Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk5/27/2023 ![]() When Adjustment Day arrives, it fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.Ībout the Author: Chuck Palahniuk is the best-selling author of fourteen fictional works, including Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke, Lullaby, Diary, Haunted, Rant, Pygmy, Tell-All, Damned, Doomed, Beautiful You and, most recently, Make Something Up. The weak want you to forgo your destiny just as they’ve shirked theirs. There is only your son and his son and his son and the world you leave for them. ![]() Into this dyspeptic time a blue-black book is launched carrying such wisdom as: Smug, geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war in an effort to control the burgeoning population of young males working-class men dream of burying the elites and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. They are ready for the reckoning.Īdjustment Day, the author’s first novel in four years, is an ingeniously comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. ![]() Before Reddit, 4chan, Pepe, Men’s Rights Activists, and Incels, Chuck Palahniuk’s debut novel, Fight Club, explored how consumerism and the touchy-feely attitudes of the ’90s created a generation of disaffected, frustrated, angry men. ![]() ![]() They’ve been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. Adjustment Day, Chuck Palahniuk ( Norton 978-0393652598, 26.95, 316pp, hc) May 2018. People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire. ![]()
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On juneteenth author gordon reed5/27/2023 ![]() “I think it will be good for the country to have a day to reflect on slavery and the end of slavery,” Gordon-Reed said. When President Joe Biden finally signed into law a bill that established Juneteenth as a federal holiday-the culmination of a decades-long effort-Gordon-Reed was among those invited to witness the historic moment. It quickly became a New York Times bestseller, was featured on the magazine’s 100 Notable Books list, and chosen as one of its the top five non-fiction books of the year. Her latest book, On Juneteenth, sets out to capture the integral importance of the holiday to American history. Loeb University Professor at Harvard Law School, and the award-winning author of six books. Annette Gordon-Reed is a Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, the Carl M. ![]() The dragonriders of pern anne mccaffrey5/27/2023 ![]() They’re the people charged with defending Pern from Thread using the planet’s indigenous dragons for the job. This is extremely bad news for the human settlers who’ve been eking out a pre-industrial existence since colonising the planet several generations earlier. They enter the planet’s atmosphere and devour everything organic in their path, like tiny versions of those things Kevin Bacon was faced with in Tremors. Pern itself is a planet that is threatened by lethal, mycorrhizoid spores known as ‘Thread’ that periodically rain down from an orbiting mass called the Red Star. This one is set somewhere in the vast expanse of space you can’t get to on EasyJet. ![]() **Pern, eh? So It’s Set In Switzerland? ** ![]() ![]() 1978’s The White Dragon made it onto the New York Times Best Seller list, which means LOADS of people read it, and her son Todd has taken on the mantle since McCaffrey’s death in 2011. The first two novellas, Weyr Search and Dragonrider, combined to form 1968’s Hugo Award-winning Dragonflight and won her a small army of fans that’s swelled with every subsequent addition. ![]() In short, it’s a series of books by American-Irish novelist Anne McCaffrey. ![]() Suzanne collins gregor5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() His abilities are put to the test in this suspenseful, action-packed penultimate installment of Suzanne Collins's thrilling Underland Chronicles. But when the true fate of the mice is revealed, it is something far more sinister than they had imagined - and it points the way to the final prophecy Gregor has yet to fulfill. Gregor and Boots join Luxa on a simple fact-finding mission. But now the mice are disappearing and the young queen Luxa is determined to find out why. ![]() ![]() A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes. For generations, rats have run the mice out of whatever lands they've claimed, keeping them constantly on the move. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Study Guide of Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins. In Book 4 of the bestselling Underland Chronicles, Gregor is drawn ever deeper into a brewing crisis. Follow Gregor in the fourth enthralling adventure in Suzanne Collins' New York Times bestselling Underland Chronicles - with gorgeous new cover art coming July 1st! ![]() Gm berrow my little pony5/27/2023 ![]() If you return goods claiming they are defective, we will examine the returned goods and will notify you of your refund via e-mail within a reasonable period of time. ![]() Our returns policy does not affect your statutory rights. This applies to all goods that are returned. 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The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman 85,563 ratings, 4.44 average rating, 7,996 reviews Open Preview The Bullet That Missed Quotes Showing 1-30 of 40 If murder were easy, none of us would survive Christmas. It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal.Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. 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This paper focuses on Nicola Griffith’s novel Ammonite (1992), set on the all-female planet of Jeep and featuring Earth-born anthropologist, and newcomer to Jeep, Marghe Taishan. ![]() Examining both “reproductive solutions” and how these are represented as part of cultural, social and political contexts allows us to explore feminist reproductive futurities that is, we can explore ways in which feminism can reformulate both reproduction and kinship per se, and, more importantly, the connection between these and a future free from gender-based oppression. In constructing these worlds, one vital aspect that by necessity needs to be re-thought is reproduction. 2018 (English) Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed) Abstract Īll-female worlds, often utopian, are part of the feminist sf-tradition. ![]() Wallace by Jim Gorant5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() While on his honeymoon, Roo learned that Wallace was about to be put down. 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It was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2017, and was longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2017, the Wellcome Book Prize, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the New Angle Prize for Literature. ![]() It was a number one bestseller in hardback, and was named Waterstones Book of the Year 2016. Her second novel, The Essex Serpent, was published by Serpent's Tail in May 2016. In January and February 2016 Sarah was the UNESCO City of Literature Writer-in-Residence in Prague. It won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award 2014, and was longlisted for the 2014 Guardian First Book Award and nominated for the 2014 Folio Prize. ![]() Here she completed the final draft of her first novel, After Me Comes the Flood, which was published by Serpent's Tail in June 2014 to international critical acclaim. In January 2013 she was Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone's Library. ![]() In 2004 she won the Spectator's Shiva Naipaul Award for travel writing. Having studied English at Anglia Ruskin University she worked as a civil servant before studying for an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Creative Writing and the Gothic at Royal Holloway, University of London. Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979, and was raised as a Strict Baptist. ![]() Scalzi lock in series5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() "Readers will definitely show up for the witty banter and smartass takedowns.Very clever, wonderfully satisfying fun." - Kirkus ![]() ![]() "This taut mystery, filled with memorable characters in a well-constructed world, will keep readers on the edges of their seats." - Publishers Weekly, starred review " prose flows like a river, smoothly carrying us through the story his characters are beautifully crafted and his future world is impeccably designed, at the same time wildly imaginative and wholly plausible." - Booklist, starred review "Head On doesn't care if you've read Lock In or not, but it does care if you enjoy a mystery wrapped up inside a science fiction novel.This might even be one of the best introductions to Scalzi out there." - Culturess "The Lock In universe is as fascinating as ever.Complex, expansive.Pretty damn cool." - RT Book Reviews, 4 stars "Particularly relevant.A fun, breezy thriller, one that showcases a world that carries with it some extremely astute commentary on some of the real problems that we face in our own. "New and fresh.Scalzi's smirking, impish voice is a nice touch." -NPR ![]() |