Sentences with phrase «at fiction books»

Of course, with our previews we only look at Fiction books.

Not exact matches

Mackey, a voracious reader, often has seven or eight books going at a time spanning from science fiction to economic theory.

Researchers at the New School for Social Research in New York have determined that reading literary fiction — books that have literary merit and don't fit into a genre — enhances what scientists call «Theory of Mind (ToM), or an ability to understand the mental states of others.

Russ Christian thinking at its best, 5 billion people totally ignore or think the bible is just another poorly written of fiction, sure to your lot it may be the most influential book in history, not so much to everyone else and is getting less and less influential as time goes by.

19th century, archaeological finds (e.g. earth and timber fortifications and towns, the use of a plaster - like cement, ancient roads, metal points and implements, copper breastplates, head - plates, textiles, pearls, native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) is not interpreted by mainstream academia as proving the historicity or divinity of the Book of Mormon.This evidence is viewed by mainstream scholars as a work of fiction that parallels others within the 19th century «Mound - builder» genre that were pervasive at the time.

Like all of his books after Black Robe (his only attempt at historical fiction), it takes the form of a thriller, with a seductively relentless pace reminiscent of Simenon at his best.

While her book at times threatens to become a kind of Answer Key to Waugh's novels, which themselves, in her hands, almost resemble mere romans clef, she does convincingly show that Waugh always drew from his own life in his fiction.

And, at the same time, to be fair, what you may perceive as a «Love Story by God» and take it «literally» others perceive it at best, a book of fiction, with some good words of wisdom now and then, to at worst, a book of an insane deity who demands obedience, among other ridiculous things, and... sent «himself» to die for «us» as we are «broken» and «flawed» / sinful» creations, and by sending his - self... if... we just «believe» we go to eternal paradise with him.

Reinforcing the fact that this book is historical fiction and not a precise biography, my friend Dalia Mogahed (executive director of the Center for Muslim Studies at Gallup and member of President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) rightfully noted in her review that this «is not a book recounting Muhammad's life, but a beautiful story inspired by it... There was editorial license and creativity, and while many of the words and events have been recorded in authentic sources, many have not...»

The bible is a fiction book about the past — we need to look at now and the future

In the 1970s and 1980s, his essays and fiction regularly took withering aim at the hypocrisies and absurdities of colonialism, and likewise at apartheid - era life in his native South Africa (this included, incidentally, a thoughtful, if critical, review of Dispensations, Richard John Neuhaus's own book about South Africa).

Having avoided contemporary fiction for most of my adult life, I at first could not believe what English prose had been reduced to, let alone that any reader could find the book's substantive claims remotely plausible.

I will often read a lighter book, maybe even fiction, at the same time, but this causes the long books to take that much longer to read.

While the terror at the power and indifference of nature can be found in her other books, and is the foundation insight in Living by Fiction, the difference here is that she has claimed a place with others.

... my memory of his sojourn there [at Tuskeegee University] was kept alive by the sight of his name on checkout slips of so many of the library books of fiction, poetry, history, and literary criticism that had become the main part of my own personal extracurricular reading program.

A bunch of hypothetical questions from a book that at best is a poor work of fiction.

Are you so damn blinded by your 2000 year old book of fiction to see that our world population is at a hefty 7 billion and is set to increase by another 2 billion in the next 8 years?

Science fiction author Ray Bradbury, who turns 90 this month, says he will sometimes open one of his books late at night and cry out thanks to God.

I do not have the figures in front of me, but I expect that golfers buy more instruction books, chuckle at more golf whimsy, read more fiction about their sport and sympathize more fully with accounts of the agonies of their brethren of the links than any other athletes.

At least this Australian Library is ahead of the game and has moved Armstrong's books to the fiction section.

Each month in the student flyer children will find a terrific selection of new and noteworthy fiction, classics, award - winning titles, perennial favourites, reference books, and more — all at amazing values and just - right reading levels.

Accustomed as I am to the mendacities of politicians, even I am now faintly staggered that at the very same time as Baron Mandelson was trying to dismiss my book as fiction, he was furtively rushing together his own «memoir» which confirms by repetition several of the episodes first revealed in The End of the Party.

Yet as the examples above demonstrate, there's nothing very new about fiction - whether books, plays, films or TV - taking aim at politicians as either fools or knaves.

