![]() ![]() ![]() He is always going to a particular destination or other on his bicycle at every hour of the day or coming back from there at every other hour. “Michael Gilhaney,” said the sergeant, “is nearly sixty years of age by plain computation and if he is itself, he has spent no less than thirty-five years riding his bicycle over the rocky roadsteads and up and down the hills and into the deep ditches when the road goes astray in the strain of the winter. “It would surprise me unconditionally,” I said. Would it astonish you to hear that he is nearly half a bicycle?” ![]() “Michael Gilhaney,” said the sergeant, “is an example of a man that is nearly banjaxed from the principle of the atomic theory. “The atomic theory,” I sallied, “is a thing that is not clear to me at all.” He walked on, looking worried and preoccupied, as if what he was examining in his head was unpleasant in a very intricate way. “It is doing untold destruction,” he continued, “the half of the people are suffering from it it is worse than the smallpox.” “Would it surprise you to be told,” he said darkly, “that the atomic theory is at work in this parish?” He leaned his mouth confidentially over to my ear. “Did you ever discover or hear tell of the atomic theory?” the sergeant inquired. ![]()
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![]() Houck seems to have a knee jerk need to create as many happy heteronormative relationships as possible by the end of the book. Hey look, there are now 3 female protagonists and 3 brothers I wonder what will happen…. Yeah so as you may recall from the last book Lily now has (without her consent) a FUCKING LION and a fairy (yes, spelled like that) sharing her body. ![]() The 2 other sentient entities inside Lily will get their own bodies and be paired up with each of the 3 main brothers. Lily’s parents will learn how ~special~ she is and realize they need to support her more.Grandfather figure or grandmother will sacrifice themselves OR be paired off together.Lily will never have to work a day in her life because Amon will somehow have loads of money tucked away.Ěll beings will become mortal humans despite being gods during the climax. ![]() ![]() Nita and Kovit are characters I wouldn’t want to meet with at night – scratch that, I wouldn’t want to meet them, period – yet, I couldn’t help but love them. in hospitals – but instead he has mastered the art of torture. ![]() Technically, he could find the pain he needs to survive without hurting anyone – e.g. Kovit is a zannie, an unnatural who feeds on people’s pain. It’s a bit of a strange job, but Nita enjoys the hell out of it so much so that she struggles when she is unable to dissect anyone for a while. Nita grew up dissecting supernatural beings her mother kills, so the family can sell these body parts on the black market. The skull was sawed off and the brain scooped out, and portioned into little Tupperware containers like a zombie’s lunch.” Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer Hair was shaved off and tied with a ribbon. Fingernails were pried off and dropped into vials with little clinks. “Piece after piece went into little glass jars. She does not shy away from gore and torture but more than that she tells characters’ stories who would, without doubt, be the villains in most novels. ![]() Rebecca Schaeffer, however, goes there not once, not twice, but over and over again. I’ve seen a lot of books promise to be dark, disturbing and twisted, but most of them never quite deliver on those promises. It’s one of the darkest series I’ve ever read ![]() ![]() ![]() What Young India Wants by Chetan Bhagat ! And, at the end, he asks this important question: Unless we are all in agreement on what it is going to take to make our country better, how will things ever change? Non-fiction If you want to understand contemporary India, the problems that face it, and want to be a part of the solution, What Young India Wants is the book for you. ![]() In clear, simple prose, and with great insight, he analyses some of the complex issues facing modern India, offers solutions and invites discussion on them. What Young India Wants is based on Chetan Bhagats vast experience as a very successful writer and motivational speaker. So does Chetan Bhagat, Indias most loved writer, in What Young India Wants, his first book of non-fiction. We love our India, but shouldnt some things be different?Īll of us have asked these questions at some time or the other. ![]() Why is there so much corruption in India?Ĭant our political parties ever work together?ĭoes our vote make any difference at all? Why do our students regularly commit suicide? ![]() In his latest book, What Young India Wants, Chetan Bhagat asks hard questions, demands answers and presents solutions for a better, more prosperous India. ![]() ![]() ![]() Authors & Stories Included in the Collection Given that she was “born” in a short story, it seems only fitting that this new collection of Miss Marple works should be comprised of short stories (though if the folks in charge of Christie's estate want to authorise some full-length novels, we'll happily read those, too). ![]() ![]() It would be another three years before she appeared in a full-length novel, The Murder at the Vicarage. Mary Mead's most famous spinster, Miss Jane Marple, in a short story published in The Royal Magazine. ![]() Marple: Twelve New Mysteries Marple: Twelve New Mysteries The upside, however, is that the stories come from some of the most talented women in modern mystery and crime fiction. Sadly, it's been more than 45 years since Agatha Christie passed – meaning that unless somebody unearths a treasure trove of unpublished works, we're not getting any more originals. The bad news, of course, is that they're not stories penned by Agatha Christie herself. This autumn, Harper Collins is publishing a collection of twelve brand-new Miss Marple mysteries. If you love Miss Marple and desperately wish there were more stories featuring her sleuthing talents, you're in luck. In some cases, we earn commissions from affiliate links in our posts. ![]() ![]() Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts from the Princeton library. The novel’s setup is classic Grisham intrigue: a gang of thieves pulls off a brilliant heist of priceless F. Thus it’s fitting that "Camino Island" is a story about books themselves. More: John Grisham: An excerpt from his new novel, 'Camino Island' More: John Grisham doing 1st big book tour in 25 years It blends the zeal of a novice with the élan of a professional. As such, it has