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James Brendan Patterson (born March 22, 1947) is an American author. Among his works are the Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Women's Murder Club, Maximum Ride, Daniel X, NYPD Red, Witch & Wizard, Private and Middle School series, as well as many stand-alone thrillers, non-fiction, and romance novels.
Following this duology, Patterson wrote the Maximum Ride series for teens, with the first book published in 2005. The series took a similar premise with avian-human hybrids, with characters resembling those in the duology, but was written for a younger audience and focused on the younger characters.
Cuddly Critters for Little Geniuses (2018), with Susan Patterson, illustrated by Hsinping Pan, picture book, New York: JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company ISBN 978-0-316-48628-6; Stand-alones. SantaKid (2004), illustrated by Michael Garland, picture book, New York: Little, Brown and Company ISBN 978-0-316-00061-1
Arching above a side aisle roof, flying buttresses support the main vault of St. Mary's Church, in Lübeck, Germany.. The flying buttress (arc-boutant, arch buttress) is a specific form of buttress composed of a ramping arch that extends from the upper portion of a wall to a pier of great mass, in order to convey to the ground the lateral forces that push a wall outwards, which are forces that ...
In 1976, while still a Newhouse student, and using his Lawrinson Hall dorm room as headquarters, [13] he teamed with Chris Beall and Marc Minoustchine [12] to found Flying Buttress Publications with an initial investment of $2,100. [14] (Their tagline, referencing the architectural element of the flying buttress, was "the support of a new ...
James Patterson is supporting local bookstores again this holiday season.. The Along Came a Spider author, 77, is making sure U.S. booksellers are getting their flowers by gifting $300,000 to 600 ...
In these the buttresses run up, forming a sort of square turret, and crowned with a pyramidal cap, very much like those of the next period, the Early English. Pinnacles on the top of walls and the corner of flying buttresses. In this and the following styles, mainly in Gothic architecture, the pinnacle seems generally to have had its ...
This book has three major plots and at least two minor ones. The first begins with the birth of police detective Lindsay Boxer's daughter, which had to be at home during a major power outage. The less than sterile condition of the baby's birth causes medical complications that keep Boxer away from her job during part of the investigation into a ...