![]() ![]() ![]() In the 2010s, the same waters are littered with hooks. ![]() In the 1960s, we swam through waters with only a few hooks: cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs that were expensive and generally inaccessible. “.the environment and circumstances of the digital age are far more conducive to addiction than anything humans have experienced in our history. The nearly obsessive use of smartphones and other devices for social media and other online pursuits, argues Alter, is among manifestations of “behavioural addiction”, that is affecting quality of life, imagination, social interactions and productivity too. Is this a triumph of technology or a worrying social trend? The latter, contends academician Adam Alter in this work, which he begins by telling us how Steve Jobs, who extolled the benefits of the iPad for an hour-and-a-half after unveiling it in April 2010, would not let his children use it. This is about 100 hours a month, or over an average lifetime, “a staggering eleven years”.(Shutterstock) Alter says most users spend a quarter of their day’s waking period on smartphones. ![]() But now if you are eagerly checking your smartphone, no one is likely to say anything – for they might be doing the same. There was a time, if you were found reading a book in company, you could be shouted at by your parents or even have it snatched and flung away. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Teeny's life gets maddeningly complicated by a series of not-so-teeny troubles: an uneasy love triangle, a gossip-mongering tarantula breeder, an wise-cracking Southern Belle with early Alzheimer's, Coop's loveable Chihuahua-toting granny, and clues that point to the illegal trafficking of human organs. ![]() As more lies explode, Teeny finds herself trapped in Bonaventure, Georgia, a zany'little Savannah,' where she must deal with her commitment phobia, gather DNA from a ten-year old child genius, outwit a stalker, decode an encrypted diary, and fend off advances of an ex-beau, a handsome plastic surgeon who's crazy-in-love with her. After Charleston pastry chef, Teeny Templeton, witnesses a murder, she discovers that her lawyer-boyfriend, Coop O'Malley, has been keeping secrets: the victim's ten-year-old daughter may be his child. It's not every day that I bake a dozen Red Velvet cakes, learn my boyfriend may have a love child, and I witness a murder. In this hilarious follow-up to GONE WITH A HANDSOMER MAN, Charleston pastry chef Teeny Templeton witnesses a murder and discovers that her laywer-boyfriend, Coop O'Malley, has been keeping secrets. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like the movie FIELD OF DREAMS that was made from this novel, SHOELESS JOE is about baseball. ![]() 'It' is a baseball stadium which Ray carves out of his cornfield. Urn:oclc:43277672 Republisher_date 20130924192939 Republisher_operator Scandate 20130923180410 Scanner . The voice of a baseball announcer tells the Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella: 'If you build it, he will come.' 'He' is Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ray's hero. OL2202394W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 90.98 Pages 246 Ppi 650 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0395957737 Urn:lcp:shoelessjoe00kins_0:epub:5909fdce-0ab2-4533-ba70-7fa4466e282a Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier shoelessjoe00kins_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1fj4dm7j Isbn 0345309219Ĩ1019196 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL16582083M Openlibrary_edition In addition to Shoeless Joe, Kinsella wrote five short story collec-tions related to baseball (1980, 1984, 1988, 1993, 2000) and five baseball novels (1986, 1991, 1996, 1998, 2011). Kinsella See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 12.69 - 13.29 Paperback 4.19 - 13.15 Mass Market Paperback 3.59 - 4. Urn:lcp:shoelessjoe00kins_0:lcpdf:a633d684-17be-4e05-8cf6-eea0f6bbd157 Kinsella Science Fiction & Fantasy Books > Fantasy Books ISBN: B000IAIBT4 Memoirs of Elise - FIRST PRINTING OF FIRST EDITION by W.P. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:59:19.977488 Boxid IA169513 Boxid_2 BWB220140815 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor What became the novel Shoeless Joestarted out as the short story Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa, the title story of his first short story collection. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This time, instead of battling the fairies, he's going to have to join forces with them if he wants to save one of the few people he loves. As Artemis rushes to his rescue, he is stopped by Captain Holly Short. It's a plea from his father, who has been kidnapped by the Russian mafia. Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident ( Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident in the US) is the second book in the Artemis Fowl series written by Irish author Eoin Colfer.Īlthough the Artemis Fowl film release was announced as being solely based on the first novel, material from The Arctic Incident was nevertheless adapted for the film.Īrtemis Fowl is at boarding school in Ireland when he receives an urgent video email from Russia. ![]() ![]() I recently became aware of the Maurice Sendak Foundation which is devoted to promoting greater public interest in and understanding of the literary, illustrative and theatrical arts as well as promoting the artistic legacy of Maurice Sendak. The book is very well-loved (falling apart) and I have shared it with my children as a bedtime story too many times to count. The illustrations enchanted me and the imaginative verses enthralled me. I still remember exactly where I was (in my 1st-grade classroom) and who I was with (my best friend, Ashlee) when our teacher read that book to us. It was a cute little thing called Chicken Soup With Rice. I admit though, that was not the first Maurice Sendak book I was ever introduced to. ![]() Is there anyone out there who doesn’t love that book? I doubt it. Maurice Sendak is an author you are probably familiar with… he wrote Where the Wild Things Are. