Compromised and forced into marriage with the long-lost, disreputable son of a duke, vicar`s daughter Samantha Northrup makes the best of a difficult situation?and finds a love she never thought she could have. Lively dialog, concise writing, and an unusual slant on the traditional forced-marriage plot make this story of a tormented hero and a determined heroine one that Maxwell`s fans will be cheer. Maxwell (When Dreams Come True, Avon, 1998) lives in Virginia.
This incredibly funny trilogy starts with Only You Can Save Mankind in which Johnny Maxwell gets caught up in the ultimate fantasy (or nightmare) of the computer-mad child - as the game becomes real! In Johnny and the Dead Johnny makes the alarming discovery that he can actually see the dead. When the dead realize this they make use of his talents to prevent developers building on their graves. The final part, Johnny and the Bomb, sees Johnny and friends travelling back in time to 1941 (on a bag lady's shopping trolley!) and trying to warn people about a bomb that is about to drop
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It exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric and downtrodden members whom society has forgotten. Their simple goal is to find the “truth” behind their country’s actions.
In The Camel Club, bestselling author David Baldacci goes beyond the traditional boundaries of fiction, painting a frighteningly vivid portrait of a world that could be our own very soon, and the few people who have a chance to stop the last war the world may ever fight...
Here is the story of the greatest puzzle in our universe: what is light? Light Years explores our understanding of light from the spiritual interpretations of the Neolithic worshippers at Stonehenge, the Ancient Egyptians and the Mayans, through our first scientific attempts to understand light, and up to the present day. It looks over the shoulders of the great revolutionaries of light theory-Bacon, Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Einstein, and Feynman-and traces the evolution of light driven-devices from the camera to the laser.
A Random Walk in Science provides insight into the wit and intellect of
the scientific mind through a blend of amusing and serious
contributions written by and about scientists. The book records
changing attitudes within science and mirrors the interactions of
science with society.
Some of the contributors include Lewis Carroll,
Isaac Newton, Jonathan Swift, and James Clark Maxwell.
This
entertaining anthology covers Murphy's Law, the trial of Galileo, life
on Earth, Gulliver's computer, and much more.
