![]() As with his previous bestseller, The Martian, Weir has clearly done his research and consulted with experts to create a believable and plausible vision of space travel and alien life. One of the most impressive things about Project Hail Mary is the level of scientific detail and accuracy that Weir incorporates into the story. ![]() With the help of a sentient alien species called the Astrophage, Grace must use his scientific knowledge and ingenuity to find a way to stop the event and save humanity. As he slowly regains his memories, he realizes that he is on a mission to save the Earth from a catastrophic event that threatens all life on the planet. The story follows the journey of Ryland Grace, a lone astronaut who wakes up aboard a spaceship with no memory of how he got there or what his mission is. From the very first page, readers are pulled into a fast-paced adventure that is full of heart, humor, and scientific wonder. This book is a true masterpiece that showcases Weir’s immense talent for storytelling, world-building, and character development. ![]() ![]() ![]() Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is an extraordinary and gripping science fiction novel that takes readers on an incredible journey through space and time. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Along the way the book offers up a treasure trove of historical surprises: how the ancient Egyptians treated incipient baldness with a mixture of hippopotamus, lion, crocodile, goose, snake, and ibex fat how a mystery epidemic devastated ancient Athens and brought an end to the domination of that great city: how lemons did as much as Nelson to defeat Napoleon: how yellow fever, carried by African mosquitoes to the Americas, led the French to fail utterly in their attempts to recover Haiti after the slave revolt of 1790: and how the explorers of the South Seas brought both syphilis to Tahiti and tuberculosis and measles to the Maoris."-Jacketīritish ed. ![]() He charts the remarkable rise of modern medical science - the emergence of specialties such as anatomy, physiology, neurology, and bacteriology - as well as the accompanying development of wider medical practice at the bedside, in the hospital, and in the ambitious public health systems of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() "Roy Porter explores medicine's evolution against the backdrop of the wider religious, scientific, philosophical, and political beliefs of the culture in which it develops, and he shows how our need to understand where diseases come from and what we can do to control them has - perhaps above all elseinspired developments in medicine through the ages. ![]() ![]() They weren’t 53-year-old properties like Margaret. But Crawdads was a four-year-old bestseller, and Five Feet Apart just a year old before going theatrical. You can’t say that there’s no place for female- skewing movies based on bestsellers: Sony’s Where the Crawdads Sing, in the midst of a very competitive summer, busted through with a $17.2M opening, $90.2M stateside take, and near $75M in profit - and that was off bad reviews! Then there was Lionsgate’s Five Feet Apart (released in 2019), which opened to $13.1M off bad reviews and legged out to just over $45M. ![]() ![]() Those few who came out and gave the picture great exits were the noisiest on social, but at a low wattage, as the pic only had a social media reach of 66.1M across TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, per RelishMix. Despite excellent reviews at 99%, an A CinemaScore, and great PostTrak of 4 1/2 stars and 88% positive, there’s no urgency for the first big screen take of a Judy Blume novel. Photo Credit: Dana Hawley Lionsgateĭiving into the numbers this AM, oy, Margaret. ![]() Rachel McAdams as Barbara Dimon and Abby Ryder Fortson as Margaret Simon in Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly, she doesn't know who she can trust. When a mysterious stranger emerges from the bayou - a stormy-eyed boy with links to Elora and the town's bloody history - Grey realizes that La Cachette's past is far more present and dangerous than she'd ever understood. But as she digs into the night that Elora went missing, she begins to realize that everybody in town is hiding something - her grandmother Honey her childhood crush Hart and even her late mother, whose secrets continue to call to Grey from beyond the grave. Grey can't believe that Elora vanished into thin air any more than she can believe that nobody in a town full of psychics knows what happened. ![]() This tiny town, where seventeen-year-old Grey spends her summers, is the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World-and the place where Elora Pellerin, Grey's best friend, disappeared six months earlier. La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide. ![]() A teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surface of the swamp like water rot, in this chilling debut supernatural thriller for fans of Natasha Preston, Karen McManus, and Rory Power. ![]() ![]() ![]() The waiting period until the complaint may not be longer than 5 days after receipt in the case of transport damage and the like ("externally visible damage") in the case of production issues ("internal damage") no longer than 30 days. 