorous memoir/nonfiction: Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, and 3 RVs on our Canine Cross-Country Adventure by David Rosenfelt recounts an eventful cross-country move and a growing love for fostering dogs. Don’t be afraid to accept wisdom when it’s offered, but don’t be led around by the noise either. So no matter what anyone says, follow your own path. Stumbling toward your dreams may be messy and painful at times, but it is still worth the journey. Written from the perspective of a dog who has gained considerable insight into the human condition, this books provides a captivating look at life in all its wonders and all its absurdity.ģ) For a mystery: The Case of Jack the Nipper by H.L. When I say wrong one, I mean the path you take away from your dreams. If you’re interested, check out the list below:ġ) For a family story: Marley and Me by John Grogan is the story of a growing family with a crazy, lovable dog in the mix and causing trouble!Ģ) For a heart-wrenching read: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. Stephens Chronicles of Mister Marmee Series The Case of Jack the Nipper The Case of the Wayward Fae The Case of the. ![]() ![]() There are a number of great books to choose from about humans and their canines. Mister Marmee is a Victorian gentlecat, not a detective.or so he thinks. ![]() |