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![]() ![]() In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous screenplays, most notably The Three Musketeers and the James Bond film Octopussy. ![]() He is perhaps most famous for his series of Flashman novels, featuring his antihero Harry Flashman. A delight!-Providence Journal About the Author George MacDonald Fraser was a bestselling historical novelist, journalist and screenwriter. Flashman is a one-man demolition squad!-Chicago Today Marvelously entertaining. One of the most amusing and sardonic novels I have ever read!-Omaha World As irreverent and picaresque as Tom Jones and always more dramatic. Wonderful and scandalous.-Publishers Weekly Raises dastardliness to the level of an art. Moves from one ribald and deliciously corrupt episode to the next. Review Quotes Praise for the Flashman series Hilariously funny.-The New York Times Book Review Great dirty fun!-Grand Rapids Press The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time. Part of the Flashman series, comprising Flashman, Royal Flash, and Flash for Freedom, among others, which explores the successful though scandalous later career of the bully in Tom Browns School Days. Wonderful and scandalous.-Publishers Weekly The fourth volume of memoirs in which Harry Flashman confronts destiny with Lord Cardigan and the Light Brigade. ![]() ![]() Book Synopsis Hilariously funny.-The New York Times Book Review Great dirty fun!-Grand Rapids Press The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time. About the Book Orinally published: Alfred A. ![]() ![]() ![]() The mystery adds up however, and the action scenes are crisp and clean. When the characters are so rich and the dialogue is so much fun, anything that doesn’t spin out of those elements feels a bit bothersome. The only real downside to all the fun is the mystery, which isn’t very involving. ![]() The first installment in this series owed a great debt to Veronica Mars and Sherlock, but here the characters come in to their own, darting in and out of mischief and mayhem at dizzying speeds and trading verbal jabs along the way. ![]() The author bounces her characters off one another in spectacular ways, crafting drama, suspense, love, and exasperation with ease. But of course, Digby comes back to town like a tornado, sweeping Zoe up in another mystery and leaving everything else in her life up in the air. She’s been preparing for the SATs, getting in with the popular crowd, and dating an athletic quarterback who is the exact opposite of Digby in every way. The absurdly smart teen detective Digby left town months ago, and Zoe has moved on from the adventure they had and the confusing kiss they shared. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The red side facing out signified, "Nobody should try to interact with me," while the yellow side meant, "Only people I already know should interact with me, not strangers." (Green badges were added later to signify, "I want to interact but am having trouble initiating, so please initiate an interaction with me.") These color-coded "interaction signal badges" turned out to be so useful that they have since been widely adopted at autistic-run events all over the world, and name-tag labels similar to Autreat ("autistic retreat") green badges have recently been employed at conferences for Perl programmers to indicate that the wearer is open to spontaneous social approaches. Follow the Opinion section on Twitter latimesopinion and Facebook Opinion Op-Ed Our. By providing attendees with name-tag holders and pieces of paper that were red on one side and yellow on the other, they enabled Autistics to communicate their needs and desires without having to articulate them in the pressure of the moment. Steve Silbermans autism best-seller is rapidly changing so many peoples thinking in autism and autistic communities simply because it brings together such. Steve Silberman is the author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity. Even highly verbal autistic adults occasionally struggle with processing and producing speech, particularly in the chaotic and generally overwhelming atmosphere of a conference. ![]() ![]() “They also devised an ingeniously low-tech solution to a complex problem. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Galadriel, or El for short, is determined to navigate the complex politics of this already stressful school life and get herself into an alliance that will help her survive graduation by proving herself to be a useful addition to any group. The real goal is survival, because there’s no leaving Scholomance unless you graduate or get killed by one of the monsters lying in wait everywhere. Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted, is unlike any other. “Some sorcerers get an affinity for weather magic, or transformation spells, or fantastic combat magics like dear Orion. The problem? Her powerful dark magic might also kill all the other students. It would be easy enough for El to defeat the monsters that prowl the school. She may be without allies, but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out millions. El is uniquely prepared for the school’s dangers. And beware of the monsters who lurk everywhere. