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![]() ![]() However, we believe that BPR is unlikely to be remembered in the new millennium as the panacea for corporate ills. By 1996, a survey conducted by Louis Harris & Associates revealed that 60 percent of the companies surveyed had undertaken a formal reengineering project in the past two years and that cutting costs was the main reason. ![]() companies had some reengineering initiative in place. According to Hammer and Champy, reengineering was "the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical contemporary measures of performance, such as cost, quality, service, and speed." A 1994 survey by CSC Index (State of Reengineering Report 1994) found that 69 percent of U.S. In 1993, Michael Hammer and James Champy published Reengineering the Corporation. Business process reengineering (BPR) has dominated the thinking of corporate executives for much of the 1990s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Melissa, Auntie’s Bookstore, Spokane, WAĭid you hear the piece about Alison Bechdel on NPR recently? NPR helps make the nation aware of great books, but if you shop at independent bookstores like Auntie’s Bookstore, you’ll probably be ahead of the trends. Adapted by Jeanine Tesori (music) and Lisa Kron (book and lyrics) from Bechdel’s eponymous 2008 graphic memoir, the show opened on Broadway as the first mainstream musical to feature a young. This is great for just about any reader teen and up (due to one slightly explicit sex scene) but would be a great fit for those just coming out or dealing with family issues and sexuality. The narrative is both hilarious and heartbreaking all with the backdrop of the family business– a funeral home– or as the family and title describe, a “fun home.” Eventually, as Alison is away at college, her and her father form a bond over books but the attention is both overwhelming and repulsive– not really understanding why he finally offers the relationship she had longed for. for a virtual discussion with Phoenix Books Tod Gross and featured guest Alison Bechdel on her new graphic memoir, 'The Secret to. By the time Alison Bechdels groundbreaking comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For ended its publication run after 527 episodes, numerous book collections. ![]() The drawings and short dialogue actually slow you down in a good way and help you focus on the simple story of a girl, her father, and the secret they both keep. Join the Book Club Wednesday, May 26 at 6 p.m. ![]() This memoir told in graphic novel form is easy to devour in one sitting. ![]() Alison Bechdel, author of the comic “Dykes to Watch Out For,” strikes a chord with a look back on her family life. ![]() ![]() ![]() She picks up this clue, and as firefighters and gawkers arrive on the scene, she notices an attractive young man moving her car away from the flying embers. In doing so, Nancy sees someone fleeing the property, and discovers an anonymous Swedish diary on the ground. The girls park the car and make sure that no one is trapped inside. Swenson, and her daughter, whom the girls have just helped to enjoy the carnival attractions by being their hosts for the evening.Īs they are driving, a luxurious roadside estate bursts into flames. Nancy and her friends Bess and George, on their way home from a carnival, discuss a financially struggling Swedish immigrant, Mrs. She would return for volume 11, The Clue of the Broken Locket, and remain with the series until 1948, then return for a final ghostwrite in 1953. This is the last manuscript Mildred Wirt Benson wrote in her initial run. ![]() ![]() The Clue in the Diary is the seventh volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series, and was first published in 1932 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. ![]() ![]() ![]() But while Kiedis fails to scratch beneath the surface of his fast-lane life, his frankness is moving, especially toward the end of the book, when his mea culpa turns into a full-blown account of recovery and redemption. ![]() Though he peppers his book with little known facts (for instance, the author narrowly missed being named Clark Gable Kiedis), the punk-funk rocker dedicates too few pages to his introspective music-writing process and too many to his incessant drug use and revolving door of girlfriends (which included actress Ione Skye, singer Sinéad O'Connor and director Sofia Coppola). Raised in the 1960s and '70s by a drug dealer father who first introduced his preteen son to drugs by mashing them into bananas, the high school delinquent and UCLA dropout seemed destined for a life of rabble-rousing until his high school band-cofounded by close friends Michael "Flea" Balzary and Hillel Slovak-took off and became one of the most popular groups of the 1990s. ![]() "For a musician who has spent the better half of his life either intoxicated or on a drug high, Kiedis, the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, has produced a surprisingly detailed account of his life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Why did the death of Aiden’s grandma affect him so much that he went off the radar for a year? What was the point of her friend that was visiting with Aiden’s friends? Why did he come? Did he know Aiden? I really wanted to see Vanessa’s happiness over her student loans finally being paid off.