Leave city lights

 HARD COVER BOOK. NAME OF THE PREVIOUS OWNER IN FRONT OF THE BOOK. THE OVERALL CONDITION OF THE BOOK IS GOOD, ALTHOUGH A FEW PAGES CONTAINS "CHILDRENS ART"!  FIRST EDITION 1957.    

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days When the Zzzax, a power-hungry monster made of pure energy, tries to drain all the electricity from New York City, only the Mighty Avengers can stop him before it's lights out for the city that never sleeps. Boys ages 2-5 will love this action-packed Little Golden Book featuring some of their favorite Marvel Super Heroes, featuring Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and Hulk. Features Summary When the Zzzax, a power-hungry monster made of pure energy, tries to drain all the electricity from New York City, only the Mighty Avengers can stop him before it's lights out for the city that never sleeps... Author Courtney Carbone (Author), Patrick Spaziante (Illustrator) Publisher Random House Release date 20130915 Pages 24 ISBN 0-307-97658-0 ISBN 13 978-0-307-97658-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days One night, Mr Doodle, the rooster, is woken up by the sounds of car hooters. When he discovers that the city is expanding rapidly – right up against the fence of the peaceful farm that is his home – he is very upset. He decides to leave the farm and look for another, quieter one. But Mr Doodle fi nds that he can’t simply fly off and leave behind the life that he knows. Year after year, it’s been his duty to wake all the animals and people on the farm, and it’s his responsibility to fi nd someone to take over his job. So after many amusing and frustrating auditions, Mr Doodle fi nally fi nds the perfect replacement. Features Summary When Mr Doodle discovers that the city is expanding rapidly – right up against the fence of the peaceful farm that is his home – he is very upset. He decides to leave the farm and look for another... Author Claudia Eicker-Harris (Author), Juan Carlos Federico (Illustrator) Publisher Struik Children Release date 20160229 Pages 32 ISBN 1-4323-0590-5 ISBN 13 978-1-4323-0590-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Welcome to Rockton: a secret town cut off from the rest of the world. If you need a place to hide, this is the perfect place to start again. There's just one catch. You can't leave. Even if there's a killer on the loose. Detective Casey Duncan has a dark past, and it's about to catch up with her. When her best friend Diana is attacked by an abusive ex, the two women realise they have to disappear, fast. Diana's heard of a hidden town that's so remote it's almost impossible to reach. A town that desperately needs a new detective. Casey has barely arrived in Rockton when a body is discovered. A man's been murdered and there's no time to waste. Casey's job won't be easy: everyone in town has a secret. Meanwhile her boss, Sheriff Eric Dalton, is a brooding, troubled man who's hard to read and even harder to please. With no chance of help from the outside world, Casey must rely on her wits and experience to solve the case. But she's running out of time. Rockton's killer is on the hunt, and this deep in the wilderness, no one is safe. Gripping, fast-paced and atmospheric, City of the Lost is the brilliant new thriller from international bestselling author Kelley Armstrong. Features Summary Where would you go if you suddenly had to disappear? In her new standalone thriller, bestselling author Kelley Armstrong delivers us to Rockton, a secret town where the hunted go to hide... Author Kelley Armstrong Publisher Sphere Release date 20170115 Pages 468 ISBN 0-7515-6255-6 ISBN 13 978-0-7515-6255-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The first version of the Tao Te Ching to locate itself definitively in the City, this highly readable new translation joins the timeless verses of the ancient Chinese classic with lushly textured color photographs in a truly urban incarnation, creating itself anew from the streets of New York. Betsy Wyckoff's photographs of city lights, surfaces and reflections are a revelation in themselves, and lend a new depth, poignancy and immediacy to the revelatory passages of the Tao. These words and images provide a contemplative counterpoint to recent photographs of tragedy and heroism in New York, and an unexpected view of the city through the discerning eye of a long-term resident. Features Summary The first version of the Tao Te Ching to locate itself definitively in the City, this highly readable new translation joins the timeless verses of the ancient Chinese classic with lushly textured color photographs in a truly urban incarnation... Author Elysabeth Wyckoff Publisher Barrytown Ltd,U.S. Release date 20030831 Pages 104 ISBN 1-58177-026-X ISBN 13 978-1-58177-026-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the great lamps that light the city are beginning to flicker. When Lina finds part of an ancient message, she's sure it holds a secret that will save the city. She and her friend Doon must decipher the message before the lights go out on Ember forever! This stunning debut novel offers refreshingly clear writing and fascinating, original characters. "From the Hardcover edition. Features Summary In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina finds part of an ancient message that she is sure holds a secret to save her underground city from ruin, but Lina and her friend Doon must decipher the message before the lights go out on Ember forever... Author Jeanne DuPrau Publisher Random House USA Children's Books Release date 20040525 Pages 270 ISBN 0-375-82274-7 ISBN 13 978-0-375-82274-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days "You did nothing." Christine Steinmeyer knows the suicide note she found in her mailbox on Christmas Eve has nothing to do with her. But