Our children excitedly embrace the story of an improbable Jewish military victory as a wondrous miracle; our five hanukkiot (menorahs) blaze each night against a window papered with homemade holiday decorations; we sing numerous Hanukkah songs in Hebrew and English; we spin the dreidel; and, yes, our children receive presents.
(Four Walls Eight Windows, paper, $15.95).
The prologue to EVOLUTION'S DARLING (Four Walls Eight Windows, paper, $15.95), by Scott Westerfeld, is breathtaking.
Windows paper the walls, each one striped by wooden bars painted gold and marked with a small, glowing sign.
The pseudonymous Jay Russell's new novel, BROWN HARVEST (Four Walls Eight Windows, paper, $14.95), is crammed with ruses and red herrings, but the biggest mystery is why nobody ever thought of its ingeniously entertaining premise before.
A PLACE SO FOREIGN AND EIGHT MORE, by Cory Doctorow (Four Walls Eight Windows, paper, $13.95), is a bracing collection of short stories by a Canadian writer whose influences range from Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker to Donald Barthelme and Roald Dahl.
You could also put a notice in local shop windows, papers and online forums as well as on social media.
THE Sharper Image store on Manhattan's West 57th Street is sharp no more: its last state-of-the-art massage chairs and stylish humidifiers have been put in storage and its windows papered over.
He recorded a view from his workroom window on paper sensitized with silver chloride but was only partially able to fix the image.
Fig. 11 Comparison of the relative amplitudes of the 6-year signals in t 1 and t 6 periods (a); the total variation trend of the amplitudes in six periods in time domain and the green cycles refer to the relative amplitudes of the 6-year signal in various periods (b); the time window this paper uses is hamming window.
We get Galadriel posed as a mannequin in a shop window, to paper over the fact that there were exactly zero non-males in The Hobbit.
