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The Navigator (children's Novel)
''The Navigator'' is the first book in the Navigator trilogy by Eoin McNamee. It was published in 2007 by Random House Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by Germ .... The trilogy was written for young adults and includes: ''The Navigator'', ''City of Time'' and ''The Frost Child''. Overview A boy named Owen finds out that a mysterious entity, the Harsh, is making time go backward. The Harsh are mysterious vaporous, faceless beings, all in white, that can glide effortlessly across the landscape and freeze people. Owen joins the Resisters and battles alongside the Resisters and the Raggies to defeat the Harsh, find the Great Machine in the north, and stop time from flowing backward. External linksThe Navigator at Amazon.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Navigator, The 2007 Irish novels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is '' codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eoin McNamee
Eoin McNamee (b.1961) is an Irish writer from Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland who has written numerous novels and screenplays. He was awarded the Macauley Fellowship for Irish Literature in 1990. He lives in County Sligo. Career Novellas * ''The Last of Deeds'' (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1989), which was shortlisted for the 1989 Irish Times/Aer Lingus Award for Irish Literature, * ''Love in History'' (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1992). Novels * ''Resurrection Man'' (London, Picador, 1994), which detailed the bloodletting of the Ulster Volunteer Force gang, the Shankill Butchers * Booker-nominated ''The Blue Tango'' (London, Faber & Faber, 2001), which examined the murder of Lancelot Curran's 19-year-old daughter, Patricia Curran * ''The Ultras'' (Faber & Faber, 2004), about the killing of Robert Nairac * ''12:23'', based on the final days of Diana, Princess of Wales (Faber & Faber, June 2007) * ''Orchid Blue'' (Faber & Faber, 2010), which looked at the last hanging in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Random House
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. History Random House was founded in 1927 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, two years after they acquired the Modern Library imprint from publisher Horace Liveright, which reprints classic works of literature. Cerf is quoted as saying, "We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random," which suggested the name Random House. In 1934 they published the first authorized edition of James Joyce's novel ''Ulysses'' in the Anglophone world. ''Ulysses'' transformed Random House into a formidable publisher over the next two decades. In 1936, it absorbed the firm of Smith and Haas—Robert Haas became the third partner until retiring and selling his share back to Cerf and Klopfer in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
