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![]() Together, they will decide the future of mankind. Mysterious, smooth-talking power players who lurk behind the scenes. An all-seeing social network that tracks your every move. Nightmarish villains with superhuman enhancements. His third novel, Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits debuted on October 6 2015. He is the Executive Editor of, author of John Dies at the End and the New York Times bestseller This Book is Full of Spiders. Title: Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suitsįormat and Price: Paperback and “It Was A Gift”ĭavid Wong is the pseudonym of Jason Pargin. two machine guns, two hand-held guns, a pair of sneakers, a spiky cat collar, and two ray-guns. From left to right, the top half of a suit you may find on a mannequin (suit coat, shirt, and tie), dress shoes. ![]() ![]() The background of the cover is black, with a collection of assorted items on the cover displayed as orange (with the exception of the Author Name which is in white text). Image Description: book-cover of Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong. ![]() ![]() ![]() There's plenty of things happening here tho. And at least it's a bit different from the normal shenanigans where Plum is trying to track down a kooky bail jumper. And sometimes not so subtle! Always a good book to curl up with on the couch, this won't disappoint. ![]() While the back and forth is starting to bug me (which man will she choose!), given Ranger is my favorite character, it was a strong book full of information and subtle vibes. But for what reason? As the book progresses, you learn how much Stephanie Plum is really torn up about Ranger, despite her feelings for Joe Morelli. At the same time, Ranger's daughter has been kidnapped, and someone suspects he's behind it all. She soon learns out this person has a connection to Ranger - it's his ex-wife. She's not sure who it is, but the person is scary. I really enjoyed this book, given its focus on the mysterious Ranger. 4 out of 5 stars to Twelve Sharp, the 12th book in the "Stephanie Plum" cozy mystery series written in 2006 by Janet Evanovich. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I swear by the stars that you and the others slain tonight will be the first of many. ![]() The Prison Healer was also voted in at #2 on the Better Reading Kid’s Top 50 list for 2022 - directly behind Harry Potter.Ĭollectively, Lynette’s books have been published in 18 different countries and counting. It was also a finalist in the 2022 Audie Awards, and a CBCA (Children’s Book Council of Australia) notable mention for Older Readers Book of the Year. Her newest series, The Prison Healer, won the 2022 ABIA Award for Book of the Year for Older Children (13+), and was shortlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards. In 2019, Lynette’s book Whisper won the ABIA Award (Australian Book Industry Award) for Small Publishers’ Children’s Book of the Year, as well as the Gold Inky Award (Australia’s only teen choice book award). She is now a full-time writer and the #1 bestselling author of the six-book young adult fantasy series, The Medoran Chronicles, the award-winning YA duology, Whisper, and the globally renowned YA fantasy trilogy, The Prison Healer. After studying journalism, academic writing and human behaviour at university, Lynette Noni finally ventured into the world of fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more. ![]() This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a book you will almost certainly have heard of, by a writer you can’t possible be unaware of, and as well as being a work that launched a thousand memes, it’s actually a very, very good read □ ![]() To kick the month off, though, I’m looking at a book I’ve read several times before, albeit in pre-blogging times, so it’s a perfect opportunity to rectify what looks like a surprising oversight in my catalogue of reviews. I’ve got a lot of books lined up (too many, if I’m honest), and I think you’ll all be interested in my selections, even if they’re probably slanted more towards older, even classic, works. Having finally got all of my posts on 2021 out of the way, I’m now free to start a new year of reviewing, and as most of you will be aware, round these parts that means only one thing – #JanuaryInJapan! Yes, as has been the case for many years now, I’ll be focusing on Japanese literature for a month or so, and I’m looking forward to this annual opportunity to indulge my love of J-Lit immensely. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While we are first exposed to young Odile’s charming character and riveting background, Charles subsequently gives us glimpses of Odile in her old age, changed from the person we were first introduced to. The other is set nearly four decades later, following Lily Jacobsen, a teenage girl from Froid, Mont., who is intrigued by her Parisian neighbor and intent on unveiling Odile’s past.Ĭharles establishes an interesting premise with the dual narrative. One follows Odile Souchet, a new librarian at the American Library in Paris on the brink of World War II. Based upon her own experiences working at the American Library in Paris and growing up in rural Montana, Charles tells the story of “The Paris Library” with two distinct threads. “The Paris Library” marks Janet Skeslien Charles’s second novel of her writing career. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My editor at Bantam suggested my name to Lucasfilm and sent Turned in my books on time, vital characteristics for a Star Wars I worked well with the editors, did what I said I was going to do, and I Of my own novels published they were well received and, most important, I had already established myself as an original novelist with six or so How did you get the job to do official Star Wars related books? You did your first official Star Wars work in the mid nineties. Submitting stories to magazines when I was 12. Typewriter when I was 8, bought my own typewriter when I was 10, started ![]() I was just a kid, then I pecked out my first novel on my dad’s I started drawing pictures and telling stories aloud when I was watching movies and fascinated by the genre since before I could I have always wanted to be a writer, particularly in science fiction. Anderson, how did you start your career as a writer? Was writing something you always wanted to do? Universe, Darksaber, Jedi Academy trilogy, Young Jedi Knights series andĮditor of the Anthologies: Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, Talesįrom Jabba’s Palace, Tales of the Bounty Hunters ![]() ![]() ![]() God is not Great is easily the most brilliant and fascinating contemplation upon the role of religion in human society in recent times, the Das Kapital of a tolerant, if exasperated, atheism. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. God is not Great is undoubtedly the most boisterously entertaining contribution to the debate. ![]() Grayling * Independent on Sunday *Ĭhristopher Hitchens is a master craftsman of argument. The anti-religion case has never been put so well, so comprehensively or so definitively as in this razor-sharp book. As with Voltaire, his scornful laughter is a powerful weapon. Hitchens is a grand rhetorician, and his double-barrelled shotgun of a book is high entertainment. A campaign to put this glittering anti-theist tract on the national curriculum for "religious education" should begin here. ![]() A tendentious delight, a caustic and even brilliant book. Blunt and humorous style, but he uses enough factual evidence that you may be. Do yourself a favor and skip the Dawkins and Harris they're smug, turgid, and boring, with all the human feeling of a tax return. This bestseller for religious truth seekers decomposes the historic origins of many spiritual gods and religions. ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is this book, a riveting collection of case histories detailing the astonishing progress of people whose conditions had long been dismissed as hopeless. Norman Doidge, MD, a psychiatrist and researcher, set out to investigate neuroplasticity and met both the brilliant scientists championing it and the people whose lives they’ve transformed. Neuroplasticity not only gives hope to those with mental limitations, or what was thought to be incurable brain damage, but expands our understanding of the healthy brain and the resilience of human nature. The brain is not, as was thought, like a machine, or “hardwired” like a computer. Arguably the most important breakthrough in neuroscience since scientists first sketched out the brain’s basic anatomy, this revolutionary discovery, called neuroplasticity, promises to overthrow the centuries-old notion that the brain is fixed and unchanging. ![]() ![]() It is a plastic, living organ that can actually change its own structure and function, even into old age. ![]() |