Books with author Winchester

Anger, Resentment, Jealousy, Rage, Violence, Hate and Fear.For eighteen years, this is all I’ve known. When everything seemed to crash and burn around me, I could always count on those seven things to get me through. At least that’s how it was until Isabelle. With one brief look across a crowded parking lot, she altered my entire existence. Erasing all of the things I thought I could count on and replacing them with ones of her own. Things that even now, a year later, I still don’t think I deserve. Forgiveness, Understanding, Acceptance, Friendship, Redemption, Hope and Love. So what do you do when you’ve been given all of these things by the most beautiful person on the planet with nothing expected in return?Well when you’re me, you find a way to screw it up. She thinks I’m the strong one. That I’m not afraid of anything. She’s wrong. I’m afraid of a lot of things, but the absolute worst is losing her. Losing yet another person I love and being powerless to stop it. I can’t lose Belle. I just can’t. Even if losing her is exactly what I deserve. You thought our story was complete, but what you’re about to find out, is no story ever really ends. It just finds new ways to begin again.

There are people that tell you high school is the best time of your life.They lied. High school is horrible when you’re like me and you’re autistic. They think that because I don’t talk and I seem to always be lost in my own world, I’m stupid or deaf. Some even think I’m retarded. I’m none of those things and I don’t like that word.Just because I've got these issues, doesn't mean it’s all I am. There’s a lot more to me, but no one really takes the time to get to know it. At least that’s how it was until Kayden.Kayden Walker is bad news. He spends his time making people that are different, like me, feel even worse about themselves and he does it with a smile. He’s everything I don’t need in my life, yet he’s the one person I can’t seem to live without. Underneath, there’s more to him that he’s afraid to let the rest of the world see. I've seen it and as I’m finding out, we’re not so different after all…

The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.The rise of manufacturing could not have happened without an attention to precision. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century England, standards of measurement were established, giving way to the development of machine tools—machines that make machines. Eventually, the application of precision tools and methods resulted in the creation and mass production of items from guns and glass to mirrors, lenses, and cameras—and eventually gave way to further breakthroughs, including gene splicing, microchips, and the Hadron Collider.Simon Winchester takes us back to origins of the Industrial Age, to England where he introduces the scientific minds that helped usher in modern production: John Wilkinson, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Bramah, Jesse Ramsden, and Joseph Whitworth. It was Thomas Jefferson who later exported their discoveries to the fledgling United States, setting the nation on its course to become a manufacturing titan. Winchester moves forward through time, to today’s cutting-edge developments occurring around the world, from America to Western Europe to Asia.As he introduces the minds and methods that have changed the modern world, Winchester explores fundamental questions. Why is precision important? What are the different tools we use to measure it? Who has invented and perfected it? Has the pursuit of the ultra-precise in so many facets of human life blinded us to other things of equal value, such as an appreciation for the age-old traditions of craftsmanship, art, and high culture? Are we missing something that reflects the world as it is, rather than the world as we think we would wish it to be? And can the precise and the natural co-exist in society?

A Super Fun and Hilarious Gift/Activity Idea For The Whole Family To Enjoy!Would you rather... have uncontrollable diarrhea during your wedding ceremony OR high school grad?Have you ever wondered what kind of choices your kids would make in different scenarios? Has family game night been a little dry or boring recently? Or maybe you want to get to know your kids better and don't know where to start? Well this special EWW edition of the popular Would You Rather game is sure to change that! Get ready to have a disgustingly fun-filled night for the whole family that is sure to be filled with just as many groans as laughs. This book also works great at breaking the ice in a social setting, as a party game, or as a travel companion especially for roadtrips!Some of the Effects and Side Effects include:Countless laughs and even more groans that will make unforgettable memories!Challenging scenarios and difficult choices to think about.Getting to know your loved ones better in ways you would never have thought before.Parental approval because of the clean and kid-friendly humor!A special bonus at the end of the book for even more laughs.A unique tutorial on how to play. So what are you waiting for?! This book guarantees hours and hours of fun so gift it to your kids, nephews, nieces, grandkids, neighbors or just about anyone that is looking to have some yucky fun!

There are people that believe because you may not appear the way they do that you’re somehow weaker or less worthy than they are. I’m living proof they’re wrong. From the day I was born I've always been seen as one thing—deaf. What people don’t realize, is just because I can’t hear the things they say, doesn't mean I don’t feel the pain that comes from their words and actions.I’m more than just the girl that can’t hear and I've never been more determined to prove it now that I've been sent here. Wexfield High School. I know everything that happens here and I know even more about the guy who makes it all happen. Dillon Murphy is trouble with a capital T. He goes out of his way to hurt those he perceives to be weaker than him and does it with a smile. What he doesn't realize is that his tricks, they won’t work on me because I know his secret. As I’m finding out, there’s a lot more to Dillon then he wants the world to see and before my time here is up, I’m determined to make him see it, even if it costs me my heart in the process.

Well here we are.Senior Year.A year that by definition means I’ll be one of about 300 other kids running my school.Greenville High.I know what you’re all thinking. “Oh no, here comes the book about the virgin wallflower who the popular guy meets and instantly falls for.”Wrong.I’m not an ugly duckling that the cool cats use to make themselves look like even bigger jerks, and I’m definitely not a wallflower, though that whole virginal thing, well that’s really none of your business. I’m just the girl more interested in taking pictures and playing on her acoustic than getting caught up in the petty drama that four years of high school is guaranteed to create. Until Christian.I know, I know. It’s always a guy isn’t it?Girl on the fast track to any college she chooses, always seems to get tripped up by the guy.But hear me out! This guy…he’s different.You see, Christian Cayne isn’t just some guy I almost ran down on my first day here and later fell in love with. I wish it were that simple. It would make what’s gotta happen now easier. Christian is a lot of things to a lot of people since he landed here with his dad at the end of the summer, but in a couple of months, he’s going to have to be one thing only to me. My step-brother.

The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking.