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Andrzej Sapkoki La spada del destino
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Description: Geralt di Rivia è uno strigo, un assassino di mostri. Ed è il migliore: solo lui può affrontare un basilisco, sopravvivere a un incontro con una sirena, sgominare un'orda di goblin o portare un messaggio alla regina delle driadi, fiere guerriere dei boschi che uccidono chiunque si avventuri nel loro territorio... Geralt però non è un mercenario senza scrupoli, disposto a compiere qualsiasi atrocità dietro adeguato, compenso: al pari dei cavalieri, ha un codice da rispettare. Ecco perché re Niedamir è sorpreso di vederlo tra i cacciatori da lui radunati per eliminare un drago grigio, un essere intoccabile per gli strighi. E, in effetti, Geralt è lì per un motivo ben diverso: ha infatti scoperto che il re ha convocato pure la maga Yennefer, l'unica donna che lui abbia mai amato. Lo strigo sarà dunque obbligato a fare una dolorosa scelta: difendere il drago e perdere Yennefer per sempre, o infrangere il codice degli strighi pur di riconquistare il suo cuore...
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Tomorro Versus Yesterdays Conversations in Defense of the Future Andrew Keen
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Description: The current crisis of democracy, the growing economic inequality between rich and poor, our narcissistic social media culture and the looming menace of AI all threaten us as never before. The challenges presented by technology have long been central in these issues, but how can we take advantage of the opportunities it provides to shape a better twenty-first century? The most important division of our age is between the 'tomorro', those who believe that the future can be better than the past, and the 'yesterdays' who harbor a nostalgic desire to return to a rose-tinted past. This division is encapsulated by how we answer a simple question: can we trust the future?In Tomorro Versus Yesterdays, Andrew Keen discusses the issue with some of the most influential thinkers of our time. The book is split into four sections. The first identifies the challenges of our digital age. The second focuses on the failure of the internet revolution to realize its ambitious goals. The third...
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Andrzej Sapkoki Il sangue degli elfi
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Description: Il regno di Cintra è caduto. Dopo quattro giorni d'assedio, le truppe di Nilfgaard irrompono nel castello e massacrano l'intera famiglia reale. La principessa Ciri è l'unica che riesce a fuggire ma, all'improvviso, un cavaliere nemico le si para davanti e avanza minaccioso, brandendo un pugnale insanguinato... Ciri non ricorda cosa sia successo. Sa solo che ora è sana e salva, protetta dalla spada di Geralt di Rivia e dalle possenti mura di Kaer Morhen, la fortezza in cui si addestrano i giovani strighi, gli assassini di mostri. Anche Ciri vorrebbe diventare una di loro, così, se tornasse il cavaliere di Nilfgaard, lei non avrebbe più paura, anzi sarebbe pronta a combattere. Una sera, però, al termine di un'estenuante giornata di allenamento, la ragazza dimostra di possedere straordinarie capacità psichiche, così dirompenti da non lasciare adito a dubbi: è lei la Fiamma di Cintra di cui parlano le profezie, la forza che salverà i popoli del mondo dalla rovina. Il suo destino è quindi segnato: deve partire subito per EllandAer, dove una maga le insegnerà a controllare quell'immenso potere. Tuttavia, durante il viaggio, Ciri e Geralt dovranno stare molto attenti. Perché un sicario è già sulle loro tracce, disposto a tutto pur di eliminare la Fiamma di Cintra e scatenare il caos...
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Paul Glendinning Math in Minutes
epub | 6.04 MB | English | 9781623650094 | Paul Glendinning | 2012 | Quercus
Description: Paul Glendinning is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester. He was founding Head of college for Mathematics at the combined University of Manchester and has published over fifty academic articles and an undergraduate textbook on chaos theory.
