![]() ![]() Three of these books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists, and they have been translated into more than twenty languages.īorn in New York City, USA, Gleick attended Harvard College, graduating in 1976 with a degree in English and linguistics. James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an American author, journalist, and biographer, whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology. ![]() Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. ![]() From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Nor is he one for affection, lashing out cruelly at anyone who tries to work their way through his tough-as-nails emotional armour. But like Alex, the tough-talking Carlos has a tendency to attract trouble, and after being threatened with expulsion from school mere days after his enrolment, hes moved out of his brothers student flat and into the Westford family home.īut Carlos is wary of his new guardians: having been the head of his household back in Mexico, hes not one for guidelines and limitations. Carlos has returned to America after fleeing to Mexico to escape the fall-out caused by his older brother Alexs decision to leave the Latino Bloods. Ive never lived in a place where you couldnt easily throw a stone at your next-door neighbours window, marvels Carlos Fuentes as he pulls into the Westford familys driveway. ![]() ![]() ![]() San Francisco feels like a different place with police enforcing curfew, hazmat teams collecting dead birds, and a strange presence that seems to be following her. ![]() ![]() Things become even stranger when Reese returns home. When they wake up in a military hospital, the doctor won’t tell them what happened, where they are-or how they’ve been miraculously healed. On their drive home to San Francisco, along a stretch of empty highway at night in the middle of Nevada, a bird flies into their headlights. Everyone knows the world will never be the same. Reese and her debate team partner and longtime crush David are in Arizona when it happens. Fearing terrorism, the United States government grounds all flights, and millions of travelers are stranded. She only knows one thing: She’s different now.Īcross North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash. ![]() Reese can’t remember anything from the time between the accident and the day she woke up almost a month later. Book 1: Adaptation Finalist for the 2013 Lambda Literary Award (Children’s/Young Adult) A Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of 2013 A Top 10 Selection of the 2013 Rainbow List ![]() ![]() ![]() Subsequently, he received a doctorate from the University of Utah, and he returned to Gallup, where he traded in Indian jewelry and kachinas and opened his bookstore. After receiving an English degree in the sixties, Bulow worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, resided in Gallup, N.M., and taught English at Fort Wingate on the Navajo Reservation. This copy is inscribed by Edward Abbey to Ernie Bulow, bookman, publisher, and friend of the author, on the front free endpaper. It has now gone on to sell over two million copies taking its rightful place alongside Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring as a classic of environmental and wilderness literature. Five thousand copies of the first edition were printed. The author's fourth book and first work of nonfiction. Drawings and jacket design by Peter Parnall. In a very attractive dust jacket, with light edge-wear, which includes a very short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel. full brown cloth with white and brown stamped spine. ![]() ![]() Her next book release is the fifth volume in the romantic epic fantasy Blade and Rose series, The Dragon King, slated for release (barring any further apocalyptic events and meteors) in Q3 2021.īlade and Rose, a romantic epic fantasy series (ongoing), includes: When she’s not snarking, writing, or reading her Kindle, she hangs out and watches Netflix with her husband, gets constantly tackled by her dogs Gizmo and Luna, and plays board games with her friends. were meant to serve a career in law, but now she gets to live her dream job: writing speculative fiction starring fierce heroines and daring heroes who make difficult choices along their adventures and intrigues, all with a generous (over)dose of romance. She grew up on fantasy and science fiction novels, spending nearly as much time in Valdemar, Pern, Tortall, Narnia, and Middle Earth as in reality. ![]() ![]() ![]() Miranda Honfleur is a born-and-raised Chicagoan living in Indianapolis. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He looks forward to sharing all of his stories with you and his wife is happy he finally has someone else to play with. So, locked within the house under orders to shut up and get to work, Charles brings you Legends of Windemere. