The antidote

The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a "Prairie Witch," whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns h…

On the calculation of volume II

I was sure that through careful listening you could solve any problem that might arise. If you really listened. The great questions in life. Everything.

A case of mice and murder

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781526668721

Collation

338 p. ; 20 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 SMI a

Come rain or come shine

When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison. But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, and now, as Sarah Vaughan sings through the speakers, he struggles to control everything the…

Mary ventura and the ninth kingdom

Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 'But what is the ninth kingdom?' she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. 'It is the kingdom of the frozen will,' comes the reply. 'There is no going back.'

Escape From Mr Lemoncellos Library

Kyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids, (if not the teachers), and an ardent fan of all games: board games, word games, and particularly video games. His hero, Luigi Lemoncello, the most notorious and creative gamemaker in the world, just so happens to be the genius behind the building of the new town library. Lucky Kyle wins a coveted spot to be one of the first 12 kids in t…

Perfection

Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, plant-filled apartment in Neukölln. They are young digital creatives, freelancers without too many constraints.

The impressionists

Discover the painters who became masters of immediate impressions. Look at the way they saw the city and country life, sea, summer and winter. Find out more about these magicians of light

Prehistoric people

Who were our earliest ancestors and how did they live? Step inside the cave of a prehistoric family by turning the page... Learn to hunt mammoth and reindeer, make clothes from animal skins and paint on cave walls.

Farm animal

The cock crows at dawn, ducklings paddle, geese hiss, cows gaze, lambs frisk, and pigs roll in the mud. Visit the farmyard, the cowshed the pig sty and the fields.