Thursday, July 30, 2020

1984 by George Orwell

Description

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as is a dystopian novel by  English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centers on the consequences of government over-reach, totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of all persons and behaviors within society. More broadly, it examines the role of truth and facts within politics and their manipulation. 

Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare and satiric work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real.  The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life-- the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language-- and his ability to construct such a rigorous version of hell. 

The world is gradually changing. The nation which used to be a pleasant place to live and enjoy freely has distorted into an unpleasant and demeaned place. No one is safe. No place is safe to run and hide from the dominating party leader, Big Brother, who is considered equal to God. This is the time where everything is owned by the State. The world was seeing the ruins of World War II. Leaders such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini prevailed during this phase. The basic plot of this historic novel revolves around the concept that no person has the freedom to live life on his or her own terms. And, the present day is 1984.

There is another character Winston Smith, who is leading a normal layman life under this brutal state of affairs, though not in favor of all of this. He works on writing the old newspaper articles in order to make history or past relevant to today's party line. He is efficient enough in spite of hating his bosses. Julia, a young girl who is morally very rigid comes into the fore. She too hates the system of the state as much as Winston does. Gradually they fall in love but have to conceal their feeling for each other, as it will not be acceptable by Big Brother.

It was required reading for students since it was published, it ranked among the most terrifying novels ever written. It was selected for NPR Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books.

Adaptation

Nineteen Eighty-Four has been adapted for the cinema, radio, television, and theater at least twice each, as well as for other art media, such as ballet and opera.

About the Author

Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. He was born on 25 June 1903 in Motihari, Bihar, British India. His father worked in the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Services. He was an alumnus of Eton College, Berkshire, England.

His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language, and a belief in democratic socialism. 

In addition to his literary career, Orwell served as a police officer with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922-1927 and fought with the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War from 1936-1937. He was severely wounded when he was shot through his throat.

Between 1941 and 1943, Orwell worked on propaganda for the BBC. In 1943, he became literary editor of the Tribune, a weekly left-wing magazine. He was a prolific polemical journalist, article writer, literary critic, reviewer poet, and writer of fiction, and considered perhaps the twentieth century's best chronicler of English culture. 

Orwell is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and the satirical novella Animal Farm (1945) -- they have together sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author. His 1938 book Homage to Catalonia, an account of his experiences as a volunteer on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War, together with numerous essays on politics, literature, language, and culture, has been widely acclaimed. 

Orwell's influence on contemporary culture, popular and political, continues decades after his death. Several of his neologisms, along with the term "Orwellian"-- now a byword for any oppressive or manipulative social phenomenon opposed to a free society -- have entered the vernacular.

Goerge Orwell 


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Rating:4.7/5

Author: George Orwell

Publisher: Secker &Warburg (Original Edition)

Publishing Date: 8 June 1949 (Original Edition)

Edition Language: English

Genre: Dystopian, Political Fiction, Social Science Fiction

ISBN-13: 978-8192910901

ASIN: 0451524934

Pages: 328




Thursday, July 23, 2020

End of Watch by Stephen King

                                       
Description

End of Watch is a crime novel by American author Stephen King, published on June 7, 2016. It is the third volume of Bill Hodges trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (the first volume) and Finders Keepers (the second volume). At the 2015 Edgar Award, while accepting the award for the Best Novel for Mr. Mercedes, King announced that the novel's antagonist, Brady Hartsfield, would be making a return in this third and final volume of the series. In End of Watch, the devilish "Mercedes Killer" drive his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don't figure out a way to stop him, they will be victims themselves.

It has been seven years since the Mercedes Killer, Brady Hartsfield, was knocked on the head and put into a catatonic state. On a hapless day, in room no. 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Click, something has awakened. Something evil. Hartsfield, the perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, where eight people were killed and many more were badly injured, has been in the mental clinic for five years in a vegetative state. According to his doctors, anything approaching a complete recovery is unlikely.

