![]() And finally, there's Freya, the wild child, who has a charm or a potion that can cure most any heartache.įor centuries, all three women have been forced to suppress their abilities. Ingrid, her bookish daughter, has the ability to predict the future and weave knots that can solve anything from infertility to infidelity. Joanna can resurrect people from the dead and heal the most serious of injuries. But they are harboring a mighty secret-they are powerful witches banned from using their magic. Their beautiful, mist-shrouded town seems almost stuck in time, and all three women lead seemingly quiet, uneventful existences. The three Beauchamp women-Joanna and her daughters Freya and Ingrid-live in North Hampton, out on the tip of Long Island. ![]() ![]() From the author of the highly addictive and bestselling Blue Bloods series, with almost 3 million copies sold, comes a new novel, Melissa de la Cruz's first for adults, featuring a family of formidable and beguiling witches. ![]()
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![]() The couple bought land from one of her other brothers, Beatty Balestier, in Vermont where they built their dream home, called “The Naulahka.” Naulakha means “jewel beyond price” in Hindi, according to the home’s website. Kipling had been good friends with American writer and editor Wolcott Balestier, and he ended up marrying Wolcott’s sister Caroline “Carrie” Balestier, in January 1892. With several adaptions of the book hitting the big screen over the years, take a look at the original classic and its creator: Kipling wrote The Jungle Book while living in the United States ![]() They even appeared in Kipling’s sequel, The Second Jungle Book, which debuted in 1895. Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther and Shere Khan the tiger have all become famous characters in children’s literature. In these tales, the animals proved to be both Mowgli’s allies and adversaries. ![]() The Jungle Book’s stories of a human boy named Mowgli raised by animals in the wild made for riveting reading. Published in 1894, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book proved to be a hit with young and old alike. ![]() ![]() ![]() Urgent and fascinating, this is an accessible primer to the most important issue facing AI researchers today. If we stand by, we face a future with unregulated algorithms that propagate our biases - and worse - violate our most sacred values. From the AI program which cheats at computer games to the sexist algorithm behind Google Translate, bestselling author Brian Christian explains how, as AI develops, we rapidly approach a collision between artificial intelligence and ethics. This conundrum - dubbed 'The Alignment Problem' by experts - is the subject of this timely and important book. But as algorithms make ever more decisions on our behalf, how do we ensure they do what we want? And fairly? Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values. Briefly, Christian defines the alignment problem as arising from our imprecise or incomplete instructions to artificial intelligence which may result in a potentially catastrophic divergence from what we really want and what AI actually does. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. This is the book on artificial intelligence we need right now.' Mike Krieger, cofounder of InstagramĪrtificial intelligence is rapidly dominating every aspect of our modern lives influencing the news we consume, whether we get a mortgage, and even which friends wish us happy birthday. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values - Ebook written by Brian Christian. ![]() ![]() Also in the collection are select poems such as "Lenore" and "The Raven." Both stories tell tales of death and lost love about two different women named Lenore Poe's poems mourn these characters, making his words even more poetic and poignant. Still, madness, anger, and retribution all make their way into the majority of Poe's works. Many of Poe's other popular works are included in the anthology, such as "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Cask of Amontillado." Murder is a theme in both the works, though Poe executes his characters in decidedly different ways. Guilt and paranoia flood the narrator, and the audience experiences the narrator's plunge into madness as his fears begin to manifest. ![]() As he sits right above the body, he begins to hear the dead man's heart thumping loudly in his ears. In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator has just killed a man and buried him under his floor. ![]() Readers will recognize their favorite horror stories in the collection "The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings." Edgar Allen Poe was a master of suspense, horror, and mystery, and his stories, while truly terrifying, are also delightfully entertaining. ![]() ![]() Some were unbelievably good and others, not so much, but they all had one thing in common. ![]() Wow, talk about a jackpot! Hundreds of stories about my favorite show, and trust me, I read most of them. Can you say lack of confidence? Yeah, that’s putting it mildly.Ī few years after moving to Florida, I became hooked on a television show, and one night whilst scouring the Internet for information about said show, because that's what fans do (duh), I discovered fan fiction. Now, my gray matter is a dark and scary place, but wearing a headlamp and being very, very quiet, I conjured up all kinds of stories over the years that no one ever knew about except me. How Did I Come to be an Author? ( Now to the boring stuff)įor as long as I can remember, I've written in my head. I was born and raised in Delaware, and I moved to Florida in 2004, mostly due to the fact that all the snow, ice, and gray skies were becoming a serious drag on my charming personality. Where Did I Come From? ( Not with the same inflection used by ex-girlfriends.) Oh yeah, and I’m a writer of contemporary lesbian romance. ![]() I’m single. (Sigh) I love animals, and I am currently the proud "parent" of three Yorkshire Terrorists, (not a typo), two cats, and all the fish swimming around in my seventy-two-gallon freshwater aquarium. ![]() ![]() ![]() Twice shot from his horse while leading charges, left for dead in the Virginia mud, Meagher’s dream was that Irish-American troops, seasoned by war, would return to Ireland and liberate their homeland from British rule. Meagher’s rebirth in America included his leading the newly formed Irish Brigade from New York in many of the fiercest battles of the Civil War - Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg. He escaped and six months later was heralded in the streets of New York - the revolutionary hero, back from the dead, at the dawn of the great Irish immigration to America. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. ![]() A New York Times Bestseller! Winner of the 2017 Montana Book Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() "I have nothing to say that can describe how much I love the Septimus Heap series, all I can say is if you read the books before this (and you better have, who reads the third book in a series first?) then you definitely need to read Physik. With heart-stopping action and a dash of humor, Angie Sage continues the fantastical journey of Septimus Heap. And if Queen Etheldredda's plot involves Jenna and Septimus, then it will surely involve Nicko, Alther Mella, Marcia Overstrand, Beetle, Stanley, Sarah, Silas, Spit Fyre, Aunt Zelda, and all of the other wacky, wonderful characters that made Magyk and Flyte so memorable. Her diabolical plan to give herself everlasting life requires Jenna's compliance, Septimus's disappearance, and the talents of her son, Marcellus Pye, a famous Alchemist and Physician. Queen Etheldredda is as awful in death as she was in life, and she's still up to no good. When Silas Heap unSeals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived five hundred years earlier. “Few fans of the best-selling Septimus Heap series will be disappointed.” -ALA Booklist “Readers will be indubitably hooked-worrying, laughing, and gasping over the nonstop adventures of this engaging troupe.” - VOYA (Starred Review) The third book in the internationally bestselling Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, featuring the funny and fantastic adventures of a wizard apprentice and his quest to become an ExtraOrdinary Wizard. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chi-hon was the first person to realize that So-nyo had an illness she hadn’t disclosed to the family. The narrative makes use of heavy flashback and memory recall to flesh out So-nyo and her family’s past.Ĭhi-hon, So-nyo’s eldest daughter, is a writer who regrets having spent her life writing, being angry with her mother, and largely ignoring her family. The novel contains four chapters and an Epilogue-each one narrated by a family member. The goal is to find Mom, and then to look after her. Hyong-chol, the eldest son, places an ad in the paper, and the family makes a missing-person flyer they hang up and pass out around town. The family searches for So-nyo around Seoul. She disappears, and though the family searches for her, they will never see So-nyo again. So-nyo has several illnesses and, unbeknownst to the family, is no longer capable of remembering even her name. When an elderly couple visits Seoul to celebrate their joint birthdays with their children, the 69-year-old matriarch, So-nyo Park, accidentally separates from her husband in a crowd at Seoul Station. Please note that the study guide contains references to emotional abuse, death, and other traumatic events. This study guide references the Vintage Contemporaries 2011 translation. Please Look After Mom, for which she won the Man Asian, is her first novel to appear in English. The first woman awarded the Man Asian Literary Prize, Shin publishes widely and has written many other acclaimed novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Be More Pirate, Sam Conniff Allende unveils the innovative strategies of Golden Age pirates, drawing parallels between the tactics and teachings of legends like Henry Morgan and Blackbeard with modern rebels, like Elon Musk, Malala and Banksy. Sound familiar?Pirates stood for MISCHIEF, PURPOSE and POWER. Pirates faced a self-interested establishment, a broken system, industrial scale disruption and an uncertain future. Pirates didn't just challenge the status-quo, they changed everyfuckingthing. They didn't just reject society, they reinvented it. Whatever your ambitions, ideas and challenges, this book will revolutionize the way you live, think and work today, and tomorrow.Pirates didn't just break the rules, they rewrote them. Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Be More Pirate written and read by Sam Conniff Allende. ![]() ![]() ![]() The 'costumes' may vary, but our Lord does not change." - Angela Hunt "Francine redefined Christian fiction-honest, unflinching, powerful, life-changing-demonstrating why storytelling is the most effective way to communicate God's truth. ![]() No one reading her books will ever be the same again." - Debbie Macomber "As we 'watch' Hadassah and Atretes struggle through first-century trials, we learn how to handle similar situations in the twenty-first century. Includes discussion questions suitable for individual use or group discussions "Francine unlocks the longing in each one of us to connect to God in a deeper, life-changing way. Even as she's torn by her love for a handsome aristocrat, Hadassah clings to her faith in the living God for deliverance from the forces of a decadent empire. Amid the depravity around her, a young Jewish slave girl becomes a light in the darkness. While wealthy Roman citizens indulge their every whim, Jews and barbarians are bought and sold as slaves and gladiators in the bloodthirsty arena. ![]() The first book in the beloved Mark of the Lion series, A Voice in the Wind brings readers back to the first century and introduces them to a character they will never forget-Hadassah. Book 1 in the 3-book historical Christian fiction series by the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and The Masterpiece. ![]() |