Books with author E. Chancellor

Tell Me About is full of hundreds of surprising questions and fascinating answers which can provide teasing quiz questions, settle arguments and assist with school projects. It is an intriguing reference book for the whole family. Tell Me: *Can squirrels really fly? *How long is a Martian day? *What makes hair curly? *How did the Tiger Lily get its name? Six fact-packed subject categories boost the general knowledge of your children and even you, helping to engage the whole family.

Welcome to the Scatterhorn Museum! But don't get too excited - it's a cold and dingy place, crammed full of tatty stuffed animals and junk. Nobody much wants to visit any more, and its days are surely numbered. But when Tom is sent to live here he soon finds there is more to this museum than meets the eye. The animals may be shabby and moth-eaten - but they possess an incredible secret. And when Tom discovers he can go right back to the time of their making, a hundred years earlier, he embarks on a journey full of unimaginable terrors . . . Join Tom in his breathtaking adventure in and out of time, from an Edwardian ice fair and the wastes of Mongolia, to the jungles of India, and beyond . . .

Tom is back at the Scatterhorn Museum, looking forward to spending some time there while his parents are away on one of their adventures. But an unexpected visitor called Pearl Smoot throws everything into disarray when she arrives with an incredible story. She says Tom's old enemy, Don Gervase Askary, has taken her father and brother - and what's more, she claims he has Tom's parents too. Together Tom and Pearl set out on a perilous journey to rescue their families - a journey that will take them in and out of time, to exotic foreign lands, and finally into the secret hidden world of Scarazand, stronghold of the terrifying Don Gervase himself . . . It's non-stop action in this breathtaking sequel to the first fantastic Tom Scatterhorn book, The Museum's Secret.

Is your investment in that new Internet stock a sign of stock market savvy or an act of peculiarly American speculative folly? How has the psychology of investing changed--and not changed--over the last five hundred years? Edward Chancellor examines the nature of speculation--from medieval Europe to the Tulip mania of the 1630s to today's Internet stock craze. A contributing writer to The Financial Times and The Economist, Chancellor looks at both the psychological and economic forces that drive people to "bet" their money in markets; how markets are made, unmade, and manipulated; and who wins when speculation runs rampant. Drawing colorfully on the words of such speculators as Sir Isaac Newton, Daniel Defoe, Ivan Boesky, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, Devil Take the Hindmost is part history, part social science, and purely illuminating: an erudite and hugely entertaining book that is more timely today than ever before."Entertaining, useful, admirable scholarship . . . Chancellor seems to have read everything." --Adam Smith, The New York Times Book Review"Anyone contemplating a stock market venture and certainly anyone now involved should read this book."--John Kenneth Gailbraith

A LibraryReads Selection Out for a hike one scorching afternoon in Sycamore, Arizona, a newcomer stumbles upon what appear to be human remains in a dry ravine. In the days it takes the authorities to make an identification, stories, rumors, and recollections both painful and poignant are rekindled. In resurrecting the past, the people of Sycamore will find a way forward for their lives.

An award-winning writer hailed as ''amazing, sensitive, and thoughtful'' by Kevin Wilson makes her debut with this mesmerizing page-turner in the spirit of Everything I Never Told You and Olive Kitteridge: a coming of age story, a mystery, and a moving exploration of the elemental forces that drive human nature -- desire, loneliness, grief, love, forgiveness, and hope -- witnessed through the lives of one small Arizona town.Out for a hike one scorching afternoon in Sycamore, Arizona, a newcomer to town stumbles across what appear to be human remains embedded in the wall of a dry desert ravine. As news of the discovery makes its way around town, Sycamore's longtime residents fear the bones may belong to Jess Winters, the teenage girl who disappeared suddenly some eighteen years earlier, an unsolved mystery that has soaked into the porous rock of the town and haunted it ever since. In the days it takes the authorities to make an identification, the residents rekindle stories, rumors, and recollections both painful and poignant as they revisit Jess's troubled history. In resurrecting the past, the people of Sycamore will find clarity, unexpected possibility, and a way forward for their lives. Skillfully interweaving multiple points of view, Bryn Chancellor knowingly maps the bloodlines of a community and the indelible characters at its heart -- most notably Jess Winters, a thoughtful, promising adolescent poised on the threshold of adulthood. Evocative and atmospheric, Sycamore is a coming-of-age story, a mystery, and a moving exploration of the elemental forces that drive human nature -- desire, loneliness, grief, love, forgiveness, and hope -- as witnessed through the inhabitants of one small Arizona town.

Knee High to a Grasshopper is a book of poems portraying the innocence, naivety and joy of three sisters growing up in small town America in the 1950s.Written from the perspective of a four-year-old, Knee High to a Grasshopper is poetry that kids, parents and grandparents will all enjoy reading—time and time again. More than a nostalgic reminiscence of yesterday, Knee High to a Grasshopper is relevant today.Published as a check off on a “bucket list” it has finally emerged as a delightful gift inviting you to sept back from the hustle and bustle of today’s busy lifestyle and enjoy the freshness of a more simple, more slowly paced time.

An award-winning writer hailed as ''amazing, sensitive, and thoughtful'' by Kevin Wilson makes her debut with this mesmerizing page-turner in the spirit of Everything I Never Told You and Olive Kitteridge: a coming of age story, a mystery, and a moving exploration of the elemental forces that drive human nature -- desire, loneliness, grief, love, forgiveness, and hope -- witnessed through the lives of one small Arizona town.Out for a hike one scorching afternoon in Sycamore, Arizona, a newcomer to town stumbles across what appear to be human remains embedded in the wall of a dry desert ravine. As news of the discovery makes its way around town, Sycamore's longtime residents fear the bones may belong to Jess Winters, the teenage girl who disappeared suddenly some eighteen years earlier, an unsolved mystery that has soaked into the porous rock of the town and haunted it ever since. In the days it takes the authorities to make an identification, the residents rekindle stories, rumors, and recollections both painful and poignant as they revisit Jess's troubled history. In resurrecting the past, the people of Sycamore will find clarity, unexpected possibility, and a way forward for their lives. Skillfully interweaving multiple points of view, Bryn Chancellor knowingly maps the bloodlines of a community and the indelible characters at its heart -- most notably Jess Winters, a thoughtful, promising adolescent poised on the threshold of adulthood. Evocative and atmospheric, Sycamore is a coming-of-age story, a mystery, and a moving exploration of the elemental forces that drive human nature -- desire, loneliness, grief, love, forgiveness, and hope -- as witnessed through the inhabitants of one small Arizona town.

Knee High to a Grasshopper is a book of poems portraying the innocence, naivety and joy of three sisters growing up in small town America in the 1950s.Written from the perspective of a four-year-old, Knee High to a Grasshopper is poetry that kids, parents and grandparents will all enjoy reading time and time again. More than a nostalgic reminiscence of yesterday, Knee High to a Grasshopper is relevant today.Published as a check off on a bucket list it has finally emerged as a delightful gift inviting you to sept back from the hustle and bustle of today s busy lifestyle and enjoy the freshness of a more simple, more slowly paced time.