But behind the drool and stare, Brady is awake, and in possession of deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room. Retired police detective Bill Hodges, the hero of Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers, now runs an investigation agency with his partner, Holly Gibney—the woman who delivered the blow to Hartsfield’s head that put him on the brain injury ward. When Bill and Holly are called to a suicide scene with ties to the Mercedes Massacre, they find themselves pulled into their most dangerous case yet, one that will put their lives at risk, as well as those of Bill’s heroic young friend Jerome Robinson and his teenage sister, Barbara. Brady Hartsfield is back and planning revenge not just on Hodges and his friends, but on an entire city.

In End of Watch, Stephen King brings the Hodges trilogy to a sublimely terrifying conclusion, combining the detective fiction of Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers with the heart-pounding, supernatural suspense that has been his bestselling trademark. The result is an unnerving look at human vulnerability and chilling suspense. No one does it better than King.

"The result is a book that mixes revenge, crime, and otherworldly power, bringing the trilogy to a thrilling, satisfying close."--Chris Schluep

Adaptation

On October 10, 2017, Audience announced that the TV series based on the first Bill Hodges Novel, Mr. Mercedes, was renewed for season 2, based on the original Mr. Mercedes novel, Finders Keepers, and End of Watch.

About the Author 

Stephen King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural, fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them are worldwide bestsellers, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman. He has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections.

His first crime thriller featuring Bill Hodges, Mr. Mercedes, won the Edgar Award for best novel and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award. Both Mr. Mercedes and End of Watch received the Goodreads Choice Award for the Best Mystery and Thriller of 2014 and 2016 respectively. 

His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by the New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller as well as the Best Hardcover Book Award from the International Thriller Writers Association. 

He co-wrote the bestselling novel Sleeping Beauties with his son Owen King, and many of King's books have been turned into celebrated films and television series including The Shawshank Redemption, Gerald's Game, and It.

Stephen King has been the recipient of many national and international awards to date. He has received America's prestigious 2003  National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and the 2014 National Medal of Arts. In 2007 he also won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He has been described as 'King of Horror' a play on his surname.

King studied at the University of Maine, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.










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Series: Bill Hodges Trilogy (Book 3)
Rating: 4.6/5

Author: Stephen King

Publisher: Scribner

Publishing Date: June 7, 2016

Edition Language: English

Genre: Crime Fiction, Supernatural Thriller, Horror, 

ISBN-10: 1501129740

ISBN-13: 978-1501129742

Pages: 432 (Hardcover)






Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King


Description

Mr. Mercedes is a novel by American writer Stephen King. He calls it his first hard-boiled detective book. It was published on June 3, 2014. On June 10, 2014, the author described Mr. Mercedes as the first volume of a projected trilogy, to be followed in the first half of 2015 by Finders Keepers, and End of Watch in 2016.

The novel, Mr. Mercedes won the 2015 Edgar Award for 'Best Novel' from the Mystery Writers of America and Goodreads Choice Awards for 2014 in the 'Mystery and Thriller' category. King's interest in crime fiction was evident from his all finished novels but this is the most straight-up mystery-thriller of his career. In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands.

Retired Detective Bill Hodges is overweight, directionless, and toying with the idea of ending it all when he receives a jeering letter from the Mercedes Killer, who ran down 23 people with the stolen car but evaded Hodges's capture. With the help of a 17-year-old neighbor and one victim's sister, in proper gumshoe style, Hodges begins to play cat-and-mouse with the killer through a chat site called 'Under Debbie's Blue Umbrella'. Hodges' POV alternates with that the troubled murderers, a Norman Bates--like ice-cream truck driver named Brady Hartfield make mistakes, big ones, leaving this compelling, small-scale slugfest that plays out in Cheery Suburban setting. 

Mr. Mercedes is a war between good and evil, from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.

