![]() She also wrote Into the Gauntlet, the tenth book in the 39 Clues series. Dunphrey Leaving Fishers Just Ella Turnabout Takeoffs and Landings The Girl with 500 Middle Names Because of Anya Escape from Memory Say What? The House on the Gulf Double Identity Dexter the Tough Uprising Palace of Mirrors Claim to Fame the Shadow Children series and the Missing series. She has since written more than 25 books for kids and teens, including Running Out of Time Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Before her first book was published, she worked as a newspaper copy editor in Fort Wayne, Indiana a newspaper reporter in Indianapolis and a community college instructor and freelance writer in Danville, Illinois. ![]() ![]() She graduated from Miami University (of Ohio) with degrees in English/journalism, English/creative writing and history. Margaret Peterson Haddix grew up on a farm near Washington Court House, Ohio. ![]()
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![]() Within the text of Olive’s best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him. She’s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal-an experience that shocks him to his core. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. “One of finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” - The New York TimesĮdwin St. One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, GoodReads ![]() The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s been a long time since any book instantly engaged me and refused to let go. Two people brought together by the trappings of duty and politics will discover they are destined for each other, even as the powers of a hostile kingdom scheme to tear them apart. Bound to her new husband, Ildiko will leave behind all she’s known to embrace a man shrouded in darkness but with a soul forged by light. Resigned to her fate, she is horrified to learn that her intended groom isn’t just a foreign aristocrat but the younger prince of a people neither familiar nor human. Ildiko, niece of the Gauri king, has always known her only worth to the royal family lay in a strategic marriage. Always a dutiful son, Brishen agrees to the marriage and discovers his bride is as ugly as he expected and more beautiful than he could have imagined. A trade and political alliance between the human kingdom of Gaur and the Kai kingdom of Bast-Haradis requires that he marry a Gauri woman to seal the treaty. ![]() Shares Paradigms With: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy X, Beauty and the Beast, Norse Mythology (near the end), Welsh Mythology (during the Epilogue), ASOIAFīrishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over. ![]() ![]() Because the meaning of beneficial depends on properties of humans, this task inevitably includes elements from the social sciences in addition to AI.įind out more about the people who work with and at CHAI here Partners CHAI’s goal is to ensure that this eventuality cannot arise, by refocusing AI away from the capability to achieve arbitrary objectives and towards the ability to generate provably beneficial behavior. This raises a problem of control: given that the solutions developed by such systems are intrinsically unpredictable by humans, it may occur that some such solutions result in negative and perhaps irreversible outcomes for humans. The long-term outcome of AI research seems likely to include machines that are more capable than humans across a wide range of objectives and environments. MissionĬHAI’s goal is to develop the conceptual and technical wherewithal to reorient the general thrust of AI research towards provably beneficial systems.Īrtificial intelligence research is concerned with the design of machines capable of intelligent behavior, i.e., behavior likely to be successful in achieving objectives. CHAI is a multi-institution research group based at UC Berkeley, with academic affiliates at a variety of other universities. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My manager, Marcel Duran, likes to make a show out of everything. TV cameras are with me, ready to follow me to the ring. I’m waiting in the dressing area with my team, ready to go. ![]() The point I’ve reached in my career.Įverything I’ve had to do, endure, sacrifice has brought me to this moment. Thousands of people are here to watch this fight. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Visit my website at Cover Model: Mitchell WickĮditor and Interior Designer: Jovana Shirley, Unforeseen Editing, No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without the written permission of the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Sacking the Quarterback (BookShots Flames/James Patterson) OTHER CONTEMPORARY NOVELS BY SAMANTHA TOWLE ![]() ![]() ![]() He returns to England from his latest post in Russia to do two things: a) check on an estate he has inherited from his uncle, Sir Jasper Brownrigg and b) to find a suitable bride one of high birth and impeccable breeding, someone who would complement his station in life.Īll this he plans to accomplish in a month or so. He is a diplomat with love of adventure that his job provides. ![]() ![]() His only source of any kind of love came from his brother Marcus, much too snobby Earl. Nash Renfrew, our wonderful hero has been brought up in a strict Aristocratic home with not one iota of affection from either his parents or servants. She does wonder, what will happen when her “dream” man remembers who he is… While she tends to his injuries, and upon learning that he’s lost his memory, she tries her best not to get too close to him, but living in cramped quarters and during long cold nights, she inevitably falls in love with him. To complicate matters more, she now saves a life of a stranger who gets thrown from his horse in front of her cottage. Show More Her life is made difficult by a father that left them destitute, an Estate Manager that threatens their home and livelihood, as well as a mysterious ghost that haunts them at night. