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Eoin McNamee
I have been thinking about the transition from writing for adults to writing for children. Transition is probably the wrong word. Change of focus is probably closer-you adjust the lens a little and certain things become clearer, others go out of ... [... more]
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The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
From Amazon.com: In 1924, a 37-year-old English schoolmaster and war veteran named George Mallory bid farewell to his beloved wife and children and went off to Tibet, where he intended to climb the north face of Mount Everest, a feat that had never been [... more]
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Graham McNamee
BONECHILLER was inspired by a nightmare. The story takes place in a small northern town with a dark secret. Based on a real town where my uncle had a little lakeside cottage we visited in the summer when I was a kid. A place of warm, sun-filled ... [... more]
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The Shadow of the Sun
From Amazon.com: When Africa makes international news, it is usually because war has broken out or some bizarre natural disaster has taken a large number of lives. Westerners are appallingly ignorant of Africa otherwise, a condition that the great Polish [... more]
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Bomber War
From Amazon.com: "We must make war as we must, not as we would like," observed the great British general Lord Kitchener after witnessing the carnage of World War I. Former Royal Marines commando Robin Neillands concurs in this often grim [... more]
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Walking Since Daybreak: A Story Of Eastern Europe, World ...
From Amazon.com: For thousands of years, the windswept plains of the eastern Baltic attracted migrant tribes from all over Eurasia. These peoples lived together, sometimes uneasily, sometimes at peace, forging the multiethnic cultures of Latvia, Estonia, [... more]
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A Short History of Ancient Egypt: From Predynastic to ...
From Amazon.com: Ancient Egypt--the doings of Tutankamen, the intrigues of Cleopatra, the obsessions of Nefertiti--is a subject of perennial interest, and the market is well served by many histories geared to the general reader. T.G.H. James, keeper of [... more]
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Arms and Armor of the Greeks
From Amazon.com: In 490 B.C. a force of some 10,000 Athenians and their allies met a much larger Persian army on the rocky beach at Marathon. The Greeks arrayed themselves in a thin line, advancing on the Persians slowly, then breaking into a run, [... more]
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Jungles
From Amazon.com: Jungles are mysterious and even threatening places, among the least explored landscapes on the earth--and just the sort of place, therefore, that you might expect to find the ever-intrepid wildlife photographer Frans Lanting. "The [... more]
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Lanting Jungles
From Amazon.com: Jungles are mysterious and even threatening places, among the least explored landscapes on the earth--and just the sort of place, therefore, that you might expect to find the ever-intrepid wildlife photographer Frans Lanting. "The [... more]
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John Adams
From Amazon.com: Left to his own devices, John Adams might have lived out his days as a Massachusetts country lawyer, devoted to his family and friends. As it was, events swiftly overtook him, and Adams--who, David McCullough writes, was "not a man [... more]
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One good turn: A natural history of the screwdriver and ...
From Amazon.com: In 1999, an editor of the New York Times Magazine approached Witold Rybczynski, the well-known student of architecture and urban design, and asked him to write a short essay on the best and most useful common tool of the past millennium. [... more]
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