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The Personal Librarian was a top book club pick in November 2021, [3] March 2022, [4] and April 2022. [5] In 2021, the book was named a "Favorites of Favorites" by Library Reads, [6] as well as one of Booklist's top ten historical fiction novels. [7] It was also nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction. [8]
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer is a collection of short fiction by Janelle Monáe, written in collaboration with Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, and Sheree Renée Thomas. The collection, which has been described as Afrofuturist [1] and cyberpunk, is Monáe's debut literary work.
The Swimming-Pool Library is a 1988 novel by Alan Hollinghurst. The novel won two awards including Somerset Maugham Award 1988 followed by American Academy of Arts and Letters E.M. Forster Award 1989.
Whitney (Skarsten), a cautious librarian raised by home security experts, finds herself in a real-life adventure when a blind date mix-up leads her into an undercover FBI operation.
Phillips wrote that "It is a matter of record that James Hadley Chase's lurid novel No Orchids for Miss Blandish was heavily indebted to Sanctuary for its plot line." [ 23 ] According to Phillips, that means both film adaptations, No Orchids for Miss Blandish and The Grissom Gang , received inspiration from Sanctuary .
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
These include a marriage between two people with a 3-month old baby, a Black fellow librarian, an attack on a librarian by a vagrant, and small details, such as a request for a particular magazine because of a baby's teething issues. The claims caused what was sometimes called a "literary scandal" during the last months of 2019. [22]
Though he is the title character and integral to the plot, Titus appears only infrequently as an infant during his first two years of life. The second is Steerpike, a ruthlessly ambitious kitchen boy, whose rise to power [2] drives the plot of Titus Groan. His escape from the kitchen during the castle's celebration of Lord Titus' birth ...