This exists outside of the usual Kingverse (Pennywise the Clown is referred to as fictive); add that to the atypical present-tense prose, and this feels pretty darn fresh, Big smashing climax, too. High-demand Backstory: no need to rev the engine here; this baby will rocket itself out of libraries with a loud sequela of the tires-Daniel Kraus

Adaptation

In January 2015, it was announced that Mr. Mercedes would be turned into a limited television series. David E. Kelley was slated to write the project and Jack Bender would direct. Kelly and Stephen King serve as executive producers. On October 10,2017, It was announced that the TV series Mr. Mercedes was renewed for season 2, which would conclude the story from the original Mr. Mercedes novel.

About the Author 

Stephen King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural, fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them are worldwide bestsellers, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman. He has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections.

His first crime thriller featuring Bill Hodges, Mr. Mercedes, won the Edgar Award for best novel and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award. Both Mr. Mercedes and End of Watch received the Goodreads Choice Award for the Best Mystery and Thriller of 2014 and 2016 respectively. 

His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by the New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller as well as the Best Hardcover Book Award from the International Thriller Writers Association. 

He co-wrote the bestselling novel Sleeping Beauties with his son Owen King, and many of King's books have been turned into celebrated films and television series including The Shawshank Redemption, Gerald's Game, and It.

Stephen King has been the recipient of many national and international awards to date. He has received America's prestigious 2003  National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and 2014 National Medal of Arts. In 2007 he also won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He has been described as 'King of Horror' a play on his surname. King studied at the University of Maine, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.










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Series: The Bill Hodges Trilogy (Book 1)

Rating: 4.4/5

Author: Stephen king

Publisher: Scribner

Publishing Date: June 3,2014 (1st edition)

Edition Language: English

Genre: Suspense Thriller, Horror Literature & Fiction, Contemporary Literature & Fiction

ISBN-10: 1476754454

ISBN-13: 978-1476754451

Pages: 436


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Sunday, July 19, 2020

Finders Keepers by Stephen King


Description

Finders Keepers is a crime novel by American writer Stephen King, published in June 2015. It is the second(volume) standalone novel in a trilogy focusing on Detective Bill Hodges, following Mr. Mercedes

The book is about the murder of reclusive writer John Rothstein, his missing notebooks with the undone story, and the release of his killer from prison after 35 years. A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far--a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and conquering characters King introduced in Mr. Mercedes.

"Wake up, genius." So begins King's instantly enthralling story about a resentful reader. John Rothstein is an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is furious, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the non-conventionalist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel. Morris hides the money and the notebooks without even reading it. Later, he gets arrested for another crime and locked up for 35 years. Decades later a teenaged boy named Pete Saubers finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges (detective), Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and vengeful  Morris when he is released from prison on parole.

Finders Keepers is spectacular, heart-pounding suspense, but it is also King writing about how literature shapes a life--for good, for bad, forever. 

"Stephen King's superb new stay-up-all-night thriller, Finders Keepers, is a sly, often poignant tale of literary obsession that recalls the themes of his classic 1987 novel Misery...a love letter to the joys of reading and to American literature... wonderful, scary, moving."-- Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post

Adaptation

The third season of Mr. Mercedes retains the title from the first Bill Hodges book and follows the events from Finders Keepers. As of April 2020, the TV show has an uncertain future, as the Audience Network closed and it was uncertain whether the show would return for a fourth season.

About the Author 

Stephen King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural, fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them are worldwide bestsellers, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman. He has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections.

His first crime thriller featuring Bill Hodges, Mr. Mercedes, won the Edgar Award for best novel and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award. Both Mr. Mercedes and End of Watch received the Goodreads Choice Award for the Best Mystery and Thriller of 2014 and 2016 respectively. 

His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by the New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller as well as the Best Hardcover Book Award from the International Thriller Writers Association. 

He co-wrote the bestselling novel Sleeping Beauties with his son Owen King, and many of King's books have been turned into celebrated films and television series including The Shawshank Redemption, Gerald's Game, and It.

Stephen King has been the recipient of many national and international awards to date. He has received America's prestigious 2003  National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and 2014 National Medal of Arts. In 2007 he also won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He has been described as 'King of Horror' a play on his surname. King studied at the University of Maine, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.











