6/12/2023 0 Comments Gabi burton sing me to sleep![]() Gabi Burton grew up reading and writing in St. With a forbidden romance and a compulsively dark plot, this fantasy is perfect for fans of A Song Below Water and To Kill a Kingdom. There’s only one problem: Saoirse is that deadly killer. But Saoirse finds herself drawn to him-especially when they’re forced to work together to stop a deadly killer. After all, his father enforces the kingdom’s brutal creature segregation laws. When Saoirse is forced to accept a job guarding the crown prince, she expects to hate Prince Hayes. And to her family, Saoirse tells the biggest lie of all: that she can control her powers and doesn’t constantly grapple with the impulse to kill. ![]() At night, working as an assassin, Saoirse lies about her true identity. ![]() As a soldier, she lies about being a siren to avoid execution. In this dark, seductive YA fantasy debut, a siren in hiding must choose between protecting her family and following her heart. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Alloria by David Staniforth![]() Something about him sparks memories of her deeply troubled past, a time she's tried so hard to bury. From their very first encounter, he terrifies and captivates her. Sky, a senior in high school, meets Dean Holder, a guy with a promiscuous reputation that rivals her own. Would you rather know a truth that makes you feel hopeless, or keep believing the lies? Beloved and bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with the spellbinding story of two young people with devastating pasts who embark on a passionate, intriguing journey to discover the lessons of life, love, trust - and above all, the healing power that only truth can bring. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us comes the beginning of Sky and Dean's passionate love story - where well-kept secrets threaten to open wounds of a dark past. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, what we can gain is not only a set of concrete takeaways for the problems around us, not only a new way to see the elegant structures behind even the hairiest human dilemmas, not only a recognition of the travails of humans and computers as deeply conjoined, but something even more profound: a new vocabulary for the world around us, and a chance to learn something truly new about ourselves. And we will learn about how the mind works, about its distinct but deeply related ways of tackling the same set of issues and coping with the same constraints. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions. ![]() Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. We will learn about the fundamental mathematical structure of these challenges and about how computers are engineered-sometimes counter to what we imagine-to make the most of them. Brian Christian is the author of The Most Human Human, a Wall Street Journal bestseller, New York Times editors choice, and a New Yorker favorite book of the year. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions - Kindle edition by Christian, Brian, Griffiths. ![]() ![]() The next pages begin our journey through some of the biggest challenges faced by computers and human minds alike: how to manage finite space, finite time, limited attention, unknown unknowns, incomplete information, and an unforeseeable future how to do so with grace and confidence and how to do so in a community with others who are all simultaneously trying to do the same. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments The story teller dave grohl![]() ![]() ![]() This certainly doesn’t mean that I’m quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it’s like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I’ve recorded and can’t wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities (‘It’s a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!’), I have decided to tell these stories just as I have always done, in my own voice. Features excerpts from five never-before-heard demos performed by Dave Grohl and an original story exclusive to The Storyteller audiobook. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments A place of greater safety![]() She shivered." I remember big, ugly George-Jacques Danton, gored not once, but twice by a bull, then scarred by smallpox ("His mother did not think that the marks detracted from him. And just that he didn't kiss it, just held it there. What I do remember is the moment where Camille Desmoulins kisses Lucile Duplessis's hand: "He turned it over rather forcefully, and held her palm against his mouth. I have to phone my mum to ask the name of the nearest big town (Bergerac) and my sister to check other details, like the names of the boys we befriended (Jon and David). I remember very little about that holiday. ![]() It was the summer I turned 17, and my family were spending a fortnight in the Dordogne. ![]() The biggest fight I've ever had with my mum was over this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though it might spark interesting discussions with an older child, this work will be over the heads of little ones. This beautiful picture book is a celebration of our natural world that. Illustrating this unusual book, Frasier's paper collages feature a mostly muted palette of earth tones that is somewhat lacking in child appeal. Buy On the Day You Were Born Board Book by Debra Frasier for 27.