![]() ![]() Prolific children's book author Bruce Coville has delivered a down-to-earth unicorn tale, if such a thing is possible. From the enchanting flute notes that introduce the story to its stunning conclusion, listeners will find themselves, like Cara, drawn heart and soul into the wonder of Luster. And through it all threads the haunting melody of the "Song of the Wanderer", heard for the first time. ![]() Each stage of Cara's journey brings new peril, wondrous new characters, and new clues to the mystery of her grandmother's past. Cara soon discovers that this world has dangers of its own when she attempts to cross the world in a desperate effort to rescue her grandmother. The unicorns have fled to Luster to escape the Hunters who have sworn to wipe them out. Song of the Wanderer by Bruce Coville * This book is available at * ![]()
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![]() The prospect of conveying the culmination of that knowledge and information to intelligent machines is both incredibly exciting and potentially catastrophic. The result in our very human civilization. We have stood on the shoulders of giants, used and built upon the knowledge of our ancestors first through the word of mouth, and then through written language-mostly in the form of books. ![]() What human beings have been able to achieve has been the result of our unique ability to communicate and convey knowledge to each other and onto successive generations. ![]() ![]() Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell, Viking ![]() ![]() ![]() Matheson remained a prolific, highly-respected sci-fi writer throughout the second half of the 20th century his short story “Duel” formed the basis for an early Steven Spielberg film of the same name, and his novel I Am Legend (1954) has been made into a film at least five times. 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Richard Matheson grew up in Brooklyn, and later attended the University of Missouri, where he majored in journalism. ![]() ![]() ![]() They take her and Jasper to their home in a residential part of Peshawar, and for a time she has a taste of a life where children are safe and have food to eat. ![]() Peshawar is dangerous and full of desperately poor children like herself, but she has her dog Jasper.She figures she knows how to survive, but an incident with a dishonest man lands her in jail, where she spends the night, terrified and despairing, before she is rescued by well-meaning Americans. She is determined to earn money to leave Pakistan. Shauzia finally decides to leave the camp and try her luck on the streets. She still dreams of seeing the ocean and eventually making a new life in France. Parvana's best friend, fourteen-year-old Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul only to end up in a refugee camp in Pakistan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Remember that if you’re buying books as a gift, we also offer a wide-range of book prints, gifts and greetings cards for readers of all ages! Check out our print studio and gift-shop today. ![]() If you’re buying your books as a gift, we can gift-wrap them in a lovely bundle and send them wherever in the world you wish! We can even hand-write your greetings card with your personal message. Readers captivated by Twilight and New Moon will eagerly devour the paperback edition Eclipse, the third book in Stephenie Meyer’s riveting vampire love saga. If we recommend books to you through this service, we’ll be able gather up those books and send them to you no matter where you are in the world. ![]() Our recommendations service is open for all to use. Moreover, we pride ourselves on being able to track down and obtain any book our customers want. She lives in Arizona with her husband and three sons. Stephenie Meyer is the author of the number 1 bestselling Twilight Saga, The Host, and The Chemist. ![]() ![]() Viral presents the history of the AIDS crisis through the lens of the brave victims and activists who demanded action and literally fought for their lives. The AIDS Crisis fundamentally changed the fabric of the United States. The losses were staggering, the science frightening, and the government's inaction unforgivable. Its earliest victims were mostly gay men, some of the most marginalized people in the country at its peak in America, it killed tens of thousands of people. Thirty-five years ago, it was a modern-day, mysterious plague. ![]() ![]() Groundbreaking narrative nonfiction for teens that tells the story of the AIDS crisis in America. ![]() ![]() It was the winner of the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature (2013), and won the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for debut work of fiction. We Need New Names was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize (2013), the Guardian First Book Award shortlist (2013), and a Barnes & Noble Discover Award finalist (2013). NoViolet Bulawayo is a writer who takes delight in language." ![]() This is a story with moral power and weight, it has the artistry to refrain from moral commentary. when the Chair of Judges, Hisham Matar, said: "The language of ‘Hitting Budapest’ crackles. The first chapter of the book, "Hitting Budapest", initially presented as a story in the Boston Review, won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing. ![]() A coming-of-age story, We Need New Names tells of the life of a young girl named Darling, first as a 10-year-old in Zimbabwe, navigating a world of chaos and degradation with her friends, and later as a teenager in the Midwest United States, where a better future seems about to unfold when she goes to join an aunt working there. ![]() We Need New Names is the 2013 debut novel of expatriate Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was Bellow I kept coming back to as I wrestled with Jenny Zhang’s Sour Heart, a collection of seven stories sprawling across three hundred mostly dazzling, occasionally enervatingpages. The worlds themselves of course are still there (or in the next neighborhood over), tough and teeming as they ever were. Or rather, Eastern European Jews have vanished from them. Stories like “Cousins,” “The Bellarosa Connection,” and “The Old System”-one of the best stories ever written about the mixed blessing of assimilation-paint indelible portraits of lives lived without safety or privacy, in hardscrabble, close-quartered, teeming worlds that have long since vanished. The famously autobiographical Augie,for example, opens with one of the great fibs in American literature: “I am an American, Chicago born.” In fact, the Bellows moved there when Saul, né Solomon, was nine years old. Moreover, Bellow’s stories often find him mining his early, formative experiences as the child of Lithuanian and Russian Jewish émigrés in Quebec, and then as a young immigrant himself. I readily rank his Collected Stories up there with Herzog and Augie March at the apex of the Bellow canon-assuming, which I suppose I shouldn’t, that such a thing still exists. They’re almost all novella-length, but even so, the limit imposed by the form provides a propitious counterforce to Bellow’s natural maximalism, and the results feel simultaneously epic and economical. ![]() I know it’s not a popular opinion, but I’ve always felt that Saul Bellow did some of his finest work in the short story. ![]() ![]() What she does not have, not in 1984, is social position. He is married and has a family that he does not intend to leave. She also has, unknown to anyone, a lover, David, who is the light of her life although she sees him only once or twice a month. She has a pleasant home and a settled life which brings quiet satisfactions: sunshine, gardens, lunch with her publisher and her agent. What seems not to be acknowledged by her friend Penelope, is that Edith has a career and an independent income. She meekly agrees to a ‘holiday’ at a small hotel in Switzerland while the scandal dies down… ![]() Geoffrey was a nice man, a good catch and her ‘last chance’. ![]() Having drifted into accepting a widower’s proposal, she has jilted him at the altar. Its central question is: what kind of woman should one be? In 1984 we were exploring feminism, but this is not quite what Brookner is on about her female characters are always circumscribed by their lives and are never able to exercise much in the way of choices…Įdith Hope, in her late thirties, is a very respectable writer of romantic fiction, but she has scandalised her friends. ![]() ![]() Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker and it is superb. Since yesterday was International Anita Brookner Day (her 83rd birthday) I thought it would be appropriate to address her absence on this blog by posting a review of Hotel du Lac from my reading journal, from January 2004. ![]() ![]() The World Full of… series is a collection of beautiful hardcover story treasuries. 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