Coming Home

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And that's a puzzling thing too: Alex and Chase are so freaking passive. If they're really treasure-hunting archaeologists, they should be living and breathing ancient manuscripts and digging into the history - they should be excited to learn more about how things were! Not just hitting up the occasional museum and asking a few questions. The quests are always brought to them by clients, not something they seek out on their own, and the answers always seem to magically resolve with very little effort. I thought so. Dreadfully expensive. And we have so many other things to buy. We haven’t even started on your uniform yet, and the clothes list for Saint Ursula’s is yards long.” Fern Britton worked with a touring theatre company and in 1979, she started her career with Westward Television in Plymouth. She worked as a newsreader and continuity announcer on Westward Diary, the nightly local bulletin. Later, she switched to present BBC’s Southwest news programme, Spotlight. She became a known as the youngest national news presenter to present News After Noon on BBC1. Fern Britton then moved to work for TVS in Southampton, where she hosted the South edition of the news programme, Coast to Coast, together with Fred Dinenage. She has also presented other programmes, like Coast to Coast People, The Television Show and Magic Moments. She smiled, showing her not very good teeth. She was a flat-chested and bony girl with pale skin and straight mousy hair, but had the sweetest disposition of any person Judith had ever known. We see the story through the eyes of Sennen, Ella and Henry and the grandparents. We travel from one generation to the other through the years, and learn a lot for each of the characters. It is so well-written, that I wasn’t confused at all. Usually I get confused when authors try to do this in other books, but this one was definitely not the case.

First line: When Alex Benedict graduated high school, his uncle Gabe, the only parent he’d ever known, provided the ultimate gift: a flight to Earth, the home world, the place where everything had started. This is not the first time McDevitt has written a boring novel because of a weak plot. The Mutes, the great aliens of this series, are again almost completely absent from the book. The audiobook narration was perfection. It's 40 hrs. 37 minutes long, but I implore you to not be intimidated by the length. As soon as it ended (and let me tell you- it's an impeccable ending) I still wasn't ready to say goodbye to the characters. I still wanted more time. McDevitt fans always delight at the release of a new Alex Benedict novel. This novel is no exception for delight by the telling of human activities over 9 millennia in the future. In this story Alex and Chase are on a search for artifacts from the Golden Age of Space Travel, especially from the Apollo missions.Judith never talked to her mother about her friendship with Mr. Willis. Instinct told her that she might be discouraged from keeping company with him, and would certainly be forbidden to go into his hut and drink tea. Which was ridiculous. What harm could Mr. Willis do to anybody? Mummy, sometimes, was dreadfully stupid. As a mother myself leaving behind my children seems unimaginable but I cannot begin to comprehend how it would affect everyone involved. This type of book is a pleasure to read. It gives us lovely characters (even if their names can be a bit odd....would anyone really call their child Loveday?) and draws a picture of a time that will never be with us again. The story begins in the late 1930's, and of course the reader knows right away that we will see young Judith (around 14 in the first chapter) dealing with the trauma of WWII and how it affects her life and the lives of those around her. The book is a must for anyone struggling with unexplained feelings and insecurities caused by adoption, or for anyone involved with adoption who would benefit from an insight into how adoptees may think and feel.

They’ve discovered lost space ships and ruined worlds, artifacts from ancient wars and the answers to mysteries that have plagued their people for generations. What’s always such fun about an Alex Benedict novel is McDevitt’s wonderful creation of this vast history of a society that for the reader is still thousands of years in the future. The hints of what happened to our own world and the millennia of war and strife and discovery that came after us are always tantalizing and just detailed enough to make this reader wish he’d actually write an entire history of the universe Alex and Chase live in. But, in Coming Home McDevitt tries on something new. Instead of sending his daring duo to some ancient civilization in search of an alien artifact for the first time in the series his heroes are returning to the home world. They’re going to earth. Think it’s got something to do with what Norah Elliot told us? You know, that day behind the bicycle shed.”It is 1935 and we are introduced to Judith Dunbar, a fourteen year old about to embark on life at boarding school while her parents and little sister, Jess, are living a world away in Singapore. Her father works for a British company abroad, and the practice of sending older children to school and leaving them in the care of relatives is not unusual. Judith has her father’s sister, Aunt Louise, with whom she is to spend holidays, and makes friends with Loveday Carey-Lewis, who is to have a huge impact on her life and fortunes. Judith’s mouth was full of scone. For a moment she thought she was going to choke, but managed to swallow it down before anything so awful should happen. COMING HOME is probably the first novel where I've actually sort of egged on the author to get past the expected twists and turns of the standard plot structure and get to the meat of it all-- when a mysterious white skimmer shows up to shoot up Chase and Alex at one point in the story, I found myself saying "Yeah, right, we all know they are going to get past that.. so move on why don't you?" Alors dans ce tome Alex et Chase se préparent au retour imminent du Capella, le mastodonte de transport spatial perdu en hyper espace depuis 11 ans et qui re-surfacera pour une 10ène d'heures avant de re-sombrer pour un bon nombre d'années. Les interrogations sur comment sauver les passagers coincés sont très nombreuses. Des chercheurs pensent avoir trouvé une solution mais elle n'est pas parfaite car il y a toujours entre 5 et 10% de chance qu'au lieu de sauver tout le monde elle fasse exploser le moteur du vaisseau, condamnant tout les passagers.