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Early Riser was listed 10th in the New York Times Best-Seller Books Hardcover Fiction on 3 March 2019. [3] "As Charlie uncovers a conspiracy connected with a viral dream, Fforde keeps the puns and neologisms coming thick and fast while exploring every facet of his novel’s intriguing premise." - James Lovegrove, Financial Times (30 November ...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey is a 2002 book by Spencer Wells, an American geneticist and anthropologist, in which he uses techniques and theories of genetics and evolutionary biology to trace the geographical dispersal of early human migrations out of Africa. The book was made into a TV documentary in 2003.
Laurie Halse Anderson (born Laurie Beth Halse; October 23, 1961) is an American writer, known for children's and young adult novels.She received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2010 for her contribution to young adult literature [1] and in 2023 she received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.
Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize laureate and one of the researchers who published the first sequence of the Neanderthal genome.. On 7 May 2010, following the genome sequencing of three Vindija Neanderthals, a draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published and revealed that Neanderthals shared more alleles with Eurasian populations (e.g. French, Han Chinese, and Papua New Guinean) than with ...
Jack Heath is an Australian writer of fiction for children and adults [2] who is best known for the Danger, Scream, [3] Liars [4] and Timothy Blake series. [1] He has been shortlisted for the ACT Book of the Year Award, [5] CBCA Notable Book Award, [6] Nottinghamshire Brilliant Book Award, [7] the Aurealis Sci-Fi book of the Year, [8] the National Year of Reading "Our Story" Collection, [9] a ...
As the title indicates, the stories included in the book are among the first Salinger ever published, dating back as early as 1940. However, they had not previously been collected in book form. Two of the stories, "The Young Folks" and "Once a Week Won't Kill You", were originally published in Story magazine, while "Go See Eddie" was originally ...
"But", she wrote, "as A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters progresses and leitmotifs recur, often in comically ingenious combinations, the book becomes increasingly engaging and entertaining; and […] the book attains that genial mastery of tone that characterized Flaubert's Parrot."