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. ![]() Young readers will find Frasier's rhythmic passages soothing, if not always entirely comprehensible: ``On the day you were born the Moon pulled on the ocean below, and, wave by wave, a rising tide washed the beaches clean for your footprints.'' The volume concludes with notes on the natural and technical phenomena mentioned in the text, including animal migration, the rotation of the earth, gravity, stellar constellations and precipitation. The poetic text explains how the sun, moon, ocean tides, rain, trees, air, animals and people of the world work together to create a welcoming setting for a baby's arrival. Offering a curious amalgam of the mystical and the scientific, Frasier's first picture book is a paean to nature and to birth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are 50 states in the United States, and that means there are about 50 unique stories that explain how each state got its shape. Although there's no single, simple answer to that question, let's investigate some of the factors that shaped the way the states look. For example, it can be difficult to distinguish Wyoming from Colorado and North Dakota from South Dakota unless you see them in context, because they have such similar shapes.Ĭurious Wonder Friends from all over the United States have WONDERed for some time about how the states got their shapes. However, there are also many states that have similar shapes and aren't easy to identify by themselves unless you see them in context on the map of the entire United States. For example, the states of Texas and Florida have interesting shapes that just about everyone recognizes at first glance. If you look at a map of the United States, it's easy to identify certain states that have unique shapes. We spend hours just looking at maps and dreaming of visiting every state, country, planet, and imaginary land that exists anywhere and everywhere! Do you love maps? Here in Wonderopolis, we have a room that's filled with nothing but maps. ![]() ![]() ![]() Firstly, it took a long time for the Pope in Rome to become head of a separate church. Neither was there such a thing as Christendom, meaning, in reality, the lands where the Catholic Church held sway. The Byzantine state was able to tax its population, unlike the new kingdoms which emerged in the West, and was thus much wealthier and able to maintain a paid, standing army, again unlike Western rulers. Its Eastern half, what we’ll term the Byzantine Empire, long remained. ![]() ‘… one thing which remained constant throughout the Middle Ages was the importance of the old Roman imperial frontier’ (p.252).Īnd in a sense the Roman Empire did not collapse. That divide remained even after the Empire collapsed. In the Roman world, for example, the key divide was along the Rhine and the Danube, the border of the Empire. Chris Wickham, Medieval Europe (Yale University Press 2016), 352pp.Įurope has not always existed. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Xkcd by Randall Munroe![]() ![]() This is very important, so I want to say it as clearly as I can: FUCK. It doesn't involve constantly holding back for fear of shaking things up. It doesn't involve tempering my life to better fit someone's expectations. But I do know one thing: the solution doesn't involve watering down my every little idea and creative impulse for the sake of someday easing my fit into a mold. I don't know how to jolt myself into seeing what each moment could become. We act like if we just get through today, tomorrow our dreams will come back to us. ![]() We see the same things each day, we respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, each day a slight variation on the last, every moment smoothly following the gentle curves of societal norms. We live trapped in loops, reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a handful of paths laid out ahead of us. XKCD is one of our favorite webcomics - and it started out as doodles in Randall Munroe's college notebooks. ![]() The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I'm sitting here refreshing my inbox. “Whatever happened to our dreams? The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most recently, Barry Allen and Wallace West ran into, fought and defeated the Anti-Monitor while traveling through the multiverse in 2022's Dark Crisis: Big Bang #1 (by Mark Waid, Dan Jurgens, Norm Rapmund, Federico Blee and Troy Peteri). The Anti-Monitor served as the main antagonist in 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths, with the character making his first full-on debut in Crisis on Infinite Earths #6. Uncovering the truth about what happened to their third child, Wally and team must infiltrate the dangerous compound known as the Nest in hopes of saving their newborn, while battling the formidable Granny Goodness!Ĭreated by Marv Wolfman, George Pérez and Jerry Ordway, the Anti-Monitor is considered to be one of the most dangerous villains in the entire DC Universe. ![]() $3.99 US | 32 pages | $4.99 US (card stock) Mark Waid History of the Marvel Universe Treasury Edition Paperback Maby Javier Rodriguez (Illustrator), Mark Waid (Contributor) 586 ratings Part of: History Of The Marvel Universe (2019) See all formats and editions Kindle 10.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 27.16 6 Used from 21.99 1 New from 54.1:50 foil variant cover by TAURIN CLARKE.Variant cover by MIKE PERKINS and MIKE SPICER.Art by FERNANDO PASARIN and OCLAIR ALBERT. ![]() |