07Finding a Book at a Bookstore GLOSSARY non-fiction a type of writing about things that are true and are not imaginary* Most textbooks used in college and university classes are non-fiction. hardback a book with a hard cover that does not bend easil

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Isaac Asimov was an American scientist and writer who wrote around 480 books that included mystery stories, science and history books, and even books about the Holy Bible and Shakespeare. But he is best known for his science fiction stories. Asimov h

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爸爸在查询台让图书员帮他查一本书,但是健忘的他却忘记了书的作者和书名。那么最后爸爸找到了他想要的书吗? (Information desk) Benjamin: Could you please help me to check out the book? Librarian: Sure, wh

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Bullies - especially aggressively hostile girls - are a topic of major interest to Rosalind Wiseman. In her non-fiction best-sellers, Queen Bees Wannabes, and Queen Bee Moms Kingpin Dads, the educator explored the way adolescent girls relate to the w

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DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week, we play R.E.M.s new album, Collapse Into Now, and read a few comments about some of our recent shows. But first, we tell about writer Deborah Eisenb

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Infant Dren and SARAH POLLEY as Elsa Kast in Warner Bros. Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainments science fiction thriller SPLICE, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Genetic research can yield new treatments for deadly diseases and foods that are more

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Long Conversations 1. Conversations: (Find a partner and practice these dialogues.) A: Mark: ... I'm sorry, but I just can't sit here any longer and let this go on. This woman is romanticizing. Now, I can understand why she's doing it. I mean, she's

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Denis Johnson was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction twice. He won the National Book Award for his 2007 novel, Tree Of Smoke. He's probably best known for his first collection of short stories, Jesus' Son, as a semi

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And we're going to spend the next few minutes hearing about an African-American woman who would not let cultural norms stand in the way of her imagination. Her name is Octavia Butler, and she was a literary giant in the world of

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: One of the towering figures in science fiction has died, although she never really liked being called a sci-fi writer. Ursula K. Le Guin was best known for the Earthsea fantasy books and for her influential gender-bending spa

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Bullies - especially aggressively hostile girls - are a topic of major interest to Rosalind Wiseman. 欺凌霸王,特别是具有侵犯性敌视行为的女孩子,这是教育家罗萨琳德怀斯曼关心的主题。 In her non-fiction best-sell

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Walden Media's latest, Nim's Island, has a terrific premise from the book by Wendy Orr. Abigail Breslin stars as Nim, a smart, independent 11-year-old who lives with her microbiologist dad, Jack (Gerard Butler) on an uncharted South Pacific island. A

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I'm the first to admit that I'm hooked on reading magazines. I've been this way as long as I can remember. I love picking up magazines about different topics. Currently, I subscribe to about six or seven magazines, although when I was getting profess

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In Valerie Plame's Blowback, Reality Grittier than Fiction The 2010 drama Fair Game, starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, catapulted the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame onto the silver screen. Plame's life took an unexpected turn after having

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Ron: Hi, I'm Ron from Hawaii. I'm here with Mari from Japan. Today we're going to be talking about entertainment, and how often we do these things. So Mari, how often do you watch TV? Mari: I watch the news in the morning and when I come home at nigh

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By Mike O'Sullivan Seattle 18 October 2007 A museum in Seattle highlights two distinct expressions of popular culture - pop music and science fiction. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan reports, the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum look at inno

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Canadian author Alice Ann Munro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, she is also a three-time winner of Canadas Governor Generals Award for fiction. 加拿大女作家艾

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Topics: Movies - The Maltese Falcon; Napa Valley, California and wine country; usage of bit; abuse versus assault; to put (someone) in the picture Words: falcon private detective unscrupulous antihero hardboiled fiction cynical femme fatale suspensef

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Topics: Famous Authors - Ray Bradbury; foreign languages taught in U.S. schools; to repair versus to fix versus to mend; to the north versus north of; food versus meal versus repast Words: to emulate Fahrenheit to spontaneously ignite science fiction

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Would you like to live in a city where buildings turn the lights off for you, where self-driving cars find the nearest parking space, and where even the rubbish bins know when they're full? Although it might sound like science-fiction, living in a 's

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