Both simple and accessible, Math in Minutes is a visually led introduction to 200 key mathematical concepts. Each concept is described by means of an easy-to-understand illustration and a compact, 200-word explanation. Concepts span all of the key areas of mathematics, including Fundamentals of Mathematics, Sets and Numbers, Geometry, Equations, Limits, Functions and Calculus, Vectors and Algebra, Complex Numbers, Combinatorics, Number Theory, and more.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Andrzej Sapkoki Il battesimo del fuoco
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Description: «Andrzej Sapkoki è la gemma più splendente della letteratura fantastica europea.» Babelia Geralt di Rivia ha fallito. Durante la rivolta scoppiata sull'isola di Thanedd, non è riuscito a portare in salvo Ciri, l'ultima erede al trono di Cintra, e ora la principessa è scomparsa. La sua unica speranza di ritrovarla è affidarsi a Milva, la più abile spia delle driadi. E Milva non lo delude: scopre che Ciri è prigioniera dell'imperatore Emhyr var Emreis e si offre di guidare lo strigo fino alla capitale di Nilfgaard. Benché sia ancora debole a causa delle ferite riportate, Geralt lascia la sicurezza dei boschi di Brokilon e si mette in viaggio con Milva, ma bastano pochi giorni di cammino per rendersi conto che raggiungere il palazzo imperiale è un'impresa quasi impossibile: ovunque infuriano violente battaglie tra le truppe di Nilfgaard e gli eserciti dei liberi regni; le strade sono pattugliate giorno e notte da ronde di soldati, mentre i villaggi sono lasciati alla mercé dei gruppi di elfi ribelli. Lo strigo e la driade sono quindi costretti a tagliare per la foresta, senza sapere che così facendo cadranno nella trappola preparata da una creatura che da tempo li segue nell'ombra, pronto a tutto pur di evitare che Geralt arrivi vivo a Nilfgaard...
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Andrzej Sapkoki Il tempo della guerra
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Description: Tre ombre cavalcano nella notte. Sono tre sicari, lanciati all'inseguimento della loro prossima vittima. Tuttavia non sanno di essere a loro volta seguiti da una creatura più forte e più resistente di qualsiasi essere umano: Geralt di Rivia, l'assassino di mostri. In circostanze normali, lo strigo non si sporcherebbe le mani per eliminare dei comuni criminali, ma stavolta è diverso. Perché quei tre sono stati assoldati per uccidere la principessa Ciri e, se ci riusciranno, il mondo intero sarà perduto: Ciri è la Fiamma di Cintra, la maga di cui parlano le profezie, l'unica forza in grado di contrastare i piani dell'imperatore di Nilfgaard - lo spietato conquistatore del Nord - e di riportare la pace tra i popoli della terra. Per questo è essenziale che Ciri arrivi sana e salva sull'isola di Thanedd, dove si stanno radunando tutti gli altri maghi. E Geralt è disposto a ogni sacrificio pur di proteggere il suo cammino. Però nessuno può immaginare che la principessa non sarà al sicuro nemmeno sull'isola. Sebbene sia difesa da incantesimi potentissimi, le spie di Nilfgaard sono infatti sbarcate persino in quel luogo isolato. E adesso sono in attesa, pronte a colpire...
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Andrzej Sapkoki La Torre della Rondine
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Description: Nella notte dell'Equinozio d'autunno, una tempesta infernale si abbatte su Ellander. All'improvviso, alcune nuvole nere assumono la forma di guerrieri a cavallo e sorvolano con gran strepito il tempio della dea Melitele. La maga Triss Merigold non ha dubbi: è la Caccia Selvaggia narrata dalle leggende, portatrice di morte e di sventura. Qualcuno a lei molto caro è caduto vittima di un sortilegio o di un'imboscata. Non c'è un attimo da perdere: deve avvisare Geralt di Rivia... Tre giorni dopo, durante una battuta di caccia nelle paludi, Vysogota di Corvo trova una fanciulla priva di sensi e gravemente ferita. Senza esitare, il vecchio eremita la porta in casa e le presta le prime cure. Tra i deliri indotti dalla febbre, la ragazza rivela di essere sfuggita per miracolo a un manipolo di soldati di Nilfgaard, gli stessi uomini che ancora le stanno dando la caccia per ucciderla. E allora l'eremita capisce: lei è la principessa Ciri, l'ultima erede al trono di Cintra, colei che, secondo la profezia, causerà il crollo dell'impero e riporterà la pace tra i popoli della terra. La giovane ha bisogno di protezione. E c'è solo una persona che possa aiutarla a compiere il suo destino: Geralt di Rivia...
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Modern Cast Iron Ashley L Jones
epub | 46.35 MB | English | Ashley L. Jones | Red Lightning Books
Description: Warm, crumbly cornbread. Chicken sizzling in the pan. Childhood memories filled with delicious, home-cooked dishes and your family there to enjoy it with you. Cast iron's popularity faded in the '70s-replaced by chemically processed cookware-but today's cooks are reigniting a passion for wholesome cast-iron-cooked meals. This ain't your Grandma's kitchen-caring for and cooking with cast iron is easy, healthy, and totally Pinterest worthy. In Modern Cast Iron, self-proclaimed cast-iron connoisseur Ashley L. Jones recaptures the ease and joy of cooking with cast-iron cookware. Jones introduces readers to the best brands and types of cast-iron cookware to fulfill any cook's needs. She offers detailed tips and tricks for rescuing old, rusted pans and keeping them properly seasoned, and she shares recommendations for the best cooking oil for every recipe. With Jones's help, both experienced and beginner cooks will be able to rival grandma's...
