ABOUT THE BOOK Quicklets are your reading sidekick -- use this while reading Moby-Dick to learn more about the book! MEET THE AUTHOR Joseph Pritchard is passionate reader and writer. He has a bachelor's degree in Biology and also completed a degree in medicine. He has written for other prominent online publications and enjoys writing on a variety of topics. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819, the third in a family with eight children. he left home in 1837 in the aftermath of his father's death. The need to make living coupled with an in-born wanderlust lead Melville to spend the majority of the next ten years at sea. Melville traveled to such diverse locals as England, Hawaii, and the Marquesas Islands on whaling ships and cargo transports. It was these voyages that inspired the subject matter for Melville's early works, such as Typee, Omoo, and White Jacket. These adventure stories, with their exotic locales and equally alluring female protagonists, ignited the imagination of the English-speaking world and made Melville a writing sensation on both sides of the Atlantic. With the proceeds from his book sales, Melville settled down in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he married and bought a small farm tract with the intention of assuming the life of a full-time writer. Soon after, Melville became involved in the relationship that would alter his destiny: a friendship with fellow writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. The retired Hawthorne, already long celebrated as the literary genius of America' first century, lived in a nearby town. Melville naturally gravitated toward the older man as source of inspiration, criticism, and what Melville biographer Raymond Weaver calls their shared pessimism about the America that was emerging as world power in the late 1840's. While their ultimate parting was strained, it was during these years that Melville determined to write a towering, allegorical masterpiece to match the importance of Hawthorne's Scarlett Letter, dedicated to his mentor. Buy a copy to continue reading!

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Quicklets: Your Reading Sidekick! ABOUT THE BOOK Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How it Can Renew America, is the follow-up and companion piece to his 2005 bestseller The World is Flat.: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. In it he takes themes developed in The World is Flat the flattening of the world by means of the personal computer, internet, and the software that both share and applies it to the burgeoning Green movement. Published in 2008, it sharply critiques Americas stance on the environmental impact of its massive consumption of energy and how the world as a whole is following Americas wasteful lead. Friedman uses his experience and analytical eye as a foreign affairs columnist with The New York Times to further examine the political impact of the Wests love affair with Middle Eastern oil. He uses this analysis to draw correlations between oil markets and the democracy of oil-producing countries. He describes how a hotter, more crowded world with a more level playing field has combined to create a system where American-style appetites for energy continue to grow worldwide, threatening biodiversity and the development for new, cleaner energy technologies. MEET THE AUTHOR Lucretius Coleman is a writer, physicist, husband, father, and curmudgeon. He hopes to build the world's first practical quantum computer when not busy writing the next Great American Novels. He loves it when science, technology, and pop culture intersect to create the Eureka! moments that drive the world's greatness. When not making fun of his wife's affinity for trashy romance, Lucretius spends his time reading comic books and watching The Real Housewives of Atlanta. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Americas place in the worlds environmental landscape is one of leadership, but not in a good way. Were resource hoggers and gas guzzlers, coal shovelers and oil junkies. While we remain firmly entrenched as the worlds economic, political, scientific, and engineering leader, Americas moral and ethical absence of a strong and coherent environmental policy threatens that dominance. Indeed, it threatens the globe. In a fluid world where innovation is at a shortage, America finds itself lacking. Americans talk about going Green but refuse to live it. In a world where 9/11 is only a memory away, and proud servicemen and women remain vigilant against the forces of terrorism and extremism, we continue to fund the enemy by sending dollars to the Middle East. In a world where growing populations strive to emulate the plush middle-class lifestyles Americans now take for granted, we continue to serve as a bad example in the areas of consumption and conservation. Buy a copy to keep reading! CHAPTER OUTLINE Thomas Friedman's Hot, Flat and Crowded + About Thomas Friedman + About the Book + Overall Summary + Chapter-by-chapter Summary and Commentary + ...and much more

Quicklets: Your Reading Sidekick! ABOUT THE BOOK Bed Breakfast and You is the third novella in the Ladies of Legend series. The book was originally published in 2008 under the title, Finding Home by the Replendence Publishing Company in Edgewater, Florida. This current eBook novella is a re-release of the Ladies of Legend original title, Finding Home, Released in 2011 by the Turquoise Morning Press. This is the first time it has been released as a separate eBook. The launch book for the Ladies of Legend series, Finding Home, is a compilation of four stories about four women from very different backgrounds who are looking to find love and purpose in their lives. Each of them has a unique story written by four different authors. Bed, Breakfast and You is a quick read and a real page turner. It can be read in one sitting. Enjoy it in bed, over breakfast, or while having breakfast in bed. Whatever your pleasure. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Suzie figures the fling ended long ago, and her partner in the fling most likely doesnt know how to find Suzie. Besides, he was trouble anyway, and at five years her junior, shes probably better off. Yet, Suzies assumptions couldnt be more wrong he does know where to find Suzie. That fling with six pack abs, dark wavy hair and matching bedroom eyes, has pulled up to her B&B on a bad ass baby blue Harley. He wants a room, and, ultimately, he wants her. Enter, Brad Matthews. Brad has a plan that he knows might not go over too well in Legend. Using his inheritance from his grandmother, Brad plans to tear down Lake Lodge, a town landmark with decades of history, to build a modern resort that will bring in new business and more tourists. While Brads scheme will help build Legends economy, it comes at a price. Brads plan threatens Suzies livelihood, and Suzie will fight to the end for her business... Buy a copy to keep reading! CHAPTER OUTLINE Quicklet on Bed Breakfast and You (Ladies of Legend) + About the Book + About the Author + Overall Summary + Main Character List + ...and much more