Author: Heather Moore Niver
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1538328291
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Get Book Here
Book Description
Readers will be awe-struck by this stunning book about the brilliant, blood-red gems called rubies. The text meets Next Generation Science Standards, featuring thorough analyses of the properties of rubies, the geological processes that form them, and the environmental impacts of ruby mining. This creative spin on curricular subject matter is sure to motivate emerging scientists both in and out of the classroom.
Author: Heather Moore Niver
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1508164207
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Get Book Here
Book Description
Readers will be awe-struck by this stunning book about the brilliant, blood-red gems called rubies. The text meets Next Generation Science Standards, featuring thorough analyses of the properties of rubies, the geological processes that form them, and the environmental impacts of ruby mining. This creative spin on curricular subject matter is sure to motivate emerging scientists both in and out of the classroom.
Author: Emily Gallo
Publisher: Emily Gallo
ISBN: 1950561054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Get Book Here
Book Description
Kate's retirement plans are put on hold when her old nemesis, Ruby, reappears and both their lives are turned upside down. Two stubborn, independent women discover that the lines between love and hate, and between past and future, are muddled and transitory.
Author: Stefan Nicholson
Publisher: Stefan Nicholson
ISBN: 0648295362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Get Book Here
Book Description
This is the third book in the "RUBY series" and continues on with the adventures of Ruby Peters, the schoolgirl spy recruited at 16 years old. She is now 20 and running for her life all alone, after three years of horrific events, including the psychotic murder of her boyfriend Eric. Ruby has covertly secured the personal secret papers of deceased MI6 agent Roger Davis who died protecting her. Davis also hid some more information in Australia, that was so sensitive, he could tell no one. MI6, the CIA and a third party of terrorists run by Sergei Mudarov, know about the information but not its location. Ruby is in a dangerous position, as many believe that she is better off dead, rather than reveal the contents of the 'Davis Papers'. However, anyone finding and using the information would be capable of wielding its power to blackmail the world's superpowers, by threatening to detonate nuclear 'dirty bombs' in major cities. This story takes you on an adventurous cat and mouse game to find Ruby - as she tries to find her way through her problems and re-assess her relationship with the British Secret Service. They send their top agent, Tian 'The Taipan' after her amid rogue agents in the CIA, while Mudarov plans to rule the world using his cruel hit-woman, Matylda.
Author: Rochelle Bilow
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593547896
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Get Book Here
Book Description
One of... Buzzfeed's Romance Books To Look Out For In 2023 Paste Magazine's Most Anticipated Contemporary Romance Books of 2023 When a thirty-something American food writer moves to a Scottish village for one year to fulfill her dream of writing a cookbook she finds more than inspiration—she meets a handsome Scotsman she can’t resist. Ruby Spencer is spending one year living in a small cottage in a tiny town in the Scottish Highlands for three reasons: to write a bestselling cookbook, to drink a barrelful of whisky, and to figure out what comes next. It’s hard to know what to expect after an impulse decision based on a map of Scotland in her Manhattan apartment—but she knows it’s high time she had an adventure. The moment she sets foot in Thistlecross, the verdant scenery, cozy cottages, and struggling local pub steal her heart. Between designing pop-up suppers and conversing with the colorful locals, Ruby starts to see a future that stretches beyond her year of adventure. It doesn’t hurt that Brochan, the ruggedly handsome local handyman, keeps coming around to repair things at her cottage. Though Ruby swore off men, she can’t help fantasizing what a roll in the barley might be like with the bearded Scot. As Ruby grows closer to Brochan and the tightly held traditions of the charming village, she discovers secret plans to turn her beloved pub into an American chain restaurant. Faced with an impossible choice, Ruby must decide between love, loyalty, and the Highlands way of life.
