![]() ![]() Gregory Powell is one of the main reoccurring characters in ‘ I, Robot. He later becomes the Director of Research. ![]() He strives to improve his lot in life, often by less-than-ideal means. He’s an unlikeable character who is very ambitious. Peter Bogert is a mathematician who works for US Robots. He’s someone who has spent a lot of time with robots. This is the person who, in the future, is interviewing Susan Calvin about her experiences. The Interviewer goes unnamed throughout the entire book. These are all based on experiences she heard or lived. She has worked for decades at the US Robots and Mechanical Men company and is telling each of the stories that follow. But, all the stories are united in the same frame narrative in which Susan Calvin is relaying robot-related stories from her career to an unnamed interviewer.Ī character who first appears in the frame story sets up the stories that follow. There are multiple antagonists throughout the entire collection, some of whom are humans, and others are robots. But others are confined to a single section of the novel. Some of the characters on this list, like Gregory Powell and Michael Donovan, are recurring, appearing in more than one short story in the collection. ![]()
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![]() Hanna is a ref reshingly unbalanced protagonist-unafraid of gore or her own sexual power while also being terrified of any loss and unable to handle simple high-school power negotiations. The resulting novel is wonderfully baffling, and as lush, warm, and conflicted as Hanna herself. Reeves immediately establishes a mysterious, disorienting perspective by allowing Hanna (who hallucinates conversations with her father but, as far as the reader is permitted to know, can also conjure up a swan whose actions impact the actual world) to be the only narrative voice describing the town of Portero and Hanna’s efforts to settle into it. Since Hanna has nowhere else to go, her mother agrees to let her stay, if she can prove that she can fit into this guarded, hostile town that considers outsiders merely fresh meat for monsters. What’s more, the town itself has doors that open between worlds, often releasing evil forces onto the residents. ![]() ![]() It’s hard enough for her to accept the death of her beloved father and to manage her escalating mental illness, but when she shows up in the hometown of her mother (whom she’s never met), she discovers that her mother wants nothing to do with her. ![]() ![]() Poor Hanna has had a seriously rough adolescence. ![]() ![]() ![]() Set against a turbulent and poignant backdrop of deforestation, the illegal pet trade, and forest fires, The Puma Years explores what happens when two desperate creatures in need of rescue find one another. A story of a big cat, a puma on another continent, which illustrates the terrible day to day consequences of the destruction of the Amazonian Rainforests. Most of all, there was the jungle-lyrical and alive-and there was Wayra, who would ultimately teach Laura so much about love, healing, and the person she was capable of becoming. There were animal whisperers, committed staff, wildly devoted volunteers, handsome heartbreakers, and a machete-wielding prom queen who carried Laura through. ![]() The humans, too, were cause for laughter and tears. They weren't alone, not with over a hundred quirky animals to care for, each lost and hurt in their own way: a pair of suicidal, bra-stealing monkeys, a frustrated parrot desperate to fly, and a pig with a wicked sense of humor. And in Wayra, she made a friend for life. ![]() Wide-eyed, inexperienced, and comically terrified, Laura made the scrappy, make-do camp her home. Fate landed her at a wildlife sanctuary on the edge of the Amazon jungle where she was assigned to a beautiful and complex puma named Wayra. Laura was in her early twenties and directionless when she quit her job to backpack in Bolivia. In this rapturous memoir, writer and activist Laura Coleman shares the story of her liberating journey in the Amazon jungle, where she fell in love with a magnificent cat who changed her life. ![]() ![]() Maya’s parents, Peter and Kira, are caught up in an investigation of the hockey club’s murky finances, and Amat-once the star of the Beartown team-has lost his way after an injury and a failed attempt to get drafted into the NHL. The destruction caused by a ferocious late-summer storm reignites the old rivalry between Beartown and the neighboring town of Hed, a rivalry which has always been fought through their ice hockey teams. Everyone has tried to move on, but there’s something about this place that prevents it. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the course of two weeks, everything in Beartown will change. A breathtaking new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove, The Winners returns to the close-knit, resilient community of Beartown for a story about first loves, second chances, and last goodbyes. ![]() ![]() Now he wants the Willamette Valley farmland, and he’s willing to wage war to conquer it.Īnd unknown to both factions is the imminent arrival of a ship from Tasmania bearing British soldiers. He has enslaved civilians, built an army, and spread his forces from Portland through most of western Washington State. Norman Arminger, medieval scholar, rules the Protectorate. Their leadership has saved countless lives.