Sentences with phrase «of page turners»

We've got a diverse list of page turners covering everything from romance to mysteries and ghost stories to thrillers.

Though with BT4.0 that means the possibility of page turners / pedals.

The following interview was originally included as part of The Page Turners: Economy of Fear bonus package for people who pre-ordered the book back in the Spring of 2015.

This one was the pure definition of a page turner that grabbed me early on and didn't want to let

Lots of page turner pedals that can be used with an Android tablet, and iPad, or a computer / laptop that sell for around $ 100.

Not exact matches

«Stepan's history of eradication efforts gives you a good sense of how involved the work can get, how many different kinds of approaches have been tried without success, and how much we've learned from our failures,» he writes, though he also warns that, while extremely valuable, it is far from a page turner.

I went looking for a patient guide, and was advised to call Prof. David Duff, of the University of British Columbia's Peter A. Allard School of Law, who is the primary author of the 2015 page - turner The Taxation of Business Organizations in Canada.What, haven't read it?

For me personally, summer is the season of indulgence, full of page - turners and thought - provoking but propulsive sci - fi (that, or a little Solzhenitsyn to cool off).

«I might lose whatever credibility I have with readers if I suggested flat out that a book centered around the subject of oil, written by an economist, was a page - turner, but I am willing to say with conviction that Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller, by former CIBC Chief Economist Jeff Rubin, is a fantastically compelling read.

But far from being a drudgery of a read, this exploration of The Great Migration (the movement of African Americans out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast and West between 1915 and 1970) is a total page - turner, full of fascinating characters, gut - wrenching stories, exciting twists and turns, and a lively elucidation of an epic chapter of American history that few of us have deeply considered and which still affects our world today.

Pagels's and Ehrman's books in particular are page - turners in which early Christian history unfolds with the drama of a first - rate detective story.

It's a compelling page - turner that takes the reader from the wobbly chairs of Alcoholics Anonymous to a smoky downtown comedy club to the pews of the Lutheran Church where Nadia pastors called House for All Sinners and Saints.

This page - turner told of the Tarahumara Indians and their seemingly superhuman long - distance runs.

For Ralph Antwi, author and Founding President of Rain Foundation, «Silence is Not Golden and its sequel, Silence Became Golden are both page turners... The various pages of both books challenge positions that elicit perceptions inimical to the ultimate good of our world.

From the teenage atheist who renounced his German citizenship to the peace - activists eptuagenarian who pursued an «equation of everything» on his deathbed, the Einstein in this page - turner is inventive and fallible, with his accomplishments intimately linked to his nonconformity.

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While I can't get enough of the page - turners, I've also included a few beach reads to lighten up the list.

The book's a page turner and I highly recommend it to single women and men, regardless of their zip code.

of Acxiom Corp.... Matters of Life and Data is a compelling read, a page - turner of a memoir that sheds light on what it takes to be successful in business as well as on what it takes to live a fulfilling life.

Hanks» solid yet stiff performance is, in the end, emblematic of everything that's wrong with Inferno, as the film's overly serious feel is completely at odds with the fun, fast - paced tone of Brown's page - turner - with, especially, the dull third act ensuring that the movie ends on as anti-climactic a note as one could envision.

But Francis Lawrence's steely thriller, based on the first of Jason Matthews» trilogy of novels, shares more DNA with John Le Carré's densely - plotted espionage page - turners than the MCU.

Elle works as a celebrity ghost writer, and lives in total ease with the notion of transforming real experience (or, at least, a person's recollection of lived experience) into a glossy page - turner.

Confession: I'm addicted to the crime fiction of Michael Connelly, with a bullet next to the page - turners featuring attorney Mickey Haller, defender of desperate scumbags and the occasional lost cause.

The character work is textured and layered, the story is fantastic, a real «Page turner», and the examination of the Anonymous - y left wing politics is very thoughtful and measured.

Nevertheless a suitably exciting action film that probably takes itself a little too seriously, «American Assassin» works best when it's trying to replicate the rhythms of a pulpy page - turner and least when pausing to consider the deeper implications of politics and personal responsibility in a post-9 / 11 world.

Tate Taylor originally appeared like an odd pick to direct the adaptation of Paula Hawkins «The Girl on the Train, an exciting, brutal, and sometimes darkly funny page - turner.

The depth of her research, the layers of her characters and the way she wove the most modern of themes into a deep period setting to produce a page - turner of a thriller made my work an absolute pleasure and meant I was able to follow the contours of her story much more faithfully than is sometimes the case.

There is plenty of faith to the novel but none of the verve that made it the (albeit ludicrous) page - turner that it is.

But the contemporary setting and family - based plot inevitably meant it was more of an amusing beach read than a thrilling page - turner.

When word first spread that Roland Emmerich was going to direct a movie called «The Day After Tomorrow,» we were delighted to hear that Allan Folsom's compulsive page - turner about the mother of all Nazi conspiracies was coming to life on the big screen.

A perfect centerpiece for a dystopian fiction unit, this sci - fi page - turner follows impoverished orphan Wade Watts on his epic hunt for a legendary Easter egg hidden somewhere in the virtual universe of OASIS.

Most people in the L&D community will have heard of a «page turner», an E-learning course that you could quite easily click through without even really concentrating.

This is a tangle of witches and magic, vampires, alchemy, history, family lore, suspense, and a little romance into a very entertaining page - turner.

Contrary to the conventional page turners, in video - based learning, the schema of the learner is compelled to work faster due to the high frequency of changing onscreen sensory ambiance blended with the meticulous auditory permutation.

A creative pursuit of blending the joy and surprise emotions of the viewers / learners is an essential mix to gain the attention of the learners in any video discourse; this being more demanding compared to conventional page turners.

In their quest to deliver online training to employees, at the speed of need, organizations often resorted to passive, click «Next» page - turners.

The production of more presentations and more page turners will only make people more knowledgeable; it will not provide them with skills to better do their job.

With the introduction of e-learning more than a decade ago, learners were mostly confined to a computer and accessing learning at a specific location through CBTs which were essentially page - turners.

For those of you who were not fortunate enough to experience these page - turners (or life before remote controls), Twistaplot was a series of books... Read more

An affiliate marketer recently started promoting my book, The Page Turners: Economy of Fear on his Twitter feed.

A profoundly moving story of family, history, and the meaning of home, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page - turner and a sensitive family portrait.

While much of Lent's writing is rich with insights about the human condition, those who prefer a more fast - paced read may find this detailed examination of daily living less than a page - turner.

Stedman's debut novel, The Light Between Oceans, is a poignant page - turner that marks the arrival of an impressive new literary talent.

You may know the ending to John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (out in paperback last week from Harper Perennial)-- but it still manages to be a page - turner.

As always, we're highlighting a lot of new content on BookPage.com, from summer romance novels, to kid thrillers to nonfiction page - turners.

It's not a gripping page turner and because it is so faithful to the biographical facts of Christina's life it doesn't have a traditional main character with conflicts that are neatly resolved.

Plenty of action and intriguing mystery make this a page - turner.

Though this one wasn't as much of a page - turner as Notes on a Scandal, I appreciate a writer who's not afraid to make her characters less than likeable.

Stories of coming of age in the South during the Civil Rights movement are myriad, but Gilmore's addition to this literary tradition feels fresh and is a real page - turner.

Set in Hawaii, Hemmings» page - turner of a debut novel is narrated by Matt King, a wealthy, well - connected attorney, who is the head of an unusual family.