Author: Martin Millar
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1593762321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Get Book Here
Book Description
Though the narrator's life is peppered with myth, demons, werewolves, god and goddesses, the only thing stronger and more sustaining is his friendship with Ruby. "From now on," Ruby says to her friend, the narrator, "We’re going on the Stone Age diet. It means we only eat the sort of healthy things our ancestors would have eaten. Raw grains and fruits and stuff like that. That’s what our bodies are made for." An admirable plan, but Ruby never eats, and the narrator’s attention span doesn’t lend itself to routine. He’s too busy pining for his ex-girlfriend Cis, who broke up with him and left him with self-pity and a plant: an Aphrodite Cactus that, when it flowers, is supposed to seal the love of the giver to the receiver, according to Ruby. Ruby, who never wears any shoes (even in the dead of winter). Though lovelorn and lonely, the narrator’s life is rich with myth, demons, werewolves, gods and goddesses; everything is imbued with a spirit. There’s Helena, goddess of electric guitar players; Ascanazl, an ancient and powerful Inca spirit who looks after lonely people; Shumash the sun god; the war and sexuality goddess Astarte; the muse Clio. In fact the only thing stronger and more sustaining than the narrator’s fantasy life is his friendship with Ruby—the kind of friendship a body is made for.
Author: Lauren Child
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763654698
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Get Book Here
Book Description
Thirteen year-old genius and undercover agent Ruby Redfort, must use all of her skills to capture the culprits responisble for releasing tigers in Twinford.
Author: Faith Sullivan
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571319964
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Get Book Here
Book Description
“Rapturous . . . The joyful sense of community within this love story offers a charming and refreshing escape from the modern world.” —Kirkus Reviews Growing up in early twentieth-century Illinois, Ruby Drake is a happy child. But one winter’s night, her beloved parents perish in an accident—and suddenly Ruby finds herself destitute and nearly alone in the world. Her new path eventually takes her to Harvester, Minnesota, where she’s lucky enough to find work on the welcoming Schoonover farm. Kind Emma, forward-thinking Henry, and their hired men—ambitious Dennis and reserved Jake—soon become a second family to the orphaned teenager. Young women are expected to be focused on courtship and marriage, but the industrious, bright Ruby searches for opportunities to expand her horizons at every step. Mastering her responsibilities on the farm. Learning to smoke cigarettes. Borrowing books from the local lending library, reading devotedly and expansively: mythology, romance, poetry. And falling in love with her married neighbor, Roland. But when Ruby is asked to care for Roland’s wife in the wake of tragedy, she is torn between duty and passion, between what has been her lot and what could be, in this story of friendship, romance, and the families we are born with and create—and of one woman’s journey of selfhood on the prairie. “Her novels are a reliably inviting world, full of friendly faces and intimate dramas. However you first make your way to Harvester, you’ll want to return.” —The Wall Street Journal
Author: Patricia Bow
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554886597
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Get Book Here
Book Description
Mountains, travel, adventure Amelia Hammer wants it all. Instead, her globe-trotting parents have dumped her in tiny, boring Dunstone, Ontario, in the middle of winter with her grandmother and her geeky cousin Simon. Simon isn’t having much fun either, saddled with a sulky stranger in black leather and with neon hair.And he has to be nice to her. But life in safe little Dunstone turns dangerously exciting when Mara comes to town. Amelia is enchanted by this tall, proud, fearless girl, but Simon worries that Mara might be mixed up in something weird. Hes right. Mara is not what she seems, and neither is the shape-shifting assassin whos tracking her. When the cousins take Mara’s side in a war for an alien world, Amelia has to spread her wings literally and Simon must find out how far he will go to save a cousin who has become a friend.
Author: Stefan Nicholson
Publisher: Stefan Nicholson
ISBN: 0648295346
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Get Book Here
Book Description
Ruby Peters is in great danger, fighting off double-agents entrenched in MI6 who recruit mercenaries and a psychotic madman to kill her. Roger Davis speaks from the grave, as his coded messages lead Ruby and Eric to the list that everyone is determined to obtain - at any cost. An absolutely idea packed story with fast-paced action at every step of the novel. Many of Ruby’s friends are injured and killed as a result of her involvement with Davis and as she is betrayed by her own people. Ruby graduates after completing the "CCP" final project that will have you thinking about your own life and its values.