Scientific American, the longest continuously published magazine in the U.S., Nature, the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal, and Tor Books, the leading science fiction and fantasy publisher, are media partners for the contest run by the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore.

WORLD building is at the heart of great science fiction, but it can be tricky at less than book length.

The last thing I do before bed around 10 p.m. is read — I always have at least one fiction and one nonfiction going and strongly prefer real books to e-books.

Read some dense fiction in bed, in actual physical book form (nothing against ebooks at any other time, but they represent a light source that can disrupt sleep).

I like to have 2 books in rotation at a time, a fiction and one non-fiction so that tends to be the reason for the variety!

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Paige Ashley Pictures And Movies at Freeones courtesy of Paige Ashley her official site She's Dating the Gangster is a 2014 Filipino teen romantic comedy - drama film based on the best Pop Fiction book of the same name originally published on

To anyone new to Stranger Things Imagine ET, Aliens, The Goonies, The Thing, IT and many other 80's -90's Science Fiction / Horror films books mixed together that was infused of so many pop culture references from the same time that they become hard to keep track of at times well THAT is pretty much Stranger Things in a Nutshell!

I wish people would read the damn book, or at least be aware of what is contained in Jackson's wonderful piece of psychological fiction.

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Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Her writing and interviews have appeared in The Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Orlando Weekly, Science Fiction Weekly, and at the NPR Books website, and she's been a recurring guest on Filmspotting, Slashfilm's Filmcast, and The Sound Of Young America, now known as Bullseye.

Join host Mike McCune at Bucket O» Blood Books & Records (3182 North Elston Ave) for an evening celebrating pulp magazines and fiction, with a modern twist!

The director's pulp fictions amount to comic - book movies without the superheroes, or, in this case, without heroes (come to think of it, at half the length, Hateful Eight might've nicely evoked the short - form punch of an EC Comic).

Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock begins with a tantalizing note, a mystery within the mystery of the book itself: «Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction, my readers must decide for themselves.

The books, we told them, can be fiction, non-fiction, humor, mystery, biography, pedagogy; for teachers, about teachers, for children, for parents; long, short, old, new... in other words, any book at all that you have enjoyed or learned from within the last few years.

Our latest product is a series of comic - book versions of our science fiction chapter books — all recorded for at - risk readers, of course.

Use this «Book Report Form: General Fiction» printable worksheet in the classroom or at home.

Pioneer Valley Books offers a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction books and other resources for Reading Recovery, primary classroom, and literacy teachers at affordable prBooks offers a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction books and other resources for Reading Recovery, primary classroom, and literacy teachers at affordable prbooks and other resources for Reading Recovery, primary classroom, and literacy teachers at affordable prices.

Or, at the front end you could allow students the choice of reading To Kill a Mockingbird or reading another book of choice, fiction or nonfiction, that addresses similar themes of race, culture, power, and equity.

Simmons supports her school's focused literacy work by ordering a variety of classroom fiction and non-fiction books so that teachers can access multiple resources at students» readability levels to support their instruction.

Being involved in every stage of putting together a non-fiction book proposal, offering substantial editing on fiction manuscripts, and coming up with book ideas for authors looking for their next project is as much a part of the work at DGLM as selling, negotiating contracts, and collecting monies for their clients.

Looking at the top 100 Kindle books in Fiction, 10 of them are self - pubbed (just doing a casual survey).

In recent years, Breakwater has successfully begun publishing cutting edge literature in all genres, including children's books, literary and commercial fiction, educational curricula, non-fiction, and poetry, while at the same time continuing to support its culturally significant backlist titles.

In 2006, Latoya joined Grand Central Publishing, an imprint at Hachette Book Group, where she acquired a variety of titles from Hardcover fiction and non-fiction, to digital romance and erotica.

At the third annual awards ceremony, the 2017 winners were announced: in Fiction, Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Deep Vellum); in Creative Nonfiction, Calamities by Renee Gladman (Wave Books); in Poetry, Buck Studies by Douglas Kearney (Fence Books); and Bennington Review and Prairie Schooner in Magazines Best Debut and General Excellence, respectively.

Courtesy of Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours, Oliver & Jack: At Lodgings In Lyme will be taking a whirlwind tour of the interwebs!