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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
Author:
Gabrielle Zevin
ISBN 13:
978-0593321201
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠Sam and Sadieâtwo college friends, often in love, but never loversâbecome creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before. "Delightful and absorbing." â The New York Times ⢠"Utterly brilliant." âJohn Green One of the New York Times âs 100 Best Books of the 21st Century ⢠One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, GoodReads, Oprah Daily From the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry : On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasnât heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities wonât protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts. Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevinâs Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
Author:
Kara Swisher
ISBN 13:
978-1982163891
Instant New York Times Bestseller From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. âSwisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon ValleyâŚtakes no prisoners in this highly readable look at the evolution of the digital worldâŚBawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking, just like its author, Burn Book sizzlesâ ( Booklist , starred review). Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of techâs most powerful players. From âthe queen of all mediaâ (Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal ), this is the inside story weâve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world. When tech titans crowed that they would âmove fast and break things,â Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news. While covering the explosion of the digital sector in the early 1990s, she developed a long track record of digging up and reporting the facts about this new world order. Her consistent scoops drove one CEO to accuse her of âlistening in the heating ductsâ and prompted Facebookâs Sheryl Sandberg to once observe: âIt is a constant joke in the Valley when people write memos for them to say, âI hope Kara never sees this.ââ While still in college, Swisher got her start at The Washington Post , where she became one of the few people in journalism interested in covering the nascent Internet. She went on to work for The Wall Street Journal , joining with Walt Mossberg to start the groundbreaking D: All Things Digital conference, as well as pioneering tech news sites. Swisher has interviewed everyone who matters in tech over three decades, right when they presided over an explosion of world-changing innovation that has both helped and hurt our world. Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Bob Iger, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Meg Whitman, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg are just a few whom Swisher made sweatâfiguratively and, in Zuckerbergâs case, literally. Despite the damage she chronicles, Swisher remains optimistic about techâs potential to help solve problems and not just create them. She calls upon the industry to make better, more thoughtful choices, even as a new set of powerful AI tools are poised to change the world yet again. At its heart, this book is a love story to, for, and about tech from someone who knows it better than anyone.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Author:
Harper Lee
ISBN 13:
978-0060935467
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep Southâand the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her fatherâa crusading local lawyerârisks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.