![]() ![]() ![]() Though, to be fair, it’s not entirely uninteresting either (which accounts for the extra star). And here’s why…įor, The Unseen Quartet isn’t very scary. That’s right folks! I now have four less books to dust. My latest victim: The Unseen Quartet, by Richie Tankersley Cusick. Dursley is to Harry Potter: A deplorable guardian.īecause every few months I go on a de-cluttering binge, which means I read a few neglected book orphans and (hopefully) dislike them enough to return them to the cold, cruel world from whence they came. ![]() I snap them up for a song at garage sales and used bookstores, carefully group them into visually pleasing arrangements on my bookshelves, stand back and admire them for a minute or two, and (save for a weekly dusting) forget all about them. Thanks for the great status updates! D)Īnypooch. The Unseen Quartet, by Richie Tankersley Cusick: 1 “Not a Keeper” Star. ![]()
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![]() She earned her master's degree from Harvard Business School and relocated to Indiana in 1982. She attributes her experiences at the firm as her inspiration for much of her present career. She was an acoustics consultant where she analyzed vibrations in submarines. Her professional career started out with Cambridge Collaborative, a research and development consulting firm owned by her father. ![]() ![]() She was the 48th lieutenant governor of Indiana, and the first woman to serve in that office.ĭavis was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978. ![]() Davis (born June 24, 1956) is an American politician and entrepreneur. ![]() ![]() Murakami has also escalated the ongoing arms race among artists making gargantuan shiny sculptures-Jeff Koons currently leads-with a formidable 14-foot totem of stacked cartoon monsters, leafed in gold and seemingly on the verge of tipping over. ![]() The worlds they inhabit are coming undone, and the cartoon and human figures within them look deranged. ![]() His large paintings and sculptures, though, are as immaculate, luxurious, and inventive-gold leaf, platinum leaf, never a stroke visible-as anything the artist’s large team of artisans has ever produced, and the subjects are even more manic and unwieldy than those of the past. Now comfortably mid-career, Murakami, 53, has always worked best on a grand scale, and a suite of relatively humble tondos (they’re only five feet across) adorned with flowers are handsome, but seem hollow-mere decoration. They hold huge clubs, hungry for violence. They are devil-like and monstrous, equal parts mythical deities and ferocious action figures. ![]() He opened with a 56-ton, 21-foot-tall replica of a Zen Buddhist sacred gate (complete with soaring wooden columns and a stone base), which gave way to a pair of 14-foot-tall karajishi, the lions that protect temples. Murakami understands that if you’re going to spend serious cash making a show, you may as well go all the way. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The revolt materialised under the leadership of Lawrence and Feisal, the son of one of the leaders of one of the important tribes. Lawrence persuaded them to support the British and rise against their Turkish masters so that they could procure their independence after the war. The entry of the Turks into the war on the German side brought into focus the question of the allegiance of the nomadic tribes in the desert areas. He had already acquired a vast knowledge of the Near East, especially Arabia, becoming very familiar with the character of the people, their customs and their religion. For his valiant efforts in this conflict, he became known as Lawrence of ArabiaĪt the beginning of the war, Lawrence was in the British service in Egypt. Thomas Edward Lawrence (1886 – 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat and author, best known for his legendary was activities in the Middle East in the First World War. As a narrative of war and adventure it is unsurpassable.’ Winston Churchill ‘It ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In "Blind Willie" and "Why We're in Vietnam," two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow - and as haunted - as their own lives.Īnd in "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling," this remarkable book's denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him.įull of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been.and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave. In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest.and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.In 'Low Men in Yellow Coats,' eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood and that adults are. In Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. Hearts In Atlantis is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War. ![]() Hearts in Atlantis, King's newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Hearts in Atlantis (King, Stephen)(1999, hardcover) ![]() ![]() But that's exactly what I like about her novels-they're about nothing and yet absolutely everything at the same time. I know there are readers who dismiss her books as being too boring or too girly, and it's true that it's hard to pinpoint anything hugely dramatic that happens in her books plot-wise. It could only happen in the summer.Įver since I succumbed to peer pressure and read The Truth About Forever, I've been a fan of Sarah Dessen's. ![]() Sarah Dessen's devoted fans will welcome this story of romance, yearning, and, finally, empowerment. Can she ignore the pull of the happily familiar world of Colby?Įmaline wants the moon and more, but how can she balance where she comes from with where she's going? But she also clings to the deep roots of her loving mother, stepfather, and sisters. Emaline is attracted to the bright future that Theo and her father promise. Theo's sophisticated, exciting, and, best of all, he thinks Emaline is much too smart for Colby.