COVID-19 catapulted us into a science-fiction scenario: seemingly overnight, literally billions of people around the globe had their lives upended by fear, uncertainty, bankruptcy, illness, or death. It killed millions of people, and cost the global economy trillions of dollars.An outbreak of...
Today, we have some books for you. Come and join the fun! The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1953. A year later, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Old Man and the Sea is generally considered by many to be his greatest achievement. The ...
The author asked those he selected to respond to four questions to list five books (Christian or secular) that deeply influenced them, list their favorite book of those that had influenced them, mention their favorite novel (yes, there is room for good fiction), and finally list their favorit...
☆5,000 new fiction books were bought for the Silver City Library. 【1】What is the purpose of the changes in Silver City? A. To satisfy all the needs of the citizens. B. To better the citizens’ life. C. To make public service upgraded. D. To meet the needs of the Silver City...
New Christian Books for October October 2023 New Releases More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on theACFW Fiction Finder website Children’s: Road Trip RescuebyBecca Wierwille— After spotting a photo of her lost dog, twelve-year-old Kimmy embarks on a wild road trip to...
as I seek whatever I haven’t yet read of his. I thoroughly enjoyed Jason Matthews’ Red Sparrow trilogy, far better than the film of the first book, FAR better. Elizabeth Day’sMagpiewas wonderful. Charles Arthur’sSocial Warmingwas a stand-out piece of non-fiction I’ve read. Read it...
Why I’d love to live there: When it comes to utopias in fiction, The Culture is arguably the one that probably gets closest to making one that you’d actually want to live in: A highly advanced, post-scarcity society where benevolent AI’s keep society running, allowing citizens of the...
“how it actually is,” as the powerful maul the lives of the weak, simply because they can, while the weak struggle to figure out how to be strong, without turning into precisely the evil that they hate with such clear justification. And the plot devices *work.* No recent fiction with...
–AGuardianbiggest fiction and non-fiction for 2024 –A Waterstones ‘Book You Need to Read in 2024’ –AGuardian‘Five Great Reads’ "This is a book for anyone who finds it difficult to believe in a better future. It's the most uplifting book I've read all year" ...
Hope for Democracy * Gray Matters * Dungeon Party About the Author John Gastil has been writing nonfiction books since 1993, but this year marks a first with two debut novels alongside a general audience book about democracy. Gray Matters is political sc