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The breathtaking new novel from Tom Franklin, the Gold Dagger Award winning author, writing with his wife, prize-winning poet Beth Ann Fennelly

A steam-driven mechanical pteranodon is out of control over Victorian-era London and the Queen is not amused! Ib believes his luck has changed for the better when he gets the chance to be an eccentric professor's assistant. However, when the professor's gearwork pterosaur comes to life and escapes into the skies, Ib wonders what else can go wrong. Then Her Majesty's Royal Guard gives Ib and the professor two days to capture their renegade mac...

A steam-driven mechanical pteranodon is out of control over Victorian-era London and the Queen is not amused! Ib believes his luck has changed for the better when he gets the chance to be an eccentric professor's assistant. However, when the professor's gearwork pterosaur comes to life and escapes into the skies, Ib wonders what else can go wrong. Then Her Majesty's Royal Guard gives Ib and the professor two days to capture their renegade mac...

Dieses Paket zum Abiturtitel Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter enthält alles, was Schülerinnen und Schüler zur Behandlung der Lektür im Basiskurs (3-stündig) benötigen: Lektüre Lektürewortschatz

Dieses Paket zum Abiturtitel Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter enthält alles, was Schülerinnen und Schüler zur Behandlung der Lektür im Leistungsfach (5-stündig) benötigen: Lektüre Guided Reading Journal mit Klett-Augmented-App Lektürewortschatz

Im Süden Alabama war es einst üppig und grün.Doch der alte Süden liegt in den letzten Atemzügen, während der neue, moderne Süden das Leben dereinfachen Leute in die Hand nimmt. Der Kampf um die Vorherrschaft und das ruhige, selbstbestimmteDasein sind längst vorbei, doch die alten Wundenmüssen erst noch heilen. Sie sprechen von einer Welt der Jagd und des Fischfangs, des Glücksspielsund der Niederlage, des Trinkens und Wilderns.Männer sind hier...

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Die Königs Erläuterung Spezial zu Tom Franklin: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter in englischer Sprache ist eine verlässliche und bewährte Textanalyse und Interpretationshilfe für Schüler und weiterführende Informationsquelle für Lehrer und andere Interessierte: verständlich, übersichtlich und prägnant. Info: Abiturthema in Baden-Württemberg. In einem Band bieten dir die Königs Erläuterungen alles, was du zur Vorbereitung auf Referat, Klausur, Ab...

Als die neunzehnjährige Tina Rutherford verschwindet, ist jedem in Chabot, Mississippi klar, wer dafür verantwortlich ist. Denn 25 Jahre zuvor war schon die junge Cindy Walker nach einem Date mit dem Nachbarssohn Larry Ott spurlos verschwunden. Für das Verbrechen konnte Larry aus Mangel an Beweisen nie verurteilt werden, wurde aber fortan gemieden und lebte in ritualisierter Einsamkeit. Erneut unter Verdacht, ist sein Haus vermehrt Ziel betrun...

A Chabot, nella campagna del Mississippi, il tempo pare essersi fermato. Venti chilometri dal bancomat più vicino, cinquecento anime sparse tra i pochi edifici non ancora abbandonati, negozi che sembrano vintage solo perché vendono da sempre la stessa identica merce. Anche il pregiudizio è immutabile: quando ti colpisce non dà tregua, inesorabile come un volo di avvoltoi che hanno puntato la preda. Da più di vent'anni, Larry Ott è per tutti un...

Pflichtlektüre im AbiturBaden-Württemberg ab 2019"Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter" ist ein spannender Who-done-it-Krimi, der sich vor der Kulisse Mississippis in den 1980er und 25 Jahre später abspielt. Nach und nach wird deutlich, dass die Beziehung zwischen den beiden Protagonisten, einem Polizisten und einem Automechaniker, enger ist als zunächst angenommen. Nach sorgfältigem Sichten der Beweismittel in einem Mordfall an einer jungen Frauen,...

In 1927, as rains swell the Mississippi, the river threatens to burst its banks and engulf everything in its path, including the tiny hamlet of Hobnob, where federal agents Ted Ingersoll and Ham Johnson arrive to investigate the disappearance of two fellow agents—and find a baby boy abandoned in the middle of a crime scene.Ingersoll finds a home for the infant with local woman Dixie Clay Holliver, unaware that she's the best bootlegger in the ...

This book reveals the personal stories of a diverse set of American entrepreneurs who by one path or another own golf courses. Over 26 million recreational golfers and the golf industry annually provided some 2 million jobs with an impact on the U.S. economy of $195 billion per annum. These stories focus on the entrepreneurs building or acquiring golf courses, their biggest achievements and challenges, and their perspectives on past, present a...

Der wahre Bericht eines Schiffbrüchigen: Am 17. November 2012 bricht José Salvador Alvarenga mit seinem Begleiter in einem kleinen Boot zum Fischfang auf. Als in einem heftigen Unwetter vor der Küste Mexikos der Motor versagt, beginnt eine 10¿000 Kilometer lange Odyssee über den Ozean, auf der der Fischer von Haien angegriffen wird und mit ansehen muss, wie sein Gefährte stirbt. Packend schildert Jonathan Franklin das nervenzerreißende Drama a...

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In ten stunning and bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps and chemical plants along the Alabama River, Tom Franklin stakes his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice. His lyric, deceptively simple prose conjures a world where the default setting is violence, a world of hunting and fishing, gambling and losing, drinking and poaching -- a world most of us have never seen. In the chilling title novella (selected for the anthologies New Stor...

It's 1911 and the townsfolk of Old Texas, Alabama, have had enough. Every Saturday night for a year, E. O. Smonk has been destroying property, killing livestock, seducing women, cheating and beating men, all from behind the twin barrels of his Winchester 45-70 caliber over-and-under rifle. Syphilitic, consumptive, gouty, and goitered--an expert with explosives and knives--Smonk hates horses, goats, and the Irish, and it's high time he was stop...

Based on incidents that occurred a few miles from the author's childhood home, this extraordinary first novel is set in 1897 Alabama at a time when residents formed a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish townspeople for the murder of an aspiring politician.

In a small Mississippi town, two men are torn apart by circumstance and reunited by tragedy, in this resonant new novel from the award-winning author of the critically acclaimed "Hell at the Breech.

Recent Advances in Robot Learning contains seven papers on robot learning written by leading researchers in the field. As the selection of papers illustrates, the field of robot learning is both active and diverse. A variety of machine learning methods, ranging from inductive logic programming to reinforcement learning, is being applied to many subproblems in robot perception and control, often with objectives as diverse as parameter calibrati...