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Series: The Bill Hodges Trilogy (Book/Volume 2)

Rating: 4.5/5

Author: Stephen King

Publisher: Scribner, 

Publishing Date: June 2, 2015 (1st Printing Edition) 

Edition Language: English

Genre: Crime Thriller, Suspense Thriller, Horror Literature & Fiction

ISBN-10: 1501100076

ISBN-13: 978-1501100079

Pages: 448





Friday, July 17, 2020

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Description

The Book Thief, published in 2005, is a historical novel by Australian author Markus Zusak. The novel became an international bestseller and was translated into 63 languages and sold 16 million copies. It was nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. This 10th-anniversary edition of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller features pages of bonus content, including marked-up manuscript pages, original sketches, and pages from the author's writing notebook.

The novel takes its reader to the journey of a girl's life during the Nazi era and Death has a story to tell, you listen. 

It is 1939, Nazi Germany is holding its breath. Death has never been busier and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist--books. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is the 'Gravedigger's Handbook', left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. so begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read. She shares her stolen books with her neighbors as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement during bombing raids. Soon she stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times, when Liesel's foster family hides a Jewish man in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up and closed down.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. 

"The Kind of book that can be life-changing."--The New York Times

"Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank."--USA Today

It received Commonwealth Writers' Prize(2006) for Best Book (South East Asia and South Pacific), Daniel Elliott Peace Award (2006), National Jewish Book Award (2006) for Children's Young Adult Literature, Publishers Weekly (2006) Best Children's Book of the Year, Sydney Taylor Book Award (2007) for the best in Jewish Children's and YA literature, Michael L. Printz Honor Book (2007). The Printz award is given to the best book for teens, based only on the quality of the writing. It also achieved 14th position on the PBS Great American Read (2018).

Adaptation

It was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 2013. It was directed by Brian Percival. Michael Petroni wrote the script.most of the movie was filmed in Görlitz, Germany.

About the Author

Mark Zusak (born 23 June 1975) is an Australian-German writer who is the internationally bestselling author of six novels, including The Book Thief, The Messenger (US title: I Am the Messenger), and most recently, Bridg of Clay. He has been on the New York Times bestseller list for almost more than a decade. All of Zusak's books-including earlier mentioned titles, The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe, When Dogs Cry (also titled Getting the Girl)-have been awarded numerous honors around the world, ranging from literary prize to readers choice to prizes voted on by booksellers.

Markus Zusak won the Margaret A. Edwards Award in 2014 from the American Library Association (ALA),  which annually recognizes an author for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. In 2006, he was also the recipient of the Sydney Morning Herald's Young Australian Novelist of the Year Award

He is a writer of German origin who was born and brought up in Sydney, Australia and still lives there with his wife and two children.

Markus Zusak


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Age Range: 12 and up (Grade Level- 7 and up)

Rating: 4.6/5 

Author: Markus Zusak

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Reader

Publishing Date: 2005 (Reprint edition September 11, 2007)

Edition Language: English, German

Genre: Teen & Young Adult Holocaust Historical Fiction, Children's Orphans & Foster Homes Book, 

ISBN-10: 0375842209

ISBN-13: 978-0375842207

Pages: 608





Thursday, July 16, 2020

The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama by Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan

  • The Worst President in History: 
  • The Legacy of Barack Obama 

  • Description

  • The presumption of Barack Obama's presidential greatness began before he even won the presidency. Now that he's out of office, presidential 'experts' and historians are ranking Obama as one of the greatest presidents of the United States, placing him amongst Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Truman.

  • Obama's presidency was certainly consequential, but it was by no means great.
  • Did Barack Obama really save America from another Great Depression? Did he really unite America or improve America's global image? Did he really usher in a new era of post-partisanship and government transparency? Did he really expand health coverage while lowering costs and cutting taxes? Did he really make America safer and stronger than it was when he first took office? According to his supporters in the media, Hollywood, and academia, he did. But they are wrong. And they are working aggressively to ensure their version of Obama's legacy is written into the history books. 

