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Slated for a Nov. 4 release, Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts promises to explore the Toronto-based author’s life and work, from her childhood in Canada to the writing of The Handmaid's Tale to ...
James Tock was born in Snow County Hospital in Colorado and at the exact moment his grandfather, Josef Tock, a pastry chef, dies of a stroke.Though crippled by a stroke earlier in the week, moments before his death, Josef recovers miraculously to impart on his son Rudy ten cryptic predictions: among them that his grandchild will be named James—but that everyone will call him Jimmy.
Time of Hope is the first chronological entry in C. P. Snow's series of novels Strangers and Brothers, and the third to be published. It depicts the beginning of Lewis Eliot's life, with a childhood in poverty in a small English town at the beginning of the 20th century.
[14] In Church Life Journal Michael Shindler in turn argued against Hägglund's notion of secular faith in favor of "the absolute sensibility" of religious faith. [15] In contrast, David Chivers in The Humanist heralded This Life as "an important work that pushes forward a secular, rational, and fulfilling view of humankind's place in the world."
In This Our Life is a 1941 novel by the American writer Ellen Glasgow. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942. [ 1 ] The title is a quote from the sonnet sequence Modern Love by George Meredith : "Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul/ When hot for certainties in this our life!"
In his memoir, "Time to Thank: Caregiving for My Hero" (Post Hill Press), actor Steve Guttenberg writes about his hero – his father, Stanley – and the relationship they shared, from childhood ...
Future Shock is a 1970 book by American futurist Alvin Toffler, [1] written together with his wife Adelaide Farrell, [2] [3] in which the authors define the term "future shock" as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies, and a personal perception of "too much change in too short a period of time".
Rare Earth was succeeded in 2003 by the follow-on book The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of our World, also by Ward and Brownlee, which talks about the Earth's long-term future and eventual demise under a warming and expanding Sun, showing readers the concept that planets like Earth ...