![]() ![]() (At this point, humans have no cultural memory of the name or location of the planet from which the species started.) The story told in three books - Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952) and Second Foundation (1953) - first saw the light of day in a string of short stories and novelettes published between 19.Īs the first book opens, the entire Galaxy is under the control of the Empire, headquartered on Trantor, but the brilliant mathematician Hari Seldon, creator of the field of psychohistory, has determined that, even at this moment of the Empire’s greatness, it is rotten with decay. Isaac Asmiov’s Foundation Trilogy is something else again. Both describe a post-apocalyptic world a relative short time after the bombs dropped. ![]() (1952), originally titled Star Man’s Son. Miller Jr.’s elliptical, transcendent A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960) and Andre Norton’s coming-into-manhood adventure Daybreak: 2250 A.D. When it comes to books, I can point to some I read in my teens and early twenties that still resonate with me today.įor example, in science fiction, there are Walter M. ![]() S ome of the enthusiasms of youth travel well. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He suffers from an unknown mental condition (most likely some form of dementia) that causes him to, as Marv describes, "get confused." His symptoms seem to involve experiencing short-term memory loss and possibly hallucinations. He is described as an "over the hill do-gooder" by several people, and admires long overcoats, taking them from those he kills. As an ex-con, he spends his time on the streets doing odd jobs for various people. Marv, a hulking, violent giant of a man, who possesses an uncanny athleticism along with remarkable endurance for pain.The Man From ' The Customer Is Always Right' Listed below are the major and minor characters.ĭouglas Klump And Burt Schlubb (Fat Man And Little Boy) Sin City is a series of stories by Frank Miller, told in comic book form in a film noir-like style. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please note: This page was written by me, so as always, please visit the author’s website for up-to-date, author-verified information as well as for information books that have not yet been included to this list. "Promises" (in the Three Weddings and a Kiss anthology)įriday Harbor1) Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor "Surrender" (in the Gifts of Love anthology) Note: Also loosely connected to the Bow Street trilogyĬapitol Theatre1) Somewhere I'll Find You Note: This series stands on its own, but characters from the Wallflower series play strong supporting roles in Mine Till Midnightģ) "Against the Odds" (in the Where's My Hero? anthology) Married by Morning (Hathaways Book 4) Book 4 of 5: Hathaways by Lisa Kleypas Sold by: Macmillan 2,964 Kindle Edition 999 Available instantly 'There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for. ![]() ![]() Click here to jump to a particular series: ![]() ![]() Sydney Eddison’s “Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older” is a book of practical, common-sense advice. ![]() “Founding Gardeners” was published by Alfred A. When Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis to explore the Missouri River after the Louisiana Purchase, part of his mission was to observe “the soil & face of the country, it’s growth and vegetable productions” and to note “the dates at which particular plants put forth or lose their flower, or leafs.” Yes, he wanted the Missouri River explored, perhaps a passage to the Pacific found, but the plants were equally important. ![]() ![]() That trip is reported to have helped forge a compromise. When tensions rose during the Constitutional Convention, a group of delegates, including Madison and Alexander Hamilton, went to the nursery of John and William Bartram, where Washington and Jefferson had purchased many of their trees. Washington and Jefferson regularly had visitors to their estates who wanted to see how they had created stunning landscapes out of American trees. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then an overnight sleepover at Catamount Mountain Zoo takes a menacing turn, putting everything at risk. High school has become the only normal thing left in her life-except for tall, dark, and handsome Emery Phillips, who shadows her every move, making sure she doesn’t reveal her secret. Two months after being infected with a strange retrovirus, Cassidy Jones continues to live a double life while she struggles to master her newly gained superpowers. “Imaginative!-Modern!-Unpredictable! Riddled with delightful characters, magical adventure and a captivating plot, Stokes again captures young reader’s attention with another dangerous, action-packed adventure…” –– Gail Welborn, Īn Ancient Secret Has Come To Life, And Everyone On The Planet Is At Risk. Book Two in the middle grade/young adult superhero series, Cassidy Jones Adventures ![]() ![]() But one of the problems with social novels intended to heighten our understanding is that in writing about traumas, the writer risks turning suffering into entertainment, and stripping the characters of agency. Novels entertain, and many have also argued that reading novels increases our empathy for others. She makes the people of Appalachia into objects of pity, but in doing so, also intimates that falling into drug abuse, rejecting education, and 'clinging' to their ways are moral choices that keep them in their dire circumstances. Her characters wallow in dark hollows with little light, condemned to forever repeat the horrific mistakes of previous generations. In seeking to raise awareness of child hunger and poverty in the United States, Kingsolver turns her characters’ lives into tales