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My Indian Kitchen Swayampurna Mishra
epub | 272.13 MB | English | Swayampurna Mishra | 2018 | Page Street Publishing
Description: Swayampurna (Swayam) Mishra feeds her audience's desire for authentic Indian flavors with meals inspired by her Indian heritage and her mother's cooking-with a collection of curated recipes that are exceptionally easy and palatable for beginners. Home chefs love her easy approach to Indian cuisine, which affords them the opportunity to spice things up in the kitchen without the hassle. Creator of the popular blog La Petit Chef, Swayam keeps her food philosophy simple, "fun, fast and fabulous." This book embodies Swayam's outlook on cuisine and invites audiences of any background to enjoy the bold flavors and simplicity that cooking Indian can provide.
Home cooks will love the ease of preparation with one-bowl meals like Pumpkin, Spinach and Chickpea Curry, Salt and Pepper Chicken and Classic Paneer Chili. Indian soul food shines in dishes like Mom's Lamb Curry with its pops of cardamom, black peppercorns and cinnamon. Chicken Tikka Wraps will fool any guest into...
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09 THEN SHE WAS GONE by Lisa Jewell
epub | 4.17 MB | English | Lisa Jewell | Atria Books
Description: THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!
"Jewell teases out her twisty plot at just the right pace, leaving readers on the edge of their seats. Her multilayered characters are sheer perfection, and even the most astute thriller reader won't see where everything is going until the final threads are unknotted." -Booklist, starred review
"More than a whiff of The Lovely Bones wafts through this haunting domestic noir...Skillfully told by several narrators, Jewell's gripping novel is an emotionally resonant story of loss, grief, and renewal." -Publishers Weekly
"Sharply written with twists and turns, Jewell's latest will please fans of Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, or Luckiest Girl Alive." -Library Journal
Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged...
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You Can't F ck Up Your Kids by Lindsay Powers
epub | 2.15 MB | English | Lindsay Powers | Atria Books
Description: Cribsheet meets The Sh!t No One Tells You in this no-holds-barred, judgment-free parenting guide that sets the record straight on every hot-button parenting topic by longtime journalist and founder of the viral #NoShameParenting movement.
What if you could do more for your kids, by doing a whole lot less?
Parenting today has become a competitive sport, and it seems that everyone is losing. From the very moment that little line turns blue, parents-to-be find themselves in a brave new world where every decision they make is fraught, every action they take is judged, and everything they do seems to be the wrong thing.
Formula feed? Breast is best.
Breastfeed in public? That's indecent.
Cry it out? You're causing permanent harm to your child.
Don't sleep train? Your child will never learn to sleep on his or her own.
Stay home? You're setting a bad example for your kids.
Go back to work? Don't you love your kids more than your job?
Lindsay Powers-former editor-in-chief of Yahoo! Parenting , creator of the #NoShameParenting movement, and mom of two-is here to help parents everywhere breathe a collective sigh of relief. This laugh-out-loud funny, accessible, and reassuring book sets the record straight on all of the insane conflicts that parents face-from having a glass of wine while pregnant to sleep training, childcare, feeding, and even sex after baby.
