![]() According to her mother, Ada is a bit too wild and her imagination could benefit from some discipline, so she puts Ada into a rigorous syllabus of mathematics, languages, and geography. She is obsessed with machines and creatures that fly, even going so far as to write her own book about them called "Flyology." Along with her cat, Mistress Puff, Ada gets into all sorts of trouble. As a child, Ada is curious about everything. In fact, she writes what will become the world's first programming language. ![]() ![]() In Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code, Ada uses her incredible imagination to dream up technology that could have jump-started the digital age nearly two hundred years ago. From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes the fictionalized biography about the exciting life and adventures of Ada Lovelace. ![]()
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Family and colleagues find her prickly and hard to understand - but Susan makes perfect sense to herself. SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK 'I found myself laughing out loud at Susan's prickly character' Reese Witherspoon THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | SHORTLISTED FOR THE BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD | A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK People aren't sure what to make of Susan Green. ![]() ![]() They have only three rules: keep it casual, keep it private, and no faces. ![]() Soon the formerly-irresistible investment banker finds himself pursuing a woman who seems to want very little to do with him outside of their playful and creative exhibitionism. Max has a legendary appetite for casual sex, but the kindred kink he finds in Sara is hard to brush off. Unfortunately, an affair with Max Stella, Wall Street's newly-imported golden boy, could be very, very bad for her new career. Sara assumes the tryst was a one-time thing, but when her mysterious lover sends her the steamy phone video he took of their encounter, she realizes he might have unearthed a side of her she'd never let herself explore. ![]() On her first weekend in her new town, Sara has wild - and very public - sex with a gorgeous stranger on a balcony overlooking Chloe Mills' raucous engagement party. ![]() When Ryan Media Group opens a new office in New York, numbers whiz Sara Dillon happily accepts the position of Director of Finance. ![]() ![]() Ultimately, this is a book about choices. However, these moments did not diminish my enjoyment of this book. There were times when I had to suspend my disbelief, especially in the last 20%. I was a little bored until smaller pieces of the plot came together, and I finally saw the bigger picture of what was going on. While this is a suspenseful and tense read, it doesn’t feel that way in the beginning. Gwen has come pretty far since book one, but she is still haunted by her former serial killer husband’s voice however, Melvin’s pull seems to be diminishing its hold. I enjoyed Kezia playing a larger role and learning more about her character. Narrated by Kezia, Sam, and Gwen, I appreciated the lack of Lanny and Conner’s voices. ![]() But of course, their lives don't stay normal for long, as they soon become the targets of a serial killer. Heartbreak Bay is a suspenseful thriller about a deranged serial killer who is playing a sick and twisted game.īook #5 in the Stillhouse Lake series finds Gwen and Sam trying to create a “normal” life for Lanny and Connor. ![]() ![]() When they reach the house, in the middle of the western plains on a ninety-degree day, it is surrounded by snow. That night Magic Child sleeps with both men and Greer takes quite a liking to her. Along the way they stop at a place to eat and during the meal hear loud gunshot-like noises. After returning to California they spend some time in a brothel, where a young Native American-looking woman, Magic Child, comes to hire them for a job at her house. On a job in Hawaii, they are stopped by the fact their target is with his son. Taking place mainly in eastern Oregon in 1902, the story concerns a pair of morally ambivalent gunmen, Cameron and Greer. The novel is his fifth published novel, and a parody of Western and Gothic novels. ![]() The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western is a novel by Richard Brautigan first published in 1974. ![]() Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery ![]() ![]() ![]() The story thereby demonstrates how capitalism may give employers an unethical amount of power over employees. Alsuga states, “We’ll need someone between a rock and a hard place” (7). By the time I got involved the kid was dead. ![]() Alsuga considers forcing an employee to violently retaliate against the vandals, he chooses an employee with a large family to support Mr. 26The reader questions the narrator of CivilWarLand when he denies his own responsibility in helping to cover up Sam’s murders of gang members and of a solitary candy thief: It doesn’t say anywhere thou shalt not bury some guy’s hand. Alsuga-is able to coerce his employees into unethical action because the employees are dependent on their paychecks. ![]() For example, in “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline,” the park’s unscrupulous owner-Mr. One of the ways in which some of these stories develop this critique is by examining dangerous disparities of wealth and power that capitalism may create. As is the case with much of Saunders’ work, some of the stories in this collection may be interpreted as critiques of capitalism, specifically relating to stories’ illustrations of capitalism’s frequent disregard for human wellbeing. ![]() ![]() Instead, she has memories riddled with half-truths, stories heard in fits and starts, a family history from a family that doesn't know its own past. Helene Strickland, daughter of Lafayette County, Arkansas, and lately of the Northeast, doesn't have an answer. "Who're your people, girl?" It's the song of the South, the big question, persistent and unforgiving. ![]() ![]() A dazzling first novel about four generations of fear and longing in the deep South ![]() ![]() And what they don't know is that Maddy still has another secret. The popular white class president convinces her Black superstar quarterback boyfriend to ask Maddy to be his date, leaving Maddy wondering if it's possible to have a normal life.But some of her classmates aren't done with her just yet. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington.After a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their image: host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. ![]() ![]() And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Maddy did it.An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. When Springville residents-at least the ones still alive-are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation. y of racism in this suspenseful YA novel following a biracial teenager as her Georgia high school hosts its first integrated prom. ![]() Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America's history and legac. * AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * INDIE BESTSELLER * JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION * KIDS' INDIE NEXT LIST PICK * NPR BEST PICK * KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR *New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the characters, Miranda Kline, is an anthropologist famous for mapping: “'the genome of human inclinations’ and creating algorithms for predicting behaviour”. Technology is at the heart of this book, but although it can be classed as “speculative fiction”, it feels entirely real. It does a million things for us, and it was a big help to me imaginatively in The Candy House, but the fact that all roads lead there just closes off a lot of dramatic possibilities.” ![]() It’s not that there’s anything wrong with the internet. It’s really refreshing to imagine in the pre-internet period. In an interview at the Mississippi book festival earlier this month, Egan said: “I was in my 30s before I ever got online. It’s a bit like doing late-night research on the internet, when you spot something of peripheral interest on one site and go to that page, which offers something else you want to look at, and so on, until you have wandered so far from your starting point that you can’t recall what it was you were looking for in the first place.Įgan contrives to keep all the ends together, although when I get to a second reading (it’s that good) I’m going to keep notes of family trees and dates to try and work out how she did it (it’s that clever). ![]() Jennifer Egan’s new novel skips joyfully back and forth between characters, plots and timelines at a hair-raising pace. ![]() |