![]() Not when room six held a resident who'd been sleeping there for so many years that she really needed a good dusting-except that it was far too dangerous for anyone to get that close to her. Not when she'd been tricked into taking over here by a horrible little gnome of a man who'd abandoned his post before she'd even figured out who he really was. And Claire was not happy about this latest assignment, not happy at all. ![]() And now she'd been Summoned to the Elysian Fields Guesthouse, a rundown bed-and-breakfast that seemed to attract the most unusual clientele. After all, who knew better than Austin what was best for the well-being of Claire-and for the not-quite-as-important rest of the universe?Ĭlaire Hansen was a Keeper, a member of that select group that kept the universe in one piece. ![]() ![]() Not just any cat, mind you, he was the Keeper's cat, a very outspoken feline with extremely strong opinions he was always willing to voice. Austin was a black and white, far-from-young cat. ![]()
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![]() Indeed, this reads like a fragment of a larger story, an introduction to character and place that, while entertaining, skims the surface. ![]() Moning's newest foray contains suspense and plenty of setup. Kuangs latest novel, a dark academia fantasy set in an alternate Oxford with magic and secret. In the process, Mac learns of her own unusual talents and finds an unlikely mentor in the wealthy and mysterious Jericho Barrons. The fever series by Karen Marie Moning (slow burn though. When MacKayla Lane, an ordinary young woman, travels to Ireland to track down her sister's murderer, she is sucked into an extraordinary world filled with ancient secrets, vampires, assorted Fae nasties and other tough-to-kill beings. ![]() ) created in her earlier romances, this suspense novel takes readers on a darker journey, one dominated by the search for a powerful Faery magic and bereft of the romantic magic Moning's fans have come to expect. ![]() Drawing on elements from the paranormal world that bestseller Moning ( Spell of the Highlander ![]() ![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe.
![]() ![]() Recalling his time as a helicopter pilot in the British army, the Duke of Sussex describes killing 25 people in Afghanistan across six missions, according to the BBC. Harry says he killed 25 people in Afghanistan while serving in the military The encounter took place in a field behind a busy pub and Harry recalls that someone must have seen them because a bodyguard was instructed by Prince Charles to follow up on press office reports that Harry was taking drugs, the Daily Mail added. He writes that the woman in question “liked macho horses” and treated him “like a young stallion.” When the encounter ended, he reportedly writes, she “spanked my ass and sent me away.” One of the lighter stories Harry recalls in Spare is the “humiliating episode” where he lost his virginity to an older woman, according to the Daily Mail, which also obtained a copy of the book. ![]() Harry notes he tried cocaine as a teenager and has “done a few more” lines since. He believed a bathroom bin was staring at him as it grew a head and shortly after he saw a talking toilet and left the room laughing, the Telegraph reported. ![]() Harry also recalled a January 2016 trip to California where he got drunk on tequila and took magic mushrooms. ![]() ![]() In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa, like so many of her neighbors, must choose between fighting for the place she loves and leaving it behind to seek a better life for her family in California. Every day is a terrible battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive on the Martinelli farm, including Elsa's shaky marriage. The strength of Hannah’s prose brings the characters to life in a way that will make you unable to tear yourself away from them. Dust storms rage over the plains incessantly. 'The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah is a captivating, heartbreaking tale of a family who will do anything for each other and everything to survive. As crops fail, water runs out, and the soil breaks up, farmers are struggling to maintain their land and livelihoods. With her reputation in shambles, she has no choice but to marry a guy she hardly knows.īy 1934, the world had changed millions of people were out of work, and the Great Plains had been decimated by drought. ![]() Until she meets Rafe Martinelli one night and chooses to change her life's path. ![]() But the future appears gloomy for Elsa Wolcott, who is judged too old to marry at a period when marriage is a woman's only option. The Great War is over, the land's wealth is abundant, and America is on the verge of a new and hopeful period. 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In this episode, The Sea of Monsters, Percy sets out to retrieve the Golden Fleece before his summer camp is destroyed, surpassing the first book's drama and setting the stage for more thrills to come. Percy soon discovers there is trouble at Camp Half-Blood: the magical borders which protect Half-Blood Hill have been poisoned by a mysterious enemy, and the only safe haven for demigods is on the verge of being overrun by mythological monsters. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson-a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere, making it hard for Percy to have any oenormal ? friends. A New York Times Bestselling Series Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Book 2) After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Davis won the Man Booker International prize in 2013, Ali Smith called her a “daring, excitingly intelligent and often wildly comic writer who reminds you… what words such as economy, precision and originality really mean”.īesides eight story collections and one novel, Davis has published more than a dozen translations, most notably of Madame Bovary and the first volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as well as, more recently, Night Train, a collection of very short stories by the Dutch author AL Snijders. ![]() I ndex Entry, the shortest of the very short stories for which the American writer Lydia Davis is best known, runs to just four words: “Christian, I’m not a”. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I have just read the very best ever to come out of the science fiction field,” countered Theodore Sturgeon, another SF heavyweight who, in my opinion, was a tad heavier. “An unrelenting bore of a literary exercise afflicted with elephantiasis, anemia of ideas, and malnutrition of plot.” “ Dhalgren is a tragic failure,” howled science fiction heavyweight Harlan Ellison in his February 1975 review for the Los Angeles Times. Neither television cameras nor on-the-spot broadcasts function: that such a catastrophe as this should be opaque, and therefore dull, to the electric nation! It is a city of inner discordances and retinal distortions.” – Samuel R. Rumor says there is practically no power here. It is as if not only the media but the laws of perspective themselves have redesigned knowledge and perception to pass it by. “Very few suspect the existence of this city. ![]() Wilder Publications, 272 pages, $31.99 hardback, $21.99, paperback. The critics who agreed with an early assessment that 1975’s Dhalgren is a “literary landmark” get to touch champagne flutes and congratulate one another. ![]() ![]() ![]() No need to dive into math notation or equations, which can be inscrutable for people without a relevant degree.Ģ. Mathematical concepts are explained using code snippets. ![]() The material is targeted to anyone with basic Python coding experience. Here are the two things that I think make the book stand out compared to other deep learning books:ġ. It takes you through the journey of deep learning in a very captivating way. I envy those who are just about to read it. Because of it’s beautiful simplicity, it is extremely popular: over two hundred thousand users, which is more than one third of all the deep learning engineers in the world. ![]() Keras is an open-source deep learning framework for Python. The title would not catch my attention, if not the fact that the book is written by François Chollet. The book is called “Deep Learning with Python”. I was recently impressed by a new book on deep learning, and I decided to share it here. I occasionally give talks on deep learning, and I know how important it is to present the material in the right way - practical and easy to grasp. ![]() |