M G : 1358 books

A daughter's journey to rediscover her father and understand the culture of space engineers During the late 1960s, while M. G. Lord was becoming a teenager in Southern California and her mother was dying of cancer, Lord's father-an archetypal, remote, rocket engineer- disappeared into his work...

How to love commuting is a tongue-in-cheek look at the funnier side of the journey we all love to hate.We all have to move from A to B. That's life, right? For those of you for whom A is your bedroom, and B is a poolside sunlounger, I am indeed very happy for you. Sincerely, I am. The...

The African is a short autobiographical account of a pivotal moment in Nobel-Prize-winning author J. M. G. Le Clézio's childhood. In 1948, young Le Clézio, with his mother and brother, left behind a still-devastated Europe to join his father, a military doctor in Nigeria, from whom he'd been separated...

From the original Atheneum edition jacket, 1964. "J.M.G. Le Clézio, revelation of the literary year" ran the headline of the Paris Express after last year's prizes had been awarded. The Goncourt jury was locked five to five until its president used his double vote to give the prize to the...

From M.G. Vassanji, two-time Giller Prize winner and a GG winner for nonfiction, comes a poignant love letter to his birthplace and homeland, East Africa--a powerful and surprising portrait that only an insider could write.      Part travelogue, part memoir, and part history-rarely-told, here...

A true to life story based on a little boy child scolded on his head by boiling hot water at the age of 4 mass confusing in his life, culture shock, near death experiences, growing up, finding love, loosing love then becoming a single parent.. 

People used to say that after the apocalypse, only the roaches would survive. Well, there were roaches all right. But that was just the beginning of my problems. While the world was ending, I was trapped in a basement with only the roaches and a feral cat to keep me company.  It...

M.G. Piety has written an important social critique in the form of a series of vibrant essays about her chosen sport. Her main point is that figure skating is naturally fun and that those who participate in it ought to be having fun while doing so. She decries the fact that so few people in the figure...

There are many textbooks which describe current methods of statistical analysis, while neglecting related theory. There are equally many advanced textbooks which delve into the far reaches of statistical theory, while bypassing practical applications. But between these two approaches is an unfilled...

Chasing Inclusive Growth: Reforms for Financial Inclusion is about the common man’s perceptions, anxieties and aspirations about the 21st century India growth story with focus on resources management in the Indian context, by policy interventions in the structure and governance of the financial...

Twenty-seven writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an...

New planet, new problems Josu and his father trade up for a second chance at life by emigrating from a dead Earth to the Alpha Centauri system. But their new role as planetary pioneers presents its own challenges. One of which is that on this wild, waterlogged world, they always...

In a short story thriller, a New York City stockbroker goes through one of the worst day of his life. In one day his life is changed by a sudden loss of assets. Credit cards maxed out, all liquid cash gone, and his stock portfolio is ruined. Worst of all, his wife believes he is having an affair based...

Did life ever exist on Mars? Astrobiologist Ackley Griven once set out to answer that question…and came up with squat. The mining companies, though? They struck gold on the red planet. Gold and oil. When accidents in the low mines bring Griv back to Mars with a delivery of mining bots...