Books with author M Roberts

Originally published in 1827, Roberts’ Guide for Butlers and Other Household Staff was a handbook for servants to perform their duties more efficiently and thoughtfully. Roberts gives a plethora of information about household duties of a butler like:• How to dress suitably for work• Regulations for the dinner table• Directions for cleaning tea trays• Giving Britannia metal a brilliant polish• Preserving fruits for the year• Addressing and behaving properly around your employer• And many more insightsRoberts provides information on how to make the best-tasting lemonade; preserving good wine for years; not passing judgments on the other servants; never letting your master ring the bell for you twice; cleaning dirty tables with a mix of milk, turpentine, and sweet oil; rubbing off rust with salad oil and lime; and other useful tidbits for the curious butler. This is a fascinating look behind the scenes of household help and will delight any nineteenth century enthusiast.

Sometime you have to find out you're average...Before you can be exceptional.Riding his bike home from the library, Sean Sharpe finds out that the world isn't quite as average as he'd originally thought. After narrowly surviving an attack by a mysterious assailant, he is approached by another stranger--one who claims to be a Hunter. He tells Sean that his attacker was one of the Nephilim; half human spawn of fallen angels who have taken the form of creatures of the night.Even worse, the Hunters believe that the Nephilim will want revenge for killing one of their own.Sean is faced with a bitter reality; the world may not be average, but he is. There is nothing special about him. If he is going to survive, he will have to learn to be more than average.But will it be enough?

Written by a classroom AP European History teacher who has taught both in the U.S. and abroad, Barron’s AP European History Premium is updated to reflect the latest scoring rubrics and exam framework. You’ll get the comprehensive content review and practice you need to be prepared for the exam.This premium edition features:Two full-length practice tests in the book to help you apply the knowledge you learned in classThree full-length practice tests onlineA comprehensive review of European history, starting with Europe during the Italian Renaissance and progressing to Europe in the twenty-first centuryPractice multiple-choice, short-answer, and essay questions with answers following each chapterExtensive charts that summarize Europe's historyContent presented in easily digestible bulleted lists, peppered throughout commentary textThis edition has been refined to closely match the exam content now that the new course curriculum has been in practice for two full academic years.

In my world, magic is an everyday thing. It's on street corners; it's in our schools, our homes and even our governments. Magic carpets share the sky with jets, international boxing shares air time with magical duellists. It's a whole mess, but then nobody consulted me before outing every mage on the planet.My twin brother is a Wizard, and thinks he's the only magician in the family. It's actually a little funny that he hasn't suspected anything different in the last seventeen years, what with my constantly needing to keep his idiot face out of danger and stupidity, but that's not today's problem.You see, someone's trying to kill him. It started off with a shadow monster that was all but immune to my magic attacking him at school, and it went steadily downhill from there, meandering through an encounter with a succubus (a species I was told categorically didn't exist anymore), to nearly getting abducted by murderous homeless men and blasted by the government's anti-magic police, and that was just Monday!While I'm trying to help the idiot, I'm also doing my level best to keep him from finding out about my own powers (which are frankly so sinister that I was terrified of my own shadow for the first decade of my life), and make sure that in my blundering about trying to solve a mystery I can't trust the Supernatural Crimes Authority to investigate correctly, I don't draw the attention of the people with horrific monsters at their beck and call.Family can be such a pain...

My twin brother has started to go mad, and my powers are the cause. Nobody knows how to stop it and all the facts are telling me that unless I can cure him, my brother is very likely going to try and kill me soon. And that's just how this whole mess starts...From there I run face first into a whole stack of problems, including a crazy werewolf girl, a large pack of flesh-eating ghouls and a trip to the greatest repository of magical knowledge in the world, where someone like me is definitely not welcome.There, I discover dark secrets from before the birth of modern civilisation, and make an enemy of the toughest woman I've ever met, one whose motto may as well have been 'when in doubt, stab it a lot'!If that wasn't enough, Windward Academy has a new magic teacher, who also doesn't like me very much (who does these days?). She's not only far more powerful than I am, she's also hiding secrets of her own, any one of which could vastly complicate an already touchy situation.But I can't let any of that stop me. I've got to find a way to help Des, but the only paths open to me are costly and horrifically dangerous. No matter what I do, I'm bound to lose something precious.I still have to try.

“Delightfully surprising….A portable virtual museum…an entertaining stroll through the history of one of the world’s great cities” (Kirkus Reviews), told through 101 distinctive objects that span the history of New York, almost all reproduced in luscious, full color.Inspired by A History of the World in 100 Objects, Sam Roberts of The New York Times chose fifty objects that embody the narrative of New York for a feature article in the paper. Many more suggestions came from readers, and so Roberts has expanded the list to 101. Here are just a few of what this keepsake volume offers: -The Flushing Remonstrance, a 1657 petition for religious freedom that was a precursor to the First Amendment to the Constitution. -Beads from the African Burial Ground, 1700s. Slavery was legal in New York until 1827, although many free blacks lived in the city. The African Burial Ground closed in 1792 and was only recently rediscovered. -The bagel, early 1900s. The quintessential and undisputed New York food (excepting perhaps the pizza). -The Automat vending machine, 1912. Put a nickel in the slot and get a cup of coffee or a piece of pie. It was the early twentieth century version of fast food. -The “I Love NY” logo designed by Milton Glaser in 1977 for a campaign to increase tourism. Along with Saul Steinberg’s famous New Yorker cover depicting a New Yorker’s view of the world, it was perhaps the most famous and most frequently reproduced graphic symbol of the time. Unique, sometimes whimsical, always important, A History of New York in 101 Objects is a beautiful chronicle of the remarkable history of the Big Apple. “The story [Sam Roberts] is telling is that of New York, and he nails it” (Daily News, New York).