  • How can you discover and protect the truth?
  • In his farewell address to a supporter on January 11, 2017, Barack Obama declared, "By almost every measure, America is a better, stronger place than it was when we started." This book destroys that narrative, putting Obama's presidency into historical context and offering an avalanche of facts that simply cannot be ignored. All of these facts are now at your fingertips in a single source. The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama is your ultimate guide to Obama's real presidential record--the record he'd like history to forget.

  • This book is an Amazon Bestseller. The Most Comprehensive Takedown of the Obama Presidency.

  • "If you want to know why the history books will have a dim view of Barack Obama, this is the book to read."--John Hawkins, Right Wing News, and Townhall.com

  • About the Author

  • Matt Margolis is an author, graphic designer, former architect, and a consumer of books and coffee. He lives with his family in a vineyard near Buffalo, New York.

  • Mark Noonan is a long-time blogger and author who resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is a U.S.  Navy veteran. He lives with his wife, a dog, and an astonishingly large number of books. Mark is currently working on his first novel.

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    Matt Margolis
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    Rating: 4.2/5

    Author: Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan

    Publisher: Bombardier Books

    Publishing Date: July 24, 2018

    Edition Language: English

    Genre: Political Corruption & Misconduct, US Presidents, United States Executive Government

    ISBN-10: 1682618137

    ISBN-13: 978-1682618134

    Page: 496




Wednesday, July 15, 2020

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett


Description

The Dutch House (2019) is the most powerful novel by Ann Patchett, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth. A richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. It is the story of a paradise that has raised the question of inheritance, love, and forgiveness...how we want to see ourselves and who we really are. The novel is narrated by an adult Danny Conroy.

The Dutch House is a mansion located in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. It was built in 1922 by the VanHoebeek family, a husband and his wife originally from the Netherlands who made their fortune in the tobacco industry. Cyril Conroy, a self-made real estate mogul, bought the mansion in 1946 and their kids, Danny and Maeve, were raised in the Dutch House. Elna dislikes the Dutch House and she abandons the house when Danny is only 3 and Maeve is 10. After their father dies, the two siblings are forced out of their home by their stepmother. Their unbreakable bond supports each other to live their life further. Maeve finds a scholarship trust and uses it to send Dany to Columbia University and to medical school. He finished medical school in the hope to please Maeve, even though he isn't interested in working as a doctor. 
In spite of being an ever protective sister and indulged brother, the two are finally put to be tested over their bond.

In the novel, only the house does not change. Circumstances can change people and their irrevocable bond with their loved ones. This novel takes a winding road through the forest and doesn't rust to a finish, nor is the ending wholly surprising. But if you allow yourself to walk along with Patchett, you will find the end of the trail. At the time of finishing the book, readers will believe to drive to Elkins Park and see it by themselves.  The novel got a mix of rave and positive reviews.

"Patchett's splendid novel is a thoughtful, compassionate exploration of obsession and forgiveness, what people acquire, keep, lose, or give away, and what they leave behind."
--Publishers Weekly

Awards
  • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2020)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2019)
  • New York Times Bestseller
  • A read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick
  • A New York Times Book Review Notable Book
  • TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019
  • Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery 29, and Buzzfeed
About the Author

Ann Patchett (born on December 2, 1963, in Los Angeles, California) is an American literary fiction author. She received the 2002 'PEN/Faulkner Award' and the 'Orange Prize' for Fiction in the same year, for her novel Bel Canto. Patchett's other novels include The Patron Saint of Liars (1992), Taft (1994), The Magician's Assistant (1997), Run (2007), State of Wonder (20011), Commonwealth (2016), and The Dutch House (2019). The Dutch House was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her mother is the novelist Jeanne Ray

She grew up in Nashville, Tennessee where she continues to live with her husband. She attended high school at St. Bernard Academy, a private, non-parochial Catholic school for girls, run by the sister of Mercy. Following graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College and took fiction writing classes with Allan Gurganus, Russell Banks, and Grace Paley. 

