![]() Unlike traditional gardens, they are connected to a more active and ephemeral use of the land. Like traditional gardens, these spaces are designed for pleasure, social activity, or private retreat. In this remarkable book a landscape architect and a photographer show us, in word and pictures, gardens built by homeless or impoverished New York City inhabitants. Gardens have always been associated with wealth and leisure, viewed as an addition to home. The neighbors say she was in a concentration camp as a child. The animals are whole, the dolls are maimed. ![]() Anna's garden is surrounded by a tall chainlink fence and filled with a menagerie of dolls and stuffed animals. Jimmy's garden on the Lower East Side of Manhattan-an assortment of stones and garbage bags, five tires, a chair, a skid, a refrigerator shelf, some ailanthus trees and goldfish, a wooden fence, and a pond with water carried by hand from a nearby fire hydrant-was recently bulldozed by the city. ![]()
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![]() She is approached by an elegant, mysterious woman working for an even more mysterious company. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. ![]() Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars.īruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. But eventually Mercer learns far too much.īook Synopsis A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library. A generous offer of money convinces Mercer to go undercover and infiltrate Bruce Cable's circle of literary friends, ideally getting close enough to him to learn his secrets. ![]() About the Book Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus begins an unbearably tense, gripping tale of paranoia, sacrifice, apocalypse, and survival that escalates to a shattering conclusion, one in which the fate of a loving family and quite possibly all of humanity are entwined. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: “Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, “None of what’s going to happen is your fault”. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. ![]() One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. ![]() Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Where Did I Get This Book: A friend let me borrow it!īook Description: The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts adds an inventive twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense that recalls Stephen King’s Misery, Ruth Ware’s In a Dark, Dark Wood, and Jack Ketchum’s cult hit The Girl Next Door. Publishing Info: William Morrow, June 2018 Book: “The Cabin at the End of the World” by Paul Tremblay ![]() ![]() ![]() Ranging from indignation at world indifference toward the new nations of Europe to compassion for the underprivileged of the United States, Codrescu takes the pulse of our time with the exasperated affection and barbed irony for which he is known. All of these momentous consciousness shifts have been chronicled through the eyes of Codrescu, an incisive commentator who seems to miss nothing. The essays collected here come directly off the NPR airwaves, and were broadcast during a period in our nation's history that witnessed the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the radical change in American foreign and domestic policy. ![]() He began then to cast a keen and watchful eye upon his adopted homeland. In Zombification, Codrescu's NPR essays from 1989 to 1993 have been gathered together here in one volume, where they appear in print for the first time ever.īorn in Transylvania, Romania, in 1946, Codrescu emigrated to the United States in 1966. The Romanian-born Codrescu is fast on his way to becoming an American pop icon. He is known nationally for his regular appearances on "All Things Considered," and now for his recent debut as a film star in the movie version of his own book, Road Scholar. Witty, aphoristic, and never at a loss for a trenchant comment, NPR's much-loved commentator, Andrei Codrescu, has been keeping his American audience abreast of the absurdities of American culture for over ten years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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This revised and expanded paperback edition includes new material on open source developments in 19. ![]() According to Bob Young, "This is Eric Raymond's great contribution to the success of the open source revolution, to the adoption of Linux-based operating systems, and to the success of open source users and the companies that supply them."The interest in open source software development has grown enormously in the past year. Its conclusions will be studied, debated, and implemented for years to come. Already, billions of dollars have been made and lost based on the ideas in this book. The Cathedral & the Bazaar is a must for anyone who cares about the future of the computer industry or the dynamics of the information economy. This revolutionary model for collaborative software development is being embraced and studied by many of the biggest players in the high-tech industry, from Sun Microsystems to IBM to Intel. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will install it in the next two years. Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. ![]() ![]() ![]() But, things don't go as they'd hoped, and the fighting between the clans becomes more devious - deadly.Now, Devin, another Vampire of Drake's making, steps in. They will attempt once unthinkable romantic entanglements despite all those who oppose their relationships, while fighting for their lives as well.With the Willows full of violence and bloodshed, meetings and magic amiss, will the clans ever be able to find peace among them again? Or, will this war destroy the Willows?In Book Two, Isaac and Winter devise a plan to try to get the Elders of the clans talking peacefully. Now three vampires, a witch, a werewolf and a human must ride along the edges of the rules. ![]() ![]() Here, their true identities are kept secret from humans, and intimate relations between the individual clans are strictly forbidden.Unexpected close encounters, bodies ripe with need, and situations beyond their control lead to forbidden relationships. The Willows is a resort town run by vampires, werewolves and witches. ![]() ![]() Here, the story follows two generations of the Hildebrandt family, headed by Russ, the associate pastor of a church in the fictional town of New Prospect, Illinois, who, when we first meet him in the lead-up to Christmas 1971, is nursing a crush on a recently widowed parishioner and a grudge against the groovily charismatic leader of the church’s popular youth group, Crossroads, in which three of Russ’ four children are variously involved. ![]() ![]() That reference is classic Franzen, who imbues his books with big ideas, in this case about responsibility to family, self, God, country, and one’s fellow man, among other matters, all the while digging deep into his characters’ emotions, experiences, desires, and doubts in a way that will please readers seeking to connect to books heart-first. That it does so is also very good news: It’s the first in what promises to be a sprawling trilogy, continuing to the present day, which the author has titled A Key to All Mythologies in what is presumably a wink at its far-from-modest ambitions-yes, à la Middlemarch. ![]() It says a lot that, at almost 600 pages, Franzen’s latest novel, set amid the waning years of the Vietnam War, leaves you wanting more. This first novel in an ambitious trilogy tracks a suburban Chicago family in a time of personal and societal turmoil. ![]() ![]() ![]() When his errands for the cause bring him time and again to Emma Areben, a former classmate, Thomas is exposed to a whole new brand of magic. Thomas must join forces with Guy if he wants to save his own life. His father has bigger plans: to kill the king. ![]() His only hope is to track down his father and demand a mask. But when Guy refuses to give Thomas his mask or even his presence, Thomas has no place in school or society. 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