Jackie l smith (131 risultati)

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. I have enough of the story. Here is the full description: The Genius of Caleb Donovan: The Untouchable DroneOn a gray Saturday in March, fifteen-year-old Caleb Donovan stands at a card table in a high school gymnasium next to something small enough to fit on a dinner plate - a store-bought drone he picked up in pieces online. He calls it the Somersault. He asks the crowd to catch it.Nobody can.Not because it's fast. Because it's gone before their hands close. It reads intention - not where a hand is, but where it's going - and slips sideways, politely, before anyone finishes deciding to move. Three hundred people chase a child's toy around a gymnasium, laughing at themselves, while the boy with the cowlick and the helpless, hiccuping laugh watches from the side, delighted. He wins the science fair. Someone films it on a phone. Forty seconds of a boy and a drone, and eleven million people watch it before the weekend is over.One of those eleven million is Gary Holloway, a retired man in the bleachers who spent thirty years in work he doesn't talk about, and who understands, the moment the little drone slips through a closing hand, that a fifteen-year-old from a dying Ohio town has just demonstrated the end of air defense - off a two-hundred-dollar airframe, in front of a school banner, to a crowd of people who think it's a magic trick.Holloway makes a phone call from a cold parking lot. Walt Pearson answers in Washington. And the machine turns.What happens next happens fast and quiet, the way it's supposed to. The video disappears. Names travel through rooms with no windows. A folder gets created. A careful, lawful American machine moves to protect the boy - and in moving, rings a bell that certain patient people a long way from Rusk Falls, Ohio, have been straining to hear for years.Now there are new faces in town. A man called Carl Brandt asks the county office about the old mill. A second man, Viktor Dragunov, walks the streets at different hours, timing the route from the school to Sycamore Street and noting the blind spot forty feet long. A young woman named Olena Kovalenko watches from the edges and waits, with the particular patience of someone who believes she is doing the only right thing left in the world to do.And Caleb Donovan goes to school. He takes his chemistry quiz. He eats lunch with his best friend Buggs and walks Barbara partway home. He carries the only copy of his invention left in the world inside his head, down the same hallways he's walked for years, and laughs for all of them because stopping would be a flag.His father, Jonathon Donovan - a quiet man, a careful man, a lawyer who has spent nine years in the corner of the room watching - stands at the front window at night and watches the street. He knows how the careful machine works. He knows it is on his son's side. And he knows the thing every man who has ever worked in those gray rooms knows: that being on the right side and being safe are not the same thing, and that the distance between them is where his son now lives.The Genius of Caleb Donovan is a story about what happens when the most valuable child in the world is also just a kid - a kid with a cowlick and a laugh that gets away from him, who built something extraordinary in a garage in a town nobody drives to on purpose, and who now has to survive the world that extraordinary thing has opened up around him, with nothing but his father's judgment, his mother's quiet courage, and the particular stubbornness of a person who has been told too many times that nothing good comes from a place like this. After a teenager's homemade drone demonstrates impossible agility, a quiet life becomes a high-stakes battlefield as intelligence agencies and foreign operatives converge to claim his Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Madison Sharp knew the blind date was going badly when the dentist across the table asked whether she had ever considered getting her ears fixed.Just the left one, Richard Langley explained helpfully. It sticks out a little farther than the other. He knew an excellent plastic surgeon.For thirty-four years, that ear had survived childhood, college, one failed marriage, and six years of teaching eighth-grade English on Manhattan's Upper West Side without a word of complaint. Then a waiter carrying two bowls of tomato soup stepped left, Madison stepped left, and they both corrected right. At the bar behind her date, a dark-haired man reading a paperback began to laugh.He claimed it was a complicated cough.Noah Coward hands her his napkin, offers his professional opinion that her ears are fine, and walks her home, though she never asked him to. Madison is certain that is the end of it. Then on Monday morning she finds a white truck outside her school marked COWARD RESTORATION, and the man who laughed is standing on a ladder in the old library corridor.Madison has spent three years since her divorce making her life so safe that nothing can get in. Noah, who restores century-old buildings and owns a