6/12/2023 0 Comments The unbroken by cl clark![]() Speaking of characters, I loved the dynamic between the two main leads. Characters make big, epic mistakes, and have to live with the consequences. One where the lines of good and bad are blurred. We’ve got a heady mixture of military-based fantasy set against colonialist conquerors, with a rebellion brewing in the streets of Qazāl. The Unbroken took me a little while to get into, but once I’d hit my stride I found myself devouring it in hundred-page chunks, immersed in the beautifully drawn, albeit harrowing, world Clark has created. Through assassinations and massacres, in bedrooms and war rooms, Touraine and Luca will haggle over the price of a nation. Someone who can sway the rebels toward peace, while Luca focuses on what really matters: getting her uncle off her throne. Luca needs a turncoat. Someone desperate enough to tiptoe the bayonet’s edge between treason and orders. But now, her company has been sent back to her homeland to stop a rebellion, and the ties of blood may be stronger than she thought. ![]() Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow conscripts. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Anna carey eve series![]() Maggie Stiefvater, author of The Raven Boys cycle, The Scorpio Races, the Shiver series, and All the Crooked Saints. (Hear her very first FIrst Draft interview here) Morgan Matson, New York Times bestselling author of Since You’ve Been Gone, The Unexpected Everything, Save the Date and more. ![]() Jenny Han, New York Times best-selling author of the To All the Boys I Loved Before series and the Summer I Turned Pretty series. John Cusick at Folio Literary Management is Anna’s current literary agent Listen to Anna’s first First Draft interview here!Ĭatie Disabato, author of The Ghost Network and the new adult contemporary novel U Up? Hear her First Draft interview here.īig Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, and her TED Talk, “ Your Elusive Creative Genius” Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode: ![]() ![]() She’s also the author of The Eve Trilogy ( Eve, Once, Rise ) and the Blackbird series ( Blackbird, Deadfall ). Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify First Draft Episode #291: Anna CareyĪnna Carey is the author of This is Not The Jess Show. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments The widows of malabar![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Farid widows live in full purdah-in strict seclusion, never leaving the women's quarters or speaking to any men. What will they live on? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the widows has signed her form with an X-meaning she probably couldn't even read the document. But as Perveen examines the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have signed over their full inheritance to a charity. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes women's legal rights especially important to her. Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. This Deluxe Edition features: an interview with the author, discussion questions, essays on the real-life inspirations behind the novel, delicious recipes taken from the story, and previews of The Satapur Moonstone (May 2019). The author of the Agatha and Macavity Award–winning Rei Shimura novels brings us an atmospheric new historical mystery with a captivating heroine. 1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay's only female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward the murderous. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments How to resist amazon![]() Well-researched and lively, his tale covers the history of big box stores, the big political drama of delivery, and the perils of warehouse work. In this book, he lays out the case for shifting our personal money and civic investment away from global corporate behemoths and to small, local, independent businesses. wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas has been an outspoken critic of the seemingly unstoppable Goliath of the bookselling world: Amazon. ![]() When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with impossible quotas. How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!
6/11/2023 0 Comments Tegmark life 3.0![]() ![]() Max Tegmark’s Life 3.0 tries to rectify the situation. (Most generally held ideas about AI come from SF movies such as The Terminator and The Matrix.) Without a better understanding of the field, we cannot comprehend the dilemmas we are facing: when science becomes politics, scientific ignorance becomes a recipe for political disaster. This is largely because most people have only a very dim and limited understanding of machine learning, neural networks and artificial intelligence. It has not been a major subject in any election campaign, and most parties, politicians and voters seem to have no opinion about it. Unfortunately, AI has so far hardly registered on our political radar. Hence it is not something we can leave to Silicon Valley – it should be among the most important items on our political agenda. ![]() ![]() This choice is not a matter of engineering or science. AI should be among the most important items on our political agenda – it has hardly registered on our political radar ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Darrell Huff called the manipulation of statistics statistaculation.