![]() ![]() Having grown up in squalor and neglect on the streets of Montreal, she longs for the close-knit family she's found during her training to be a warrior. ![]() His rare ability to daywalk lands Aric an assignment in Montreal, where he learns he's to be teamed with another new recruit, a beautiful, but tough-as-nails Breedmate named Kaya Laurent.Independent and driven, Kaya wants nothing more than to become a full-fledged member of the Order. With his training completed, all he needs is one successful mission before he can join the fight to destroy the Order's chief nemesis, Opus Nostrum. As the son of a formidable Breed warrior, Aric Chase has been devoted to the Order all his life. In this pulse-pounding new Midnight Breed vampire romance novel from New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Lara Adrian, passion explodes between a daywalking member of the Order and a fiery female warrior whose shadowy past will test the bonds of both duty and desire. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Let’s take a look at some of the key takeaways from the book. Know anyone who’s working on anything like that? A “startup” (and therefore an organization that can benefit greatly from the teachings of this book) is any endeavor that revolves around people and is working towards an unknown or unproven result. It’s not about working on a tech product. “A startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.” Before you close this summary, thinking to yourself, “I don’t work for a startup”, it’s important to get a firm understanding of how Ries defines the term. What Ries has done is take some of the foundational principles of Lean Manufacturing and applied them to the chaotic and uncertain world of the Startup. You might be familiar with a process called “Lean Manufacturing”? Effectively, this is a system that has been adopted by manufacturing facilities the world over, and is designed to reduce waste and inefficiencies on factory floors. In essence, he has created (and proven) a new type of business structure – one that focuses on and rewards enterprises that have innovation at their core. What Eric Ries has done with The Lean Startup is nothing short of remarkable. How’s that for a summary starter? Shock and awe tactics aside, I mean it. Without question, The Lean Startup is the most actionable and informative book I have read this year. ![]() ![]() Katy is forced into stress tests (fighting other hybrids) and is tortured. The book takes after the events at the end of Opal, with Katy in a facility and Daemon in a Luxen safehouse, having been put there by Dawson and Matthew to protect him. Who are the real bad guys? Daedalus? Mankind? Or the Luxen?īut the most dangerous foe has been there all along, and when the truths are exposed and the lies come crumbling down, which side will Daemon and Katy be on? After all, there are sides of Daedalus that don’t seem entirely crazy, but the group’s goals are frightening and the truths they speak even more disturbing. Surrounded by enemies, the only way she can come out of this is to adapt. Burning down the whole world to save her? Gladly. Taking out anyone who stands in his way? Done. Daemon will do anything to get Katy back.Īfter the successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather, he’s facing the impossible. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gertrude Atherton was born in San Francisco in 1857, and died in 1948. Keywords gaslight supernatural literature dark fantasy gothic macabre weird tales terror lovecraft arkham cthulhu ghost haunting hallowe'en halloween.Place of Publication Hertfordshire, England.This story collection contains: The Striding Place The Dead and the Countess The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number A Monarch of a Small Survey The Tragedy of a Snob Crowned with One Crest Death and the Woman Talbot of Ursula A Prologue (to an unwritten play) and The Bell in the Fog. ![]() The Bell in the Fog was originally published by Harper and Brothers in 1905. She went on to publish a number or short stories, two novels and two story collections. Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton was a writer of the supernatural, selling her first short story, The Caves of Death, to the San Francisco Newsletter in December 1886. ![]() Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine and a small scuffed patch on the front cover no interior markings. Hertfordshire, England: Wordsworth Editions, 2006. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bee, on the other hand, is a London mom of three, busy fighting off PTA meetings and chicken pox, dealing with dead cats, and generally juggling work and family while squabbling with her globe-trotting husband over the socks he leaves lying around the house. ![]() She's also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi'ite background living in Baghdad, dodging bullets before breakfast, bargaining for high heels in bombed-out bazaars, and battling through blockades to reach her class of Jane Austen-studying girls. Would you brave gun-toting militias for a cut and blow dry? May's a tough-talking, hard-smoking, lecturer in English. Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad by Bee Rowlatt and May Witwit is a touching and poignant portrait of an unlikely friendship. Yet now, despite their differences, they're the firmest of friends. A London mom and Iraqi teacher should have nothing in common. ![]() ![]() Humanity is so multi-faceted that it is impossible to say whether or not an individual can maintain their humanity without their sense of logic and reasoning or without their emotions and memories. If you take away a person’s ability to rationalize through prior memory, what do you have left? Would he still be human? The idea of a fundamental binary of identity is on display front and center here, asking to what extent our idea of self-hood is defined by our logical nature versus our creative impulses. ![]() The prose in the End of the World chapters is also markedly more fluid and poetic (almost dream-like), while the Hardboiled chapters tend to feel more cold and distant in its style. This is another interesting binary between the two stories, the Calcutec is struggling to preserve his identity while the End of the World narrator is struggling to discover his. The other narrative, The End of the World, introduces us to another unknown narrator who can’t remember anything about his previous life. The protagonist of Hard-boiled Wonderland, a calcutec, uses the binary property of his brain to process data, which is the main source of capital for almost everything in his world. ![]() This can be seen immediately from both the title and the chapters, which alternate between the Wonderland and the End of the world. At the core of Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the idea of the binary, two separate objects slowly coming together as one. