![]() We’re not just book nerds: we’re professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Marie discussed her writing process, how she transitioned to being a full time writer and then they get sidetracked for a bit discussing Broadway shows and Hamilton (not surprising)įind OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries and Twitter at Email us directly at provided royalty free from Podcast Overview ![]() Adam even manages to surprise Marie with some information about her main character that she didn’t know (which he was quite pleased with himself about…). This historical fiction title is rooted in facts (and science!) and is the story of Albert Einstein’s first wife who was also heavily involved in the scientific community. ![]() On this episode, Adam chats with lawyer turned author Marie Benedict about her latest novel, The Other Einstein. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Let's hope that Penguin's suicidally foolhardy executives wake up howling once they realise that the publisher's (until now) best-loved and most carefully curated brand sports a title stuffed with sentences such as "I appear to be more well known in Mexico than even in Sweden, Peru or Chile." This from an author whose idea of literary criticism is to sneer at "the swill-bucket of British poetry" and claim that the Poet Laureate is chosen "to loud yawns of national disinterest". A Penguin Classic? Not in a month of rainy Mancunian Sundays. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() General Fortrean is inside a new version of the Redeemer Armor: he wants to embark on a stealth mission, and must infiltrate a location in space by the means of translocation. Extremis virus (Mentioned) (Only in flashback).Redeemer Armor (Main story and photo in flashback). ![]() Shadow Base Site A, New Mexico (Mentioned) (Only in flashback).Gamma Base (Mentioned) (Only in flashback).Death Valley (Mentioned) (Only in flashback).United States of America (Main story and flashback).Tony Stark (Mentioned) (Only in flashback).Betty Ross-Banner (Mentioned) (Only in flashback).S.H.I.E.L.D (Mentioned) (Only in flashback).Secretary Bob Gates (Mentioned) ( Topical Reference) (Only in flashback).Thunderbolt Ross" (Photo) (Only in flashback) Hulk / Doc Green (Bruce Banner) (Only in flashback).The Thing (Ben Grimm) (Mentioned) (Only in flashback).God (Yahweh) (Mentioned) (Only in flashback).Reginald Fortean) (Main story and flashback) (First appearance as Abomination) Reginald Fortean Appearing in "A Secret Order" Do we rule over it? Or does it rule over us? - Gen. ![]() ![]() I’ve been watching up close and personally as too many women who are dear to me have struggled these past two-plus years, attempting to juggle child care, Zoom school, work responsibilities, and a semblance of sanity. So a few months ago, when I received a copy of Angela Garbes’ second book, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, despite not being a mother myself, I picked it up with great interest. ![]() This pandemic has laid bare the fact that mothers in America-and particularly low-income mothers of color-are in crisis. For this reason, though I myself don’t have children, I’ve always seen mothering as a collective concern. My mother was absent, but in her place a dozen other mothers stepped in. And in the summer, I was put on a plane to California, and my caretaking was done by my paternal grandmother and her sister. ![]() On Sundays, we got in the car and drove across Brooklyn to spend the day surrounded by all of my grandfather’s sisters and their children. ![]() ![]() I was raised by my maternal grandparents in a three-family house also inhabited by my grandmother’s sisters, with more sisters just a stone’s throw away. Growing up, my parents were nomads, traversing the country and the globe, fighting for the rights of working-class people. ![]() ![]() Her first book, Jean Pierre, which she also illustrated, appeared in 1931. The distinctions between children's and adults' books were less clearly drawn at that time, and even though she wrote stories about children and childhood, Williams did not define herself as a writer for children - although she did observe that "children seem to like them". Although the firm produced no children's books at the time - and published Williams only briefly in the 1970s - they soon entered the field with JRR Tolkein's The Hobbit in 1937. ![]() ![]() ![]() Williams had been writing since early childhood, encouraged by her uncle Sir Stanley Unwin, who presided over the publishing company Allen and Unwin. While Barbara enjoyed art school, Ursula left after a year, having decided that writing rather than illustrating was for her. Later, they were sent to school in Annecy, in France, before returning home to study at Winchester College of Art. Both Ursula and her sister Barbara were keen riders, with a strong love of nature and animals, as well as a passion for stories and writing. Born in Petersfield, Hampshire, the younger of identical twins, she was first educated at home by a governess, under the guidance of her parents, both of whom were teachers. ![]() Williams produced almost a book a year over her writing career, which spanned 70 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() As users’ communication and their lives are increasingly mediated by computers, their experience is increasingly controlled by their technology and, by extension, those who control it. Programmers might, for example, design software to spy on, work against, or create dependencies in, their users. The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.Ī computer scientist, Stallman understood how programmers shape software in ways that influence how users of their code are able to act. ![]() The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor and.The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs.The freedom to run the program, for any purpose. ![]() Stallman published a “Free Software Definition” (FSD) that enumerated the essential rights of every user in regard to their software: In 1985, Richard Stallman founded the free software movement and published a manifesto asking computer users to join him in advocating for, building, and spreading software that would guarantee its users certain liberties (Stallman 2002). ![]() ![]() ![]() It differs from earlier Discworld novels also by its division into chapters, though chapters become far more common in later books of the series. ![]() ![]() Amazing Maurice was marketed as a children's book, to be followed in that respect by The Wee Free Men (2003, #30). Series ĭiscworld had been a comic fantasy series for adults, beginning with The Colour of Magic in 1983. Pratchett won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, recognising the year's best children's book published in the U.K. The story is a new take on the German fairy tale about the Pied Piper of Hamelin and a parody of the folk tale genre. It is the twenty-eighth novel in the Discworld series and the first written for children. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents is a children's fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, published by Doubleday in 2001. For the 2022 film based on the novel, see The Amazing Maurice. ![]() ![]() ![]() My fingers lingered almost unconsciously on the familiar leaves and blossoms which had just come forth to greet the sweet southern spring. The afternoon sun penetrated the mass of honeysuckle that covered the porch, and fell on my upturned face. I guessed vaguely from my mother’s signs and from the hurrying to and fro in the house that something unusual was about to happen, so I went to the door and waited on the steps. On the afternoon of that eventful day, I stood on the porch, dumb, expectant. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL2816487W Page_number_confidence 97.81 Pages 550 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201113215349 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 952 Scandate 20201110084337 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0440177499 Tts_version 4. So they did, and became published writers of science fiction in significant numbers. Urn:lcp:snowqueen0000ving:epub:39d28b5e-cdd0-4cee-a199-3df4f0473ed9 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier snowqueen0000ving Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4sk14n5v Invoice 1652 Isbn 0440177499ĩ780440177494 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9550 Ocr_module_version 0.0.6 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19761 Openlibrary_edition Vinge Around 1970, feminism (the radical notion that women are people Marie Shear) began inspiring many women to realize that if they loved science fiction, they could write it too. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 11:04:35 Boxid IA1996420 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() Octopuses have varied personalities and intelligence they show in myriad ways: endless trickery to escape enclosures and get food jetting water playfully to bounce objects like balls and evading caretakers by using a scoop net as a trampoline and running around the floor on eight arms. Since then Sy has practiced true immersion journalism, from New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico, pursuing these wild, solitary shape-shifters. Sy Montgomery's popular 2011 Orion magazine piece, "Deep Intellect," about her friendship with a sensitive, sweet-natured octopus named Athena and the grief she felt at her death, went viral, indicating the widespread fascination with these mysterious, almost alien-like creatures. "In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus-a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature-and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. 261 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 22 cm ![]() |