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Free Lunch is a Junior Library Guild selection [2] and was generally well-received, including starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, [3] Publishers Weekly, [4] and School Library Journal. [5] Kirkus Reviews called the book "A mighty portrait of poverty amid cruelty and optimism."
[3]: 14 These first four Endless Quest books were on the Best Seller list for more than six months. [2] TSR considered Endless Quest merely a fad, and moved to diversify the mainstream publishing it had begun; Estes and James M. Ward formed an education department for the company, but this failed because TSR did not hire any educational sales ...
First edition (publ. Tor Books) Cover art by Stephan Martiniere. The Free Lunch is a 2001 novel by Spider Robinson.The title is a reference to the adage "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch", popularized by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein in his 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.
The Beginning of the End, a 1998 book by Angelo Quattrochi and Tom Nairn about the May 68 events in France; Music. The Beginning of the End (band) ...
The Beginning and the End (Arabic: بداية ونهاية) is a novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, first published in 1949.The novel is set in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s and deals with the trials and tribulations of a middle-class family who are struggling to keep out of poverty after the death of the father, the sole breadwinner.
Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography is a 1976 book by the philosopher Karl Popper. [ 1 ] The work first appeared with the title "Autobiography of Karl Popper" in The Philosophy of Karl Popper (1974) from the Library of Living Philosophers series.
Tombquest is a series of books that is published by Scholastic Inc and was written by Michael Northrop. [1] It follows two main characters, Alex Sennefer and his best friend Ren Duran, as they battle Ancient Egyptian forces. When Alex is on the verge of death, his mother uses the Book of the Dead to resurrect him. However, this raises five ...
October Sky is the first memoir in a series of four, by American engineer Homer Hickam Jr. originally published in 1998 as Rocket Boys. Later editions were published under the title October Sky as a tie-in to the 1999 film adaptation. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a coal mining town.