![]() ![]() One that will make Connie fall in love with him all over again". ![]() Douglas resolves that their last family holiday together, a ' grand tour' of the cultural and artistic gems of Europe, will "be the trip of a lifetime, one that will draw the three of them closer, and win the respect of his son. The book begins when Connie, frustrated artist and Douglas Petersen's wife of nearly 25 years, tells him that now their son Albie is about to leave home for college, she wants to leave too. In Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) broadcast it as a six-episode mini-series. The BBC screened a four-part TV adaptation of the novel, by Nicholls, in 2020, starring Tom Hollander, Saskia Reeves and Tom Taylor. It was also long-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Us is a 2014 novel by English author David Nicholls for whom it won the Specsavers "UK Author of the Year" award. ![]()
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![]() We've been on a fun journey so far, going from just a solid little story to this debate on what to do with humanity. We've reached the end of the Bruce Coville Teacher Alien saga. ![]() I feel I should have a quote from the book at the top of this, given everything it says, but somehow I don't have one. But will we? Maybe we need to make that decision before someone or something else makes it for us. Coville presents a fun, entertaining set of 4 books that on the surface are for kids who maybe just wonder if that adult in their life is from another planet (what kid doesn't think adults seem as if they are from another world). But is it worth saving?Īlong the way, Peter learns more about Earth, himself, and his father, leading to him making a decision he never thought he would have to make. The kids and the teachers are working against the clock to save their planet. This book was written 25 years ago and it is sad that most of what is seen as failures of the human race still exist. The kids soon find it is hard to make such a case. ![]() Peter is now reunited with Susan and Duncan and together the 3 of them (with 2 of their alien teachers) are tasked with convincing the Interplanetary Council that Earth is worth saving. The finale of the My Teacher series does not fail to deliver. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s 1999 and Samantha has danced for years at the Lovely Lady strip club. ' Riveting.An adrenaline ride filled with grit and compassion.' People, Book of the Week. As Holly and Georgia round up their suspects, the story’s point of view shifts between dancers, detectives, children, club patrons–and the killer.ĭrawing on her experience as a former dancer, Marie Rutkoski immerses us in the captivating world of the club, which comes alive with complicated people trying their best to protect themselves and those they love. Bringing to mind Gillian Flynn and Tana French but completely unique, Marie Rutkoski's Real Easy is a compulsive, tenacious, and unexpectedly hopeful thriller. Georgia just wants to help, but her involvement makes her a target. Georgia, another dancer drawn into the ensuing murder and missing person investigation, gathers information for Holly, a grieving detective determined to solve the case. A compulsive, tenacious, and unexpectedly hopeful thriller set in a midwestern strip club, told by New York Times. One night, when the new girl needs a ride home, Samantha agrees to drive: a simple decision that turns deadly. Real Easy is a compulsive, tenacious, and unexpectedly hopeful thriller set in a midwestern strip club, told by New York Times bestselling author Marie. But the newest dancer is so clueless that Samantha feels compelled to help her learn the hustle and drama of the club: how to sweet-talk the boss, fit in with the other women, and make good money. She’s not used to mixing work and friendship–after all, between her jealous boyfriend and his young daughter, she has enough on her plate. ![]() ![]() Simon Gatrell, Michael Hollington, Elaine Showalter, Victor Luftig and Mary Jacobus are among the new voices. The Norton Critical Edition includes: expanded footnotes, further drawing out Hardy's web of allusions and comprehensively indicating the material culture in which he embeds this narrative a selection of Hardy's poems-four of them new to this edition-that emphasises the biographical contexts from which parts of Jude the Obscure arose nineteen critical responses, including twelve modern essays-eight of them new to the third edition. The text of the novel is again based on Hardy's final revision for the 1912 Wessex Edition. ![]() The Norton Critical Edition includes: expanded footnotes, further drawing out Hardy's web of allusions and comprehensively indicating the material culture in which he embeds this narrative a selection of Hardy's poems-four of them new to this edition-that emphasises the biographical contexts from which parts of Jude the Obscure arose nineteen critical responses, including twelve mod. ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:annotatedsecretg0000burn:epub:62eb5c0a-25f9-4e66-b2fa-6e1998f09955 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier annotatedsecretg0000burn Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2kwspqk4r5 Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780393060294 Lccn 2007018527 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9799 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-1300137 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:32:00 Associated-names Gerzina, Gretchen Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA40404915 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() Dr Magnanti is a different kind of sex goddess altogether, with the emphasis on the goddess. She would have been wasted down there in the land of tabloid fantasy, where the mind is not regarded as an erogenous zone to be expanded, though every other erogenous zone is expanded to the limit. Judging from her qualifications, Dr Magnanti's sudden appearance at the top of the media heap was only fitting. When it became clear to her that one of the tabloid newspapers was about to blow her secret, she reacted like Rommel.Īttacking out of defence, she stepped in ahead of time and spilled all to one of the weekend broadsheets, thus positioning herself invulnerably upmarket, where she will undoubtedly stay, the glossiest British-based femme fatale since Lady Bienvenida Buck, and much less likely to be forgotten. ![]() ![]() ![]() She must also have been a student of military strategy. The voice behind the most celebrated of all soft porn blogs turned out to belong to a woman of outstanding beauty and brilliance called Dr Brooke Magnanti, student of informatics, epidemiology and forensic science. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This first volume in a planned two volume enterprise spans everything from the society of chimpanzees to the French Revolution, and it conveys the wideranging nature of Fukuyama’s approach. ![]() What is the historical secret leading to stable political orders, such as Denmark’s, he asks, and can that secret be shared with the Somalias and Afghanistans of the world? Fukuyama is frustrated by the difficulty of building stable, order-keeping states in the contemporary developing world. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, Francis Fukuyama (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), 608 pp., $35 cloth, $18 paper.įrancis Fukuyama, the author of “The End of History,” one of the most discussed political essays in recent decades, here travels back to prehistory to look for the key to understanding political order. ![]() ![]() ![]() Upon arriving in her father’s birthplace, Julia is astonished to encounter a strange man who has waited four years to share her father’s complete, intriguing story. The catalyst for her search is the discovery of an old love letter from her father to an unknown woman in Burma. ![]() The story follows Julia Win, a young attorney, who attempts to track down her father, a well-known New York lawyer and Burmese national, who suddenly disappears. The novel is international in scope-being written by a German journalist who lived in upstate New York, detailing events in a mountain village in Burma (modern Myanmar). In response to such acclaim, Sendker penned a sequel, A Well-Tempered Heart, in 2012. ![]() An international bestseller, the novel received the Indies Choice Honor Award for Best Fiction Novel in 2013. Originally written in German and published in 2002, Jan-Philipp Sendker’s debut novel, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, was translated into English by Kevin Wiliarty in 2006. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two main characters are a welder and a scientist. Before the story begins, terrorists destroyed a supply ship headed for the rig, killing everyone aboard and leaving the workers without relief. Kemper, workers on a large ocean rig harvest whales for meat. The story will appeal to those who enjoy hard science fiction, as well as to anyone who appreciates a character of courage and determination. The tense situation creates a great deal of suspense. The author makes use of believable technical details to portray a very realistic alternate history of space exploration. With no time to equip another astronaut, she runs the risk of greatly worsening her injury, threatening her career, in order to save the lives of her colleagues. ![]() Complicating matters is the fact that she has a badly sprained ankle. The astronaut, under extreme time pressure, must figure out a way to deal with the crisis. There is a real emergency on the genuine space station. Underwater to simulate weightlessness, she works with a model of the space station. Her current assignment is to enter a huge swimming pool while wearing a spacesuit. Despite this background, the story takes place on Earth. There is a thriving moon colony and an active space station. “Articulated Restraint” by Mary Robinette Kowal takes place in 1960, but in a world with an advanced space program. ![]() This month, three science fiction stories offer visions of the far future, the near future, and a past that never existed. ![]() ![]() ![]() But this structural design is changing–both legally and technically. The legal architecture surrounding it protected this free space so that culture and information–the ideas of our era–could flow freely and inspire an unprecedented breadth of expression. The Internet’s very design built a neutral platform upon which the widest range of creators could experiment. Creativity flourished there because the Internet protected an innovation commons. The explosion of innovation we have seen in the environment of the Internet was not conjured from some new, previously unimagined technological magic instead, it came from an ideal as old as the nation. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the Internet revolution has produced a counterrevolution of devastating power and effect. What was responsible for its birth? Who is responsible for its demise? ![]() |