![]() ![]() In fact, you can download good cryptographic software from the Internet for less than the price of a good pair of gloves.” Cryptography and gloves are both dirt-cheap and widely available. ![]() The former can frustrate FBI wiretapping, and the latter can thwart FBI fingerprint analysis. Cryptography protects data from hackers, corporate spies, and con artists, whereas gloves protect hands from cuts, scrapes, heat, cold, and infection. Cryptography is a data-protection technology, just as gloves are a hand-protection technology. citizen can freely buy a pair of gloves, even though a burglar might use them to ransack a house without leaving fingerprints. “Ron Rivest, one of the inventors of RSA, thinks that restricting cryptography would be foolhardy: It is poor policy to clamp down indiscriminately on a technology just because some criminals might be able to use it to their advantage. ![]()
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![]() Neal's talents range from film directing (two short films he directed won him the coveted CINE Golden Eagle Awards) to writing music and stage plays – including book and lyrical contributions to “American Twistory,” which is currently playing in Boston. His books have received many awards from organizations such as the International Reading Association, and the American Library Association, as well as garnering a myriad of state and local awards across the country. As a full-time writer, he claims to be his own hardest task-master, always at work creating new stories to tell. In the years since, Neal has made his mark as a successful novelist, screenwriter, and television writer. ![]() Within a year of graduating, he had his first book deal, and was hired to write a movie script. ![]() After spending his junior and senior years of high school at the American School of Mexico City, Neal went on to UC Irvine, where he made his mark on the UCI swim team, and wrote a successful humor column. ![]() Award-winning author Neal Shusterman grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he began writing at an early age. ![]() ![]() ![]() Amoruso teaches the innovative and entrepreneurial among us to play to our strengths, learn from our mistakes, and know when to break a few of the traditional rules * Vanity Fair * Part memoir, part management guide and part girl-power manifesto. ![]() #GIRLBOSS is for those who haven't, which means it is aimed at people who have nothing to lose, which makes it a much riskier and more enjoyable manifesto * New York Magazine * If you read one book with a hashtag for a title this year, make it #GIRLBOSS * TechCrunch * A power manifesto for strong, ambitious young women. ![]() #GIRLBOSS giving Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In a run for its money * Grazia * Filled with great advice for all millennial women ready to take over the world * Cosmopolitan * It's easy to get the sense, reading Lean In, that Sandberg is writing for women who've already made it. Offers empowering but unapologetic mantras about taking control of your life, making the choices you want to make and knowing which rules to stick to - and which to break. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here's a call I took last week from a customer on the phone. Still, asking for swimming goggles seemed a little, well, weird. ![]() Some are more of the usual non-book like journals, stationery, and calendars, but we also carry toys, boardgames and locally- or regionally-made crafts. Now, it's true that we've branched out a good bit, particularly over the last five years, and we sell quite a few non-book items. Here's the more interesting of the two they included:Ĭustomer: And you call yourself a full service bookstore? ![]() One of them was entirely too long to print, but it remains one of my most frequently read blog posts (read it here if you're interested). Jen's original contributions comprise most of the US edition, but it's interspersed throughout with new scenarios from the New World, including two out of the three that I submitted. Overlook published it just this last week, and they were kind enough to send me a complimentary copy of the book. Since bookish people love reading about bookish things, the idea spread across the pond and soon there was an open call for American and Canadian booksellers to submit some of their bizarre encounters with customers. She's a poet, writer and antiquarian bookseller in the UK, and earlier this year she published a book called Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops. I've been a follower for a long time (and by "long" I guess I mean about two years or so) of Jen Campbell's This Is Not the Six Word Novel blog. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each night I waited to see the “controversial gay kisses, bathhouse hookups, and even tender scenes of two men, just lying in bed together. ![]() In some ways, the show felt like a guilty pleasure. Just as promised, it was apologetically real in its portrayal of gay life in San Francisco during the late 70s. Needless to say, it delivered.īased on a series of columns by Maupin in the San Francisco Chronicle, “Tales of the City” made its debut on PBS in 1994. I didn’t know exactly what it was going to be about, but from all I had read, it was going to be groundbreaking and authentic in its depiction of gay characters. The buzz surrounding the show ignited the LGB (before the TQI + were added) community. At that time, gay characters on TV were still few and far between. I was in my early 20s when the original “Tales of the City” miniseries first hit the airwaves. The reboot of Armistead Maupin’s “Tales of the City” airs Friday, June 7 on Netflix. Luckily, I’ll at least be able to revisit Barbary Lane soon. These are three fictional characters who all “lived” at 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco – an address so intriguing, I wished it were real, so I could actually move there. Madrigal, Mary Anne Singleton, and Mouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her YA