įor example, the claims and misuse of survey research the ad men on Madison Avenue perpetrated drew Huff’s ire and were exposed. Huff introduced the general public to common ways that statistics are used to manipulate the facts in an easy-to-understand and accessible way. Huff was the editor of Better Homes and Gardens in the 1940s and ’50s and had a lifelong passion for statistics - and even though he was not a statistician, his book has become the most widely read Statistics book to date. The series is based on a monumental book titled “ How to Lie with Statistics,” by Darrell Huff, published in 1954. ![]() Welcome to the very first post in long series about all the ways statistics, measurements, facts and data visualizations are used and abused in the Information Security space. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Clickers Forever by Brian Keene![]() ![]() ![]() Huyck, Jay Wilburn, Geoff Cooper, Charles Rutledge, Wesley Southard, Kyle Lybeck, Amber Fallon, Dave Thomas, and Wile E. Schow, John Skipp, Jeff Strand, Weston Ochse, Wayne Allen Sallee, Kelli Owen, Nick Mamatas, Wrath James White, Jonathan Janz, Robert Swartwood, Kristopher Rufty, Adam Cesare, Gene O’Neill, John Urbancik, Gord Rollo, Gabino Iglesias, Monica O’Rourke, Mike Oliveri, Matt Hayward, Robert Ford, Mike Lombardo, Jeff Burk, Lesley Conner, Matt Serafini, Stephen Kozeniewski, Michael T. Heres Stephen Kozeniewski at Thunderstorm Books headquarters with a sample copy of CLICKERS FOREVER: A TRIBUTE TO J.F. Gonzalez, Brian Keene, Jonathan Maberry, Mary SanGiovanni, David J. GONZALEZ celebrates his rich legacy, featuring some of horror’s biggest names alongside tomorrow’s stars in a massive career-spanning tribute.įeaturing stories set in Gonzalez’s literary worlds of CLICKERS, SURVIVOR, PRIMITIVE, and RESTORE FROM BACK-UP examinations of his creative process and the lasting impact of his seminal works personal tributes and anecdotes from those who knew him best and much more. ![]() Few Millennium-era horror authors left as big an imprint on the genre as J.F. ![]() ![]() ![]() and it’s melting Jacob’s frosty exterior. Like Eve, the heat between them is impossible to ignore. ![]() ![]() Sunny, chaotic Eve is his natural-born nemesis, but the longer these two enemies spend in close quarters, the more their animosity turns into something else. Before long, she’s infiltrated his work, his kitchen-and his spare bedroom. Now his arm is broken, his B&B is understaffed, and the dangerously unpredictable Eve is fluttering around, trying to help. Then she hits him with her car- supposedly by accident. So when a purple-haired tornado of a woman turns up out of the blue to interview for his open chef position, he tells her the brutal truth: not a chance in hell. The bed and breakfast owner’s on a mission to dominate the hospitality industry and he expects nothing less than perfection. It's time for Eve to grow up and prove herself-even though she's not entirely sure how… ![]() But when her personal brand of chaos ruins an expensive wedding ( someone had to liberate those poor doves), her parents draw the line. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong. In Talia Hibbert’s newest rom-com, the flightiest Brown sister crashes into the life of an uptight B&B owner and has him falling hard-literally.įeatured on Parade, PopSugar, Marie Claire, Oprah Mag, Bustle, Shondaland, CNN.com, Kirkus Magazine, Bookpage, USA Today, Bookish, Bookriot, and more!Įve Brown is a certified hot mess. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Sugar free by sawyer bennett![]() ![]() Sugar Daddy is a hot read that only gets better with every page. I couldn’t put it down.New York Times bestselling author Marquita Valentine Wow Sawyer Bennett steps out of her ice skates and into her Manolos. ![]() But each touch of Sela’s mouth on his skin, her nails down his back, makes it harder to let her go-and it might not even be his choice to make. Sugar Daddy is raw, gritty, and exceptionally hot. With the legacy of his ruthless business partner hanging in the balance, Beck stands to lose everything: his fortune, his family, his freedom. The passion between them runs hot, even as their world begins to unravel. ![]() But can he handle the brutal truth?īeck will do anything to protect what is his-and make no mistake, Sela belongs to him, heart and soul. Beckett North has stood by Sela since the beginning. In desperate need of shelter and comfort, she runs to the one man she can trust. And even though she escapes with her life, Sela fears she may never recover. Now, once again, she finds herself at the mercy of Jonathon Townsend, his hands crushing the very breath from her body. Sela and Beck’s deliciously sinful tale of sex, lies, and vengeance reaches its explosive conclusion in the final chapter of Sawyer Bennett’s Sugar Bowl trilogy, which began with the novels Sugar Daddy and Sugar Rush.įor years Sela Halstead dreamed of revenge, but the quest for payback has been anything but sweet. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Flashman audio books![]() The author himself, try as he will to keep himself out of his pages, emerges not merely as a great talent, but as a man of laughter and love. Lerner calls "the sundown of wit, eccentricity, and glamour." Warm, witty, loving, often hilarious, and poignant in its affection for a glorious era in the American theater, it is the story of what Mr. This is a highly personal biography of three great shows: My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Gigi.
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