In 2010, she learned that her hometown Nashville has no good book store, she co-founded Parnassus Books in 2011 with Karen Hayes. In 2012, Patchett was on the Time 100 list of most influential people in the world by TIME Magazine.

Ann Patchett

Rating: 4.3/5

Author: Ann Patchett

Publisher: Harper

Publishing Date: September 24, 2019

Edition Language: English

Genre: Family life fiction, American Literature, Coming of Age Fiction

ISBN-10: 0062963678

ISBN-13: 9780062963673

Pages: 352


Monday, July 13, 2020

The Atlantis World by A. G. Riddle



Description

The Atlantis World is a thrilling conclusion to A. G. Riddle's blockbuster series, The Origin Mystery trilogy which has sold over three million copies worldwide. It was published in 20 languages. The Atlantis World is the third and last book of this trilogy. With the success of this last book, the trilogy has become the world's no.1 mystery novel. It has received nearly 150,000 reviews online. 

The Atlantis World is an adventure across space and time that explores the history of Atlantean home-world and culture--a mystery that readers inquisitively discuss in order to know more and theorized about since the release of the first novel in the series-The Atlantis Gene.

The book portraits how the world and the human race fought for their survival. 
__A mysterious signal from deep space may hold humanity's last chance of survival.
It could reveal the ultimate truth of human origin. The race to unravel the secrets of the Atlantis world has begun. 

In Northern Morocco, Dr. Kate Warner cured a global pandemic, and she thought she could cure herself. She was wrong, and she had no idea of the Atlantis conspiracy. Humanity faces a new threat, an enemy beyond imagination. With her own time running out and the utter collapse of human civilization looming, a new hope arrives a coded message from a potential ally.

In Arecibo Observatory, Mary Caldwell has spent her life waiting, watching the stars, looking for signs of intelligent life beyond our world. When that day comes, Mary is thrust into a struggle older than the human race, with far greater stakes. she must decide whom to trust because there is nowhere to hide. 

In Antarctica,  post to Atlantis Plague, Dorian Sloane finds himself a puppet to Ares and his mysterious agenda. When Dorian moves to take control of the situation, Ares unleashes a cataclysm that changes everything. As catastrophe circles the globe, Ares reveals the true nature of the threat to humanity, and Dorian agrees to one last mission; find and kill David Vale and Kate Warner. The orders are sought and destroy, and Dorian has been promised that his own answers and salvation lie on the other side.

With Dorian in pursuit, Kate, David, and their team race through the ruins of the Atlantean ship left on Earth across Atlantean science stations throughout the galaxy, and into the past of a mysterious culture whose secrets could save humanity in its darkest hour. With their own lives on the line and time slipping away, Kate, David, and Dorian are put to the ultimate test.

About the Author

A.G. Riddle is an American author who has written the Sci-Fi trilogy 'The Origin Mystery', which has leaped to #1 in the list of top ten Science Fiction books in the world of literature. He was born in Shelby, North Carolina in the United States of America. He grew up in a small town Boiling Spring, North Carolina, and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill. During his second year of college, he started his first company with a childhood friend. 

He did spend ten years starting internet companies before retiring to pursue his true passion, i.e. writing fiction. His debut novel The Atlantis Gene is the first book in The Origin Mystery. The trilogy is in bookstores around the world since 2015 and has been a reader's choice always. His recent release, his fourth novel, Departure follows the survivors of a flight that takes off in 2014 and crash lands in a changing world. It was published by Harper Collins in the fall of 2015 and 20th Century Fox is developing the novel for a feature film.

He currently lives in Florida with his wife, who endures his various idiosyncrasies in return for being the first to read his new novels. 

A.G. Riddle

Rating: 3.9/5

Author: A.G. Riddle

Publisher: Riddle Inc.

Publishing Date: May 15, 2014

Edition Language: English

Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Science Fiction 

ISBN: 97817897130

Pages: 304 (Paperback)



The Four Winds by Kristine Hannah

Original Cover Page (Hardcover) PC: Google Description From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone come...