Bøger af Robin Brown

Crispin Aleron was an ordinary mortal man until the night he was attacked and left for dead. A stranger appeared from nowhere, making an offer he couldn't refuse. Offers such as this cannot be without consequences, but Crispin had no time to think it over.Now, centuries later, the consequences are becoming clearer. Spending all these years repaying his debt, doing as the otherworldly Council of Seven demands, he is now dealing with their punishment for breaking their cardinal rule: absolutely no intimacy with mortal beings. Locked away in an asylum inside a monastery where his powers are supposed to be useless, he thinks only of Rose. After a long battle with brain fever, he wakes one morning, realizing some of his supernatural powers have been restored. It is time to break free of the Council of Seven's control and rejoin the love of his life before they make good their promise to destroy her.Rose VanZandt has not seen or heard from Crispin in six months. Her besties, Rochelle and Laura, have different opinions of how to handle Rose's grief. Rochelle is sympathetic and mothers her, while Laura bashes Crispin in an effort to belittle their relationship. But it would seem the universe has something in store for them as well. The ex-boyfriend, Derrick, is of no help, badgering her to take him back and threatening any man who comes too close. Rose fears he has become irrational and dangerous.Returning home from work, Rose and Rochelle meet him, and somehow, Rose knows he is Crispin's brother, Alexander. What she doesn't know is that he has been sent by the Council of Seven to kill her.

"Cooma Skies" is a light-hearted novel set in Cooma, New South Wales, in the 1960s. It tells the story of Jill from her early teenage years to adulthood and the two loves in her life, Johnny who plays in a band, and Bart, the strong quiet achiever who excels at public speaking.Jill has many talents herself, academically and in the arts with her love of singing and performing that sees her star in school musicals and eventually in a national talent quest. Her friend Cecilia provides her with many enjoyable days on their family farm and Cecilia's mother, an artist and songwriter, is a source of inspiration to her. The novel is set in the unusual Australian climate where teenagers enjoy both snow skiing and swimming for sport, and although Jill finds her acclimatisation to Cooma difficult in the beginning the town soon endears itself to her.All seems to be going well for Jill with her singing when a personal crisis strikes that was an all too frequent happening for many teenagers in the 60s. Will Jill survive it and win the talent quest and find happiness with the real love of her life? The novel is aimed at teenagers but also young adults and baby boomers who might be nostalgic about reading a book set in the 60s.

Capture the interest of young children with these brightly coloured notes!-Play tunes right away.-No knowledge needed - just follow the colours.-Fun exercises.-Solfege - develops the ability to play by ear.-Only one simple lesson per book. -Correct musical notation - for easy transition to formal lessons.-Can be used with some other instruments.-Written for parents.

Part memoir, part fairy tale, and all inspiration, Magnolia Pearl's "And the Stars go With You" is far beyond your typical fashion tome. Delving into creator-visionary Robin Brown's childhood, influences, and ethos, the book is a vital volume on a mission to spark a revolution. -240 pages of images richly convey Magnolia Pearl's evolving aesthetic as a sense of time and place as opposed to a blip on the radar of an industry. -Timely quotes from beloved masters and contemporary seers tie the pages together into a narrative with the feel of a movement.

It is more than a thousand years since the exploitation of the elephant began. Alexander the Great used them, Hannibal took them over the Alps, and Kublai Khan encountered them in India. However, it is only the last hundred years that the existence of the African elephant has been threatened. Once the 'Great White Hunters' with their special elephant guns arrived, elephants in the south of the continent were decimated. 'Blood Ivory' tells the story of how the professional hunting fraternity were the first to realise the threat to the elephant and how they kick-started the whole conservation movement. It is not a story with a happy ending as a history of the conservation movement is essentially a tale of war - colonialists at war with traditional customs; newly-independent African countries at war with one another; poachers and smugglers at war with any kind of constraint; and international bodies fighting for the suppression of damaging information. Robin Brown paints a vivid picture of the impact of hunting on Africa's elephant population and the powerful personalities of those involved on both sides of the massacre - from Cecil Rhodes to Dennis Fitch-Hatton and Edward, Prince of Wales to David Sheldrick.

This book is the tale of two deep springs in Florida that began as sinkholes about 13,000 years ago and the story of the precious water they contained. Alternating chapters present events occurring at one of two time-periods, recent and prehistoric. The prehistoric narratives explore the lives of the earliest people to arrive in Florida, roaming hunter-gatherers who discovered the springs about 10,000 years ago and revisited them for thousands of years. The mineral charged spring water sustained Florida''s earliest human populations in dry times and preserved their bones and artifacts for thousands of years. THese tales are fiction but based on the knowledge we gained in studies of Florida''s first people.The second time-period is recent and factual. Often outrageously stranger than fiction, it follows recent events int he history of the springs - the remarkable people who dived in the deep water-filled holes and put together the picture of human life-ways 10,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene Era. DNA analysis by world renown Svante Paabo revealed that these first Floridians were unrelated to the Native Americans living in North America today

A chronicle of The Delaware State Fair, from its birth 100 years ago to today. This centennial celebration edition is filled with more than 600 pictures and details the rise of the Fair from humble beginnings in Harrington, Del., to the broad family attraction of today that draws tens of thousands of visitors from states up and down the Eastern Seaboard.A chronicle of The Delaware State Fair, from its birth 100 years ago to today. This centennial celebration edition is filled with more than 600 pictures and details the rise of the Fair from humble beginnings in Harrington, Del., to the broad family attraction of today that draws tens of thousands of visitors from states up and down the Eastern Seaboard.

The incredible story of Marco Polo's journey to the ends of the earth has for the last seven hundred years been beset by doubts as to its authenticity.