Children of Ruin

• Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• Release : 16 May 2019

'My most anticipated book of the year' - Peter F. Hamilton, Britain's no.1 science fiction writer Children of Ruin follows Adrian Tchaikovsky's extraordinary Children of Time, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award. It is set in the same universe, with new characters and a thrilling narrative. It has been waiting through the ages. Now it's time . . . Thousands of years ago, Earth’s terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life – but

• Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 14 May 2019

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life -- but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time. Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between

• Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• Release : 21 April 2016

WINNER OF THE 2016 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDA race for survival among the stars ... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers?WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world

• Author : Mary McHugh
• Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Release : 16 July 2013

Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but the alien known as "teenager" comes from a place way beyond those two. What else would account for that incredible transformation from loving child to the hostile creature who wants zilch to do with dear old Mom and Dad? How to Ruin Your Children's Lives is a survival manual for enduring this transmutation and—with a little luck—maintaining enough sanity to one day hear those longed-for words, "Hey, I

• Author : Jenny Milchman
• Publisher : Ballantine Books
• Release : 22 April 2014

Liz Daniels should be happy about setting off on a rare family vacation. Instead, she feels uneasy about taking her kids away from home to see their grandparents. Her husband, Paul, hasn’t spoken to his parents—or about them—in years, and it’s a long drive to the remote farmhouse. After a day on the road, Liz decides it’s time to check in to a hotel for the night. After all, everything always looks better in the

• Author : Jane Suzanne Carroll
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 31 July 2021

This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space — sacred spaces, green spaces, roadways, and lapsed spaces — that are the component elements of the physical environments of canonical British children's fantasy. Using Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequence as the test-case for this methodology, the book traces the development of the physical

• Author : James Alfred McCann
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 May 2018

In a society that has fallen to a nightmarish disease that brings the dead back to life, Ethan finds himself at war with his vengeful stepfather. He gathers a troupe of other survivors - including Thomas, the football captain, and Kady, the cheerleader - and builds a fortress from which to fight back, but personal conflicts make it seemingly impossible to work as a team. Their only hope is to trust each other. Ethan knows, if they don't, the dead

• Author : Dervla McTiernan
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 03 July 2018

“Compelling, unexpected twists and a hold-your breath standoff . . . Hand this one to readers of Tana French and to police-procedural fans.” —Booklist It's been twenty years since Detective Cormac Reilly discovered the body of Hilaria Blake in her crumbling home. But he's never forgotten the two children she left behind... When Aisling Conroy's boyfriend Jack is found in the freezing black waters of the river Corrib in Ireland, the police tell her it was suicide. She throws herself into work, trying

• Author : Tom James
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 06 February 2020

"A vile, hateful collection of anecdotes aimed at upsetting parents. Shocking. Evil in book form.." Are you sick of a society that seems obsessed with children? Do you find modern parents annoying? Your Children Are Boring is a uniquely humorous look at our culture's obsession with children, a world where virtually every advert has a squawking child in it, where pubs are full of wailing infants, and where every other Facebook post is tagged #ProudDad. Why do parents themselves behave

• Author : University of East Africa. Social Science Council
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 July 1969

• Author : Regulations
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 July 2021

• Author : Isobel Noble
• Publisher : EarthBound Books
• Release : 01 November 2005

RUIN, The Tent City, by Isobel Noble, is the first book of the Ruin saga. Adventure, romance, betrayal, E.S.P., a karmic debt, and an alien invasion are all set against a post-Nuclear Winter background. The many unpredictable dangers will fire your senses and possess your imagination long after you finish the story. The Tent City populates our minds with an unforgettable cast of characters who return in subsequent volumes to lure us on in a desperate race to

• Author : Jo Becker
• Publisher : Stanford University Press
• Release : 15 August 2017

Advocates within the growing field of children's rights have designed dynamic campaigns to protect and promote children's rights. This expanding body of international law and jurisprudence, however, lacks a core text that provides an up-to-date look at current children's rights issues, the evolution of children's rights law, and the efficacy of efforts to protect children. Campaigning for Children focuses on contemporary children's rights, identifying the range of abuses that affect children today, including early marriage, female genital mutilation, child labor,

• Author : Kirkland C. Vaughns
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 04 May 2018

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

• Author : Rowland Hill
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 July 2021