the man calling in to her radio show seems convinced otherwise. "You let her die..." That's only the beginning. Bit by bit, her life is turned upside down. But who among her friends and family hates her enough to want to destroy her? And why? Commandant Martin Servaz is on leave when he is sent a key card to a hotel room - the room where an artist committed suicide a year earlier. He soon uncovers evidence of a truly terrifying crime. Could someone really be cruelly, consciously hounding women to death? Both he and Christine will find out...but it may not be in time. Features Summary When a woman finds a suicide note in her mailbox, she can't imagine that it has anything to do with her. And yet it signals the end of her own life... but who is her enemy? Author Bernard Minier Publisher Mulholland Books Release date 20161103 Pages 392 ISBN 1-4736-1144-X ISBN 13 978-1-4736-1144-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The "New York Times" bestseller, now available in paperback--an incredible true story of the top-secret World War II town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the young women brought there unknowingly to help build the atomic bomb. "The best kind of nonfiction: marvelously reported, fluidly written, and a remarkable story...As meticulous and brilliant as it is compulsively readable." --Karen Abbott, author of "Sin in the Second City" At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, and consumed more electricity than New York City, yet it was shrouded in such secrecy that it did not appear on any map. Thousands of civilians, many of them young women from small towns across the U.S., were recruited to this secret city, enticed by the promise of solid wages and war-ending work. What were they actually "doing" there? Very few knew. The purpose of this mysterious government project was kept a secret from the outside world and from the majority of the residents themselves. Some wondered why, despite the constant work and round-the-clock activity in this makeshift town, did no tangible product of any kind ever seem to leave its guarded gates? The women who kept this town running would find out at the end of the war, when Oak Ridge's secret was revealed and changed the world forever. Drawing from the voices and experiences of the women who lived and worked in Oak Ridge, "The Girls of Atomic City" rescues a remarkable, forgotten chapter of World War II from obscurity. Denise Kiernan captures the spirit of the times through these women: their pluck, their desire to contribute, and their enduring courage. "A phenomenal story," and "Publishers Weekly" called it an "intimate and revealing glimpse into one of the most important scientific developments in history." "Kiernan has amassed a deep reservoir of intimate details of what life was like for women living in the secret city...Rosie, it turns out, did much more than drive rivets." "--The Washington Post" Features Summary The "New York Times" bestseller, now available in paperback--an incredible true story of the top-secret World War II town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the young women brought there unknowingly to help build the atomic bomb... Author Denise Kiernan Publisher Touchstone Books Release date 20140311 Pages 373 ISBN 1-4516-1753-4 ISBN 13 978-1-4516-1753-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Brothers Jake and Simon Grubb aren't thrilled when they have to leave their home in Canada to move in with their cousin Hannah and her family in England. But things get interesting when they encounter a magician at a highway rest stop, who presents them with three gifts: a carpet, a camera and a stopwatch. Unfortunately, the magician doesn't provide them with any instructions, so the boys and Hannah learn as they go along. Flying over London, traveling through time, meeting the queen; they can't think of anything that could top this, until something does! Features Summary Brothers Jake and Simon Grubb aren't thrilled when they have to leave their home in Canada to move in with their cousin Hannah and her family in England... Author Heather Dyer (Author), Serena Malyon (Illustrator) Publisher Kids Can Press Release date 20170321 Pages 144 ISBN 1-77138-203-1 ISBN 13 978-1-77138-203-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days "You have a unique viewpoint from which to write about Jack as no one else has or could write. I feel very deeply that this book must be written. And no one else, I repeat, can write it."--William S. Burroughs Edie Parker was eighteen years old when she met Jack Kerouac at Columbia University in 1940. A young socialite from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she had come to New York to study art, and quickly found herself swept up in the excitement and new freedoms that the big city offered a sheltered young woman of that time. Jack Kerouac was also eighteen, attending Columbia on a football scholarship, impressing his friends with his intelligence and knowledge of literature. Introduced by a mutual friend, Jack and Edie fell in love and quickly moved in together, sharing an apartment with Joan Adams (who would later marry William S. Burroughs). This is the story of their life together in New York, where they began lifetime friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and others. Edie's memoir provides the only female voice from that nascent period, when the leading members of the Beat Generation were first meeting and becoming friends. In the end, Jack and Edie went their separate ways, keeping in touch only on rare occasions through letters and late-night phone calls. In his last letter to Edie, written a month before his death, Kerouac ended it with the encouraging phrase: "You'll be okay." It was from that note that the title of this book was taken. Features