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Goodreads is an American social cataloging website and a subsidiary of Amazon [ 1] that allows individuals to search its database of books, annotations, quotes, and reviews. Users can sign up and register books to generate library catalogs and reading lists. They can also create their own groups of book suggestions, surveys, polls, blogs, and ...
The Haj. The Haj is a novel published in 1984 by American author Leon Uris that tells the story of the birth of Israel from the viewpoint of a Palestinian Arab. [ 1] "Haj" in the novel's title refers to the pilgrimage to Mecca, which every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so is obliged to make at least once in their lifetime. The title ...
Amazon.com, Inc., is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, as an online bookstore, Amazon went public after an initial public offering on May 15, 1997, during the midst of the dot-com bubble. [ 1] The funds gained from the IPO allowed Amazon to ...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a 2016 memoir by JD Vance about the Appalachian values of his family from Kentucky and the socioeconomic problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where his mother's parents moved when they were young.
The Kindle stores this information on all Amazon e-books but it is unclear if this data is stored for non-Amazon e-books. [157] There is a lack of e-reader data privacy — Amazon knows the user's identity, what the user is reading, whether the user has finished the book, what page the user is on, how long the user has spent on each page, and ...
Hugh C. Howey (born 1975, [1] Charlotte, North Carolina) is an American writer, known best for the science fiction series Silo, part of which he published independently through Amazon.com's Kindle Direct Publishing system; [2] [3] he later signed distribution deals, with large publishing houses in different countries, but maintains the publishing rights and all e-book publishing.
Amazon Publishing (or simply APub) is Amazon 's book publishing unit launched in 2009. It is composed of 15 imprints including AmazonEncore, AmazonCrossing, Montlake Romance, Thomas & Mercer, 47North, and Topple Books. [ 1] Amazon publishes e-books via its Kindle Direct Publishing subsidiary.
Awareness. (film) Awareness is a 2023 Spanish-American science-fiction action thriller film directed by Daniel Benmayor [ ca], who also co-wrote the screenplay with Iván Ledesma, and Manuel Burque. It stars Carlos Scholz alongside María Pedraza, Pedro Alonso, Lela Loren, and Óscar Jaenada.