Įmaline's mostly-absentee father, too, thinks Emaline should have a bigger life, and he's convinced that an Ivy League education is the only route to realizing her potential. But now, in the summer before college, Emaline wonders if perfect is good enough.Įnter Theo, a super-ambitious outsider, a New Yorker assisting on a documentary film about a reclusive local artist. He and Emaline have been together all through high school in Colby, the beach town where they both grew up. ![]() ![]() Luke is the perfect boyfriend: handsome, kind, fun. ![]() ![]() ![]() Multiple reprints in both hardback and paperġ978 – 16 postcards in illustrated envelopeġ980 – 13 postcards in illustrated envelopeġ980 – 12 postcards in illustrated envelopeĪndrew Alpern, 1980 – 24 items in clamshell boxġ989 – 16 postcards in illustrated envelopeġ989 – 12 postcards in illustrated envelope Multiple reprints in both hardcover and paperbackįantod IV: 3 Books from Fantod Press. 1973 – in white envelope Pomegranate Communications, 1997 – poster Three Books from Fantod Press 1971 – in tan envelope Three Books from Fantod Press 1970 – in fuchsia envelope ![]() Pomegranate Communications, 2007 – 20 cards and leaflet in box ![]() Gotham Book Mart, 1995 – 20 cards and leaflet in box ![]() Owl Press, 1969? – 20 cards in wrapper – unauthorized Pomegranate Communications, 1998 – postcard bookĪstor-Honor, 1968 – 4 volumes in slipcase Harvey Hutter, 1979 – postcards and posterĮdward Gorey House, 2013 – prints in portfolio Simon and Schuster, 1963 – 3 volumes in slipcase Pomegranate Communications, 2010 – c oloring book Titles issued in other than book form, excluding calendars, are so indicated. Editions published outside the United States are not included. Reprints or reissues by different publishers and their dates of issue follow immediately after the original listing. Subsequent printings by the same publisher are omitted. This bibliography, arranged in the order of first appearance, provides the publisher and the year of the first edition of each work. ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() Readers can sign up for The Pendergast File, a monthly "strangely entertaining note" from the authors, at their website, The authors welcome visitors to their alarmingly active Facebook page, where they post regularly. ![]() ![]() Lincoln Child is a former book editor who has published five novels of his own, including the huge bestseller Deep Storm. Some cultural anthropologists and archeologists from the Museum of Natural History in New York found the objects that they are now taking back home. In addition to his novels, Preston writes about archaeology for the New Yorker and Smithsonian magazines. Douglas Preston’s The Relic is a story set in a mysterious jungle where a local tribe just got some of its most valuable objects stolen. They are coauthors of the famed Pendergast series and their recent novels include Fever Dream, Cold Vengeance, Two Graves, and Gideon's Corpse. ![]() Preston and Child's Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities were chosen by readers in a National Public Radio poll as being among the one hundred greatest thrillers ever written, and Relic was made into a number-one box office hit movie. The thrillers of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child "stand head and shoulders above their rivals" ( Publishers Weekly). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One month before 9/11, Hamid moved to London, where he watched the events of 9/11 unfold on television “with horror and fear” (Aitkenhead). He began writing the first draft of The Reluctant Fundamentalist in 2000, finishing the draft in the summer of 2001. Hamid’s first novel, Moth Smoke, was published in 2000. From there, he worked as a management consultant for McKinsey in New York City. After graduating from Princeton in 1993, Hamid attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1997. At the age of nine, Hamid returned to Pakistan, where he remained until he attended Princeton at the age of 18.Īt Princeton, Hamid studied under Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison, drafting his first novel while in Toni Morrison’s workshop. Born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1971, Hamid made his first move when he was three, accompanying his father to the United States so that his father could attend graduate school at Stanford. His young life was almost evenly split between the United States and Pakistan. Mohsin Hamid has spent his life in a state of relocation. Home > Publication and Reception Histories > Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist ![]() ![]() ![]() "Lindy West's memoir is a witty and cathartic take on toxic misogyny and fat shaming. ![]() ![]() Shrill provocatively dissects what it means to become self-aware the hard way, to go from wanting to be silent and invisible to earning a living defending the silenced in all caps. With inimitable good humor, vulnerability, and boundless charm, Lindy boldly shares how to survive in a world where not all stories are created equal and not all bodies are treated with equal respect, and how to weather hatred, loneliness, harassment, and loss, and walk away laughing. Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny.Ĭoming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible - like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you - writer and humoristLindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.įrom a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes to her struggle to convince herself, and then the world, that fat people have value to her accidental activism and never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls, Lindy narrates her life with a blend of humor and pathos that manages to make a trip to the abortion clinic funny and wring tears out of a story about diarrhea. ![]() |