company built on saving things other people give up on, has his own reasons for being careful. He was once engaged to a woman who wanted him to become someone else.When Noah finds a hundred-year-old note hidden behind the trim in Room 214, MARGARET, MEET ME AFTER SCHOOL. HENRY, Madison's eighth graders demand to know whether Margaret showed up. So, quietly, does Madison. Between a leaning bookshelf, a school fundraiser where Noah arrives in work boots, Sunday lunch with his family, and a sister who finds out everything, she begins to fall in love, and to dread what comes next.Then two job offers arrive, one for each of them. A promotion at her school. A year-long restoration of an 1891 house above the Hudson. Each tells the other to take the job. Neither is ready for the first real fight, or for how quickly old wounds can turn a reasonable question into the wrong conversation.Four days of polite text messages teach Madison how much she has to lose. A small walnut box appears on her desk with the old note inside. Then January brings a new job for her, a long commute for him, and a sixty-mile distance that both are determined not to treat as a crisis. Along the way there is Sophie, a student who needs the courage Madison has been avoiding, and a Manhattan apartment that has been hers, and Michael's, and hers again, and may finally be ready to be given up.What follows is a spring of moving boxes, emergency coffee reserves, a terrible lamp, and a question Madison asks about a hundred-year-old couple she has never met: what kept Margaret and Henry together?The Ear Was Never the Problem is a warm, funny, and deeply human love story about second chances, about the difference between being careful and being safe, and about two stubborn people who learn that the best things in life are rarely perfect, rarely convenient, and almost never arrive on schedule. It is for readers who love sharp dialogue, big-hearted families, and a romance that earns its happy ending.It is also a story about tomato soup, a restaurant napkin that keeps changing hands, an unreasonable number of books, and the quiet courage of simply showing up.The problem was believing that love required perfection. Perfect timing. Perfect people. Perfect lives. Madison Sharp finally learned better. Sometimes love arrives during the worst date of your life. Sometimes it carries a stolen napkin. Sometimes it wears work boots to a fundraiser.Sometimes it uses the last of the coffee.And sometimes, if you are very lucky, it shows up, stays, and does the work. After a disastrous bli Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. I have enough of the story. Here is the full description: The Genius of Caleb Donovan: The Untouchable DroneOn a gray Saturday in March, fifteen-year-old Caleb Donovan stands at a card table in a high school gymnasium next to something small enough to fit on a dinner plate - a store-bought drone he picked up in pieces online. He calls it the Somersault. He asks the crowd to catch it.Nobody can.Not because it's fast. Because it's gone before their hands close. It reads intention - not where a hand is, but where it's going - and slips sideways, politely, before anyone finishes deciding to move. Three hundred people chase a child's toy around a gymnasium, laughing at themselves, while the boy with the cowlick and the helpless, hiccuping laugh watches from the side, delighted. He wins the science fair. Someone films it on a phone. Forty seconds of a boy and a drone, and eleven million people watch it before the weekend is over.One of those eleven million is Gary Holloway, a retired man in the bleachers who spent thirty years in work he doesn't talk about, and who understands, the moment the little drone slips through a closing hand, that a fifteen-year-old from a dying Ohio town has just demonstrated the end of air defense - off a two-hundred-dollar airframe, in front of a school banner, to a crowd of people who think it's a magic trick.Holloway makes a phone call from a cold parking lot. Walt Pearson answers in Washington. And the machine turns.What happens next happens fast and quiet, the way it's supposed to. The video disappears. Names travel through rooms with no windows. A folder gets created. A careful, lawful American machine moves to protect the boy - and in moving, rings a bell that certain patient people a long way from Rusk Falls, Ohio, have been straining to hear for years.Now there are new faces in town. A man called Carl Brandt asks the county office about the old mill. A second man, Viktor Dragunov, walks the streets at different hours, timing the route from the school to Sycamore Street and noting the blind spot forty feet long. A young woman named Olena Kovalenko watches from the edges and waits, with the particular patience of someone who believes she is doing the only right thing left in the world to do.And Caleb Donovan goes to school. He takes his chemistry quiz. He eats lunch with his best friend Buggs and walks Barbara partway home. He carries the only copy of his invention left in the world inside his head, down the same hallways he's walked for