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zach and Lark slowly grow to trust one another. Before hitchhiking to Vermont, he’d never watched TV or spoken on the phone.Īctually, there are a lot of things he’s never done. He doesn’t always know what to make of a world where movie quotes are the primary means of communication. But getting thrown away by your own people at nineteen leaves a mark on a guy. He’s good with animals, and he’s good with his hands. He’s found a peaceful existence on the Shipley’s farm. ![]() It’s been four years since he was tossed aside by the polygamist cult where he grew up. Desperate to keep her fragile state a secret, she relies on the most soft-spoken resident of the Shipley Farm to soothe her when her dreams prove too much. When her best friend offers her a stay at the orchard in exchange for help at the farmers’ markets, Lark jumps into her little car and heads to Vermont. She’s safe now, but her family is still consumed with worry and her nights are filled with terror. But her last overseas adventure was one too many. She led her life as a series of adventures, each one more exhilarating than the last. Genre: Contemporary,Books,Romance,New Adult,. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her family and friends have turned their back on her, and she’s become a social outcast. He wants nothing more than to lose himself and forget his pain allowing someone else control seems a small price to pay for it.Īfter her brutal assault at the hands of a lord, Cassandra’s had her name and reputation dragged through the mud. When Lady Cassandra Lane offers him one night in an upstairs room with her, he leaps at the chance despite her stipulation that he submit to her every whim. ![]() Niall would give anything to bring her back into the light, including descend into the darkness along with her.Īfter losing the love of his life to another man, Robert Stanley stumbles into a public house looking to drown his sorrows. Following a brutal assault and months spent languishing in an unwed mothers’ asylum, she finds herself plunged into an existence of pain, darkness, and regret. However, she returns a year later, ruined with a newborn babe in her arms, and a mind riddled by torment. When Olivia goes off to London for her first Season, Niall doesn’t think to ever see her again. And stay away, he should, since she happens to be the daughter of his master: an earl who would not take kindly to the attentions of a stable groom. Even as a young boy, her fragile beauty calls to something deep inside him, making it difficult to stay away from her. This two-book bundle contains both standalone, full-length follow-up stories to The Villain Duology, The Butterfly and The Damsel.įrom the moment Niall Gibbs lays eyes on Lady Olivia Goodall, he is entranced. ![]() ![]() ![]() I started this blog in November 2011 as a way of chronicling my reading (importing some, but not most, of the posts from an old LiveJournal). ![]() Still, I'll pick up the fourth volume, a collection of short stories, when it comes out. An okay conclusion to an okay trilogy, but I feel like it could have been a great series. ![]() ![]() The action in this series is always kind of obscure, but what got me invested in Raven was the characters Revenant's characters aren't as compelling, unfortunately. We get a few chapters of him learning to navigate this new situation, but this subplot isn't as prominent as I'd hoped. He's a crashhawk (a Kel without the "formation instinct" that forces them to obey orders) but despite that he's become the leader of a breakaway government of his own. The beginning also promises much out of Kel Brezan, my favorite character. I like the idea of one Jedao being used to bring down another Jedao, but there's not much of a reckoning out of this. The beginning of the book is strong, but isn't delivered on. Like Raven, it starts strong but kind of fizzles out, in that the narrative drive seems to dissipate as the novel goes, instead of increasing in intensity. This isn't as good as Raven Stratagem, but it is decent. I didn't like Ninefox Gambit, but ended up really enjoying Raven Stratagem when I dutifully read it for the Hugo Awards, so I willingly picked up the final volume of the Machineries of Empire trilogy. Machineries of Empire, Book Three: Revenant Gun ![]() ![]() ![]() Watch the triggers though because there are many and if you’ve gone through anything that has given you triggers, I’m sorry for what you went through. It’s an amazing series and I highly recommend it. Teddy Hamilton is one of my favorite narrators, not just by his sexy voice, but he is a true artist and captures Zade so perfectly and Michelle Sparks did such an amazing job with Addie, I haven’t listened to a lot of stuff with her, but she blew me away with her acting skills and made me truly believe in what Addie went through. Now, the narration oh boy the narration by these two amazing people make this story come to life. It’s not perfect or even sane, but it’s love in the most primal way and I’m so sad it’s over. ![]() However, at the heart of everything, this is a true crazy, dark romance. Carlton, Adeline, a young woman, is the focus of a perilous stalker. Carlton (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 4.5 27,642 ratings Book 2 of 2: Cat and Mouse Duet See all formats and editions Kindle 0.00 Read with Kindle Unlimited to also enjoy access to over 4 million more titles 4.99 to buy Audiobook 0. I know this book is fiction, but it’s not really, because this stuff does happen and it’s just monstrous how many evil people there are in the world. In the dark and thrilling novel Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse Duet Book 2) Kindle Edition by H. It will give you an up close and personal view of sex trafficking. This series is crazy dark, and highlights a topic most of us are completely ignorant of, but happens in the world. ![]() Now I’m floundering wondering what can top that in my next read. It took me awhile to listen to this series, because I wasn’t sure if I would like it. ![]() |