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This is not over
Clashing over exchanged insults that compromise their reputations, a woman running from her sordid past and a doctor's wife who depends on tenant income risk everything to protect shattering secrets.
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That night
\"Toni Murphy was eighteen when she and her boyfriend, Ryan, were wrongly convicted of the murder of her younger sister. Now she is thirty-four and back in her hometown, working every day to forge and adjust to a new life on the outside. She's doing everything in her power to avoid violating her parole and going back to prison. But nothing is making that easy--not Ryan, who is convinced he can figure out the truth; not her mother, who clearly doubts Toni's innocence; and certainly not the group of women who made Toni's life miserable in high school and may have darker secrets than anyone realizes. Before Toni can truly move on, she must risk everything to find out the truth and clear her name\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Holding a Mirror up to a Society in Evolution: John McGahern
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Authorial Designs: Daniel Berkeley Updike, Edith Wharton, and Institutional Reciprocity in the American Literary Marketplace
Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860–1941) was an American printer whose Merrymount Press began operating in the 1890s out of Boston, aspiring to standards set by William Morris's Kelmscott Press in England. Central to Updike's success was his relationship with the writer Edith Wharton. Updike oversaw typographical design for four of Wharton's earliest works: The Decoration of Houses (1897), The Greater Inclination (1899), Crucial Instances (1901), and Sanctuary (1903). This essay examines the relationship between Updike and Wharton with an eye for American institutional exchange and argues Updike's design schemes helped engineer her reputation as a serious literary figure.
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James Salter's Strange Career
On September 7,1997, when Salter had been writing for forty years, Samuel Hynes observed in the New York Times Book Review that \"his reputation is of a curious kind; no single book of his has a secure place in the canon of modem fiction. In his eighties he published ten books in thirteen years. 1 A fighter pilot combines the skill of a brain surgeon with the risk of a matador. [...]he did have his Air Force pension, his pay from joining the Air National Guard and his wife's money from her wealthy Virginia fox-hunting family. After the austere prose of his early war books he was no longer interested in traditional narrative and chronological structure, and used a radically different style and form in his third and fourth novels, A Sport and a Pastime and Light Years.
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From Code to Cargo: A Bibliometric Mapping of the Metaverse Revolution in Supply Chain Management
Once a notion confined to science fiction, the metaverse is rapidly becoming a transformative digital reality, merging virtual and physical spaces through advanced technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the Internet of Things. This study investigates the metaverse’s disruptive potential within supply chain management, where it enables real-time monitoring, immersive simulations, and virtual marketplaces: reshaping operational efficiency, transparency, and strategic decision-making. Using a hybrid methodology that combines bibliometric analysis via the Bibliometrix package in R Studio and network-based content analysis through VOSviewer, the study maps the evolution of academic discourse in this field. A significant rise in scholarly output was observed in 2023, reflecting accelerating global interest. The analysis identifies leading countries such as the United States, Germany, and China, along with top-contributing institutions like Chang Gung University and Sungkyunkwan University. Prominent themes include “virtual reality,” “augmented reality,” and “digital twins,” signaling the growing integration of immersive technologies into SCM processes. Uniquely, this study is among the first to systematically chart the intellectual structure of metaverse research in SCM, providing a foundational lens for future inquiry. The findings pave the way for interdisciplinary collaboration, theory development, and practical models for sustainable and ethical metaverse adoption.
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The role of readers’ literary preferences in predicting success in fiction search
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to study what extent readers’ socio-demographic characteristics, literary preferences and search behavior predict success in fiction search in library catalogs.
Design/methodology/approach
In total, 80 readers searched for interesting novels in four differing search tasks. Their search actions were recorded with a Morae Recorder. Pre- and post-questionnaires elicited information about their background, literary preferences and search experience. Readers’ literary preferences were grouped into four orientations by a factor analysis. Linear regression analysis was applied for predicting search success as measured by books’ interest scores.
Findings
Most literary orientations contributed to search success, but in differing search tasks. The role of result examination was greater compared to querying in contributing search success almost in each task. The proportion of variance explained in books’ interest scores varied between 5 (open-ended browsing) and 50 percent (analogy search).
Research limitations/implications
The distribution of participants was biased toward females, and the results are aggregated within search session, both reducing the variation of the phenomenon observed.
Originality/value
This study is one of the first to explore how readers’ literary preferences and searching are associated with finding interesting novels, i.e. search success, in library catalogs. The results expand and support the findings in Mikkonen and Vakkari (2017) concerning associations between reader characteristics and fiction search success.
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Rethinking the Novel of Education
This essay proposes re-taxonomizing the Bildungsroman as one subgenre of a long, diverse, still-vital tradition of education novels. Though first celebrated for representing a protagonist's education while promoting the education of readers, the Bildungsroman quickly acquired a negative reputation for its purported (but rarely manifested) ideological pathologies. Yet in the same era and well before, women produced more subversive novels of education that taught readers to navigate inequity while slave narratives worked pedagogically to activate political engagement. This more capacious history of educative fiction helps explain why many modern authors use the novel to convey ill-understood experiences and perspectives.
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