Tell The Machine Goodnight

Author : Katie Williams
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525533133
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tell the Machine Goodnight written by Katie Williams and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR 2018 KIRKUS PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE "BEST LITERARY FICTION OF 2018' BY KIRKUS REVIEWS "Sci-fi in its most perfect expression…Reading it is like having a lucid dream of six years from next week, filled with people you don't know, but will." —NPR "[Williams’s] wit is sharp, but her touch is light, and her novel is a winner." – San Francisco Chronicle "Between seasons of Black Mirror, look to Katie Williams' debut novel." —Refinery29 Smart and inventive, a page-turner that considers the elusive definition of happiness. Pearl's job is to make people happy. As a technician for the Apricity Corporation, with its patented happiness machine, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion? Meanwhile, there's Pearl's teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy. The very rejection of joy is his own kind of "pursuit of happiness." As his mother, Pearl wants nothing more than to help Rhett--but is it for his sake or for hers? Certainly it would make Pearl happier. Regardless, her son is one person whose emotional life does not fall under the parameters of her job--not as happiness technician, and not as mother, either. Told from an alternating cast of endearing characters from within Pearl and Rhett's world, Tell the Machine Goodnight delivers a smartly moving and entertaining story about the advance of technology and the ways that it can most surprise and define us. Along the way, Katie Williams playfully illuminates our national obsession with positive psychology, our reliance on quick fixes. What happens when these obsessions begin to overlap? With warmth, humor, and a clever touch, Williams taps into our collective unease about the modern world and allows us see it a little more clearly.

Author : Katie Williams
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 0811878627
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Space Between Trees written by Katie Williams and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not your everyday coming-of-age novel. This story was supposed to be about Evie—how she hasn't made a friend in years, how she tends to stretch the truth (especially about her so-called relationship with college drop-out Jonah Luks), and how she finally comes into her own once she learns to just be herself—but it isn't. Because when her classmate Elizabeth "Zabet" McCabe's murdered body is found in the woods, everything changes—and Evie's life is never the same again.

Author : Katie Williams
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452127700
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absent written by Katie Williams and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When seventeen-year-old Paige dies in a freak fall from the roof during Physics class, her spirit is bound to the grounds of her high school. At least she has company: her fellow ghosts Evan and Brooke, who also died there. But when Paige hears the rumor that her death wasn't an accident—that she supposedly jumped on purpose—she can't bear it. Then Paige discovers something amazing. She can possess living people when they think of her, and she can make them do almost anything. Maybe, just maybe, she can get to the most popular girl in school and stop the rumors once and for all.

Author : Sherri Duskey Rinker
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452136599
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site written by Sherri Duskey Rinker and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling children's book "A standout picture book, especially for those who like wheels with their dreams." —Booklist, starred review As the sun sets behind the big construction site, all the hardworking trucks get ready to say goodnight. One by one, Crane Truck, Cement Mixer, Dump Truck, Bulldozer, and Excavator finish their work and lie down to rest—so they'll be ready for another day of rough and tough construction play! • Author Sherri Duskey Rinker's sweet rhyming text soothes little ones into a peaceful rest • Full of irresistible artwork by illustrator Tom Lichtenheld • Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site is the perfect read-aloud This popular, timeless nighttime story continues to delight families everywhere! • Ideal for children ages 3 to 5 years old • Great for young construction fans • This adorable hardcover bedtime book is a go-to gift for any occasion

Author : Samanta Schweblin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525541373
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Eyes written by Samanta Schweblin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "Her most unsettling work yet — and her most realistic." --New York Times Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Vulture, Bustle, Refinery29, and Thrillist A visionary novel about our interconnected present, about the collision of horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of in Sierra Leone, town squares in Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana. They're everywhere. They're here. They're us. They're not pets, or ghosts, or robots. They're real people, but how can a person living in Berlin walk freely through the living room of someone in Sydney? How can someone in Bangkok have breakfast with your children in Buenos Aires, without your knowing? Especially when these people are completely anonymous, unknown, unfindable. The characters in Samanta Schweblin's brilliant new novel, Little Eyes, reveal the beauty of connection between far-flung souls—but yet they also expose the ugly side of our increasingly linked world. Trusting strangers can lead to unexpected love, playful encounters, and marvelous adventure, but what happens when it can also pave the way for unimaginable terror? This is a story that is already happening; it's familiar and unsettling because it's our present and we're living it, we just don't know it yet. In this prophecy of a story, Schweblin creates a dark and complex world that's somehow so sensible, so recognizable, that once it's entered, no one can ever leave.

Author : Paulette Bogan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1582349835
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goodnight Lulu written by Paulette Bogan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her mother tucks her in for the night, Lulu the chicken worries what would happen if a bear or a tiger or an alligator should come in during the night.

Author : Laurie Wallmark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1939547202
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine written by Laurie Wallmark and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an illustrated telling of the story of Ada Byron Lovelace, from her early creative fascination with mathematics and science and her devastating bout with measles, to the ground-breaking algorithm she wrote for Charles Babbage's analytical engine.

Author : Sherri Duskey Rinker
Publisher : Chronicle Books LLC
ISBN 13 : 1452180245
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Excavator's 123 written by Sherri Duskey Rinker and published by Chronicle Books LLC. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The construction crew is counting on Excavator, and he won't let them down! Little readers can count along from 1 to 10 as Excavator revs into action on the construction site. Ready? 1, 2, 3 . . . GO!

Author : Drew Daywalt
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1368041779
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sleepy, the Goodnight Buddy written by Drew Daywalt and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is impossible not to crack up while reading this all-dialogue bedtime story by Drew Daywalt, the New York Times #1 best-selling author of The Day the Crayons Quit. Scott Campbell's expressive illustrations bring home the hilarity. Roderick hates going to bed, and the young boy has become quite resourceful in coming up with ways to delay the dreaded hour when the lights must go out. Roderick's loving parents -- fed up with the distractions and demands that have become his anti-bedtime ritual -- decide to get him a stuffed animal to cuddle with and help him wind down. However, Sleepy quickly proves to be a bit high-maintenance. Just when we fear the night may never end, Sleepy's antics become too exhausting for Roderick to bear.

Author : David Lee Harrison
Publisher : Golden Books
ISBN 13 : 9780307070074
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Busy Machines written by David Lee Harrison and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhyming text describes the work performed by lawn mowers, cranes, car crushers, and other machines.