John Harding

In an old New England mansion, 12-year-old orphan Florence is neglected by her guardian uncle. By night, she sleepwalks the corridors like one of the old house's many ghosts & is troubled by a recurrent dream in which a mysterious woman threatens her younger brother. When a new teacher arrives, strange phenomena begin to occur.

In a remote and crumbling New England mansion, 12-year-old orphan Florence is neglected by her guardian uncle and banned from reading. Left to her own devices she devours books in secret and talks to herself - and narrates this, her story - in a unique language of her own invention. By night, she sleepwalks the corridors like one of the old house's many ghosts and is troubled by a recurrent dream in which a mysterious woman appears to threaten her younger brother Giles.

Florence & Giles

A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of UsherNew England, the 1890s. A man calling himself Doctor John Shepherd arrives at an isolated wome's mental hospital to begin work as assistant to the owner Dr Morgan. As Shepherd struggles to conceal his own dark secrets, he finds the asylum has plenty of its own. Who is the woman who wanders the corridors by night with murderous intent? Why does the chief nurse hate him? And why is he not allowed to visit the hospital's top floor? Shocked by Morgan's harsh treatment of the patients, and intrigued by one of them, Jane Dove, a strange amnesiac girl who is fascinated by books but cannot read, Shepherd embarks upon an experiment to help her. As he attempts to solve the mystery of Jane's past his own troubled history begins to catch up with him and she becomes his only hope of escape, as he is hers. In this chilling literary thriller everyone has something to hide and no one is what he or she seems.The Girl Who Couldn't Read is the long-awaited sequel to the critically acclaimed international bestseller Florence and Giles but can also be read as a gripping standalone novel.

The Girl Who Couldn't Read

"Em uma distante e escura mansão, onde nada é o que parece, a pequena Florence é negligenciada pelo seu tutor e tio. Guardada como um brinquedo, a menina passa seus dias perambulando pelos corredores e inventando histórias que conta a si mesma, em uma rotina tediosa e desinteressante. Até que um dia encontra a biblioteca proibida da mansão e passa a devorar os livros em segredo. Porém, existem mistérios naquela casa que jamais deveriam ser revelados. Por que Florence sonha sempre com uma misteriosa mulher ameaçando Giles, seu irmão caçula? O que esconde a Srta. Taylor? E por que o tio a proibiu de ler? Florence precisa reunir todas as pistas possíveis e encontrar respostas que ajudem a defender seu irmão e preservar sua paixão secreta pelos livros - únicos companheiros e confidentes - antes que alguém descubra quem ousou abrir as portas do mundo literário. Ou será que tudo isso não seria somente delírios de uma jovem com muita imaginação?"

Volume 1

A menina que não sabia ler

On an island paradise somewhere in the South Pacific, Managua—the only native who can read or write—is busily translating Hamlet into pidgin English when a plane interrupts his noble work. Strapping on his false leg, he makes his way to the landing strip to greet the unexpected arrival: William Hardt, a young American lawyer driven by his misguided ambition to win reparations for the island's inhabitants. Hardt is not the first white outsider to pay a visit; the British came earlier, bringing their language, the small pigs that run wild in the jungle, and Shakespeare . . . and the Americans followed with guns, land mines, and Coca-Cola. But in this place of riotously logical ritual, Hardt's determined quest to do good could make him the most devastating visitor of all. Profoundly moving and achingly funny, One Big Damn Puzzler brilliantly explores the collision of the twenty-first century with unsullied pagan reality—and establishes John Harding as one of the most imaginative contemporary chroniclers of the human condition.

One Big Damn Puzzler

A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher New England, the 1890s. A man calling himself Doctor John Shepherd arrives at an isolated women's mental hospital to begin work as assistant to the owner Dr Morgan. As Shepherd struggles to conceal his own dark secrets, he finds the asylum has plenty of its own. Who is the woman who wanders the corridors by night with murderous intent? Why does the chief nurse hate him? And why is he not allowed to visit the hospital's top floor? Shocked by Morgan's harsh treatment of the patients, and intrigued by one of them, Jane Dove, a strange amnesiac girl who is fascinated by books but cannot read, Shepherd embarks upon an experiment to help her. As he attempts to solve the mystery of Jane's past his own troubled history begins to catch up with him and she becomes his only hope of escape, as he is hers. In this chilling literary thriller everyone has something to hide and no one is what he or she seems. The Girl Who Couldn't Read is the long-awaited sequel to the critically acclaimed international bestseller Florence and Giles but can also be read as a gripping standalone novel.

La biblioteca dei libri proibiti

Carol L. Walker

Elbert A. Walker

Type-2 fuzzy sets extend both ordinary and interval-valued fuzzy sets to allow distributions, rather than single values, as degrees of membership. Computations with these truth values are governed by the truth value algebra of type-2 fuzzy sets. The Truth Value Algebra of Type-2 Fuzzy Sets: Order Convolutions of Functions on the Unit Interval explo

Order Convolutions of Functions on the Unit Interval

The Truth Value Algebra of Type-2 Fuzzy Sets

Provides an appraisal of Hamilton's major novels as well as his successful stage plays, Rope and Gaslight. This title draws on the views of a variety of commentators, including Michael Holroyd, Doris Lessing, Claud Coburn and many others as well as considering how Hamilton's political beliefs affected his work.