ĭid they ever buy a different house? I was also really looking forward to going house shopping with them, but we never got that. These are some of my questions though it may be my fault that I couldn’t find the answers because I was skim reading.ĭid he ever pay off her student loans? This was the main reason why I kept reading. The problem was that I had so many unanswered questions about the plot that I couldn’t enjoy the romance part of the book. I usually like slow burn, but I just found this book okay. I finally read The Wall of Winnipeg and Me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There's less violence in these than in the original books, but Dauntless fights are still described, and a couple of beatings are particularly bloody. Since the first two books in the Divergent series are written from the character Tris' perspective, these stories are bonus material for fans of Veronica Roth's best-selling dystopian books. Parents need to know that Four: A Divergent Collection is five short stories written from the perspective of Four, a lead character in the Divergent trilogy. The Dauntless (as young as initiates, who are 16) drink unspecified alcohol, and in a couple of scenes Four drinks specifically to escape his feelings.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.Īgatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.ĭame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best-selling author of all time. ![]() ![]() If you’ve fallen in love with Percy Jackson and are hoping these books are more Percy, you’ll probably be a little disappointed. These include The Heroes of Olympus, The Kane Chronicles, Demigods and Magicians, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, and The Trials of Apollo. In addition to Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Rick Riordan has written several other series. ![]() Now he finds himself thrust into a world with which he’s not familiar.Īlong with some new companions, Grover and Annabeth, Percy begins training at a demigod training school called Camp Half-Blood. Up until his first encounter with the realm of mythology, Percy thought he was an ordinary boy. Percy himself is a demigod and the son of Poseidon. ![]() In particular, Percy Jackson centers around Greek mythology. It’s a Middle Grade (MG) book similar to Harry Potter and Artemis Fowl which feature the adventures of younger characters on fantastical journeys. ![]() Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a book series written by Rick Riordan that follows the many character, Percy Jackson. There are two ways to read Rick Riordan’s books, but before we dive into those, let’s talk a bit more about the series. Whether you’re new to Percy Jackson, looking for a re-read, or watched the movies that will never likely see more added to the franchise, you’ve found your way here looking for a list of the Percy Jackson books in order. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Triffids – a peaceful, almost pastoral scene, bathed in the colours of a warm spring day – came as a breath of fresh air. Penguin had been publishing Wyndham since 1954 but the introduction of pictorial covers in the 1960s had not done his books any favours, so Lord's treatment of The Day of the Triffids (993) by John Wyndhamġ979 reprint with cover art by Peter Lord. Pelham agreed, and invited Lord to submit a cover treatment for The Day of the Triffids. Prior to this aĬolleague of David Pelham's at Penguin, John Hitchin, mentioned he had a nephew called Peter Lord who was studying graphic design at Middlesex Polytechnic, and heĪsked if Pelham would give the young student a chance to put theory into practice. ![]() Penguin already had nine Wyndham titles on its backlist which were released, with Web, as a set of ten titles in 1979-80. John Wyndham was another of Penguin's best-selling authors but his plinth remained empty until a decade after his death, when his estate released a posthumous novelĬalled Web. The honour was bestowed on a number of authors over the years and the list of those elected to this elite group includes Bernard Shaw, H G Wells, Aldous Huxley The Art of Penguin Science Fiction: Triffidus redivivusįor Penguin to publish a set of ten titles by an author was an event of some significance that marked their entry into the pantheon of Penguin's most popular ![]() |