the feel of Grisham reaching out to his readers across the trunk of his old Saab, either downtown at the Capitol or upstate in the parking lot of Ruth and Jimmie’s. ![]() Yet his latest, "Camino Island," reads like the Grisham of old-like a young author burning with a good story to tell, eager to bend your ear with a yarn you can’t resist. Grisham became a perennial best-seller, sold books by the millions, and has been translated into forty languages. Since then, the digital era reared its head, and any of the twenty-odd Grisham novels that followed "A Time to Kill" were much more likely to be downloaded than bought direct. That first novel and the personal hand-selling of it have become a part of publishing lore. ![]() ![]() In fact, his fans delight in recounting decidedly low-tech tales of the young author peddling copies of his first book, "A Time to Kill," everywhere he went. ![]() John Grisham’s career took off in the pre-internet era, before Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Amazon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nicolae Ciobanu, Romanian Fantastic Tales, 1981.Dicționar al literaturii engleze ("A Dictionary of English Literature"), (co-author, with Ioan Aurel Preda), București (1970).Antologie, ("An Anthology of Victorian Essays"), (co-editor, with Ștefan Stoenescu), București, (1969) An Advanced Course in Modern Rumanian (co-author, with Leon Levițchi, Virgiliu Ștefănescu-Drăgănești), București, Ed.Romanian Writers' Union Award for translations from Romanian (1973).In 1930, she married Gheorghe Cartianu-Popescu, a university professor. In 1936, she co-founded the School of English Language and Literature at the University of Bucharest, where she would later be Dean of the School of Germanic Languages (1948-1970).Īna Cartianu is known as the "great dame of English studies in Romania. She studied at Bedford College, London (1928–32), and received her degree from the Literature Department, School of English Studies of Cernăuți University in 1934. ![]() She was born in Urșani village, in Horezu commune, Vâlcea County. Ana Cartianu (19 April 1908 – 24 April 2001) was a Romanian academic, essayist and translator. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lately, I've read too many books that are wonderful until the last twenty pages.but the ending of this book was awesome. I could reread the last thirty pages a hundred times. Perfect, as in, not happily ever after, but perfect for the book. I knew *nothing* about Ohio before reading the book, so it was super interesting to delve into that world.Īlso, this book has the perfect ending. It is described with such balance, in various, surprising, and honest ways that disrupted my notions of what the world was like at that time. The characters, all of them, are just fantastic.Īnother thing about the book that really moved me was how the author captured the complex relationships & tension between the native American tribes and the white settlers. There's adventure, romance, friendship, the relationship with the natural world. It reminded me of "Cold Mountain" but also (in a much edgier way) the "Little House" series and "Caddie Woodlawn." It's ultimately about the bond between sisters but weaves in so much more into the story. ![]() It's a classic American settler story, with tough yet tender female heroines. ![]() ![]() ![]() ORCID 0000-0001-5083-5936 Deputy Editor: Akila SridharĪkila joined Scientific Reports in September 2022 after working for four years with BMC Series Journals as a Senior Editor. ![]() Her interests lie in materials for energy applications and deep earth geochemistry. Prior to this she completed a PhD in Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge, UK in igneous petrology and mantle geochemistry. ORCID 0000-0003-2616-3193 Deputy Editor: Eve RooksĮve joined Scientific Reports in 2019, after working as an editor on the Royal Society of Chemistry’s materials chemistry and engineering portfolio for 3 years. She joined Scientific Reports in January 2019. ORCID 0000-0003-0316-1363 Deputy Editor: Elizabeth MannĮlizabeth has a background in pharmacology and completed her PhD in neuropharmacology at King's College London, UK. He was an editor at Genome Biology for four years before joining Scientific Reports in August 2016. ![]() He did his PhD and postdoctoral research in single-cell proteomics at Imperial College London, UK. Rafal's background is analytical and biological chemistry. In-house Editors Chief Editor: Rafal Marszalek In-house Editors led by Chief Editor Dr Rafal Marszalek.From our Editorial Board Members and Senior Editorial Board to our in-house Editors, we work together to ensure that your research is expertly handled and that we consider it to be technically sound, scientifically valid, and ultimately suitable for publication. Scientific Reports is run by a team of experienced editors who are experts in their fields. ![]() ![]() ![]() This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. There is currently no title or release date.Ĭopyright 2020 The Associated Press. Moment by moment, Bernstein and Woodward portray the taut, post-Watergate White House as Nixon, his family, his staff, and many members of Congress strained desperately to prevent his inevitable resignation. Penguin Press announced Monday that Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, co-authors of the Trump book “A Very Stable Genius,” are writing about his last year in office and his loss to Biden. 'The Final Days' is the classic, behind-the-scenes account of Richard Nixons dramatic last months as president. Woodward already has written two best-sellers on Trump, “Fear” and “Rage.”įor the new book, Woodward and Costa will have competition, from other Post reporters. In 1976, Woodward and then-fellow Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein collaborated on the best-selling “The Final Days,” what was then an unusually detailed and devastating account of President Richard Nixon as he neared being forced out of office over the Watergate scandal the reporters helped break. ![]() The book does not yet have a title or release date. Two days after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, Gen. Woodward is teaming with Washington Post colleague Robert Costa on a book about the waning days of Donald Trump's administration and on the initial phase of Joe Biden's presidency. News about Bob Woodward, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York. NEW YORK – Bob Woodward's next book finds him in the familiar world of documenting a presidency's ending. ![]() |