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When eleven-year-old Jane Palmer moves to Falmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod for the summer, she and her siblings are looking forward to reading books, going to the arcade, and walking to the beach from the family summer home. Before long, Jane's nine cousins and their families unexpectedly arrive to stay for the summer. While playing Super Secret Spy Club, the thirteen kids discover that their grandparents are planning to sell the family Heights House because it is too expensive to keep it up. Heartbroken, the cousins set out to save the home that has been in their family for generations....

The 17 essays of Unsettling Presences investigate writers and texts chiefly stretching from 1890 to 1939, from both within and outside of the Modernist canon. They explore tensions, convergences, and differences between the dominant Modernists and lesser-known figures. Not only do they examine the alternative vision of populist writers such as Wells and Bennett, but also discuss figures who flirt both with cultural elitism and realism, such as E. M. Forster. More importantly, they showcase the work of obscure authors on the cultural fringe and/or of popular culture for the first time (e.g....

In this book you'll discover what constitutes a 'supercomputer', how the supercomputers of today function, how you can make your own computer into a super machine - through networking - and what tomorrow holds in store for computer usage in terms of hardware, software and everyday applications.