īut not every leader has altruistic aspirations. Their closest ally, the mystical Clan Mackenzie, is led by Wiccan folksinger Juniper Mackenzie. In Oregon’s Willamette Valley, former pilot Michael Havel’s Bearkillers are warriors of renown. Survivors have banded together in tribal communities, committed to rebuilding society. ![]() Rising from the ashes of the computer and industrial ages is a brave new world. ![]() It’s been eight years since the Change rendered technology inoperable across the globe. ![]() ![]() On one hand, I feel like they are comfort reading. I am split on how I feel about Amish books. ![]() Instead of the beautiful family life she dreamed of creating for her nieces, Rebecca feels as if her world is being torn apart by two different cultures, leaving her to question her place in the Amish community, her marriage, and her faith in God. Younger sister Lindsay is caught in the middle, and the strain between Rebecca and Daniel mounts as Jessica’s rebellion escalates. Rebellious Jessica is resistant to Amish ways and constantly in trouble with the community. Rebecca struggles to give the teenage girls the guidance they need as well as fulfill her duties to Daniel as an Amish wife. Instant motherhood, after years of unsuccessful attempts to conceive a child of her own, is both a joy and a heartache. ![]() Rebecca Kauffman’s tranquil Old Order Amish life is transformed when she suddenly has custody of her two teenage nieces after her "English" sister and brother-in-law are killed in an automobile accident. Most importantly, you will be encouraged by the hope and faith of these women, and the importance they place on their families. You’ll discover how the simplicity of the Amish lifestyle can clash with the “English” way of life-and the decisions and consequences that follow. As each woman’s story unfolds, you will share in her heartaches, trials, joys, dreams … and secrets. ![]() ![]() Take a trip to Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, where you’ll meet the women of the Kauffman Amish Bakery in Lancaster County. ![]() ![]() Now, with the cooperation of RCA Victor, it becomes possible to issue in one album the distillation of my extended picking and choosing from the treasure store of Hawaiian songs. When it looked as if I would never have a chance to do so, I amused myself by printing the titles of the choicest songs on little cards and shuffling them back and forth until I achieved my ideal album. "Ever since the day I first saw Hawaii and heard its rhythmic melodies, I have dreamed of assembling an album of my favorite Polynesian songs. Folding album cover is illustrated with color photographs and has extensive liner notes WRITTEN BY MICHENER, including historical observations and commentary on the songs. Twelve inch LP, RCA Victor LPM-2150, 1959. Please email with questions or to see any photos.Ī scarce item for the serious Michener collector. A crease in the paper runs the length of the front cover, near the fore-edge. A bit of chipping to the head and foot of the spine. Jacket has overall toning, with darker toning to the spine. ![]() Dust jacket has been wrapped in a protective mylar cover. A bit heavier toning at the foot of the spine. ![]() ![]() Along the edge of the boards and the spine is toned. ![]() 937 pages, followed by 8 pages of genealogical information- left unpaginated. White dust jacket with multi colored lettering and illustration and black lettering. Unbleached white cloth over boards with multi-colored lettering to the spine. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you want to read feminist literature, here are 10 books I recommend reading. Produced by Diana Nguyen and Rikki Novetsky. Books act as a way to drive theories, … For me, feminism is all about equality, for women to have the same rights and freedom as men do. Whether attacking the power structures of the present, or creating imaginative utopias and dystopias, literature has long been an effective way to spread ideas about equality. Zadie Smith is a brilliant, gorgeous, elegant, unforgettable writer and indomitable … 3 The End of Men: And the Rise of Women by Hanna Rosin. We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. Written over 50 years ago, the book still holds a world of insight into. I read a lot of her poetry in college and didn't love the aesthetic, but that's because I was being a jackass. Throughout the ages, books about strong women have existed, giving people, young and old the chance to see how strong women are. Brought up in Nigeria, Adichie, a novelist, shares her experience of racism she faced there. ![]() com) “The right book at the right moment might change everything. ![]() ![]() ![]() "But let me be clear-I am Persephone, future Queen of the Underworld, Lady of Your Fate-may you come to dread my presence." Persephone and Hades are engaged. "I am not sure who you think I am," she said. To add to her troubles, everyone seems eager to warn Persephone away from the God of the Dead by exposing his hellish past. "Persephone's relationship with Hades has gone public and the resulting media storm disrupts her normal life and threatens to expose her as the Goddess of Spring. "Darling, I would burn this world for you. ![]() Hades sighed and brushed his finger along her cheek. All of that changes when she sits down in a forbidden nightclub to play a hand of cards with a hypnotic and mysterious stranger. ![]() After moving to New Athens, she hoped to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. Since she was a little girl, flowers have only shriveled at her touch. "Persephone is the Goddess of Spring in title only. "You will worship me, and I won't even have to order you." His request felt sinful and devious, and she reveled in it. She remembered the words she had whispered to him in the back of the limo after La Rose. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Bride Test is about Khai, Michael's cousin in The Kiss Quotient. Five stars for a cute smutty romance? Really? But these books are very special to me and I think, deep down, they are actually a lot more than cute smutty romances. And I gave a lot of thought to my rating. I am going to share this again closer to publication, but after my experience with The Kiss Quotient and how it quite literally changed my life, I just couldn't wait to read this. So he could read a novel about alien demon things. ![]() He was ignoring everyone, including her, at this expensive wedding. With Esme’s time in the United States dwindling, Khai is forced to understand he’s been wrong all along. ![]() She’s hopelessly smitten with a man who’s convinced he can never return her affection. Esme’s lessons in love seem to be working…but only on herself. Seducing Khai, however, doesn’t go as planned. When the opportunity arises to come to America and meet a potential husband, she can’t turn it down, thinking this could be the break her family needs. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride.Īs a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. His family knows better-that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions-like grief. ![]() |