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Author
Series
Liz Carlyle series volume 10
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A Russian immigrant lies dying in a hospice in upstate Vermont. When a stranger visits, claiming to be a childhood friend, the FBI is alerted and news quickly travels to MI5 in London. Liz Carlyle and her colleague Peggy Kinsolving are already knee-deep in conspiracies, and as they unravel the events that landed the man in the hospital, Liz learns of a network of Russians and their plot to undermine the German government. Liz and Peggy set out to...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Seamus Heaney's new collection starts "In an age of bare hands and cast iron" and ends as "The automatic lock / clunks shut" in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II - railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the "heavyweight / Silence"...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
À la carte wisdom from the international bestseller. In Bringing Up Bébé, journalist and mother Pamela Druckerman investigated a society of good sleepers, gourmet eaters, and mostly calm parents. She set out to learn how the French achieve all this, while telling the story of her own young family in Paris. This book distills the lessons of Bringing Up Bébé into an easy-to-read guide for parents and caregivers. How do you teach your child patience?...
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Princess Rosa's palace has been under a sleeping spell for one hundred years, and the spell will end at sunset; but Princess Rosa sleepwalks and when Kara and Zed enter the palace they find that she is missing--and the two fairies, Miranda and her son Leon, that have been caring for the sleepers do not seem particularly anxious to find her before the spell resets for another hundred years.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Why is sleep frustrating for so many people? Why do we spend so much time and money managing and medicating it, and training ourselves and our children to do it correctly? In Wild Nights, Benjamin Reiss finds answers in sleep's hidden history--one that leads to our present, sleep-obsessed society, its tacitly accepted rules, and their troubling consequences. Today we define a good night's sleep very narrowly: eight hours in one shot, sealed off in...
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