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Skip is a CIA recruit working under his uncle, Francis X. Readers familiar with the Vietnam War will recognize its arc-the Tet offensive (65 harrowing pages here) the deaths of Martin Luther King and RFK the fall of Saigon, swift and seemingly foreordained. President Kennedy had been killed”) to 1970, gets its own part, followed by a coda set in 1983. ![]() In Johnson's honest world, no one story dominates.įor all the story lines, the structure couldn't be simpler: each year, from 1963 (the book opens in the Philippines: “Last night at 3:00 a.m. the real point is the possibility of grace in a world of total mystery and inexplicable suffering. , novels like Resuscitation of a Dead Man As with all of Johnson's work-the stories in Jesus' Son Jimmy Storm, whose existence seems to be one long vision quest. If this novel, Johnson's first in nearly a decade, is-as the promo copy says-about Skip Sands, it's also about his uncle, a legendary CIA operative Kathy Jones, a widowed, saintly Canadian nurse Trung, a North Vietnamese spy and the Houston brothers, Bill and James, misguided GIs who haunt the story's periphery. ![]() ![]() At sum, Sirota does something that highlights a culture of narcissism in the 1980s that explains the United States in the first decade of the twenty-first century.Ĭlearly David Sirota is on to something. imperialism, and the problem of race and racism may be traced to the experience of politics and culture in the 1980s. It argues the thesis, in the words of author David Sirota, that “the 1980s-and specifically 1980s pop culture-frames the way we think about major issues today.” Rather grandiosely he asserts, “the decade is the lens through which we see our world.” Sirota insists that modern American questioning of government, the winner-take-all individualism, the rise of greed and individual priorities at the expense of the commons, the concept of “rogue” actors who takes matters into their own hands, the nature of militarism and its support for U.S. In many respects Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live In Now is an exceptionally interesting book. ![]() Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live In Now. ![]() ![]() ![]() If Dominic gives Meg ``great pleasure'' in bed, he will earn himself a daughter, but it takes ``great love'' to produce a son. Lowell ( Only His ) opens her medieval trilogy with a fanciful but banal story of Lady Margaret, who marries the Norman knight Dominic le Sabre in the hope. Dominic seeks a male heir, but Meg's eccentric Glendruid reproductive system may deny him his wish: Glendruid women are not known for producing sons. Lowell's clumsy tale appears to glorify a system that ranks females as less valuable than males. Meg and Dominic are surrounded by threats: Duncan is poised to disrupt the wedding Eadith, Meg's attendant, hates the Normans, who killed ``her husband, father, brothers, and uncles'' (women relatives seem of no concern) Meg's powerful home-brewed medicine has been stolen and her ``Glendruid'' psychic powers indicate impending danger. ![]() Family and friends must say goodbye to their beloved Frances Ann Maxwell of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, who passed away on April 28, 2023. This content was uploaded by our users and we assume good faith they have the permission to. Frances Ann Maxwell Obituary It is always difficult saying goodbye to someone we love and cherish. In marrying him, she defies the dying wish of John of Cumbriland, who raised her: that she wed his illegitimate son, Duncan of Maxwell. Lowell, Elizabeth - Ann Maxwell aka Elizabeth Lowell - Change. Lowell ( Only His ) opens her medieval trilogy with a fanciful but banal story of Lady Margaret, who marries the Norman knight Dominic le Sabre in the hope that he can protect her Saxon home, Blackthorne Keep, during troubled times. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unable to stand by to watch Europe’s cultural and humanities institutions erode with the extermination of artists Hitler deems enemies of his new order, most of them Jewish, Fry and his staff set up a covert office in Marseilles in occupied France. The novel begins in 1940, just as many Europeans, including Fry, are becoming aware of the mounting atrocities committed by the Nazis. The novel has been praised for its compelling mixture of fiction and fact, illuminating their dual role in transmitting historical truth. To add realistic dialogue and intrigue to the limited records that exist of Fry’s life, Orringer focuses on his friendship with a fictional college friend Elliott Grant, who appears in Marseille in the midst of Fry’s valiant attempt to stave off the artistic destruction of Hitler’s regime. Notable individuals saved under Fry’s brave leadership included Jewish political scientist Hannah Arendt, Jewish artist Marc Chagall, Surrealist pioneers Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp, and Max Ernst. The ERC embarked on a multinational rescue mission, finding Jewish and political dissident artists and intellectuals all over Europe and moving them outside Hitler’s grasp. Set during the Holocaust and World War II, Julie Orringer’s novel The Flight Portfolio (2019) retells the true story of Varian Fry, an editor and journalist who moved to Marseilles, France to join the Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC). ![]() |