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Andrea Silvestri

    By nightfall
    Bicycle Diaries
    The Calling of the Grave
    How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
    The Chemistry of Death
    • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      In this urgent and authoritative work, Bill Gates presents a practical and accessible plan to achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions and avert climate catastrophe. Drawing on a decade of research into climate change, Gates collaborates with experts across various fields, including physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, to outline the necessary actions to halt the planet's environmental decline. He emphasizes the importance of striving for net-zero emissions and provides a candid overview of the challenges ahead. Leveraging his insights into innovation, Gates highlights areas where technology is already contributing to emissions reduction, identifies where improvements can be made, and points out the need for breakthrough technologies and the innovators behind them. He offers a concrete plan for reaching zero emissions, recommending policies for governments and actions individuals can take to hold themselves and their institutions accountable. Gates underscores that while the path to zero emissions will be complex and demanding, it is an achievable goal if we adhere to the outlined strategy.

      How to Avoid a Climate Disaster2021
      4.1
    • The Calling of the Grave

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      "Eight years ago they found the body buried on the moor. They were certain that it was one of Jerome Monk's teengage victims. Which left two more to find. But the search ended badly, with Monk safely behind bars, the momentum faltered. For forensics expert David Hunter and the rest of the recovery team, life moved on. And the dead were left undisturbed. But now a nightmare scenario unfurls. Monk has escaped and seems to be targeting anyone involved in that original ill-fated operation. As the maniac's violent trail edges ever closer, Hunter realises that nothing now--or then--is quite as it seems. And that the past is anything but dead and buried ..."--Pg 4 of cover.

      The Calling of the Grave2012
      4.0
    • Bicycle Diaries

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Where is the only tube station where a crown prince has died? Where is the oak tree where Good Queen Bess took her rest? Which Queen befriended the Elephant Man - and played a part in the development of the modern Olympic Games? Where are the favourite shopping haunts of today's young royals? From Westminster to Greenwich, Kensington to the Tower ......

      Bicycle Diaries2010
      3.5
    • By nightfall

      • 238 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Peter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties denizens of Manhattan’s SoHo, nearing the apogee of committed careers in the arts—he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter in Boston, and lively friends, they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. Then Rebecca’s much younger look-alike brother, Ethan (known in thefamily as Mizzy, “the mistake”), shows up for a visit. A beautiful, beguiling twenty-three-year-old with a history of drug problems, Mizzy is wayward, at loose ends, looking for direction. And in his presence, Peter finds himself questioning his artists, their work, his career—the entire world he has so carefully constructed.Like his legendary, Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Hours, Michael Cunningham’s masterly new novel is a heartbreaking look at the way we live now. Full of shocks and aftershocks, it makes us think and feel deeply about the uses and meaning of beauty and the place of love in our lives.<

      By nightfall2010
      3.5
    • The Chemistry of Death

      • 448 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      Finding Refuge In A Quiet Rural Backwater, Dr David Hunter Hoped He Might At Last Have Put The Past Behind Him. But Then They Found What Was Left Of Sally Palmer& It Isn T Just That She Was A Friend That Disturbs Him. Once He D Been A High-Profile Forensic Anthropologist And All Too Familiar With The Many Faces Of Death, Before Tragedy Made Him Abandon This Previous Life. Now The Police Want His Help. But To Become Involved Will Stir Up Memories He S Long Tried To Forget. Then A Second Woman Disappears, Plunging The Close-Knit Community Into A Maelstrom Of Fear And Paranoia. And No One, Not Even Hunter, Is Exempt From Suspicion.Gruesome And Gripping, This Startling New British Crime Thriller Has An Unnerving And Original Twist.

      The Chemistry of Death2006
      4.3