years, and laughs for all of them because stopping would be a flag.His father, Jonathon Donovan - a quiet man, a careful man, a lawyer who has spent nine years in the corner of the room watching - stands at the front window at night and watches the street. He knows how the careful machine works. He knows it is on his son's side. And he knows the thing every man who has ever worked in those gray rooms knows: that being on the right side and being safe are not the same thing, and that the distance between them is where his son now lives.The Genius of Caleb Donovan is a story about what happens when the most valuable child in the world is also just a kid - a kid with a cowlick and a laugh that gets away from him, who built something extraordinary in a garage in a town nobody drives to on purpose, and who now has to survive the world that extraordinary thing has opened up around him, with nothing but his father's judgment, his mother's quiet courage, and the particular stubbornness of a person who has been told too many times that nothing good comes from a place like this. After a teenager's homemade drone demonstrates impossible agility, a quiet life becomes a high-stakes battlefield as intelligence agencies and foreign operatives converge Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Madison Sharp knew the blind date was going badly when the dentist across the table asked whether she had ever considered getting her ears fixed.Just the left one, Richard Langley explained helpfully. It sticks out a little farther than the other. He knew an excellent plastic surgeon.For thirty-four years, that ear had survived childhood, college, one failed marriage, and six years of teaching eighth-grade English on Manhattan's Upper West Side without a word of complaint. Then a waiter carrying two bowls of tomato soup stepped left, Madison stepped left, and they both corrected right. At the bar behind her date, a dark-haired man reading a paperback began to laugh.He claimed it was a complicated cough.Noah Coward hands her his napkin, offers his professional opinion that her ears are fine, and walks her home, though she never asked him to. Madison is certain that is the end of it. Then on Monday morning she finds a white truck outside her school marked COWARD RESTORATION, and the man who laughed is standing on a ladder in the old library corridor.Madison has spent three years since her divorce making her life so safe that nothing can get in. Noah, who restores century-old buildings and owns a company built on saving things other people give up on, has his own reasons for being careful. He was once engaged to a woman who wanted him to become someone else.When Noah finds a hundred-year-old note hidden behind the trim in Room 214, MARGARET, MEET ME AFTER SCHOOL. HENRY, Madison's eighth graders demand to know whether Margaret showed up. So, quietly, does Madison. Between a leaning bookshelf, a school fundraiser where Noah arrives in work boots, Sunday lunch with his family, and a sister who finds out everything, she begins to fall in love, and to dread what comes next.Then two job offers arrive, one for each of them. A promotion at her school. A year-long restoration of an 1891 house above the Hudson. Each tells the other to take the job. Neither is ready for the first real fight, or for how quickly old wounds can turn a reasonable question into the wrong conversation.Four days of polite text messages teach Madison how much she has to lose. A small walnut box appears on her desk with the old note inside. Then January brings a new job for her, a long commute for him, and a sixty-mile distance that both are determined not to treat as a crisis. Along the way there is Sophie, a student who needs the courage Madison has been avoiding, and a Manhattan apartment that has been hers, and Michael's, and hers again, and may finally be ready to be given up.What follows is a spring of moving boxes, emergency coffee reserves, a terrible lamp, and a question Madison asks about a hundred-year-old couple she has never met: what kept Margaret and Henry together?The Ear Was Never the Problem is a warm, funny, and deeply human love story about second chances, about the difference between being careful and being safe, and about two stubborn people who learn that the best things in life are rarely perfect, rarely convenient, and almost never arrive on schedule. It is for readers who love sharp dialogue, big-hearted families, and a romance that earns its happy ending.It is also a story about tomato soup, a restaurant napkin that keeps changing hands, an unreasonable number of books, and the quiet courage of simply showing up.The problem was believing that love required perfection. Perfect timing. Perfect people. Perfect lives. Madison Sharp finally learned better. Sometimes love arrives during the worst date of your life. Sometimes it carries a stolen napkin. Sometimes it wears work boots to a fundraiser.Sometimes it uses the last of the coffee.And sometimes, if you are very lucky, it shows up, stays, and does the work. After a d Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…