Books with author E. Lockhart

A young Dr Who? A junior James Bond? Or just an ordinary scared kid who still can’t swing a battle-axe or fire a white-hot plasma pulse rifle. 14-year-old Tom Raker has already mucked up his first training leap to Ancient Egypt. Now his dad has gone missing in the year 793 AD and Tom is the only person who can save him. Tom was wearing the standard issue digital-fibre ThredNet cloaking device. It shimmered and flickered into life and he was left standing in authentic Viking furs holding his laser-replicated broadsword. ‘Historical Ops to Raker Two,’ crackled his internal comms unit. ‘The suspect is with a seven foot Viking warlord…proceed with caution.’ Tom’s stomach lurched. Time Raker is a high tech historical adventure about a boy coming to terms with his unique ability to time travel as he searches for his father. Find out what it’s like to meet the past’s most famous rulers and leaders…and save the world from the usual deadly time-runners.

Excerpt from Some Passages in the Life of Mr. Adam Blair: And the History of Matthew WaldSeldom has the earth held a couple of human beings so happy in each other as were Mr Adam Blair and his wife. They had been united very early in love, and early in wedlock. Ten years had passed over their heads since their hands were joined together; and during all that time their heart-strings had never once vibrated in discord. Their pleasures had been the same, and these innocent; their sorrows had been all in common; and their hours of affliction had, even more than their hours of enjoyment, tended to knit them together. Of four children whom God had given them, three had been taken speedily away, one girl only, the first pledge of their love, had been spared to them. She was now a beautiful fair-haired creature, of eight years old. In her rested the tenderness and the living delight of both yet, often at the fall of evening would they walk out hand in hand with their bright-eyed child, and shed together tears, to her mysterious, over the small grassy mounds in the adjoining village cemetery, beneath which the lost blossoms of their affection had been buried.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Some Passages in the Life of Mr. Adam Blair: And the History of Matthew WaldSeldom has the earth held a couple of human beings so happy in each other as were Mr Adam Blair and his wife. They had been united very early in love, and early in wedlock. Ten years had passed over their heads since their hands were joined together; and during all that time their heart-strings had never once vibrated in discord. Their pleasures had been the same, and these innocent; their sorrows had been all in common; and their hours of affliction had, even more than their hours of enjoyment, tended to knit them together. Of four children whom God had given them, three had been taken speedily away, one girl only, the first pledge of their love, had been spared to them. She was now a beautiful fair-haired creature, of eight years old. In her rested the tenderness and the living delight of both yet, often at the fall of evening would they walk out hand in hand with their bright-eyed child, and shed together tears, to her mysterious, over the small grassy mounds in the adjoining village cemetery, beneath which the lost blossoms of their affection had been buried.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

In this novel full of surprises from the New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud, E. Lockhart ups the ante with an inventive and romantic story about human connection, forgiveness, self-discovery, and possibility. If you could live your life again, what would you do differently? After a near-fatal family catastrophe and an unexpected romantic upheaval, Adelaide Buchwald finds herself catapulted into a summer of wild possibility, during which she will fall in and out of love a thousand times--while finally confronting the secrets she keeps, her ideas about love, and the weird grandiosity of the human mind. A raw, funny story that will surprise you over and over, Again Again gives us an indelible heroine grappling with the terrible and wonderful problem of loving other people.

A young Doctor Who? A junior James Bond? Or just an ordinary kid who still can’t swing a battleaxe or fire a white-hot plasma pulse rifle. Fourteen-year-old Tom Raker has already mucked up his first training leap to Ancient Egypt. Now his dad has gone missing, back to the year 793 AD, and Tom is the only person who can save him. Tom was wearing the standard issue digital-fibre ThredNet cloaking device. It shimmered and flickered into life and he was left standing in authentic Viking furs holding his laser-replicated broadsword. ‘Historical Ops to Raker Two,’ crackled his internal comms unit. ‘The suspect is with a seven-foot Viking warlord… proceed with caution.’ Tom’s stomach lurched. Time Raker is a high-tech historical adventure about a boy coming to terms with his unique ability to time travel as he searches for his father. Find out what it’s like to meet the past’s most famous rulers and leaders… and save the world from the deadly time-runners.

A young Dr Who? A junior James Bond? Or just an ordinary scared kid who still can’t swing a battle-axe or fire a white-hot plasma pulse rifle. 14-year-old Tom Raker has already mucked up his first training leap to Ancient Egypt. Now his dad has gone missing in the year 793 AD and Tom is the only person who can save him. Tom was wearing the standard issue digital-fibre ThredNet cloaking device. It shimmered and flickered into life and he was left standing in authentic Viking furs holding his laser-replicated broadsword. ‘Historical Ops to Raker Two,’ crackled his internal comms unit. ‘The suspect is with a seven foot Viking warlord…proceed with caution.’ Tom’s stomach lurched. Time Raker is a high tech historical adventure about a boy coming to terms with his unique ability to time travel as he searches for his father. Find out what it’s like to meet the past’s most famous rulers and leaders…and save the world from the usual deadly time-runners.