Bøger af Sam Taylor

A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.

One man, one choice, two lifetimes. A house fire, Vienna, 1933: thirteen-year-old Max is orphaned, disfigured and adopted by an Aryan family who change his identity - and his prospects. A house fire, Vienna, 1933: thirteen-year-old Max saves his parents and escapes unharmed, to face life as a Jew in 1930s Austria. In one unforgettable night, Max Spiegelman's life splits in two. As war looms and Nazism continues to rise, Max is forced into choices that place him and his alter ego on opposing sides of a divided world. Tethered by their dreams, the boys watch helplessly, haunted by visions of what could have been. But in each parallel universe, they share a magnetic bond with an enchanting, grey-eyed girl. The Two Loves of Sophie Strom is a profound story about how tragedy, choice and life-altering love shape our future.

In a world inexplicably gone wrong, Peter Ogden is torn between love and duty as he feels greatness slipping from his grasp and cannot understand why. He looks within, struggling to understand his own flaws. He certainly doesn't think to blame his mysterious servant girl for the misfortunes that dog his every move. He is tied up in the past and doesn't think to look to the future. Will his inability to grasp the changes flowing around him be fatal to himself, or even to his entire world? 'Dissolution' is an epic tale that seamlessly combines historical romance with near-future science fiction.

Zokar Rizian is a cold-blooded murderer and a self-seeking scavenger. But in committing an unexpected act of friendship, he becomes an unlikely hero. Laura St James is just a pretty young girl trying, with little luck, to be just like everybody else. She does not consider herself a terrorist. But with one impulsive act, all that changes and she becomes an unlikely villain. These two just can't get it right. Things get a whole lot messier when they are forced into an uneasy alliance to protect a planet called Earth, that nobody else thinks is worth saving. The story begins with a dying soldier's confession of what he saw at Area 51.

A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.

A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.

A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.

A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.

A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.

A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.

A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.

A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.

A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.

A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.

A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.

8 bone-chilling short stories that will keep you up at night.

At 35, Sam Taylor struggled to leave the sofa in the evenings and prioritised a wine over a walk. Working fulltime and running around after three children, she was facing a sedentary future. And then she decided to try something different. One hundred different things in a year, in fact. As a self-confessed gymphobe, with a fear of heights and a questionable pelvic floor, she experienced challenges within challenges as she set about trying 100 different sports and fitness classes in a year. Her quest took her over 10,000 miles, as she tried everything from American Football to Archery and Boxing to Underwater hockey. She faced Olympic hopefuls, World Champions, European Champions and participated with people from 8 to 80, in all shapes and sizes. This book details her incredible journey and also the stories of the inspirational people she met along the way. These are the people who are passionate and dedicated to their activity and give their time to help people realise their own potential. They are the secret army of volunteers, coaches and instructors, who you will find in village halls, gyms, outdoor pitches and leisure centres, every day of the week, come rain or shine. Packed full of humour, written in her self-deprecating style, you will follow Sam as she tries each activity, usually for the first time and gives her honest opinion. If you feel inspired, to start your own journey off the sofa, there is a reference area in the book to get in touch with each sport or class.

Powerful debut by poet who splits time teaching at UNM-Taos and caretaking snowbound wilderness refuge.

As electrifying as it is heartbreaking, Sam Taylor's explosive fantasy debut We Are the Fire is perfect for fans of An Ember in the Ashes and the legend of Spartacus.All will burn.In the cold, treacherous land of Vesimaa, children are stolen from their families by a cruel emperor, forced to undergo a horrific transformative procedure, and serve in the army as magical fire-wielding soldiers. Pran and Oksana-both taken from their homeland at a young age-only have each other to hold onto in this heartless place.Pran dreams of one day rebelling against their oppressors and destroying the empire; Oksana only dreams of returning home and creating a peaceful life for them both.When they discover the emperor has a new, more terrible mission than ever for their kind, Pran and Oksana vow to escape his tyranny once and for all. But their methods and ideals differ drastically, driving a wedge between them. Worse still, they both soon find that the only way to defeat the monsters that subjugated them may be to become monsters themselves.Praise for We Are the Fire:"At once brutal and tender, this heart-pounding debut will make you ponder what it means to be monstrous-and what it costs to be human." -Joanna Ruth Meyer, author of Echo North and Into the Heartless Wood "Set to fill the Ember in the Ashes-shaped void in your heart." -Culturess

James Purdew is quietly obsessed with his own past - in particular three years of his life, about which he remembers nothing. So he travels back to the city of H, where he lived during those years, and finds a familiar house, now derelict.

One of the most vivid, gripping and chilling first novels of recent years, The Republic of Trees tells the story of Michael, Louis, Alex and Isobel, four children on the edge of adolescence, who run away to the forest to establish their own utopian community.

Through the eyes of eight-year-old Finn we find ourselves on a small island, surrounded by nothing but sea. Finn lives here with his Pa, his elder sister Alice and his younger sister Daisy, and has no memory of any world but this one. All he knows of the past comes from the songs and stories of his father, which tell of the great flood that drowned all the other inhabitants of the earth, a deluge their family survived thanks to the ark in which they now live.Alice, however, has entered adolescence, and treasures vague memories of her dead mother and of life before the flood. As her relationship with her father changes, she begins to see holes in his account of the past, and desperately seeks contact with the outside world. And when a boy, a stranger, is washed up on the shore, apparently in answer to the message she sent in a bottle, it appears they may not be alone after all.Set in the near future, told from three different viewpoints and written in extraordinary prose, The Island at the End of the World is an original, moving exploration of family love, truth and lies, and how strange and frightening it can feel for a child to discover the adult world.

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The illustrations in this book describe a wildlife encounter. Wild animals, like people, have challenges in life. They are adaptable and inventive, and they find new ways of solving problems to help them survive. As you turn the pages, describe what you see. How would you solve this wildlife challenge?

Nude Descending an Empire develops the lyrical voice of a citizen-poet engaged with politics, history, and the urgency of our contemporary moment, especially its ecological urgency.