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![]() She saved her money, and she invited her brother Jamie to go, mostly because be was a miser and would have money.Ĭlaudia was a good organizer and Jamie bad some ideas, too so the two took up residence at the museum right on schedule. And she would go in comfort-she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. ![]() When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. Konigsburg’s beloved classic and Newbery Medal–winning novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. ![]() Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. Now available in a deluxe keepsake edition! ![]()
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Nightfall isaac asimov short story7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() A day when walking outdoors becomes a sign of psychosis. ![]() The discovery that Earthlings are being destroyed by a mysterious kind of psychological virus. ![]() Machines that learn to think for themselves-and direct their thoughts to overturning the establishment. The other stories in the collection span far and wide: A dedicated scientist who whips up his own love potion. You have to keep in mind that Asimov was only 21 when he wrote that story. “Nightfall,” published when the author was only twenty-one, was arguably his breakout work, making such an impression that, almost thirty years later, the Science Fiction Writers of America voted it the best science-fiction short story ever written Compiled by Asimov himself, who prefaced each story with an introduction, it begins with “Nightfall,” the tale of a world with eternal sun that is suddenly plunged into total darkness and utter madness. A collection of twenty classic short stories by Isaac Asimov, author of the Foundation series, featuring the definitive and only in-print version of “Nightfall”įrom one of history’s most influential writers of science fiction comes this collection of twenty short works of fiction, arranged in order of publication from 1941 to 1967. ![]()
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![]() But the neglected science of hemisphere difference, returned to centre stage by McGilchrist, provides the key to larger issues. ![]() Such enthusiasm is unusual for the narrow subject of our divided brains. Some consider McGilchrist the most important non-fiction writer of our time. His previous book, The Master and His Emissary, was admired by public figures from Rowan Williams to Philip Pullman. ![]() ![]() And, yes, I do mean ever.’ Can any contemporary work withstand such praise? The ‘intelligent general reader’ (the book’s target audience) should, however, not be discouraged, for Iain McGilchrist has to be taken seriously: a Fellow of All Souls, eminent in neurology, psychiatry and literary criticism, a thinker and - it’s impossible to avoid the term -a sage. The dust jacket of The Matter With Things quotes a large statement from an Oxford professor: ‘This is one of the most important books ever published. ![]()
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Common sense published7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() The document was an important part of the American Revolutionary War. He also referenced the Bible and used idioms that many of the Protestant colonists understood. Thomas Paine wrote in a style that was easy for most people to understand, instead of the hard to understand writing common in the Enlightenment Era. The pamphlet was one of the bestselling works of the 18th century in America. Therefore, the colonies should overthrow the British government. ![]() Paine called the pamphlet Common Sense because he wrote that it was against common sense for an island to rule a larger nation. The pamphlet said that the British government and other European monarchies were tyrannical, meaning they did not acknowledge the rights of people. Paine wrote the pamphlet to change the minds of people who wanted to peacefully settle their differences with the British government to fight for independence instead. It was first published on January 10, 1776. ![]() Common Sense is a pamphlet (short book) written by Thomas Paine. ![]()
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Losing hope colleen7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In Losing Hope, bestselling author Colleen Hoover reveals what was going on inside Holder’s head during all those hopeless moments-and whether he can gain the peace he desperately needs. Sometimes in life, if we wish to move forward, we must first dig deep into our past and make amends. ![]() But he could not have anticipated that the moment they reconnect, even greater remorse would overwhelm him… Still haunted by the little girl he let walk away, Holder has spent his entire life searching for her in an attempt to finally rid himself of the crushing guilt he has felt for years. In Hopeless, Sky left no secret unearthed, no feeling unshared, and no memory forgotten, but Holder’s past remained a mystery. Amazon | TBD(Preorder) | Kobo | Goodreads ![]()
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Terry pratchett on going postal7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() So far the work had taken him five weeks, and reduced the spoon to something like a nail file. To the world in general, and particularly on that bit of it known as the death warrant, he was Albert Spangler.Īnd he took a more positive approach to the situation and had concentrated his mind on the prospect of not being hanged in the morning, and most particularly on the prospect of removing all the crumbling mortar from around a stone in his cell wall with a spoon. The man going to be hanged had been named Moist von Lipwig by doting if unwise parents, but he was not going to embarrass the name, in so far as that was still possible, by being hung under it. They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man’s mind wonderfully unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that it is in a body that, in the morning, is going to be hanged. … and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork’s ailing postal service back on its feet. ![]()
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I wonder as i wander hughes7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() His acquaintances too-Arthur Koestler, Cartier Bresson, Covarrubias- become new people. ![]() Hughes has the knack of living in and being a part of wherever he is. His further and very extended trips through Russia and the east on a journey that took him around the world as far more than a traveler, carry the same interest. At home in the early Thirties Mary McLeod Bethune helped him start on a reading tour through Negro colleges and these trips are sharply indicative of what segregation means. Though he found prejudice there too he was freer by far than in his own home and leads us to enjoy with him the artists he met and the feelings of a people whom he describes through their music and the good times they have. On an early trip to Cuba, Hughes looked to a lifting of the color bar. All of it illustrates character and principle inductively, by colorfully descriptive and conversational narratives. ![]() The period of which Hughes writes is in the thirties and encompasses the years from the start of the depression to the time when he was a correspondent in the Spanish Civil War. ![]() It is an amusing and often deeply serious account of the interchange between himself and people and countries- personal and international adventures that have filled his life as a true man of the world. An autobiographical travelogue from the Negro poet and writer should come as a revealing gift to those who have known his other work. ![]()
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My killer vacation book7/3/2023 ![]() Low-effort book requests will be removed.
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![]() When Carrie was chosen for publication, King’s phone was out of service. It was written on a portable typewriter that belonged to his wife. Carrie was King’s fourth novel, but it was the first to be published. In 1973, King’s novel Carrie was accepted by publishing house Doubleday. He has been described as the “King of Horror”, a play on his surname and a reference to his high standing in pop culture. National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature. ![]() In 2015, he was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the U.S. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his entire bibliography, such as the 2004 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Stephen King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections. King has published 63 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. Stephen Edwin King (1947 – ) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. ![]()
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The plague book albert camus7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel stresses the powerlessness of the individual characters to affect their destinies. The Plague is considered an existentialist classic despite Camus' objection to the label. It gradually becomes an omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. The book tells a gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. The novel presents a snapshot of life in Oran as seen through the author's distinctive absurdist point of view. The narrator remains unknown until the start of the last chapter, chapter 5 of part 5. It tells the story from the point of view of a narrator of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. ![]() ![]() The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947. ![]() |