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We have a 14-day return policy, which means you have 14 days after receiving your item to request a return. ![]() ![]() ![]() Things happen to the Banks children when they go to the park with Mary Poppins. The original story of the worlds most famous nanny, Mary Poppins, is a timeless classic that has enchanted generations. ![]() But the magic of Mary Poppins will stay with the Banks family forever. Mary Poppins is strict but fair, and soon Michael and Jane are whisked off to a funfair inside a pavement picture and on many more outings with their wonderful new nanny! Needless to say, when at last the wind changes and she flies away, the children are devastated. When the Banks family advertise for a nanny, Mary Poppins and her talking umbrella appear out of the sky, ready to take the children on extraordinary adventures. The original best-loved classic about the worlds most famous nanny Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins in the Cherry Tree Lane and the House Next Door ![]() ![]() After Father Beocca spots a servant of Alfred's walking out of his room, buttoning up her shirt, Beocca reminds him of his duty to God's work and tells him not to give in to temptation. Winchester, Wessex Alfred is a godly man as well as a scholar, but suffers from weaknesses of the flesh, both in the form of sexual temptation as well as sickness. King Alfred defeated the Norse at the Battle of Edington, secured a treaty defining his kingdom and the Danelaw with Earl Guthrum, and made Guthrum convert to Christianity under the name King Æthelstan of East Anglia. His father was King Æthelwulf, and he succeeded his brother King Æthelred following battle against the Danes. Alfred is a king of cunning, bravery, wisdom, piety and intelligence, who uses his deep Christian beliefs and innate drive towards a Kingdom of the English to gain alliances and defeat his enemies. He eventually styled himself as the "King of the Anglo-Saxons", and is driven by a vision for a united Kingdom of all the English (England). He was the prince, later King of the Wessex. ![]() Matters of the heart are not." -Alfred to Edward Īlfred of Wessex was a main character in both The Saxon Stories novel series, and The Last Kingdom television series acting as the overarching protagonist from Season 1 to Season 3 and as the posthumus overarching protagonist for the rest of the series. ![]() But I soon realised that, as well as it being a burden, it is a privilege, to lead our people. ![]() "Do you believe that I wished for my brother to be killed in battle? And for the crown to be placed upon my head? I did not. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet as Ray Monk observed in his biography, “Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius” (1990), memoirs even by those who barely knew him are “countless,” including recollections by “the lady who taught him Russian” and “the man who delivered peat to his cottage.” The economist Friedrich Hayek happened to be a cousin, and he wrote a remembrance that recalled the few times they met, when Wittgenstein toggled between eager conversation and sudden withdrawal, at one point sticking his nose in a detective novel, “apparently unwilling to talk.” Described by another philosopher as a “spellbinding and somewhat terrifying person,” he was intensely lonely, and he dedicated his “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” to David Pinsent, who died in a plane crash in 1918, calling him “my first and only friend.” ![]() Before his death in 1951, Wittgenstein had published a total of one book, one article and one book review (the review was written when he was an undergraduate at Cambridge). It’s perhaps a measure of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s genius as well as his enigma that the volume of writing about him is almost comically disproportionate to the volume of writing by him. PRIVATE NOTEBOOKS 1914-1916 By Ludwig Wittgenstein Edited and translated by Marjorie Perloff Illustrated. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel takes the form of the diary of state mathematician D-503, who, to his shock, experiences the most disruptive emotion imaginable: love for another human being.Īt once satirical and sobering, We speaks to all who have suffered under repression of their personal, economic, and cultural freedom. The reality that dawns on the reader is that this seeming fiction is all-too real in our times. To come to understand its features and markings is the benefit of the dystopian genre. But the collectivism is of a recognizable type, one that threatens every society in all times. Written in 1921 by the Russian revolutionary Yevgeny Zamyatin, this story of the thirtieth century is set in the One State, a society where all live for the collective good and individual freedom does not exist.Īlthough fiction, it is a story informed by the war communism of the Soviet Union, and was of course completely banned in Russia. Dick, Ayn Rand ( Anthem), and Stanislaw Lem, We is a classic of dystopian science fiction ripe for rediscovery. ![]() ” -George OrwellĪn inspiration for George Orwell’s 1984 and a precursor to the work of Philip K. “ intuitive grasp of the irrational side of totalitarianism - human sacrifice, cruelty as an end in itself - makes superior to Huxley’s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unknown, through the decaying civilisation of a country that he can no His task will lead him deep into the heart of the Split across the US and its people hopelessly divided.Ī young courier, volunteers himself to deliver a mysterious package for Yet in the face of their doom, the beginnings ofĪ civil tension arises, as the Southern State’s succeed, leaving a dire The remnants of the US government to lead a desperate defence inĭefiance of the undead. Rising Plague continues to spread mercilessly across America, leaving Violent conclusion of a deep-rooted vendetta. Of civilisation quickly dissolves as Griffin’s appearance sparks the Named Griffin, the true dangers of the town become clear. The town of Little Rock inhabitants of the New World thrive to create Stand alone as the Rising Plague spreads across the eastern border. Communication has broken down and settlements now Have emerged from the wilderness crossing the Great Plains to assault Masterson finds himself pulled into the dark story that befell theġ853, seven years since the disappearance of the lost party, the undead ![]() Upon the discovery of the remnants of a diary, George ![]() These stories are The Lost Party, Feud and The Last Rider.Ī party of settlers go missing on the Wasatch Mountains of 1846Īmerica, a lone mountain man tasks himself with finding the lost ![]() Red Dust is a series of zombie western short stories.ĭust: The Fall is the first trilogy of short stories in the Red Dust ![]() |