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meaning, they match people even if they’re not actually a match, with random actual matches thrown in so customers have some good experiences, but not too many to actually pair someone.” Merek and I theorize, though we cannot prove it because we haven’t been given access to this data set, that these dating websites are using the same psychology that’s used by casinos to keep people coming back. Therefore, it’s in their best interest to find the sweet spot of maximizing profit-by not pairing too many couples successfully too quickly-and being just slightly better than their competitors. Every time they successfully pair a couple, they’ve lost two customers. “Give me an example,” I asked, taking another sip of my drink. This is because if a company actually solves a problem, or solves it with the best solution, the company will ultimately lose money.” There is only benefit-monetary benefit-in making a problem less irritating, or less pressing. ![]() ![]() “It means, in corporate America,” Matt’s gaze darted to my mouth, then away, then to his friend, “there is no benefit to solving a problem or finding the best solution to a problem. ![]() I licked the sugar off the rim of my lemon drop, glancing between the three of them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Later, as he added volumes to the Foundation series, I would grab up every Foundation book as they came out, ending with Foundation and Earth in 1986. I first read Asimov's original Foundation Triology Back in the early 60's. In Foundation, Asimov has written a timely and timeless novel of the best - and worst - that lies in humanity, and the power of even a few courageous souls to shine a light in a universe of darkness. The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are among the most influential in the history of science fiction, celebrated for their unique blend of breathtaking action, daring ideas, and extensive worldbuilding. ![]() To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire - both scientists and scholars - and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. The epic saga that inspired the Apple TV+ series Foundation, now streaming. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.įor 12,000 years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. The first novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series ![]() ![]() ![]() Robson, whose previous novels include Goodnight From London, is skilled at creating drama: the braided narrative shifts among three protagonists: Ann Hughes, a 25-year-old embroiderer in Hartnell’s London workroom Miriam Dassin, a French emigre and Holocaust survivor who becomes Ann’s co-worker and friend and Ann’s Canadian granddaughter, Heather, who receives – after her grandmother’s death in 2016 – a box of exquisite, embroidered flowers and sets out to discover their significance and her grandmother’s secret past. It’s the work behind that art that forms the through-line of Jennifer Robson’s compelling and informative novel The Gown. star flowers, ears of wheat, jasmine blossoms, and smilax leaves,” plus crystal beads and pearls – was a Botticelli-inspired work of art. English designer Norman Hartnell (an inspiration for Phantom Thread) was given the commission, and the gown – with a 15ft train of tulle embroidered with “York roses. When Princess Elizabeth’s engagement to Philip Mountbatten was announced in 1947, her wedding dress was the subject of speculation and intrigue in war-exhausted England. ![]() ![]() Their son Eddie has disappeared, and Ells clings to the idea he’s joined the army, which has set up a training camp nearby for the area’s uneducated, unwashed, and unprepared young men who will fight in World War I. ![]() ![]() He stole the family’s pride and hope along with their cash. The previous year, Ells gave all the savings Eula had scraped together over the decades to a flim-flam man. If so, maybe they will finally have something to eat.Ī couple of states north, in southern Ohio, live the elderly farmer Ellsworth Fiddler and his wife Eula, also struggling. The wealthy landowner has promised that if they meet some impossible deadline, he will give them 10 laying hens. He’s working them practically to death in the swampy field they’re clearing near the Georgia-Alabama border. ![]() Written by Donald Ray Pollock - In the early 20th century, the three Jewett brothers are under the thumb of their crazily religious, impoverished failure of a father. ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:59371549 Republisher_date 20130121010951 Republisher_operator Scandate 20130116090847 Scanner . The Coldest Winter Ever Sister Souljah Simon and Schuster, Fiction - 544 pages 399 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its. ![]() Life After Death: A Novel Audiobook, by Sister Souljah. Urn:lcp:coldestwintereve00soul_0:epub:7f23618b-5a75-4fc4-8083-5da8e461a6b6 Extramarc University of North Carolina Foldoutcount 0 Identifier coldestwintereve00soul_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6k08df5z Invoice 11 Isbn 9781416521693ĩ9012242 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL18494916M Openlibrary_edition Find the most popular The Coldest Winter Ever Series audiobooks available for instant download to. Urn:lcp:coldestwintereve00soul_0:lcpdf:bb15e319-371b-47e3-8a21-4f0776bef9fe 14K views 1 year ago World-renowned author Sister Souljah returns to the spotlight with the much-anticipated sequel to her cult classic The Coldest Winter Ever. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:02:37 Boxid IA164519 Boxid_2 CH108001 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition Pocket Star books paperback edition External-identifier ![]() |