of misery and the inevitability of failure. ![]() Kingsolver makes little mention of Appalachian history or resilience. In Kingsolver’s depiction of her Appalachian setting, virtually no one gets out alive. She hangs markers of poverty - the coal country location, a town considered 'right poor' - like wind chimes on Demon’s single-wide trailer to catch her readers’ ears. ![]() Kingsolver must make clear Demon’s straitened circumstances. ![]() ![]() It’s not clear that using David Copperfield is the best way to tell Demon’s story. ![]() ![]() =18) The Blue Guitar by David Hockney (Petersburg Press, 1976-7) £20,000+ ![]() =18) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (The Egoist Press, 1917) £20,000+ =18) After Two Years by Graham Greene (The Rosaio Press, 1949) £20,000+ =18) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Jonathan Cape, 1929) £20,000+ =13) Nine Experiments by SHS by Stephen Spender (privately printed, 1928) £25,000 =13) In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway (Three Mountains Press, 1924) £25,000 =9) A Lume Spento by Ezra Pound (privately printed, 1908) £25,000+ =9) Three Stories & Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway (Contact Publishing, 1923) £25,000+ =9) Night and Day by Virginia Woolf (Duckworth, 1919) £25,000+ ![]() =9) The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (Knopf, 1930) £25,000+ =6) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner's, 1926) £30,000Ĩ) Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (Heinemann, 1938) £25,000++ =6) Poems by WH Auden (Privately Printed, 1928) £30,000 1) Ulysses by James Joyce (Shakespeare & Company, 1922), £100,000Ģ) The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (George Newnes, 1902) £80,000ģ) Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence (The Oxford Times, 1922) £60,000Ĥ) The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (Scribner's, 1925) £50,000+++ĥ) The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (privately printed, 1901) £50,000++ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Also on board is Tessa Fairweather, whose partner has promised that if they can pull off this one last heist aboard the Lusitania, they'll leave the game behind. ![]() They're traveling to London aboard the Lusitania- and discovers her old friend Robert Langford is on the same voyage. April 1915: Caroline Telfair Hochstetter's husband, Gilbert, has become pre-occupied with business- and something else that she can't quite put a finger on. What she discovers there could change history. Take one historical mystery written by three bestselling authors about three strong women, add secrets, forgery, romance, spies, and a doomed ship, th. Breaking a promise to her mother, she opens her great-grandfather's chest from the RMS Lusitania, sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915. May 2013: Author Sarah Blake is struggling to find a big idea for her next book. The Glass Ocean: A Novel MP3 CD MP3 Audio, Septemby Karen White (Author), Beatriz Williams (Author), Lauren Willig (Author) 1,961 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 16.49 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 18.19 45 Used from 1.57 12 New from 18.09 2 Collectible from 15.As the Lusitania steams toward its fate, three women work against time to unravel a plot that will change the course of their own lives.and history itself". A "historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century-two deep in the past, one in the present-to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() José Burgos, is filled with errors and deficiencies in style, thus its impossibility to be the work of a highly educated priest with Spanish parentage (and I should add that Fr. A mastery of Spanish will tell us that La Loba Negra, a novel that has been attributed to Fr. Old texts will tell us that the real name of that intrepid chief of Mactán who defeated Fernando Magallanes (more popularly known as Ferdinand Magellan) and his crew was Pulaco, not Lapu-Lapu. ![]() Old documents and books (in Spanish and even in French) will tell us that Manila was founded not just as a city but as a capital city (that of the Capitanía General de Filipinas), effectively making our country a state despite its status as an overseas province (provincia ultramarina), but such fact is always ignored. Take for example the founding of the city of Manila on 24 June 1571. I always tell friends that reading translated Filipino history could be dangerous at times because it robs the essence of what the texts truly mean. ![]() ![]() ![]() Additional topics in Richardson extrapolationģ. ![]() The Richardson Extrapolation Process and Its Generalizations:Ģ. It differs from existing books by concentrateing on the most powerful nonlinear methods, presenting in-depth treatments of them, and showing which methods are most effective for different classes of practical nontrivial problems. The methods discussed are geared toward common problems in scientific and engineering disciplines. This state-of-the art reference for mathematicians, scientists and engineers is concerned with the coherent treatment, including derivation, analysis, and applications, of the most useful scalar extrapolation methods. These limits can be approximated economically and with high accuracy by applying suitable extrapolation (or convergence acceleration) methods to a small number of terms. Thus, to approximate limits with reasonable accuracy, it is necessary to compute a large number of terms, and this is in general costly. Description Product filter button DescriptionĪn important problem that arises in many scientific and engineering applications is that of approximating limits of infinite sequences which in most instances converge very slowly. ![]() |