Drawing on the latest research and delivered in a relatable, comforting voice, You Can't Fck Up Your Kids demonstrates that it is possible to take the stress out of parenting and sit back and enjoy the ride. *
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"Whether it happened today or ten years ago, you can still remember the judgy jerk who told you that you were doing something horribly wrong as a parent. Guess what? You weren't. And finally, we've got proof: THIS WONDERFUL BOOK!" (Lenore Skenazy, president of Let Grow and founder of the Free-Range Kids movement )
"A timely and reassuring look at contemporary parenting. Lindsay Powers explains how weak science and dubious ideology have been used to steal the joy from parenting and replace it with self-doubt. Are you a good parent who feels bad? You need this book!" (Amy Tuteur, MD, Harvard-trained OB/GYN and author of Push Back: Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting )
"Lindsay Powers is the wise best friend (who also interviewed hundreds of doctors and dozens of parents, while also combing through mountains of research papers) that all new parents dream about. Warm, compassionate, and open-minded, Powers examines the trials of modern parenting-from the belief that C-sections are the easy way out to the misconception that sleep training will make your baby a psychopath-and offers up something we sleep-deprived parents rarely receive: relief. This new bible of anxiety-free child-rearing is a friendly call to arms to stop the judgement and, even more powerfully, to stop the self-flagellation. I am so grateful that this wonderful book exists." (Susannah Cahalan, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire )
"A well-researched, common-sense compendium on child-rearing." (Kirkus)
About the Author
Lindsay Powers is a long-time journalist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post , the New York Post , Us Weekly , The Hollywood Reporter , Cosmopolitan , CBS This Morning , Good Morning America , Today , CNN, and many other nationwide outlets. She was the founding editor-in-chief of Yahoo! Parenting and the lifestyle editorial director there. Most recently, she was the vice president for lifestyle and entertainment at SiriusXM. Lindsay is a mother of two young children and the creator of the viral #NoShameParenting movement.
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Dr Who Harvest of Time Alastair Reynolds
mobi | 1.29 MB | 9780385346818 | Alastair Reynolds | 2013 | Broadway Books
Description: One of science fiction's most acclaimed authors delivers a spectacular original novel in the Doctor Who universe featuring the Third Doctor, as played by Jon Pertwee.About the AuthorALASTAIR REYNOLDS' novels have appeared on numerous 'best SF' lists and won several major awards. He holds a Ph.D. in astronomy and spent several years working for the European Space Agency before turning to writing full time.
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Godlike Machines Alastair Reynolds
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Description: In science fiction, nothing says sensawunda like a Big Dumb Object-a colossal, extremely powerful machine of unknown purpose and origin. It's that feeling that editor Jonathan Strahan was after when he asked six of today's finest authors to write for Godlike Machines. And they succeed brilliantly! • "Troika" Alastair Reynolds unlocks the secrets inside an alien spaceship-secrets that could change the world.if only a repressive regime would believe its last surviving explorer.
• Stephen Baxter "Return to Titan" sends wormhole builders to Titan, but what they discover there may fuel their wildest dreams.or destroy them.
• Cory Doctorow "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" turns the idea of godlike machines on its head with replicating machines that turn cities back into wilderness.
• Sean Williams "A Glimpse of the Marvelous Structure" leads a spacer agent through a subterranean Structure.and into space-time itself.
• Robert Reed-in "Alone " a story about the ancient, Jupiter-sized Great Ship-looks at a strange passenger who has been onboard far longer than seems possible.
• Greg Egan "Hot Rock" gives us an alien technology only he could imagine-a wandering world that's inexplicably warm enough to support life.
Made from the pure stuff of SF, these unique, all-new adventures are nothing less than awesome!
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House of Suns Thousandth Night Alastair Reynolds
mobi | 195.09 KB | 9781596062597 | Alastair Reynolds | 2009 | Subterranean
Description: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">Thousandth Night, the genesis for the epic novel House of Suns, is quintessential Reynolds. A visionary account of intrigue, ambition, and technological marvels set within a beautifully realized far-future milieu, it combines world-class storytelling with a provocative meditation on the mystery, grandeur, and inconceivable immensity of the universe.
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Merlin The Iron Tactician Alastair Reynolds
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Description: A brand new stand-alone deep space adventure from Alastair Reynolds, featuring the author's long-running character Merlin, who has previously appeared in "Merlin's Gun" (1999), "Hideaway" (2000) and "Minla's Flowers" (2007).
When Merlin encounters the derelict hulk of an old swallohip drifting in the middle of nowhere, he can't resist investigating. He soon finds himself involved in a situation that proves far more complex than he ever anticipated.
The Iron Tactician is the first in a new series of NewCon Press novellas. The series will be issued in sets of four, with each set featuring cover art by the same artist - one piece of artwork divided between the four covers.
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Century Rain Alastair Reynolds
epub | 1.14 MB | English | Alastair Reynolds | 2004 | Penguin Group US
Description: Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust.Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose.Something astonishing has been discovered at the far end of a wormhole: mid-twentieth century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Somewhere on this alternate planet is a device capable of destroying both worlds at either end of the wormhole. And Verity must find the device, and the man who plans to activate it, before it is too late-for the past and the future of two worlds...
