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Richard Roberts

    Richard Owain Roberts is a writer celebrated for his evocative, beautiful, and expansive style, capturing place and personhood with wisdom and humanity. His prose possesses a unique rhythm, propelling narratives forward with delightful quickness while delving into the complexities of grief and the human condition. Roberts masterfully conjures revealing vignettes, exploring loneliness, guilt, and trauma with both wit and profound soul. He is recognized for his audacious imagination and stylistic talent, positioning him as a distinctive and vital voice in contemporary literature.

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    WJEC GCSE Cymraeg Ail Iaith Welsh Second Language: Revision Guide (Language Skills and Practice)
    Quite Contrary
    Repentance
    • 2023

      In this thought-provoking work, Richard Roberts explores the teachings of Jesus Christ in an attempt to shed light on what they might mean for contemporary society. Drawing on a wealth of historical and theological research, Roberts offers a compelling perspective on the relevance of Jesus' message in the modern world. With its incisive analysis and engaging style, The Untried Door is a must-read for anyone interested in Christian thought and spirituality.

      The Untried Door: An Attempt to Discover the Mind of Jesus for To-day
    • 2022

      One minute, Rachel is taking a break from babysitting. The next, she's escaping the Earth on a pedal-powered interplanetary bus. It could happen to anybody. It could. Generally it doesn't, but it could. Because what Rachel soon learns is that Earth is infected with Math, which is why we look at our solar system and see freezing balls of ice, gas, and rock whirling lifelessly through a hostile void. Everyone else sees air pirates sailing the Seven Skies of Saturn, the endless exciting fight scenes of Mars, the sullen ghosts of Pluto, and much more. "More" including the Lighthouse of Ceres, the waypoint for all travelers of the solar system. That's where Rachel ends up, and where she finds out her hobbies of sketching and storytelling make her a genius at repairing Math-free spaceships. She loves it, and no one makes her reveal she's from the quarantined, much-feared planet Earth. Instead they make up their own ideas of who she is and where she's from. Very dangerous ideas...

      A Spaceship Repair Girl Supposedly Named Rachel
    • 2022

      Based on rich archival and oral histories, this book uses the life of an African clerk who became a king under French indirect rule policies to examine the contested meanings of colonialism and the rule of law during the first three decades of colonialism in the French Soudan.

      Conflicts of Colonialism
    • 2021

      The book chronicles the evolution of Rolls-Royce from its inception in 1904, highlighting the partnership between engineering visionary Henry Royce and businessman Charles Rolls. It delves into the pivotal role of managing director Claude Johnson in marketing innovations that distinguished the brand amid a burgeoning automobile market. Richly illustrated with rare marketing materials and internal documents, it showcases how Rolls-Royce transformed its name into synonymous luxury, maintaining an unwavering commitment to quality and detail over the decades.

      Making a Marque: Rolls-Royce Motor Car Promotion 1904-1940
    • 2020

      Quite Contrary

      • 306 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      The secret of having an adventure is getting lost. Who ever visited an enchanted kingdom or fell into a fairy tale without wandering into the woods first?Well, Mary is lost. Mary is lost in the story of Little Red Riding Hood, and that is a cruel and murderous story. She's put on the red hood and met the Wolf. When she gives in to her Wolf's temptations, she will die. That's how the story goes, after all.Unfortunately for the story and unfortunately for the Wolf, this Little Red Riding Hood is Mary Stuart, and she is the most stubborn and contrary twelve-year-old the world has ever known.Forget the Wolf's temptations, forget the advice of the talking rat trying to save her-she will kick her way through every myth and fairy tale ever told until she finds a way to get out of this alive. Her own way, and no one else's.

      Quite Contrary
    • 2020

      Sweet Dreams Are Made of Teeth

      • 252 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Have you ever had the nightmare of being chased by a beast? Then you've met Fang. He'll be the first to admit that he's a very simple nightmare. All he knows is hunting your dreams and dragging them into the Dark. He's not ready for his life to get complicated. He's not ready to be dragged into his best friend's schemes to make dreams so terrifying they break people. He's not ready to love, or to be loved, or to meet someone who makes him happy. He's definitely not ready for those to be three different girls. He's not ready to grow up. When he does, one thing will stay the same. He'll stay an artist, and he'll paint your dreams with fear until they're beautiful.

      Sweet Dreams Are Made of Teeth
    • 2020

      Hello Friend We Missed You

      • 185 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      4.1(1142)Add rating

      HELLO FRIEND WE MISSED YOU is a deeply poignant and bleakly comic debut novel about loneliness, the 'violent revenge thriller' category on Netflix, solipsism, rural gentrification, Jack Black, and learning to exist in the least excruciating way possible.

      Hello Friend We Missed You
    • 2019

      Penelope Akk wants to be a superhero. She's got superhero parents. She's got the ultimate mad science power, filling her life with crazy gadgets even she doesn't understand. She has two super powered best friends. In middle school, the line between good and evil looks clear. In real life, nothing is that clear. All it takes is one hero's sidekick picking a fight, and Penny and her friends are labeled supervillains. In the process, Penny learns a hard lesson about villainy: She's good at it. Criminal masterminds, heroes in power armor, bottles of dragon blood, alien war drones, shape shifters and ghosts, no matter what the super powered world throws at her, Penny and her friends come out on top. They have to. If she can keep winning, maybe she can clear her name before her mom and dad find out.

      Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain
    • 2019

      You Can Be a Cyborg When You're Older

      • 318 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      In the bleak future of West Angel City, Vanity Rose is having a great time. She has a loving robot caretaker, a fake elf for a sister, and she roams the walls of West Angel's endless skyscrapers every night, thanks to her precious gravity shoes. What Vanity doesn't have are money and adventure, but she has a plan to get both. She's going to walk the dark side, joining the thieves, and mercenaries who get paid to do all the little jobs that make a corrupt city go around. She'll only have to deal with killer robots, vengeance-crazed and not very bright computer programs, cyborg vampires, telepathic capybaras, mean girl mech pilots, and have every homemade weapon in the city pointed at her. Fourteen is old enough for that, right?

      You Can Be a Cyborg When You're Older