I’ve chosen a novel written by Stephen King. It is called Cujo‚ one of his best-known bestsellers. It was first published in 1981. I already read this book a year ago in Hungarian and I liked it very much. This was the reason why I decided to reread it in English. It was a good experience to me because it was the first time I had read a book in English. The other reason was that I really like Stephen King’s style. His books are not about commonplaces like love and happiness. This novel of his can
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close‚ a bestseller written by Jonathan Safran Foer‚ is a very unusual read while simultaneously being an impressive one‚ thus far. This book has mainly been a collection of nine-year old‚ Oskar Shell’s stream of consciousness‚ while also including reflections from his grandparents. Unlike “normal” novels‚ this one consists of diaries‚ memoirs‚ journals‚ pictures‚ and thoughts. It is filled with words above and beyond the words on the page. They written on walls‚ tattooed
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and that of her two younger sisters‚ she shows readers the many small details that illuminate the reality of war for Iraqi families‚ and especially for Iraqi children. Reminiscent of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and the recent national bestseller Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo‚ Thura’s Diary gives the perspective of a young woman caught in the midst of a turbulent time and puts a face‚ a name‚ and a voice to the word "Iraqi."In the middle of the night we were thrown out of our
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Paper The book‚ “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team”‚ is a leadership fable by Patrick Lencioni. Lencioni’s book is a New York Times bestseller that helps to not only identify the five dysfunctions that a team may face‚ but also to provide advice on how to deal with each of these dysfunctions. Lencioni uses a pyramid structure to help showcase each of the five dysfunctions and where they each would be on the pyramid. The first dysfunction of a team that Lencioni
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Chinese immigrants John Tan‚ an electrical engineer and Baptist minister‚ and Daisy‚ who was forced to leave her three daughters from a previous marriage behind in Shanghai. This incident provided the basis for Tan’s first novel‚ 1989 New York Times bestseller The Joy Luck Club. Amy is the middle child and only daughter among Daisy and John Tan’s three children. In the late 1960s Amy’s sixteen-year-old brother Peter died of a brain tumor. Within a year of Peter’s death‚ Amy’s father died of the same
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the reader is able to enter deep into the villain’s mind. Humans crave a mystery. We are curious beings and gravitate toward the unknown. Patterson uses this psychological fact to his advantage. The criminals that star in his New York Time’s Bestsellers are often vaguely portrayed‚ to the point where their identities remain unknown to the reader. This caricature description keeps the reader thinking. It is like being given a wrapped gift: One can see the shape of the present but not the physical
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innatism‚ (the theory that some of our knowledge is in born)‚ and to rationalism (the strife that we can achieve knowledge of the world by the power of reason alone). Locke’s essay “Human Understanding” published in 1689‚ soon became a philosophical bestseller. He produced four editions of it in his lifetime‚ and it had already reached its eleventh by 1735. This book is complex and wide ranging work; its main focus is the origin and limits of human knowledge. He tries to answer these questions. * what
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Born on the 10th of April 1936 in Austin‚ Minnesota‚ John Madden moved to Daly City‚ California with his family at an early age. He was always an avid athlete and sports enthusiast as a child‚ playing several sports throughout high school. At California Polytechnic College‚ Madden played on both the offensive and defensive lines for its football team and was a catcher for the school’s baseball team. In terms of schooling‚ Madden received his Bachelor of Science diploma in 1959 and followed it
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day‚ all of us pass across hundreds of streets‚ scores of markets and dozens of crossings that are perpetually teeming with the sights‚ the sounds and the smells of thousands of street vendors-some selling those tangy churans‚ magazines‚ English bestsellers‚ and car accessories. And of course‚ can we ignore the various vendors at the traffic signals compelling us to buy anything from facial tissues to flowers to balloons? It is also not an uncommon sight in our country to see women haggling over the
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freelance journalism. She ventured into fiction writing in 2014 when she wrote her debut novel I Let You Go. She lives with her husband and three children in North Wales. Clare Mackintosh is best known as a crime fiction writer who has had several bestsellers since she started writing in 2011. Her debut novel I Let You Go won critical acclaim and was shortlisted and won several awards. Her other novels have also become award winning titles and been translated into more than 30 languages across the
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