![]() ![]() In encounters with librarians, booksellers, and activists who are reinventing old ways of reading, Price offers fresh hope to bibliophiles and literature lovers alike. The evidence that books are dying proves even scarcer. Print-era doctors even forbade the very same silent absorption now recommended as a cure for electronic addictions. Only one thing is certain: we live on a knife-edge. ![]() From the dawn of mass literacy to the invention of the paperback, most readers already skimmed and multitasked. The extraordinary fact is that we don’t know which is more likely, a future offering us eons of perishing frigidity or one giving us equal expanses of steamy heat. ![]() Examining the wear and tear on the books that they contain, English Professor Leah Price finds scant evidence that a golden age of reading ever existed. The shelves of the world's great libraries, though, tell a more complicated story. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look beyond the day's news, the willingness to be alone. Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated.ĭo you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. One of the worlds most beloved and best-selling writers takes his ultimate journey - into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Gripping and thought-provoking, State of Fear is Michael Crichton at his very best. The novel races forward, taking the reader on a rollercoaster thrill ride, all the while keeping the brain in high gear. State of Fear takes the reader from the glaciers of Iceland to the volcanoes of Antarctica, from the Arizona desert to the deadly jungles of the Solomon Islands, from the streets of Paris to the beaches of Los Angeles. This is Michael Crichton's most wide-ranging thriller. Only Michael Crichton's unique ability to blend science fact and pulse-pounding fiction could bring such disparate elements to a heart-stopping conclusion. Thus begins Michael Crichton's exciting and provocative technothriller, State of Fear. In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea.Īnd in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means. In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications. In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One moment, she's at her new school, her fellow students having just made it clear that they're horrible people. Only she can save the Medorans, but what if doing so prevents her from ever returning home?.Will Alex risk her entire world - and maybe even her life - to save Medora?ġ6 year old Alexandra Jennings is having a weird day. is looming.Īn unwilling pawn in a deadly game, Alex's shoulders bear the crushing weight of an entire race's survival. She soon starts to enjoy her bizarre new world and the friends who embrace her as one of their own, but strange things are happening at Akarnae, and Alex can't ignore her fear that something unexpected. While waiting for him to reappear, Alex attends Akarnae Academy, Medora's boarding school for teenagers with extraordinary gifts. With just one step, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Jennings's world changes - literally.ĭreading her first day at a new school, Alex is stunned when she walks through a doorway and finds herself stranded in Medora, a fantasy world full of impossibilities.Desperate to return home, she learns that only a man named Professor Marselle can help her. ![]() ![]() Gregor and the Marks of Secret: Gregor and Boots join Luxa on a simple fact-finding mission. Gregor must summon all his power to end the biological warfare that threatens the fate of every warmblooded creature. It is spreading fast, and when it claims one of Gregor's family, he begins to truly understand his role in the Prophecy of Blood. Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods: Gregor and Boots must return to the Underland to help ward off a plague. The Underlanders know there is only one way to lure Gregor back to their world: by kidnapping his little sister, Boots. But he is a key player in another prophecy, this one about an ominous white rat called the Bane. Gregor swears he will never return to the Underland, that strange world below New York City. Gregor and the Prophecy of Ban: The action and adventure continue for Gregor in this stunning fantasy from Suzanne Collins, bestselling author of the Hunger Games. Six centuries before, the Earl of Sandwich prophesied a quest, Gregor seeking his father, gone for two years. Transparent-skinned humans dwell beside giant talking spiders, bats, cockroaches, and rats - but the fragile peace is about to fall apart. ![]() ![]() Gregor the Overlander: Gregor, 11, follows sister Boots, 2, through a laundry room grate to the dark Underland below NYC. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hilton also got to spend some quality time with her four-month-old nephew, Phoenix Barron Hilton Reum, over the weekend, gushing: 'Sweet baby. On Friday night, Paris and Nicky donned glam golden mini-dresses to party with Beacher's Madhouse founder Jeff Beacher and his crew at SHOREbar Santa Monica. On Saturday night, the hotel heiresses joined sister-in-law Tessa June Hilton at the For the Bride Tribe Dinner catered by Plates by Lisa in Malibu followed by live band karaoke. ![]() Hilton just took a red-eye flight back from California where she and her famous big sister Paris Hilton spent the past two days celebrating their gal pal Whitney Davis' bachelorette festivities ahead of her wedding to Luke Graham White. 