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House of Suns Alastair Reynolds
epub | 547.6 KB | 9780441018864 | Alastair Reynolds | Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Reynolds (_The Prefect_) returns to the universe of his 2005 novella Thousandth Night in this sprawling novel of intergalactic intrigue. It is 6.4 million years in the future and humanity has spread throughout the Milky Way. Some cultures have established transient empires across space; others, the Lines, have used relativistic travel to colonize deep time. Clone-siblings Campion and Purslane are delayed on their way to a Gentian Line reunion, a coincidence that saves them from a massacre. Allied with potentially hostile Machine People and an enigmatic post-human god called the Spirit, armed only with fragmentary records and hints that Campion's research provoked the mysterious House of Suns, the Gentian survivors struggle to find and stop their enemies before the genocide can be completed. Intriguing ideas and competent characterization make this a fine example of grand-scale relativistic space opera. (June)
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"Entertaining...This is warm hearted science fiction with big ideas."
-_Interzone_
"A thrilling, mind- boggling adventure."
-_The Times_ (UK)
"Reynolds's approach seems new, exciting, vibrant."
-_SFX_
"A sweeping, audacious slice of galactic-scale intrigue and subterfuge."
-_Andromeda Spaceways_
"Reynolds has once again created a galaxy-spanning, mind-boggling stage on which to set a gripping, thoughtful, intelligent drama."
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Poseidon's Children 03 Poseidon's Wake Alastair Reynolds
epub | 764.4 KB | English | 9780575090491 | Alastair Reynolds | Gollancz
Description: This novel is a stand-alone story which takes two extraordinary characters and follo them as they, independently, begin to unravel some of the greatest mysteries of our universe.
Their missions are dangerous, and they are all venturing into the unknown ... and if they can uncover the secret to faster-than-light travel then new worlds will be at our fingertips.
But innovation and progress are not always embraced by everyone. There is a saboteur at work. Different factions disagree about the best way to move forward. And the mysterious Watchkeepers are ever-present.
Completing the informal trilogy which began with BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH and ON THE STEEL BREEZE, this is a powerful and effective story.
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Pushing Ice Alastair Reynolds
mobi | 819.29 KB | 9780441015023 | Alastair Reynolds | 2008 | Ace
Description: From Publishers WeeklyAs this spectacular, large-scale space opera opens, Janus, a moon of Saturn, now revealed as an alien artifact, has suddenly left orbit and headed for interstellar space. The Rockhopper, a comet miner commanded by Capt. Bella Lind, is the only spacecraft in the solar system positioned to catch the huge alien machine. Though a short exploration is all that's planned, the Rockhopper soon finds itself trapped in Janus's time- and distance-distorting slipstream. Determining that Janus is heading toward an even more gigantic artifact orbiting the star Spica, the comet miners settle down to form their own castaway civilization, a process marred by the bad blood between those who support Captain Lind and those who blame her for their fate. Janus soon proves itself to be an incredibly strange and ever changing environment. Eventually, the castaways reach the Spica artifact, encounter several very alien species and discover that their fate is even stranger than they could have imagined. Reynolds (Century Rain) is occasionally clumsy in his character interactions, but he has a genius for big-concept SF and fans of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama and Larry Niven's Ringworld will love this novel.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FromAlastair Reynolds, an astrophysicist and the author of six previous novels, including the critically acclaimed Revelation Space series (beginning with the title novel in 2000), has established a reputation as the purveyor of big ideas in science fiction, particularly in the space-opera genre. Critics admire the author for his storytelling abilities and his grasp of hard science fiction, as well as for his willingness to explore issues that, in the hands of a less confident writer, might fall flat. By bringing developed characters and clearly articulated scenarios to the page, Reynolds has cultivated a growing audience of devoted readers. So he's not yet Arthur C. Clarke. Who is?Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.
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Poseidon's Children 01 Blue Remembered Earth Alastair Reynolds
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One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where Africa is the dominant technological and economic power, and where crime, war, disease and poverty have been banished to history, Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his studies into the elephants of the Amboseli basin. But Geoffrey's family, the vast Akinya business empire, has other plans. After the death of Eunice, Geoffrey's grandmother, erstwhile space explorer and entrepreneur, something awkward has come to light on the Moon, and Geoffrey is tasked - well, blackmailed, really - to go up there and make sure the family's name stays suitably unblemished. But little does Geoffrey realise - or anyone else in the family, for that matter - what he's about to unravel.Eunice's ashes have already have been scattered in sight of Kilimanjaro. But the secrets she died with are about to come back out into the open, and they could change everything.Or shatter this near-utopia into shards . . .
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