But their inhuman Cylon enemies-stronger, smarter, and driven to destroy-may be too powerful for them, and all of humanity, to survive. Commander William Adama, himself set to retire, had but one course: to marshal his meager forces, and somehow keep the Cylons from wiping out the last vestiges of the human race. Only a single warship survived the massive attack: Battlestar Galactica, the oldest ship in the fleet, ready to be decommissioned and turned into a museum. But in those years, the Cylons developed new Cylons that looked and acted like humans.and then they attacked the Twelve Worlds. These mechanical beings, created by mankind to perform the manual labor civilization required, were gone forever.or so humanity thought. For forty years, the Twelve Colonies of Man were at peace, united since the war against the robotic Cylons. Here, for the first time, is the novel based on that exciting drama. Battlestar Galactica, an original SCI FI Channel miniseries, electrified viewers and critics alike and was hailed as a landmark in sci-fi television.
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Her mother was an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction, with a particular liking for crime fiction, Īnd Louise grew up reading mystery writers such as Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Penny was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1958. Her novels have been published in 23 languages. After she turned to writing, she won numerous awards for her work, including the Agatha Award for best mystery novel of the year five times, including four consecutive years (2007–2010), and the Anthony Award for best novel of the year five times, including four consecutive years (2010–2013). Penny's first career was as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Louise Penny CM OQ is a Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec centred on the work of francophone Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache ( Three Pines Mysteries) series Mouse, all inspired by the author's hope to create appealing books for boys and girls-and by the sight of her son playing with toy cars. This fun story is the first of a trilogy, along with Runaway Ralph and Ralph S. The Mouse and the Motorcycle is perfect for independent reading or for shared reading at home or in a classroom. This timeless classic now features a foreword written by New York Times bestselling author Kate DiCamillo, as well as an exclusive interview with Beverly Cleary herself. Thus begins a great friendship and many awesome adventures. Keith rescues Ralph and teaches him how to ride the bike. Luckily, Keith, the owner of the motorcycle, returns to find his toy. Whether dodging a rowdy terrier or keeping his nosy cousins away from his new wheels, Ralph has a lot going on And with a pal like Keith always looking out for him, there's nothing this little mouse can't handle. The ringing telephone startles Ralph, and he and the motorcycle take a terrible fall - right to the bottom of a metal wastebasket. But with all this freedom (and speed ) come a lot of obstacles. So when Keith leaves the bike unattended in his room one day, Ralph makes his move. When the ever-curious Ralph spots Keith's red toy motorcycle, he vows to ride it. In this imaginative adventure from Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, a young mouse named Ralph is thrown into a world of excitement when a boy and his shiny toy motorcycle check in to the Mountain View Inn. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys’ prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes-a prison for boys. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. And she’s beautiful enough, so the lord, the prince, the rich man’s son notices her, and dances with her, and tumbles her in a quiet hayloft when the dancing is over, and afterwards he goes home and marries the rich woman his family has picked out for him. The real story is, the miller’s daughter with her long golden hair wants to catch a lord, a prince, a rich man’s son, so she goes to the moneylender and borrows for a ring and a necklace and decks herself out for the festival. The real story isn’t half as pretty as the one you’ve heard. If you’ve read the book and care to comment, please be mindful of the folks who haven’t read it yet. Because the novel was published this year, it falls under my new “no spoilers” imprimatur, which is fine where the text is concerned, but I can’t promise what I don’t control, which is comments. If you know Naomi Novik’s Uprooted, you’ll look with great anticipation to her follow up, Spinning Silver. Charting a "Homeric" decades-long "Odyssey" from his origins in the seedy comedy clubs of Chicago all the way to a dramatic career that is baffling to his friends, it's almost like there are two or three Bob Odenkirks.but there is just one and one is enough, frankly.īob embraced a life in comedy after a chance meeting with Second City's legendary Del Close, which eventually led to a job as a writer at SNL. And yet he will try like hell to explain it here, because that is what memoirs are for. Show, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Nobody opens up about the highs and lows of showbiz, his legendary cult status as a comedy writer, and what it's like to reinvent himself as a no-holds-barred action film ass-kicker at fifty.īob Odenkirk's career is inexplicable. In this hilarious, heartfelt memoir, the star of Mr. is written by an entertaining storyteller and offers a rare insight into a situation that few people will have to face, but that it does us good to contemplate. Magical: pages speed by, fuelled by the author's formidable intellect. has written a memoir that is not miserable. it persuasively builds the case for the ability of stories to offer hope and solace to help us become ourselves, over and over, even in extremis. What he gives us isn't just the story of an illness but a story about the importance of stories. Observerįor all its grim subject the book is an unexpected delight. Sunday TimesĪ brilliant account of one man's tilted world following a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. buoyantly written, piercingly perceptive book. riveting account of the metamorphosis he has endured. The TimesĪn outstanding feat of bravery and brio. it is simply a beautiful piece of writing. Metamorphosis is the best book I have read about multiple sclerosis, and that is because it is about so much more. Jacqueline Wilson, author of The Story of Tracy Beaker Natalie Haynes, author of A Thousand ShipsĪ pitch-perfect memoir: stylish, erudite, touchingly honest and darkly funny. It is what the best writing should be: a book that will stay with you for life. This is a beautiful and devastating portrayal of a life-changing diagnosis. Libby knows it’s not true – but the only way to prove that is to strip off the armour she’s been wearing for years. Still reeling, she suffers another blow as her blog is attacked in a national newspaper, for promoting unachievable perfection. As she and Charlie begin spending more time together, Libby is starting to waver – until she discovers something which makes her question if she’s ready for love. Libby’s determined to keep it at ‘just good friends’ – she’s dated someone from ‘Corporate Land’ before and it didn’t end well. Popular lifestyle blogger, Libby Cartwright, is being boggled by business when help shows up in the shape of gorgeous but shy, Charlie Richmond. In an Instagram world, can you find love just by being yourself… Her visual work has been exhibited internationally, including as a mural on the side of a Google data center in rural Oklahoma. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Paris Review, The Believer, McSweeney's, and Sierra Magazine. Jenny Odell is an Oakland-based artist, writer, and educator. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress.įar from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Odell sees our attention as the most precious-and overdrawn-resource we have. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity. Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. The other fact I remember is that he likes plain English food. The later books aren’t terribly forthcoming either, but here there were maybe two or three facts about the character that James offers, the most important being that his wife and first child died a few years earlier. I was a little surprised to find out how little the book says about her detective Dalgliesh. Sometimes it’s just fine to read a competent but not brilliant book. My feeling was that while I enjoyed it, it didn’t blow me away - as, truthfully, the other James novels didn’t either, but I don’t always need to be blown away. I’ve enjoyed James’s Dalgliesh series before, having read or listened to three other of the novels in the series, and I was glad to go back to the beginning.Īs far as there ever is a consensus at these meetings, it was that Cover Her Face is a good first effort, well-written, if a little sketchy in the plotting. The meetings are always good, but this time was extra special, as Emily made a surprise visit. James’s first Dalgliesh novel Cover Her Face. My mystery book group met again last Friday to discuss P.D. |