Summary Jack Kerouac's first wife gives an insider's view of the nascent Beat Generation. Author Eddie Kerouac-Parker Publisher City Lights Books Release date 20071031 Pages 200 ISBN 0-87286-464-2 ISBN 13 978-0-87286-464-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Sergio Prim is a staid, middle-aged geographer. The romantic advances of Brezo Varela, a lively young woman who shares his profession, induce a series of terrifying hallucinations from which he attempts to seek refuge by immersing himself in the quest to map a place in which love never results in disillusionment. A lyrical examination of language, imagination, and desire. Belen Gopegui burst onto the Spanish literary scene in 1993, bowling over critics with her masterful debut "La escala de los mapas" ("The Scale of Maps"), which was hailed as a masterpiece. This is her first work translated into English. Features Summary A novel and its protagonist create one another, in a tale strung between the work of Cervantes and Nabokov. Author Belen Gopegui Publisher City Lights Books Release date 20101218 Pages 176 ISBN 0-87286-510-X ISBN 13 978-0-87286-510-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Enigmatic and multi-layered, "Islanders" is about finding one's own hard-won truth. A young man's indelible memories of the struggle to find intimacy--formative experiences like the ebb and flow of friendships, love, and ordinary workaday life--are viewed through a lens of nostalgic longing and hard-eyed realism as he attempts to come to terms with the past. Set during the cataclysm of the last years of the war in Vietnam, in a landscape that shifts between the bleak fishing towns of the Atlantic coast to the ruined cities of the Northeast, "Islanders" explores the classic theme of identity's intricate relationship to place. Features Summary Seen through the prism of personal history, an evocative, unsettling view of a world falling apart. Author Ammiel Alcalay Publisher City Lights Books Release date 20100318 Pages 96 ISBN 0-87286-506-1 ISBN 13 978-0-87286-506-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days The United States is readily distinguishable from other countries, Chief Justice John Marshall opined in 1803, because it is "a nation of laws, not of men." In "Perversions of Justice," Ward Churchill takes Marshall at his word, exploring through a series of 11 carefully crafted essays how the U.S. has consistently employed a corrupt from of legalism as a means of establishing colonial control and empire. Along the way, he demonstrates how this "nation of laws" has so completely subverted the law of nations that the current America-dominated international order ends up, like the U.S. -itself, functioning in a manner dia-metrically opposed to the ideals of freedom and democracy it professes to embrace. By tracing the evolution of federal Indian law, Churchill is able to show how the premises set forth therein not only spilled over onto non-Indians in the U.S., but were also adapted for application abroad. The trajectory of America's imperial logic can be followed all the way to the present New World Order in which "what we say goes" at the dawn of the third millennium. Features Summary Examines the faulty "reasoning" employed to legislate colonial control over North America's indigenous peoples and their lands. Author Ward Churchill Publisher City Lights Books Release date 20030131 Pages 296 ISBN 0-87286-411-1 ISBN 13 978-0-87286-411-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Set in the 15th century just after the Hundred Years' War, this historical novel of ideas traces the intersecting lives of a Turkish adventurer, an idealistic Lombard revolutionary, an intellectual heretic from Bohemia, and a woman disappointed in love and with her limited options. Agnese chooses to spend 47 years in a cell, looking out on the bustling public life of the Cemetery of the Holy Innocents, where she seeks to confront the oppressions of an age marked by war, famine, disease, and brutal injustice--an age much like our own. Toni Maraini is an Italian poet, novelist, and art critic. She grew up in an literary family in Sicily, and has lived in Paris, London, Casablanca, and New York. Features Summary Self-imprisoned in a Parisian cemetery wall, a woman reflects on the savage turmoil of the medieval world. Author Toni Maraini (Author), Arthur Bierman (Translator) Publisher City Lights Books Release date 20020716 Pages 184 ISBN 0-87286-388-3 ISBN 13 978-0-87286-388-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Stories and journal notes by an extraordinary young woman--adventurer and traveler, Arabic scholar, Sufi mystic and adept of the Djillala cult. Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was an explorer who lived and traveled extensively throughout North Africa. She wrote of her travels in numerous books and French newspapers, including Nouvelles Algeriennes [Algerian News] (1905), Dans l'Ombre Chaude de l'Islam [In the Hot Shade of Islam] (1906), and Les journaliers [The Day Laborers] (1922). Paul Bowles has taped and translated numerous strange legends and lively stories recounted by Mrabet: Love with a Few Hairs (novel), The Lemon (novel), The Boy Who Set Fire (stories), Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins (stories), The Beach Cafe & Look & Move On (autobiography), and The Big Mirror (novella). Features Summary Stories and journal notes by an extraordinary young woman--adventurer and traveler, Arabic scholar, Sufi mystic and adept of the Djillala cult. Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was an explorer who lived and traveled extensively throughout North Africa... Author Isabelle Eberhardt (Author), P. Bowles (Translator) Publisher City Lights Books Release date 19860930 Pages 88 ISBN 0-87286-082-5 ISBN 13 978-0-87286-082-7