For pure theatrics and spectacle, Hollywood celebrities have nothing on the denizens of the heavens. Stars are born, live and die in fiery and fascinating ways - ways that we have only recently been able to study in greater detail, like so many swarming paparazzi, using the long-range lenses created by improved techniques and new, sharper observatories.
In this special edition from
Scientific American, we invite you to forget about everyday life to spend some time with the stars. In the pages that follow, you'll find the latest gossip on the glitterati, written by the astronomer shutterbugs themselves. -
The Editors
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Rare Book Collection) When orphaned Mary Lennox, lonely and sad, comes to live at her uncle's great, empty house, she has nothing to do an no one to play with. Then a friendly robin shows her the way to a mysterious
garden that has been locked up for years. Mary is determined to bring the secret garden back to life and, along the way, finds good friends and discovers the magic of making things grow.
Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden has been loved by generations of children since its first publication in 1912.
"The Secret Adversary"
by Agatha Christie
[UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK WITH TEXT]
With jobs thin on the ground Tommy and Tuppence decide to form a partnership and hire themselves out as 'young adventurers, willing to do anything, go anywhere'. When their first assignment, for the sinister Mr Whittington, puts both of them in mortal danger, they have to use all their ingenuity and cunning to save not only their own lives but that of the mysterious 'Jane Finn'.
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