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won’t allow its students to leave until they graduate… or die! The rules are deceptively simple: Don’t walk the halls alone. There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships, save strategic ones. Synopsis: A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) - until one girl, El, begins to unlock its many secrets. Published: September 29th, 2020 (Del Rey Books) ![]() ![]() ![]() And third, that he is the reincarnation of the Trojan princess Cassandra. Second, that he will die, aged eighteen, as a soldier in the Cuban intervention in Angola. Despite the signs that warn Rauli to repress and fear what he is, he knows three things to be true: First, that he was born in the wrong body. He loves to read, especially Greek myths, but in Cuba in the 1970s, novels and gods can be dangerous. His older brother is violent his philandering father doesn’t understand him his intelligence and sensitivity do not endear him to the other children at school. ![]() Ten-year-old Rauli lives in a world that is often hostile. "A spellbinding novel by one of the best writers of the Americas." -Junot Díaz, author of This is How You Lose Her “Dazzling." -Marcela Valdes, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) Finalist for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize and the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() All players are assigned a color, and they place three master builders each in a bag. Timing is crucial, and the game has a unique mechanism for determining when a player can place a master builder. Depending on where the builders are placed, certain actions can be performed. Players have a set of builders they place on the beautifully illustrated board depicting an English village. ![]() There's a lot going on in this two-to-four-player game, but at its core it is a worker placement game. Whoever contributes the most to the shining new building will earn the most victory points and win. ![]() In the game Pillars of the Earth, my personal favorite of the two, players are builders in the 12th century trying to help construct a great English cathedral for Philip of Kingsbridge. "The Pillars of the Earth" and "A Column of Fire" are definitely popular books, but do novels make good board games? Yes, as matter of fact, they do. Thames & Kosmos recently published two board games based on the novels of best-selling author Ken Follett. ![]() ![]() There's even a live-blog transcript of an internet TED talk amid the documentary evidence: like Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad, which pitches one chapter in the form of a PowerPoint presentation, this is a very modern comedy indeed. In Maria Semple's deceptively jaunty debut novel, the question of how eccentric, driven Bernadette became lost to herself and her family, adoring husband Elgie and daughter Bee, is resolved through a dossier of letters, emails, phone transcripts, doctors' reports, instant messaging exchanges and more the various documents are assembled by a cast of kooky characters in a series of ever more unlikely acts of reclamation, curated by Bee as she charts the search for her mother. ![]() F irst, Bernadette fled from LA to Seattle then she retreated from a dazzling architectural career and a MacArthur Genius Grant into domestic anxiety and disproportionate rages over the minor irritations of modern life then she disappeared altogether, possibly to the South Pole, where she would at last be able to declare that "the world literally revolved" around her. ![]() ![]() The butterfly effect is a beautiful, yet weird mechanism.Here are the three most interesting lessons from the book: They looked at the exceptions from the ordinary, the inexplicable, the flukes in the system. But a group of researchers from the 1970s decided to pursue the opposite. Most scientists focus primarily on discovering the natural order of things and providing explanations for everything that’s happening in the world. For this reason, Chaos by James Gleick presents the most captivating aspects of science – the randomness and the disorder. ![]() But also for the everyday human who finds it interesting to learn about the universe. ![]() Science is a fascinating subject not just for researchers from fields like physics, mathematics, or other such areas. 1-Sentence-Summary: Chaos is a scientific piece of writing that presents the principles behind the Chaos Theory, which was popularized in the late 20th century and represents a monumental step forward in the area of scientific knowledge and the universe’s evolution overall. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the meandering, miserable latest from three-time Bram Stoker Award winner Kiste (The Rust Maidens), vampire Lucy Westenra of Dracula, and a mysteriously undead "Bee," Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre, live together in 1967 L.A. Rochester, and the two women who survived them, Bertha and Lucy, who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in 1967 when Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.Ĭombining elements of historical and gothic fiction with a modern perspective, in a tale of love and betrayal and coercion, Reluctant Immortals is the lyrical and harrowing journey of two women from classic literature as they bravely claim their own destiny in a man’s world. Reluctant Immortals is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr. Rochester’s attic-bound wife in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre-as they band together to combat the toxic men bent on destroying their lives, set against the backdrop of the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, 1967. 2023 Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in a Novelįor fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature-from Lucy Westnera, a victim of Stoker’s Dracula, and Bertha Mason, Mr. ![]() |