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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.
The Still Point is a 2010 novel by British author Amy Sackville. The book was Sackville's debut novel , and was the winner of the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize . [ 1 ] It had also earlier been nominated for that year's Orange Prize for Fiction .
Though the book is a work of fiction, it is based on an unsolved homicide that occurred in Santa Barbara County, California in August 1969. A Jane Doe victim had been dumped near a quarry in Lompoc, California, and never identified. At a dinner party, Sue Grafton had a conversation with Dr. Robert Failing, who mentioned the case.
Still Life is a 2021 novel by Sarah Winman, set in London, England and Florence, Italy. It was a Sunday Times bestseller, BBC "Between the Covers" pick and a BBC Radio 4 "Book at Bedtime" selection. [1] Winman won the £10,000 inaugural InWords Literary Award, given to 'a novel published in English or a writer's body of work'. [1]
In addition, Sadassa Silvia is a character who claims that Ferris Fremont is actually a communist covert agent recruited by Sadassa's mother when Fremont was still a teenager. As with VALIS, Radio Free Albemuth deals with Dick's highly personal style of Christianity (or Gnosticism). It further examines the moral and ethical repercussions of ...
First US edition (publ. Doubleday, Doran) Point Counter Point is a novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1928. [1] It is Huxley's longest novel, and was notably more complex and serious than his earlier fiction.
The next week, the book was the 6th sold among fiction novels on Amazon. [10] It debuted at No. 5 on the USA Today bestseller list. [11] On The Wall Street Journal fiction bestseller list, the book debuted at No. 2. [12] In the first week of release, The Trials of Apollo series was No. 2 on The New York Times bestseller list. [13]
Stannard begins with a description of the cultural and biological diversity in the Americas prior to contact in 1492. The book surveys the history of European colonization in the Americas, for approximately 400 years, from the first Spanish assaults in the Caribbean in the 1490s to the Wounded Knee Massacre in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America have suffered ...