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Literature Project - Free eBooks Online Internet Archive: About IA The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge. We began in 1996 by archiving the Internet itself, a medium that was just beginning to grow in use. As our web archive grew, so did our commitment to providing digital versions of other published works. 735 billion web pages 41 million books and texts 14.7 million audio recordings (including 240,000 live concerts)8.4 million videos (including 2.4 million Television News programs) 4.4 million images 890,000 software programs Anyone with a free account can upload media to the Internet Archive. Because we are a library, we pay special attention to books. Like the Internet, television is also an ephemeral medium.

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10 Evocative Writers of Place Today is famed Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez’s 84th birthday. Known for his importance in developing the genre of magical realism as well as his lush descriptions of an often only slightly shifted Colombia, Márquez has created some of the most beautiful worlds of any writer living today. In the introduction to the Everyman’s Library edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude, author Carlos Fuentes writes, “[Márquez] creates a place. A mythical locale: Macondo. García Márquez, story-teller, knows that presence dissolves without a place (a base of resistance) that can be all places: a place that will hold everyone, that will hold all of us: the seat of time, she enshrinement of all times, the meeting ground of memory and desire, a common present where everything can begin again: a temple, a book.” Gabriel Garcia Marquez — Colombia Arundhati Roy — India “May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. Eudora Welty — The American South Cormac McCarthy — Mexico J.M. Orhan Pamuk — Turkey

The 100 Best Books of All Time Many publishers have lists of 100 best books, defined by their own criteria. This article enumerates some lists of "100 best" books for which there are fuller articles. Among them, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (Xanadu, 1985) and Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (Grafton, 1988) are collections of 100 short essays by a single author, David Pringle, with moderately long critical introductory chapters also by Pringle. Lists[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]

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ICDL - International Children's Digital Library 10 New Must-Reads for February Now that the year is fully under way, it’s time to buckle down, stick to your New Year’s resolutions and get some books checked off your list. If you’re thinking longingly of the television, take heart: this month, you will be dazzled by hilarious debuts, lyrical fantasies, searingly truthful short stories, and of course, Michael Ian Black. Click through to check out the ten new releases we’re most excited about this month, and let us know which ones you can’t wait to pick up in the comments. No One Is Here Except All of Us, Ramona Ausubel (February 2) In 1939, the residents of a tiny Jewish village in Romania are panicking, feeling the inevitable crush of war and death just around the corner, until an 11-year-old girl and a mysterious man wash up on shore and suggest that they simply reinvent their world.

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