Author: Ali Sethi
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Keywords: maker, wish
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2009-06-11
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1594488754
ISBN-13: 9781594488757
A major new international voice debuts with a sweeping story of love, friendship, and family ties that brings to life the turbulent world of modern Pakistan. The unforgettable story of a fatherless boy growing up in a household of outspoken women, The Wish Maker is also a tale of sacrifice, betrayal, and indestructible friendship. Zaki Shirazi and his female cousin Samar Api were raised to consider themselves "part of the same litter." Together they watched American television and memorized dialogue from Bollywood movies, attended dangerous protests, and formed secret friendships. In a househo
Author: Ma Jian
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, maker, noodle
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-04-04
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312424795
ISBN-13: 9780312424794
From Mi Jian, the highly acclaimed Chinese dissident, comes a satirical novel about the absurdities of life in a post-Tiananmen China.Two men meet for dinner each week. Over the course of one of these drunken evenings, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young man buys an old kiln and opens a private crematorium, delighting in his ability to harass the corpses of police officers and Party secretaries, while swooning to banned Western music; a heartbroken actress performs a public suicide by stepping into the jaws of a wild tiger, watched nonchalantly by her ex
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Publisher: Make
Keywords: notebook, maker
Number of Pages: 167
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0596519419
ISBN-13: 9780596519414
From the creators of Make & Craft Magazine comes the Maker’s Notebook. Put your own ideas, diagrams, calculations & notes down in these 150 pages of engineering graph paper. We’ve also included 20 bonus pages of reference material, from useful stuff like electronics symbols, resistor codes, weights and measures, basic conversions and more, to really useful stuff like the amount of caffeine in different caffeinated beverages and how to say "Hello, World!" in various computer languages. The covers of this hardcover book are printed in cyan "Maker" blue with a white grid debos
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher: HarperOne
Keywords: maker, mind
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1987-09-23
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060670770
ISBN-13: 9780060670771
This classic, with a new introduction by Madeleine L’Engle, is by turns an entrancing mediation on language; a piercing commentary on the nature of art and why so much of what we read, hear, and see falls short; and a brilliant examination of the fundamental tenets of Christianity. The Mind of the Maker will be relished by those already in love with Dorothy L. Sayers and those who have not yet met her. A mystery writer, a witty and perceptive theologian, culture critic, and playwright, Dorothy Sayers sheds new,unexpected light on a specific set of statements made in the Christian creeds
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: maker, mind
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-11-11
List price: $23.76
ISBN-10: 0826476783
ISBN-13: 9780826476784
Dorothy L. Sayers’ great lay contemporaries in the Church of England were T. S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams, but none of them wrote a book quite like The Mind of the Maker. In this crisp, elegant exercise in theology, Sayers illuminates the doctrine of the Trinity by relating it to the process of writing fiction, a process about which she could speak with complete authority. She illustrates her thesis with many examples drawn from her own books, and even illuminates the Christian heresies by analyzing certain failures of creation that regularly occur in literature. This marvel
Author: Richard Powers
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, maker, echo
Number of Pages: 451
Published: 2007-08-21
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0312426437
ISBN-13: 9780312426439
Winner of the 2006 National Book Award The Echo Maker is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it" (Booklist, starred review). On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when Mark emerges from a coma, he believes that this woman--who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister--is really an imposter. When Karin contacts the famous cognitive neurologi
Author: Stefan Brijs
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: maker, angel
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-12-30
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0143113097
ISBN-13: 9780143113096
A literary page-turner about one man’s macabre ambition to create life-and secure immortality The village of Wolfheim is a quiet little place until the geneticist Dr. Victor Hoppe returns after an absence of nearly twenty years. The doctor brings with him his infant children-three identical boys all sharing a disturbing disfigurement. He keeps them hidden away until Charlotte, the woman who is hired to care for them, begins to suspect that the triplets-and the good doctor- aren’t quite what they seem. As the villagers become increasingly suspicious, the story of Dr. Hoppe’s p