Monty Roberts is a real-life horse whisperer–an American original whose gentle Join-Up® training method reveals the depth of communication possible between man and animal. He can take a wild, high-strung horse who has never before been handled and persuade that horse to accept a bridle, saddle, and rider in thirty minutes. His powers may seem like magic, but his amazing “horse sense” is based on a lifetime of experience. In The Man Who Listens to Horses, Roberts reveals his unforgettable personal story and his exceptional insight into nonverbal communication, an understanding that applies to human relationships as well. He shows that between parent and child, employee and employer, abuser and abused, there are forms of communication far stronger than the spoken word that are accessible to all who will learn to listen. This new edition features engaging photographs, a chapter that traces Roberts’s amazing experience gentling with a mustang in the wild, and an Afterword about the remarkable impact this book has had on the world.

Archons, Fanatics, Fairies, Black Magic, Shadowborn...As if my life wasn't already complicated enough, now the Archons are back, and they're searching for their lost brother.My school is overrun by a new crop of Magicians who can't keep a civil tongue in their heads, an ancient group of Shadowborn-hating fanatics has crawled out of the woodwork with a bag of powerful toys and the ruthlessness required to use them, and to top it all off, I've managed to draw the attention of the Fae.If you thought the attentions of a Succubus could be a pain, wait and see what an obsessed Unseelie Princess with a penchant for kidnapping and dirty tricks gets up to.Fanatics to the left, Fairies to the right and Black Magic creeping up the middle, tempting me and repulsing me in equal measure, drawing the attention of enemies I could never have anticipated.Oh, and my brother tries to kill me. Again.I knew I should have made a break for a different continent when I had the chance...

Life’s a Beach Until Someone Gets Hurt…Leaving London behind, Ally Wescott finds herself running the B&B her grandfather left her in his will.The small village of Westford is quiet, quaint and picturesque and the locals seem to all know each other. Part of her craves the busy life she left behind, because just how interesting can a sleepy coastal community get?She’s about to learn the hard way…The body of a young woman washes up on the beach by her B&B, and suddenly she’s thrust into the middle of a murder investigation.Who was she? How did she come to be out there alone? And most importantly, who killed her?With the rekindled friendships of Fran and Lewis and a suitably handsome detective to pull information from (and keep her distracted!), she’s determined to get answers… Even if the killer might be closer to home than one might think.Beaches and Bodies is Book One to the Westford Bay B&B Cozy Mystery Series. If you want to read the prequel - Bakeries and Bones, here it is: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075KLPDDZ Ally and her wonderful group of friends live in the United Kingdom, so please note that this book contains British terminology and British spellings.

After Colin Gordon evicts Hangelore’s Pirates and saves the lamsons from slavery, the Peschal Alliance are desperate for new resources. Pirates raid the Federation’s fringes and explore further afield as Hazilsor searches for his new fiefdom. Word reaches Sankarah of the raids, and Admiral Dalkasan orders Cambridge to send help. Henry Fraser sends Colin with Cambridge’s latest ship and support to help the devastated victims.A Pirate scouting party finds Earth, a world ripe for the picking. Suhmarlin Hazilsor sets out to gain the new world. Hazilsor plans to use Earth to replace his lost base in Hangelore.Meanwhile, the Federation sends Colin on an aggressive search and destroy mission to end the Pirate threat. When he visits Hangelore, it shocks Colin to discover the lamsons erected statues of him in their parks and gardens. Colin makes new friends and solves a long-standing problem for his adopted home. Can he save Earth from Hazilsor?

Originally published in 1827, Roberts’ Guide for Butlers and Other Household Staff was a handbook for servants to perform their duties more efficiently and thoughtfully. Roberts gives a plethora of information about household duties of a butler like:• How to dress suitably for work• Regulations for the dinner table• Directions for cleaning tea trays• Giving Britannia metal a brilliant polish• Preserving fruits for the year• Addressing and behaving properly around your employer• And many more insightsRoberts provides information on how to make the best-tasting lemonade; preserving good wine for years; not passing judgments on the other servants; never letting your master ring the bell for you twice; cleaning dirty tables with a mix of milk, turpentine, and sweet oil; rubbing off rust with salad oil and lime; and other useful tidbits for the curious butler. This is a fascinating look behind the scenes of household help and will delight any nineteenth century enthusiast.