For the beginning stargazer, just learning the phases of the moon or spotting the Big Dipper can transform a nightly dog walk into an experience and can soon have you eager to see even more. As the pages of this book show, there’s so much more: a dazzling gallery of constellations; eclipses, comets and meteor showers; and beyond that the deep-sky treasures of nebulae and galaxies. There’s the fierce brilliance of astronomy’s pioneers from

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"Diana Martin has lived her life in the shadow of her sadistic older brother. She quietly watches the family next door, enthralled by celebrity fashion designer Marianne Taylor and her feted daughter, Aurelle. She wishes she were a 'Taylor girl'. By the summer of 1995, the two girls are at university together, bonded by a mutual desire to escape their wealthy families and personal tragedies and forge new identities. They are closer than lovers, intoxicated...