debut, the Japan-set romantic comedy I Love You So Mochi, comes out in June 2019. The first book is a Locus bestseller, an RT Reviewers' Choice Award nominee, and one of the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog's Best Books of 2016. Sarah Kuhn is the author of the popular Heroine Complex novels-a series starring Asian American superheroines. The only problem is that Batgirl hasn't been seen in Gotham for years.Can Cass find Batgirl before her father destroys the world she has grown to love? Or will shehave to take on a heroic mantle of her very own? Accompanied by the edgy art style of Nicole Goux, Sarah Kuhn, author of Heroine Complex and I Love You So Mochi, tells the harrowing story of a girl who overcomes the odds to find her unique identity. With the help of her new mentors, noodle shop owner Jackie Fujikawa Yoneyama and a librarian named Barbara Gordon, she'll attempt to answer this question the only way she knows how: learning everything she possibly can about her favorite hero. Will she step out of the shadows and overcome her greatest obstacle-that voice inside her head telling her she can never be a hero? Lucky for Cass, she won't have to defy her destiny alone. ![]() ![]() Cassandra Cain, teenage assassin, isn't exactly Batgirl material.yet. ![]() ![]() "The best yet from one of the best in the business. A gripping, deeply unsettling novel."-Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award finalist and Guggenheim Fellow and author of Her Body and Other Parties " The Only Good Indian is equal parts revenge thriller, monster movie, and meditation on the inescapable undertow of the past. ![]() ![]() “Jones boldly and bravely incorporates both the difficult and the beautiful parts of contemporary Indian life into his story, never once falling into stereotypes or easy answers but also not shying away from the horrors caused by cycles of violence.”-Rebecca Roanhorse, bestselling author of Trail of Lightning and Black Sun “Fans of Stephen King's It and Peter Straub's Ghost Story should find plenty to love in this tale of friends who are haunted by a supernatural entity they first encountered in their youth.” -Silvia Moreno-Garcia, bestselling author of Mexican Gothic ![]() ![]() ![]() Bee and Nick’s emails are witty and romantic, while their supporting characters are entertaining in both worlds. JESSICA RYNįun, heartbreaking, and eminently readable all at once. One of the best, most original love stories I ever read. ![]() It knocked my socks off! Such a ridiculously clever, hilarious read with characters so real, I'll never forget them. Still thinking about it! A work of total genius. What a book! Breathtakingly original, clever and unputdownable. It has twisted my brain – in a good way – and made me wonder how much of it could be true. It's so funny, so original, so beautifully mad – I am seething with envy that I didn't write it myself. I have DEVOURED Impossible and I'm going to go as far as to say I think it's one of the best rom coms I have ever read. I was swept away by Bee and Nick’s impossible love story and I was utterly hooked from the start. ANSTEY HARRISĪn absolutely addictive read. There will not be a book I love more in 2022. It is amazing, NEVER EVER EVER IN MY LIFE HAVE I WISHED I’D WRITTEN A BOOK SO MUCH. Witty, engaging and so emotionally resonant, IMPOSSIBLE is the book we all need right now! SARAH PINBOROUGH What an absolute joy of a book! I completely fell in love with Bee and Nick and their impossible situation. ![]() You remember where you were when you read them, and how you felt. Some books become cultural touchstones that people bond over for years, like One Day or The Time Traveller’s Wife. The zingy dialogue, the romance, the suspense. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It covers the global effects of the Columbian Exchange, following Columbus first landing in the Americas, that led to our current globalized world civilization. Urn:oclc:828317466 Republisher_date 20160729102913 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1652 Scandate 20160728211744 Scanner . 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created is a nonfiction book by Charles C. ![]() Urn:lcp:1493uncoveringne00mann_0:lcpdf:41997785-0f01-4caf-acfe-c28d7ccd58f0 1493 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created Read description A deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world, from the bestselling author of 1491. The book 1493, by Charles C Mann, is part of this trend and has many interesting stories to tell, centered around the global ecological consequences of Columbus. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:08:09.859926 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA1144417 City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st Vintage Books ed. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1985, they had their first child, Stephanie Holcomb. Laurie Halse Anderson married Greg Anderson. After her experience in Denmark, Anderson moved back home to work at a clothing store, earning the minimum wage. ĭuring Anderson's senior year, she moved out of her parents' house at the age of sixteen and lived as an exchange student for thirteen months on a pig farm in Denmark. Īnderson attended Fayetteville-Manlius High School, in Manlius, New York, a suburb of Syracuse. Anderson enjoyed reading-especially science fiction and fantasy-as a teenager, but never envisioned herself becoming a writer. As a student, she showed an early interest in writing, specifically during the second grade. She grew up there with her younger sister, Lisa. and Joyce Holcomb Halse in Potsdam, New York. ![]() ![]() Laurie Beth Halse was born October 23, 1961, to Rev. She was first recognized for her novel Speak, published in 1999. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2010 for her contribution to young adult literature and 2023 she received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Laurie Halse Anderson is an American writer, known for children's and young adult novels. ![]() |