Sheer Folly

Sheer Folly
Author: Carola Dunn
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2009-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429918969

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In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator Lucy (a.k.a. Lady Gerald) head off for several days at stately home reputed to have the best grotto in the country. Working on a book of follies (architectural), they plan to research and photograph it. Leaving her husband and young twins behind, Daisy is expecting a productive weekend at Appsworth Hall, with the only potential difficulty being keeping Lucy from offending the current owner, a manufacturer of plumbing products. Alas, it's not to be quite so simple. At the home, they find themselves faced with a curious assortment of people including the abominable, tactless Lord Rydal, who is rumored to be having an affair with one of the guests while at the same time in ardent and artless pursuit of the hand in marriage of another. When the grotto explodes with Lord Rydal in it, it's not a question of who would do it—as most who've met him would be sorely tempted—but who actually did do it.

Folly

Folly
Author: Laurie R. King
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2002-05-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0553381512

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An acclaimed master of suspense creates a heroine you will never forget in this superbly chilling novel of a woman who begins a desperate undertaking that may transform her life--or end it. WHAT HAPPENS IF YOUR WORST FEARS AREN’T ALL IN YOUR MIND? Rae Newborn is a woman on the edge: on the edge of sanity, on the edge of tragedy, and now on the edge of the world. She has moved to an island at the far reaches of the continent to restore the house of an equally haunted figure, her mysterious great-uncle; but as her life begins to rebuild itself along with the house, his story starts to wrap around hers. Powerful forces are stirring, but Rae cannot see where her reality leaves off and his fate begins. Fifty-two years old, Rae must battle the feelings that have long tormented her--panic, melancholy, and a skin-crawling sense of watchers behind the trees. Before she came here, she believed that most of the things she feared existed only in her mind. And who can say, as disturbing incidents multiply, if any of the watchers on Folly Island might be real? Is Rae paranoid, as her family and the police believe, or is the threat real? Is the island alive with promise--or with dangers? With Folly, award-winning author LAURIE R. KING once again powerfully redefines psychological suspense on a sophisticated and harrowing new level, and proves why legions of readers and reviewers have named her a master of the genre.

Hedy's Folly

Hedy's Folly
Author: Richard Rhodes
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307742954

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing film star and an avant-garde composer invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems, and many other devices possible. Beginning at a Hollywood dinner table, Hedy's Folly tells a wild story of innovation that culminates in U.S. patent number 2,292,387 for a "secret communication system." Along the way Rhodes weaves together Hollywood’s golden era, the history of Vienna, 1920s Paris, weapons design, music, a tutorial on patent law and a brief treatise on transmission technology. Narrated with the rigor and charisma we've come to expect of Rhodes, it is a remarkable narrative adventure about spread-spectrum radio's genesis and unlikely amateur inventors collaborating to change the world.

Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life

Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
Author: Ulli Lust
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2013-06-15
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 160699557X

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Back in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense, sensitive,and minutely observed autobiographical masterpiece.

Sheer Christianity

Sheer Christianity
Author: Sam Portaro
Publisher: Cowley Publications
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2004-09-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1461733073

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Calling upon teachers G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis, Sam Portaro wades into the abyss of confronting a life of faithfulness in a world where the Church has created a dictionary unintelligible to anyone not part of itself. Acknowledging it a risky adventure to attempt to put into printed words his faith, Portaro steps boldly onto the pages of Sheer Christianity: Conjectures on a Catechism.

The Folly of Fools

The Folly of Fools
Author: Robert Trivers
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2011-10-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0465027555

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Explores the author's theorized evolutionary basis for self-deception, which he says is tied to group conflict, courtship, neurophysiology, and immunology, but can be negated by awareness of it and its results.

The Atlantic Monthly

The Atlantic Monthly
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1428
Release: 1928
Genre: American essays
ISBN:

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The Folly

The Folly
Author: Ivan Vladislavic
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-09-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0914671375

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A vacant patch of South African veld next to the comfortable, complacent Malgas household has been taken over by a mysterious, eccentric figure with "a plan." Fashioning his tools out of recycled garbage, the stranger enlists Malgas's help in clearing the land and planning his mansion. Slowly but inevitably, the stranger's charm and the novel's richly inventive language draws Malgas into "the plan" and he sees, feels and moves into the new building. Then, just as remorselessly, all that seemed solid begins to melt back into air.

Children of a Lost God

Children of a Lost God
Author: Johnny L. Scotton
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2015-09-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1514407639

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I used to fly fighter planes for Uncle Sams misguided children (thats the USMC for any of yall uninitiated). Now I fl y for civilian airlineslots less exciting but lots mo pay and, for the most part, lots less danger. That is until somebody confused me with somebody else . . . somebody who could give a damn. Then again, confusion adds an addicting quality when the addition of others adds up to a whole damn mess. Oh, and did I forget to mention that unleashing the four horsemen of the apocalypse thing? How they aint coming for dinner!

A First Century Letter

A First Century Letter
Author: Nathaniel Micklem
Publisher:
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1920
Genre: Bible
ISBN:

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