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Allure of the Gypsies (Legends of Windemere, 3) written by Charles E. After his wife decided that she was tired of hearing the same stories repeatedly, she convinced him that it would make more sense to follow his dream of being a fantasy author. One day he returned from his imagination and decided he would share his stories with the world. Occasionally, he would return from this world for the necessities such as food, showers, and Saturday morning cartoons. Charles Yallowitz was born and raised on Long Island, NY, but has spent most of his life wandering his own imagination in a blissful haze. ![]() ![]() ![]() Van Cleve starts to see Margery and the library as his enemy. When Margery begins a campaign to prevent more mines from being built (letting people know it would destroy their homes), Mr. But miners are being injured there due to dangerous conditions. Van Cleve lives with them and runs the mining company in town, Hoffman Mining. ![]() One night Margery is attacked by a man ( Clem McCullough) who'd had beef with Margery's late father, but she hits him with a book and gets away.Īlice's controlling father-in-law, Mr. ![]() As interest grows, they bring on Sophia, a black woman and former professional librarian, to help them manage and organize the library. There is initial resistance, but they slowly win people over. The main library is at Fred Guisler's cabin, and the women ride horses to deliver books around town and to the rural areas. (It's later implied/rumored that Bennett is gay.) Alice is an Englishwoman who moved here to be with her new husband, Bennett, but is unhappy in her marriage. They end up with Margery, Beth, Izzy and Alice Van Cleve. In Fall of 1937 in Baileyville, Kentucky, they are looking for volunteers to join a new traveling library, made possible by WPA (government) funds. ![]() ![]() Wendy lives in Los Angeles, California, where she is a parent and a psychotherapist in private practice. In EXCAVATION: A MEMOIR, the black and white of the standard victim/perpetrator stereotype gives way to unsettling grays. in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles. Ortiz, the author of the critically acclaimed Excavation: A Memoir and Hollywood Notebook. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Modern Love, Hazlitt, StoryQuarterly and Joyland and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among others. Wendy gives talks and teaches creative writing around the country on the topics of memoir, risk-taking in writing, hybrid forms, and more. CCM is pleased to announce Bruja by Wendy C. Ortiz is the author of Excavation: A Memoir (2014) Hollywood Notebook (2015) and the genre-breaking dreamoir Bruja (2016). She is a recipient of two writing residencies at Hedgebrook (20). In 2015 she adapted a short play from her essay “Spell” for One Axe in collaboration with and directed by Meera Menon ( Farah Goes Bang, Equity). In 2016 Bustle named her one of “9 Women Writers Who Are Breaking New Nonfiction Territory.” Wendy’s work has been profiled or featured in the Los Angeles Times, Poets & Writers Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, The Rumpus, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the National Book Critics Circle Small Press Spotlight blog. ![]() ![]() Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Access (EDIA). ![]() ![]() ![]() When the new sleeping pills her doctor proscribes, however, let her step into an alternate world where Freddie is still very much alive, she must choose between waking and dreaming, real life or the appeal of a “what if” scenario lived to the max. Jonah Jones walks away, one scar, but Lydia’s happily-ever-after is over and her days of bitterness and regret are only beginning. When Jonah’s sudden need for a ride on Lydia’s birthday makes Freddie take a detour that ends in a crash, a hospital, and a flat-line, the brightness of the future is forever dimmed. Jonah doesn’t get that three is a crowd, and his days of being useful are long over. ![]() The only proverbial fly in the ointment is Jonah Jones, Lydia’s once-upon-a-time pre-Freddie best friend, and currently Freddie’s annoying best mate who is never, ever absent. ![]() Now, at 28, Lydia is engaged to Freddie and the special day is coming up fast. Their love is fairy-tale perfect, and they have been completing each other’s sentences since they were fourteen. ![]() ![]() Director Joe Wright plus his screenwriters ( Oscar winner Emma Thompson contributed to the final screenplay) have chosen to emphasise Elizabeth Bennet / Mr Darcy plus Jane Bennet/ Mr Bingley story lines & reduce Mr Wickman, Charlotte & Mr Collins to supporting characters. This 2005 film clocks in 127 minutes (UK / Europe)& 135 minutes (USA & Canada) -the extended version allowing audiences to share more of the timeless love story with the main characters -Elizabeth Bennet & Mr Darcy. ![]() A "modernised" version of Jane Austen's classic novel that should not be compared unfavourably with 1940 Hollywood Olivier / Garson version nor several BBC serials culminating in the most acclaimed TV series version from 1995 with Colin Firth & Jennifer Ehle-a personal favourite. ![]() |