A Reading Guide to The Giver (Scholastic Bookfiles)
ISBN: 0439463564
Author: Jeannette Sanderson
Publisher: Scholastic Reference
Rating: 4.46
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Selasa, 01 Juli 2003
Sex: A User s Guide
Sex: A User s Guide
Everything you always wanted to know about the one subject that never gets old…
When it comes to sex, a little knowledge goes a long, long way. Here, at last, is the perfect little book to tease your imagination and test your sexual IQ (ever heard of the Turtle Stirs position?).
From techniques to tall tales, from the physiology of sex to an astounding guide to Sex Slang (Shuffle the Kit Kat? Play the Boneaphone?), this stimulating collection of titillating tidbits, bizarre curiosities, and historical facts is guaranteed to satisfy your lust for knowledge.
Did you know…
* Nipple rings were popular in the late Victorian Era (see page 27)
* The plain, bland graham cracker was originally invented to smother the sex drive (see page 94)
* Cleopatra owned one of the world’s first vibrators--a small container of buzzing bees (see page 206)
PLUS The History of Sex * Sex in Literature,
Film, and Art * Famous Sexual Athletes (and flops) *Perversions and Taboos *
And Much More!
ISBN: 038533706X
Author: Stephen Arnott
Publisher: Delta
Rating: 3.95
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Selasa, 17 Juni 2003
The Autograph Man
The Autograph Man
Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. His business is to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, and occasionally fake them—all to give the people what they want: a little piece of Fame. But what does Alex want? Only the return of his father, the end of religion, something for his headache, three different girls, infinite grace, and the rare autograph of forties movie actress Kitty Alexander. With fries.
The Autograph Man is a deeply funny existential tour around the hollow trappings of modernity: celebrity, cinema, and the ugly triumph of symbol over experience. It offers further proof that Zadie Smith is one of the most staggeringly talented writers of her generation.
ISBN: 037570387X
Author: Zadie Smith
Publisher: Vintage
Rating: 3.12
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Minggu, 01 Juni 2003
Tenth Man Down
Tenth Man Down
Sent to train government troops in Kamanga, Geordie is to reclaim a lucrative African diamond mine held by Kamanga rebels and escape the evil spell of a Sin'ganga or witch doctor. As Sharp and his men move in, they discover the rebels are being supported by ex-US Navy SEAL mercenaries. As they try and uncover the hidden agenda, Sharp is taken prisoner. Is he the tenth and last of the predicted victims?
ISBN: 0753122170
Author: Chris Ryan
Publisher: Isis
Rating: 3.89
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Sabtu, 01 Maret 2003
Black Beauty
Black Beauty
A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next.
Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse.
Throughout, Sewell rails - in a gentle, 19th-century way - against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all.
ISBN: 0439228905
Author: Anna Sewell
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Rating: 3.93
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Selasa, 25 Februari 2003
Autograph Man (cd)
Autograph Man (cd)
ISBN: 0141804750
Author: Zadie Smith
Publisher: Penguin Audio UK
Rating: 3.12
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The Power and the Glory
The Power and the Glory
How does good spoil, and how can bad be redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement through a priest and the people he encounters. In the 1930s one Mexican state has outlawed the Church, naming it a source of greed and debauchery. The priests have been rounded up and shot by firing squad--save one, the whisky priest. On the run, and in a blur of alcohol and fear, this outlaw meets a dentist, a banana farmer, and a village woman he knew six years earlier. For a while, he is accompanied by a toothless man--whom he refers to as his Judas and does his best to ditch. Always, an adamant lieutenant is only a few hours behind, determined to liberate his country from the evils of the church.
On the verge of reaching a safer region, the whisky priest is repeatedly held back by his vocation, even though he no longer feels fit to perform his rites: "When he was gone it would be as if God in all this space between the sea and the mountains ceased to exist. Wasn't it his duty to stay, even if they despised him, even if they were murdered for his sake? even if they were corrupted by his example?"
As his sins and dangers increase, the broken priest comes to confront the nature of piety and love. Still, when he is granted a reprieve, he feels himself sliding into the old arrogance, slipping it on like the black gloves he used to wear. Greene has drawn this man--and all he encounters--vividly and viscerally. He may have said The Power and the Glory was "written to a thesis," but this brilliant theological thriller has far more mysteries--and troubling ideals--than certainties. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland
ISBN: 0142437301
Author: Graham Greene
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Rating: 3.98
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