'Wishing a Happy Mother's Day to my amazing family of strong, caring, and loving mothers,' Nicky - who boasts 2.7M social media followers - captioned her Instagram slideshow on Sunday. Spring time: The 39-year-old designer bared her shoulders in a pink floral frock and strappy sandals selected by her stylist Sammy K ![]() ![]() ![]() Why on earth would he just stand there, you ask? The villains brought with them a big-ass radio, on which they played the Indian national anthem on loop. ![]() My favorite example of lawful stupid is found in this old Tamil movie I caught ages ago, which saw the hero tearfully standing still, upright, making a salute even as he watched his wife get gang-raped to death by the villains. Think, oh, all the superheroes who refuse to harm anyone, so they keep letting the villains go free to pillage and murder. “Lawful stupid” is a term popularly used in the fantasy genre, especially among tabletop gaming folks, to describe twits who are so by the book and law abiding to the point of destructive stupidity. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has had to learn to survive on her own and when she is almost ready to give up…her men find her and bring her to their home. Kitten ( yes that is actually the heroines name) is an orphan with a questionable past. Keep in mind that there are some sad, depressing moments that the heroine lives through and describes, but the overall vibe of the book is fantastic! ![]() I have read it several times already and it’s just the type of books that makes you smile. I absolutely adore Finding My Pack and the trilogy as a whole. (One girl, multiple guys) Finding My Pack Review What will happen when she finds out the secrets they keep? They may be more connected than they all thought when secrets about Kitten begin to surface as well. ![]() ![]() When Kitten is at her lowest point and thinks she can’t carry on, she meets an extraordinary group of men who welcome her into their home and their hearts, showing her more kindness than she has ever known. Genres: Paranormal Romance, Reverse HaremĪbandoned as a baby and forced to grow up way too fast, Kitten has learned to live and survive by her own unique code. ![]() ![]() Owen’s journeys begin at a fabulous carnival with clockwork wonders beyond his imagination, and take him aboard airships, far into the Redrock Desert to seek lost cities, through storms at sea to encounters with pirates…and give him a chance at love.Ĭlockwork Angels: The Novel is a remarkable, innovative story unlike any other. ![]() He watches the steamliners drift by, powered by alchemical energy, as they head toward Crown City-never dreaming that he is already caught between the grandiose forces of order and chaos, between the Watchmaker and his nemesis, the Anarchist. Young Owen Hardy from the village of Barrel Arbor dreams of seeing the big city and the breathtaking Clockwork Angels that dispense wisdom to the people, maybe even catching a glimpse of the Watchmaker himself. Anderson teams up with Rush lyricist and drummer Neil Peart to expand the story set out in Clockwork Angels, the twentieth studio album by the legendary rock band.Īll the journeys of this great adventure-It didn’t always feel that wayįor more than two centuries, the land of Albion has been ruled by the supposedly benevolent Watchmaker, who imposes precision on every aspect of life. ![]() International bestselling author Kevin J. ![]() ![]() Their collaboration spanned many projects and was fundamental to the success of the series. Shepard, whom Milne had met as they both were contributors to Punch. It is illustrated with the enchanting drawings of Ernest H. This copy is the FIRST EDITION, with a scarce, near fine dust jacket. ![]() ![]() Milne's charming books for children, The House at Pooh Corner begins with "One day with Pooh Bear had nothing else to do, he thought he would do something, so he went round to Piglet's house to see what Piglet was doing." Some of the chapters had appeared -as early as December 1926- in publications like the Evening News (London), The New York Evening Post and The Charleston (SC). ![]() Original pink cloth cloth, gilt ruling and stamping on the front board with an illustration of Christopher Robin and Pooh, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt, rest uncut illustrated pink endpapers with panorama and characters in silhouette, with light offset from dust jacket dust jacket with very slight dust smudging at top edge and spine panel somewhat sunned, else fine.Ĭondition: Near fine in Near fine dust-jacket. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This volume contains a carefully chosen selection of 20 of its best-known tales, including those that inspired later works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Gotthold Lessing, Keats, and other writers. Comprising 100 tales told by ten young people who have retreated to the countryside to escape the plague raging through fourteenth-century Florence, the work is a perfect example of classic Italian prose. ![]() About the Book From one of the great literary classics of the world - a carefully chosen selection of 20 stories, including The Pot of Basil, Patient Griselda, and the bawdy Putting the Devil Back in Hell.īook Synopsis A masterpiece of world literature, most likely written between 13, The Decameron alternates between tragedy and comedy in its sweeping view of life. ![]() |