His Life and Work : a Critical Study

Patrick Hamilton

J. Harding

F. Singh

Joseph N. M. Mol

Genetics and Breeding of Ornamental Species

A unique chance to read these two chilling Gothic tales from the brilliant storyteller John Harding together. Modern Gothic classic Florence & Giles and it’s sequel The Girl Who Couldn’t Read are a must for fans of Edgar Allen Poe.

John Harding 2-Book Gothic Collection

Thirty-somethings Nick and Laura have been married for 10 years and things aren't going well. She senses her biological clock ticking away and wants children while he doesn't. Not because he doesn't like children but because he feels a child would be just one responsibility too many. Nick's problem is his parents. He's devoted to them of course, but sometimes even he finds his patience wearing a little thin which in turn brings on the guilt. But they are rather a handful. They're conservative, highly eccentric and increasingly infirm. His Mum's so enormously overweight that her heart's now a bit dicky and she is certainly no longer up to looking after Dad by herself. He's got Parkinson's Disease - not the shaking kind, as Mum's always reminding people - but he's unable to do even the simplest task himself and needs constant care and attention. Nick knows the time has come to take the matter in hand but things need to be handled carefully. And so he and Laura take them to Malta for what they hope will be a happy final family holiday. Nick thinks his only problem is going to be avoiding Laura's amorous advances but this particular island turns out to be a sun-kissed cupboard with more than its fair share of skeletons... Tackling a taboo subject with sensitivity, understanding, great affection and good humour, What We Did On Our Holiday is a remarkably uplifting, moving and reassuring novel about a time in our lives when it seems roles are reversed and we find ourselves looking after the very people we'd always assumed would be there to look after us.

What We Did On Our Holiday

May Chu Harding

Subject: Autobiography. Escape from Paradise is a contemporary and true woman?s story set in Singapore, Brunei, Australia, England, and the United States. It involves Singapore?s famous Tiger Balm family, and a wealthy and mysterious family from Brunei?and the link between them, a young Singaporean woman, May Chu Lee. From its first paragraph, the book draws the reader into the ambiance of a cosmopolitan Asia never touched upon by any other book ?

From Third World to First

Escape from Paradise

This fascinating collection of entertaining stories from the seven seas reveals unusual and bizarre sailing trips, vessels and characters, and recounts perilous journeys in freak weather, meetings with pirates and sea monsters, and other legendary tales.

Extraordinary But True Stories From Over Nine Hundred Years of Sailing

Sailing's Strangest Moments

This fascinating collection of entertaining stories from the seven seas reveals unusual and bizarre sailing trips, vessels and characters, and recounts perilous journeys in freak weather and other legendary tales. Within these pages you’ll find stories of pirates holding ships to ransom and the gruesome fates of some of the shipmates who dared cross them. The sailors forever lost in the Bermuda triangle, the poor family who were encircled by a school of sharks to the spooky tales of the lighthouse haunted by drunkard lightship keeper John Herman. The tales within these pages are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious and, most importantly, true. Revised, redesigned and updated for 2016, this book is the perfect gift for both keen sailors to the armchair Captains. Word count: 45,000

Extraordinary but true stories from over nine hundred years of sailing

Sailing's Strangest Tales

The history of flying is packed with incredible feats of bravery and endurance, human ingenuity and recklesness, mystery, romance and tragedy. From the first hot air balloons of the 18th century to the supersonic jet flights of today, magnificent men (and women) have taken their incredible flying machines ever higher, further and faster. This collection of wonderfully engaging tales of madness, bravery, inventiveness, disaster and triumph will take every aviation enthusiast on a whirlwind ride.

Extraordinary But True Stories from Over 1100 Years of Aviation History

Flying's Strangest Moments

Thomas Robinson

Hillary Rodrigues

Designed as an introductory reader for an Eastern Religions course, this eBook provides key texts for illustrating the eastern religious traditions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Shintoism). There are 41 passages from religious writings, 15 symbols, 7 Quick Facts charts, 20 photos, 4 audio clips of chants and music, and links to hundreds of audio files of technical terms related to the eastern religious traditions. Each selection has an introduction and footnotes to help the reader understand the context of the passage. This eBook uses material, slightly edited, from our larger World Religions Reader, an eBook designed for a full World Religions course. Annotated and edited by Hillary Rodrigues, with contributions from colleagues at the University of Lethbridge, Professors John Harding and Thomas Robinson.

Understanding Our Religious World

Eastern Religions Reader

The Official History of the Professional Footballers' Association

For the Good of the Game

A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher

John Harding

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