![]() Some of her novels are being adapted for TV and film, including All Summer Long, which premiered for Hallmark Channel in August 2019. She currently resides in Sisters, Oregon. She grew up in Springfield, Oregon, and went to Springfield High School and later Lane Community College. She has written over 250 books for women, teens and children, including the Diary of a Teenage Girl series.Ĭarlson was born March 2, 1956, in San Francisco, California. Melody Carlson (born March 2, 1956) is an American author. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( October 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable, independent, third-party sources. ![]() This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral. ![]()
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![]() The basis of all the advice is an acronym that spells out the word QUICK. It was edited by Lori Baird, a woman who straight out in the introduction tells us that she is really terrible at organization. ![]() ![]() ![]() MDS classes with significant recommendations overlap, excluding ones under the same top-level class. Cut the Clutter and Stow the Stuff is a book that has collected advice on how to reduce the amount of clutter you have. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. ![]() "One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls - sisters, eight and eleven - go missing. In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, and through a young writer's virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.". We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty - densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska - and into a region as complex as it is alluring, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richlyĭrawn characters, all connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. ![]() With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself Smith, whose "lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review) New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. * A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * ![]() ![]() * A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But as these ancient rulers defy one another in their quest to understand the powers of the strange elixir, they are haunted by a mysterious presence even older and more powerful than they, a figure drawn forth from the mists of history who possesses spectacular magical potions and tonics eight millennia old. Ramses has reawakened Cleopatra with the same perilous elixir whose unworldly force brings the dead back to life. Now immortal with his bride-to-be, he is swept up in a fierce and deadly battle of wills and psyches against the once-great Queen Cleopatra. ![]() Ramses the Great, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. From the iconic and best-selling author of The Mummy and The Vampire Chronicles, a mesmerizing, glamorous new tale of ancient feuds and modern passions. ![]() ![]() ![]() I will post a link if that is NOT the case. Most of these books are available for Kindle on Amazon. ![]() But in this case, I didn’t want to post this closer to Christmas, because I wanted you to have some time to actually pick up these books and read them.
![]() ![]() This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper. Marx's theories remain widely studied for their relevance and insight into the problems and inequalities that continue to exist in modern economic systems. Marx argues that workers are responsible for creating the value that leads to profit and they are entitled to share in it through increased wages. "Value, Price, and Profit" was first given as a speech by Marx in 1865 and expands on his ideas regarding the relationship between wages and profit. ![]() First written in 1847, "Wage Labour and Capital" is the foundation for the economic theories that were later developed in "Das Kapital". This edition contains two of his more important essays. His groundbreaking theory that much of a society's conflict is based on an economic imbalance between the wealthy ruling class, the bourgeoisie, who control the means of production, and the working class, or the proletariat, who are forced to sell their labor in return for wages, helped spur the development of socialist and communist political systems. His hugely significant works "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital" fundamentally changed the way the world viewed economy and politics. ![]() ![]() Karl Marx is one of the most influential social theorists and political philosophers of the 19th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once invisible, Griffin’s personality gets worse. In fact, these qualities are his defining features prior to his accomplishing the impossible. His invisibility and loneliness do not bring out his worst qualities. Wells’ original novella, Griffin is an ill-intentioned person from the start. Unlike depictions of the “Invisible Man” in film and television, in H.G. He is a multi-dimensional character in what I’ve always found to be a two-dimensional world. He’s the smartest physicist of his age, Wells writes at the end of the book, something that went to waste when mixed with Griffin’s narcissism and self-destructive actions. ![]() Throughout the novel, Wells’ narrator does not shy away from mentioning how brilliant Griffin, the Invisible Man is. Rather than see Griffin’s invisibility play out, readers are left with memories of the past and a very limited timeline of events. Most clearly in its few characters and limited setting. Without a doubt, the short novel is an exciting accomplishment, one that has entranced and entertained readers of all ages for over 100 years.īut, there are some areas where it’s lacking. The novel blends science, fantasy, and reality into what is considered to be one of the early masterpieces of science fiction novel writing. ![]() It was followed by the equally well-known (albeit for slightly different reasons) The War of the Worlds. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shibli delivers this portion of the novel using a third person objective narrator that meticulously relays the officer’s actions in a taut literary style devoid of emotion or personality. His orders are to eradicate Arabs and so-called “infiltrators” along the armistice lines with Egypt. Part 1 of Minor Detail recounts the activities of a nameless Israeli officer whose unit is charged with the ethnic cleansing of the Negev region during the founding days of the nascent Israeli state. From this tragic historical seed Shibli develops a two-part diptych that fictionalizes the events leading up to the crime as well as its reverberations and echoes decades later. This is one of the rare Israeli war crimes whose perpetrators have been prosecuted and punished. In 2003, Ha’aretz published an account of the unit’s rape and murder of a Bedouin girl whose body they buried in the Negev desert. The plot of this spare, haunting novel is loosely based on a real-life war crime that an Israeli officer and his men committed in August of 1949. Elisabeth Jaquette’s remarkable translation released in 2020 by New Directions has been well received - longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and named as a finalist for the National Book Award in translation. ![]() ![]() Much has already been written about Minor Detail, the philosophical novel penned by Palestinian author Adania Shibli, published in Arabic in 2016, and much more will be said now and in years to come. ![]() ![]() Here her gifts for social satire and character analysis are shown to good advantage and her writing is powerful and evocative. The best parts of the book occur after the second murder, when Tartt describes the effect of the death on a small community, the behavior of the victim's family and the conspirators' emotional disintegration. Finally they reveal to Richard that they accidentally killed a man during a bacchanalian frenzy when one of their number seems ready to spill the secret, the group-now including Richard-must kill him, too. Despite their demanding curriculum (they quote Greek classics to each other at every opportunity) the friends spend most of their time drinking and taking pills. ![]() ![]() Almost too easily, he is accepted into a clique of five socially sophisticated students who study Classics with an idiosyncratic, morally fraudulent professor. Narrator Richard Papen comes from a lower-class family and a loveless California home to the ``hermetic, overheated atmosphere'' of Vermont's Hampden College. ![]() Part psychological thriller, part chronicle of debauched, wasted youth, it suffers from a basically improbable plot, a fault Tartt often redeems through the bravado of her execution. Tartt's much bruited first novel is a huge (592 pages) rambling story that is sometimes ponderous, sometimes highly entertaining. ![]() |