![]() The narrator is a one-armed computer repairman, whose best friend is only sentient computer in existence, Mike. ![]() The characters in this book are the among the most fully realized in all of Heinlein's work. Heinlein keeps the plot zipping along with plenty of action and "gee, whiz!" techno gizmos that are only slightly dated today (the book was first published in the mid-60's). These include: what does it mean to be human? What is the relationship between duty, responsibility and rights? Heinlein is able to pull this off by embedding the "politics" in a real page turner about a revolt by colonists on the Moon against the tyranny of the home planet. While the premise is somewhat implausible (ship convicts to the Moon? More economical to ship hydroponic grain from the Moon than to grow it on Earth? - I don't think so), it serves as a platform for Heinlein to explore topics in politics and philosophy. ![]() ![]() This is quite simply the best book Robert Heinlein wrote. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Indeed, although writers win the Nobel for their body of work, it was Buck’s smash-hit novel The Good Earth (1931) that had most seized the world’s attention.ĭespite scholarly reserve, The Good Earth is a remarkable novel. ![]() Many of her contemporary critics burned with obvious misogyny, a racist disinterest in her Chinese subjects, and just plain jealousy at her titanic commercial success. Pearl Buck was the first American woman-and only the third American after Sinclair Lewis (1930) and Eugene O’Neill (1936)-to win the Nobel Prize. ![]() Chinahand Buck.” To this day, scholars often dismiss Buck’s writings as didactic or trite. Critic Norman Holmes Pearson labeled the choice “hammish,” while William Faulkner derided Pearl as “Mrs. It should have gone to Dreiser.” Despite tremendous popular support, the literary establishment shared Buck’s disbelief. On November 11, 1938, Pearl Buck awoke to learn that she had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.Her first reaction-in Chinese-was “ Wo bu xiangxin (我不相信)” or “I don’t believe it.” She added in English: “That’s ridiculous. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2008, she was honoured with an OBE for her services to Children's Literature. In 2005, Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children's books. ![]() Malorie has also written a number of titles for younger readers including Cloud Busting, which won the Smarties Silver Award, The Monster Crisp Guzzler, Robot Girl, Snow Dog, A Dangerous Game and My Friend's A Gris-Kwok. Malorie also co-wrote the Doctor Who episode - Rosa. Her work has appeared on screen, with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA-winning TV serial. Her YA books include Boys Don't Cry, Noble Conflict, Jon For Short and Chasing The Stars - which she describes as her version of Shakespeare's Othello set in space. Both Hacker and Thief! won the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award - Malorie is the only author to have won this award twice - while Hacker also won the WH Smith Book Award. Malorie has won many other awards for her books. Noughts and Crosses has been dramatised as a 6-part TV series which was first shown on BBC TV in March 2020, as well as dramatised twice as a theatre play and produced as a radio drama for BBC Radio 4. The novels in her Noughts & Crosses sequence have won several awards, including the FCBG Red House Children's Book Award. Malorie Blackman is acknowledged as one of today's most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() They also have their own fulfillment times and shipping options so the above won’t apply. Orders in the Merchandise section need to be placed separate from books due to separate shipping facilities being filled through Printful.We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at 17.32. If you still don’t see a tracking number on your PayPal transaction after ten days, definitely email us at It probably just means that we ran out of stock and are waiting for a shipment to come in, but we’ll double check for you! Buy Echo: Hunting Season by Seven Rue online at Alibris.Some book-specific complimentary swag is included on all other shipping options AND international shipping, so please choose another shipping option if you would like swag. Media Mail is the cheapest shipping option we offer for US residents, but it will NOT include swag.You may opt during ordering if you’d like the book personalized with your or someone’s else’s name. You may not get an email notification when your order is shipped (our system can be wonky lol), but you will see an invoice/tracking number on your Paypal transaction. Echo: A Reverse Harem & Age Gap Novel by Seven Rue Echo. Please allow 1-10 days for your order to process.There maybe some delays, but I fully expect to make the 10 day period we quote getting them out. It’ll take us a while to get caught up with orders due to volume. ![]() ![]() We should see replacement stock in about 2 weeks around 5/19/23. Many books sold out due to larger than expected order volumes. Thank you for a incredibly busy opening day. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On the one hand, we rightly blame fast food for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, and fast food restaurants are viewed as symbols of capitalism's disastrous effects on our nation's most vulnerable citizens. For African Americans, as acclaimed historian Marcia Chatelain reveals in Franchise, fast food is a source of both despair and power-and a battlefield on which the fight for racial justice has been waged since the 1960s. But while people of all ages and backgrounds enjoy and depend on fast food, it does not mean the same thing to each of us. ![]() Millions start their mornings with paper-wrapped English muffin breakfast sandwiches, order burritos hastily secured in foil for lunch, and end their evenings with extravalue dinners consumed in cars. An estimated one-third of all American adults eats something from at a fast-food restaurant every day. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Todd’s other books this one is set in the beginning of Third pass of threadfall some 2000 years before the events of Anne McCaffrey’s earliest published books on Pern (set during the 9th pass). I frankly recommend reading all of Todd McCaffrey’s earlier books as well since events in this book are in many ways a consequence of earlier story arcs. Thus one must have read the two earlier books in order to understand the plot of this one. This book is the third of a trilogy featuring the protagonist Fiona (the other two books are Dragonheart and Dragongirl ). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() First there is the author's dawning realization that the platform is being manipulated by some very bad actors. It's a story that begins with a series of rude awakenings. Zucked is McNamee's intimate reckoning with the catastrophic failure of the head of one of the world's most powerful companies to face up to the damage he is doing. Still a large shareholder in Facebook, he had every good reason to stay on the bright side. He had mentored many tech leaders in his illustrious career as an investor, but few things had made him prouder, or been better for his fund's bottom line, than his early service to Mark Zuckerberg. If you had told Roger McNamee three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying democracy, he would have howled with laughter. This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many tours combine several major landmarks in one day, allowing you to make the most of your time and see a lot in a short time. ![]() Because even though you can visit many of these places by train, often, you will be able to see so much more if you go on an organized tour. In addition, for each place, we include recommendations on how to visit on your own and also the best day tours from London. This guide includes all the ‘musts’, the very best day trip destinations near London for first-time visitors, but also for local travelers who want to (re)discover some of the most popular sights near London. In this article, we feature the absolute best places that you can visit as a one-day trip from London, England. However, with such an array of possibilities, how do you choose the very best day trips from London that are worth your time the most? But in addition to all the top sights and attractions in the city itself, there are also so many beautiful places near London, many of which can easily be visited as a day trip from London. London is an amazing city with so much to offer that you could spend weeks and still not see it all. ![]() ![]() ![]() She includes a good many pictures of the Carnarvon ancestors, along with transcripts from personal letters and various other documents. ![]() It is easy to tell that the current Countess of Carvarvon did a great deal of research when putting this book together. The reason Lady Almina would be of significant interest to the modern television viewer is that she is the inspiration for the character of Lady Cora Crawley. Lady Fiona Carnarvon researched her family history in order to tell the story of Lady Almina who lived at Highclere from 1895 to 1923. Highclere's fictional name is Downton Abbey which is likely how you know it best. Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey is written by the current Countess of Carnarvon who resides in Highclere Castle. ![]() I do believe this will be one of my favorite reads of 2012. Even if you are not, and are just a fan of history or biographies in general, you will likely enjoy this quite well. This book was a super fun read and I'm so glad that my ("real life") friend recommended it to me! If you are a fan of the Downton Abbey television series, you'll absolutely love this book. I absolutely loved and adored Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle. Chronicles of Narnia Reading Challenge (74). ![]() ![]() The villains were perfectly, painfully average and underdeveloped, so when they really started becoming important, my interest waned a little. (Which is also kinda why I'm not keen on going into the second book, although you've been warned that this one NEEDS a sequel for the plot.) Magic is never explained but shown instead, and even if that made me a little confused, everything in this review so far came together to make a quaint little fairy tale with numerous threads and ideas and surprises. Character dynamics may not be the most complicated or developed of things, but they're varied and there are many. I love that kind of stuff and it was done spectacularly here. From other reviews I read, this point is a little divisive, but for my part I think Dolamore did wonderfully in revealing the world around our characters not like a textbook but like how someone would talk about their lives.bits and pieces of Nim's homeland were described in associations and memories, the information about the fairies and the war were from overheard conversations or sneaked into everyday discussions. I admittedly liked the feeling that went through most of the book - that we were looking into one modest story in a world that sprawled much larger, and was much more complicated, heated, and dangerous. ![]() This was a whole lot of story packed into a tiny book. "If secrets could burn, I'd be the first to light the match." "I should like to forget my secrets myself," he said. ![]() |