“An ‘Emma’ Both Darker and Funnier” The New York Times
“I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like,” Jane Austen wrote of Emma, vastly underestimating her readers’ good taste. The trick of adapting Emma is to recapture Austen’s delicate balance, which allows us to see why the heroine still has friends and social influence, despite being the worst matchmaker Read More
“Manager of the Century” Fortune
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Jack Welch knows how to win. During his forty-year career at General Electric, he led the company to year-after-year success around the globe, in multiple markets, against brutal competition. His honest, be-the-best style of management became the gold standard in business, with his relentless focus on people, teamwork, and profits. Read More
In the highly anticipated new novel by John Varley, a manned mission to Mars becomes a personal mission for an unlikely bunch of astronauts: seven suburban misfits who have constructed a spaceship built out of old tanker cars and held together with all-American ambition. They call her Red Thunder. They plan to be the first people on the Red Planet…despite China’s big head start. If it didn’t sound so crazy, it would be history in the making…
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Noriko, a normal school girl, is walking around with her friends. While retreaving a ball she comes across a terrorist’s bomb and it explodes at point blank. When Noriko comes to she’s not dead but in a strange land.
A land where she doesn’t speak the language, death and violence are so common place it doesn’t effect the locals, and where no one but a strange warrior named Izark can be trusted.
That’s the beginning of From Far Away.
“Dean Koontz is not just a master of our darkest dreams, but also a literary juggler.”–The Times (London)
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“The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why.†But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe it’s a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Read More