![]() ![]() ![]() Chrome, it turns out, is a powerful woman in the mob world, who worked her way up from sex work and drug dealing to become a well-connected career criminal. Along with his friend and fellow hacker, a twenty-eight year-old man named Bobby Quine, Jack is trying to hack into a system so he can steal money from a powerful criminal: the ‘Chrome’ of the story’s title. The story is narrated by a professional computer hacker, Automatic Jack. It’s the first Gibson I ever read, and I was immediately hooked. This story – which is often cited as the first place where the term ‘cyberspace’ was used in print – is dense in its imagery and symbolism, so some words of analysis may help to illuminate it. The story was first published in the science-fiction magazine Omni before being collected in Gibson’s first short-story collection, which is also called Burning Chrome. ‘Burning Chrome’ is a 1982 short story by the author William Gibson, who is widely considered the father of cyberpunk. ![]()
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![]() ![]() General de Gaulle wrote to Chandler in French declaring that he had surpassed every other writer about the Emperor's military career." ![]() Īccording to his obituary in The Daily Telegraph, his "comprehensive account of Napoleon's battles" ( The Campaigns of Napoleon) is "unlikely to be improved upon, despite a legion of rivals. ![]() He held three visiting professorships: at Ohio State in 1970, at the Virginia Military Institute in 1988, and Marine Corps University in 1991. Īs a young man he served briefly in the army, reaching the rank of captain, and in later life he taught at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. The Campaigns of Napoleon and other books on the Napoleonic eraĭavid Geoffrey Chandler (15 January 1934 – 10 October 2004) was a British historian whose study focused on the Napoleonic era. Military history, especially the Napoleonic Wars ![]() ![]() ![]() Users who like +KINDLE%= Don't You Dare (C.E.Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age.* In all the ways I shouldn?t.My best taste is branded in my memory, his touch seared in my skin.And I want more.This simmering attraction I feel only grows with passing time.Which is why I start tossing out new dares.Riskier ones that toe lines we never thought we?d cross.I?m gambling with our friendship, knowing it could ruin us.But there?s so much more at stake here.Like my heart.*Don't You Dare is a new adult college romance featuring two best friends, too many baseball puns, scorching dirty talk, and a whole lot of bi-curious exploration. A single kiss.That?s all it took to flip my world upside down.I?ve always classified myself as straight, and as far as I can tell, so has he.I didn?t think one kiss would change that, but I was so wrong.Now, I can?t stop thinking about him. It was never meant to be more than a dare.A party game. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() the savior of the 'reluctant reader.'" - USA Today "So appealing that youngsters won't notice that their vocabulary is stretching." - School Library Journal "Pilkey's sharp humor shines, and is as much fun for parents as their young readers." - Parents' Choice Foundation"Combines empowerment and empathy with age-appropriate humor and action." - Booklist "Celebrates the triumph of the good-hearted." - The Educational Book and Media Association, The critics are CRAZY about UNDERPANTS! "Irresistible." - Entertainment Weekly "Call Pilkey. ![]() The critics are CRAZY about UNDERPANTS! "Irresistible." - Entertainment Weekly "Call Pilkey. ![]() ![]() Something is lurking in the deepest waters, devouring all the words that are no longer used. ![]() But once youve done it, everything will be perfectly clear. What if the Right way is the wrong way, or the Left way is the right way? Lauren asked. ![]() One of these paths is the true way, and will take you where you need to go but you can only know which is which once you have gone along the way of your choice for some time. You see, very few people have ever reached the castle itself, and no one has been there since I have been here, but I can tell you one thing.if you keep going straight through the forest, it will end. I cant tell you which way to go, since I have no idea. That is the first step, and that is good. But you have found your way to the Enchanted Islands, said the hermit. ![]() Book Synopsis Were trying to get to the castle of the Wise Enchanter, Michael said. ![]() ![]() He attended Los Angeles High School, where he was involved in the drama club and planned to become an actor. There, young Bradbury often roller-skated through Hollywood, trying to spot celebrities. In 1934, his family settled in Los Angeles, California. His grandfather and great-grandfather were newspaper publishers. His mother, Esther Marie Bradbury (nee Moberg), was a Swedish immigrant. His father, Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, was a telephone lineman and technician. ![]() He was born Ray Douglas Bradbury on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. ![]() Although he created a world of new technical and intellectual ideas, he never obtained a driver's license and had never driven an automobile. Ray Bradbury was an American science fiction writer whose works were translated in more than 40 languages and sold millions of copies around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life, the reasons he might have vanished. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. ![]() She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Esquire, Vogue, The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA TODAY, and TimeĪnna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author. ![]() Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading this story about what happens when a politician who was just another typical politician transforms into a genuine statesman takes on a whole new dimension of possibility in light of the real-world parallel coincidentally offered to readers. What Winston Churchill does throughout a long and consistently engaging story lies far outside the realm of modern-day American experiences with politicians and their idea of leadership. The point of the book is to offer a visceral and enthralling portrait of a true story so antithetical to what most Americans have experienced in their lives as to make it almost seem like a fable or fairy tale. But then the point of this book is not really about the facts and dates and events of that momentous year. The history covered in this volume is well-known and extensively analyzed and this biography adds no startling new information to the archives of history. This biography of Churchill is not an all-encompassing womb-to-tomb comprehensive overview of his long and varied career but instead narrows the focus down specifically to the first year of Churchill’s service as British Prime Minister during World War II. This is why books like Eric Larson's The Splendid and the Vile are essential. ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() 'If you've never read a Discworld novel, what's the matter with you?' Guardian Unfortunately, their journey across the Disc includes facing robbers, monsters, mercenaries, and Death himself.Īnd the whole thing's just a game of the gods that might send them over the edge. ![]() ![]() Rincewind is the world's worst wizard who has just been handed a very important job: to look after the world's first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. Except for the fact that it travels through space on the shoulders of four giant elephants who in turn stand on the shell of an astronomically huge star turtle, of course. Somewhere between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a magical world not totally unlike our own. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination. ![]() NAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS ![]() |